The Mandan City Commission convened on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, at 5:30 PM in the Ed Bosch Frelic meeting room at Mandan City Hall. Mayor Freelick presided, with Commissioners Braun, Belavick, and Heinchan present; Commissioner Schilberg was absent. The meeting included project updates, public hearings, approval of budgets and audits, and the first reading of the annual appropriation ordinance.
I know that's not easy. Good evening and welcome. Today is August 4th, 2026. We are in the Ed Bosch Frelic meeting room at Mandan City Hall. It is 5:30. Mr. Newbauer, could you please call the roll? Commissioners, Braun. Yes. Belavick. Yes. Schilberg. Hein Chan. Here. Mayor Freelick. Here. At this time we will have Logan Weigel approach the podium. He is the assistant IT. And he will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible for liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Logan. At this time we will start out with announcements and construction project updates. Jerek? Mayor and Commissioners, good evening. We have some familiar faces for project updates tonight. I'll start off with Memorial Highway. The east half of Memorial Highway is very close to being complete. For final walkthroughs, we completed the surface improvement walkthrough last week with the DOT and the contractor. And the underground improvement walkthrough is scheduled for tomorrow. Final punch list items are going to be developed, and then the contractor will continue working on completing those over the next few weeks or months. There are a few more other kind of high profile areas along 19th and along 40th that were also set for repairs. So we should be made whole at the end of this project. So it is included in the cost of the project. Yes. It gets repaired. Yep, restored, restored at as much as you can or restored to a reasonable level. So that uh you know you're made whole again after the project. Yep. Um for the west half, uh, Northern Improvement is getting started and getting going. I guess they've been getting started for a while. Uh the two eastbound concrete lanes were completed from Main Street to the flood wall. And then paving preparation is uh following storm sewer installation on the rest of the segment that is uh kind of torn up right now. On third street, there's traffic control up, but third is going to remain open um during the construction project. There's a crane set up, uh kind of stage two construct a coffer dam associated with the outlet structure for 72-inch RCP storm sewer. And then there's also some sanitary force main crossings that will be uh completed ahead of the storm sewer installation. So we have a lot of a lot of work going on crossing third street, but um people should expect to be mostly unaffected or similar to to how it is uh set up right now. How would you characterize their progress, Jerek? I feel like Northern Improvement has been on top of it and they've been uh very they've been very flexible with their schedule and they've been very um every time that they've said that they're going to do something, they do it in the time that they say they're gonna do it. So would you say they're ahead of schedule?