City Council - Regular Meeting

Call the meeting to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Becky, would you do roll call? Council member Anderson here. Council member Cone here. Council member Grove here. Council member Lion here. Council member Pierce here. Mayor Clark is absent.

Item D is open forum. Open forum is a time for anyone here tonight to address the council on any subject over which the council has the authority to act or any item on the agenda other than a public hearing. Does anyone here tonight either in the council chambers or in zoom wish to address the council at this time? If so, please approach the podium or raise your hand. If you are participating via Zoom, click on the raise hand icon under the reaction controls. If you are participating via phone, raise your hand by hitting star9. After you're recognized by the chair, please clearly state your name and address before making your comments. Hi, Chris Cummings, 215 Bailey Circle. I was driving down uh Southeast Grand Prairie Parkway and noticed where it meets Interstate 80. There seemed to be a number of new automated license plate readers, and I was wondering if that's an indication of the city's partnership with appears to be the manufacturer Flock Safety. Those look to be their their Falcon model of cameras. I'm just curious if that is an indication of a partnership and how many of those currently exist in the city.

We can't respond, can we? We cannot, right? We can't respond, but we can get the information back to you. Thank you. Appreciate that. Okay. And if you want to stay till after the meeting, we can we can answer that for you for right now. Or the chief can do it right now on the way back to your seat. Perfect. Anyone else? There are no hands raised in Zoom. Agenda item E, agenda approval. Can I get a motion? Vote to approve. Second. All in favor? Roll call vote. Let's do a roll call vote. Why don't we do that part? Council member Pierce? Yes. Council member Cone?

Yes. Council member Anderson? Yes. Council member Lion. Yes. Council member Grove. Yes. Agenda item F, presentations. Ankeny Sanitation. Dave.

Thank you to our council. Um Dave Massie, 994 Street Walke represent Sanitation. Just a yearly update uh from 2025 on the trash and the recycle tons that uh we collected there. So just looking at the hand out there um you know them are um weekly pounds per home 34.54 on trash and just over 8 pounds per home uh for weekly recycling there with residents there and uh uptick with yard waste there with them programs there uh with that um on the recycling just if commodity pricing is favorable we pass that back to the city and uh last year uh in March and April um commodity pricing was favorable which uh generated a check for $944. Um so with that um upcoming events uh yard waste with a seasonable winter that we've somewhat had till yesterday. Uh yard waste will kick off Monday uh May 30th. With that, uh, spring cleanup will be, uh, the week of April 27th, starting on Monday, ending on Friday. Uh, last year we collected 152 ton over 5 days. That don't include what the scrappers or the uh, junkers picked up there or whatever. We appreciate all the help with that. Um, 152 ton over 5 days is is quite the task there with that. and the appliance uh pickup on Saturday. Last year we generated four large uh dumpsters of appliances there uh with that. So any uh questions, concerns also?

Well, I know that the city grows every year, but is 152 tons is that a lot more than last year or is that about Yes. Um it increased like 30 ton there, Chris. Wow. Year over year. Okay. And mother nature plays a part with that some, you know, if the weather people don't seem to get it out. But, you know, with that, I mean, residents are allowed a bulk item every week, you know, with that. I think um, you know, we get that out in the news bulletin there here and there or whatever to educate the residents with that there. But it seems like um, it's all participate when the city cleanup rolls around or whatever. It's definitely a community event there. um you know with all that. So,

thank you Dave. Can you tell us where our recycling ends up? It goes to um Metro Waste Authority, their um MURF which is material recycling facility which is located in Grimes.

And where does it go from Grimes? It's processed um the commodities um you know because it's single stream recycling in the cart you know from your tin plastic newspaper cardboard when it goes through their processor at the recycling center they separate the cardboard mixed paper junk mail the tin cans aluminum cans and the glass there and that I'm not sure where it all goes uh but it's processed bailed and shipped out from there. So, we don't know if it goes overseas or whether it stays here.

