City Council - Regular Meeting

Aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for Roll call, please. Mayor Larkkey, here. Council member White, here. Council member Thompson. Council member Davidson, here. Council member Bryan, here. Council member Lawson, here. Council member Richardson here. Council member McCllum here. Council member Johnson here.

We have a quorum. No personal appearance. E. Presentations. Belton High School traction traffic team or traction team, sorry. Come on up.

Hi, we're the high school attraction team. We're an organization that helps promote traffic safety in high school students and teachers. To start off our presentation at state, we presented about Belin in general, describing how we have a lot of roundabouts in our town. And that is why we chose our year's problem to focus on roundabout safety this year. We talked about how we have up to four roundabouts going to high school every single day for teachers and students. And we talked about how we have approximately 1,200 students that go to high school. And that's why we chose roundabout safety.

Okay. So, our lift it up. Lift it. Okay. There you go.

Okay. So, our problem indication this year, students at Belton High School have insufficient education about navigating roundabouts. Our goal was students at Belton High School will gain an understanding of how to use roundabouts so that all entrances to the school will be safer and more efficient. And our plan was to send out a survey about roundabout safety, connect in the AAA BUPD challenge, host events like first impact trivia night, save a life tour, connect with a guest speaker, interview staff, students, and community members, and educate our students community with informal videos and collect data. So survey surveys were filled out by students, school staff, and community members. And some questions were like, "Do you think students receive enough education about how to use a roundabout safely? The overall data show that most drivers feel confident navigating a roundabout, but still believe that students are not receiving enough information or education to properly use roundabouts. Although the majority of have had no problems with roundabout, there's still significant amount of people who have

Okay, so the city of Belton, Cass County, and the Belton school board pledged to buckle up, phone down. The traction team presented proclamations that were adopted by each group. Proclamations are documents to raise awareness, celebrate community milestones, or honor causes.

So during lunch, we spoke with students about driving driver safety, and our goal was to educate them about not only roundabouts, but overall like driving safety and how they can um prevent being distracted on the road. Uh then students took a pledge. They wrote down on a petition that they would put their phones down and always wear a seatelt while driving. We then handed out stickers to our community and students once they took the pledge. And then these are some these are some vehicles that have that have the uh phone down buckle up uh stickers. So, we held a workshop at the high school and we talked to parents about how to teach their teenagers and children about driving uh driver safety and how to navigate around roundabouts.

The safety traffic garden was an activity we did at Kentucky Trails Elementary School in the past summer. This is where we taught children like basic traffic rules. We gave them scooters or bikes to drive around on a taped out just city. So, it had roundabouts in it. It had stop signs. It had yield signs just to teach them basically how just get a basic foundation of how traffic works before they actually get out to on the road in high school. And this is a roundabout we made partnering with our high school's robotics team. These are small outreach robots we use at uh festivals like Carry Nation Days or Fall Fest that you guys might recognize. We recorded a video demonstrating how to effectively drive through a roundabout and how to incorrectly drive through a roundabout. What's the sound? That was our video that we created

every day. So we uh we interviewed a few uh of our teachers and we asked them what and students and we asked them um some questions.

Um oh well okay so uh um yeah we we used these clips and created a video that was shown uh to each advisory in our school and uh we asked them some questions. We said things like, "How safe would you feel navigating around a roundabout as a pedestrian rather than a driver?" Uh, and do you think roundabouts help or hurt the flow of traffic during busy times like when schools out? Have you ever seen problems at roundabouts? If so, what is the most uh common problem you've seen? Are roundabouts safe for pedestrians? Have you ever been injured in a roundabout because of a driver error? Do you believe that focusing on teaching roundabout safety is something that students need? And lastly, what do you think people need to learn about roundabout safety? These are just some important questions to consider.

Do you see someone all the time? Well, I go through them all the time. So, um, every time I go through them, you see people not paying attention. I think people sometime don't know they got to yield. I always tell people just look left and if you see nobody on your left hand side you can go but seems like especially around a high school there's always people someone not wanting to stop.

