March 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM - Beatrice Regular City Council Meeting

Discussion:  Ted - great program, explain to public
 TT - Iowa Western has program of EMS, then go to cities to provide hand on training, pipeline between us & Iowa to come here for their trailing, show them how great Beatrice is.  Not unique have others, some in NE City that would like to come here for training.
Ted - sell the CIty.
Mayor - daughter graduated from Iowa, Coop & internship one of greatest test drive employee before 

Discussion:  TT - last meeting rezoned to GI at property owner request.  propose to annex.  resolution sets hearing, 2 weeks discuss & move forward if so desire.

Discussion:  DTR grant, deadline May this year, approval process, select, burn 2023-24 constrution season.  continue to have issues getting on bid schedule.  8 awarded  $400,000 in funds.  2 projects have een completed, but 6 more need to be finalized

Discussion:  came from big beautiful bill - no tax on overtime, if meet federal law. we allow federal OT, next year have to provide # OT earned.  calculate under federal law.  2 calculations for OT.  have to have 2 separate comp time, one that qualifies and the other that does not qualify.  

Discussion:  LWCF notice that we will be awarded.  grant agreement likely in May.  this agreement hires SENDD to administrate the grant.  they administrate our current LWCF grant.
Ted - currently need is ran out of room, 6 outdoor courts, association has 120 members, 20-30 regular who are not members.  early to late at night 10-11pm.  application to build exact replica 50/50 matching grant, tourism for remaining.  added seating last year, pickleball public/private agreement, as well as shading paid by Association $47,000 - will be paying 100%; all said & done, PBA paid for 1/2 of improvements.  site a & site b.  join bruhn, runs leagues, mixed, mens, women, youth added last summer.
 

Discussion:  recodification & reoganization of city code  TR & ES, CivicPlus, clean up, no substantial changes, removed anything that state statute addresses, changed some wording, gender neutral, typically supposed to do every 10-20 years, last done in 1987.  556 total pages.
Terry - thank you 4 times.

Discussion:  cut off July 7, 2025.  after is not included in code book.  new things that have been passed, largely so section numbers match up.  camping, stormwater, peddler permits.  2-56 added or acting mayor,  rid of journal referance.  added right-of-way. 9-67 used to chief of the fire department, now fire chief.  13 - peddler permits, readdopting to match numbers; 19 - camping if park on stall too long, booted passed a couple months ago; 9-13 - removed extra language.  20-52 - already said wastewater - added water & electric.  DWEE - 27 - all stormwater, deleted 2 sections 2-134 - publish annual public report 13 - peddler if they don't leave, falls under criminal trespassing.

 

Discussion:  christ community church, figured out property owners along elk street have encroached upon church property. cleaning up property line, platting their property & replatting property 10-15 ft to property owners, vacate current lines
Hydo - church very kind, wondered how this happened.
Doyle - lesser of 2 evils
Mayor- giving up property & cleaning up line, thank you for helping clean up proeprty.
 

Discussion:  replatting  P&Z recommended approval  when church put in plat, had them plat in the other part of the right of way, road won't go in at this time, but if land developes along lincon street, have access.

Discussion:  Larry Wolken, 1921 irving street, load of limbs cleaning up properties, want $50 for each load since it's residential?  Not for hire, just take them himself cleaning up proeprties.

Discussion:  cleaning out, want to add to tools data analetics, enhance economic development, as well as tourism.  when at ashland, cell phones always in pockets, 
app - real estate, events, attendance, helpful in grant reporting, 
retail - spit out runs through algorighym, not 18 & younger.  
visit counts are physical visits, able to see how many visits & repeat visits as well

plug & play with data - traffic, businesses, 
will take general populations of district  - demo used for Indian creek mall, what type of individual shopping there. restaurants - Texas roadhouse, great data to have to help get foot in door, marketing grants.
If city would Like to $19,000 for NGage, difference under Gage development coalition wants to coop, under same program, offered to County they want to just call Caleb - is chance if want to hop in, could always access

App for entire county.  designed to be tourism piece, but also use
Gage Connect - instead of advertising every event, goal is to have everyone push the app to find out what is going on.  public 
featuer that will generate an itinerary,  Caleb goal to get outsiders to stay in county longer.  broken down by communities, this is where more detailed piece, zip codes, population, view profile blurb upcoming activities, calendars can be filtered out.  predominately tourism app, public will get people to know what is going on.

Terry - will business be able to go on themselve?  Caleb - will have to go through Coalition.  Idea is to have all together & then filtered out by what people want.
Ted - target?  Caleb - touside county lines, but needs to be functional for insdie
Mike - Warnings as well?  Caleb - yes  likely to have each town have access to make those updates, such as pot holes, accidents
Eskra - generated by weather service?  Yes - generated from them & will fall off, but want to also have.
caleb - keep simple & easy for back end user as well
tour of paddock bldg tomorrow.  
Ted - is app just on phone?  or laptop also?  Caleb - great question, predominately app on phone, as far as desktop widget, could look into it, other thought was to embed into website, wanting to make free app
Hydo - information could be helpful for what we are missing in the downtown?  Caleb - could very well help.geomap?  individual businesses goes back to 2019, can do districts & designate spit out information should have.  flower ship - where coming from & where they went after.could  usually casey's is post or prior.  extra - monthly special report retail leakage, patrons willing to drive 30 minutes to steakhouse...most 

texas roadhouse & olive garden.  hydro - 
Hydo - remember some only understood every 5th year, app not knowlegable on 
Mao - strong highlights, could help evaluate chocolate lovers, Caleb - being used for public good, not sending ad
Trevor LEe - $50,000 just switched over to Playsure?

Mayo r- also have number of people who typically visit, solid business plan
Hyod - think could give business to get info that you aren't getitng.

caleb = can be paired, business retention & expansion, can be a good tool, collect vital information as ell.  if any questions council has or wants, could look at sidewalks for example.public infrastructure, barriers from becoming a business or opening.
Ted - once determine it will work here, do you contact them?  or wait?  caleb - can send email directly with report as well.  
Ted - simple terms going after?  Yes!
Terry - app is great, time frame?  prior to Christmas depending on app development.   depending on what goal & build out time will be.
Terry - 3 organizations to 1 organization, answer to what board has given guidance.
Candidly - TBD - takes action end of March.  REvamped  BSE - send survey out & then set follow up.  Economic development will be important, smaller new emails, website, those will be tasked first, first thing would be to create strategic plan for next 3 years to achieve.
Mike - has 3 committees, finance & events, 
Mayor - exciting answer after strategic plan is done &