City Council - Regular Meeting

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I'm going to call [clears throat] the February 16th meeting of the West and White City Council to and invite you all to stand to join us for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Hello everybody. Please sign in. [snorts] Four members present. Have there been any changes to the agenda? No changes, your honor. Okay. Can I Can I get a motion to approve the agenda as distributed? So move. Second. It's moved and seconded. Please vote.

Four. Yes. All right. Moving on to Cit item two, citizens forum. Uh this is a time for anybody in the audience or online that would like to address the council on any item that is not either part of item six, public hearings or item seven, new business. Uh please come to the podium. Give us your name and address. Uh we ask that you keep it civil and respectful and to 5 minutes and under. And we are going to start with Mr. Al Wamble. Al, give us your name and address for the record. Uh Al Womble, 818 Ashmore Circle, and I'm here on behalf of the West De Mo Human Rights Commission.

Okay, you're in order. Go ahead. I am speaking today in my capacity as member of the West De Moines Civil Rights Commission regarding HSB 664. The bill currently advancing through the Iowa House that would prohibit cities and counties from adopting civil rights protections that exceed state law. This legislation has now moved out of the full House Judiciary Committee and will be headed to the Iowa House floor. We also expect a Senate version to be released soon. If enacted, this would remove the authority that municipalities have exercised for more than 60 years to expand protections based on local needs and community values. This bill would prevent any Iowa city from strengthening civil rights protections for any protected class now or in the future, regardless of emerging community concerns. It is fundamentally a question of local control and the ability of cities like West De Mo to respond to the needs of our residents. Imagine if something like this had been in place in 1868 when Iowa became the first state in the nation to desegregated schools preceding the Brown versus Board of Education decision by 86 years. or in 1949 when Edna Griffith stood up for her right to be served at Cat's Drugstore, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld a decision that was that it was a crime to refuse service based on race. Iowa has had a tradition of making sure that we tried to extend rights to our citizens, not strip them away. Please remember our original state motto. Our rights we prize and our liberties we will maintain. Move. People move their families and businesses to West De Moines because we are a safe and welcoming community. They move here because they believe the city

of West De Moines will provide a better quality of life. How welcoming would we be? And how would it diminish the quality of lives of our citizens if we did not stand up to say that all citizens rights will be protected here? The city of West De Moines's opposition would affirm the city's long-standing commitment to civil rights protections and signal the importance of preserving local authority in this area. [snorts] I want to thank you guys for your consideration and I I strongly urge you to oppose this. Um, just for me personally, I want to say, you know, there's many of you on this council that I've called my brother. And I believe that that spirit of brotherhood should exceed to anybody who decides to make West De Mo their home. And that we cannot tell what the future is going to bring us. But making sure that we as a city are still able to determine what rights we must extend to individuals is paramount to this being one of the best cities in the state of Iowa. and thank you for your time.

Appreciate it, Al. Okay. Anybody else in the council chambers for citizens forum? Come on up here. Give us your name and address for the record. Again, if this is for any item that is not part of new business or public hearings, items six and seven. Anybody else for citizens forum in the council chambers before I go online? All right. Anybody online for citizens forum? Hit star six to unmute yourself and give us your name and address for the record. Star six to unmute yourself. [snorts] Is there anybody online for citizens forum? Okay, hearing no one, we're going to move on to item three, mayor council manager report, other entities update. And we're going to start with the other entities update portion of our program. Item 3A with Steve Freevert and Historic Valley Junction Foundation. Welcome.

Thank you for having us. This is our annual report. My name is Steve Freever. I'm the executive director of the Historic Valley Junction Foundation. Uh Susan Watts, president of the board of directors of the Historic Valley Junction Foundation with Olsson Larson Galleries in West. So, we're going to kind of go over this quickly. We do have a copy of our printed annual report in your board packets. I do have some paper copies. If anybody in the room is interested, uh, see me afterwards. Uh, we'll also get this up on our website and, uh, link it in our community e newswsletter uh, that comes out on March 1st.

Okay. Thank you. Um, so as as we all know, the historic Valley Junction Foundation is a supporter of uh, the businesses in Valley Junction and the community as well. Um, we preserve and honor historic character, support small businesses, and connect the community. And Ryan, I I can't see the screen, so Well, I got this over here. Should I give you a high sign when we're ready? Oh, um, yeah. Okay. Let me know when you want to switch. Yep. Now,

uh, just a quick overview about Historic Valley Junction. Uh our district has 151 employers. Uh that is a net gain of one in 2025. Uh we had actually 14 business openings um but 13 closures in the last year. We did have a net loss of employees in the district last year. A lot of that was due to a couple larger employees uh employers that moved out of the district. Uh our district is very small. It's only five blocks long, two blocks wide. You can see the map uh there of the commercial uh district. We are a great American main street award winner. Previously I would have said we are also a state uh coordinated uh community uh cultural and entertainment district and a great place but both of those uh programs have been cut by the state of Iowa. Uh our signs are still out there so we could still keep the signs up. Uh but we still are a great American Main Street Association. Um our program was established in 1987. The Main Street Iowa program itself uh began in 1986. So we uh entered in the second year. Uh we are a 501c3 nonprofit with two full-time uh two part-time employees. I will add that with our 53 currently 53 Main Street Iowa communities uh and I hear it over and over again. Uh they all wish they were Valley Junction. I heard that again from from someone last week. Everybody wants to know how can we be like Valley Junction? So, it's nice to hear.

So, in part of that, um Steve heard last uh November when Small Business Saturday got pushed because of the weather. Um Valley Junction handled it so well. We got a lot of media attention and Steve got calls from other Main Street, Iowa communities on how to handle it. Um that's one of the highlights from the operations from this last year in addition to some new banners that were created. um uh excuse me for district beautifification and placemaking. um business owner and or excuse me, business support was was made through micrograms, both design and business improvement. And um our signature community events of course like music in the junction and jingle in the junction

and I'll talk a little bit about visitorship. Move it along. Thanks. Uh last year uh through geo fencing data we uh counted 1.2 million total visitors to the district. Of that about 75% came from outside the city limits of West De Moines. Uh we welcomed over 5,000 visitors to historic city hall. Uh a lot of them are neighbors who stop in on a regular basis. Uh many of them are business owners with a question. Uh but it's always great to get people from around the country uh even around the world. Um, just a couple days ago, we had people from Arkansas who uh have uh kids who have moved up to the metro and they said they've never heard, you know, been to Valley Junction and their kids never been there, so they thought they'd check it out and they were, of course, blown away. So, it's always great to talk to to new visitors. Uh, they come to us for a variety of reasons. Of course, they come for our shops, our restaurants, and our businesses like you could see uh with Black Hat, which we're very welcome uh very glad to welcome to our district in the last year. They come for our events like Susan mentioned. They also come for events that our businesses put on. Either they put on themselves or they play host to another uh entity coming in. And last year, it was really cool to walk down the street and see a fashion show going on uh in the parking lot at Olsson Larson Galleries. is very cool.

Um, by moderate estimates, all those visitors and all that activity, uh, given the multiplier that Travel Iowa uses, a moderate estimate is the Valley Junction creates $99 million of economic impact annually. That again is a moderate estimate. Valley Junction's online engagement is extremely strong. uh 29,169 Facebook followers. That is a significant amount and it is rising by the minute. Um 9,30 in Instagram followers and 5,500 plus for the community eblast that Steve sends out monthly. Um as you can see in the uh photos, lots of selfies being taken by the giant Christmas tree and many other places in Jingle or in Valley Junction during Jingle in the Junction. And um just any anything that gets put on social media immediately gets responses. Steve will mention something later about uh some public works uh love that was that was received.

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Uh, as you know, I report uh to uh the Iowa Economic Development Authority on a quarterly basis are uh economic impact statistics. Uh jobs created, businesses opening, uh property improvements, uh properties being sold. Uh in 2025, we counted uh 23 property uh improvements uh totaling $540,000. Those included things like patios, interior remodels, exterior painting, um signage, any anything that people are doing to invest in a property in Valley Junction. We also had five properties purchased. They equaled almost $10 million. I'm pretty sure that is a record. certainly a record uh in the five years that I've been here. Uh but $10 million in property purchases uh shows that people understand Val Junction is a good place to invest. Um we also uh so that total was $10 million in private property investment um 10.4 last year and we're going to mention that statistic again in the future. Uh volunteerism is a major driving force of Valley Junction. Uh 4,466 volunteer hours recorded last year. I've been a it's been an honor for me to volunteer for Valley Junction the last couple years at events. I hadn't done that as much before. And it's just wonderful to see the cross-section of volunteers. There's business owners, there's residents, there are people that know business owners or just love the business or love the junction. So it's it the the volunteer team is strong and dedicated. Uh since 1987 like Steve mentioned when we were incorporated as a main street community. The the statistic we wanted to highlight here as you mentioned 99115,116

in private property investment. That is an incredible number and we're going to hit 10 million this year. 100. Yes. Excuse me. Not 10. [laughter] Sorry, that was the last year.

We hit 10 million last year. So yeah, in 2026, we will hit that the 100 million dollar benchmark in private investment in our district. There are only a very few other Main Street, Iowa communities that have done that. Um, and they are all much much larger than our little 10 square block district. So, we're very proud. I'm looking forward to presenting that in next year's annual report. Um, oh, this is me too. Uh, so Main Street expects us to have strategic transformational strategies. What what are we working on uh that builds on our assets to make ourselves uh a better district, a stronger organization? Uh so we basically have two. One of them is to be the community gathering place. And we've already talked about uh events a little bit. We did have 67 public events last year. Uh and the bulk of those do take place uh May through December. Uh so we have a very very busy event season. And that's really it's about um not only recognizing that the Valley Junction is the heart um historically uh and uh emotionally the heart of West De Moines. uh it builds those social connections in an era when we are tied to our screens uh when there's a lot of disagreements. Uh Valley Junction is a place where uh I see daily people coming together who uh otherwise wouldn't necessarily interact and that's important that builds a stronger community. Uh obviously people coming together helps build businesses. It also helps build an entrepreneurial spirit and we see that over and over again. Uh and I want to add that uh it also helps with workforce attraction and retention. People see what's going on in Valley Junction. They see the West De Mo in general and Valley Junction in particular is a good place. It's a social place. It's a place where they

feel like they can fit in. They belong. And that it's going to help employers attract people to uh to work for them. It's going to keep talent in the community. Uh so we play an important role in that. Uh the second strategy is us to support retail, food and experiential businesses. Um a few ways that that has happened in the last year. Uh new business visits. Every time a new business comes to Valley Junction, a uh committee, the business improvement committee comes and welcomes them with a little gift package and introduces themselves and encourages them to participate in Valley Junction events and meetings. Uh, speaking of meetings, there's a stakeholder meeting. Um, the photo is one at Five Monkeys, which is a business that is expanding currently as we speak. And that is one of several businesses that is either right in the middle of expanding right now or has plans to expand very very uh soon in the future. And those are businesses that started in in Valley Junction. So, that is a very strong statistic. Um I mentioned before microrants. Um the tea bar at Spice and Tea Exchange that was uh due to a micro grant and that has been a great draw for Valley Junction. There's not very many tea bars around and so that really helps. And then investing in the youth as well. Uh there's the West Point Historical Society has a group called the Jordan Scholars which draws high school students from all over the area and they do tours of different businesses in Valley Junction to learn about entrepreneurship. Yeah, we're happy to work with them on an annual basis. Uh, I want to talk a little bit about elevating West De Mo because we recognize that you guys are crucial partners in and all the success that happens down there. Uh, I cannot sing the praises of West De Moines's city staff loudly enough. They're fantastic people to work with. I enjoy seeing them. I enjoy collaborating with

them. uh and they uh help make so many things happen that most people really don't understand or know about. Um so uh again kudos to your staff. Um we are happy to welcome the library uh to the farmers market. We are happy to uh promote the handmade market that goes on at the activity center uh several times a year in wintertime. Uh a few things that that we do that they want you to think about with West Mo. We are at the location of the only farmers market in the city. Uh this past year we became a choose Iowa community. Uh this is a new state program that's looking to uh link producers, agricultural and food producers with Ians. And so we are a proud member of the choose Iowa network. Uh we uh in 2025 were voted the best shopping district in the metro for the fourth year in a row. Uh you might have seen just a week or two ago that we won that for the fifth year in a row. Very proud of that. So I'll be bringing that one again next year. Um we're very uh proud of our home in historic city hall. We like to take care of it, keep it looking good, decorate for the holidays. Uh this year we had a nice looking garland arch up around the windows and front doorways that look fantastic. also want to talk a little bit about uh public services because uh sometimes it's the non-sexy part of things that keeps things running. Uh so uh I heard some noise out my apartment window uh one night and I looked out uh this is after one of those big November snows storms I think it was um and uh and saw the snow removal taking place on Fifth Street. Uh it was absolutely fascinating to watch. I'd never seen it happening before. Uh, so I I grabbed my phone, took some a quick video, put it out

there. Uh, it got 1.1, 1100 likes and 128,000 views. Uh, people who like to see Gary's public services crew doing their job. Everybody's Everybody loves to see snow removal. So, uh, that that was pretty cool. Uh just to wrap up, you know, as you can see from the photos and your time in Valley Junction and what we've spoken about, uh Valley Junction is a place for community gathering, as Steve said, spans across generations, all walks of life, and it serves many interests. You can come to Valley Junction and hit a lot of different um a lot of different check a lot of different boxes, I should say. Um, and it continues to evolve. You know, even though there are things that have been there for a long time, businesses that have been there for a long time, events that have been there for a long time, events are continually being improved by staff and board. Uh, the businesses, like Steve said, we have many coming in, and we're especially excited about um a new initiative that's going to happen this year with uh public art and placemaking projects. So, more to come on that. still in the planning stages, but thank you very much for your attention and let us know if you have any questions.

