City Council - Regular Meeting

Uh we will call this regular meeting to order. Will everyone please rise 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. Thank you. Will you please do roll call? Mayor Clark here. Council member Anderson. Council member Anderson. We'll go back. Council member Cone here. Council member Grove here. Council member Lion here. Council member Pierce

here. Council member Anderson. She's on the Zoom but is not responding.

Okay. Maybe having difficulties. Um Kayla, if you can hear us, maybe try logging out and logging back in and we will circle back. All right. Item D is open forum. Open forum is the time for anyone here tonight to address the council on any subject over which the council has the authority to act or on any item on the agenda other than a public hearing. If anyone tonight would like to uh speak and address the council, uh please approach the podium or raise your hand. Or if you're participating via Zoom, please click on the raise hand icon located in the reactions controls. There are no hands raised in Zoom. Okay. Open forum is closed. Agenda item E is agenda approval. Can I get a motion approve?

Second. Any discussion? All right, please vote. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Lion, yes.

Council member Anderson. Okay. Agenda item G1 is a public hearing on an ordinance to amend chapter 169 zoning ordinance city of Walke Iowa by reszoning certain property from A1 to R2 and R4 a property to be known as silver leaf. I now declare this public hearing open. Becky, have we received any correspondence on this issue? No. None received in the city clerk's office. Thank you. Melissa,

good evening, mayor and councel. Um the owner and applicant is Jay Larson Homes LLC. Uh the property is located north of 310th Street and east of T Avenue. Contains approximately 70 acres. Uh it is outlined in blue on the screen. The request is to reszone the property from A1 agricultural district to R2 one and two family residential district and R4 road dwelling and town home dwelling district. Um the next slide I'm going to skip to that. Um the R2 area is kind of shown in um the purple color and then the R4 area is the green color. Um the R2 area is 57.84 acres and the R4 area is 12.13 acres. Notification of the resoning request was sent out on April 3rd. Uh the resoning signs were placed on the property by the required deadline. Uh staff has been in communication with an adjacent property owner. Um they are at the corner the northeast corner of T Avenue and 310th Street. Um kind of shown on that concept plan there. Um but the the adjacent property owner doesn't appear to be in opposition to the resoning request but has expressed some concerns regarding future roads buffering and utilities. Um copies of the communication has been provided to the council. The concept plan shows a total of 142 single family lots and two outlots for town home development with a total of 77 units uh town home units shown. All proposed lots within the R2 district comply with the standard R2 zoning district requirements. There are also several outlots shown on the concept plan for storm water detention. Um I'm going to go to the next um sorry it's not oriented uh north to the top. It's north to the left. Um so it shows some of those outlots for uh storm water detention throughout. Um it also shows the landscape buffers that would be required um per the uh different zoning

districts and um buffering between the districts and also the main streets. Um uh several new public streets will be provided throughout the development. A trail would be required to be provided on one side of T Avenue and also along the north side of 310th Street. Parkland dedication requirements will apply to the project based on the number of lots shown and the maximum density for the R4 area. The required parkland is 3.9 acres. The applicant is proposing to provide a fee in lie of land dedication to meet parkland dedication requirements. Uh the castle 10point development to the east will include a park that is approximately 7.28 acres in area. I'm going to actually go back a couple slides here. So that area shown just to the east in green within the Castleton Point development is that uh neighborhood park um nearby. And then in addition, there are parks planned to be located within future developments located to the south and to the west of this development. The property is classified as single family residential in the Imagine Walke 2040 comprehensive plan. Single family residential is classified as having average densities of 2 to four units per acre. The proposed density of the single family area is 2.46 46 units per acre. And although the proposed reszoning to R4 is not consistent with the current comprehensive plan, staff is comfortable with the proposal, um the density proposed for the town home portion is 6.36 units per acre, which is on the lower side of the allowable maximum density for medium density residential of up to 12 units per acre. The proposed reasonzoning is generally consistent with the land uses identified in the comprehensive plan. staff recommends holding the public hearing and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. Right. Uh does uh the applicant or their representative wish to address the council on this particular topic? Okay. Does anyone here tonight either in the council chambers or on Zoom wish the council and voice their comments or questions on this pro public hearing item? If so, uh please approach the podium or raise your hand or participating on Zoom, please click on the raise hand icon. There are no hands raised in Zoom. Does council have any questions at this time? All right. I now declare this public hearing closed. Agenda item G2 is a public hearing on a proposed city of Walke fiscal year 2027 budget. And now declare this public hearing open. Becky, we received any correspondence on this issue? No. None received in the clerk's office. Rachel.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um, this public hearing is on the proposed 2027 budget. Administrator deeds went through the budget directives um at the public hearing on April 6th, which included the timeline for the budget process. that started back in October in addition to the recommendation that we leave the levy for fiscal 27 at $12.80. Um so tonight we'll just go through the specifics of the budget proposal. That's going to be a little hard to read. Um uh what makes up our property tax bill? Uh this chart shows the breakdown from fiscal 26 since we don't really know what the other entities are going to propose for their um levy rate for this year. The largest portion of the total property tax bill is uh 49% uh is goes to the school which is the makes up 17.758% of the total tax bill. Uh the city's portion is the next largest which is the 36% or the 12 $12.80 and the county makes up about 10% of the total tax bill. Um on this slide with the taxable valuation by classification on the left it shows the property tax breakdown for the entire state and as you can see with that in the entire state about 56.9% of that is considered residential whereas on the right side um is our property tax breakdown and you can see on ours um 83.6% 6% makes of is of ours is made up by residential. The valuation per capita Walke kind of falls into the lower third um of this when you compare them to the other metro cities. Um, and that kind of goes back to uh our property tax being made up of the 83% residential uh as compared to like Clive where they're they have the

