Mitchell Bitz

The budget requests include personnel and capital outlay for various departments. These include assessing, street, information technology, police, fire, water treatment, planning, and building inspection. Capital outlay requests cover items such as comprehensive plans, equipment upgrades, vehicle replacements, and infrastructure projects. Funding recommendations for the long-term plan involve increasing the operating cash transfer from the City Sales Tax Fund, raising the minimum operating cash reserve, and considering a new city sales tax to finance infrastructure projects.

The Mandan Planning and Zoning Commission is holding a public hearing to consider an amendment to a Special Use Permit for property located at 2600 Marina Road SE. The proposal involves Lot 1 & Auditor's Lot A of Lot 2, Block 1, Bridgeview Bay Addition. Interested parties are encouraged to provide comments via mail or email prior to the meeting, or call to facilitate alternate means to appear at the public hearing.

The ordinance makes annual appropriations for expenditures or expenses of the City of Mandan, North Dakota, for the fiscal year commencing January 1, 2026, and ending December 31, 2026, and making the annual tax levy for the year 2025. It details appropriations for various funds including the General Fund, Special Revenue Funds, Debt Service Funds, and other utility funds, as well as allocations for the Morton Mandan Public Library and Mandan Airport Authority. It also specifies the sums of money levied on taxable property for different funds.

The Mandan City Commission will hold a public hearing to consider a ten-year extension of Mandan's Renaissance Zone, which provides property and state income tax exemption for investment in qualified building construction, rehabilitation, and improvement projects.

The Mandan City Commission meeting will cover various topics, including public hearings on Gateway Setback Variance and Minor Plat for Eastside Commercial Park 2nd Addition, Minor Plat, Special Use Permit and Zone Change for Hoovestal's 4th Addition, and Preliminary Plat of Schaff Estates 2nd Addition. The agenda also includes consideration of monthly bills, assessments for weed cutting, road closures, a change order for a storm sewer project, liquor license renewals, special event permits, a gaming site authorization, and a lease agreement for tower space. Other items include a driveway variance, approval of the Memorial Highway project funding approach, a development agreement, an update on the NDDOT Sunset Drive Interchange Project, selection of a City Zoning Code Rewrite Consultant, and ordinances related to a retirement plan and a zone change.