City Council - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. It's 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 1st, 2026. We will call the City Council meeting of the City of New Ulm to order. At this time, the first item of business is the consent agenda. Councillors, what are your wishes?

I so move. Second.

Thank you, we do have a motion and a second. Any additional discussion?

Just one comment. I'm glad to see that our city engineer is sitting on the MnDOT Advisory Committee representing District 7. I appreciate that, Mr. Sondheim. Thank you. Yep, you're welcome.

Thank you. Any additional discussion? Those in favor, signal by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion does carry. Item 2.1 is a public hearing on the proposed 2027 MSAS improvement project. Mr.. Starting all right.

Thank you madam president city councillors You have scheduled a public hearing tonight for the 2027 MSA s improvement project and that is Garden Street from Center Street to 5th North Street with the inclusion of a mini roundabout at the intersection of 5th North Street Public hearing notices have been prepared and mailed out to those receiving benefit from the proposed improvements and the public hearing is an opportunity for the City Council to receive verbal and written comments from the public and After the public hearing is held, you may order in the improvements and direct us to finalize the preparation of plans and specifications by resolution. It is my recommendation that we would open the public hearing to receive comment from the public at this time.

Thank you, Mr. Stoddheim. At this time, the public hearing is open. If you would like to be heard, please come to the podium. Come near the microphone and state your name and address for the record.

I just wanted to say I welcome the improvements, but about less than a year and a half ago, I put a new driveway in, so I welcome the improvement on the sidewalk and everything, but I think it should be looked at that maybe we get a little bit off or something.

Madam President, City Councillors, the assessments are figured for the roadway reconstruct, so... generally everything from the sidewalks in there are going to be removed with the project. So we will be reconstructing all the driveway aprons and whatnot with the project there. So there's no additional cost for those driveway aprons or anything like that. So the cost is really for all that work associated with and Typically, past practices, regardless of condition in the concrete, because we have to take it to properly construct the improvements, there's no deducts have been given for that.

All right, thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Blickham.

Hello, Lori Ludwig, 423 North Garden. Wondering if those assessment amounts are known already what that would be?

Yeah, so we are estimating the special assessments will be $4,750 per parcel. Okay. Yeah, and then obviously the park land will receive a larger assessment for its frontage on the project as well.

Okay. And then do we know more of a timeline or is that not until it's actually ordered?

The best I can say right now is during the 27 construction season, our plan is to have this bid out hopefully by the end of the year. So hopefully in the first January, February, we will have a schedule from the contractor for what they're anticipating for construction. I would anticipate April or May begin, but that depends on the contractor that gets to work. Okay.

Okay. And then if we wanted to do any enhancements with our own like sidewalk up to the house or the driveway in front of ours, we just contact like that contractor or how would that work?

Can't speak for obviously who gets the concrete work on the project. They may be willing to take on more work, but we can get you that contact information once we know who has that work.

And just talk to you when that kind of comes around.

It'll be our assistant engineer, Kyle Winchell will be the one out on site. So, okay. Yep. So you'll be getting, before the project starts, letters from the contractor with all the contact information for city staff and the contractor as well. Perfect. It'd be for the prime contractor, but they'll be able to get you information for concrete guys that are doing the work.

Okay. And then we have two trees that are established in our front yard. I don't think they would come into effect, but do you know...

So behind the sidewalk? Yeah. Yeah, no. Okay. Just the boulevard trees, the vast majority of the boulevard trees are going to be impacted and removed as part of the project, but nothing beyond the sidewalk.

Okay.

I think that was all I had. Thank you.

Okay. You're welcome.

Thank you. Ms. Ludewig?

I'm not seeing anybody else that wants to be heard at the mic. One last chance. With that, I'm going to offer the resolution, close the public hearing, ordering that... Oh, okay, okay, go ahead.

Cindy Blickham, 411 North Garden. And I was wondering, you invited us here to come here, but I don't know what we're all discussing or what the plan is for the total area there. I mean... We're gonna have eight foot boulevards is my understanding, right? Or?

I can pull up typical sections.

Another thing I always harp on is why are they narrowing our street? Because I don't know, I just don't get it. I don't know.

