May 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM - Beatrice Regular City Council Meeting

1. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

2. ROLL CALL

3. PROCLAMATION - National Preservation Month, May 2025

4. PROCLAMATION – National Public Works Week, May 18-24, 2025

5. CONSENT AGENDA

5.a. Approve agenda as submitted.

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

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

5.d. Approval of minutes of regular meeting on May 5, 2025, as on file in the City Clerk's Office.

5.e. Approval of Treasurer's Report of Claims in the amount of $733,598.42.

5.f. Approval of BASWA Report of Claims in the amount of $458,822.16.

5.g. Approval of Pay Request #4 in the amount of $395,862.93, to Pruss Excavation for the BASWA South MSW Landfill Phase 1S project.

5.h. Award of bid for the WPC Grit Improvements project to Building Crafts, Inc., in the amount of $4,559,000.00, as recommended by the Board of Public Works.

5.i. Refer claim of Cheryl Wheeler regarding damages to her personal property to City Attorney and City Insurance carrier for review and disposition.

5.j. Resolution Number 7556 entering into a Master Agreement Work Order with Olsson, Inc., for engineering services related to updating the City’s existing hydraulic model and on-call model run services, as recommended by the Board of Public Works.

5.k. Resolution Number 7557 appointing Michael Fakler, Todd Hydo, Troy Koch, Eric Martin, Kevin Wrightsman, and Anthony Schoen, as an alternate member, to the Board of Appeals.

6. PUBLIC HEARINGS/BIDS - None

7. RESOLUTIONS

7.a. Resolution Number 7558 executing a Loan Agreement, Promissory Note, Deed of Trust, and any and all documents necessary to issue said loan between the City and The Paddock, LLC, for an economic development loan totaling One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000.00) from funds derived from LB 840 funds, as recommended by the Citizens Advisory Review Committee (CARC).

7.b. Resolution Number 7559 executing the Right of First Refusal and any and all other documents necessary, between the City and Hoppe & Son, LLC, granting Hope & Son, LLC, a Right of First Refusal to purchase the following described property:  All of Lots Twenty-Three (23) and Twenty-Four (24), South Beatrice, an Addition to the City of Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska.

7.c. Resolution Number 7560 executing an Agreement for Professional Services between the City and Waters Edge Aquatic Design to develop an Aquatic Park Master Plan.

7.d. Resolution Number 7561 executing Amendment No. 3 to the Agreement dated October 13, 2021, between the City and Alfred Benesch & Company adding supplemental construction phase services to assist with the additional observation to take place during the 2025 construction season for the Reconstruct Taxiway ‘C’ & Apron project.

8. ORDINANCES - None

9. PUBLIC FORUM

10. DISCUSSIONS/REPORTS

10.a. Clean City 2025 Review.

10.b. City Administrator’s Monthly Report.

11. EXECUTIVE SESSION - Litigation

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.a. The next regular City Council meeting is June 2, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. in the BPS Administration Building Board Room.