City Council - Regular Meeting

America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, welcome everybody. We will jump right in here. We got one of our future council members here in the or audience tonight. So, all right. First thing on the agenda is to approves the agenda as pro as posted and sent to the news media 24 hours prior to the meeting. I'll make a motion to approve the agenda.

Second motion by Miss L Mr. Lamos motion by M or second by Miss Fay. All in favor? I I

opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. Next we have the May mayor leading leadership statement. The city of Hampton endeavors at all times to promote and model principles of professionalism, trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. And to in conducting this evening's meeting, we expect that all participants will act act in a respectful manner consistent consistent with these principles. Thank you.

Next is the council work report works partop report from Monday May 11th. I won't read that to you. It is available online if anybody would like to review that. Next item next item is the public comment. So if there's anybody in in the audience tonight would like to make public comment, please let us know.

I think he has a comment. I think he does. All right. Hearing hearing no others, I will move on. Uh we've got a public hearing for the P plan and specs for the uh SA stabilization of 4 and 6 First Street Northwest. So given this this giving it being the time and place for the public hearing in regards to the plans specifications form of contract and for and of four storefront stat stabiliz these are big words stabilization at from four and six first street northwest. I, Mayor Bertzell, will over the open open the hearing at 603

and I'd invite uh Mr. Johnson, did you have some information and kind of review the the project for us and then we can see if there's any any comments. You bet. Thank you, Derek Johnson, ISG. Uh this is a continuation of the work that's been ongoing at 4 and six. uh street and uh we've completed the plans and specifications. They've been issued for bid and uh tonight the process is to complete the public hearing and seek approval of the plans specifications and form of contract and then um later in the agenda we'll consider uh award of bids and can talk about them at that time.

All right, be happy to answer any questions if there are any. Anybody got any comments, further questions? We've had a a ton of them already already on this on this project. So, uh the are the plans going to include new windows and the doors in the front? The windows were bid as an alternate and so the city council will have an option to choose to accept that alternate. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Anybody else hearing anything? Uh, so we didn't have any written uh objections for the uh hearing and I haven't heard any oral objections. So we will uh go ahead and close the public hearing at 6:05. Thank you.

Moving on. old old business. We don't have any of that. So, we'll move on to our new business. This is a consideration of employer employee health insurance renewal and employer cont employee contribution. Mr. Dant,

uh thank you, mayor. I don't really have much to add. We went over the renewal at the workshop on Monday. Um it's a 3% uh increase and this is uh with Walmart. And then uh also would ask for as part of your motion uh when if you if you approve to state that the employee contribution I think you agreed to Monday would stay at 13% for fiscal year 27. Any questions?

Not hearing any. I would entertain a motion uh to approve the proposed Wellmark Insurance REM renewal with employee employee contribution staying at 13% for fiscal year 2027. I'll make a motion to leave the contribution for 13% for fiscal year 27 and to approve the renewal of Walmart and to and to remove what he what he said. It's a lot of work. Second by or motion by Mr. Lamos. Second by Miss Griefy. All in favor? I I

opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. Next, we have a consider agreement between City of Hampton and ISG for consulting services for the storefront stabilization of 4 and 6 First Street Northwest. Mr. Dunt. Yeah, this is a a AIA document. It's a standard form of agreement between the owner and uh ISG. And I guess I would just have uh Derek, you're come up to the podium and just kind of summarize the agreement.

You bet. Yeah, as you uh have probably noticed, this is a little late in the game for the agreement. We've um submitted a work order and started on that and um earlier in the project there was a emergency catalyst grant and in talking with the EDA and working through that there was some pressure on the city and everyone to act quickly to make sure that we'd stay qualified for those funds. So, um, not having been through a contract process with the city, uh, we presented a work order that outlined our scope and fee and what we would do and then, um, move forward in good faith, believing we'd get through the AIA portion and having a contract with a a project like this on an existing building. there's always a lot of unknowns and believe strongly it's a good um a good type of project to make sure we've got a contract that protects you as a city and us as a design firm and make sure everybody's insured and all the eyes are dotted and te's are crossed. So um we move forward and uh got to this point and uh kept everything in line with the EDA for grant qualifications and everything. And so this agreement's been reviewed with uh Ron and the city attorney and ISG and uh while coming to you late in the game, it's in line with the work order that was earlier in the project. Be happy to answer any questions or dive into anything any further.

