New Prague City Council - August 17th, 2026

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[0:00] Okay, first thing is to approve the regular agenda. Um
[0:04] Now, Bruce mentioned that he'd like to we should probably add under general
[0:10] business, uh letter B, uh which would be to nominate Michael
[0:15] Orvik to the planning commission.
[0:18] » Okay. >> So, we're going to add that.
[0:22] Any other additions or changes to the existing agenda?
[0:28] Okay. I guess I'll make a move a motion to
[0:32] approve the agenda as amended adding 11B.
[0:38] » Second. >> A second by Rick Saylor.
[0:41] There's no other comments. All in favor say I.
[0:43] » I. >> Any opposition?
[0:46] Okay. Next is a consent agenda.
[0:49] Does anyone have any questions, any issues, or anything on the consent
[0:54] agenda? >> No, but that number is scary, 666.
[0:58] Six.
[1:01] » Just close your eyes, Rick. >> I didn't think it was bad cuz last month
[1:05] was 1. >> Oh, wait. 1.6 something.
[1:09] » It looked good to me. >> I'll move it.
[1:11] » All right. >> I'll second.
[1:13] » I got a motion by Rick Saylor to approve the consent agenda, second by Bruce
[1:17] Wolfe. There's no other questions, comments. All in favor say I.
[1:21] » I. >> Any opposition? Okay.
[1:24] I do not see any um government >> [clears throat]
[1:29] » Well, members to give us a government sole public forum. Brian, did you have
[1:34] anything to say? Nothing?
[1:37] Sheet is empty. All right. Well, we're good.
[1:39] » [snorts] >> Public hearings, we have none. City
[1:41] engineering update, I think you were going to give us a quick little
[1:45] thing on uh 10th Avenue. >> Yep. Uh just wanted to make a note.
[1:49] Obviously, uh 10th has been closed down all summer here. Um it was going to open
[1:53] up or the 10th and 3rd roundabout will open up here on Friday and be open um
[1:58] through the weekend for the state baseball tournament just to help traffic
[2:01] flow a little bit better um to and from the baseball field and
[2:05] then we'll close down again on Monday because they plan to start paving um on
[2:09] 10th on Monday. So, it'll be open for a few days just to
[2:13] help out-of-town traffic flow around the
[2:15] baseball stadium. >> Okay.
[2:18] » That's all I got. >> Any questions then on that?
[2:22] » Well, I is there any reason that they gave us
[2:24] because initially I would I think they had told Matt it would be that section
[2:28] would be closed for 3 weeks and then now it's been and the weather's been great.
[2:32] » Yeah, so I I think uh the decision was kind of made internally
[2:35] because of the problems that we've ended up having with the people trying to get
[2:39] around barriers and whatnot that if we open it up again and then we have to
[2:43] close it again for a few more weeks, we'd just create more problems.
[2:46] » Okay. >> It became easier since it would all
[2:48] ended up only being about a 2-week span just to keep it closed off for those 2
[2:52] weeks to try to keep them out.
[2:54] » Okay.
[2:56] Okay, any other questions? Okay, we have no ordinances for introduction or
[3:01] ordinances for adoption. No resolutions
[3:05] and general business. Um what we have there is uh on August
[3:10] 3rd after [clears throat] the council meeting we had a closed
[3:14] session to do the annual review of city administrator Josh Teslov.
[3:18] Uh based on the evaluations from each city council member, Josh was given a
[3:22] rating of 3.74 out of a possible five. There were 10 criteria topics used for
[3:27] this evaluation. This is an improvement from the previous
[3:31] year, which was 3.475. This is a satisfactory rating, which
[3:36] means Josh meets council expectation. It is on the high end of the scale towards
[3:41] an acceptable rating of four. The council felt that Josh did a great
[3:45] job of running the city and accomplished some high-visible goals for the city.
[3:49] Some examples are the completion of the police station
[3:52] along with the purchase of the New Day Church building, which will now be city
[3:56] new the new city hall. He also has built a very strong staff
[3:59] that does a great job supporting the needs of our growing community.
[4:03] We also discussed some goals and areas that need for improvement over the next
[4:07] year. Does anyone want to add anything to
[4:10] that?
[4:14] Okay. Based on his evaluation,
[4:18] I would like to make a motion to move him to step seven on his salary matrix
[4:22] and becomes a effective on his anniversary date of
[4:25] August 30th. >> Second.