Madam President, State Councillors, Ms. Blackham. So the roadway section, we are reducing the 44 feet. That's consistent with what's on the north side of the project limits on Garden Street. with that wider pavement section that we've previously talked on the phone that invites higher speeds of traffic. And we're really working to calm traffic on this corridor because of proximity to residential neighborhoods in the park. So narrower streets helps to accomplish that along with the bump-outs that are being proposed at Third North, Second North, and First North Street as well. We'll have the RRFBs at First and Second North to help with those pedestrian crossings. But the smaller street footprint really helps to calm traffic, slow traffic.

And- How wide is our street right now?

56 feet. 56, okay. Yeah. So as far as your boulevard area, I'm getting to the right section here. But yeah, they will be, with the streets shrinking, the boulevards are gonna be wider. The sidewalk is going back in the same location where it is currently. So, you know, if you bring that street in seven feet, you'll have, and that twofold will help with the future tree plantings that we'll do as well to let those trees thrive a little bit better. Yep. So we will plant trees on a separate project, but we'll get following the construction. Once that's all done, we'll let a separate project for trees. No, we'll be replacing what we take. Yep. Yep.

Is there anybody else?

All right, now I'll offer the resolution, close the public hearing, ordering in the 2027 MSAS improvement project and authorize the city engineer to complete the project plans and specs. Second.

Thank you. We do have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? I would just like to say that it was great to have folks come out and see and ask questions. And I just appreciate the work that Mr. Stoddheim does, and he can kind of pull up all those details right away and let everybody know what's going on. So I guess thank you to everyone. Any additional comments? Director Jorgensen, please call the roll.

Councilor Christian. Yes. Councilor Schmitz. Yes. Councilor Mack. Yes. President Becker. Yes.

That motion does carry. Item 3.1 is a bingo and raffles gambling permit for Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.

I'll offer a motion to approve the issuance of lawful gambling permit for Cathedral of Holly Trinity to conduct bingo and raffle gambling at Cathedral of Holly Trinity, 605 North State Street on Friday, November 13th, 2026. Second.

In a second, any further discussion? Those in favor, signal by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed? That motion does carry. Item 3.2 is a raffles gambling permit for 3M Club New Elm Chapter of the United States.

Madam President, Councillors, I'd like to make a motion to approve the issuance of a lawful gambling permit for 3M Clubs of the United States Incorporated to conduct raffles gambling at Royal Oak Event Center at 301 20th South Street, New Ulm on Saturday, January 9th, 2027. Second.

We do have a motion and a second to any additional discussion. Those in favor signal by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion does carry. Item 3.3 is a temporary liquor license for Newham Area Chamber of Commerce.

A motion to approve the issuance of a temporary on-sale intoxicating liquor license with the New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce to serve and consume alcohol during Oktoberfest located at the corner of Center and Minnesota Streets, north and south sides of Center Street, to Broadway Street on Saturday, October 3rd, 2026, subject to compliance with all city and state requirements. And a quick question for the finance director. We don't need a time in here?

No, just the date on a temporary license.

Just the date, all right.

I'll second it.

Thank you. We do have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Those in favor signal by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? That motion does carry. Item 4.1 is regarding ordinance number 2026-TBD, first consideration, amending appendix A of the city code. Mr. Knisley, hi.