Trivia night is a event sponsored by Belton Cares a community co coalition to raise funds to sponsor a safe after event. One of the trivia categories at this event included information about roadway safety. Uh Mr. MCRS KC traditionally sponsor table. This year the traction team along with other high school students to fill this table. We partnered with Officer Sean Myers, who is here today in the back somewhere, but he helped us record videos of drivers going through the roundabouts. And to use these, we counted the amount of people that did not yield or did yield to create data based off of that. We did this two times and we plan to do it again after we've shown the results to rest of our school to then redo the drone footage to see any improvements. This was a program that we adopted into our school this year as a first time that had two simulators on it. One was to simulate driving while texting. It had a phone that texted you every 12 seconds that you need to respond to while driving. You can see in the top right corner in the middle is a simulator that tried to simulate driving under the influence. It had a relate a delayed reaction time when you would move your head around and turn the steering wheel to simulate a slowed down reaction time. And we showed this to all of the senior class at Bone High School throughout the entire day to show them that you can't multitask. can't detect while you're driving effectively and you should not drive under the influence because it is dangerous.

So in addition to that, we had a motivational speaker. Her name was uh Cara Filler. She came all the way to Belton from Oregon and she spoke to the junior and senior class about her story and how her sister was affected by um her a car crash. And that really just inspired her to um do um like talking around schools and other events uh to at least let students know like this is real. It's not it's not something it can happen to anyone, you know. And um I mean she had a pretty big impact in our school. Her school was attentive. They were listening. She was uh she was um encouraging and we enjoyed having her over. And lastly, what's next is the rest of our program this year to help teach our community. We'll have our presentation here today is one of our goals. We'll do more drone videos. We'll send out post surveys to see if people improved over the course of this last year. And just more things to come.

Good job. Lastly, thank you. Oh, I we just want to thank everybody such as the Belton Police Department, the Cass County Commission, Citizens of Belton, as well as its lawyer, a mayor, the HS um and the sponsors and mentors of traction such as uh Civotello, Krusa, um Officer Meyers, and Mary Cummings. and then our presentation is over, but we do want your guys' inputs for what you think we should do this next summer on like a new issue in Bellin that we should focus on regarding traffic. Go ahead. Well, I just want to thank you for this particular presentation. I

was hit by someone going through a roundabout and so uh I know personally that Sorry, mayor. I know it wasn't the mayor though. Uh I so I know personally what it's like and so I thank you for taking that up. Yes. Anybody else? Go ahead. I do have a suggestion for next year. You could teach the mayor how to drive down Main Street without getting t-boned. Oh, yeah. I'm still feeling that. If we have a suggestion for you, say a week or a month from now or whatever, even when you know school's about to be out, how do we uh Oh, get a hold of Mr. Myers back there. I saw him raise his hand. He knew where my question was going. All right. Or Mary Cummings would be fine.

Perfect. Thank you guys. We do need it by end of July because that's when our traction state conference is got. So you have some time. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Go ahead. Might I suggest pedestrian safety is always a good topic, especially around the city around the roundabout where I almost got hit by a dump truck. You're being an awful media tonight. Wow. Anybody else? All right. You come up with something, get it to Officer Myers or Mary Cumins. Thanks again, guys. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. So, this is probably the longest proclamation that we've had to read. So, I'm going to get at it. This is uh about tornado response appreciation. You're not going to come to the front. Oh, timed out. No, I'm not. Okay. Cuz it's two pages and I don't want to have to hold unless you come up and hold my microphone for me.

All right. So whereas on April 7th, 2026, an EF1 tornado with peak winds of 110 miles an hour struck the city of Bon causing damage, destroying homes and disrupting lives and residents. And whereas first responders, fire, police, EMS, emergency management, public works personnel acted with bravery, professionalism, and dedication to protecting lives and property. And whereas local agencies, volunteers, neighboring communities, and utility crews provided immediate support, assisting with debris removal, restoring essential services, and bringing comfort and hope to those affected. And whereas individual recognition is due for the following fire department employees for going above and beyond the call of duty. Austin Anderson, Chris Beal, Cody Gillanwater, Logan Harrison, Brenda Hooper, Britney Smith, Lucas Gibson. Oh, wait a minute. Sorry. Um, Hooper, Will I screwed all that up. Chris Bill, Matt, Mattie Black, Blankenship, Will Dowy, Cooper Foresight, Dave Michael, Dustin Miller, Ben Newell, Jason Oakley, Jeremy Rosacat, Jordan Goddard, Reese Teal, Robert Van Bource, Chad Wright, Todd Yoey, and Chief John Sap. And whereas individual recognition is due to the following police department employees for going above and beyond the call of duty. Steve Bechal, Crystal Bill, Cody Gillanwater, Logan Harrison, Brendan Hooper, Britney Smith, Lucas Gibson, Ted Hilton, Sarah P, Scott Shaner, Savannah Trout, Dylan Chetum, AJ Hos, Colin Dunning, Tim Bogle, Pat Heapner, Shawn Meyers, Aliab Delgawad, Dan Davis, James Hos, and Chief Jame Scott Lions. And whereas individual recognition is due to