[4:27] » And I got second [clears throat] by Rick Seiler.
[4:30] Any questions? All in favor say I.
[4:33] » I. >> I. Any opposition? Okay, passes 4-0.
[4:38] Regarding our additional item to the agenda, B, nomination. I would like to
[4:43] nominate Mike Orvik to
[4:46] fill out the rest of the planning commission term of almost a little under
[4:51] two years. It ends May of 2028. So, I guess I need a motion to
[4:59] » So moved. >> Second.
[5:00] » Okay, I got a motion to approve Mike and second by Shawn Ryan.
[5:05] There's no other questions. All in favor say I.
[5:08] » I. >> I.
[5:09] Okay. And I did like to remember
[5:12] reiterate that that's effective immediately. So, he will be and he said
[5:16] he would be available to serve at the uh >> [snorts]
[5:20] » August 26th planning commission. So, we got to make sure he gets a packet or
[5:24] » Yep. >> a link or whatever he needs there.
[5:26] » I just want to say thank you Rick for filling in
[5:29] and taking on an extra commission seat for a while.
[5:32] » Yep. >> So, Rick, you won't have to go this
[5:34] week. You're more than welcome, but you'll be on that side of the aisle.
[5:37] » All right. >> All right.
[5:39] Miscellaneous, Rick, do you have anything?
[5:41] » Nothing. >> Bruce?
[5:42] » No. >> Shawn?
[5:43] » Uh just a quick question. I I don't expect you to
[5:47] answer today or anytime soon.
[5:50] What is that a constituent ask what the total square footage of
[5:56] property that the city owns? I mean with the
[5:59] addition of the police station the new
[6:02] uh utilities
[6:04] » So are we talking buildings or lots? >> I think he he was trying to building
[6:08] wise cuz he thinks that we really started to acquire a lot of buildings
[6:13] and it's like >> Well, we do have those two new buildings
[6:16] for the park service. >> Yeah.
[6:18] » across from >> that and the utilities one across from
[6:21] chart. >> Yeah.
[6:23] » That new utilities and then we still have this and now we bought the church
[6:26] and we added on to the police station. >> Yeah.
[6:29] » And um >> So the other caveat I'm going to ask
[6:31] since trying to parse this apart are we also talking like
[6:34] » golf >> courses and parks or are we kind of
[6:36] talking more main buildings? >> I think I think his just was main
[6:39] buildings and I just gave you some of the examples that he he had asked about.
[6:42] » the golf course building? >> I would include the golf course. Yep,
[6:45] that's a major property. >> Yeah.
[6:48] » So yeah. And I'm just kind of curious and I don't
[6:50] I don't know what his objective was if he's wants to compare it to other cities
[6:54] of our size and but I think his the thought was is that he felt that there
[6:58] was the city owns a lot of buildings and are we utilizing them all or what our
[7:03] long-term plan will be for them so. >> Yep, I will follow up on that.
[7:06] » I would just suggest then to give a separate number for this building
[7:10] and the one that adjoining it cuz plans are to either remove it or sell it.
[7:16] » And and we talked about that too. So I think if we get the full
[7:20] picture and then let them know that this might be gone.
[7:23] » yeah, if I get a full picture I'll know what all these individuals are so I can
[7:26] fill that up. This is the total and here are the individuals so obviously if we
[7:29] get rid of one it would take that out. >> Sure. Okay. Thank you.
[7:33] » Okay. Anything else Sean? >> No, that was it.
[7:35] » Josh, do you have anything else? >> Uh
[7:39] sorry Alyssa, I had my mic off the whole time.
[7:41] Um No, but I don't have anything else.
[7:44] » Okay, Mitch. Ryan, you're good. Patrick.
[7:49] I don't have anything, so I guess >> it yours.
[7:51] » I guess I got a motion to adjourn. >> Second.
[7:53] » A second by Shawn Ryan. All in favor say aye.
[7:57] » Aye. >> Aye.
[7:58] » Aye. >> New record. Oh, come on.
[8:01] » And what? We didn't start till like 6:02, either.
[8:03] » Yeah, oh. 9 minute.
[8:06] Take that, Rick. >> [laughter]
[8:10] » 8:30 to analyze