Yeah, happy to answer any questions if All right, any questions at all for either Steve or Susan? [cough] Just want to say thank you for sharing all this. It's it's awesome. And I just had one quick question. Uh how are the folks down at Valley Junction Business District? Are they pretty enthusiastic uh for the future as they think about the coming year? Obviously, there's lots of challenges. You know, inflation's gone down, but hopefully shopping continues to be happening down there. So, my question is, what's the tone? What's the mood about the future?

Uh, it was definitely happening over the weekend with the warm weather. I couldn't believe how busy it was. I had at least one business tell me that Saturday was their record day of all time. Uh, we heard that from a number of businesses even last winter. Uh especially like Susan mentioned uh small business Saturday being snowed out and then uh we rescheduled for a week later. Uh I talked to several businesses that had their record day that Saturday. Not just the record day of the year, but since they've been in existence. I was a little worried. I'll tell you the truth. Uh you know, tariffs are definitely hurting some of our retailers. Um people are holding on to their money a little more. That's that's to be expected. there's a lot of uncertainty and I've been very pleasantly surprised that our business community has been resilient as it is.

So, um and and I think there is a lot of positivity uh and a lot of people looking forward to future things. Yeah. And I think the expansion like we talked about those businesses that are expanding I mean that's a huge indicator of feeling good about what's coming. Yeah. Currently there are five businesses looking to expand within Valley Junction. um and uh not just uh offering more of the same stuff, but um finding ways to expand their offerings and what they serve. Uh it's going to be a really interesting year. Some cool stuff happening. All right. Well, thank you, Steve. Thank you for s Thank you, Susan, for your presentation. Appreciate it.

I'm going to miss it. How many businesses do you say are on the waiting list to get into a storefront in Valley Junction? Uh boy, there's dozens and dozens. I mean, at one point, I track them over time. I I would say there's probably been 40 in the last year. Okay. Uh I just had somebody [clears throat] call in today uh looking to open a restaurant. Um I've I think I've had three or four just this month so far. Retail service office restaurant.

Well, you guys are absolutely killing it. I am so proud of Valley Junction and everything going on down there. I can't even tell you. I know the whole council is extremely proud of what you guys do down there. Unbelievable businesses. It's just more vibrant than I've ever seen it down there. Um, [clears throat] and you know, every time I go down there, it's it's um, you know, people walking up and down the street, cars parked everywhere. It's just you guys are doing a phenomenal job. Keep up the good work. You know, uh, we're continuing to uh, run our housing programs down there as well. Those have been extremely popular. Working to beautify the neighborhoods and keep our affordable housing stock affordable. I think everything that we're doing down there is coming together and making a difference. And you know, I wish we had more of a spot for these 30 businesses that are looking for a place, but um you know, sounds like restaurants for sure. That's that's a little bit more difficult

to find a spot for, but keep doing what you're doing. Appreciate everything that you guys are doing to keep Valley Junction vibrant and hopping and and fun for the whole community. Yeah. Well said, uh mayor. And uh thank you both for being here. Um I contributed on Saturday. I can tell you it was a hopping place this last Saturday. So I'm glad to hear that uh that uh things keep going in the right direction for you all and my kids will be excited that Five Monkeys is apparently expanding down there. So some really cool stuff happening. Yeah.

Hey, um and and I appreciated Steve, you invited me out this last uh fall summertime frame and we did a bit of a tour. I'm just curious, you know, appreciated Russ the mayor's question about uh the number of folks that are interested, the wait list, so to speak, to be in the Valley Junction area. How many storefronts are um not that are vacant, right? Uh in your district because of one reason or the other. I mean, I real understanding is you got a wait list, a lot of people are there, but there are some storefronts that for whatever reason cannot be occupied. Can you give us a sense of how many there are there?

Yeah, I track that on a quarterly basis. January 1st, we had 10% vacancy. Uh that's probably the highest it's been since I've seen it. That's not unexpected. Typically January is when we see businesses close. They they they make it through the holidays, then they close up. Um so we did have a few closures in January. We're probably back up. We're probably at about 9% occupancy right now. And I think that will grow. I I I think we'll get down to 7%, maybe even six. You don't want to get to zero. You always wanted to have some churn. You want some uh availability for businesses to come and go. Uh the concern is the ones that have been vacant for a long time. Um and uh you know, if I could wave a magic wand and make things uh uh happen, we don't have the power. You know, we work with and for the business and building owners. Um we uh but we can't instigate that process, you know, we we can't force people to uh to welcome a business or develop a property. All we could do is work with them and hope that it works out well.

Well, I feel your frustration. Maybe I don't know if the right uh right way to characterize it, but um yeah, I I there's only so much that a city can do in terms of telling somebody what they can and can't do. And frankly, I'm not terribly interested in telling people what they can and cannot do. But when I do hear that there are properties that are uh uninhabitable uh or otherwise uh you know business can't go into it specifically right there on on Fifth, it's it is concerning and that's particularly concerning to me given other conversations that are happening around transition zones because it would be my goal to focus more on Fifth Street than than elsewhere, right? I want to make sure that we do everything we can to to move uh the you know the opportunities that exist. Clearly, in my opinion, there are opportunities there and that's where I'd like to focus our uh at least my efforts on it. So, appreciate appreciate you being here. Great to hear that, you know, you have so much investment. You're going to hit this $100 million mark this next year. If there are things that we can be doing on the council, I'd love to hear it. Never hesitate to reach out. I'd love to cut back down for another board meeting and hear, you know, what the challenges you guys are facing.

Absolutely. And and let us I didn't plan on chiming in a second time, but now he's got me going. I I couldn't agree more. I mean, to your point, I mean, what can we do as a city, you know, I don't think we're huge on regulations uh that that are burdensome to to business owners or that are uh coming in with the the stick rather than the carrot. I think maybe we need to get more firm than we've been. And I think the council supports that, but what does that look like? How do you how do you how do you get somebody in a business that's not investing that's got mold in the building or how do you do that? I was hoping you had the answer.

I don't have one. I I like to be creative and out of the box, but I don't have it. And I will, as as I've mentioned before, [clears throat] I tell people, you have no idea how lucky you are because most cities uh you know, Ryan Muffets, the the property improvement fund, the regulatory compliance fund, very few cities have have incentives to improve your own personal property, your own business property. So, we're so fortunate to have that available to us. And uh in fact, you know, I I talked about it all the time. Talked about it again. Somebody today said, "Hey, watch for the next budget cycle. You know, this might be coming back." Um, and I'm more of a carrot guy than a stick guy. Yeah. So, you guys and maybe now the stick has to come. I don't know.

Yeah. Um, if it were me, I' I'd take the carrot and and about it. But, you know, Yeah. Well, like I said, it's it's if we had a way to transform it, we would. Yeah. It's unfortunate because look what happened to 1225th. Yeah. Right. Somebody didn't put the TLC in that they needed to. the building was beyond repair. We had to to put up a fence. You know, all the problems that that caused that may have put somebody else out of business on the other side of that fence. That was a desperate call. I'll never forget do anything to help that woman. Yeah. Um so we want to prevent that,

right? But it seems like we're just going to head for more of that unless we can figure out how to intervene and do something that's fair and makes sense to try to get these people to invest in their buildings, get rid of the mold, fix the roof. I mean, we've tried to do that with these programs, but um so I hear you, Councilman. I I think we need to look at at that. And I think we need to also look at the transition zones and determine what we want to do with that and talk to the people and hear what their feedback and input is and continue to go through the process. But it is disappointing that we've got some businesses that are sitting there and people unwilling to sell while the businesses just rot.

And and [clears throat] don't think for a minute that we're alone in that. Every every Main Street program struggles with that. Oh, I bet. Um, and want to [laughter] you know, I I think the for me the frustration is because we hear it over and over again. I I wish I could move to Valley Junction. Do you guys have any openings? Um, we want to be like Valley Junction. And so when we have, you know, problem [clears throat] properties or whatever, I'm like there there's a there's a disconnect. We have people want to be here. We have people with stuff. And how do we right

how do we marry that? And you know, I do what I can to be matchmaker and certainly the businesses are great at welcoming people, [snorts] talking to them, being mentors to them. Um, but you know, there's there's only so much you can do. And

you know, I look, you know, you guys know I'm a preservationist at heart. I I chair preservation commissions in multiple cities. Um, I love historic preservation, historic buildings. I hate to lose them. And the longest yard was one that didn't have to be lost. No. But nobody took care of that building for half a century. It was very obvious. Um there's only so much you can do. And you know the weird thing is as we do our jobs and Value Junction is a great place to invest. It's rising up. You know the costs are rising. Obviously cost of materials are going up. Uh interest rates are up. So it becomes harder for entry level people to invest in a property down there. Um well when the demand is so we're doing our jobs too well when the demand is so high to be there and the supply is so low

right and so the danger is somebody snapping up uh a semi- derelick property uh at a price point that nobody's going to be willing to invest the money to fix it up because it's worth more just as as a piece of ground. All right, anything else for Steve or Susan before we move on? There's one last question. uh the stat that you gave earlier, did you say 75% of people coming to Valley Junction are from outside of West De Mo? Yes.

I do want to highlight that because for a community like Valley Junction to exist, it requires people in the community who go there. And I think that 25% number, I think that's incredibly impressive. And that means the folks who live in West De Mo are patronizing the businesses down there. And I think that's really important to highlight. And I want to thank the residents of West De Moines because that means they're doing what uh makes a community work. they are going into it and enjoying the amenities that it offers. So, 25 tourists, but we we're not a tourist community. We're a community that people live in. I live in it. Um and uh uh if it's a good enough community for people to live in, that will attract visitors.

Sure. All right. Anything else before we move on? [clears throat] All right. Steve, Susan, thank you so much for all you're doing. Appreciate you being here. All right. Moving on to uh mayor council manager report and uh I will start to my left here with councilman lots. Uh just a reminder for everyone tomorrow is election day for our vacant seat. So please show up. Did I miss my my spot? Yeah, I'm sorry. Sorry about that Amy. We moved on closed uh citizens forum and we just did a a presentation on uh mayor council manager report other entities update item three. So, I apologize, but you did. Everybody, see you next week. All right. Or couple weeks. See you in March.

Okay. Hey. Okay. Thank you for the reminder of the election. Big election uh tomorrow. Polls are open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Uh you get on the Secretary of State's website to find your polling location if you need that. So, thank you, Councilman. Council Traillian. Nothing at this time, your honor.

All right. Councilman McKenna. Yep. Thank you, mayor. Uh maybe just a couple items for the uh for the good of the order. So, this morning we had a development planning subcommittee meeting and uh um we worked through some design challenges uh I think in a in a pretty reasonable way. But, uh two items that I wanted to share with the group that will be coming forward, I believe. The first item is uh Hope uh Church is going to be expanding. I think they're adding an addition over there um onto their existing facility. I wanted to say that uh maybe Lynn had identified it at uh 14,000 square ft or something like that. A rather large addition. So

good for them and they're going to be uh adding some additional parking and some other amenities in the area. So we we covered that this morning. And then uh the yard house uh was uh was on the agenda this morning. Uh they're going to be they've already submitted a demolition permit for the uh Crab Shack around the uh Jordan Creek Mall and so uh look forward for that. Uh it's been vacant for far too long. It's been for um I don't know I'd guess half a decade to be honest with you. So good to see that come down and something else positive go up and so um we've been waiting for that one for quite a while. I think people are going to be really excited about Yard House. those who who know that restaurant to have seen it in other uh other cities, this is a first again to Iowa. Yeah. So, uh it's great to have it in West De Mo. It's awesome.

Got to bring it home. Yep. [clears throat] No doubt about it. So, excited to see that move forward. Um and then um we do have an uh meeting coming up and uh I'm happy to tell the group here um that I'll be serving as vice chair of the Metropolitan Planning Organization uh this upcoming year. So hopefully that um hopefully we don't screw things up at the MO. It's a good thing. Congratulations and thanks for doing it. That's huge with uh you on the MO and as vice chair and Tom uh with you as the chair of the STBG funding subcommittee. That's a great great position for West De Mo to be in. So yeah. No, it's exciting. Uh it's a privilege and look forward to keeping everybody updated on what happens at the MO. That's all I've got mayor.

