Board of Aldermen - Regular Meeting

Please rise for the pledge of allegiance allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call vote here. Arman Cohort here. Alman Turner is absent. Arman Bill here. And Arman Lewis here. Can I get a motion to approve December 2nd, 2025 meeting minutes, please? Can I have a second? Second. All in favor? I.

Can I get a motion to approve tonight's agenda? I have a second. I'll second. All in favor?

I. Moving on to specials. We have none. Appointments and boards and commissions. We have none. we'll move on to schedule public comments. Now, before we get started, I just want to make it clear that Todd is doing the minutes and then and after that I will take over from there. All right. So, the first person on this public comments is Corey Myers. General comments, please come to the podium, state your name and address. Corey Myers, Kun Lane, Hartsburg, Missouri. Um, I guess the one thing I have to say is there's we've been working on the easement for Forest Park, uh, phase three, and I think Cory spoke with you last week about it, and we've been working on like three or four months. Um, it's just an easement through the lines to get back to phase three, which I'm going to need when I develop that. Um, Kyle has been or Cory and Kyle's been cor corresponding and I think November 24th is the last time that Kyle's answered. So, we haven't really gotten answers from there. So, I guess what I'm asking for is the excuse me through um the lines to get to for park.

All right. Thanks, sir. Okay. Thanks. Move on to public hearing. Public hearing on citywide ban of certain classifications of electrics, power, bikes, and other modes of transportation in the city of Ashlin.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor and the board. Uh what I want to do tonight with the public hearing is address some legal issues, some practical considerations. I'll take your questions. Members of the public want to make comments, that's fine. Uh we're here for a very particular purpose, a narrow purpose that may expand to a greater one. The narrow purpose is this. A city in Missouri can ban electric bicycles from paths upon a public hearing and a finding that that kind of prohibition is necessary to address safety issues. So that's the suggestion. That's what's been had. We can do more than that. So I want to give you the basic framework for this outline. And again, we're going to start with electric bicycles and then kind of expand out. Um, the statute allows electric bicycles. Um, there are three classifications. The crux of that is how much of a So we're talking about a bicycle with an electric motor in which the rider can propel themselves, a rider can be assisted with an electric motor or the electric motor can do the whole thing. And the classifications bear upon how fast the electric motor will go under what circumstances. But essentially um if a city passes a motion finding quote electric bicycles pose a safety risk in their operation on a path you can ban them. So what we're talking about is over at the city park banning for this particular public hearing the idea of those electric bicycles. Now, stepping back in terms of that property, we have broad control over our city- owned property and we can ban vehicles as we wish. Missouri has a lot of vehicles. We that term has a specific definition. There are 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight types of things with wheels. Um the reason for that is there are some statutes that make it more difficult to regulate those things. Um, so if we want

to talk about just electric bicycles, that's fine. Um, we can discuss the pros and cons of that. The public can reach in, but the statute does require a public hearing for those types of vehicles. You don't have to have a public hearing for other types. For instance, golf carts or ATVs or UTVs and a whole slew of variations of that. And we could, for instance, say at the city park, we want to ban all vehicles of any kind. That's an option. There can be some middle of the road thing. As an example, this body could say, we would like to ban all vehicles except for bicycles, the humanpowered kind. That is an option. Um, you have a great deal of latitude with respect to which vehicles are on our city property. As I understand it, that's what the park board is interested in. So, stopping there for the moment. Um, is anybody have any thoughts about whether or not electric bicycles are unsafe on the cart paths at the city park? Understanding that if you don't think that's the case, you can't prohibit them. Does that make sense what I'm saying?

So, and tonight we don't have an ordinance. We're just conducting the public hearing that the ordinance that the state statute, excuse me, requires to move forward on this. You don't have to make a decision tonight. What you have to do is determine that it would be is a safety issue. Um, and the purpose for that again in the state statute is the default position is you're not allowed to ban them from paths. You've got to go through the the hoop of this public hearing. Um, and so I'm happy to discuss that particular issue more greatly. Um, as we step away from the city park and talk about other areas in Ashland, a city has an ability to regulate things. You can require insurance, you can require a flag, you can require um, but again, those those rules need to be set out for particular vehicles. Um, a very common thing is for golf carts to be used. I don't know if golf carts are a big thing in Ashlin. Um you see side by sides. Side by sides are not defined in the statute. Those are either low-speed vehicles, recreational off offh highway vehicles or utility vehicles. And you know the particular definitions can become a little bit muddy there. But if you want to direct staff to say look we want not only to bar vehicles of various type from the city park which is allowed. We'd also like to talk about regulating and barring vehicles in the city of Ashlin generally. And again, they the the details of that can be left up to city staff. You don't have to have the hearing. You don't have to make any special finding. The uh these rules that we're proposing to pass become municipal violations if you violate them. We pass an ordinance. No vehicles at the city park except for humanpowered bicycles. somebody goes over there for something other than that, they could be given a citation and prosecuted and that's how you enforce it. All right. Um there are mechanics involved with creating a new