Correct. Yeah. Um, you know, when we talk about overseas with China with commodity pricing, they kind of make that move at times if they're taking material. It seems like commodity pricing goes up with mixed paper and cardboard there. Um, I'm not exactly sure what all their end markets are there. Um, but they do guarantee us it is recycled. Okay. So, it's not ending up in an ocean somewhere. No. Well, okay. Not to our knowledge. I Okay.

Yeah. I mean, Metro Waste Authority has um commodity pricing and and markets for that. Uh I I believe they do due diligence with that there, Lori. Um but exactly where I I I can't say for sure. Thank you. All right. There's a big uh recycled paper plant in Cedar Rapids. Uh we haul a lot of like their recycle. It's like it's recycled cardboard and like and there's you know junk. There's glass and stuff too, but we haul a ton of those loads from Grimes. It's more the plastic I'm concerned about. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you, council. Thank you. Park

agenda item G1 is a public hearing on plans, specifications, forms of contract, and estimate of costs for the Walke City Building Project, 4106 Street. I now declare this public hearing open. Becky, any written correspondence? No, none received in the city clerk's office. This time, I ask city staff to present. Nick.

Good evening, Mayor and Mayor Prom and Council. Uh, this project includes the demolition and construction of a city building formerly used as city hall at 4106th Street. This project is included in the capital improvement plan with a total anticipated budget of $1.5 million. The anticipated completion date for all work has been set for February of 2027 and notice has been published in Dallas County News. With that, uh, we would recommend holding the public hearing. Happy to answer any questions.

Any questions on council? Does anyone here tonight either in the council chambers or in Zoom wish to address the council and voice their comments or questions for this public hearing item? If so, please approach the podium or raise your hand. If you're participating via Zoom, click on the raise high raise hand icon under the reactction controls. If you're participating via phone, raise your hand by hitting star9. After you've been recognized by the chair, please clearly state your name and address before making any comments.

There are no hands raised in Zoom. And I'll declare this public hearing closed. Agenda item G2 is a public hearing on plans, specification, form of contract, and estimate of cost for Little Walnut Creek headarters wetlands and greenway project. And now declare the public hearing open. Becky, any written correspondence on the issue? No, none received in the clerk's office. This time I ask city staff to present on the matter. Rudy,

thank you, Mayor Pro Tim. Good evening, council members. Up on the screen is a general uh project location outlined with the red rectangle. It's on the west side of Northwest 10th Street um just north of Northwest McDoug McArthur Lane, excuse me. Um this is a rendering of what the finished project would look like. So essentially the Little Walnut Creek headarters wetland and greenway project is located um north of MacArthur Lane west of 10 northwest 10th Street. The project includes excavation of nearly 45,000 cubic yards of soil respreading of that so soil for the construction of four bays, a permanent wetland pool and earthen embankments. There's also a concrete weir outlet structure just on the west side of Northwest 10th Street as well as some storm sewer erosion control and surface restoration. Essentially, this project will be recreating a wetland uh both a normal pool um along with the uh original streamway there uh as well as a higher water pool. Um this is in partnership with the adjacent development and provides some detention for that area. We had worked previously with the uh prior property owner, the developer on acquiring not only this wetland area in parkland dedication but also in in a purchase agreement as well. And so we do have this project in our approved capital improvements plan with a total budget of $2 million. We do have a project completion date of December 24, 2026 uh for this project. And uh that concludes the discussion. Happy to take any questions on this public hearing project. Any questions for the council? Does anyone here tonight either in the council chambers or in Zoom wish to address the council and voice their comments or questions for this public hearing item? If so, please approach the podium or raise your hand. If you're participating via Zoom, click on the raise eye hand icon under the reaction controls. If you're participating via phone, raise your hand by hitting star9.

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There are no hands raised in Zoom. I now declare this public hearing closed. Agenda item G3 is a public hearing on the vacation of the Gas main easement HZB Enterprises LLC. I now declare this public hearing open. Becky, have we received any written correspondence? No. None received in the clerk's office. This time I ask city staff to present. Andy.