Awesome. Thank you so much. Okay, Councilman Hudson.

All right. Uh Steve and Susan, thanks again for your presentation. You know, as Steve likes to say, and I saw in his presentation, uh you know, we are trying to elevate West De Moines, but if people are not feeling safe, then it's really difficult to do this. And that's why I just wanted to give a shout out to uh Chief Chris Scott because uh as of the end of this month, he will move on from being the police chief of the city of West De Mo. And I want to say uh Chris is not here, but I asked him last time if he was going to be here, and he gave a an answer that was uh non-committal, but I will just say that uh Chief Scott has served the city of West De Mo these past years with honor, with distinction. He has served his community. Uh when there were issues, he worked hard to address them. He worked to build community with our schools, our businesses, and our residents. And I think uh building up relationships is so very important. And I know that Chief Scott was curious. He was forward thinking and he was always willing to listen. And so I just want to say thank you. Um because uh it's such a tough role these days to be a chief of police for a city, especially a city that is very big. 75,000 people, that's a lot of people. And 150,000 people come into our city every single day and weekends are always hopping. And yet the the work that he's done with the entire police force, all of our public safety uh officials should be praised. and I just wanted to wish him Godspeed as he moved on to his next adventure. So, thank you, Chief Scott. Uh if you are listening, he may or may not be. It's all right. If

he's listening, I'll be very disappointed in him. [laughter] But you did a nice job uh paying him tribute. He has been an incredible hire that that Tom hired and incredible police chief. I think you said it so well. He did so so well in not only just enforcing the law and making our city safe, but building up community relations uh and strengthening those relations uh building the public trust. Uh we had it so good with Chief Scott and I'm really looking forward to Chief Bellamy coming in and following in his footsteps. I think with Chief Bellamy, we have another incredible person to lead the department and I think he's going to do a phenomenal job as well. So, yeah,

thank you for that, Councilman.

Both Councilwoman Hardman and I, we served on the public safety subcommittee together. Um, she has certainly moved on to the state senate, but I did want to make sure that we offered the thanks on uh the subcommittee and I think all of ours behalf as the mayor said, and that does remind me that what Councilman Lo said is correct. And as a local social studies teacher, I want to encourage everybody to vote because uh we have three candidates who are running, Shad Clayton, Vanette Elliot, and Katherine Harrington. And I want to thank all three of them for stepping up to run. It's difficult to do that. It takes a lot. And so, uh, I just want to say that the local government is closest to the people. So, to the citizens of West De Mo, all citizens, because this is an atlarge seat, that chair.

Yeah. You'd have to sit next to Russ, but I'm kidding. It's a It's a great thing. There are some negatives. No, there's there's all positives. You get sit between Kevin and uh and Russ. I just wanted to No, it's a great spot. You're making this sound worse as you go. All right. And that's You said that, not me, but make it sound like it's a rose between two thorns. We [laughter] don't know.

I don't know if it's the first election in Iowa uh in the year 2026, but either way, what a great way to start the year by getting up at 7 a.m. and voting. In 2024, a presidential election. We had about 40,000 people vote in the city of West De Moines. Let's try to make it 41,000 tomorrow in this special mid-inter election. Hey, it's nice tomorrow. It is not. It snows on November 15th and on February 15th it's 60°. I don't know. It's bizarre. Very bizarre. But please vote tomorrow. And thus concludes my report. Mr. Thank you, Councilman. Appreciate your report. On to city manager Haden. Hopefully, you have a more enthusiastic report than Councilman Hudson. Well, this Are you offering no odds on that 41,000 people? [laughter]

Predictive markets would Mr. Mayor, no report. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, uh, city manager. All right, moving on then to uh item four, consent agenda. Uh there are some items we're going to pull here. We're going to pull item 4 C7 uh and 4C14 are and also we are going to pull item 40 and our proclamation an amazing proclamation honoring the West De Mo day of kindness as February 27th that is for Q. Are there any other uh items that any council person would like to have pulled and voted on separately? Otherwise, I take a motion. Okay, second.

Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Please vote for yes. Okay. Item 47, Maverick Group LLC doing business as Maverick number 517, 5308 University Avenue, class e retail alcohol license. It's a renewal. Does somebody want to move uh approval of this? Motion to approve. Second. Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? I work with Maverick Mayor, so I'll be abandoned from this. All right, we will show uh Councilman McKenna is abstaining on this vote. With that, please vote.

Three yes, one abstension due to potential conflict of interest. Okay. Item 4C14, West Grand, Inc. doing business as West Grand Golf, 6450 Raccoon River Drive. Special class C retail alcohol license with outdoor service. It's also a renewal. Does somebody want to move approval of this? Second. Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? It's a family business, so stay. All right, we will show Councilman McKenna abstaining on this one. Uh, any other discussion? Hearing none, please vote. Three yes, one abstension due to potential conflict of interest.

Okay. Item 40 is a resolution for approval and acceptance of property interest Grand Avenue widening South 60th Street to South Jordan Creek Parkway. Does somebody want to move approval? So moved. Second. So moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? All right. Uh hearing none. Please vote. [clears throat] Three yes. One abstension due to potential conflict of interest.

Okay. And now the moment you've all been waiting for. Item 4q. uh proclamation honoring West Deoy's West De Moines's Day of Kindness as February 27th, 2026. This is a proclamation that was started by the West De Mo Leadership Academy, which is part of the chamber. Uh it's a great academy. Um there's more than networking. You really learn a lot about being a leader. I would encourage everybody to look at joining uh the uh West Moy Leadership Academy. I believe that uh the the application process is open right now for the next class. So please consider that. And with that uh can I get a motion to approve? It's moved.

Second. It's moved and seconded and I will read.

Whereas it is the mission of the city to serve people honestly and effectively and through a variety of services, strive to provide the quality of life desired by the community. And whereas it is the mission of the chamber to champion all things West De Moines by strengthening our area companies, providing personalized resources and attracting a top workforce to position West De Moines as the best suburban city in America. And whereas it is the vision of the West De Mo Leadership Academy to positively influence the future of West De Moines and the greater De Moine community through strategic leadership development and workforce retention. And whereas the West De Mo Leadership Academy would like to champion this day of kindness for years to come. And whereas putting putting smiles on faces of those who live, work, and play in West De Moines should be something we all strive for. And whereas studies show that kindness benefits not only the receiver, but also the giver. Whether these are companies or people, companies that value kindness have lower turnover on their teams, lower recruitment costs, and higher productivity. And whereas a random act of kindness is giving your best self to others without requests or promise of return on investment. It's simply doing something nice for someone else without them asking and without you doing it for anything in return. And whereas the city of West De Moine recognizes the benefits of having a kind and caring community. Now therefore, I, Russ Trimble, mayor of the city of West De Mo, Iowa, do hereby proclaim February 27th, 2026 as West De Moine Day of Kindness in the city of West De Moines and urge all citizens to celebrate West De Moines Day of Kindness and support efforts to promote a spirit of kindness this day and every day. With that, is there any discussion?

I just want to thank the West Deoy Leadership Academy. Uh they do awesome work every single year and uh I want to thank them especially for this. So great work. [snorts] Absolutely. Okay. Any other discussion? Okay. Hearing none, please vote. Four. Yes.

Okay. Will anybody that's here for this proclamation meet? Myself, the council, city manager, and anybody else down in front to take a picture quick? then we can send you on your way or like Chief Scott you can listen to the entire meeting online [laughter] please join us it is the day of kindness on the 27th come to our office we are donating socks for socks of love this is Mick Grossman's effort last year we collected 3432 socks we're trying to collect more than that on So the chamber will be open all day collecting socks and love and good. [clears throat]

Is there a 14y old kid in the house? Take one more.

[applause]

Thank you. Thank you so much. [cough and clears throat]

[laughter] Okay, moving on to item five. Um, old business item 5A. Um, we've got uh second reading waiver the third reading adoption of proposed ordinance to city code uh title one administrative chapter 10 finances motion consider the second reading. Second. Okay. I'm sorry. Let me let me say it again. Okay. [laughter] I screwed you up. Councilman got an ordinance amendment for approval of the second reading waiver of the third reading and adoption of final form. And there are no changes from the previous reading which was approved unanimously by the council at the last meeting. Now

we'll motion to consider the second reading. Second. All right. Sorry about that. Uh is there uh any discussion? Okay. Please vote

for yes. Amend the city code of city west Iowa 2024 by many title one administrative chapter 10 finances. Motion to approve as second reading. Second. Okay. Please vote

for yes. Motion to wave that third reading. Adopt and final form. Second.

Please vote for yes. Hold on one second. My computer's doing some funny things here. [sighs] Okay. Item 5B. Um, we've got, uh, adoption of proposed ordinance, title four, health and safety regulations, chapter 5, solid waste control. We've got modifications of fees and charges. We've got an ordinance amendment for approval of the second reading, waiver, the third, uh, and adoption of final form. There are no outstanding issues and no changes from the previous reading, which is adopted unanimously by the council at the last meeting. Move. Move consideration second reading.

Second. Okay. Is there any discussion? Yeah, your honor, just one thing about this. I Yes, sir. I don't like raising prices on anybody for anything, but this is solid waste and and it's a first world thing where people come and pick up our garbage and dispose of it, and we're lucky to have that. And I think I want to remind people. Um, sitting on the board of the Metro Waste Authority, um, gets me information that maybe people don't usually encounter. Um, it's all public, so none of it's hidden, but you know, we have multiple fires in the landfill every month. Wow. Uh, I think we had five in the month of December because people throw their iPhones in the garbage or their electronic batteries and those things cause fires

and so then we have to put them out. So costs are going not directly related to this, but it does add cost when we got to call the fire department to put out fires in the landfill because people threw away a toy with an LED battery or whatever. So, well, and I'm assuming the increase here is the increase that every city is going to be receiving around the metro. That's part of the metro waste. That's correct. Fuel cost that is absolutely everything everything goes up, but I wanted to take the option just to because I do hear about the fires at every [cough and clears throat] Sure. and I don't think the average constituent has any idea. So, that's the first I've heard of it. Five of them in December. One of them took 14 hours to put out. Oh my goodness.

All right. Well, thank you for the extra information, Councilman. Appreciate that. Uh any other discussion before we vote? Okay, please vote for yes. An ordinance amending the city code of the city of Westwood Iowa by amending title 4 health and safety regulations chapter 5 article C pertaining to solid waste collection charges. Motion to approve second reading. Second. Please vote. You know, Councilman Loz, I do see you've actually decreased the price of the uh additional container, so you can at least take credit for that. There [laughter] you go. There you go. You're welcome. Four. Yes. Move waving the third reading and adopt and final form. Second.

All right. Please vote. [snorts] Four. Yes. Okay. Uh item 5C, Davis Estates, [clears throat] west of Southeast 35th Street and south of Veterans Parkway. Amend the zoning map to establish multif family residential zoning. Hubble Realy Company. We've got an ordinance for approval. the second reading for assignment of zoning and there are no outstanding issues. There are no changes from the previous reading which was adopted 3 to one uh at the last meeting with Travillian voting no. Move consideration of the second reading. Second. Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Okay, please vote.

Three yes, one no. An ordinance amending the official zoning map of the city of West Iowa 2024 by amending title 9 zoning chapter 4 zoning districts and maps. Move approval of the second reading. Second. Please vote.

Three yes, one no. Okay, moving on to item six, public hearings. Item 6A. This is a time and a place for a public hearing to consider University Avenue corridor northeast corner of Valley West Drive and Westtown Parkway. established the University Avenue Corner planned unit development ordinance to govern development redevelopment initiated by the city of West De Mo. Ryan, would you please read the date the notice was published? January 30th, 2026 in the De Mo register and have received any written comments to this hearing. The plan zoning commission by a vote of seven yes adopted a resolution recommending approval of the PUD ordinance and written correspondence were received uh which are included with the council communication.

Okay. Anybody in the audience like to address the council on item 6A, please come to the podium here. Give us your name and address for the record. Uh, anybody online, hit star six to unmute yourself and do the same. Is there anybody in the audience or online that would like to address the council on this item?

All right, come on up and give us your name and address for the record. We ask that you keep it civil and respectful into five minutes or less. Sorry. Uh, Penny Bassman, uh, I live at 8255 Bailey Drive, but I own 3535 Westtown Parkway. Um, I think that your plan is a great one. I I'm not here to knock it or try to talk anything down at all. I I do have a lot of concerns about the traffic that's going to pick up. And I want you to do your homework on that, please. Because if you're coming out of some of those properties right now, you can't turn right unless if it's peak hours because people are getting on the freeway, you're going to have the mall traffic pickup. You're going to have quick start possibly going in next door. you. I just I just I'm encouraging you whether you're required or not required to to make sure that your traffic study is is all under your belt and you know [clears throat] what what's going on here because I don't want you to create a property or an area that no one wants to go to cuz it's a big hassle cuz I own part of it.