highest valuation per capita of 104,000 whereas ours comes in at 63.7% or 60 63,000. Um, average across all communities is about 74,000. So, we're getting a little closer, but Did I click too far here? Apologize. Okay. Now, shifting into fiscal 27, our proposed um budget for revenue sources. You can see on here in the red that the property taxes makes up the largest percentage of um our property taxes which is 56.1% or just over 16.7 million. Transfer in is the second largest portion kind of in the burgundy toward the top. Um and that also um is considered in the in our tax levy of the 12.8 or $12.80. So 70% of all of our property taxes or our revenues are from those two levies for property taxes. Other revenues then um the next largest portion is the licensing, permitting and fees and then charges for service makes is the fourth largest. Turning to program expenditures, public safety um is the largest portion in red of all of our expenditures in the general fund. 62.73% of the general fund budget goes towards public safety and that includes police, fire, um, EMS, building permits, animal control, and Westcom. The next largest portion is culture and recreation, which is 18.68%, parks, wreck, library, community center. So, between those two, that's 81% of our total general fund budget.

Uh this one's pretty hard to see, but exp um you can definitely check it out online. Um the expenditure comparison by program area. So this one goes um and looks at the other communities in the metro and compares those program areas that we just talked about with um what their expenses are per program area. And when we compare those expenditures to the other cities in the metro, um our averages are are very in that first burgundy row. And our number and our numbers are in the second area or in the second row. And we run uh very lean on all of our numbers. Uh we're below average on everything other than debt service. And that kind of goes back to just our growth and that we have a lot of infrastructure that we um need to put in and have put in over the last several years. staffing changes for this proposed budget. Uh we will be adding three new police officers, two of which will be starting in July. One would start in January. We're promoting or moving a records tech um at the police department from part-time to full-time. We'll be adding two fire engineers, uh, one code compliance officer, moving a library outreach position from part-time to full-time, adding one streets laborer, and then there's two promotions within public safety. Uh, one that was a locator will now be in a rightaway technician and, uh, storm water person will also be promoted. The chart on the left um as you can see is what our percent of general fund how much of our uh expenditures are actually for personnel. You can see that we're um at 76.14% this year. We've always tried to keep that below 75% but with the addition of the second fire department we kind of hit that tipping point where it's just not feasible to keep that under 75%. But we're still still very close.

Uh this slide is the contractual services. Um won't go through all of these, but uh these are for contractual services and member agreements for services that the city isn't necessarily able to provide. Uh the first section is uh different entities that will be funded by the hotel motel tax revenue. The middle will be funded by general fund and then that last last section will be funded by uh tax increment finding or financing or some uh dollars that have been set aside for low to moderate income housing.

For general fund capital equipment in the budget, we've got $782,400 worth of capital equipment coming out of the general fund. Um that includes uh several vehicles, three new police cars, one new code compliance vehicle, a truck with a snow plow for park, and then they will convert the truck that that's replacing into a flatbed that they'll have a water tank on the back of. And then also a Bobcat utility vehicle for uh the horiculturalist. And then some servers and copers and other network equipment and a drone. uh general fund overview for fiscal 27. We are estimating uh $29.79 million in revenues and just over 30 million in expenditures. So we are planning for a fund balance spend down of just under 300,000. Uh we started or we ended fiscal 25 with uh an unrestricted fund balance of 16.9 million and are planning for a budget uh spend down for fiscal 26 of just under 500,000. So in addition to that uh budget spend down then for fiscal 27 of just under 300,000 we'll still be at 16 million uh in a fund balance which is like 53.58% of the fund balance a little high. Um Moody's recommends about a 30% um coverage on the expenditures. So, we have some plans for the fund balance that we've got that we're over. Uh, refresh of some different city buildings, roofs, HVAC systems that we probably will have coming up that will need to be done in addition to probably some expenses in the civic campus area. that in addition to some capital needs and um some reserves that we feel like we still uh would like to leave on hand

as legislature is still kind of going through tax uh property tax legislation and until they get some final guidance um we'll kind of want to keep that where we're at right now. City debt limit. Um, we'll be going over capital improvements in the next public hearing, but I kind just wanted to go over um some funding source a little bit. Um, the city is has a statutory debt limit of 5% of our 100% valuation in outstanding debt. So, currently we're at um 157.9 million in debt and we're allowed to have 245.2 million. Uh so our debt limit right or our debt ratio right now is at 64.37% of our capacity which is a s which is a significant decrease from what it's been the last couple of years. So we're pretty excited about what valuations are doing and where we're at with our debt limit. And what does this all come down to? um as looking at an average home in Walke of $400,000. Um that comes down to $6.25 per day. It's listed a little bit weird here on the uh slide, but that is a 6.1% decrease from last year. I should put parentheses around that instead of the negative. Uh last year it was $6.65 per day, whereas this year it's $6.25 per day. Uh, with that, um, staff recommends holding the public hearing and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. I now declare this public hearing open. Becky, have we re uh, we already did that part. Does anyone here tonight, either in the council chambers or on Zoom, wish to address the council and voice their comments or questions on this particular public hearing item? If so, please approach the podium or raise your hand. And remember, if you're participating via Zoom, please click on the raise hand icon located in reactions controls. After you are recognized, if you would like to speak, you will need to state your name and address for the record. There are no hands raised in Zoom. Does council have any questions at this time? Well, uh, we went through the budget line by line a couple of months ago at a council meeting and so I'm not surprised we don't necessarily have new questions, but thank you for your thorough presentation as well. And now declare this public hearing closed. Agenda item G3 is a public hearing on a proposed capital improvement program for fiscal years 2027 to 2031. Uh, I now declare this public hearing open. Becky, have we received any written correspondence? that has been received in the city clerk's office. Thank you. Uh Tracy,

good evening. My name is Tracy Loveinsky. I'm the budget and finance analyst analyst and this time first time I've ever done this. So, it's okay. Welcome.

