November 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM - City Council Regular Meeting

1. STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE WITH OPEN MEETINGS ACT AND ROLL CALL

2. PRAYER

3. NATIONAL ANTHEM AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

4. APPOINTMENT OF CITY OFFICERS

4.A. Mark S. Howerter, MD as city physician.

5. CONSENT AGENDA - The following items are considered to be routine by the city council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a city council member or citizen so requests, in which event the item will be removed from consent status and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda.

5.A. Minutes of October 20, 2025, City Council meeting.

5.B. Resolution No. R25-138 approving second amendment to agreement with Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, on behalf of University of Nebraska Medical Center, for forensic and crime lab testing services. 

5.C. Resolution No. R25-139 approving payment of various improvement projects

5.D. Payroll and bills on file.

6. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Included in Consent Agenda

7. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS: None

8. PUBLIC HEARINGS: None

9. PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS: None

10. REPORTS OF CITY OFFICES: None

11. REPORTS OF COUNCIL COMMITTEES

11.A. Public Property, Safety, and Works Committee - November 3, 2025

11.A.1. Request from City of Columbus to vacate alley in Block 74, Original City of Columbus, Platte County, Nebraska (north of 12th Street between vacated 15th and 16th Avenues).

11.A.2. Authorization to advertise sale of city-owned properties Lots 1 through 4 and vacated alley, Block 74, Original City of Columbus, Platte County, Nebraska (north of 12th Street between vacated 15th and 16th Avenues).

11.A.3. Authorization to advertise sale of city-owned properties of Lot 6 and 7, Block 117, Original City of Columbus, Platte County, Nebraska (north of 10th Street between 24th and 25th Avenues).

11.A.4. Traffic Control Device Committee report for 3rd Quarter 2025.

12. REPORTS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES: None

13. REPORTS ON LEGISLATION: None

14. NEW BUSINESS

14.A. Appointment of Bret Strecker as police chief. 

14.B. Authorization to advertise sale of city-owned properties Lots 1 through 4 and vacated alley, Block 74, Original City of Columbus, Platte County, Nebraska (north of 12th Street between vacated 15th and 16th Avenues).

14.C. Authorization to advertise sale of city-owned properties of Lot 6 and 7, Block 117, Original City of Columbus, Platte County, Nebraska (north of 10th Street between 24th and 25th Avenues).

14.D. Plans, specifications, estimate of cost in the amount of $2,185,000, and authorization to advertise for bids for Concrete Paving Improvements 2026 (plans and specifications on file in the engineering department). CIP #20-71, 75, 107

14.E. Proposal from Sirius Computer Solutions LLC in the amount of $45,501.77 for renewal of Cisco maintenance agreement.

14.F. Quote from Downey Drilling in the amount of $14,050 for repair inspection and chemical treatment of Well No. 11. 

14.G. Quote from Front Line Mobile Health in the amount of $42,690 to provide annual physicals to fire department career staff. 

14.H. Comments from mayor and city council members.

15. RESOLUTIONS

15.A. Resolution No. R25-140 amending Collective Bargaining Agreement with the International Association of Firefighters, Local No. 1575, to include career staff annual physicals and paramedic wage adjustments and to remove approved material requirements for uniforms.

16. ORDINANCES ON FIRST READING

16.A. Ordinance No. 25-18 vacating alley adjoining Lots 1 through 4 and Lots 5 through 8, Block 74, Original City of Columbus, Nebraska (north of 12th Street between vacated 15th and 16th Avenues)

17. ORDINANCES ON SECOND READING: None

18. ORDINANCES ON THIRD READING: None

19. PAYROLL AND BILLS ON FILE: Included in Consent Agenda

20. UNFINISHED BUSINESS: None

21. ADJOURNMENT