charge. Um there are the highway patrol assigns charge codes for various things. There are charge codes for this purpose. You all want to make that we could in make it unlawful for instance to use a dirt bike in the city park. You get caught doing it, you all could set a fine. I would prosecute them in the municipal division over in Boone County. Um, and then the the last thing which is sort of unfortunate news and at this point I do have one single visual. This thing is what I call a scooter. Okay? And there is I'm not an expert on scooters, but under Missouri law, this thing is a toy. All right? And that doesn't mean you can't ban it and that doesn't mean you can't regulate it. But we have fairly elaborate rules about what to do for what kinds of vehicles depending on what it is and how you want to regulate it. And that's fine. The city staff can work that out for you. If you want to ban this thing from the park or from other areas, we can certainly do that. And in fact, it's easier to do this because it doesn't have this comprehensive fairly elaborate system for dealing with what are generally referred to as alternate vehicles. stuff other than cars. Um I I gather there is some thought that these things are a problem and not good. But those are your basic options. And so I think if the city wants to move forward as to electric bicycles, which is title for the public hearing, what we would need is a motion saying we find that those vehicles are unsafe on the paths of the park. You don't have to do that. You do have to do that if you want to make it unlawful to operate that vehicle in the city park. If you wanted to take a next step, Todd, we'd like a a motion that says we direct staff to develop a policy ordinance banning all vehicles from City Park except for human powered bicycles. Todd, we'd like an ordinance

banning scooters. You know, whatever variety of that you are interested in. Does that make sense? the electric bicycles have their own little particular little public hearing requirement and that's why we're here. That's why I'm doing this. I'm happy to take your questions or give thoughts. And as I said, my suggestion is after that, if there are folks here, it is a public hearing. They are entitled to come on and give their input on this subject. Hearing none. Todd, question. Yeah. So, I think I remember was was there a complaint or like what where did this come from? Like why are we talking about this? My recollection is the park board took up this question.

Well, there was complaints to the park. There was complaint citizen complaints to the park as well as vandalism at the park by these electric scooters by the bas electric scooters

field. My personal sentiment on this is that if I went to walk in the park, which I often do in Jeff City, I would just assume there not be vehicles there. Uh, I don't think that that is absolutely required. I I think you all have the choice. Uh, it's just that the statute requires this finding that it be unsafe. Um, my other thought is we would certainly make sure any ordinance or policy would exempt a city vehicle in my mind, and I don't actually know this to be a fact, but if we had a gator, the little John Deere thing to go do maintenance at the park, we don't want to make that unlawful. uh we would exempt our own stuff for the purposes of maintenance. Um but as to again the statute talks about motorized bicycles, normal bicycles, electric bicycles, golf carts, ATVs, UTVs ad nauseium. Um we can encapsulate some of those all of those and then the scooter problem.

Personally, I would not be in favor of this. Okay, that's perfectly all right. not in favor of of passing a ban for the electric bikes. I think I would be fine with like a speed limit maybe, but like if the problem is right, they've been vandalizing the ball fields with the scooters. Like vandalism is already illegal. So like what are we doing by just making another like they're already doing something illegal so very clearly they don't care about our city ordinances.

I mean I just think there's so many there's so many variables to this. There's kids who don't have anywhere to ride bikes or vehicles. Like, they get it for Christmas. They have nowhere to ride it. They go to the park. It's up to the parents. The parents need to take responsibility. They need to teach their children how to ride these vehicles in a park. Honk their horn. Say, "I'm on your left." When they're approaching someone, like, I just don't think that we need to also add another ordinance as to what they can and cannot do as a park. Also, I mean, like you said, vandalism happens already, but I mean, our like we don't have someone sitting at the park 247 who can hand out tickets. I just don't really see any point in doing this. Personally, a

as to the speed issue, I forgot someone asked that. At the risk of getting into the weeds about this, electric bicycles, as defined by the statute, are capable of either going 20 miles an hour, which is a pretty good clip, or 28 m an hour. So an electric bicycle is fairly fast. But those this is exactly what the public hearings about. Those are valid concerns. Appreciate you getting them. Anybody? Yeah. And look and looking at a a total ban of any kind of vehicle. Wouldn't that affect like food trucks during uh events? Uh