the following dispatch employees for going above and beyond the call of duty. Madison Jananish, Kenzie Fiddler, Lillian Seawward, and supervisor Carla Wills. And whereas individual recognition is due to the following public works employees for going above and beyond the call of duty. Brandon Anderson, Todd Bell, Eric Bidwell, Sean Bul Bulb Bulock, Matt Butterfield, Michael Cotton, Michael Floyd, Jesus Garcia, Joe Don Herrell, Jeffrey Jones, Roger Lady, Pablo Marquez, Travis, Travis McAuliff, Paul Rush, Jackson Schmidt, Dallas Schools, Chase Stoultz, Sean Turner, John Walsh, N Wilson, Dakota Wartz, Matthew Wilson, Clayton Turbo, and assistant city manager and public works director Greg Roos. And whereas individual recognition is due to the following community development and communications employees for going above and beyond the call of duty, Greg Clayton, Demetrius Ramirez, Aaron Smolen, and assistant city manager economic development Mike Kiki. And whereas individual recognition is due to emergency management director Clare Kanan for above and beyond the call of duty. And whereas special recognition is due to the following businesses, churches, and organizations, we're going above and beyond the call of duty. And I know we're going to miss a lot of them that we don't have on here, but but we do thank everybody. Heart and Hand Ministry, Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief, United in Christ, Life Quest Church, 816 Barbecue, Scooters Coffee, Jose Peppers, Hi Ve, Big Daddy Donuts, Belton and Raymore Starbucks, American Red Cross, MA's Disposal, Lenona's Restaurant, Quilted Cal, and Raymore, and local boy scouts. And whereas specific recognition is due to the following agencies for going above and

beyond the call of duty. Cass County Sheriff's Office, Raymore Police Department, and the city of THA. Whereas the coordinated efforts of all involved explicit exemplify the highest standards of public service and reflect the strong spirit of cooper cooperation that defines the city of Belton community. Now therefore, I, Norm Kari, senior mayor of the city of Belton, Missouri, do hereby extend my deepest gratitude and appreciation to all first responders, volunteers, and support agencies for their courageous actions and invaluable assistance during the tornado response of April 17, 2026. Furthermore, I urge all residents to recognize the selflessness and dedication of those individuals who place themselves in harm way in our community in the time of need. In witness whereof, I, Norm K. Larkey, senior, mayor of the city of Belt, Missouri, have herein to set my hand and cause the seal of the city to be affixed at Belton, Missouri this 12th day of May, 2026. So I So, I'm going to say a few things now. Uh, I guess I can wait, but I'll say it now. Uh, again, just thanks everybody. We got so lucky. It could have been so much worse. Uh, I always knew it was just a matter when one would hit here. Uh, not if. I just always knew it mattered when. So, but thanks to everybody involved, and I know we miss people, but thanks to everybody. And I had people come up to me. I had one business owner come up to me and give me uh like 40 gift cards, $25 a piece for for people to go get something to eat at a restaurant. So, she just said, "Hand

them to whoever needs them." So, so stuff like that just made me appreciate being the mayor of this city and and that the citizens just came together in the hard time of need. So, thanks everybody. All right. Uh proclamation public service rec recognition week.

I I will go to the front. Well, said I will go to the front. Yeah, he's going to show. That's all right. Yeah. Yeah. Is anybody uh is anybody joining me as part of this? I don't think anybody's here. Okay.

All right. Well, uh, that may have been the longest, but this is, uh, this one's pretty good. Got some good, uh, uh, tongue twisters in here, so I apologize in advance, uh, if I have to, uh, clarify myself, but, uh, proclamation that goes well inand with what was just went through. We had public service recognition week. Um, so whereas the week of May 3rd through May 9th, 2026 has been designated as public service recognition week to honor employees of the federal, state, and local governments and members of the uniform services who are entrusted with missions fundamental to the United States and deliver services upon which Americans depend. And whereas public service recognition week provides an opportunity to recognize and promote the important contributions of public servants and to honor the Americans who serve their country, states, and communities at all levels of government and as members of the uniform services. And whereas millions of individuals serve the public in government service and as members of uniform services in every state, county, and city across the United States and around the world. And whereas public servants make substantial contributions to the economy, managing public lands, infrastructure, financial systems, research institutions, and regulatory frameworks that undergrid private sector growth, protect consumers, and sustain conditions for a competitive and innovative marketplace. And whereas public servants are critical to protecting the safety and security of the American people, working every day, often at great personal risk, to prevent harm, respond to crisises, and safeguard the lives and well-being of the communities they serve. And whereas public service is a noble