We'll start by we're going to look at the capital improvement plan for fiscal years 2027 to 2031. Highlight the parks projects and those are 21.25 million. Uh some of the highlights of that are we are doing a new park in the Springrest area for five million and then in the Stone Prairie area for three million and we're also doing improvements to the Centennial Park in Warrior Park. Uh for trails projects that came to 6.2 2 million and that would include include the Little Walnut Creek Walnut Creek Greenway Trail for 3 million, a Raccoon River Trail, Valley Trail, and the Kettlestone Greenway phase three trail. Uh next is uh just for the fire and EMS. They got their own slide this year because the next one is next slide is going to be kind of exciting for some of us. Uh but um they we're just looking at they're going to have a couple of new ambulances. One in fiscal year 27 and fiscal year 29. We're also budgeting for an ambulance upfit and then anticipating a new ladder truck in fiscal year 28. And then this one is for the administration area. Um we're going anticipating 83.6 million. Uh a small portion of that is solar panels on the existing city buildings. And then we were able to move up the city campus project which is the 225 acre that Brad has presented a lot about in the last couple of meetings. So, we'll anticipate that in fiscal year 30, we're going to do some park improvements to that area.

And in fiscal 301, we'll start on a new city hall and library. And then finally, we have 218 million projected for roads projects. Some of the highlights on that one are the North Warrior Lane Little Walnut Creek covert project which would be 7.85 million for fiscal years 28 through 29. Continuing work on the University Avenue area improvements which is going to be 62.6 million for fiscal years 27 to30. We've begun work on downtown street improvements which will be just 1.7 million, but it's pretty exciting to see some changes down there. and then the 10th Street extension which will be for fiscal year 27 to 28 and will allow us to do that city hall project later on. Then finally, we're anticipating 40.4 million in our utility projects. That's sewer, storm water, and the water fund. Um we're going to continue to work on the Corine Acres water and sewer improvements. going to do a little Walnut Creek trunk sewer extension. Going to hook up uh Hunter Hollow uh subdivision with some sanitary sewer. Uh we're going to spend 9.6 million on the Sugar Creek watershed improvements. And the major funding sources for these projects will be a general operating bond proceeds, a local option sales tax and lo option sale tax bonds, PIF cash tax incentive financing district bond proceeds, and utility fund cash and revenue bond proceeds.

Um, any questions? Um, I do want to clarify before I open this up um to public comment that uh it's in the name of the thing, but this our CIP is over 5 years. This is planned improvements over five years. Obviously, things change um occasionally and things get moved up and down in priority, but I did want to clarify this is a five-year plan um and is revisited every single year during tax time. You're always welcome to comment on that. Uh, 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 participating via Zoom, please click on the raise hand icon located in the reactions controls. There are no hands raised in Zoom. Does council have any questions at this time? Okay. And now declare this public hearing closed.

Thanks, Tracy. Oh, she's not done yet. She's not. Agenda item G4 is a public hearing on a proposed budget amendment for the city of Walke uh for fiscal year 2026. I now declare this public hearing open. Becky, have we received any written correspondence on this one? No. None's been received in the city clerk's office. Thank you, Tracy.

Well, I'm welcome back. And then this is on the budget amendment for fiscal year 26. As you can see on the slide, for the revenues, we are anticipating an increase in general fund revenues of $795,000. And then for the other funds, we are anticipating a decrease of $983,000. Some of the highlights of why we made this decision is on the general fund, the charges for services. uh we reflect a $250,000 increase in ambulance revenue from what we were anticipating when did we did the original budget. And then flipping over to the uh decrease on property tax for the other side. That's because of a decrease in tiff revenue because of the revaluation of the Apple property. So, and then we're also expecting on other city taxes, we're getting a $300,000 more than anticipated in lost funds, which will help offset a little bit. And then for uses of money and property, um this $686,000 is basically an increase in interest revenue that we receive. We're very uh conservative when we do our budgeting for interest revenue, which is why we're able to have that much extra as reflected. And the next slide is our anticipated changes for expenditures. On the general fund side, we're anticipating $654,574 in expenditures. for the other funds, an increase of $884,722,000. Some of the highlights for those are um on the public safety building, there is $146,000

increase in budget. That's because we entered into three multi-year service contracts, which allowed us to have a better rate for some essential services to that new public safety building. on uh culture and recreation. Um there is an increase that's $115,000 is that for the new uh parks master plan and then also $30,000 for some needed library maintenance. They're going to create an office and update a conference room that needs a little bit of a renovation. Uh, finally for the general side on the general governmental increases, we spent $300,000 this year for the purchase of 825 Ashworth. And we bought that property because this will allow us for the future improvements at the 10th and Hickman Road intersection. And then on the other revenue sides or sorry expend expenditure side um there's a $120,000 increase in the road use fund and this was due to the fact that we received two dump trucks this year. We had originally approved them in 2023 so it took a little while

little while but we Yep. So it's just reflecting we're having to pay for them and that is also reflected some in the water sewer and storm water fund but those funds are covered by their revenues. Any questions? Thank you very much. Uh does anyone here tonight either in the council chambers or on Zoom wish should ask the council and voice their comments or questions on this particular public hearing item, the budget amendment uh for the current fiscal year? If so, please approach the podium or raise your hand. Uh, and if participating via Zoom, please click on the raise hand icon located in reactions.