yes. Um what you would have if you had a total ban and again my suggestion is you want to go that way would be either a total ban of anything with wheels or what I more commonly see a ban on every vehicle except for humanpowered bicycles. I know that sounds silly, but the statute talks about motorized bicycles, electric bicycles, but if you had a ban about everything, you could exempt either in the language of the ordinance, we'll make an exception. Or what I would recommend is a policy where the city council could grant exemptions. The analogy would be like beer gardens. You all will lift the alcohol and public rules to allow a wine taste in your beer garden. I suppose if you had an event, you could do that. You have a lot of freedom here. Um the sign on the road is going to say no vehicles in the park. That's not the whole story. The actual ordinance will list out all of these things. It'll have our exception for city vehicles. We could put an exception for city uh rather special events. So you can get as simple or complicated as you wish. I think the sign probably pretty simple, but we could certainly accommodate those exceptions if the board wish. And again, this is coming as a request from the park board to amend their rules. They don't have the power to enact this ban. It has to come down from you guys.

And and to the council board members point, I mean, it is it's sort of odd when we started talking about this, the general assembly has seen fit to say cities can only ban this particular type of vehicle if they do what we're doing right now. The default position is you have a right to operate them on pathways in a city. Can is it possible for us to get minutes from like the park board hearing where they discuss this so we can you know see like who complained like what like what the full list of complaints are cuz I mean one of us is called into the chief wasn't it complaints

I mean they've talked about it for multiple meetings it's ongoing thing of researching the process but we can we can pull some stuff together have the park board chair come talk to you Scott's gone to their meetings to present on this topic to him and talked about the process and what they wanted to do. So, it's So, Scott, do you have concerns on of the ebikes in the park then? Other than I guess they've been used to vandalize the heard the same complaints from the park. I mean, it's a like like uh he said, it's up to you guys. do whatever you want, but um we've just heard some of the same complaints about walkers.

Well, I do know for a fact an 80-year-old man was out there with two canes walking for his exercise and two ebikes came up and almost knocked him on his ass. Yeah. So, concern, but I mean, how is that any different from a kid on a regular bicycle, right?

I mean, so that's what I'm saying. Like, I just don't see the point of this. This like really needs to go back to like the parents parenting and teaching their children how to behave. And even then, like we're saying, you know, we've talked about how ebikes are we're complaining about them being on the streets, but there's nowhere for them to ride. Not saying that like an ebike should be in a park. I'm just saying like what are we going to do? Tell them don't don't play outside. Don't ride your bike. Like kids need to be outside.

And to Mr. reveal's point I I will candidly admit this city struggles with whatever he struggles with and that is vandalism in city parks uh the restroom facilities the the paths whatever it is you all struggle with it all the cities struggle with it uh it's illegal to vandalize that property it's illegal to take stuff away or tear it up and you can have cameras and you can have signs and that will deter a percentage of folks but it doesn't prevent anything from happening um any other questions that I can answer for you all.

I mean to older woman ravens craft's point if like if ebikes come through and knock somebody over we have like ordinances and statutes we can right like reckless operation of a motor vehicle type thing. So it wouldn't again unfortunately the statutes are are confusing. The term motor vehicle is specifically defined as a particular collection of things. Um a person could be cited for I suppose assault. A person could be cited I suppose for reckless operation. Uh but depending on what they were on I I just don't want to mislead you.

Yeah. uh if they were on a some odd variety of vehicle, it might not be easy so easy as you know assault by the motor vehicle or reckless operational vehicle. Um I would be as the city prosecutor with that hat on. If somebody went to the police and said, "Look, I'd like to make a police report. I was walking along and these guys knocked me off my footing because of this." I'm sure the police and I would be happy to investigate that and would consider prosecution for it. Um, that doesn't help the guy who got knocked down though. I mean, we're talking

I'm sure we can do we can't do traffic offenses on the walking path and um, you know, assault has to have some sort of well some sort of intent or I'm apprehensive that is a certainty that you could we would certainly be explored depending on the details. Well, so I guess then and like we could pass an ordinance, right, that like instead of banning them, just saying like, "Hey, if you recklessly operate a motorbike in within city limits, then it's a municipal violation." I suppose we could say unsafe operation of a vehicle on city property is unlawful.