calling involving a variety of challenging and rewarding professions and highly skilled and trained prof individuals offer their knowledge, ef effort and expertise in support of the public good. Now therefore, Norman K. Larry senior mayor city mayor of the city of Belton Missouri does hereby commend the dedication professionalism and patriotism of the public servants of the city of Belton who deliver essential services to the Belton residents. We recognize this indispensable role of public servants in strengthening the Belton economy and protecting the safety and security of the public. We honor the contributions of all public servants during public service recognition week May 3rd through May 9th 2026 and throughout the year. In witness thereof, Norman K. Larkey senior, mayor of the city of Belton, Missouri has here unto set his hand and caused the seal of the city to be affixed at Belton, Missouri on this 12th day of May, 2026. All right, did it. Mr. Mayor, if we may, I think I'd like we'd like to get a picture of the all the staff and the council at this point would be as good a time as any.

We just get to stand up, right? Yeah. I would say come back here. Let all them go there. I don't see who's taking a picture. Yeah. Who's going to be in the picture? Are you hiding behind me?

Get married to take it. There we go. The fire marshall didn't.

Pretend like you pretend like you guys like each other. All right. Mayor uh for the Emergency response. She handed it up.

Oh, all right. Where we at? App unfinished business. One, motion approving the final reading of bill 2026-9. An ordinance amending chapter 4, animals and appendix A, schedule of fees and charges of the code of ordinances to improve public safety. Present. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call. Council member Lawson. Hi. Johnson. Hi. White. I. Richardson. I. Davidson. Yes. Brian. I. Mallum. I. Mayor Larkkey. I.

Motion passes. Two. Motion approving final reading of bill 2026-20. An ordinance approving the Belton, Missouri Police Department Municipal Jail 2026 Housing Contract for inmates of the Graan View, Missouri Police Department. Present. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Council member Bryan. I. Davidson. Yes. White. I. Johnson. I. McCllum. I. Lawson. I. Mayor Larkkey. I. Richardson. I. Motion passes.

Item three, motion approving final reading bill 2026-21. An ordinance approving the Belton, Missouri Police Department Municipal Jail 2026 housing contract for inmates of the peculiar Missouri Police Department. Present. Second. Motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Mayor Larkkey. I. Council member Johnson. I. Brian. I. White. I. John Richardson. I. McCllum. I. Lawson. I. Davidson. Yes. Motion passes. G. New business. Motion approving the first reading of bill 2026-22.

An ordinance approving a final plat for Jim's muffler, a one lot subdivision on 444 Mor or less acres located at 903 North Scott Avenue in the city of Belton, Missouri. Present. Second. We have a motion to second. You're up, sir.

Thank you, mayor and council. Before this evening is a final plat for Jim's muffler located at 903 North Scott. Uh the owner acquired a 50- foot remnant strip of property from Quicktrip that's adjacent to the Marquy Parkway extension to the south of their uh previous property. Um and they have received approval from the planning commission uh to expand their parking lot on the south side of their existing auto repair shop. Um this final plaque combines the two parcels into a single lot to accommodate to accommodate that expansion. Uh the planning commission reviewed the final plat on April 21st and recommended approval and staff also recommends approval and I'm happy to answer any questions. Any questions? Go ahead.

Just a clarification on the enclosure of the dumpster because there's a reference that they were going to do some sort of a mobile enclosure. Is it going to be a permanent enclosure or something else? So they don't have re there's really no good space on the site for that. So they will have it's it's still mobile but it's completely screened so it's able to be moved if needed. Thank you. Anybody else? Go ahead. And just to I know we had a work session on this actually speaking of that's I guess where my question is going. Anything substantially different from what was previously discussed during that work session?

No. Everything that was previously presented was the same as what was approved by planning commission. So ultimately this is just to get a local business that's doing well and wanting to expand some property and allowing them to make that happen. Yep. Anybody else? Hearing none. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. Item two, motion approving the first reading of bill 2026-23, an ordinance amending articles 2 and five in chapter 10 and appendix A of the Unified Development Code related to permitting and inspection processes and related fees. Present. Second.