There are no hands raised in Zoom. Does council have any questions this time? One thing I always want to clarify is that when we say lost revenue, that is local option sales tax dollars. Just always want to make sure to specify that it's short-handed to lost, but it always sounds a little funny. All right, with that, we're going to declare this public hearing closed. Agenda item H1, consideration of approval of an ordinance to amend chapter 169, zoning or ordinance, city of Walke, Iowa, by reszoning certain property from A1 to R2 and R4, a property to be known as Silverleaf. This is an introduction and a first reading. I introduce the ordinance and move to approve the first reading and title only. Second,

Melissa, I have nothing further to add on this one. Again, they're reszoning most of it to R2 and then a slight portion to R4. Um, staff does recommend approval of the first consideration of the resoning and I'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Are there any questions? Please vote. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson.

Item H2, consideration of approval of a resolution adopting the city of Walke fiscal year 2027 budget. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second. Rachel. Uh, I have nothing further to add. Uh, staff recommends approval of the proposed budget. Thank you. Any questions? All right, please vote. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Lion, yes.

Council member Anderson, still working on that. All right. Item H3, consideration of approval of a resolution approving city of Walke capital improvement program for fiscal years 2027 to 2031. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second. Tracy. Uh, nothing further to add. Staff recommends approval of the CIP book. Council have any questions? All right. Please vote. Council member Grove. Yes. Council member Cone. Yes. Council member Pierce. Yes. Council member Lion.

Yes. Council member Anderson. We'll keep trying. Item H4, consideration of approval of a resolution declaring an official intent under Treasury Regulation 1.150-2 to issue debt to reimburse the city for certain original expenditures paid in connection with specified projects. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second, Rachel.

This reimbursement resolution corresponds with the approval of the CIP. I did not make a slide. Um you you can find it in your packet. If I would have made a slide, you wouldn't have been able to read it anyway. Um every year we update the projects listed on the reimbursement resolution so that we can uh reimburse ourselves for the expenses related to these projects that occur before we issue bonds. Uh staff recommends approval of the resolution. Thank you. Any questions? Please vote. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson,

item H5, consideration of approval of a resolution approving budget amendment for the city of Walke for fiscal year 2026. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second, Casey. Uh, nothing to add. Uh staff recommends approval of the fiscal year 2026 budget amendment. Any questions? Please vote. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson.

Agenda item I1 is the consent agenda. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second. Any discussion? Please vote. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson. Okay. Item I2, uh, consideration of appro I2A, consideration of approval of an ordinance to amend chapter 92 water rates by amending section 92.02 water rates as specified. This is an introduction and first reading.

Introduce the ordinance and move to approve the first reading and title only. Second. Rudy.

Thank you, Madame Mayor. Good evening, council members. Up on the screen is a table covering all of the utility rates that we'll be discussing tonight, but I'll just focus on the first, the water utility, and specifically the base charge as well as the per 10,000galon usage above that base. Um, it's a 1% increase that as you're aware of, we have discussed at previous workshops with PFM, with city staff, and so it's a proposed 1% increase to our water rates for this coming fiscal year of 2027. uh those rates will be effective July 1st, 2026. And you can see that it's a base charge increase of 14 cents and then a 10-cent increase to that water usage in excess of that minimum 1,00 gallon usage. Uh we are keeping the irrigation rate at the $4 above that usage um that minimum um water usage above the minimum 10,00 gallons. Um so that would be $13.71. And uh staff's happy to take any questions you have. The second slide I have um just for a reminder just shows the overall um bill comparison uh for an average household using that 4500 gallons per month. Um you can see on the second to last column on the right $5.72 cent increase per month. Um equates to a 4.25% 25% increase from last year's or this existing utility uh rate setting. Um further on the far right, you can see kind of that three-year average increase. I thought that was a really interesting table um to share with staff comparing to other metro communities. Um you can see we're just under that 3% uh where other communities are um higher or significantly higher. So, um I think that um is accolades to our um conservative planning as well as um um staff's effort just to make sure that we're leveraging um all of our financial

levers as we're planning for these capital improvement projects as well as other operations and maintenance expenses as we funnel all that into our rate setting um recommendations. So, happy to take any re uh questions. Staff does recommend introducing the ordinance and approving the first reading in title only. Thank you. Are there any questions? Okay, please vote. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson.

Item I2B, consideration of approval of an ordinance to amend Chapter 98, sewer service charges by amending section 98.01, sewer service charges charges required as specified. This is also an introduction and a first reading. I introduce the ordinance and move to approve the first reading and title only. Second. Thank you, Rudy.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I'll just real briefly on the table summarize the increase for the sanitary sewer charge. Again, a 1.5% increase to both the base charge and then the usage above the 1,00 gallons water usage. So, that equates to a 24cent increase and an 18 cent increase respectively. Um, and again, flipping back to that um, second slide that I had, uh, total it adds up to that about $5.75 monthly increase for folks. So, happy to take any questions on this one, but staff recommends introducing the ordinance and approving the first reading and title only. Thank you. Are there any questions?

Please vote. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Pierce. Yes. Council member Lion. Council member Lion. Council member Anderson. We've lost Lori now, too. We're doing a bangup job tonight with technology. All right. Uh hopefully we can get her back. Um, item I2C, consideration of approval. Yes, I'm back. There we go. He's back. All right. Thank you, Lori. You sure?

All right. Item I2C, consideration of approval of an ordinance to amend chapter 100, storm water management utility, by amending section 100.05, storm water service rates and charges as specified. This is an introduction and a first reading. I introduce the ordinance. Moved for the first reading and title only. Second.