No, I appreciate that. Appreciate you being here. We've got an incredible team of engineers. We've got two specific traffic engineers. Trust me, they look at all this stuff to make sure the traffic is flowing smoothly. That's all I want. So, thank you for being here. Thank you. appreciate your comments. Okay, come on up. Somebody else in the exact same corridor. Give us uh your name and address for the record.

Sure. Christina Smith. Uh I am home address 4600 Western Hills Drive. Um but I represent Community Sport Advocates at 1516 uh Western uh um Valley West Drive. Um really again with Penny, love the idea. Not not concerned about that. Um just really um it's my understanding that you guys will be talking about um later uh about the who will be paying for some of the um updates like around the cityscape and things like that and there'll be discussion about that. So when you do that and I know you guys are are really good about considering business owners and things like that, small business, nonprofit, that kind of thing. um uh please um keep in mind that uh uh that will be difficult to pay for some of those things and um so just wanted to make that that was probably our biggest concern. Um but would be happy to see those changes come about.

Okay. Thank you so much for being here and thanks for all you do. Absolutely. Thank you.

All right. Anybody else in the audience? [cough] [clears throat] All right. I'm going to go online. Anybody online want to address council on item 6A? Hit star six, not pound six, but star six to unmute yourself. Give us your name and address for the record. Is there anybody online? All right. Hearing no one, I'll declare the public hearing closed. We've got an ordinance for approval of the first reading for establishment of planned unit development and there are no outstanding issues. Uh this was also approved unanimously by the planning and development city council subcommittee. Motion to consider the first reading. Second.

It's a moved and seconded. Is there any discussion in the dis? I got a question. Okay. Go ahead. I'm wondering why we're going to uh why we've got this motion when later on it states in the in the council packet that a council city council workshop uh is going to be held after the new city council member is seated. Why wouldn't we wait for all of it for the new council member to be seated? I mean, is there a rush for this? It would seem to me that it would make sense to if we've got an election tomorrow that we would wait. Just curious.

I I'll disagree with that and I don't know that there's any reason to wait. We have a development that's ready to go and [clears throat] we discussed this at the subcommittee a little bit and I I because there's the larger corridor that's being considered. We do have another council person who will be sat, but there's a development ready to go there now and we don't want them to have to wait. That's my opinion personally.

I I agree with you. I hear what you're saying, Councilman, but I agree with what Councilman Lo said. We got to move forward and uh continue to have conversation about this, develop this area. I think it sat long enough and uh it really is is time to start redeveloping this and keeping the ball moving forward. So, but I understand what you're saying. Yeah, I I'll uh just appreciate the question. Um and I frankly I was going to make a couple comments here. Appreciated the Penny and and the others that spoke. Um this did come before the development planning committee about a month ago. Um and we had a very extensive conversation how this is broken up into different uh zones uh within the within the area. And uh first of all on the traffic piece we did talk about traffic and we talked about the importance of understanding that levels of service would not drop that safety would not be reduced um and that we would be able to accommodate whatever growth is being planned there and I want you to know that that was talked in in detail I think with um with Eric Peterson and and I know Ben Mallister has been involved as well. So we will certainly keep that top of mind. Um second, not not only did we talk about traffic, but we also talked about storm water because we are talking about different densities in the area. And so talking about impact on storm water, obviously on the Blue Creek uh just to the north there, we've invested pretty the city along with the state of Iowa through some grant programs uh has been able to do quite a bit, but we want to make sure it fits with the development that's going on in there. So not just that, I mean, there were a lot of things that were that were brought up. And then lastly, I do want to point to the fact that, you know, mayor, when we went through the comprehensive plan, one of the things that I talked about pretty significantly is the payer mix. How is this going to impact uh revenues to the city? How are we going to uh anticipate what the impact may be uh if we move everything to multif family or everything to single family or everything to commercial? I and hats off to to Lyn and uh I'm sorry to Lynn and the rest of the team. And I don't know

if it was just Lynn, but you guys put together a very detailed analysis of what we could expect and how it could play out. I mean, very analytical, objective data that we could evaluate. It was it was uh music to my ears. And so, a lot of work has gone into this. A lot more work will happen going forward. Um and uh and so I'm I'm excited to support this.

Well, I I appreciate you always looking at that. Do we have the right mix? Because we are a business. We need to make sure that we have enough revenue to support the infrastructure that needs to be put in and to be able to provide the services, continue to provide the services to our citizens that that they expect and they deserve. And so taking a look at that analysis, uh, looking at the traffic, looking at the safety, I'm glad that's all done and I appreciate everything that staff put into this as well uh, from that standpoint. [sighs] Okay. Any other discussion on this before we vote? You know, I'd be curious to hear uh a little bit more about the traffic, not necessarily in the traffic study uh which was already completed, but I wanted to more hear about how it compares to say 25 years ago. 25 years ago in 2001, Valley West Mall was hopping. Absolutely hopping. And so I don't know what that intersection looked like. Um and I presume that that intersection was wildly more busy than it is today comparatively. And I don't know if that's double. I don't know if that's triple. Uh but I think this uh change, this PUD that we're talking about, uh would probably not reach the level of what it was 25 years ago. Now, understanding we have we have great and awesome goals for maybe the Valley West area, Caddy Corner, or just actually right across the street from this area. And if things develop over there, whatever happens, because there's a lot of different ideas, but uh then maybe we could see some future traffic that would be pretty nuts around that area, probably like it was in 2001 because I have to imagine that was a nightmare during Christmases in 20201. I didn't live up here at this exact moment, so I can't speak to it, but I imagine it was pretty crazy. Richard Herd is nodding at me like, "Yes, it was probably nuts to get some uh gifts over there." But at this exact moment, while I'm appreciating the traffic and the concern

about the traffic, seems like this PUD at this moment will probably have less effect. But I think there will be more effect as we continue. And I think we'll cross that bridge when we get it. But I appreciate the concerns

for sure. And we plan on breathing new life into this area. Absolutely. With our investment in the revitalization of Valley West Mall. Uh we look forward to it very much and are eager to get underway doing that work. Um, we've been working on this for a while, working through some of the, uh, obstacles in our way, trying to overcome those, and I think people are going to be very pleased when they see the plans that we've got for the redevelopment of that site. I think it's going to be phenomenal. I think people are going to be excited. It's going to knock their socks off. So, I just can't wait to get to that point. We're keeping moving the ball down the field and uh looking at having some incredible uh new investments in the area uh with Quickstar and and others. And uh this is going to be an exciting time to be on the council. It's going to be exciting time to live in West De Mo. Uh and can't wait to get our get our work done and and get moving on it. So, all right. Any other discussion on this item? Okay. Please vote.

[clears throat] for yes in order to amend the official zoning map in the city code in West Mo Iowa 2024 by amending title 9 zoning chapter 9 plan development district pertaining to plan unit development district regulations and guidelines motion to approve the first reading second. Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Please vote

for yes. Okay, move moving on. Item 6B. This is a time and a place for a public hearing to consider Mills Landing, southeast corner of South 60th Street and Mills Civic Parkway. Amend the specific plan ordinance to adjust minimum required lot size within the PUD parcels and update traffic counts initiated by Plaza Street Partners LLC. Ryan, would you please read the date the notice is published? January 30th, 2026 in the De Mo Register. uh and receive any written reports for this hearing. The plan zone commission by a vote of 7 yes adopting a resolution recommending approval of a specific plan amendment.

Okay. Anybody in the audience like to address council item 6B? Please come to the podium, give us your name and address for the record. Anybody online, hit star six, do unmute yourself, and do the same. Is there anybody in the audience or online that would like to address the council on item 6B? Okay. hearing and seeing no one, I'll declare the public hearing closed. We've got an ordinance amendment for approval of the first reading and there are um or to the specific planned ordinance and there are no outstanding issues. Motion to consider this first reading and second. Okay, it's a move and seconded. Is there any discussion? Okay, please vote

for yes. Nor amend the city code of the city of western way Iowa 2024 in the Mills landing specific plan ordinance pertaining to plan unit development district regulations and guidelines. Motion to approve first reading. Second. Okay. Please vote four. Yes. All right. Item 6 C. This is the time and place for a public hearing to consider issuance of not to exceed 14.5 million in essential corporate purpose general obligation bonds initiated by the city of West De Moines. Ryan, would you please read the date the notice is published? February 3rd, 2026 in the De Mo register. And have we received any written comments of this hearing? None, your honor.

Okay. Anybody in the audience would like to address the council on item 6C, please come to the podium, give us your name and address for the record. Anybody online, please hit star six to unmute yourself and do the same. Would anybody like to address the council on item 6C? All right. [clears throat] Hearing no one, I'll declare I'll declare the public hearing closed. We've got a resolution to institute proceedings to take additional action on the issuance of not to exceed 14.5 million in essential corporate purpose. General obligation bonds or notes and there are no outstanding issues. This was also reviewed and approved unanimously by the Finance and Administration City Council subcommittee. Motion to approve, please. Second.

Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Seems like we have a couple of these coming up, but we continue to do the city's business. And as a reminder, uh because the city of West De Mo is AAA bond rated by both S&P and Moody's, uh we expect to get lower interest rates than anyone else uh in the state. And that's exciting. Absolutely. All right. Please vote

four. Yes. Okay. Item 6D. This is the time and place for a public hearing to consider issuance of not to exceed 969,000 general corporate purpose general obligation bonds initiated by the city of West De Mo. Ryan, would you please read the date the notice was published? February 3rd, 2026 in the De Mo register. And have we received any written comments of this hearing? None, your honor. Okay. Okay, anybody in the audience who would like to address council on item 6 uh 6D, please come to the podium, give us your name and address for the record. Anybody online, hit star six to unmute yourself and do the same. Is there anybody either in the chambers or online that would like to address councel on this item?

Okay. Hearing and seeing no one, once again, I'll declare the public hearing closed. We've got a resolution to institute proceedings to take additional action on the issuance of not to exceed 969,000 of general corporate purpose general obligation bonds or notes and there are no outstanding issues. This was also approved uh reviewed and approved unanim unanimously by the finance and administration city council subcommittee. Motion to approve. Second. Okay. It's a move and seconded. Is there any discussion? Okay. Please vote.

Four yes. Okay. Item 6E. Uh, this is a time and a place for a public hearing to consider uh issuance of not to exceed 46 million in general obligation local option sales tax bonds initiated by the city of West De Mo. Ryan, would you please read the date the notice is published? February 3rd, 2026 in the De Mo Register. And have we received any written comments of this hearing? None, your honor.

Okay. Anybody in the audience like to address council on item 6E? Please come to the podium. Give us your name and address to the record. Anybody online, hit star six to unmute yourself and do the same. Is there anybody either online or in the chamber that would like to address the council on this item? Okay. Hearing and seeing no one, I will declare the public hearing closed. We've got a resolution to institute proceedings to take additional action on the issuance not exceed 46 million of general obligation local options sales tax bonds and there are no outstanding issues. This again was uh reviewed and approved unanimously by the finance and administration city council subcommittee. Motion for approval. Second. Okay, it's moved and second. Is there any discussion?

Yeah, just one real quick thing. I I think this is a huge investment in our community. It will bring in tons of people to stay at hotels which haven't even been built yet and eat at restaurants that haven't even been built yet. And so I think this is a great use of money and I really want to um give staff credit here. They've it says 13 to 18 million. I don't know what the number raised is at this point, Ryan, and I don't want you to come up here and tell me either, but I know you guys have been putting in a lot of effort around that, and I'm really, really happy with staff pulling in private money. Thank you. Absolutely. Amen to that. Okay. Any other discussion before we vote? Okay. Hearing none, please vote

for yes. Okay. Item 6F uh is uh a public hearing on the 202526 budget amendment number two. This is a time and a place for a public hearing to consider FY2526 operating capital budget amendment number two initiated by the city of West De Moines. Ryan, would you please read the date the notice is published? January 30th, 2026 in the De Mo Register. And we received any written comments of this hearing? None, your honor.

Okay. Anybody in the audience like to address the council on this item, please come to the podium. Give us your name and address for the record. Anybody online hit star six to unmute yourself and do the same. Would anybody like to address the council on budget amendment number two? Okay. Hearing and seeing no one, uh I will declare the public hearing closed, uh we've got a resolution approving budget amendment number two, uh to the FY226 operating capital budgets, and there are no outstanding issues. Motion approval. Second. It's

been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? As always, a thank you to Tim Styles and Chris Hamlet for doing the awesome work to make sure that our budget every single year is updated accordingly. So, I will be supporting this budget budget amendment number two. [snorts] All right. Thank you so much. Please vote. Four. Yes. All right. Item 6G. This is a time and a place for a public hearing to consider 2026 HMA reservicing program phase 1 initiated by the city of West De Mo. Ryan, would you please read the date the notice is published? January 30th, 2026 in the De Mo register. And have received any comments of this hearing? None, your honor.