Anybody any other questions for Derek? If not, I appreciate that. And with that, I'd entertain a motion to approve the agreement between the city of Hampton and ISG for consulting services for the store for storefront stabil stabilization of four and six street northwest. I move we approve. I'll second. Motion by m motion by Mr. Davies, second by Mr. Holmstrom. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Don't go too far. We're going to ask ask you back up again.

All right. Next item. We need to pay some bills. So, uh, I'd entertain a motion to approve claims as submitted by staff in the amount of $213,6387. I move we approve the claims. I'll second. A motion by Mr. Davies, second by Mr. Holmstrom. All in favor? I I

opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. Now we got some got some resolutions to take care of. Uh first one is resolution 2026-07. This is the resolution ordering construction of the 2026 2027 HMA street re rehabilitation program and fixing a date for hearing and taking bids. Mr. Crawford, would you like to brief us in that one? Good evening everyone. Um, this is the first step in the bidding process for the 2026 2027 HMA overlay program. Uh, this action tonight will allow the city staff to publish the notice of public hearing and publish the notice to biders. uh for the plans uh for the project. Uh those actions will take place in June. So we'll be back in June with um the public hearing uh and the bidding of the project. So this is just the first step in several um actions to get going with bidding process. All right. Any questions from Mark at this point? If not, I would entertain a motion uh to approve resolution 2026-07.

So moved. I'll second. A motion by Miss Griefy, second by Miss Roodie. This will be a roll out roll call vote. So Miss Roodie, I Mr. Davies. Hi. Miss Griffy Griefy. Hi. Miss Fay. I Mr. Holmstrom. Hi. And Mr. Lamos. Hi. Resolution is passed. Thank you. Thank you.

Next one is a resolution 2026-08. This is a resolution adopting plan specs and form of CP contract for the estimate and cost for the storefront stabilization of four and six first street northwest. Mr. Johnson. Again, similar to the public hearing, this is uh the next step in uh going through the uh public bid process. So, um seeking your resolution to approve the plans, specs, form of contract um which then allows us to continue with consideration of bids.

All right. Any questions for Mr. Johnson at this point? Hearing any. I would entertain a motion to approve resolution 2026-08. So moved. I'll second. A motion by Miss Fay. Second by Mr. Davies. This also will be a roll call vote. Miss Griefy. Hi. Miss Roie. Hi. Mr. Davies. Hi. Mr. Holmstrom. Hi. Miss Hi. Mr. Lamos. I

resolution has passed. Thank you. Just will stay stuck. Stay right there. Next one is resolution 2026-09. This is a resolution making award of construction contract for the storefront stabilization of four and six first avenues of Northwest. Mr. Johnson.

All right. So this resolution is um for consideration of the award of contract for the project. Uh a little bit of an update there. So we bid this project on May 7th. There were six plan holders. We received three bids and uh those bids ranged from uh 300,000 with alternates 300,000 to 463,000. Uh what we're asking tonight is for you to table this award until the next meeting. And the reason we're asking that is we're going through some due diligence with the contractors. So, uh, two of the contractors are, uh, contractors that we haven't worked with before. So, we're calling references. We want to review their schedule of values. Um, we're asking for their list of subcontractors. So, we're familiar and confident with the way that they're going to approach this project. And the contract documents allow for them to hold their bids for 30 days. So, uh, we don't view this as, uh, seeing any problems, but this is a project that is unique in nature in which we're tackling an existing building, partial demolition, stabilization, and with the contractors that we haven't worked with. We want to make sure we go through the process and make sure that our recommendation uh, has checked the boxes, called the references, uh, and reviewed their partners on the project. So, um, I'm not alarmed with where we're at. I just we want to make sure we complete the due diligence and come back to you with a recommendation. Um so my ask is that you consider tableabling this until your next meeting

which would be uh 6 p.m. May 28th. I'll make a motion to table till May 28th. A second motion by Mr. Lamos, second by who was it? I don't know, Mr. Roie. I think it got here first. You get it first. So, this is to table resolution 2026-059 until uh May 27 28th of 27 26.