You could do that. And I think that like that addresses I've never done it, but I mean that addresses older women Raven's Craft's concern about people like being, you know, knocked over. Okay. No one in here is 80 years old. But when you're 80, you all put put yourself in that perspective. You're 80, you just had double knee surgery. You're walking for your exercise. You got two little twerks coming up on ebikes behind you and they scare the heck out of you. They may not hit you. You may not hear them, but when they come up to you, I mean, it's gonna, you know, you about fault. You about your foot. And I think I think that addresses that. And then also to all the women, I understand where they're coming from, too. But I just then they can still have their ebikes. They just can't, you know,

I understand where everybody's coming from. When y'all turn 80, find out. We'll need we'll need help defining records. They do it on regular. Oh, yeah. They could. That's it. That's just it. You know, I agree. Even if there's not,

it's it's a such a catch 22. Even if there's not a desire to ban, there's likely still ordinance that needs to be introduced at some point to better define because we don't have any of this defined in code right now. Um, so to Scott's point, some of these are classified as motor vehicles in which moving violations, depending on where it's at, would come into play, but there's there's still likely some room for some code improvement of some sort. My personal opinion is I think they could create a danger to not just to the 80year-old but anyone if they're coming up from behind you know I know kids and they don't think right sometimes you know they that that path is their world they're not thinking ahead uh you know when it comes to the point of the you know the parents the parents should be thinking about where can you use this when you buy And uh and so if that particular area is off limits, they've got to accept those consequences. If they if they can't find another place for them to ride it, don't buy it.

I think that's so unfair to say. I You can get a bicycle up to 30 miles an hour. You can I mean, people do it all the time. So, personally, we can agree to disagree, but I don't think I don't think this is going to solve any problem because there's bicycles. And I mean, if we ban bicycles in our park, are you kidding me? What is the park for? It's for kids and and it's for everyone to use. Everyone of all ages, whether that be a trike, a bike, walking, for everything. So that's that's interest to restricting them to the trail and parking areas to a path.

And just really quick as I looked it up to the chief's point, so definition of a motor vehicle in Missouri specifically excludes electric bicycles. A motorized bicycle specifically excludes electric bicycles. the electric bicycle folks have gotten exempted from most things and have gotten their own statute. But to his point, uh the public hearing and safety determination requirement is about barring them from the paths of a city property. So sidewalks, walkways, that sort of stuff.

But what would probably be I mean do you have any other additional questions? But it would probably appropriate to take some public comment and then probably schedule us for further discussion at the next meeting. At this point, at this time, we'll open up to the public. Anybody would like to make a comment on the ebikes, please come to the podium, state your name and address.

Okay, I see none. I mean, I'll go up. it. I'm gonna say contract your name and address, please. Uh 71 Easter. Your name? Michelle Becket. Sorry. Said that first. Yeah. So, I think kids can ride a regular bicycle just as fast as an electric can go. They can and they can ride as reckless, especially on those because they're trying to wobble and get their footing or they can go super fast. So, I don't see the difference between motor and pedals and the dangers of knocking someone over. I agree. That's it.

Thank you, ma'am. Anybody else like to speak? All right. So, at this time, we'll close public comments. Uh we will have later discussion.

Yeah, I would say we can go ahead and put it on the next agenda. Hopefully, everybody's here. Thank you all. Moving on. Introductions and first reading. Council bill number 2025-41, an ordinance extending the corporate city limits of the city of Asheville, Missouri by annexing unincorporated area. Staff report, please. All right. We had our public hearing at the last meeting for this annexation. As you'll find in the memo, there is one thing of note that has changed, and that is the ownership of these parcels. Um, I believe we only have one written objection u in addiction in addition to the comments that we had at the public hearing, but one written objection that came through uh yesterday on the annexation. Um,

that was the same gentleman who he was not it was not the same one. Okay. A neighbor, but not the same gentleman. Okay.

So, that was a Jerry Crow 807 Silverado Core just objecting to the annexation. Uh, so you have the memo in your packet. We do find that the property in question is contiguous and compact, necessary, and reasonable to the development of the city, and we do have the ability to provide utility services. As stated, the the ownership has changed. I've conferred with Todd on what to do in this particular instance since it's pretty uncommon. Uh we've requested just written confirmation from new ownership that they do want to move forward. As of right now, I don't have it. He might have it with him. Um but yeah, we're just kind of waiting. piece.

So, we've requested in writing. Um, if we get that before our next meeting, um, the intent would be just to continue to move forward with the annexation. If we don't, we'll take action accordingly to suspend the annexation. All right. So, do you want to table this?

Um, you don't necessarily need to. It's it's contemplated in the ordinance that we're expecting to get that written confirmation by the second read or we can deny the ordinance at that point, but obviously it's up to you guys to make that determination. there's a a reszone. So the the the hearing or the uh the comments for the reszone will be the same that that ownership has changed and we'll expect to have confirmation in writing of the intent to continue the annexation in the resone. Any questions for staff? No. A motion to want to be. Oh, can I entertain?

