The Sioux City Council met on August 18, 2025, at 8:14 PM CT. The meeting included a public hearing and vote on a 90-day demolition delay for a property at 513th Ninth Street, approval of the consent agenda, and updates on the city manager search. All votes were unanimous (5-0) unless otherwise noted.
Demolition Delay for 513th Ninth Street (Item 14): A resolution amending resolution 20160904 to authorize a 90-day delay in demolition for property owned by AJLB Properties LLC. Key points:
City Manager Search Update: Mayor reported that the previous candidate withdrew. The council will work with the recruiter to consider previous applicants or reopen the search, with only travel and advertising costs to be incurred. Council expressed preference to keep the process moving.
Scott? Here. Waters? Moore here. Can we stand for a moment of silent prayer, followed by the pledge of the flag from the United States of America? And the republic which is one nation undervisible with liberty and justice for all. Don Kirkpatrick, please come up to the mic and tell us why you want to serve on the human rights commission. Sure. Hello. Um, my mother-in-law is the person who told me about the commission. And because I work for a community action agency, which serves a lot of different um people, ethnicities, I thought it'd be a very good committee for me to serve on. Okay. Are you related to Maynard? No. Okay. Well, we always appreciate informed opinion and people that are willing to share their expertise. So thank you so much for applying. Thank you. Thank you. We'll go to the consent agenda, which is items three through 10 B. You can consider these items to pass unanimously unless a separate roll call is requested by the council member. Anyone want to speak on an item? Please come up as I read that item. Anyone wanting to speak on an item not on the agenda, please come up under citizen concerns. Remember to always state your name for the record. I'll move the consent agenda. Second. Three are reading of the August 11th City Council minutes. Mayor, I'd like to ask Theresa just what we're doing on this item. And so this item is tied to item 13 also. Um what this really does for us is we don't close that SRL loan until the end of September. So it allows us, and we've used a chunk of ARPA funds there, but it allows allows us to um spend money prior to the closure for up to 60 days, so it kind of bridges that gap. So any funding that we or any expenses that we have on this project, so we don't have to um wait to continue with the project. It allows us to use the SRL funds for that. Okay. Have we done that on other projects? Yeah, we we actually do this every single year for any type of TIFF projects. We have to do it um each year. Uh this is something new with SRL, especially since this project is already happening. Typically, we wait until the loan closes to start, but because we funded it with ARPA, a chunk of it was funded with ARPA. Um that's kind of why this is a tad bit different than most SRLs. So it's helped the avoiding the delay in a project. Right. Yep. Yep, thank you for that explanation. I appreciate that. Welcome. Five is a resolution approving a transit joint participation agreement with IDOT for a state transit assistant grant to support public transit services. Six is a resolution adopting plans and specifications for the Pulaski Drainage Improvement Project. Seven are actions relating to agreements and contracts.