What: grants, donations and equipment contracts for the police, fire and dispatch departments, including K9 replacement, an Edward Byrne grant, homeland security grants, a traffic safety enforcement grant and an Axon contract.
Where it stands: items appear at nearly every regular meeting from 2026-08-17 through the 2026-11-16 agenda; outcomes were not read.
Next: check minutes; several second readings are on 2026-11-16.
Details
Amounts on agendas: $124,945 State Homeland Security Grant for the police bomb squad and SWAT team (2026-09-08); $68,000 State Homeland Security Grant for the fire department (2026-08-17).
A five-year contract with Axon Enterprise was on the 2026-11-02 agenda.
Built from agendas only; the posted minutes and agenda packets were not read, so outcomes are not recorded.
Second readings of five 2026 budget amendment ordinances (6224 to 6228), covering expansion of the police patrol fleet, a police K9 donation, a Banfield grant, a 3rd St bridge repair and a warehouse for pound services.
Retirement, sale and transfer of ownership of a police K9, plus routine consent items: sidewalk special assessment (4948), accounts receivable write-offs, snow removal contract renewal for airport paid parking lots, raffle approvals and special event permits.
Action: budget amendments for a 52-inch grandstand mower, a 5339 grant and refurbished transit bus (Complete Coach Works), a police K9 and pound services donation, and a $124,945 State Homeland Security Grant award for the police bomb squad and SWAT team.
Second readings of budget amendments for a mower, a refurbished bus, police donations for K9s and pound services, and the FY25 police State Homeland Security Grant (Ordinances 6247 to 6250).
Action: acceptance of the FY2025 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant and an insurance property damage settlement, recorded at process level.
Budget amendments on first reading for a Friends of the Library donation and a Chevron donation; first reading of Ordinance 6251 for the police FY25 Edward Byrne grant.
Acceptance of the FFY27 NDDOT Traffic Safety Enforcement Grant for the Minot Police Department, with a budget amendment on first reading; second readings of donation budget amendments from Chevron (fire department) and Friends of the Library (Ordinances 6253 and 6254).
Budget amendments on first reading: street division tandem axle truck (Westlie Truck Center, $213,968), storm sewer slope mower (Swanston Equipment, $70,500), storm sewer vac truck (Westlie Truck Center, $498,788), an NDCF grant for fire department protective equipment, a dispatch donation from the Magic City Lions, and a Scheels donation and 701K9 Foundation grant for replacing two police canines. A resolution amending the 2026 annual budget and the second reading of Ordinance 6258 (police FY26-27 traffic safety grant) were also on the consent list.
Approval of a five-year contract with Axon Enterprise.
Second readings of budget amendment Ordinances 6261 to 6266 (tandem axle truck, slope mower, vac truck, fire department protective equipment donation, dispatch donation and police K9 donations).
Action: acceptance of a National Police Dog Foundation grant and a fleet shop grant with a mobile lift procurement, each with a budget amendment on first reading.