Thank you, Rudy. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Again, just a little background on this. You can see up on the table an 8.07% increase for this fund. Uh really weren't looking for that exact percentage. Uh we were actually going with the 65 cent. If you recall, we did past workshops with PFM, with RDG to discuss the stormwater utility. We did a deep dive into that utility rate structure, evaluated alternatives to adjusting that rate, and essentially came up with the recommendations. So this is year one of three of a phase in for one uh not only the rates themselves going up to meet our capital improvement projects that we are looking to fund with future bond sales but also with our operation and maintenance cost our staffing etc on in this utility. Um so in addition to that you can see a significant percent month increase at 065 uh dollars and uh but really that's comes through the effort that we put in in months prior to kind of get to this point. So um wrapping that all up in a nice little bow staff recommends introducing the ordinance and approving first reading and title only. And I'm happy to take any questions if you have any.

Thank you. Are there any questions? Okay. I I would just comment that um we go through a utility deep dive every single year in order to make sure we're appropriately planning for the future of that utility and what work needs to be done. And and this year was the storm water utility. Um, and so I always appreciate the work of of your department as well as our consultants that help us through this in terms of making sure that we have enough funds in order to fund the infrastructure that's needed there to maintain appropriate storm water in the city of Walke. Uh even though it doesn't necessarily it's not as visible, it it's really important uh to make sure we're managing that appropriately throughout our entire community. So thank you. Uh with that, please vote. Council member Pierce,

yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson, still working on it. Okay. All right. Item I2D, consideration of approval of an ordinance to amend chapter 106, collection of solid waste by amending section 106.10, collection charges as specified. This is also a introduction and a first reading. introduce the ordinance and move to approve the first reading in title only. Second.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Again, up on the screen, you can see the last solid waste collection, two lines, and you can see those recommended proposal rates um going from 22 $20 to $23.71 and then reducing the multif family charge from $25 to $1. Um so, you recall this is actually year three of a phasein effort on this utility. Three years ago, we did a deep dive as mayor mentioned and then the recommendation that came forth from that was this work in um the unique thing with this increase specifically on the single family was there was also a significant increase to the um metro um Metro West Park, the landfill up by Perry where solid waste is hauled to and disposed of by our Ankeny Sanitation. uh they had a approximately 60% increase on their tipping um fee in their tonnage for municipal waste. So uh the primar the the most of this increase is due to that pass through and it is a pass through from the landfill itself through the hauler to the customer. So um the majority of that I think it was between a two and a half to almost $3 increase direct pass through cost. So hence why that is as large it is. Um and then the decrease for the multif family as we've grown over the last number of years uh if you recall several years ago when we did the deep dive um we were looking at customer classes and making sure that we weren't subsidizing one customer class for the other. So um the recommendation based on our multif family units um their representative cost to the utility uh did show that they were being overcharged. So we were correcting that over a three-year period. This is year three of that adjustment. And so you'll see going forward, we're calling that an administrative charge. It's $1, um, currently and then we'll progress forward likely as an increase as we go forward with our annual review of this utility rate. So long story short, happy to take any questions, but you can see

the recommended uh rate adjustments up there on the table and staff recommends introducing the ordinance and approving the first reading in title only. Thank you. Any questions? No. Please vote. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson.

Council member Anderson, could you try to hit star six on your phone to unmute yourself? See if that helps. I don't think she can hear us either. Yeah, she when she put the message in it, she was having difficulty both ways. So, I'm not sure. As long as she's there, I'll keep it for you.

Okay, I appreciate that. All right. Item I3, consideration of approval of an ordinance to amend chapter 76 walke municipal code bicycle regulations to rename chapter 76 as personal transportation device regulations to update the ordinance and include the regulation of personal transportation devices and upon the effective date repealing chapter 77 wi municipal code skateboards. This is an introduction and a first reading. Introduce the ordinance and move to approve the first reading and title only. Second. Were you aiming for longest title tonight? Was that I was wondering there? Sorry. No worries. Chief, you win. Yep. Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. As you remember, um we've been working on this for quite a while. Uh quite a while being in excess of a year. Um, and this revision actually uh just adds some common sense uh safety measures for any devices um that we see within the city so that everybody can safely enjoy our outdoor spaces together, whether they be pedestrians, bicyclists, scooters, escooters, uh what have you. Uh so um throughout the code, I won't go through all of it, but we did define personal transportation device. And the the purpose of defining that and wrapping kind of everything into that is that we wanted to address not only what we see today, but also what comes tomorrow. And that way we don't have to go back and revisit the code um for one device that comes up that somebody didn't see coming with technology. Uh of course, traffic code applies as it already does per state law. If these are on the street, they must stop at stop signs, red lights, uh things of that nature. Um there's some safety uh related to motor vehicles in a couple of sections that have to do with uh the bicycles having rightaway in the bike in a bike lane. Uh 3 ft lateral passing distance uh opening doors safely um yielding the crosswalks and u then uh prohibiting throwing any object or substance at somebody on a device which again should be common sense safety safety things. Next is a responsible writing section and we cover uh what's called double riding restricted which would also include any number of people on a device that that device is not made to or designed for. So um we don't want people hanging off of another person's back or two or three people lined up on a scooter made for one person. Uh speed uh must be reasonable and prudent for the circumstances and then uh this would implement a speed limit of 20 mph on our trails. Um 20 miles an hour may very well be too fast if the trails are are u pretty packed that day or dependent on weather. And that's why there's also a

