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Votes at a glance: West Fargo City Commission, Aug. 4, 2025
Summary
The commission approved budget and infrastructure actions, advanced ordinances and awarded construction and engineering contracts; it held public hearings required for federal funds and tabled the Hope Lutheran rezoning pending a traffic study.
At its Aug. 4 meeting the West Fargo City Commission took a series of formal actions on the 2026 budget, ordinances, capital projects and engineering studies and held required public hearings related to federal funding.
Key actions included approval of the city’s 2026 preliminary budget, award of construction contracts for the Public Works Sanitation Expansion Phase 2, authorization of task orders for two engineering studies, first- and second-reading votes on flood- and legislative-related ordinances, and public hearings related to a community development block grant for a senior housing project.
Below are the actions, movers and short outcomes drawn from the meeting record.
- 2026 preliminary budget: Commissioner Olson moved to approve the 2026 preliminary budget; Commissioner Zundell seconded. The commission approved the balanced preliminary budget as presented. Staff said the budget is balanced with no deficit and no use of reserves; staff set a public hearing for Sept. 8,…
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