Well, ner was he wasn't he kind of on the fence at the planning zoning meeting? U Darren has had additional conversations with him that he is because I'd be interested to know what his you know what his intention is at this time. He is okay in that case we do want it in writing just whether that be a new annexation petition or a simple letter consenting to the the annexation and reason. So we can table it until we get the letter.

It's up to you. It's up to the board. You table it. You can take action on the first read, do the second read next meeting, whatever you want to do. Did he give any indication how soon he's wanting to start anything? Uh, no. He he said he he will submit his written consent. Okay. And I would note for the board's information with two vacancies. Affirmative vote requires all four of you to vote yes. I shouldn't say vacancies, absences. Excuse me.

I'm uh I'm fine with going first reading. I mean things get first read all the time and change you know later on. I get a motion. Can I get a motion approving council bill number 2025-41 an ordinance extending the corporate city limits of Ashlin, Missouri by annexing unincorporated area. So moved. I have a second. Alman Rabcraft. Hi. Albert. Hi. Alman. Bill. Hi. Alman Lewis. Hi. 2025-42. An ordinance to change the zoning of two parcels of land from A1 to R1.

Okay. This was originally a request by Dustin Mcccleland uh for resoning of two tracks at the north end of Christy Lane from A1 to R1. It is now switched to Nice Walker Homes LP. That'll come up in the next meeting as well. Um you pretty much know all the details about the tracks and why the annexation is wanted. Um it's pretty much just two tracks of land that are will be upon annexation zoned A1 and required by code to be that A1 when they're in extend and wishing to switch them to R1 single family residential. So on Thursday, December 4th, it was discovered as the city administrator said that uh the two tracks had had sold to Donger Homes LLC. Uh this was all discussed at the PNZ meeting and the commission u recommended approval contingent on annexation. Any questions? Any questions for staff? I get count. Can I have a motion to approve council bill number 2025-42, an ordinance to change the zoning of two parcels of land from A1 to R1?

Contingent uponation. That's already in there. Or do we need to amend that? with it's contingent upon so I have a second bill I co I Lewis I and auto court I moving on council bill number 2025-43 an ordinance approving Founders Ridge final plat 2

okay this is a request for the final flat of plat 2 of Founders Ridge subdivision the owner of this parcel is LB BWM Development LLC and the submitting firm is Brussian Associates Incorporated. This plat was reviewed by Christina Lubbert of Lubert Engineering. The subject property is plat 2 of the Founders Ridge subdivision. Founders Ridge is approximately 20 acres in sign and is located on State Route M directly south of Sunset Meadows subdivision. This development will eventually tie into Liberty Landing North subdivision which is to the south as part of phase three. So plat 2 is approximately 4.20 acres in size and will consist of 13 lots ranging in size from.19 acres to.35 acres. Storm water detention will be encompassed on lot C1. Streets are scheduled to be installed. However, due to the quick change in weather, um work has been delayed. Uh I believe they were supposed to uh for part of the streets today. The curving is all in, but I don't know if they got them completed or not. Uh so it is in it is in progress. Uh all other city utilities have been installed. Infrastructure inspections will be underway soon and will be ready for acceptance by the second reading by the board. The developer is aware and understands that continued weather delays or delays in incomp completion of in infrastructure uh could cause the final approval of this plan to be pushed back. After careful consideration, staff is supportive of the final plat as it appears to have met the requirements set forth in the city code. Since there's still infrastructure to be completed, approval was recommended by the planning and zoning commission with the condition that all infrastructure be completed, inspected, and ready for

acceptance before the second reading by the board. Any questions for staff?

Sorry. So I just had So if I'm looking at the like um the map of it, so the storm water detention is on the kind of southeast corner, but if you look at the I guess aerial photo like it looks like the there's like a whole drainage channel kind of thing that runs right through the left or I guess that be the west corner of this. So, are they doing some excavating to fix like any, you know, so that we don't run into the same problem? Yeah. Like the same problems we're having elsewhere where like water's like in people's houses and all. Right. This looks like

Oh, yeah. This is the farmland before any of it was developed. So there

any other question? And then the tie in to Liberty is not until phase three. Correct. Correct. That will be the next phase. And then there's one more phase after that. Correct. Okay. that if you look at the preliminary plat the final phase is the little loop on the east side. Okay. He understands why his infrastructure has to be done. Absolutely on board. Good.

All right. Any other questions? Can I get a motion to approve council number 2025-43, an ordinance approving Founders Ridge final plat 2? I have a second. I'll second Cobert. Hi. Mill. Alman. Rancraft. I. Moving on to old business. We have none. Moving on to new business. Resolution number 2025-61, a resolution authorizing the purchase of a truck for the sewer department. Staff report.