prudent reasonable section maintaining control of device operating improper or reckless or irregular um manners prohibited uh right away uh to pedestrians and human power devices and then requiring a stop when emerging from a trail sidewalk or alley again for safety. Uh there is a section on places of riding um which would prohibit any device uh from being on the street if there is a trail or a sidewalk that they could use. Uh if there's not then they could be on the street in the same uh direction as traffic and as close to the curb as possible with the exception of another prohibition for anything any street over 25 miles an hour. So think of Hickman Grand Prairie. uh we really don't want those devices on the street in those locations just because of the sheer amount of volume of traffic and the speeds. Uh city-owned land uh there's a a section in here that would allow the city to post uh city- owned land um as uh prohibited from these devices as well depending on uh need for that. And then uh motorized bicycles um which are defined in state code but essentially especially for parents anything over 750 watts of power um is not a pedestrian conveyance. It's not an electric bicycle and those things therefore are not allowed on our trails sidewalks. Um and if they're on the street then they have to have a driver's license a registration insurance. So 750 watts is an important number for for our community and parents to to understand. And then finally, an equipment section that requires lighting and brakes uh in line with state code. Uh there is a penalty section uh at the end uh would be a simple misdemeanor with a a scheduled $25 fine. Of course, none of our officers um want to write a citation for any violation of this code, whether that be to an adult or to a child. Uh however, we do have to have a penalty phase. Um there's a large education campaign that will come with this. It's

already been in effect. U we've done multiple um postings and and mailings and different things with both the school district and our internal marketing. Uh just this weekend the school district put out a video with Sergeant Fara and Officer Johnson that um is on point and that will just continue and continue to ramp up as more cities start to implement these ordinances. So uh that's the majority of it. uh it is a complete rewrite of that that code section uh to get everything lined up and make it make sense and not bring forward a bunch of red lines that you can't read through. So I'm happy to answer any questions if anybody has any. Thank you. Are there any questions? Just glad we're to this point with it all.

Yeah. Appreciate your work on this not only for us but also for the region and state. Absolutely. All right. Please vote. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Lion, yes.

Council member Anderson, All right. Item I4, consideration of approval of an ordinance to amend Chapter 169, zoning ordinance, city of Walke, Iowa, by reszoning certain property from A1 to C1, a parcel to be known as Orange Commercial Development. This is a third and final reading tabled during the April 6, 2026 regular city council meeting. Can I get a motion? Move to approve the third reading of the ordinance and title only and place it on final passage. Second. Andy.

Good evening, Mayor Clark and council members. Uh before you tonight is the third and final reading for the Orange Commercial Development Reszoning. Uh uh this property is uh approximately 33 1/2 acres in area located at the northeast corner of Northeast Alysses Road and East Hickman Road. Uh as Mayor Clark indicated, this was tabled at the April 6th meeting to the April to tonight's meeting. Um the applicant wishes to move forward with the third and final consideration of the resoning uh to reszone it from A1 agricultural district to C1 Community and Highway Service Commercial District for a future commercial development. Uh staff is recommending approval of the third and final consideration of the ordinance based on its consistency with our uh 2040 2040 comprehensive plan. I'm happy to take any questions. Thanks.

Thank you. Are there any questions? No, not at this time. Okay, please vote. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson.

Item I5, consideration of approval of a resolution awarding contract for the 2026 downtown street improvements project deferred during the April 20 April 6, 2026 regular city council meeting. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second. Rudy.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Up on the screen again is the bid tabulation summary. Uh we had four general contractors submit bids back on April 1st, 2026. You can see Brothers Cleaning Corp. doing business as Brothers Concrete was the apparent low bidder just just under 12% under our engineers estimate. So 1.4 million engineers estimate just over 1.65 million. Um we if you recall at the last April 6th meeting, staff indicated we had requested additional information, reference checks with Brothers um Concrete as we've not worked with them directly. They have been a subcontractor in a local school district project. Um but we have not had a direct contract with them. So we wanted to understand more of their uh ability and reputation. Um did reach out to a number of communities um 50/50 I would say on um not so much their quality of work seems to be it was a consistent message that they did quality work. was maybe on communication def um deficiency or um just lack of um coordination on some of the project components. So um based on that information and our discussions with um counterparts at other communities um the additional formwork that we asked them to provide they seem to be a responsible responsive bidder. Um so recommendation moving forward um we talking among staff and kind of our plan of attack is just being upfront with them in our pre-construction meeting. Um leveraging the contract incentives and disincentives that are in there. Um there is a early day opening bonus. There's also liquidated damages with the contract. Um and just kind of laying all that out up front and then working with them diligently with weekly progress meeting meetings and whatnot to make sure that we have a um completed project on time and on budget. So, um, with that, happy to take any questions if you have any, but staff is recommending awarding the project to Brothers Cleaning Corp. doing business as Brothers Concrete out of De Mo, Iowa, um, for the dollar amount of $1,466,984.39.

Thank you. Uh, does council have any questions at this time? No, I think it makes me feel better that there was another bidder that was under the engineers estimate, but I mean there's there's it the percentages look high but there isn't that big of a difference between these either you know it's so it's not like they came in 30% under and didn't have any work done by our counterparts so yeah I mean we definitely would have taken that 30% under well sure but I agree that the spread is very representative of um competitive bids for this project so

and thank you for doing the additional due diligence on on them all right please vote Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson. All right. Uh, Autumn I6 for Autumn Valley. Item I6 for Autumn Valley West Plat 2. I6A, consideration of approval of a resolution approving developers agreement with JJR Holdings LLC. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second, Andy.

