November 17, 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 November 3, 2025, as on file in the City Clerk's Office.

3.e. Approval of Treasurer's Report of Claims in the amount of $2,937,748.04.

3.f. Approval of BASWA Report of Claims in the amount of $1,978,103.61.

3.g. Approval of BPW Report of Claims in the amount of $648,611.11.

3.h. Approval of Pay Request #10 in the amount of $514,944.67, to Genesis Contracting Group for the BASWA South MSW Landfill Site Entrance Facility project.

3.i. Approval of Pay Request #9 for $641,131.20, to Pruss Excavation for the BASWA South MSW Landfill Phase 1S project.

3.j. Approval of Pay Request #10 in the amount of $740,801.82, to Pruss Excavation for the BASWA South MSW Landfill Phase 1S project.

3.k. Approval of Change Order #3 regarding the time extension for the Substantial and Final Completion Dates and Pay Request #4 in the amount of $277,195.84 to Van Kirk Brothers Contracting for the 2025 Corral Crossing Addition project.

3.l. Approval of Pay Request #3 in the amount of $154,591.68 to Van Kirk Brothers Contracting for the 2025 Heritage Heights Addition project.

3.m. Award of bid for the Ella Street, 2nd to 3rd Street Concrete Reconstruction Project - 2025 in the amount of $426,609.15, to R.L. Tiemann Construction, as recommended by the Board of Public Works.

3.n. Award of bid for the Heritage Heights Park Playground Improvements - 2025 to Play-Pro Recreation, LLC, in the amount of $250,000.00.

3.o. Approval of special designated license for Stone Hollow for an open house event on December 4, 2025, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at 719 Market Street, Beatrice, Nebraska

3.p. Resolution Number 7662 appointing Jessica Javorsky to the Beatrice Plus Advisory Committee.

3.q. Resolution Number 7663 appointing David Painter as the Alternate position to the Beatrice Planning and Zoning Commission.

3.r. Resolution Number 7664 reappointing Charles Hubka to the Beatrice Airport Advisory Board.

3.s. Resolution Number 7665 granting permission to the Beatrice Area Chamber of Commerce and Gage County Tourism, and their designees, to sell or offer for sale or peddle goods, wares, or merchandise upon the City Property located in Charles Park, the Carnegie Building, the public parking lot just south of the Carnegie Building, and on 5th Street between High Street and the east-west alley between Ella Street and High Street as part of their Holiday Lighted Parade event on December 6, 2025.

3.t. Resolution Number 7666 entering into a Public Consulting Group Emergency Services Agreement between the City and Public Consulting Group, LLC, to assist the City in  analyzing and reporting costs to secure higher Medicaid reimbursement for the City’s ambulance services.

3.u. Resolution Number 7667 executing any and all documents necessary to accept the Urban & Community Forestry Grant program for the purpose of funding the Beatrice Tree Planting Initiative.

3.v. Resolution Number 7668 submitting a letter to the Nebraska Department of Economic Development requesting a budget amendment to CDBG Agreement No. 24-PWI-002.

4. PUBLIC HEARINGS/BIDS

4.a. Public Hearing for the purpose of considering the proposed One- and Six-Year Road and Street Plan for 2026.

5. RESOLUTIONS

5.a. Resolution Number 7669 adopting the One- and Six-Year Road and Street Plan for 2026, as recommended by the Board of Public Works.

5.b. Resolution Number 7670 executing the Loan Agreement, Promissory Note, Personal Guaranty, and Deed of Trust between the City of Beatrice and Jeffrey B. Hubka and Shelli K. Hubka, for a direct loan in the amount of Sixty-Nine Thousand Nine Hundred Nine Dollars ($69,909.00) from the City’s CDBG Downtown Revitalization Grant 23-DTR-002.

5.c. Resolution Number 7671 executing the First Amendment to the Contract for Sale of Real Estate with Hoppe & Son, LLC, in order to extend the closing date from December 31, 2025 to August 7, 2026.

5.d. Resolution Number 7672 executing the acknowledgment from the P3 Foundation memorializing the agreement between the City and AF-18R-Lincoln, LLC, regarding the setting aside four (4) scholarships for qualifying students from Beatrice.

6. ORDINANCES - None

7. PUBLIC FORUM

8. DISCUSSIONS/REPORTS

8.a. City Administrator's Monthly Report.

9. MISCELLANEOUS

9.a. The next regular City Council meeting is December 1, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. in the BPS Administration Building Board Room.