Thank you. May board. Um, we seeking authorization for the purchase of a Ford F-150 standard cab pickup from Mockins Ford for $41,264. Um, this vehicle supplants the previously approved vehicle for the sewer department that was sold before I could take delivery of it. So, this action rescends uh 202 resolution 2025-55 in the amount of $44,294. Uh, this vehicle is slightly smaller but similar in every other respect and $3,30 less. And they promise they're not going to sell this one this time. So, I do recommend approval. Any questions for staff?

Question. Do you kind of feel like Oprah? You get a truck and you get you and you get a car. Yeah. So hard. Nobody gets a truck. All right. Can I get a motion to approve resolution number 2025-61 resolution authorizing the purchase of a truck for the sewer department? So move. Have a second. All in favor? I. I. Resolution number 2025. Are you back up there still? Great. Resolution number 2025-62, a resolution authorizing the per purchase spend more money. It's never good when I'm standing

purchase or replacement submissible pump for the Northeast Regional Live Station.

Right. So, thank you, mayor. Um in uh my first sentence there, first paragraph, it says in 2024. I've actually uh uh found that the date uh is January 2022. They're leading off of the first sentence. So in January 2022, an electrical event damaged the control panel and a 64 horsepower submersible pump at Northeast Regional Lift Station. This is the one that's located nearest the Columbia airport. It serves uh Amazon, the few u commercial outlets that are there, and then presumably soon the Colombia regional airport itself. 64 horse is the largest pump we have by far in inventory. And it's that large basically to uh it the engineers looked at that much. the the car uh sorry the cartrite uh business park they specked all the land there at being full build and gave us that 64 horsepower pump um just a little backstory there. The damage pump was eventually deemed to be unserviceable meaning it cost it would cost more to reair than it would be to buy. So the station is currently since 2022 without a second pump. It's a duplex station, meaning has two pumps like most lift stations some three. It's a duplex station that's been riding on one pump say 2022. If that one existing pump were to also fail, it would result in costly extended bypass pumping and potential sewer sewage overflows because again that pump is high head. It's got to come from uh near the airport all the way down the road to the treatment plants. A high head pump. Um, so kind of been rolling the dice for this amount of time to not have that

second pump. Uh, this pump again is not a common size and it lead times are unusually long for a pump that size. When I last checked it was 20 to 22 weeks to receive that pump from order. Again, this is a 64 horse. So, um, the quote for a direct replacement of this 64 horsepower pump is $59,574. However, um this proposal is for a smaller 30 horsepower pump costing 26,5820. So, basically what I did is kind of look through the pump curves and try to find a pump that more fits the actual reflects the actual conditions and flows of that area instead of just dropping in the pump that we got upon delivery of the project. So, according to my calcs, and I'm pretty confident about that, we can get away with a 30 horse at roughly half the cost uh rather than just put a 64 in there. Um, again, this this pump allows for redundancy should the remaining 64 horse fail. The controls for the fail pump will be addressed at a later date because remember pump goes with the control panel. The control panel for that pump is also dead. However, keeping track at home, the 64 horsepower pump dies, I can pull that pump up, put in the 30, and we're back in business again. So, u eventually I'm going to have to address those controls as well. And, uh, kind of in the process of doing that as well, but this is just to replace, get us back to where we have another pump should that pump fail. um put a lot of math into this and I think it's a it's a good compromise rather than just buying another 64 horse. Um

any questions? Would the 30 would the 30 horse be adequate? Uh if the airport comes on board. Yeah, absolutely. Yep. Can handle the airport. It can handle some development too. So, got to know that engineers, they kind of double everything and add 15% and that's what this kind of pump reflects. It's it's it's plenty big. Um, it can handle the airport and then also some amount of development for years to come. So, um, Yep. There's some redundancy in there. Yeah. And before that's totally developed, this one will probably wear out, too, huh?

Yeah. This would be This pump would be old. Yeah. How's your budget look? Budget's okay. Um, I am shaving. You can tell I'm shaving it. Uh, we're okay. Uh, let me speak to that.

Yeah. Well, there's a lot to be said there. Go ahead. So um the bad news is is that our existing lift stations and our existing sewer plant are in need of quite a few repairs. Um sewage is very corrosive is very hard on electronics and very hard on equipment and then not maintained properly that just becomes worse. uh the sewer budget is not okay, but uh we don't have a choice there. There is no choice. Um if you're going to talk about the cartrite development, uh he is absolutely correct. uh shaving down to a smaller pump is the way to do this at the moment because the development is is not slated to do anything for many years. Um and we already pay for all the lights, all the lift stations, everything up there. Um which costs the city thousands of dollars every year. Um, so we need to at least maintain the services that we have up there for the time being. Um, in hopes that at some point when none of us are sitting here, uh, the city will be able to recruit recoup some of those expenses once it's developed.

