On March 17, 2026, at 5:30 PM in the Bosch Frelec meeting room at Mandan City Hall, the Board of City Commissioners convened. The meeting included project updates, public hearings, bid awards, and a resolution to place a fire station sales tax measure on the June 2026 ballot. All votes were unanimous (5-0) unless noted.
On this beautiful St. Patrick's Day, March 17th, 2026. It is 5 30 p.m. and we are in the Bosch Frelec meeting room at Mandan City Hall. Mr. Newbauer, could you please take the roll? Commissioners, Braun. Yes. Roar. Here. Schoberg. Here. Hein Chan. Here. Mayor Freelick. Here. And at this time, we will have Peyton Himeshbach from Troop Scout Troop Number 425. Lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. If everybody would stand, remove any headgear. Face the flag. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I applied allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Thank you, Peyton. At this time we will have announcements, project updates. Good evening, Mayor and Commissioners. Put together a short slide for project updates. We're getting closer and closer construction season and trying to give just a kind of a general update to some of these projects that are active right now and will be active in the near future. First, Memorial Highway. People might see that in the news more and more. There will be representation from the NDDOT, from the city, and from each of the construction contractors on the project. Just inviting people to participate in that. It's a really good opportunity to have one-on-one conversations with people that know what's going on with these projects. During this project or during this meeting, we discussed the scope of the project, schedule, financing, and input process. We had a pretty good turnout. This would be the project, or this would be the input meeting after we sent out special assessment letters. So there was a lot of questions and concerns around the special assessment calculation and amount and payback period and all that stuff. So we had a lot of really good good conversations related to that. I think the general sentiment is that everybody acknowledged that the project was needed and was kind of excited for it. Just wanted to bring up that we do have project website available for the Mandan Proper Phase 1 project and many of our other projects. But if people weren't able to make it to the meeting, they could view the February 24th and March 12th presentation videos. There's an interactive feedback map on the project website if they have specific concerns they want addressed with the project, as well as contact information. And then the protest period started after our last commission meeting and will end on April 6th, and we will have to consider it at the April 7th meeting. So there will be a quick turnaround on that protest period. This one will be uh picking back up in the spring. It'll be picking back up in kind of a different way. Uh a lot of the one of the major items left to do is to peel back that retaining wall uh at the corner of division and Collins Avenue, and uh it should improve the site line uh when you are uh westbound at that intersection. Um and then what's left to do is really site cleanup work and reservoir painting. So that's a big one right there. And then just to highlight some of the other projects that we'll have active uh around town in 2026, water treatment plant phase three, Terra Valley Decommissioning, Master Lift Station Improvements, the 3A street rehabilitation project up by Red Trail Elementary. We will have lead service line replacements throughout our community, and then we have our first street reconstruction project, which we'll discuss in more detail later, and our area 2B reconstruction project, which we'll discuss in detail in more detail later.