March 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM - Beatrice Regular City Council Meeting

1. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

2. ROLL CALL

3. PROCLAMATION - Proclaiming March 2025 as “Problem Gambling Awareness Month”

4. CONSENT AGENDA

4.a. Approve agenda as submitted.

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

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

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

4.e. Approval of Treasurer's Report of Claims in the amount of $986,783.14.

4.f. Approval of BASWA Report of Claims in the amount of $222,048.82.

4.g. Approval of Pay Request #2 in the amount of $36,000.00, to Genesis Contracting Group for the BASWA South MSW Landfill Site Entrance Facility project.

4.h. Approval of Pay Request #2 in the amount of $137,102.65, to Pruss Excavation for the BASWA South MSW Landfill Phase 1S project.

4.i. Resolution Number 7512 executing Letter Agreement Amendment #1 and any and all other documents necessary between the City and Olsson, Inc., to add additional services for the WPC Grit Improvement project, as recommended by the Board of Public Works.

4.j. Resolution Number 7513 executing the Agreement for Professional Services retaining JEO to provide construction engineering and inspection services for the Beatrice Lincoln Street Improvements Project, as recommended by the Board of Public Works.

4.k. Resolution Number 7514 re-appointing Gregory Leech to the Board of Public Works.

4.l. Resolution Number 7515 entering into a Hay Lease with John M. Zarybnicky.

4.m. Resolution Number 7516 prohibiting parking along the east side of Miller Avenue.

4.n. Resolution Number 7517 entering into a Quonset Lease with Farabee Mechanical, Inc., for the purpose of leasing Quonset No. 1, located at the Beatrice Municipal Airport.

5. DISCUSSIONS/REPORTS

5.a. Strategic Planning Retreat Review.

6. PUBLIC HEARINGS/BIDS - None

7. RESOLUTIONS

7.a. Resolution Number 7518 adopting the 2025 Strategic Plan for the City of Beatrice.

7.b. Resolution Number 7519 executing the Amendments to Loan Agreements, Promissory Notes, Personal Guaranties, and Deeds of Trust between the City and some recipients for an additional direct loan in the following amounts from the City’s CDBG Downtown Revitalization Grant 21-DTR-004.

7.c. Resolution Number 7520 executing the General Release for the Gage Area Growth Enterprise (NGage)/Rare Earth Salts Separations and Refining, LLC, LB840 loan, forgiving Phase 1 of the LB840 Loan and terminating the remainder of the LB840 Agreement.

7.d. Resolution Number 7521 authorizing the submission of a Rural Business Development Opportunity Grant Application to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and committing matching funds for the Downtown Beatrice Strategic Planning Initiative.

7.e. Resolution Number 7522 declaring the Mayor and City Council’s support for converting 6th Street, a/k/a Highway 77, from four (4) lanes to three (3) lanes from Dorsey Street to Mulberry Avenue to improve safety for vehicular traffic and pedestrians.

7.f. Resolution Number 7523 establishing various fees.

8. ORDINANCES

8.a. Ordinance amending Section 2-58 of the Beatrice City Code regarding the time at which regular City Council meetings are to be held.

8.b. Ordinance vacating the following described real property: Lot One (1), Lincoln School Addition to the City of Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska.

8.c. Ordinance approving the plat of Heritage Heights Addition to the City of Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska.

8.d. Ordinance vacating the following described real property: Lot One (1), Paddock Lane Elementary School Addition to the City of Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska.

8.e. Ordinance approving the plat of Corral Crossings Addition to the City of Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska.

8.f. Ordinance authorizing the issuance by the City of Beatrice, Nebraska of its Combined Utilities Revenue Bonds, Series 2025, in aggregate principal amount not to exceed $700,000, as recommended by the Airport Advisory Board.

9. PUBLIC FORUM

10. DISCUSSIONS/REPORTS

10.a. City Administrator's Monthly Report.

11. EXECUTIVE SESSION - Real Estate

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.a. The next regular City Council meeting is April 7, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. in the BPS Administration Building Board Room.