Good evening, Council President, Councilors, John Knisely, Planner with the City Code. This is the first consideration of Ordinance 2026, numbered to be figured out after the second reading, amending Appendix A of the New Elm City Code to allow additional uses in the B3 Community Business Zoning District. I do want to give a little background because we did have some public comment at the Planning Commission meeting, and I would like that on the record. regarding this ordinance revision. So the Planning Commission held a public hearing on this matter on August 27th, 2026. A member of the public, David Statik, attended the meeting and spoke to the Commission about being cautious allowing these types of additional uses in the B3 zoning district. He recommended that the Commission, when making decisions on these matters, should ensure that the proposed use will not adversely impact neighboring properties or neighborhoods. He asked the commission to consider permitting these uses as an interim use rather than a conditional use so that the city has a chance to review the use of the property in a specified period of time outlined in the interim use permit process. So an interim use permit can be permitted up to a period of five years and then you would renew it up to five year periods following that. He requested that we consider that rather than allowing the use to continue indefinitely through the use of a conditional use permit. So the commission discussed this idea at length, and then staff did reference section 9.1 in the zoning ordinance, which states that the community development department may, in its discretion, recommend to the applicant the Planning Commission and City Council that any use designated in Table C, that's conditional use permit, instead be considered as a permitted use. Now, one of the other points of discussion at the Planning Commission was, well, could you issue an interim use permit just to see how it goes, and then after a period of five years, issue a conditional use permit. We discussed that specifically with the City Attorney, Mr. Scott, And he said that if you have a conditional use permit option in your table and the applicant comes in with a conditional use permit application that meets all the criteria and specifications in that conditional use permit, we can't require them to do the interim use permit. They have the right to apply for that conditional use permit. So I just want to make that clear. So at the Planning Commission meeting on August 27th, 2026, they did unanimously recommend approval of the zoning amendment, and their reasons can be found in the findings of facts attached to the staff report here. Sections five, six, and nine of Appendix A will be amended to allow the following uses by conditional use permit in buildings that exceed 50,000 square feet in size. Industrial services general, allow with the conditional use permit and then located inside the building. Landscape and nursery business, allow with the conditional use permit. With the conditional use permit, we can establish conditions that would mitigate any adverse impacts, outcomes, or results generated by the use. Minor manufacturing, again, allow with the conditional use permit and located inside the building. A repair establishment, allow with the conditional use permit and then, again, inside a building. research development and testing laboratories allow with the CUP and located inside a building and then transportation services allow with the CUP. With this amendment, we'd also be removing the term bus garage and maintenance facility from our land uses because we do not have a definition for that term and it could also be covered by the definition of transportation services. We'd also be removing the definition of wholesale from the definition section. Wholesale sales would remain and this use is listed as permitted in both the B2 and B3 zoning districts. This amendment is being proposed by the Planning Commission and staff to increase the number of permitted and conditional land uses eligible in the B3 zoning district and to remove unnecessary land uses from the definition section. The minimum building size per lot for specified land uses would be 50,000 square feet. And at this time, we estimate that there are six of those buildings in that zoning district. The whole reason this has been brought up is because we have a number of large retail spaces in the city of New Ulm. And as you all know, over time, with online sales and everything like that, Those spaces can go vacant, and it's really hard to find other retailers or already permitted uses in the B3 to fill those large spaces. We've been in contact with a lot of these property owners about various uses, and it always ends up that the uses don't fit the building size. So this was staff in the Planning Commission's attempt trying to fill those spaces with some additional uses with conditional use permits that could fill in those spaces and get those buildings used again. So that would conclude the staff report.

Thank you, Mr. Knisley.

I just want to ask John one other question to make it clear about the conditional use permit. They meet all four or five criteria. We issue it. Only in that rare condition would we do that interim permit.

Yeah, and we had that discussion also with the city attorney. It would have to be something that actually wouldn't meet the criteria of a conditional use permit. So it could be something, let's say it's close to minor manufacturing, but they want something a little different that doesn't quite fit in that conditional use permit category. They could apply for an interim use permit, but it's likely that we wouldn't recommend approval of that because we want it to meet the criteria. Okay. Thank you.

I'd like to just add that we also discussed the former runnings property on the north end, like outdoor storage. That might be a condition. There might be various conditions upon the conditional use permit that might limit, you know, just depending on what they come forward, you know, like that property was like no semi storage, you know, in the front yard, you know, you know, there might be circumstances. Right. So it's not a staging yard and things of that nature. If I'm saying that correctly, John.

Correct. We have the option to look at each one of these individual applications for the specific use in the specific site and then make conditions for that when it goes to the planning commission and city council.

I'm okay with a motion to conduct the first consideration of ordinance number 2026 amending appendix a to the city norm code to amend uses allowed in the b3 community business zoning district second Motion in a second to any further discussion Those in favor signal by saying aye aye Opposed that motion does carry.