Okay. Anybody in the audience would like to address the council on item 6G? Please come to the podium. Give us your name and address of the record. Anybody online, star six to unmute yourself and do the same. Would anybody like to address the council on item 6G? Okay. Hearing and seeing no one, I'll declare the public hearing closed. We've got two resolutions and a motion which we can take at the same time. And there are no outstanding issues. Motion approval. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Okay. Please vote.

Four. Yes. Okay. Item 6G. This is a time and a place for a public hearing to consider Booneville Road reconstruction south 60th Street to Raccoon River Drive initiated by the city of West De Moine. Ryan, would you please read the date the notice is published? January 30th, 2026 in the De Mo register. And have we received any written comments of this hearing? None, your honor.

Okay. Anybody in the audience or online that would like to address the council on this item, please come to the podium. Give us your name and address for the record. Is there anybody in the audience or online that would like to address the council on item 6H? Speak now or forever hold your peace. Okay. Hearing and seeing no one, I'll declare the public hearing closed. We've once again got two resolutions and a motion we can take at the same time and there are no outstanding issues. Motion to approve. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Okay. Please vote. Four. Yes.

Okay. Item six I. This is a time and a place for a public hearing to consider Stonewood pavement repairs initiated by the city of West De Moines. Ryan, would you please read the date the notice is published? January 30th, 2026 in the De Mo register. And have received any written comments at this hearing? None, your honor. Okay. Anybody in the audience like to address the council on this item, please come to the podium, give us your name and address of the record. Anybody online, hit star six to unmute yourself and do the same. Is there anybody in the audience or online that would like to address the council on item 6 I? Okay, I will declare the public hearing closed. We've once again got two resolutions and a motion which we can take at the same time and there are no outstanding issues. Motion to approve. Second.

Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? It'll be nice to uh fix these streets, I'll tell you that. All right, please vote. Thankfully, this doesn't happen too often. You You know, your honor, I drove through a lot of towns on my little vacation I took here, and I noticed the ones who have bad streets. They stand out. I'm glad we don't have that problem. We've got great streets in West De Mo. All right, Ryan, do your thing. Four. Yes. All right, moving on to item 6J. This is a time and a place for a public hearing to consider 2026 court improvements initiated by the city of West De Moines. Ryan, would you please read the date the notice was published? January 30th, 2026. in the De Mo register. And have we received any written comments of this hearing? None, your honor.

Okay. Anybody in the audience like to address the council on item 6J? Please come to the podium, give us your name and address for the record. Anybody online, hit star six to unmute yourself and do the same. Is there anybody either in the chambers or online that would like to address the council on this item? Okay. I'm going to declare the public hearing closed. And we've once again got two resolutions and a motion we can take at the same time. And there are no outstanding issues. Motion to approve. Okay, it's been moved. Is there a second? Second. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? It's good. Good. Ward two parks right here. So, or two. Get excited. New volleyball sand. That's going to be cool. I'll be out there playing.

Will you really? Well, maybe. [laughter] Or watching. I'll be watching. Come on. Cheering people [laughter] on. Good. I'm getting older. I'm getting slower. I don't think people I'll be the last person picked. So, I'll save it. That's going to be humiliating. So, they save the best for last. Uh, that's what I always tell myself. [laughter] All right. Hearing no discussion except for putting me down in my volleyball skills. [laughter] No. Please vote. Kevin said save the best for I know. I know he did. I know. Four. Yes.

Thank you, Kevin. All right. Moving on to item seven, new business. Item 7 a plat of survey parcel 2026-1 4180 Grand Avenue approved plat of survey to create a 4,122 ft parcel for the transfer of ownership Forest L. Rididgeway Jr. Revocable Trust and Laura A. Rididgeway revocable trust. Uh we have got a resolution for approval and release of the Plat survey and there are no outstanding issues. Once the land in question here is acquired, the applicant will be performing a lot tie agreement that will be recorded by the city. That is one condition of approval. Motion to approve. Okay, it's been moved. Is there a second? Second.

Okay, it's moved and seconded. Is there anybody in the audience or online that would like to address the council on item 7A? Is there any discussion on the DAS? [snorts] Okay, with that please vote

for yes. Okay. Item 7B, Platis Survey, parcel 26-1, and 26-14, 9417 Cascade Avenue, 9449 Cascade Avenue, and 9468 Tree Haven Court approved Platis Survey to create two parcels. Long Dirt Investments LLC. Uh we've got a resolution for approval and release of the platus survey and there are no outstanding issues. But there is one condition of approval that involves the applicant and property owner acknowledging that no building permits can be issued for parcel 26-14 until the reestablishment of the 10-ft Overland uh forward easement is recorded. Motion to approve.

Sorry, overland flow easement. Uh it's been moved, seconded. Any any uh discussion from anybody in the audience or uh online that would like to address the council? Any discussion on the dis? Okay, please vote four. Yes.

All right. Item 7 C. Uh we've got approval and acceptance of guaranteed maximum price change order amendment to the standard forum of agreement between city and construction manager risk agreement Krauss Anderson construction company for the Mid-American Energy Company Reclex expansion project. We've got a resolution for approval and acceptance of the guaranteed maximum price change order amendment to the standard form agreement between the city uh manager at risk uh agreement and Krauss Anderson for the reclex and there are no outstanding issues. This was also approved uh unanimously by the finance and administration city council subcommittee. Motion to approve. Second.

It's been moved and second. Is there anybody in the audience or online that would like to address the council on this item? Okay. Hearing none, please vote. Four. Yes. Item 7D, we've got the Valley West urban renewal tiff district. Uh, city initiated. We've got approval of the first reading for the creation of the Valley West TIF ordinance. Does somebody want to move consideration of the of the first reading? So moved. Second.

Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion from anybody in the audience or online on item 7D? Anybody that would like to address the council on this item? Okay. Any discussion in the dis hearing? None. Please vote. Going to keep moving that ball forward for yes. ordinance provide the general property taxes leving collected each year on all taxable property located within the Valley West urban renewal area in the city of West De Moines be paid to [snorts] a special fund for payment of principal and interest on loans monies advanced to and indebtedness including bonds issued or to be issued incurred by the city in connection with the Valley West urban renewal area. Move approval of the first reading second. Okay, please vote.

Four yes. Okay. Item 7E, no parking zones. Maple Street, EP True Parkway to 125 ft north of EP True Parkway on the south side. Prospect Avenue, Fourth Street to 50 55 ft east of Fourth Street on the south side. Locust Street, Metal Lane to 70 ft west of Metal Lane on the south side. We have got an ordinance amendment for approval of the first reading and there are no outstanding issues. Move consideration of the first reading. Is there second? Second. It's been moved and seconded. Is there anybody in the audience or online that would like to address the council on item 7E? Is there any discussion on the dis?

I just like to say that I appreciate staff uh taking a look at u issues like this when it comes up and uh coming up with ways to make uh the intersections safer for all of our traveling. Absolutely. Our engineers do a phenomenal job [clears throat] uh not only taking a proactive stance but responding to complaints and going out and studying the intersection determine whether or not it needs to be improved. So I agree 100% with you Kevin. All right. Any other discussion before we vote? Okay. Please vote for yes amending the city code of the city west Iowa 2024 by amending provisions pertaining to the traffic code relating to official traffic controls. Motion for approval of first reading.

Second. Okay. Please vote for yes.

Okay. Item eight, receive, file, and or refer. Item 8A will receive and file some internal financial reports dealing with balancing of funds and monthly reports by the finance department. Uh item nine, other matters. Are there any other matters that any council person would like to raise for the good of the order? Okay, hearing none, we will adjourn into our workshop which we will be uh get going in the next 3 minutes. We are adjourned. Workshop will be right here in the council chambers and we're going to start with the legal department at 654. Yes. No, I'm I apologize. I think I might have just joined a minute or two late. I was just asking um I represent the Meridian. We had a liquor license application tonight on the agendas.

Oh, well, congratulations. Your uh your license was approved and uh we look It was okay. I just wanted to make sure I called in and represented in case anybody had any questions. So, absolutely. Thank you so much. All right. Thanks, guys. All right. We look forward to the annual chamber dinner there. Yes, we'll be there next Thursday. It will be exciting. I wish I would have announced that tonight. Take care. Thank you. Yeah, no worries. Thank you.

Goodness sakes. All right. All right. We're going to get this workshop started. Let's start it now. If anybody wants to Everyone wants to take their seats, please. And we're going to start off with our city attorney, Greta Truman. I didn't know it was California. Okay, we good. All right. All right. So, we're going to skip the legal discussion and we're going to go straight to parks and wreck with Ryan Penning, our director, and Marco Alvarez, who I can't remember his title, the superintendent of parks.

Superintendent of parks and rec superintendent parks. All right.

All right. Good evening. Thank you for the introduction, mayor. Um, I'm just going to go over a couple uh slides here and then Marco's going to hit on uh five uh specific projects and we're going to end our presentation with um a slide on the marathon loop because I know that is always uh on your mind, mayor. So, um, [clears throat] speaking to our park projects, so our process starts, uh, with our park board, uh, at their October meeting, uh, staff presents, um, a number of different projects with them. They kind of rank them, prioritize them over the next month, and then come November, we finalize that and make a recommendation from the park board to the city council. So we originally started with 16 total projects for the upcoming fiscal year. Uh as you can see here we have eliminated one of those and that was during the process of working with uh finance and the engineering department on just where the financials were coming in at pots of money and things like that. So uh we are proposing uh 15 total park related projects for the upcoming fiscal year and you can see that those are ranked from 1 to 15. Um, again, we feel like it's important to balance these projects out from new projects, new and shiny projects, which are obviously wellreceived uh by our residents, but we also know the importance of reinvesting in what we already have. Playground renovation projects, trail renovation projects are a couple that come to mind on that. So, you can see that we've done that. So, six uh renovation projects totaling uh 1.88 88 million and nine new improvements totaling just over uh $3 million uh dollars. Also very important uh as we look at these projects is the uh the distribution of those [clears throat]

throughout our entire city and that we're not just focused on say the western side of our city where the new development the more new newer development is happening or south of the river and things like that. So again, it goes back to new projects and renovated projects as well. So you can see here that we have the three different wards. The numbers uh that are highlighted in yellow, uh those are uh correspondence with the uh projects listed on the previous slide. So again, 15 total projects. If you have any questions on any of those, please let us know. Uh but but what Marco is going to do here is just highlight the next five and uh feel free to interrupt and ask us any questions as we go through those.

It's good to see that the majority of those are done in the first word. I appreciate that. Thought we'd try to keep you happy, Kevin. [laughter] [clears throat] Not named yet. Do that. We'll wait till you're done. [laughter]

Thank you very much. Good evening everyone. Um Ryan as mentioned uh highlighting five projects here that uh may be of interest uh to council and also to the general uh public here. And uh so the first one is Valley V Park and this is completing the north loop road park road. So we've been making great progress on the master plan of Valley View uh specifically with the sports comp sport complex on the west side with the open field. Um so our next major task here is to complete that north loop. Um doing so will not only really make the park into one. Right now the east side is separated from the west side with no internal uh connection and also it's going to allow us to um expand then the future um amenities there specifically uh the playground uh shelters and more parking um there at the site. So, um you can see there um also this will um with the road we'll also include a side uh trail um that's part of our marathon loop too. So, uh once again adding more trail uh miles to our uh facility. So, some creative financing here. We're requesting 600,000 to cover uh the balance or remaining of what is uh we're projecting to be and this is a conservative number 1.8 million. Um so uh we've been uh fortunate to have some um good bids come in on most recent valley projects specifically um with the pickle ball courts and some other uh recent improvements um there. So we have about 1.2 million that we've had just in savings uh now that recently completed projects. We also have a potential use of quarry funds there from uh some uh in Dallas County that we could also potentially put towards this. Um, but uh

I've got to say that I love how um when Valley View Park first got proposed and Ross, you'll remember this. We knew it was going to be, you know, multi-stage process to get it done. And I think we've done a great job, especially staff, on making sure that that those steps keep moving forward. So, I'm I'm really happy to see this um extension of the trail go in so that we can connect everything cuz I know uh I think since day one that park has been pretty heavily used and it just gets busier each time. So, absolutely. I echo what he says. I've gone out there door knocking or driving out in the area and I'm always playing volleyball.

Yeah. Playing volleyball, warming up for volleyball and I'm always amazed at at even though it comes through here every everything in there how it's developing. Just like Kevin said, little by little, it's slowly but surely happening. It's great. Well, also I appreciate it because over on the eastern side of the city, certainly Raccoon River Park truly is a regional park. And while this is not as big, I mean, its size uh kind of makes it the western regional park. And so I appreciate that it's just growing and growing. And this plan uh looks pretty fantastic. So I echo them as well.

