Fargo City Commission Special Meeting - July 25, 2025

The Commissioners present or absent were as shown following:
Present: Kolpack, Piepkorn, Strand, Turnberg, Mahoney.
Mayor Mahoney presiding.

Mayor Mahoney announced the City Commission will retire into Executive Session in the Red River Room for purposes of discussing economic development records and information, pursuant to N.D.C.C. §44-04-18.4 subsections 1, 2 and 5 and for purposes of discussing negotiation strategy, to provide negotiation instructions to the City’s attorney or other negotiator regarding a potential contract regarding economic development and to receive its attorney’s advice and guidance on the legal risks, strengths and weaknesses of an action of a public entity and regarding reasonably predictable and/or threatened litigation and to discuss negotiating strategy or to provide negotiating instructions to its attorney or other negotiator regarding the reasonably predictable or threatened litigation. Discussing these matters in an open meeting would have a negative fiscal effect on the bargaining and/or litigation position of the City of Fargo, thus an executive session for this matter is authorized pursuant to North Dakota Century Code § 44-04-19.1 subsections 2, 5 and 9 and North Dakota Century Code § 44-04-19.2 subsection 1.

Commissioner Kolpack moved the Commissioners meet in Executive Session in the Red River Room as authorized by NDCC, Section 44-04-19.1 and 2, subsections 1, 2, 5 and 9 to discuss said matters.

Second by Turnberg. All the Commissioners voted aye and the motion was declared carried.

At 10:03 o’clock a.m. the Board moved to the Red River Room to discuss said matters in Executive Session.
Members present were: Kolpack, Piepkorn, Strand, Turnberg and Mahoney.

The Executive Session closed at 10:53 o’clock a.m. and the meeting reconvened in Public Session at 10:55 o’clock a.m.
The meeting adjourned 10:58 o’clock a.m.