All right. Good evening, Mayor Prom Grove and council members. Um before you tonight's consideration of uh the vacation of a gas main easement. Uh this is an existing 5- foot gas main easement located within the Vintage Estates development. Uh this is a development that was approved back in 2022. Um this is generally located uh west of the intersection of Southeast Park View Crossing Drive and north of uh Southeast Esser Ridge Drive. the propo or the existing easement area is the area that's kind of that uh p-shaped uh uh line in red on the screen that shows um where the existing easement has been recorded on the property. Um uh so this as I stated this was an easement that was recorded with the original final plat that was recorded in 2022 when the development was approved. Uh the original developer is no longer involved with the project and a new uh property owner has stepped in to complete this project. uh HZB Enterprises LLC. Uh they have requested the vacation of the easement and have already granted a new gas main easement. So um so there's really no need for the existing gas main easement as we have a new easement in place already. Uh so staff is recommending holding the public hearing on the vacation of the gas main easement. I'm happy to take any questions.

Council have any questions? Does anyone here tonight either in the council chambers, excuse me, or in Zoom, wish to address the council and voice their comments or questions on this public hearing item? If so, please approach the podium or raise your hand. You're participating via Zoom, click on the raise hand icon under the reaction controls. If you're participating via phone, raise your hand by hitting star9. After you've been recognized by the chair, please clearly state your name and address before making any comments.

There are no hands raised in Zoom. And I'll declare this public hearing closed. Item H1, consideration of approval of a resolution approving the plans, specifications, and form of contract, and estimated of costs for this Walke City Building project 410 on Sixth Street. Can I get a motion? Move to approve.

Second. Okay. the plan, specifications, uh, contract, and estimate are on file with the city clerk and available for public review. Uh, that's I don't have anything to add um with the presentation that I gave for the public hearing. Happy to take any questions. We staff would recommend approval. Any questions from council? Ask for the vote. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Grove, yes.

Genum item H1B, resolation. Resolution, consideration of approval for the resolution awarding the contract. Move to approve the resolution. Second, Nick. Staff uh requested some additional uh materials from the biders. Uh we would request that this item be deferred. Do the amended motion. I amend the motion to defer action on awarding contract to a meeting held at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, March 23rd, 2006 26. Second, use vote. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Lion, yes.

Council member Grove, yes. Agenda item 2A, consideration of approval of a resolution approving the plans, specifications, and form of contract and estimate of costs. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second. Thank you, Mayor Proen. The plan, specifications, form of contract, estimate of cost have been filed the city clerk for review. Upon request, staff recommends approving the resolution. Any questions? Please vote. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Grove,

yes. Agenda item 2B, resolution, consideration approval of a resolution awarding the contract. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second. Ready. Thank you, Mayor Prom. Up on the screen, you can see the bid tabulation uh bid summary. We did receive bids on March 11th, 2026 from three general contractors. You can see them up there. Um the apparent low bidder, Bedrock Gravel, Inc. of Schleswig, Iowa.

Schleswig. Thank you. Um in the dollar amount of $566,917 about approximately 20% under our engineers's estimate of just over $700,000. Um you can see the next biders were uh slightly over that engineers estimate. um did do some uh reference checking on Bedrock Gravel. They're not a contractor that city of Walke has worked with previously. However, they are a contractor that has done work in central Iowa, the De Mo metro area specifically, as well as some of the uh uh area developers, specifically Caliber of Iowa that I spoke with that they've performed grading perform um for them on projects of their own as well as some other contractors where they did subcontracting work in this capacity of grading essentially um completed that work successfully. So I don't really have any red flags or concerns. Um the design engineer being Kim has also worked with them on other projects um on similar scale and scope. So with that um city staff's comfortable proceeding forward with the recommendation to award uh to Bedrock Gravel Inc. in the dollar amount shown up on the screen. So happy to take any questions if you have any. Um staff recommends approval of the resolution. Council

have any questions? Please vote. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Agenda item three is a resolution consideration of approval of a resolution approving the vacation of the gas main easement, HZB Enterprises LLC. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second, Andy. Uh, nothing further to add other than staff recommends, uh, the vacation of the existing easement. And I'm happy to take any questions. Does council have any questions at this time? Please vote. Council member Pierce, yes.