What are the quarry funds? Tell me more about that. I I'm afraid I just don't know much about that. That's when we annexed we annexed in the quaries and worked out an agreement with them and one of those things was a payment of what $500,000 a year or what was um not quite that much but we've been collecting it for a number of years like the mayor mentioned um it was part of an agreement it involved Dallas County and the quaries and they were going to pay for some park related improvements those funds are now with the city

and really got an opinion from legal. I I actually talked to Dick Shazinski and Jod Smith who were here when that was all negotiated and they said that it's our funds can really technically be used for anything, but their suggestion was use it for some sort of park improvements in Dallas County to kind of meet the spirit of what it was intended to do. There was discussion about potentially doing a regional park down in the Corey area, but it Dallas County wasn't really supportive of that and it just it it we need we could I think we're still interested in doing that, but potentially, but Yes.

Yeah. And these are the quaries down on Raccoon River Drive, correct? Correct. Yes. Just so everybody that's listening, what what is Do you remember the amount that they give us every year? I mean for a while they like they weren't paying. It's about 50 or 60,000. Is that it? 50 or 60,000. It's based on how much volume they're doing at the story. So it's very very and initially I I remember like we weren't receiving a payment and so we received a lot up after Dallas County was getting it and they moved they decided that it should come to us. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Yep.

All right. We'll continue um here in the presentation. Uh, next project, one highlight is our Wilson Park playground and shelter restroom replacement. So, this is a continuation of our ongoing playground [snorts] replacement program where we aim to try to renovate our playgrounds on a uh give or take 20-year cycle. So, um we're requesting 950 for uh the con 950,000 for the construction. We've already have budgeted um in the 2526 uh CIP budget 150 for the design on it. And so this also includes uh replacing the restroom shelter building there. It's over 30 years old. It's one of our older facilities that we have. Um it's in need of some um not only renovation, but we've really outgrown that facility. So that park gets heavily used. It's a neighborhood park, but um uh one of the user groups that uses it is uh the um Cricut uh club. Um they use that space there. And so um looking to have more storage and just a bigger shelter that can accommodate the larger groups. Um

storage for what? Storage just for fac uh programming that we have there. So storage that our staff can use and then also potentially where our user groups can also use um for for our uh for so the Cricut group potentially. Yes. They're going to store stuff from their Are they paying anything? We have a user agreement with We have a user agreement. It'd be similar to like our agreements with girls softball, soccer. Um, are you going to make this restroom area? Excuse me. How much bigger are you going to make the restroom? Uh, we shelter area.

Anticipate that the the restroom um is going to stay essentially the same size. I think from uh the stall. So, it's uh we uh could use a a third like uh family restroom in there. I think you looking at the shelter size and having a bigger space where right now it's a combined unit. I think one of the things we'll look at is separating the two so we can um better place where the shelter goes. So, this whole structure is coming down and a new one's going up. Correct. Okay. You know what? I'm going to ask that we don't build a Taj Mahal because again I think round numbers a million dollars for this is pretty excessive

and public services has gone down there and evaluated the existing uh structure of of it and you [snorts] know do we make repairs and do a new roof and everything like that and their recommendation is because it's 30 plus years old that it'd be best suited. The other thing is this gets used heavily by I don't know what that group is but they're out there almost every single weekend. Um so we feel it's important that larger groups and things like that we have to take that into consideration as well.

Mhm. And too I do want to point out we are looking at some um funding grant funding to go towards this. in fact 350,000 [snorts] uh we have a uh grant that we're in the process of uh completing to um submit and then also this is in a low to moderate income um uh census area. So I think that uh will also open up opportunities to help fund these improvements as well. So I'm not saying improvements aren't necessarily needed. I'm just saying that a million dollars is pretty steep. Yeah. Um how you got McKini going? [clears throat] No. Well, I just I mean I just I Well, I I was thinking very

I need to get volunteer help and labor to build it like we did the garage down on First Street cuz I just this seems crazy.

I just I I I'm not in this space uh spec like in terms of uh designing building and getting quotes for this sort of thing. But this morning at the development planning subcommittee, we had uh a gentleman who is uh built the [clears throat] uh buildings down there off of Grand Avenue. Um the new office buildings right next to DMAC and um they're putting up a maintenance uh I'll call it a shed, right? But it's designed to look like a class A office space. and he spoke this morning how is it's going to cost him in his opinion a very high amount of $600,000 to put in this maintenance structure and uh they've got full garage doors, Florida nearly ceiling windows on it. Um it looks in my opinion very very nice. Frankly, I think it's as I told him I don't think we need to have a class A maintenance shed. And so if he can build with two big garage doors and you know all this storage and everything, there's probably not bathrooms in it. So I recognize that. but he's going to put it up for 600 grand. Um I just it gives me perspective on 950,000. I know that probably includes things beyond the structure, but

it's the whole playground. So this is also includes a playground. It's a playground renovation and the shelter. Yeah. And that's what I said. I know it's not just the deal, but um I don't I'm just bringing it up as when I heard that this morning, I just it gives me Yeah. The majority of this cost is probably more going to be uh the actual playground replacement. Okay. So, the bathrooms are the bathroom. We're looking we're not looking to do a custom restroom here. It's going to be probably more of a pre-manufactured restroom. Um, so we're probably budgeting around 300 350 for the restroom. The it's the playground that's going to be more in that 5 to600,000. Thank you. Well, if it's the Taj Mahal that is in front of us here in this picture, people are really going to enjoy that.

So, that is a good question though. Yeah, it does include the the entire majority of this is going to be tied to the playground. Okay. Okay.

Uh moving on here, a uh exciting project here is part of the continuing the marathon loop with the Raccoon River East Greenway Trail Connection. So, this is a new uh trail that would connect Ron River Park to the uh recently completed First Street Recreational Area there off of First Street. Um, not only will this be part of the marathon loop, but it's also going to create, um, a key connection. It's going to, uh, also create a 10K loop. So, uh, trail users will be able to utilize the Levy Trail, the Reichon River Park trails, and, uh, you know, we know people love to run in circles, right? And so, giving them options, 5K, 10Ks.

I'm going to do 10K before I go play volleyball in Whip Hudson. That's what's going to happen. And [snorts] so we requesting 850,000. This is for the second half of construction. So we've bud budgeted with the 2526 uh budget uh the first half of construction. And so we are in the process of designing it. Um there's going to be significant permitting that's going going to be involved with this project, but uh this will be um for the uh second half of construction and that's through loss funding. [clears throat] Okay. Uh the Jamie Herd Amphitheater. This is the permanent restrooms. I know we've talked about this project. Um and this is uh of course a new improvement. Uh we've already have approved 150,000 as part of the 2526 budget um to begin the design. So this is requesting then uh 700,000 for the um construction. Um in addition to the restroom, it'll also include electrical upgrades to the facility specifically in the food truck area. so we can uh bring and attract uh more uh bigger uh food uh trucks. Um we are also looking at uh in conversations with uh uh private uh donors for inind donations. We anticipate this could be in the $250 to $350,000 range that would go towards this and uh significantly um lessen our uh city funds towards it. Are we still looking at a different type of building rather than the Taj Mahal?

We have explored options. Yeah, we've presented three options, looked at three different options. Again, um our standpoint is I think in this area with the city campus, the city facilities around it. Um our preference at looking at a custom compared to a a ROMtech prefab compared to basically a standup. Um I think this serves differently uh when you're attracting um people to come to [snorts] outdoor events and things like that. Um our alternative funding is working with a potential donor um to lessen the the city burden on those costs.

But aren't we also attracting currently attracting different events down here with Kaibos?

I think it goes back to the user experience. Well, and that was my point is that we're getting people here now with Kaibos. If we put in permanent bathrooms that flush and and sinks, that doesn't equal $700,000. You're still going to get those same people, if not more, because you got permanent bathrooms. I still stress that we need to I don't that you're looking at private donations. That's great, [snorts] but [clears throat] I'm I just don't see $700,000 for a damn bathroom. I'm sorry. I just don't Well, how much how much was the bathroom we did in Valley Junction?

Way too high because we did the same thing down there. [snorts] Well, all people wanted was a toilet and and sinks with roof and locking doors. That was it. They weren't looking for all that fancy architecture and the I don't know what those translucent windows at the top that nobody sees and all. I just that provides talked about that one then that provides additional lighting throughout.

No, it doesn't. You can say it does. I'm just putting here that's neither here nor there. I just don't think we need to spend that kind of money on bathrooms. Not in this especially not in this environment. this this bathroom thing. I I think we need to bring it bring it before one of the city council subcommittees for discussion to figure out what it is that the council wants to see in the way of design of a bathroom. And then let's put this conversation to bed because at some point in time based on the design, the cost is the cost is the cost. Unless we're getting ripped off because we're a government entity and a private sector entity would pay less. I don't know what else we can do. I mean, we're going out to bid, right? It's

right. But it's the it's the design that you're putting out there. I mean, you can build a house that everybody can your family can live in for $400,000 or you can build another one that they all can live in for $2.5 million. It's still houses your family. So, let's bring this to one of the city council subcommittees. It makes sense. Come up. And I'm not saying there's a one-sizefits-all for all the bathrooms, but we ought to come up with a standard city bathroom that these guys are good with so that we never have to have this conversation ever again. We will bring it to a [snorts] workshop. We have like just one of the committees like I don't bring it to public services. I mean, this is what it falls under. Yeah. Yeah, that's fine.

That's fine. Bring it to public services. Then we know we'll have it. [laughter] Yes. Yes. [laughter] Provide no bathroom. Make the make it last two hours this meeting. No bathroom for either one of these guys. That's You guys are terrible. Ryan, is there when it comes to how much the Kaibos cost over the course of the year? Obviously, it's not a huge cost, but what I just wanted to ask is would we ever consider raising the rates at the Herd Amphitheater? And obviously any rate raise would never ever pay for the the large s that my colleagues are speaking about, but would that be under consideration?

Yeah, for for private rentals, they they do have to uh cover the cost of the kaos. We put that into the contract for them [snorts] for a private rental. Sure. So again, this is again looking at our events in addition to not only [snorts] our events, but we know that there's 130,000 trips that have been made out here on the city campus because of our trail counter. So we know that obviously people are are using the trails and a permanent restroom facility out nine months out of the year is going to be beneficial to them as well.

Totally. I I I couldn't agree more. I see a lot of people walking out here all the time. My wife and I uh will go and walk out here, walk around here. She does that with her friend. I think a bathroom here would be very welcome. Uh, and you know, you got to have somewhat of a nice facility. Um, but let's let's bring it to let's bring it to public services and figure out what these guys can go for in the way of design and then we'll go from there. But, you know, what what works for one area doesn't necessarily work for another area. I mean, I would think this one would be maybe on the little bit of the nicer side, frankly. I mean, people are going to be there listening to a concert. It's a number one requested thing from staff who's out there uh staffing this these events, right? And I don't think this thing is nearly even close to as big as it's going to get at some point in time. I I think we've been marketing more our summer Sundays. We just did the Friday concerts, but I the more we market this, the more people find out about this, the more people that are going to be out there listening to concerts, seeing shows, and whatnot. And so, you're going to want something reasonable there. Maybe you come up with a couple different standards.

We have I think we've All right, we beat it to death. I should have led with this, but this is completely appropriate for this workshop to have these discussions because this is just a recommended CIP. Just because we have slides made doesn't mean this is any of this is a done deal. It'll be April 20th when we need the council to vote up or down on the CIP. So, we've got time to work through and and none of us staff like we don't need the experience of doing more projects. Like, we're doing it because we think that's what you all want, not because, you know, we feel and what the residents want. And if you guys tell us don't do it, then we'll c certainly say don't do it.

I'm not saying bathrooms aren't needed. I've been preaching for bathrooms in every city park. I'm going to keep fighting until we get them, which I don't agree with that one, but um I just again I I [clears throat] think we need to look at something reasonably co. So Kevin, the it is a workshop and that's what we're talking about. We're talking about this particular project. You want to hear our thoughts? Kevin, I'll ask you. The Wilson Park uh cost 350,000 something like that, which is a lot more utilitarian than this one. Kevin, what do you think about that that same one being here? Not that I'm advocating. I'm just wondering what your thoughts are on that.

Um, still kind of high, but I guess if that's what the costs come in at, but it's a lot more reasonable than $700,000. Now, this would be a larger restroom than what we're proposing for Wilson Park. That's a neighborhood park. So, you know, this to accommodate the special event that we have out [snorts] here would we're proposing. But I'm just thinking, is it going to be how's it going to be in size compared to uh the one at Railroad Park? Uh, very comparable. Okay. So, it's two uh toilets and men's and women's and then a u family restroom as well. Mhm.

