The Fargo City Commission convened to address planning approvals, significant annexation disputes involving data centers, and key infrastructure updates. Key discussions included the withdrawal of Fargo's annexation request for the Harwood ETJ to facilitate a potential expansion of the City of Harwood, raising concerns regarding fire safety and environmental resources. The council also reviewed a new total compensation strategy, construction updates, and proposed changes to resident comment policies.
Call the meeting to order. I invite you to begin with Pledge of Allegiance. I invite you to join us. Roll call. Call Pack here. Capcorn. Here. Strand. Here. Turnberg? Here. Mahoney. Here. We have a short video showing the Fire Academy graduation ceremony in which we graduated Fargo Firefighters, West Fargo Firefighters, and Warhead Fargo Fighters. Initially I did kind of go the nine to five route, pursuing a degree graphic design marketing at the University of North Dakota. And through those two and a half, three years that I was there, I realized that that wasn't for me. I didn't want a desk job. I didn't really want the nine to five. So I moved back home. I worked at a fencing job for a bit, and um it was more of a job, it wasn't really a career, and I was still searching for that kind of career path in the midst of being in the rural department. I heard about the opportunity for Fargo, and that's really what this is what I want to do my career in. Again, I think that was one of the things that I found out as I came to the academy that I wasn't expecting is how close our fire department, our police department, and our paramedics work together. Using just kind of that general terminology, you know, we don't necessarily speak in code and acronyms, which was kind of another thing that you automatically think when you think of a paramilitary organization, is that there's gonna be a lot of that coded language. And we seem to do it very, very well to use general terms to communicate with each other. So the whole metro, I mean, it's really awesome because we all work really well together. I mean, we'll help Moorhead out. We'll help West Fargo out and then as well as Sanford. I mean, they're obviously covering all three of them. But then we had a PD ride along, and that was awesome to kind of get to know a couple of them and kind of see what they go through on their day-to-day life. And it's just it's been really nice kind of working and actually seeing all that and how they kind of uh do it or what they do it. First started Academy, it was very stressful. We went right into medical, and I have absolutely no background in anything medical, like put a band-aid on it, and you're good to go. That was quite a bit of learning, quite a bit of stress. Studying every night for that was it was a lot to learn, but it was a really good experience to learn about. And uh in those first couple weeks, the guys in your class, you really just started making friends with everybody, started kind of figuring everybody out, and it was that was one of the best parts of the Mr. Kolpak, they look pretty young, but great team, huh? Yeah, it was a great group. Good. Is there a motion to approve the order of the agenda moving items four and thirteen from the consent agenda to the regular agenda? I saw move. Sir Second. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carried. Is there a motion to approve the minutes of the November 24th, 2025 regular meeting? So moved. Sir Second. Second. All those in favor say aye.