All right. Hello again. Uh so before you tonight's consideration of uh to enter into a developers agreement with JJR Holdings LLC, uh they are the owner and developer of the Autumn Valley West neighborhood. It's the area outlined in blue on the screen. Uh generally located um north of University Avenue and west of uh west of 10th Street. Uh two years ago, the developer completed the first phase of this uh residential neighborhood. It's primarily single family. Does include some future town home area as well. Uh platted approximately 60 single family lots within the first phase. The first phase is primarily on the far east side of the development. There are currently two uh access points to connect to public streets. one on 11th Street, uh, which would be kind of right up here at the northeast corner of the development, and then one at North View Drive. So, basically right at that intersection, you can either go north or you can go east. Um, the developer has expressed an interest in com in completing a second phase of the development, which we'll get to with the next agenda item. Uh, however, uh, for a total of 30 uh, single family lots. Uh however um allowing the developer to complete additional lots without additional public street access either to the north or to the south uh would be prohibited by the fire code without some sort of means of emergency access into the development. Um, the developer does not own the property to the north, nor do they own the property to the south, uh, for a connection to Northwest 17th Street, uh, either to the north or excuse me, 17th Street to either the north or the south. Um, so, uh, we worked with the developer, um, city staff, including the fire department on, uh, proposing a or coming up with a potential solution. And um the solution settled on was to allow for a uh temporary emergency access that would be

off of 11th Street that would cross city- owned property and connect into an existing trail that outlets to Bair Drive. This is an emergency access that would only be utilized in the event that the intersections of North View and 11th Street uh were to be blocked so that the fire department or the police department could respond to a call within that neighborhood. um after future public street extensions would be provided to either the north or the south um the emergency access would no longer be needed and could be utilized as a base for um our future green belt trail that uh we want to build throughout this area. Um the city has acquired a lot of this area uh as part of Autumn Valley as well as Autumn Valley West and as well as Prairie Village to the south for future green belt trail network. So, uh, this existing trail could be utilized just to connect into those neighborhoods. Um, but in the meantime, it would be utilized as an emergency service access. So, uh, staff worked with the, uh, with the city attorney, uh, to draft the agreement. The, uh, developer, JJR Holdings LLC, has signed the agreement and is comfortable with it. There's no cost to the city for the construction of these improvements. Um the developer would bore all would would bore all those costs and those improvements are included in the uh construction plans for Autumn Valley West Plat 2. Uh staff recommends approval of the developers agreement with JJR Holdings. I'm happy to take any questions.

Thank you. Are there any questions? Okay, please vote. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Lion. Yes. Council member Anderson. All right. Item I 6B, consideration of approval of a resolution approving construction drawings. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second, Andy.

All right. Uh, so again, the owner and applicant in this request is JJR Holdings LLC. Um, they are requesting approval of construction plans to develop a second phase of the Autumn Valley West neighborhood. Uh the plat would include 30 additional single family lots. Uh the plans include the extension of uh a further extension of North View Drive uh which bisects the development. It's outlined in blue on the screen. Um as well as extension of public sanitary sewer, storm sewers, water manes, and all the other uh infrastructure associated with a residential subdivision. Uh staff has reviewed the plans and is recommending approval of the uh plans subject to remaining staff comments and I'm happy to take any questions.

Thank you. Are there any questions? Please vote. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson. Item I7 for the Villas at Kettlestone. I 7A, consideration of approval of a resolution approving final plat. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second,

Melissa. I'll go ahead and present on 7 A and B at the same time. Um, the owner and applicant is HCB Enterprises LLC. The property is located north of southeast Escar Ridge Drive and west of Southeast Park View Crossing Drive. Contains 7.9 acres. The property is zoned R4 Road dwelling in town home dwelling district with the plan development overlay. Uh if you guys remember, the property was recently reszoned uh to allow for individual lots rather than just the one large lot that was required by the previous plan development. Several of the units are already under construction and almost completed under the previously approved site plan. The proposed site plan is mostly the same as what was previously appro uh approved, but instead of the previously approved clubhouse, another villa unit is proposed. Um, let me go to the next slide here. You can see they kind of show in color um where the clubhouse. So, unit 30, it's really small. Sorry. Like kind of in the center of the project is where there was supposed to be a clubhouse and they're just uh proposing to change that to another unit instead. and um a pool is still proposed um just to the west of that unit and then as well as a restroom building for the pool area. The final plat includes 30 lots. Each of the villa units is on its own lot to be indiv individually owned. Uh the common areas will be on an outlot to be owned and maintained by the homeowners association. One access is provided into the site off of Southeast Esser Ridge Drive. That's an existing access that will remain. The private street within the development is currently named Southeast Vintage Lane. The applicant is proposing to change the name to Southeast Stonegate Court. Parking and landscaping requirements are being met. Public sidewalks exist adjacent to the site along both the north and south along the public streets and then a pedestrian connection will be provided into the site along the driveway at the south. Uh they will also be providing um sidewalks interior to the site. Utilities have already been extended into the site. Um all utilities within

the site are privately owned and maintained. Storm water detention is provided in a regional detention basin which is located to the east. Um that's owned and maintained by the city of Walke. And then the building elevations um they're proposing to match what was previously approved um with the last site plan of that. So um the materials are mostly um hardboard sighting, asphalt shingles, stucco, and brick or stone. Um that last building elevation is just the uh elevations of the proposed um restroom for the pool area. Staff recommends approval of the final platin site plan and I would be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Are there any questions?