And and if I may, just for peace of mind, these bids came in lower than what the estimates were going in. And so the work that you did to put the financing in place, uh this is all falling below what we were estimating and how we prepared for the funding. So, um, I think we're in a good spot. Just few more eyes to dots and tees to cross. And we we always appreciate that. So, so we've got a motion by Mr. Limo, sec second by Miss Ries, uh, to table resolution 2026-09. This be a roll call vote as well. Mr. Holmstrom, I. Miss Grey, I. Mr. Davies. Hi, Miss Fay. Hi,

Mr. Lamos. Hi. And Miss Roodie. Hi. All right. So, we have tabled this resolution and until our next meeting. So, thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Derek. Thanks. Thanks for your due diligence and thanks for showing up instead of just zooming in.

All right, moving on. Next is the consent consent agenda. Uh this is uh items including the approve of the pre previous meeting minutes as drafted for Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 regular session and schedule the next regular session for Thursday, May 28th, 2026 at 6 p.m. in the city couns. So I'd entertain a motion to approve the sent consent agenda. I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Motion by Mr. Lamos. I'll second. Second by Miss Fay. All in favor? I

opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. Brings us to our staff reports. Chief Morrison. Yeah. This week we've uh worked with the school on emergency drills with the officers and staff. Um, we also had the or we have the southside kids coming tomorrow for tours. So, we have four classes coming through. They'll see police cars and and what kind of goes on on a day-to-day basis at the police department. Um, we have been spending time reading with the kids down at Southside. Um, we continue to look for new officers and are continuing to hire, looking for two. And we had court on nuisances on several cases today. Um, and that's all I've got on that part. And then the more important thing is I'd like to introduce Officer Todd Dolan. Um, he's the newest officer of the Hampton Police Department. Officer Dolan is a resident of Hampton and North Butler graduate. Officer Dolan was active duty in the United States Army for four years. He served our country while being deployed in Afghanistan. Officer Dolan has expressed his desire to serve the community in which he resides. Officer Dolan has said he understands the importance of public trust in law enforcement and he is committed to serving the citizens of Hampton with professionalism, fairness, and integrity. In working with him over the past couple of weeks, his positive attitude, calm demeanor, and passion for becoming a law enforcement officer has been contagious. Over the just the last couple of weeks, he has demonstrated his ability to jump right in and help wherever he is needed. All of his fellow officers are looking forward to working with him. The next officer next step for officer Dolan is starting the Iowa law enforcement academy in September.

Uh we'd like to invite you to stick around after the meeting for his swearing in. That'll be directly following the meeting. So thank you. Any questions? Any questions for Chief Morris? Mr. Lamos? Yeah, Mark. Uh the uh police report, where does it show for uh speeding speeding speeding tickets? I It's probably under summons, which will be the one of those 15. It doesn't break it down specifically for speeding. Okay. Now, are we uh due for a new cop car this year? No.

Seems like there's a couple with a lot of miles on them. We just got one last fall. It usually takes a couple years to build the funds up. Okay, that's all I have. Thank you. Y any other questions for Chief Morrison?

If not, thank you, sir. And we'll get back to Ta T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T Todd when we're done here. So, all right, Mr. Tar. Thank you, mayor. Hard to uh follow that up. That'll be great. Welcome, Todd. Um I'm just going to entertain questions tonight. There's too many things going on. I haven't had chance to put put it all on paper, so I'd be more than happy to answer questions. Yes, sir. Mr. Lo, there's a barricade in the southwest part of town. Is that covering a manhole or uh it's been there for quite a while?

Yeah, I believe that's a a fixture that needs redone. Yep. Okay. Just wondering. That's all I have. Mr. Holmstrom, just had a question. Doug, you had um replaced some of the outfield fencing for the baseball fields? Yes. I was just wondering is was there any of the old fencing that was salvageable? Uh we kept it. As far as salvageable, what we may use it for is to put it back in uh like concrete for reinforced uh to reinforce concrete a little bit. Um I wouldn't say it's of good quality by any means. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. And the post pretty much were all cemented. So yeah, those all Yeah. during during removal of that there's no way. So Yep. Thanks, D. You bet. All right. Any questions, comments for Mr. Tar? If not, thank you, sir. Thank you. Move on to Mr. Dunt. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, I just want to congratulate and welcome new officer Todd Dolan. Glad to have you. Look forward to working with you. Stick around for a photo op. Thank you. Any questions? Any questions for Mr. Don?