Thank you. Mr. Nicely item 5.1 under old business junior Pioneer Park water main crossing project a

Madam President, State Councilors, staff received in open bids on Wednesday, August 26th for this project. We received two bids. GM Contracting was the low bidder at $926,647.33. Bids were tabulated and found to be correct as read. The low bid was over the estimate prepared by SEH, but was close to the allotted amount that we had set aside for the 2026 city bonding and capital improvements plan this year. It is a bit of a difficult directional drilling project, so I think that was reflected in the unit price for the drilling itself. Staff's recommendation is to award it. The two bids received were within $20,000, so fairly close to one another. So we are recommending the contract award with GM Contracting. Just as a reminder, we're the contractor on the 20th South project and then also this year's Utility Street and Alley Improvement project, and they've done quality work for us so far.

Thank you. I just had a question. Do you have any idea why the engineer's estimate from SEH was so far off? I mean, was there something that happened that has driven these prices up a lot more than was anticipated? Or is there geographical issues with them in that particular space?

Not sure what numbers they were using for their estimate, but generally everything else was close when you compare their engineer's estimate to the actual bid prices except for the drilling. So I think contractors looking at it saw the bedrock that you're drilling through and compensated for if things go wrong. So I think that was the main factor at play because if the drill head gets stuck or something like that, they have to redo the whole thing. So I think that was a reflection in their bid price.

All right. That was a thought. Thank you so much.

Madam President, Councilors, I'd like to make a motion to award the contract for the Junior Pioneer Park Water Main Crossing project to GM Contracting Incorporated in the amount of $926,647.33. Second.

We have a motion and a second to any additional discussion. Those in favor, signal by saying aye.

Aye.

That motion does carry. Under new business, item 6.1, Convention and Visitors Bureau Financials for the quarter ending June 30th, 2026.

A motion to receive an order to file the report from Sarah Warmkopf, President and CEO of the New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce regarding the Convention and Visitors Bureau Financial Report for the quarter ending June 30th, 2026. Second.

We have a motion and a second. Any additional discussion? Those in favor, signal by saying aye.

Aye.

Opposed? That motion carries. Item 6.2 is a Walmart Spark Good Community Support and Social Action Grant. Hello, Chief. Hello.

City Council President, members of the council, Dave Barker, Chief of Police with the City of New Ulm. In front of you is a Walmart Spark Good Community Support and Social Action Grant. I think it's very generous that it's been offered by Walmart, been approved. And basically to support Noam Night Out, which we do, has an annual celebration that we offer with the community. And then also, in addition to that, basically community programs. So maybe just take this opportunity if you're, we're really focused on having an opportunity to talk with students, and a lot of times your first interaction with law enforcement just tends to be a little bit stressful. You know, it's just kind of the nature of the beast, but we're, opportunities like this, trying to kind of change that. So like, you know, you're probably hearing a lot about scooters and e-bikes and, you know, trying to educate our students and stuff as far as driving them safely. We take an opportunity, so like, we'll have like, Sometimes we have like min ice tokens or we have different types of like plastic badges or something like that. Basically an icebreaker that we interact with the students. And if we see something positive, like, you know, thank you for wearing your helmet. Crossing here is the correct place to cross. And, you know, we just try to... take it as a learning opportunity and maybe to educate the public and stuff and trying to promote safety. So this was very generous with Walmart. It gives us an opportunity to have some funding as far as making some of those trinkets and different types of items available.

Thank you, Chief. Madam President and Councilors, I'd like to offer the resolution to accept the grant in the amount of $5,000 from Walmart to financially support ongoing new all-night out and related community programs. Second.

We have a motion and a second. Any additional discussion? Director Jorgensen, please call the roll.

Councilor Christian? Yes. Councilor Smith? Yes. Councilor Mack? Yes. President Becker?

Yes. That motion carries. Thank you. Item 6.3 is the new home safety action plan vision and goal.

Thank you, Madam President, City Councilors. Pleased to have Nicole Bitson with SRF Consulting Group here with us tonight. She's been the lead consultant on the development of our city's safety action plan. She has a short presentation she's prepared and go through with you, but it's really coming, the planning process is coming to an end here and The plan here today is to establish our goal to zero serious injuries and fatalities on our new home roadway system. So I'll turn it over to Nicole.

Thank you. So as Joe mentioned, this is a brief presentation. Slides are not working. I can begin. Maybe I have a handout. So as we're clicking onto the slide.

There we go. Okay. Thank you, Jim. All right.