Could you remind me and I apologize. Is this still a senior living community? Um I think their intent is to market towards that but I don't think they're actually calling it out as a 55 plus. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Please vote. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson, item I uh 7B, consideration of approval of a resolution approving site plan. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second. Melissa,

I have nothing further to add, but I'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Any questions? Please vote. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Lion, yes. Council member Anderson. Item I8, consideration of approval of a resolution approving developers agreement with Parkside Walke LLC for Northwest 6 Street Public Improvements. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. Second, Andy.

Hello again. Uh, so uh the uh staff has been working with the developer of the Parkside development, which is generally located north of Northwest Douglas Parkway and west of Northwest Tent Street. It's kind of this yellow area um up here on the screen. Um so the developer has completed the first phase of Parkside directly east east of Northwest 10th Street. They are currently constructing the second phase which would be the remainder of the plat identified in yellow. Uh included in that uh would be an extension of Northwest 6th Street. Um the city recently completed a culvert um to allow for that crossing. uh they are going to do the paving of that northwest six northwest 6th Street project. Um in our CIP presentation that uh Tracy uh did mention that uh there's a future trail green belt or green belt trail network that we plan to construct within this area. Uh one of those crossings would cross uh this extension of Northwest 6th Street. And um uh due to the timing and to save some money uh when we do our project, uh we would like we've worked with the developer to include a uh pedestrian crossing across Northwest 6th Street. This arrow is kind of pointing to the general vicinity where that crossing would be. Uh this would be a raised crosswalk to slow uh traffic down. Also would kind of neck down uh where that crossing is to really kind of get people's attention and things like that. Um so we worked with the developer to include um this raised crosswalk as part of their plans and um uh they have provided a cost estimate of $51,24049 as the additional charges that it would cost to install this crossing. Um so staff has worked with the uh with the developer Parkside Walke LLC. Um our city engineer Rudy Caster has reviewed the cost estimate for those additional charges and has agreed that those are reasonable. Um and then also worked with the city attorney to draft the

agreement. Uh Parkside Walke LLC has signed the agreement um and is comfortable with it. Uh staff is recommending approval of the developers agreement with Parkside Walke LLC. I'm happy to take any questions. Thank you. Are there any questions? I appreciate the foresight and planning this ahead of time so we're not coming back here and trying to re-engineer the street later. Turn up the street. Yes. Yeah. spending more money than $51,000. So, very much so. All right, please vote. Council member Pierce, yes. Council member Cone, yes. Council member Grove, yes. Council member Lion, yes.

Council member Anderson, right? Agenda item J, reports. Brad,

thank you, Mayor. Uh lots of activity going on in the city and uh our communications department is uh uh been very busy over the last week or so and uh preparing for some other uh uh information as well. Couple things I did want to point out uh for you as well as the public is that uh last week um if you'll recall our parks department is doing a master plan update. Our current plan is roughly 15 years old and um with the exception of an aquatic center has been completed. Uh so we are in the process of updating that for the next 10 to 15 years. There is a uh interactive feedback portion that is now live on our website. Uh it allows for residents to go in and and uh select uh basically pinpoint things they like, dislike, and uh areas for improvement. And that is available on our website through the end of May. So May 31st. So I would encourage all of you to get out there and tell us what you like and what you want to see in the future for our park system. Uh, additionally, uh, there is a survey currently out there. There's, uh, our former city hall building that's in the downtown triangle, uh, is being replaced because the existing building has, um, years of deferred maintenance that does not make it, um, viable for us to improve long term. Uh, with that being said, there is a community survey for, uh, naming for that facility longterm uh, once it is completed. So again, would encourage residents to get out there and and provide their feedback. Uh two other items. First of all, they're all they're all related to cleanup. Um but this Friday, uh city staff, uh annually hosts a cleanup day that's in coordination with Earth Day. And um so we will be hosting that again. I believe we have roughly 50 of our employees signed up for this Friday morning. I know of this as of this morning, we had around 10 uh residents actually signed up as well. Um, anyone

is any any and all are welcome. Uh, we will provide bags as well as gloves. Um, we will meet at Centennial Park around 8:30 a.m. uh for some short instructions at the enclosed shelter and then we will send uh groups out uh across the community to pick up trash that's uh kind of blown all over from the winter months here in Walke. So, always a good event. um and excited to I'm always kind of amazed at how much trash we actually pick up at that event in just a couple short hours. And then finally, continuing on the trash theme is our annual citywide cleanup uh which is a part of your uh your regular trash day. Uh next week, this is for large items um that you can set out with your regular trash and um ASI will come out and pick those up as a part of your trash removal for the week. So, uh, expect to see a lot of streets, uh, full of a lot of junk sitting by their driveways, uh, over the next week. That is followed by next Saturday. Um, May 2nd is our annual household hazardous waste pickup day, and that's at our public works building. So, a hazardous waste items, don't put those out with your trash, but save those and bring them to the public works building on Saturday, May 2nd.

Thank you, Steve. No report, Anna. Uh, no report. We have strategic planning next week though. Looking forward to that. That'll be fun. Rob, no report. Chris, no report. Lori, um, I only wanted to thank Chad for the wonderful video that was done um, in combination with the school district. I was able to watch that the other day and it's really, really good and quite funny too. if you haven't seen it.

I would uh just like to uh comment that a lot of what was on the agenda tonight is uh culmination of months and months if not years of work. Um the budget process started in November and uh and involved a lot of meetings, a lot of discussion, a lot of work between our departments and council etc. Uh obviously the uh the new um personal device uh transportation device ordinance has been a long time coming and a work in process for a while and a lot of work. And so just uh please accept our thanks uh from council to staff and uh and everyone who does such an incredible job uh with their input and to that process. Thank you. Uh with that I will take a motion to adjurnn. Move.

Second. All those in favor? I I. All right. Have a good week, everyone. Good night, Lori.