Council member Cone, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Agenda item I consent agenda. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second, please vote. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Grove,

yes. Agenda item I2 is consideration of approval of an ordinance to amend chapter 55 animal protection and control by repealing the current chapter in its entirety and enacting in lie thereof chapter 55 animal protection and control. This is a second reading. Move to approve the second reading of the ordinance and title only. Second. Chief McCuskkey.

Good evening. Uh, as you may recall, um, we made some changes to or trying to make some changes to chapter 55 with regards to animals. Uh, the changes, uh, made it easier to just, um, completely replace the chapter than redline it, um, from a clarity standpoint. Um, as I mentioned before, the things to kind of bring your attention to, uh, 55.13 with regards to leash law would not allow for an off leash heel. Again, primarily our concern is other animals, not necessarily that person's animal. Um 5517 uh amends the number of hold days under quarantine to align with state code. Previously, our current code um I believe reads something the effect of as directed by the health department. We don't have a health department and by state code it's 10 days. And so this just aligns that 5518 will allow language for um cats. If somebody were to uh capture a loose cat or a cat at large, it would allow for them to be able to take that animal to a contractor uh shelter that we contract with. And then 5519 amends those hold times um reducing to seven days if the animal appears to be domesticated and and has ownership and disha with it or 4 days if not um and that is simply um a cost-saving measure number one to the city but number two it also aligns with other metro cities and not holding those animals that are obviously um strays uh longer and um putting them up for adoption if if that's available. So, I'm happy to answer any questions, but we do uh recommend approval of the second reading.

Council have any questions. Please vote. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Agenda item I3 is consideration of approval of an ordinance to amend chapter 65 stop or yield required city of Walke Iowa by amending section 65.01 through street stop intersections and by amending section 65.03 four-way stop intersections. This is a second reading. Move to approve the second reading of the ordinance and title only. Second ready.

Thank you mayor prom. Just a reminder, this is for the implementation of an all-way stop at the intersection of Northwest Douglas Parkway and Northwest Stratford Drive, also the entrance to Trail Ridge and North Middle Schools. Um have had those conversations with the school district, did provide some of those comments that we had in the prior workshop. Um did receive um feedback from them on those comments specifically about um switching parent drop off pickup location on the school building sides and whatnot and those are being considered from from the school district staff side of things. So, uh, nothing further to report other than staff recommends the, uh, second reading of the ordinance here. Happy to take questions. Any questions from council? Please vote. Council member Cone,

yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Grove, yes. And item I4 is consideration of approval of an ordinance to amend chapter 169 zoning ordinance city of Walke by reszoning certain property from A1 to R2 R2DP1 R3 R4 and C1A. A parcel will be known as Alderbrook. This is a second reading table during March 2nd, 2026 of the council meeting. I move to approve the second reading of the ordinance and title only.

Second.

All right. Hello again. Um just some updates from the uh the previous meeting where uh council tabled action on this second uh consideration of this uh uh proposed resoning. Um after uh working with uh city attorney um Mr. brick as well as consulting with the uh applicant landmark development services incorporated. Uh the applicant has chose to remove approximately 22.24 acres from the proposed resoning. Um those are the areas outlined in blue on the screen. Uh so it's in all it's approximately a 331 acre development. Uh the applicant has proposed to remove um the area proposed for R3 multif family residential district as well as um the area along the west side uh uh that's proposed to be zoned to R4 which would be road dwelling and town home district. Uh the applicant has uh submitted a request to withdraw those two areas from the resoning and move forward with the remainder of the property uh as part of the resoning request. Um uh other than that um staff has worked uh this uh proposed um uh solution with uh uh Steve and Steve uh has said that we are okay to proceed with that. Uh so staff's recommendation would be to move forward with the second consideration. Uh staff would recommend approval of the second consideration uh with the removal of these two areas from the resoning. I'm happy to take any questions. Council

have any questions at this time? What was the reasoning for removal? Um the reasoning for the removal is uh there there's been some feedback from an adjoining property owner um regarding uh these two particular parcels. Um and um the applicant didn't want to delay um the resoning of the remainder of the property. So, they chose at this time to just simply remove uh this area from the resoning request at this time and in the future would potentially consider a resoning at a later date um but not as part of this resoning.