Do they contract that to keep the lights on? No. Just ask. Any other questions for I guess my only concern about it is if we only put in the 30, does it discourage development from coming in because they're concerned that we can't handle them?

There's no development in the progress at this point. Sorry. the the engineering that went into partright assumed very heavy industrial use on a lot of those sites that that 64 is quite oversized for even the most optimistic buildout up there. So I I think this gets us by for quite some time and I have no doubt that if need be Kevin could recycle that somewhere else into the system if we need to come back at a later point and put that 64 back in. Um, this is just a backup pump. Anyways, there's still a 64 in the ground right now. As mentioned, you know, we are exploring how to get the airport connected to our system. There's nothing to say that we won't end up upgrading this lift station in some capacity as part of that or making some substantial changes to how infrastructure lays out there to contemplate that connection and and make that connection feasible feasible. So, I'm not losing sleep or stressing over putting a 30 horse in there. We've kind of kicked this can down the road as as long as we could, hoping that some development would come forward that would make that 64 horse pump make sense to replace. When James was here, he evaluated trying to rebuild that pump or use alternative pumps that we had in inventory for backup and just nothing really made financial sense at the time. Kevin hasn't really spent like sewer has not really spent much of their collection system repair budget this year. Um, for those that have been here, you know, we've spent quite a bit on pumps over the last few years. That's going to continue going forward as we start to work on our budget workshops with you guys, you'll Kevin's getting very aggressive with updating some of these older lift stations. This isn't an old one. It just happened to be oversized, put a lot of stress on it, suffered electrical damage, and then ultimately went down. So, we do need to do something. I think now is the appropriate time. Now that we've uh got the plant project underway, we can kind of circle back to to focusing on some of

the other needs of the of the collection and conveyance system. So again, not really losing sleep over putting that 30 horse down there right now. If we had some large industrial user, that would make sense to have a 64 back down in there. Obviously, the story would be a little different, but we don't think ownership is going to allow for that. and it's not even zoned up there for heavy industrial use where you're going to see the flows um especially the the wastewater flow like sure we might get something up there that uses a lot of water but that doesn't necessarily mean that that'll translate to to heavy wastewater flows. So not not stressing it now that may be something 10 years down the road where opinion changes on that but we can't forecast that at this point. All right. Any other questions? All right. Can I get a motion approving resolution number 2025-62, a resolution authorizing the purchase of a replacement submissible pump for the Northeast Regional Lift station. So move second.

Second. Albert. I Lewis. Hi. Alcraft. I Bill. Hi. We going the mayor report. Um just a couple of things just reminder about the Christmas lunch is Friday at 12:00 if you can make it. Um are we noticing some work on sidewalk on Broadway by MODOT? Are they going to fix the two ends also or is this the start of the punch list? I believe this is the start of the punch list. I don't know. Darren, did you make contact with mod when they were I will make contact with.

So we're still kind of bird dogging on on what they're doing with the punch list. Uh they showed up unannounced. The contractor did. So there's no telling when they'll be back, but Dar is kind of tracking on it to to stay on about fixing what needs to be fixed on that sort of stuff. All right. And then I noticed that the I want to say back door, but the wood panel that we put up or somebody put up on the old skyline building is taken off and exposed. You can walk in there. So if we can get a hold of the owner because I hate for some child to go in there or some Don't wander in there fall choice. That's my report. Moving on to city administrative. Just as a reminder, I sent out some budget workshop invites, some calendar invites. Um we have some of the initial data from the department head as well for next fiscal year. So just going to sit down with you in your in your ward groups to kind of go over what's planned for your wards, what's planned in those departments, what those department heads think they they need to try and accomplish next year. Then Callaway Bank, as you've was likely noticed, they've they've moved out, moved into their new facility. So as we work through these budget conversations, we'll talk about what to do with that space as well. Um other than that, I don't know that I have anything. Wastewater project is still moving forward. I know they had some weather push them off, some high winds pushed them off over the last two weeks. You know, they're using cranes for a lot of the work down there right now. So, second it gets a little windy, they have to to shut down the job site on that, but everything else is still trending for being completed on schedule.

Yeah. First workshop is tomorrow morning at 8. Yep. All right. Moving on to see the attorney's report.