We're going to jump right back in. So as Joe mentioned, here to talk briefly about the development of the city's safety action plan and then request the adoption of the safety action plan's goal. Why we're doing this and where this came from, again, as in 2024, the city was awarded the grant funding for Safe Streets and Roads for All program. The goal was to identify a specific goal for the city to reduce the number of fatalities and serious injuries, as well as develop a set of projects, goals, and identify next steps, really to incorporate the safe systems approach as well, which you'll see in that bottom right-hand tier that encompasses including all various types of safe road users, safe vehicles, speeds, EMS, and safe roads as a design element as a part of this safety action plan. So as Joe mentioned, we are at the tail end here. We've completed the safety action plan and have a draft out. The final steps are for the goal adoption as well as the safety action plan adoption as well. There are seven required components of a safety action plan that's required federally. So the goal is a part of that requirement that they see. It's here to establish and demonstrate that there is leadership commitment. So from you all here today, hoping to have that adoption of the goal. And then establishes a community-wide safety vision, guide future strategies and investments, support implementation and all of the different tasks that came out of the safety action plan, and then that your goal aligns with the safe system approach. The goal itself was established through and informed by various different analyses that were completed as a part of the safety action plan. So not only did it include several different safety analysis of a high injury network, there's a systemic analysis that looks at proactive analyses as well, but it also included several public engagement activities, agency coordination, there was a steering committee that was continue to be involved in the process to help develop this goal here. We looked at several different goals throughout various cities that are similar. And you'll see here, there's three different types that we have listed. Elk River, Columbia Heights, the city of Eagan, all have a zero fatality and serious injury goal by a specific year and timeframe. And then there are others that also have a 50% reduction by a specific year as well. So all of those were in consideration when developing the city's specific goal. Just to look at overall where fatalities and serious injuries are for the city, the plan itself looked at five years of crash data over 2020 to 2024. That timeframe was used because when we started the safety action plan, it was in early 2025. And so we had looked at those various to see kind of where that trend line was. You'll see it go around from one, three, two, six, and four for over those five years. So 16 total severe crashes over that five-year time frame, having a rolling average of approximately 3%. From there, the steering committee and the city arrived at a goal of zero traffic deaths and serious injuries on all streets by 2045 with an interim goal of 50 to 60% reduction in 10 years. We did look at crashes here that occurred in 2025 and 2026 and just wanted to state that they're headed towards the direction of meeting those goals in 2025, there were those zero fatalities and four serious injuries. And then in 2026, you're currently at zero. And so again, just kind of showcasing where that goal and what that means for the city here. How do you continue to achieve the goal in your, again, here in 2026, overall meeting that? There, by addressing all of the various aspects of the safety action plan, so using the safety projects that came about from the safety action plan. There's also recommended policy and process changes, funding and implementation and progress accountability to hold and monitor from year to year and how you're tracking. Again, this is a snapshot here of the safety action plan and looking at the goal. In two weeks, I'll have more information on going through the safety action plan as a whole. But these next two slides just show what's in the safety action plan. So as a part of the analyses, we determined The locations here on the map is your priority network, so those that have a history of crashes, potential for future serious injury and fatalities, to focus on address. We also heard from engagement as well that these are locations of interest as you're continuing to identify projects in the future. Along with the priority network, there's a project selection toolkit. There's a static PDF as well as a spreadsheet that's filterable. So as you're identifying a specific project for a roadway, you're able to filter out and find potential recommendations that can be implemented. This process, we didn't go through and identify a very specific strategy for each location to offer flexibility, opportunities for collaboration in the future as well as you continue to identify projects to address your priority network. So again, as mentioned, I'll be back in two weeks to talk through the safety action plan and for the adoption of the plan itself. On Thursday, we're also presenting at the safety commission. But today here, our goal is to have the city council adopt the safety action plan goal. I'll hand it over to you, Jo.

Thank you very much. How much funding did we secure?

I'm Matt Preston, City Councilor. So we received two different grants for this. So this project is fully funded through grants from the federal government and the state of Minnesota. So we received $200,000 from the feds for this project through FHWA. And also our local match was funded by a MnDOT grant of $50,000. So $250,000 in total, but all of it was through grant funds that we applied for.