And they wouldn't have to wait cuz I know um in some situations like a year that they have to wait for resoning. Would that apply here or not? No, it would not apply. It didn't actually get passed or correct. Okay. Y Okay. Other questions? Please vote. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Grove,

yes. Agenda item I5, consideration of approval of an ordinance amending chapter 68, parking reg Re regulations, city of Walke, Iowa, by amending section 68.09, no parking zone as specified. This is a third and final reading. Move to approve the third reading of the ordinance in title only and place it on final passage. Second. Ready. Thank you, Mayor Prom. Just a reminder, this is really just for additional newly constructed streets to this ordinance chapter. So, staff has nothing further to recommend other than approving the third reading of the ordinance and and passing it on to final passage. So, happy to take questions if you have any.

Council have any questions? Please vote. Council member Cone. Yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Agenda item I6, consideration of approval of an ordinance to amend chapter 169, zoning ordinance, city of Walke, Iowa, by reasonzoning certain property from A1 to R2. The parcel will be known as Timberline Estates. This is a third and final reading.

Move to approve the third reading of the ordinance. ordinance. Oh my gosh. Let me start over. I move to approve the third reading of the ordinance entitle only and place it on final passage. Okay, Andy.

All right. Uh just a reminder to the council members. Uh this is the uh new Pioneer Gun Club property. It's approximately 91 acres in area located south of uh southeast Westtown Parkway and generally uh located west of Southeast LA Grant Parkway. Uh the proposed zoning is to the R2 one and two family residential zoning district. The concept plan identifies approximately 130 single family lots to be developed um within this proposed property. Uh staff is recommending approval of the third and final consideration for Timberline Estates uh Timberline Estates. And I'm happy to take any questions. Council have any questions at this time?

I just one just for the record, Andy. Who's in charge of mitigation? uh as far as soil mitigation, uh the uh developer Timberline Estates LLC will have to work through that process as they uh develop the property. Thank you. Y any other questions, please vote. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Grove,

yes. Agenda item I7, consideration of approval of a resolution approving development agreement with Timberline Estates LLC and Humble Realy Company South Warrior Lane Southeast Westtown Parkway public improvements. Move to approve. Second,

Mr. Deetsz. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim and council members. Um, as it pertains to the project that was just considered for final resoning, this is a development agreement um, relating to certain public improvements associated with the project. As you can imagine, with the relocation of the gun club, uh, existing gun club as well as the remediation efforts associated with this project. Uh, it's a fairly significant piece of property to redevelop. um much more significant than um pretty much anywhere else in the city of Walke. With that being said, uh city staff has been coordinating working with the uh proposed developers for assistance related to some of the public infrastructure, mainly focusing on the collector and arterial roadway network uh specifically relating to improvements to Westtown Parkway as well as Warrior Lane. Uh a compounding factor with this is there is an adjacent property owner in Hubble Realy that does own approximately 10 acres that's adjacent to Westtown Parkway and essentially provides the direct access to the remaining Gun Club property. The proposed development agreement before you tonight uh pertains specifically to those improvements to Warrior Lane as well as Westtown Parkway. Uh Warrior Lane would be the development of a 31 ft uh backtoback uh collector roadway. uh and uh Westtown Parkway improvements essentially would uh uh consist of a 3 and 1/2 ft curb and gutter section as well as storm sewer. So the pave pavement is there today. It's just a rural section and not an urban section. Um the agreement uh as as written would essentially uh guarantee the improvements in red with any additional funds beyond a $200 million or 200 a $2 million limit uh extending as a bid alternate for that area that's