So, if it was $300 $350,000 for the Wilson, certainly more expensive up to $700,000. But if there was a private income inind donation, that takes it from 700 maybe down to 500 or below. And it is larger. It is nicer. It should be nicer if it was going to be here. I think that gets into more of a reasonable area. Are there folks who might want to donate $2250,000 for a bathroom or would we call it something else? We would call it the rest tremble plaza which leads up to the bathroom. Pavilion's the only one that's got a bathroom named after him in the city so far. Nothing named after me. We haven't done it yet. We're waiting. Mhm. But the restroom

I think it's going to be tough to raise money for this. But look, I I think we come up with a couple different designs. I think there's going to be, you know, maybe one bathroom. I'm not sure that one at Wilson makes sense for this. I I really don't. I think it needs to be a little bit nicer here. Um, I just want to make sure we're talking about what we're talking about. I know what we're talking about at Wilson. I mean, it's showing a block building right now. And I'm guessing that's not what they're going to build. So, I mean, you're not even talking apples to bananas here. So, no, you're right. But I I think I think we come up with what you guys can You're looking at square footage and how many That's true. facilities. It's got in it. But some of these things you're also looking at stubbing in, bringing power, bringing water, bringing sewer. There's already water and sewer here, right? The mains. Yep. It' be

But they're not connecting. It's easy. It's getting it there. It's already there. All right, [snorts] let's move on. Let's [clears throat] move on. Thank you. No bathrooms.

One more Marathon Loop project. This will be the Great Western Trail Connection starting the the design and potential land acquisition related to this project. Now that we have the Athen uh pedestrian bridge completed, we get frequently asked when are we going to expand our trails to the south? And so um this is a key connection uh to the Great Western Trail. Um and uh would add approximately a [snorts] mile in length. So, um, again, this is just to start the design and, uh, what we anticipate will require some land acquisition with because, uh, the corridor runs all through private property. Okay.

So, that how much further are we going to have to go to connect into the Great Western Trail once we if we get this? Uh, so if you can see from the image, the thicker orange line is what's considered the Great Western Trail. Um, there's already a network of existing trails. the thinner orange line um where it terminates there um where the red line begins. I mean once we make this connection that will be gigantic. Yeah. That will open up so many more possibilities. It will be huge. Do we have have we taken a pulse uh of the folks who live down there the land owners?

We've had several alignments when we did the initial planning for the Athen bridge. Uh this was also being considered and so we had several um potential routes. Uh we reached out to a land owner on the first route and they were not in favor of having any trail facilities through there. This one goes through more private properties, but there is an existing utility um corridor easement through there, a sanitary that we think that may be more um amunable to them. This is exciting. be amazing. All right.

All right. And so with that, it's our last project we wanted to highlight. And so um as Ryan mentioned, I just wanted to give you a quick overview just where we are at with our marathon loop. So I was just going to ask this.

Yep. So this uh what [snorts] you see in red, solid red, is are the existing trails. We're about 14 miles or 55% complete. Um we have here in the next year or two um uh additional four miles of trails that we're going to be adding. We talked about starting in the far east the Reichon River Greenway Trail uh connection um that if approved, we'll be starting construction in that uh maybe as early as next year um with engineering project and the EP true parkway extension there on the far west that's also going to have trail facilities um with the project. So that really will um allow us to create this loop trail loop system on West De Moines. Um using I want to point out these yellow segments, right? So these yellow segments are existing trails. They weren't necessarily part of our original marathon loop, but um we we all fully understand that trying to get the trail, the greenway trail on the southern half along the Reichen River corridor is going to be a long-term um plan there. So, what can we do in the meantime where we can still allow create this this loop? And so, um, utilizing the, uh, existing trails on Grand Avenue and Grand Prairie Parkway, we are there. We're like just, you know, at 23 miles. You can do one more loop around Raken River Park and you can get your 26 miles right there, right? [snorts] And we can say we're we'll be there here in the next year or two. I'm not sure what the status of EPR is, but within the next couple of years.

Well, EP True will be done at end of this year. Yeah. So there, you know, but with that project and the greenway trail connection project. Um, so we're pretty excited about that. I did want to point that out and if we still want to council wants to pursue that greenway connection to the south, we certainly can still continue that, but just knowing it's going to um be a investment and a long privately held land that we would have to work with property. It does require a second pedestrian bridge. 90% of them it really doesn't do you any good because you got a gap, right?

Is there a broader discussion? Because if we make that connection to Great Western Trail, we go down south along Veterans and then Veterans comes all the way to Grand Prairie Parkway and I think the Grand Prairie Parkway bridge does it not have a sidewalk over it too? We [clears throat] do have trouble. And so is that a discussion to make the marathon loop instead of doing the black dot which the black dot idea would be super cool because it would be a beautiful ride. obviously would cost a hundred. Well, it would cost a lot of money. However, is there a broader discussion about that becoming the trail?

There could be bigger loops there that's included. I think when we were originally looking at this, we thought, oh, this idea of having that marathon, that 26 milei loop, you know, this would be a way to to get there, but that would present Yeah. even more. I don't know if there are trails next on Veterans Parkway or if it stops at the interstate or

Yeah, we don't have them on Veterans Parkway, but we have them on future arterial streets. That black dotted line would be phenomenal. And I've brought this up before, got shot down, but it's I still keep it in the back of my head, you know, building building up pads, being able to put some some sort of establishments on stilts or what have you for people to stop there, eat, have something to eat, get something to drink. I know it's a flood plane. I know it's a flood plane, but my god, that would be incredible. Yeah, just incredible. I love it. Anyway, so that presents our um slideshow here.

Any questions? Questions for Marco Orion. All right. Thank you guys. Thank you guys. All right. Engineering Brian Hemisath and Jake Jason Schlickburn. That's right. Way less flashy. So, um, Jason is going to [clears throat] be, uh, kind of pointing out the projects as we go through. Um, I'd like to be home at 8:00 for no apparent reason. Let's move. Get it going. So, here we go. No, sir. No, sir.

Okay. We're going to start off with number one, which is the Valley Junction alleys. Uh this year we're going to be in the 200 block uh between 2nd and third, seventh and eighth and eighth and 9th. So um I'm just going to bust through these. Just stop me if you have questions. Yep.

All right. Public safety station number 17. That's the one on railroad. Um we we've been kind of uh over the past couple years there's a lot of uh deferred maintenance on these buildings that we're trying to kind of lump together. Public station 17 is generator replacement, a kitchen remodel, and locker room improvements. So the numbers we're looking at right now, they're kind of some some swags on on what we're going to uh be doing for design on these. Uh we don't we don't know for sure what the construction's going to look like. Uh but that's what these numbers are right now is just design numbers for for these. So um and the same with public station 19 uh the the Westcom reorganization modifications. I mean you can read just as well as I can fire uh EMS reorganization modifications, HVAC improvements, server room, men's locker rooms, metal roof replacement. So that again this is this is going to turn into what could potentially be a fairly large project but this is just the design right now to get uh to figure out what those numbers would be. [snorts] So uh any questions on those? Okay. All right. Let's move on to uh the the street side of the go. So this one is uh we want to look at Valley West Drive from Ashworth to EP true. Um, I know there's a median that goes down that and I I think you and I

go away. You think should go away? Oh, thank you. Oh, God. Thank you, Jesus. Oh my god. You want to bring that up again? Can I give you a high five right now? People bringing up these kind of project. People will lose their minds. Why would they? Why would people lose their minds? You remember before we got on the council, just before they had that discussion and people talked about the park-like feel that parklike feel you've been running that stupid road every day. It doesn't feel like a park. It is a maintenance nightmare for our cruise. I'm just telling you I agree. I agree. Then do away with it. How much would it cost to do away with it? Ballpark it for me. I'm curious to do away with the median. Yeah. I'm just curious. I have no idea.

I I don't know that off the top of my head. But what's a sidewalk width? Yeah. Well, it's about it's about 3 to four feet wide and it's it's literally just before Kevin and I were on the council. I remember reading about this. The people talked about how important that strip of grass was. I was here. They were going to take the whole thing out and they had they made them leave that little bit. I'm telling you, if you want to get back into an Ashworth Road discussion, let's do this one. We should take it down to two lanes and put a turning lane in the middle. There you go. Oh, did I say that? Road diet. You're all about road diet. Actually, that's what that that's what this study is for. Really? Yes. [laughter] No. Let's plan the construction in 2030.

Listen, no. Let me take a step back and before you make before you make judgments, let's just take a quick leave the median then. What? Leave the median. Oh, let's have a quick conversation. So, the the intersection at Giles and Valley West Drive, how many complaints have you had about that intersection? Tons. I just had one to put flashing lights on the stop signs because people are too stupid to see the stop signs. cuz they've been there forever, right? We don't we don't agree with doing that stuff either. But if you do want to do anything with with a traffic signal of any kind at that intersection, you can't do it the way it's set up today. You can't do it with four lanes. It you would you would have more of a traffic nightmare there than you would with uh

four lanes down at Ashworth on Valley West. Four lanes at Ashworth. Yeah, there's there's a traffic signal there. That's what I'm saying. You said you can't do a traffic signal, but we have we have a turn we have a we have a [snorts] a turn a left turn lane there. There's a left turn west at Valley West and Ashworth. Okay. There is not a left turn lane at Ashworth. At Valley West and Giles. Okay. We got a traffic signal at at uh uh 39th in Ashworth with a left turn signal going and we have and we have broadside collisions there. It's not a good it's not a good situation.

I'm going to leave the engineer into the engine another road argument then put this is why we're having this conversation. If you don't and so so what do you want to what do you want to do with this? We we want to study study it from Ashworth to EP True and look at it from to taking it from a four lane to a threelane. [sighs] There goes the medium. I'm in. Oh man. No way. Oh boy. But this is but this is much more than just a simple Ashworth Road repainting. This would be digging up and and destroying that entire med. Something that we would do today. Well, of course not. The median needs to go away anyhow. But that's why I was asking to be a center turn lane. The cost.

It doesn't. You're not going to accomplish a goddamn thing from that. You're going to get another nightmare like you got on Ashford. It's all residential. It is. But you're [snorts] going to get You're going to get a nightmare if you take out that grass. No, you won't. I like the grass. You won't. I like the grass. I do, too. It's like what if we surveyed the residents there of just a survey of these ideas instead of saying we're heading in we're we're doing this and you're this is what we're doing. Why I mean why don't we see what they really because they're directly impacted all of those guys. Why can't you put turn signal or stop lights at Giles and and

in the current state that it's in it would have to be a split phase signal. What that means is the north would have to go, then the south would have to go, and then you could have the cross street go, but that that's wildly inefficient for the amount of traffic that we have there. It it it wouldn't work well. You would have huge backups. You're going to laugh at this, but what about probably not enough room. What about one of those roundabouts? Yeah, we would that that would take some right away from from those four from those corners. Four owners. There's no way. All right. Well, let's study it and see what see what it says. Well, I we don't have to do that. Let's just we'll keep it on there and that's what's the main purpose of the study in this just

the main purpose of the study is that because just to look at it from taking it from four to three lane because the because of too many crashes or what? Well, it's mainly because of that intersection. But are there crashes at that intersection as to why this needs to you think this needs to happen? No. And what's the purpose? the the the number Well, there are crashes there, but the number of complaints we have about that intersection, nothing's going to get fixed on that intersection. I don't hear of them. I I hear of them all the time. I do. I I got I live there. I don't hear about them. It's your word, Kevin. And you haven't heard I'm saying you guys of them from from the mayor when when he was out knocking on doors. A jillion. Okay. You knocked on how many doors on how many complaints? Six.

Quite a few. There were a number. There were there were a number of them. I mean, I hear about it a lot. We get it quite a bit. [clears throat] They do. Brian, I like I like Tom's idea before you start a study. I appreciate it and I like hearing about it. But would it be costefficient at this exact moment to ask the entire stretch of residents what they thought about it? But I don't know that it's just the people that live there. It's all I mean you got so many people that travel that that don't live on Valley West Drive which is what you have to take into account on Ashworth. Correct. Same deal.

But again, we're not hearing I'm not hearing from anybody that that 39 um 35th and Giles is is horrible. Okay. I I used to hear from Glenn the crossing guard. Okay. But if we don't have any crashes, we have crashes. But not that's that's not that's driving this because you just said that three minutes ago that it's not because of the safety issues. It's because of six people told Russ when he was doornocking that we need to do something. So like Tim said earlier, we don't have to do any of these projects. Okay, move on.

But you're you're not only hearing from me, but over the years you're hearing from other council people. You're hearing from residents that are calling in. I mean, it's it's it's adding up. This is it's enough that it's made you take a look at it. Correct. I'm in favor of moving it forward and see what it looks like. I tra I'm telling you, I travel this I've traveled this road since every single day since 20 other when I'm out of town since when I moved there 20 11 I think. Okay. And there's no issue. I just I don't where where where's the masses? Let me talk to those six people.

