Staff would like to discuss with the city council the idea of considering an assessment policy.  The assessment policy would consider how the city could like to pay for street, utility, storm sewer, and sidewalk improvements.  With recent discussion about 2026 projects and assessing for portions of these projects, staff felt that it would be good to look at developing a policy that can assist with ensuring future projects have some consistency and criteria in place when it comes to determining how to pay for these costs and the timeframe for these costs to be paid back to the city as well.  Staff will present more information on this at the meeting.

Staff has provided the council with some information regarding proposed legislation at the State as it relates to expanding multi-family housing within residential and commercial zoning districts.  Staff has reviewed some of the proposed impacts and would like to discuss this with the city council.

Staff would like to discuss with the city council the possibility of an interim ordinance related to data centers.  The current city ordinances do not address or take into consideration any development of a data center or its potential impacts on the city's resources needed to be provided if a development was proposed.  The interim ordinance would allow the city to place a temporary moratorium on the potential development of data centers to give staff some time to research and draft language that would consider this type of development so the city can ensure the appropriate ordinances are in place.  

As part of the Operator Agreement, a portion of The Ledge operator revenue is required to be set aside to fund capital projects.  The operator is required to hold these funds in a separate account and works with the city annually to determine what improvements will be made to the facility with these funds.   In the past, some examples the funds were used for included the light towers and the VIP bar structure.  The amount of funds is approximately $30,000 annually.  Staff would like to share with the city council some of the proposed improvements that are being considered for 2026 with these funds.  More information will be presented at the meeting.

Staff from each department will provide the city council with an update on the things that are going on within each of their departments.  Information will be presented at the meeting.