July 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM - Beatrice Regular City Council Meeting

1. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

2. ROLL CALL

3. CONSENT AGENDA

3.a. Approve agenda as submitted.

3.b. Receive and place on file all notices pertaining to this meeting.

3.c. Receive and place on file all materials having any bearing on this meeting.

3.d. Approval of minutes of regular meeting on June 16, 2025, as on file in the City Clerk's Office.

3.e. Approval of Treasurer's Report of Claims in the amount of $554,024.06.

3.f. Approval of BASWA Report of Claims in the amount of $82,128.50.

3.g. Approval of BPW Report of Claims in the amount of $1,510,993.21.

3.h. Refer claim of Timothy Fugett regarding damages to his personal property to City Attorney and City Insurance carrier for review and disposition.

3.i. Approval of Change Order #1 increase in the amount of $100,000.00 to Fossler Excavating for the Lincoln and Paddock Elementary School demolitions.

3.j. Award of bid for the 4th and 5th Street Downtown Improvement Project - 2025 to R.L. Tiemann Construction in the amount of $98,921.68.

3.k. Resolution Number 7575 executing Amendment #1 to Master Agreement Work Order No. 2 between the City and Olsson, Inc., to retain Olsson, Inc., to add construction administrative services for the construction phase of the City’s Water Main Crossing Replacement Project for the West Court Street Bridge, as recommended by the Board of Public Works.

3.l. Resolution Number 7576 executing the Master Services Agreement between the City and Caselle for accounting services and the addition of Check on Demand software, Maintenance Orders software, and cloud services for all current Caselle applications used by the City, as recommended by the Board of Public Works.

3.m. Resolution Number 7577 executing the Cost of Service and Rate Design Study Proposal, and any and all documents necessary to retain JK Energy Consulting, LLC, for professional services to conduct a cost of service and rate design study of the City’s electric rate structure, as recommended by the Board of Public Works.

3.n. Resolution Number 7578 executing a Hangar Lease with Lloyd Wright for the purpose of leasing Hangar C-8 located at the Beatrice Municipal Airport.

3.o. Resolution Number 7579 executing Hangar Lease with Allen Minick for the purpose of leasing Hangar E-4 located at the Beatrice Municipal Airport.

3.p. Resolution Number 7580 executing the OAP Amendment Number 4 and HDHP Amendment Number 4 to the City of Beatrice/Board of Public Works Employee Health Plan.

3.q. Resolution Number 7581 executing any and all documents accepting the Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice’s Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program for the purpose of purchasing license plate readers for Beatrice Police vehicles, Grant #109-2026-DA3000.

3.r. Resolution Number 7582 executing a General Release and any and all other documents necessary to release and discharge Northgate Investment Co., LLC, from any and all actions, claims and demands whatsoever the City ever had or may have regarding the Subdivision Improvement Agreement, as amended, and to terminate said Agreement between the City and Northgate Investment Co., LLC, as amended.

3.s. Resolution Number 7583 executing the General Release, Request for Reconveyance, and the Deed of Reconveyance, along with all other necessary documents to release and discharge Landmark Snacks, LLC, and Chad A. Lottman and Courtney A. Lottman, regarding their LB840 Loan Agreement.

3.t. Resolution Number 7584 forgiving $10,000.00 of the original principal amount of the LB840 Economic Development Loan to Nixon Restaurant and Property, Inc., and Sam Nixon.

3.u. Resolution Number 7585 executing any and all documents necessary to terminate Contract No. 23-11-354 for the EDA Tourism Grant Program, including but not limited to, the Acknowledgement of Receipt and Mutual Agreement to Termination of Contract.

4. DISCUSSIONS/REPORTS

4.a. Presentation regarding the City serving as the conduit for issuance of tax-free bonds for a 501(c)(3) – Steve Likes

5. PUBLIC HEARINGS/BIDS

5.a. Public Hearing for the purpose of considering declaring an area to be substandard and blighted and to consider adopting a redevelopment plan for Redevelopment Area #13.

6. RESOLUTIONS

6.a. Resolution Number 7586 declaring Redevelopment Area #13 to be a substandard and blighted area in need of redevelopment as defined in Neb. Rev. Stat. §18-2103.

6.b. Resolution Number 7587 adopting the Redevelopment Plan for Redevelopment Area #13.

6.c. Resolution Number 7588 executing any and all documents necessary between the City and Lottman Excavating to accept the bid for the Chautauqua Park Pickleball Terrace Seating Project – 2025 and Change Order #1 extending the completion time frame from thirty (30) days to forty-five (45) days.

7. ORDINANCES

7.a. Ordinance adding Section 7-9, regarding applicability of codes based on commencement date; adding Section 7-14 regarding access boxes; and amending Sections 7-7, 7-10, 7-11, 7-20, 7-21, 7-30, 7-31, 7-60, 7-61, 7-70, 7-71, 7-90, 7-91, 7-201, 7-202; and amending 7-316 and 7-317 to adopt the International Building Code, the International Mechanical Code, the International Plumbing Code, the International Residential Code, the International Energy Conservation Code, the International Property Maintenance Code, the International Fuel Gas Code, and the International Existing Building Code, 2021 Edition, published by the International Code Council with amendments.

7.b. Ordinance amending Section 9-86 of the Beatrice City Code regarding the location and capacity of aboveground storage tanks and to repeal Sections 9-87 through 9-105, inclusive, of the Beatrice City Code.

8. PUBLIC FORUM

9. MISCELLANEOUS

9.a. The next regular City Council meeting is July 21, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. in the BPS Administration Building Board Room.