No report. All right. Police chief monthly, please. Good evening everybody. Uh we're in a kind of a glorious period for the first time since I've been here. Not only do we have all our positions filled, but everyone is out of field training. So we have uh an entire operational full staff that started November 30th. It ends Christmas Day. So we have one leaving at Christmas Day be his last day of work. So it's been a nice little three weeks and change that we'll have. Um, but that'll still just put us one down with everybody we have operational, which which will be good. Um, you got the report in front of you, and I don't know if anybody looks at that much, but it's uh I know it seems long, but it's really a nice report. Sergeant Smith puts this together for us. Um, you know, among other things, it's got the breakdown on where we do our traffic stops and which I know has we've had some folks with issues about that. So, we got that breakdown there detailed out if anybody has questions. Other than that, we've not had anything really major. Thank goodness. So, I guess one question for you, Chief. Um, so I know there are concerns about, you know, the officers being out on the highway. My understanding is that a lot of times when you guys go out there, it's because you've received notification of like somebody coming through that may have a warrant, those kind of things. Is that generally the case?

Absolutely. A lot of that. and from both the county's cameras and then what will be our flock cameras coming up which has been delayed. I've been talking to folks this week about that. But uh but yes, that's that's a bunch of it. Yeah.

Yeah. So it's not just you guys sitting out there for no reason at all. And I and again I get it's about anecdotally about half and half people that don't like us out there and the other half people come and tell me they really appreciate seeing us out there because of the speed, you know, and it's it still surprises me when we see tickets come through at 100 miles an hour and 90 plus, which is not that unusual. And I think last month there's what was it? We had uh several that to me is I'm not a fast driver so it seems shocking to me but um lost my page but we had uh traffic stopped several in the 20 over range you know which it's fast. I was coming back from Jeff City today and was passed by a a white BMW convertible and a bright green Mustang and they you know I I can't say I was doing the speed limit but I may have been a little bit over but they passed me like I was standing still. So they at least

some of these tickets get written when people pass our marked patrol cars going the same direction. So yeah. All right. So thank you very much. I appreciate it. Moving on to community development director.

Uh I just have one thing to add to what was in the packet and that's that uh Southern Boom Storage has been granted occupancy. That's an adjustment to what the packet said. There were a few minor fire department issues. Just the knock box and the electronic gate. That's it. Anybody has stuff they need to get rid of money obviously pay for. Any questions for Dan? Moving on to treasures report. No report. Moving on to board of alderman. Alman Lewis. No report.

No report. All right. No report.

All right. Moving on to general comments from the public the board. Please approach the podium. Get your name and your number. My name is Alan Beckett. Last meeting. Uh last time I spoke. This time I'm going to ask for a little help. I've got an ordinance here. I'm not a law enforcement agent. Don't pretend to be. Can you guys I didn't bring enough for everybody. This is a mutual aid agreement. I like Mr. Young to come up here and help me with this because I'm not sure what I'm doing. My main objective here, folks, is to keep our streets safe for our children before and after school. And I understand your position on patrolling the highway. If that's what you guys think you need to do, that's fine with me. As long as it's between hours when it's not peak traffic times. Peak traffic times to me in this town are between 3 and 6:00, between 7 and 8:00 when our students are walking to and from school. It's dangerous. If you don't believe it, come on out and I'll I'll make uh make you see it. Uh cuz I don't have a police car with lights on. When they see me, they don't pay any attention to me. Okay. But when your officers are out on the highway doing whatever it is they do out there trying to stop speeders, which are never going to do it. I've lived in this community for over 50 years. And I I grieve the day that one of our kids get hit out here on these public streets in our community when these officers are out here on the highway. I grieve the day

and I just want somebody to be accountable for it and I want our city to be safe for our kids and I mean it and I'm very passionate about it. I have several relatives. I have several friends with small and young children that walk to and from school and it's a racrack out here and I'm passionate about it and I'm not going to stop until I get some concerns answered. And if I have to fill this room with people with the same concerns, I'm prepared to do it. And I'm real serious about it. And I'm just waiting for the day that some innocent kid on a bicycle gets hit by some idiot running around here at 60 m an hour. And I guarantee you it happens, doesn't it?

Very, very few situ. Well, when the kids when your officers are on the highway, they're not present in this and that's where they're hired to protect our citizens in our town. Sir, director. Okay, that's all I got to say. And if I need to fill this room with people that have the same drive and the passion, I will do so. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm not asking. I'm telling you, it's a serious problem.

Any other comments from public? I see none. Can I get a motion to go into close session pursuing chapter 610-021 legal actions and hiring and firing and disciplinary promotion? So a second second I co

She knew she turned three and she knew. Okay, at this time we're back in open session. I have nothing to approve. Can I get a motion to adjourn? Second. Second. Fiber.