Thank you. I just want to make sure there was no chance that this could get changed and that we don't get that federal grant funding.

We've already received some reimbursements already, so we submit reimbursements quarterly in receiving those funds.

And then I guess my next question is, as we identify things kind of on our state and county highways, I guess, that run through our city, how does that work? Does that lengthen the process? So we...

So we have members of MnDOT and Brown County serve on our steering committee as well. So we've been coordinating with our local partners on their roadway segments that are within the New Ulm municipal boundary. So obviously when it comes to the state highway or for roadways that we don't control, it's more of that collaboration for future improvements. So when MnDOT decides it's time for reconstruction or improvements, We'll have our plan that shows we have concerns at X, Y, and Z locations, and it'll be addressed at that time. So none of this will be new to them because they have been involved throughout the whole process.

Awesome. Thank you so much.

Madam President, Councillors, I fully support this type of work, these projects. Safety first is, I think, a paramount item for us.

So just before you offer the resolution, Councillor Schmitz, I do have a typo in the proposed action. So we have to reduce all traffic deaths and severe injuries. I would like that to read serious injuries as opposed to severe. Serious, okay. Yeah, once you get to that point. Thank you.

All right, thank you. I am ready to offer the resolution to adopt the long-term transportation safety vision to reduce all traffic deaths and serious injuries on all streets by 2045 with a 50 to 60 percent reduction in fatal and serious injury crashes within 10 years as established in the New Elm Safety Action Plan. Second.

We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Director Jorgensen, please call the roll.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. That motion carries. Thank you so much. Item 6.4 is airfield pavement maintenance IIJA grant offer.

All right. Thank you, Madam President, city councillors. The next two items are related to the same project. So funding for THIS PROJECT WAS SPLIT AMONGST TWO GRANTS, AND THE FIRST ONE IS THE IIJA GRANTHOFFER. SO, NEW ELM MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, WE HAD SOME AREAS OF AIRFIELD PAVEMENT THAT WERE IN NEEDS OF RECONSTRUCTION, PATCHING, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. THAT WORK WAS DONE IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR APRON EXPANSION PROJECT THAT WAS CONSTRUCTED RECENTLY. These two grants that follow are for reimbursement for work that has already been done. The full 95% federal amount and the two and a half state amount will be funded by these combination of these two grants. So just to make the funding work out, We have the IJ grant and then the AIP grant, but fully reimbursable for the work that we've already completed. So we just need to adopt or approve these grants in order for us to start the reimbursement process.

If there's no questions, I'm going to offer the resolution granting pre-approval of acceptance of the grant offer for Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, project number 3-27-0070-26-2026 for the new all-municipal airport and authorize the city manager and city attorney to execute the grant offer when received from the FAA and further authorize the city manager and finance director to execute any amendments.

Second.

We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Director Jorgensen, please call the roll.

Councillor Christians. Yes. Councillor Schmitz. Yes. Councillor Mack. Yes. And President Becker.

Yes. Motion carries. Item 6.5 is the Airfield Pavement Maintenance AIP grant offer.

Madam President, City Councillors, same thing, but this is just the AIP portion of the project.

So I'll offer the resolution granting a pre-approval acceptance of the grant offered at Airport Improvement Project AIP, project number 3-27-0070-27-2026 for the New Ulm Municipal Airport and authorize the city manager and the city attorney to execute the grant offer when received from the FAA and further authorize the city manager and finance director to execute any amendments. Second.

We do have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Director Jorgensen, please call the roll.

Councillor Christian? Yes. Councillor Schmitz? Yes. Councillor Mack? Yes. And President Becker? Yes.

That motion does carry. Item 6.6 is a library donation.

I'll offer the resolution to accept a $7,000 donation from the Friends of the New Ulm Public Library. Second. Second.

We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? I just want to say thank you. That's a significant grant to have put together and we know that our library can use it. Any additional discussion? Director Jorgensen, please call the roll. Yes.

Yes. That motion carries. And last item of business today is item 7.1, report of claims paid.

Madam President, Councillors, I'd like to make a motion to accept the list of claims in the amount of $2,710,823.96. Second. We do have a motion and a second.

Any additional discussion? Those in favor, signal by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? That motion does carry, and with no additional business, the meeting today is adjourned. Thank you.