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Votes at a glance: New Ulm City Council, Feb. 18, 2025
Summary
A roundup of formal actions taken by the New Ulm City Council on Feb. 18, 2025, including approvals for a Bachfest alley closure, airport RFQ, industrial-zoning changes and grant applications.
The New Ulm City Council took the following formal actions on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Items are listed with the motion outcome and key details from the meeting record.
- Consent agenda: Approved (voice vote).
- Resolution: Temporary closure of alley adjacent to B & L Bar and extension of the B & L Bar liquor license into the alley for Bachfest (requested dates: evening of Friday, March 7, 2025 beginning at 5 p.m. through 1 a.m. on Sunday, March 9, 2025). Motion carried (voice vote).
- Request for Qualifications: Authorized release of RFQ for professional on-call airport engineering and planning services (eligibility required per FAA circulars; current consultant contract expires in May). Motion carried (voice vote).
- Ordinance 2025-096: Second consideration and adoption to establish a second set of development standards in the I-1 planned industrial zoning district (allows smaller lots and reduced setbacks in defined historic grid areas on the north end). Motion carried (roll call).
- Ordinance 2025-097 (temporary-sign regulations): Council debated the proposed update; a motion to reconsider the ordinance (to send it back for further work) was called and the motion failed on roll call; no further adoption action was recorded at the meeting.
- Resolution: Approve a design-variance request for the 2027 North Garden Street project (project SP148-121-010) to retain 45-degree angled parking near Harmon Park and request a variance from the 14-foot back-of-stall standard to 4 feet; motion carried (roll call); city to submit variance to MnDOT for final action.
- Resolution: Declare official intent to reimburse utility, street, alley and other capital expenditures with proceeds of tax-exempt general obligation permanent improvement revolving fund bonds, series 2025; motion carried (roll call).
- Year-end transfers and encumbrances (item 6.3): Required a four‑councilor majority due to excused absences; item was redocketed for the March meeting (no action taken).
- Resolution: Approve an orderly annexation agreement with Cottonwood Township (new 10-year term, agricultural development threshold lowered from 40 acres to 10 acres; map revised to reflect previously annexed land); motion carried (roll call).
- Resolution: Authorize staff to submit a grant application to the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council (Arts & Cultural Heritage — music festivals) for $6,000 to support the German Park summer concert series; motion carried (voice vote). No match required to apply.
- Resolution: Authorize staff to submit a Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) grant application for Pollinator Park enhancements; draft scope includes native-prairie restoration, nature-play features and trail improvements; requested amount in the packet: $246,000; motion carried (voice vote). No local match required for the application.
- Donations: Accepted two donations from the local Izaak Walton League — $2,000 for the Riverside Environmental Learning Center and $5,000 for the Sioux Valley Gun Trap Range; motion carried (roll call).
Several items required roll-call votes and were recorded by Director Jorgensen; items postponed or returned for later consideration were redocketed as noted above.
