El Acapulco owner Angie Adame explained that the bar is located at 1245 Main Ave, Crete, NE 68333. She plans to have the bar open from Wednesday-Sunday from 5: p.m. to 1:00 a.m. and will be selling beverages, alcohol, and non-alcoholic and they are also going to have pool leagues a couple nights a week. Adame explained that she is waiting to open until she has the bar as an Limited Liability Company. 

City Administrator Ourada stated that these are like a shed house and the Planning Commission did table this one month and then made a recommendation to the City Council for consideration. Shouse homes shall be permitted by Agriculture Zoning and by special exception use in R-1 and R-2 if lot area is three or more acres. 

City Administrator Tom Ourada stated that the City of Crete has done a number of purchases through their agreement and they asked for a resolution to be completed. 

City Administrator explained that the City Council does write offs from time to time and they did one last fall. Ourada explained that these write offs are for utilities when they have gone through on deposits and uncollectible that haven't shown up their standard list. These are prior to 2019 and uncollectible. 

City Administrator Tom Ourada stated that this is two lots and it is simply moving the plotted line. The form was reviewed and accepted. 

• There are 63 children registered for micro t-ball and t-ball
• Swim Team will start practices on May 18^th, 2026
• Introduction of new Groundskeeper AJ Novak
• The Wildwood Pool will be opening on May 23^rd, 2026

• Chief of Police Gary Young stated the following:

• After signing the CALEA efforts they are well into self-assessments and have most of the policies taken care of. The software works well with CALEA system.
• Detour has been running smoothly

• Building Inspector Trent Griffin stated that for the month of March there were 31 permits including two new home permits for a total of 3 new homes for the year. Griffin will have the April permit log at the next City Council meeting. Griffin stated there will be 16 new weed letters that will be mailed out.
• Council member Anthony Fitzgerald asked if the Street Department could get the work on 9^th and Boswell completed before Doane University’s graduation.
• City Administrator Tom Ourada stated the following:

• On Thursday, May 7^th, 2026 the City of Crete will be remediating a nuisance property by the 6^th and Pine Ave area.
• The City of Crete Annual Spring Cleanup is going on this week.
• There were some changes made to the Main Ave detour.
• Ourada explained that with the Municipal Equalization Fund (MEF) shortfall of $638,000 and budget issues it creates, the City Council has hard choices to make. With the budget shortfall, we have to cut from within for the next year or two, and will have to raise the levy in order to avoid this happening every year. There is not a way in discussing it with State Agencies and the League of Municipalities that we can avoid that. Ourada pointed out that the City of Crete is not losing the most. Grand Island is losing the most but proportionally we are impacted the most, as it is 15% - 16% of our entire budget. It would be nearly impossible for the City to function and provide services as usual while absorbing that scale of deficit.  
• Ourada explained that he provided various scenarios to the Mayor and Council and there is no way of making that up and no way of making it up with revenue only. It would necessitate making it up next year with raising the levy and making cuts. You can’t do one and accomplish it and you can’t do the other and accomplish it. We will have to raise the levy at least a few cents. There will be serious decisions that we will have to make on cutting services all the way across the board in order to get through the next year.
• The Council’s direction as we understand it is to take the steps necessary to execute the internal measures and report back to the City Council with the results and projections of what is going to happen yet this fiscal year, and communicate the outlook for the next fiscal year aside from the levy consideration. Ourada stated that he will work with Mayor Bauer to do this.
• The next steps will be a couple-month process because we won’t have our new valuations until the end of June and that will tell us a lot. Still we are looking at making significant modifications to the levy. The Mayor and the City Council will continue to meet on this for the actual budget portion of it.

• Mayor Dave Bauer stated that on May 5^th, 2026 at 8:15am he received a call asking him to please not putting meter parking downtown because there was an article on social media on the City of Crete putting meters downtown. It was an unknown source that started it. Mayor Bauer let the person that called know that it was not true. The frustrating part is that people can make comments on the social media post but when someone goes on there to try to put the truth out there it gets taken down and they don’t let the comment stay. Mayor Bauer stated that he wants people to know the City of Crete is not putting meters downtown and we have never talked about it and that was just a rumor someone started.

The meeting adjourned at 6:39 p.m.