Not hearing any. Thank you, sir. Go to C council reports. We'll start with Miss Roodi. Um, I guess the only thing I have is welcoming officer Dolan. And if Mark hasn't told you already, listen to your dispatchers. All right. Thank you, Mr. Limos. I'd like to welcome our new officer and uh I want to see him and Mark do a basketball 101. Other than that, I'd like to, you know, we sit here and we have meetings and stuff and like I said before, Mark, our engineer, shows up all the time. He doesn't zoom in.

And when we have guys that that drive that far, I think it's it's uh we should tell them thank you for really it shows that they're concerned with uh the projects going on here. That's all I have to say. I echo that. Thank you, Mr. Davies.

I'd like to welcome welcome Todd and attended two meetings today. The first was the design uh committee of the chamber and the certified local government committee meeting. And just a couple things there. The class of 1976 memorial bench has been ordered should be received tomorrow. So that'll be in at some point. And then May is preservation month and the again doing a historic scavenger hunt. So, if you're interested in looking at what buildings are around town by looking at a small piece of the building and then figuring out what it is, you can pick up the forms at the Chamber, Christensen Jewelry, or at the Windsor Theater. And then I also attended a tourism board meeting this afternoon. We gave out three grants and then they're again doing a photo contest. So, if you're interested in a photographer, we can get you a real sure on that. And that's all I have.

All right. Thank you, Mr. Holmstrom. I too would like to welcome Mr. Dolan. Um,

recently I've been actively involved in a 2026 Active Healthy Nation Iowa Hybrid Walkability Action Institute. That's a mouthful. This project has been active throughout the United States for the past 12 years and it's presented by the directors in various fields of health and fitness, transportation technical support strategy, fundraising, land use, and independent living. The goal is to improve walkability and moveability for all ages and abilities through improvements to community and transportation design as well as to increase local community capacity to successfully acquire resources that result in active transportation infrastructure improvements. The course was presented from directors across the nation and the plan is to bring together cross-disciplinary teams representing public health, planning, transportation, and elected officials. There were only six Iowa County locations that were selected for this project and Franklin County was very fortunate to be selected for this program through the efforts of our Franklin County Iowa State Extension Outreach Director, Liil Velesco. The other counties selected were Cedar County, Clinton County, Crawford County and Franklin, Musketone County, and West Padam County. Um, since March 23rd, all counties have been meeting regularly via Zoom. And last week, we spent two full days at the Iowa State University in Ames with the instructors and the planning people. Um, the Franklin County team is led by Liil Velesco. Also on the team are Jeremy Johnson Miller. He's the grants manager for Iowa Department of Transportation, Travis Koig, community development planner from North Iowa Area Council of Governments and our very own Doug Tar from Hampton public works director and myself. And within the coming weeks, our group looks forward to presenting information to the council about this

important initiative for your consideration and review. So something to look forward to. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Miss Grey. I'm gonna keep it short because there's a little boy that wants to see his dad's sworn in. Um, just You guys are going to hear me talk about this forever now. You're going to want to shoot yourselves. We're going to hang the flower baskets next week towards the end of the week. We still need watering volunteers. We're going to use the pickup truck this year. It's going to be easier. It's going to be safer. It's going to go faster. So, raise your hands, volunteer. Okay. Otherwise, I'm going to have to call you and beg you. Thank you.

All right. Thank you, Miss Fay. Um Todd, welcome. Glad to have you. Um and that's all I've got.

All right. Thank you. Uh for my report tonight, just a couple of things. Um, of course, number one, well, welton, welcome, Todd, uh, to the police force. We're happy to have you. Um, and then by the what the way Mark talks about you, I think you're going to do a pretty good job. So, so we're going to we're going to hold you to that. Um, other thing we have is the uh, we have a hazardous waste collection coming up June 8th from 3 to 6:00 pm. And the collection trailer will be at the airport airport out here. So, we got three day three hours that day to get rid of them laptops and TVs and and there's a list of stuff on here that uh that they take. So, it's time to get rid do some more clean up. Uh the only other item is the uh workshop for May 25th. Uh we will reschedu that for Tuesday May 26th due to Memorial Day. So we'll have that on Tuesday that week. That's all I got tonight. So with that, I would entertain a mo motion to endure the regular session of the city Hampton City Council.

I'll make a motion to adjurnn. I'll second it. Motion by Mr. Lamos, second by Miss Grey. All in favor? I opposed. Okay, we are adjourned. And I remind you, stick around. We're going to swear in Mr. Dolan here and uh get him rolling.