identified in blue at the south end of the development. Um the way the agreement is structured is that the developers will be responsible for all clearing and grading uh of the roadway bed itself and the city would um as a public improvement bid out the improvements for the construction of Warrior Lane as well as Westtown Parkway improvements. Uh when finished, uh we estimate a total of 160 single family homes or more on this property. And based on some pretty preliminarily estimates, uh we would anticipate overall value of well over $und00 million in valuation with the development of this property. Uh in turn, that generates roughly $675,000 a year for uh city property taxes, about 1.7 million in all of the taxing entities. Um so it is a certainly an investment on behalf of the city. Uh but there is a fairly short return on investment as well as allows for the extension of uh Westtown, excuse me, Warrior Lane which eventually would extend further south um to Ashworth Road at some point in time if and when the uh campground to the south would redevelop. Uh at this time uh both Hubble Realy and Timberline Estates have signed the development agreement and staff would recommend approval and I'm happy to answer any questions. I would note that um these improvements will be paid for out of cash within our debt service levy.

Council have any questions at this time? Brad is um what we're seeing on Westtown Parkway those improvements that's not four lane. It's going to remain two-lane, but what we see in red is storm sewer. Is that correct? That's correct. It would continue with the basically the same alignment that you see to the um east. Um it's kind of hard just to represent a three and a half foot curb gutter section, but uh the uh that's essentially all all it is is you're adding the curbon gutter and then the storm sewer. So, you're filling in the ditch line. That's there. Okay. Okay. Any other questions? Please vote. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Lion, yes.

Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Agenda item I8 is a consideration of approval of a resolution approving the site plan for Trail Ridge baseball and softball storage, 1455 Northwest Douglas Parkway. Can I get a motion? Move to approve.

Andy. All right. Uh so the owner and applicant in this request is the Walke Community School District. Um they are requesting approval of a site plan for a small storage building uh and some batting cages and some uh pedestrian improvements on the uh Trail Ridge Middle School site which is located north of Northwest Douglas Parkway and generally located west of Northwest 10th Street. Um you see on the screen it's outlined in blue. Um so let's get to the so the uh baseball softball fields are located in the northeast corner of the site. Uh the proposed improvements include uh three batting cages um adjacent to between the baseball and softball field and then an approximately 800 square ft uh storage building um and some sidewalk improvements that would connect to the uh track and football field as well as some uh sidewalk improvements along the softball field as well. Uh the proposed building is proposed to be constructed primarily of brick. Um the planning and zoning commission did recommend approval of the site plan request at their meeting on March 10th. And I'm happy to take any questions. Staff would recommend approval.

Council have any questions at this time? Please vote. Council member Lion. Yes. Council member Grove. I'm sorry. Council member Cone. Yes. Council member Pierce. Yes. Council member Anderson. Yes. Council member Grove. Yes. Agenda item I nine, consideration of approval of a resolution approving the site site plan for Big O Tires, 805 Southeast Alys's Road. Can I get a motion? To approve. Second. Indy.

All right. Uh the owner and applicant in this request is Westwood Contractors Incorporated. Uh the applicant is requesting approval of a site plan for a commercial building, a tire shop uh for Pigo Tires. Uh the property is located north of Southeast University Avenue and east of Southeast Alys's Road. It's the area outlined in blue on the screen. It's approximately 1.22 acres in area. Uh if you if you're need a little bit more reference, the uh Quickstar that's on the east side of Alys's Road is directly to the south of it. Uh the council recently approved a preliminary plat and final plat to replplat this existing lot. Um the site plan includes the construction of a singlestory building that's about just over 7,800 square feet in area. Uh it's the uh rectangle here kind of on the center of the site. Um that's approximately 25 ft in height. A trash enclosure would be included and located on the north side of the building. So directly here, it's kind of the angled little square there. Um, one access is provided directly to the site from southeast Alys's road. That's the existing uh right in right out access point that is at the northwest corner of the site as well as there is an access point that would connect to the quickstar site directly to the south as well. Total of 35 parking spaces are required. They are providing 42 parking spaces. Um, public utilities already exist to this site. Uh the proposed um uh landscaping meets all the landscaping uh requirements. There is a 30-foot landscape buffer that is required on the back side of the site because the uh apartments uh directly to the east uh would dictate uh to provide that screening for the residential use. The proposed building is primarily uh comprised of uh brick and stone. It's kind of tough to see. Um it's not going to be this black of a building. It's just the way it just kind of shows up on the screen. uh primarily brick and stone um storefront uh system with glazing and