I I I don't need a study at this point. Maybe down the road if I hear a bunch of complaints. You know, I had so many complaints elsewhere. I shared them over to you, Russ. I trust and believe that, but at this point, I I like the median. I think it's I think it's a nice uh you know, buffering, a nice softening of the area. It's a problem for staff or our contractor, but it is. So, anyway, that's where I'm at. and leave the median and let's if you were going to do something maybe ask the res think about 22nd too between Ashworth and and 235 not on this list but something to think about there's a median there too just saying it doesn't need to be center turn lane and one lane each way

all right number 13 this is 92nd street so last year uh you approved us to do uh design work for uh 92nd from Westtown to Ashworth. Uh this is something that I think when the last time I talked to you about it, it's it's an important connection that we have to have done before we can look at getting an interchange at Ashworth Road and Interstate 80. So, it is a very important connection. It's really stalled out with any kind of development. developers have come in and said this is this is a a cost prohibitive not just this road but the 98th Street on the west town on the north there that there's there's just there's too many roads there to to take and still develop that area. This is the the next section which would be um uh construction dollars for half of 27 and then we we it's basically be 27 construction. So that's what this is.

And this is again is what what 92nd 92nd Street from Westtown down to Ashworth Road. So it basically like the northern portion would be up by the the Walke Casey's that's up at the corner up there and the um like Jethro is up there. So that road coming coming down to Ashworth. We just we have a lot of we we need to get more cars from South Maple Grove area onto Ashworth versus having them all up on University and taking that University to Jordan Creek Parkway to Interstate 80 movement. It's just those people were all asking me about 88 doing the the whole thing and what are we going to do with that and can we change?

Oh yeah. And that that would go away with with the with the inclusion of we would we move the stop light to 90 seconds. Yep. that that that signal would just go away. I got so many I got so many questions about that. I'm like I finally had to call you on it. What are we doing with 88? It'll go away once 92nd is construed. Okay. So, what would the timeline of that look like? Uh construction would be 27 as it stands right now. So, we still got some rightaway things we got to work out with that one property owner, but Okay. We're working on it. Sure. Understood.

Okay. Uh next, Ashworth Road uh reconstruction 19th to 22nd. This is just uh the construction dollars. Uh you did the order construction for this uh in the consent agenda today. So 2.5 million in STVG, the rest in go. Um and then we're looking at the the remainder of 1st to 50th and converting that from four to three lane. Um, that would be a number that I believe we're Eric is looking at getting um the traffic safety improvement program funds, TIP funds for that. So, we can get up to I think $500,000 for that. So, that would be a good project to get um to get done, but we can't get that the construction of that done until we get 19th 22nd done and open. Um the next one would be uh the design for Ashworth Road reconstruction from 4th to 8th. That's the next uh section that's in the than the poorest condition and we need to uh jump on that one to at least get the uh the design done and start working on right away which we shouldn't have a lot of. It's probably just temporaries on that. maybe some at like corners at intersections. Uh but pretty minimal there. Um and then in the out years would be the construction dollars. Uh the intersection improvements at 16th and Grand, we did the design of that and this would be the construction dollars for that. So that's adding a turn lane uh on Grand in that location, a left turn lane and then a uh pedestrian hybrid beacon at at that location to get people uh across Grand safely. Sacred Heart.

Yes. That's awesome. We already have a light. I mean, we already have a light there, do we? No. No light there. No light. No lights. There used to be a light mid block between 13th and 16th. That went away years ago. That is something I heard. The beacon block. I heard that from a couple res. I I did too. We could put that at No, I won't say anything. Okay. My secret. Okay.

Um and then uh South 88th and Stage Coach Drive improvements. So, this one is um when we built 88th on the west side, we only built two lanes. When they brought 88th in, the developers brought 88th in on the east side, we had them build three lanes, which we should have done on the other side. So, this was and that was the whole um Hubble uh thing where I think we're probably trying to keep cost down [snorts] and various things. So we we're looking at making sure at that intersection we have three lanes so that they match across from each other. So that's all we're looking at there. I think that number is pretty high though. How many total lanes?

It would be three lanes on both sides. So but no both sides. No, three lanes on both sides of the intersection so that they match up. Yeah. Sorry. That's going the wrong direction. So across the intersection. Okay.

There's three lanes on that side. We need to put Yep. Yep. Okay. Now, we're moving on to um the East uh public services facility uh fueling facility updates. So, we have been down this road multiple times and we've had high bids come in. We finally added this to the fire station on the south on the south east side. And uh this would be the number that we would need to to cover the rest of that that 650,000. So we I we have bids on that yet, but we don't have a GMP yet. Correct. Yeah. So that GMP will be coming next council meeting. Yeah.

So this is to totally rebuild that fueling station. Yep. Yep. How many of our vehicles have um flex flex fuel? Do we know that, Gary? takes E85. E85. So, we're running E. Are we running E85 fuel? Yes. Okay, good.

Good. Thank you. Okay, these next ones should be well pretty quick. Then, uh number 47 is the fire and EMS station. Number 13, uh the $9 million will get us uh the rest of that. That is a Seymar project as well. Um, uh, let's see. I don't know really know. It's a, uh, these are TIFF projects. So, that would be in the the Aluvian TIFF district. Um, but that's for that's for building the fire the fire station with the National Guard readiness center. We've already got the training. Yep. Tower down there.

Correct. Yep. And that that like uh I said that Seymar uh the guaranteed maximum price will be coming on the March 2nd council meetings. So you see this construction starting when? Do you know Jason? On the station in March or April on the fire station. Really nice. Yeah. Craig, you got staff for it? I was going to say that's great except for then we have to come up with the staffing for it which build and they will come. The legislature let us do that. Yeah, we're getting getting close to game time here. So, uh number Oh, it's not 8 a.m. yet.

48, 49, and 50 are the EP True and Bridgewood projects uh for around not four, but around the future third uh Walke High School. Um, so we're looking at just the additional funds to to finish up the two EP troop projects and then to get some funds to start the grading uh essentially the grading of the Bridgewood Boulevard project because we have to go through that huge ravine where Fox Creek goes through. We have to build a culvert. We have to put a lot of fill in. That's got to settle out. Um, we we'd be in a lot better shape to get that grading done, get the culvert in and let it [clears throat] sit for a while. So we're not running into issues like we are at Stonewood with uh settling pavements and things like that. So uh that's that's what our plan is for that.

So when I look at number 50 and that was my question. You kind of answered it Brian like it seems a little premature to do that but you're saying laying the groundwork right now is going to make a big difference in terms of settling so that the stonewood thing doesn't happen. Yes. And and with there is a little section of that that we're [snorts] going to have to build probably sooner than later like the pavement of because uh Bill Spencer has a project coming in town home project that would be right across the street from where that high school is going and uh if that goes we would have to build that as part of our developers agreement with him. Where would that be exactly if you want to point it out?

It'd be from the intersection of EP True probably about 1,000 ft south. So just to the south of that circle like butdding up against uh yes just that that circled area there that Jason would be right in that area that would be what we would build. But on the southwest side of that circle specifically is that what you're talking about where the number 48 is. Okay. Yeah. Oh yeah. that that that's where the develop where the 48 is where the devel you're looking at you're looking at doing the dirt work and the the culvert now and then this is the paving it would be next year I'm

this this paving could be a part of that project because it's needed for the development but the rest of the pavement that's going to go over the covert like the far the stuff that's going in farther east will hold on that'll hold up okay okay there we go so just a paving to the very very edge of that parcel right there where that circle ends hi hi it's important to remember that we have an agreement with the developer where they're going to contribute significantly to Bridgewood as is the school district. So when that road it's not just all born by the city. There's three parties involved with the finance. Right. No, I'm just I I just wanted to get clear that the covert is going to be sitting for Yes. probably a year or so to get everything settled out.

Yeah. Yeah. And we we we really have no reason to to do the paving of Bridgewood until they start building that high school or when they commit to it. And this this negotiation to get, you know, these roads done in these in this area was not easy either. I mean, I really appreciate you guys sitting down with the land owners in there, Walke uh community school district to figure this whole thing out. I mean, that meeting really made this all happen and we were kind of stalled out for a long time until we had that meeting and you guys worked to figure something out. So,

and if you haven't seen it, go on to the YouTube and see the latest drone videos of that grading that's done out there. It's pretty pretty remarkable what what was done out there. So, um all right, let's move on to Booneville Road. This is uh this is one I think we awarded the contract on just recently. So, this is just getting that money uh into into the budget uh for this year. Uh that those bids were received. They were much less than what was originally budgeted. So, we're in very good shape on that project. And then uh Grand Avenue widening from South 60th to South Jordan Creek Parkway. This is we did or we we have the design and the right of way pretty much completed on that. We're just kind of waiting for the grand experience to uh to materialize so we can uh realize some of those TIFF dollars to get that project done. We may need to do that before that's done. It's possible. So, we may have to do some work with with Tim and some other dollars to try to get that done in advance. There's just some patching that needs to be done in front of the reclex that we really don't want to do until we have those other lanes built

so that people can drive on that and we're not shutting down the road in front of the reclex. That's that would not a great look. But it's it'll be challenging to get the funding though. That's that's what we're working on. So, and I think the last ones are these storm water projects. So, these will go pretty quick. the uh 12th and Vine detention facility or storm water facility as we call it because people think that we're detaining people there [snorts] which we're not. Um this is uh we have a pretty good amount of money coming from STBG on this. Um we plan to bid this very soon. I think next month I believe that's uh Ben's project. Is this going to be in one project or we going to do this in phases? One project. One project. Yep.

At Bridges

at at the Bridges area. Yep. It's 12th in Vine. Um, and then if you look so at uh let's see, let's look at 71 first. So, uh, the 14th and Mountain Piping uh to the 12th and Vine detention facility. So, this is something that we've always wanted to do, but never had a place to put the water. Grand is acting as a dam for a lot of water on the other side. So the piping going under grand isn't very big and we need to make it bigger but we can't make it bigger until we have something to hold that water and that's what that's what we want to do now now that we have this detention facility or we will have this detention facility we want to get that pipe under grand so very important project it's part of the storm water

feed bridges okay that's what I thought I just thought it'll just go underground it'll basically it's a relief valve for that area by 14th in Mountain. You remember if you remember a few years back, we did some intake work in that area did and and we had like pretty bad flooding down in that area during really heavy rains. That intake work really helped it, but this will help it even more. So, how are you going to get the piping there? Because 14th and Mountain is lower than 13th in Grand. Yeah, we 14th in Mountain is lower than No, I don't think so. I don't think that's I mean I mean it's it's lower than 14. So as you come up that hill Yep.

from mountain you come up a hill to grand. Yep. Okay. So we can get How are we going to you going to directional drill it or how are we going to get it? Because that's I [clears throat] mean you got a house there at 14th and Mountain and you got that commercial office building there. Yeah. This pipe snakes through in between buildings under buildings. So part of the design we're gonna have to figure out what that corridor the current pipe does. The current. So yeah, it I don't know yet. I don't think I don't think we know the answer to that yet. So we'll but that's something we'll work on in in the design.

All right. Okay. And uh the last two I'd skipped 70. So 70 is uh so on the 16th and uh grand project there's some pipe work that needs to be done there. We're just going to do that with the 16th and grand project. This is just coming out of the storm water enterprise fund. So it's going to be separate but we'll probably do it with that project more than likely. So and then uh the last item I have is the South A Street Storm uh sewer. We have uh money already allocated to that from I think two fiscal years ago, but that's the one that's running south of Railroad uh right in the middle where those uh there's a development going in there just uh east of um 8th Street, I believe, or 9th Street.

Ninth Street. Ninth Street. So, um there's it's basically uh a bottomless uh isn't it like isn't there like railroad cars and railroad ties railroad ties on the top with just Yeah. It's not really a covert. So, we we we need to go in there and make it a culvert essentially. So, it's very old, not [snorts] in great shape, and we need to go in and fix it and preferably before this development goes in. It's been there a few years. It's been there a while. So, that's [snorts] all I got. Any questions? Looks good. No. I have a question for you after, but we can finish up. Okay. You're going to have to go over to his house. It's going to [laughter] be at 10 10:05. Yeah.

I'm kidding. You can ask me anything anytime. The game will still be on. You have one, Greg, or you just want to ask him afterwards? No, I'll ask him after. All right. Any other questions? Any other ground we have to cover or are we good? Thank you guys for putting all the work into this thing. you know, maybe we some of it I appreciate discussions and I know it seems like serial, but that's what this I mean, it's good discussion, right? Right. And I and I appreciate you looking at that, especially when it comes to uh Valley West Drive in between Ashworth and Nepu. For all the comments you guys have heard over the years at that intersection, uh I don't mind studying it. Now, people could get worked up, but

I don't mind studying. I taking out that median I know would be an issue but yeah I'd like to make it not as bad as a turn lane guys Jason good seeing you [snorts] y he did all the work by the way just want to make sure everybody [laughter] [snorts]

lose their mind as freaking So we leave it alone.