of course uh the overhead doors. So the overhead doors would face south towards like um uh the quickstar site. Uh staff is recommending approval of the uh site plan for big O tires. I would also note that the planning and zoning commission did recommend approval of the site plan at their meeting on March 10th, 2026. Happy to take any questions. Council have any questions at this time? Please vote. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Grove,

yes. Agenda item I 10, consideration of excuse me, consideration of approval of a resolution approving the agreement for professional consulting services with Fourth Economy Consulting, Inc., City of Walke economic development plan update. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second,

Mr. Deets. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim. I'm filling in tonight for Jennifer relative to this item. Uh, as was discussed at the last work session, um, the recommendation is to move forward with Fourth Economy Consulting, Inc. for the completion of an update to the economic development master plan which was one of the city council's priorities uh strategic priorities for this current uh year. Uh the plan uh will be more of a comprehensive economic development plan uh looking at things that have been done in the past as well as providing direction and guidance for future economic development efforts moving forward. Uh the contract is in the amount of $155,09. uh they were vetted in terms of fourth economy consulting was vetted. I believe we had 15 proposals that were submitted and through a series of review as well as interviews. Fourth economy um was recommended as the consultant to move forward with this project. Uh work would actually has started to commence preliminarily um officially kicking off in April with an anticipated completion date of August 2026. Uh staff would recommend approval of the consultant agreement and be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. Any questions from council? Please vote. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Agenda item I 11, consideration of approval of a resolution approving a collective bargaining agreement with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 238. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second, Sh.

Thank you and good evening, Mayor Prom and Council. Before you tonight is a resolution for the approval of a collective bargaining agreement between the city of Walke and the Teamsters Union. Um, as you know, the city entered into negotiations with the union as the current contract expires this June. Negotiations proceeded through the mediation process which established the terms of a three-year collective bargaining agreement. The agreement includes across the board wage increases of 3.5% 3% and 3% wage increases, an increase to the on call pay, an expansion of the bereavement leave policy, the addition of the officer in charge and shift differential pay, as well as some clarifying uh language throughout the contract. Overall, the agreement maintains the uh competitive compensation and benefits for our union members um which supports the city's ability to recruit and retrain retain qualified employees. Staff is recommending approval of the resolution and I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Council have any questions at this time. Please vote. Council member Anderson, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Pierce. Yes. Council member Grove. Yes. Agenda item. Okay J reports. Steve, your report. Mr. Deetsz.

Thank you, Mayor Prom. Uh just a couple of items. Um I know I received my notice from the county over the weekend relative to upcoming uh property tax levies and uh meetings moving forward with the city uh school district and county. Uh just as a reminder, those are forms that are based upon the theory that your property had increased by 10%. Um as we know, for the most part, residential properties in Walke did not increase by 10%. So um the while the uh overall formulas are correct, the numbers may not be correct based upon your own uh situation. For the city of Walke, uh there's this a two two-step process. Uh first step being is at your there will be a special meeting if you will at the April 6th city council meeting. Um that meeting is a hearing to essentially set the maximum property tax levy which is what's identified within um the notice from the county. Um and then the followup to that is the actual consideration of the fiscal year 2027 budget which would be on April 20th. Um, in preparation for that, our marketing communications team has been updating our pages relative to property taxes, and there's a lot of good information available. In addition to that, in the coming days, we will be uh introducing or trying, if you will, a property tax calculator that's specific to the city portion of your property taxes, uh which will you'll be able to input some fairly simple information. And that will spit out both your current property taxes at the city level as well as what would be proposed based upon um the fisc year 27 recommendation. Uh, so be on the lookout for that as well as some additional notices that'll be going on our website and social media here in the next couple of days. Thanks,

Kayla. No report. Huh? No report. Nope. Uh, request moment motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I