We have a motion, a second. You're still up. Yep. Thank you, Mayor and Council. This is for the UDC text amendments related to permitting processes, penalties, and inspections. Um, these amendments were discussed with the council at work sessions in February and March uh with the with the purpose of expediting permitting and inspection timelines and adding penalty fees to achieve compliance for violations of the code. Uh, the planning commission held a public hearing on April 21st to which no one spoke in favor or in opposition to the amendments and the planning commission unanimously recommended approval of the amendments and staff also recommends approval. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Any questions? Go ahead.

Um, the ordinance creates a minor permit and a major permit classification and the it states that the building official has the final authority to determine which classification applies. Correct. Is there anything to ensure that that's going to be treated fairly across the board or I mean is it just whatever he says that's that's the way it goes.

The building official and I coordinate together to make sure we're in agreement um in that interpretation, but we've tried to lay out specifically what classifies as a permit as a minor versus a major. And it's really the the length of time that somebody could reasonably get a permit approved and finish any corrections to the code. I I didn't see anything in there where it kind of classifies a a minor and a major that I saw, but And is there going to be any kind of appeal process in case? Yes, statutoily and under your guys' code building code provisions and provisions from the UDC are appealable to the BZA and the interpretation of those are also appealable to the BCA.

Okay.

And just real quick on that same line of thought, can you share I understand it may not be a hard deadline um but can you share generally where we start to get major versus minor in terms of that length of time since that's the primary differentiator? Yeah. So minor is is work and it's kind of defined um in there. The minor is for scope of work that can generally be completed within seven days. Um and there's no plan reviews that are required, just a permit. So those are typically electrical, mechanical, plumbing, water heaters, roofing, um driveway additions, and fences. Um and they typically only require one inspection. The major permits are pretty much everything else. So things that require uh sign and sealed plans with them and typically require more than one inspection. Um so that's that's spelled out in section 10-59.

Thank you. Anybody else? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item three, motion approving first arena bill 2026-24, an ordinance amending appendix B, traffic schedules table six, no parking zones of the code of ordinances of the city of Belton, Missouri to establish certain no parking zones. Present. Second. We have a motion and a couple seconds.

You're up, sir. Tonight in front of you is the language that we came out of the work session in regards to it would be we'll prepare a circle the culde-sac uh that was outlined in the diagram from last week and then the south side of the intersection uh from the intersection to 15 ft on Wilbur Parish Circle which would be that south side uh so vehicles at the stop sign trying to turn back out onto North Scott could look to the northbound on traffic and see it. And so, um, there is, um, alternative language if you so choose that we, uh, calculated out if you want to extend it from, um, that area right there where people would stop on, uh, and be able to look southbound. If you extended it um southside from 65 feet to 78 feet, that would encompass the mailboxes on that street, which one of the uh I'm sorry, two of the owners on that street said that they would like to have no parking in front of those if you choose the alternative language to add.

Any questions? Go ahead. I was going to make a motion to amend it to the 78 ft. You got to be able to get your mail. Second. Can hold on. Can we Can we talk about where that is in the ordinance? Where can you show us? It's u the way the ordinance is written. It is the 17 217 ft of Wilbur Circle, Wilbur Parish Circle on the south side. I just to end this I see that already in exhibit A.

That's that was uh what was proposed to go into the ordinance. It's under appendix B, table six um down the line where Parish circle. That's what we're proposing. You don't need an amendment to the ordinance. No, they the the leng the uh at the council meeting where we talked about at the work session. I'm sorry. There was discussion to leave it as that, but if you wanted to extend it to the mailboxes as the alternate that you would have to accept or propose this secondary language. Does that make sense?

Yeah. So, it based on what you're saying, it it changes it from what did you say 60 feet to 78t? Yes. 18t. Yeah. Uh, so that would be a motion to amend exhibit A of ordinance 2026- 24 uh to change the language in the Wilbur Wilbur Parish Circle portion to southside from the intersection to 78 ft

to 78 ft of Wilbur. Bert Parish Circle Culdeac. So moved. Second. We have a motion and a second to amend as everything you just heard. Any discussion on the motion to amend? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Now we're back to the motion as amended. Any discussion on the motion as amended? Go ahead. set out. Go ahead. Sorry, Chief. I will have some questions. You can sit. You can sit for it. Not going to offend me.

Um what is our normal process when there's a um for you know creating a no parking zone on a public street? Is this our like what how does that occur? Do we have a procedure policy? Yeah, the procedure is that it comes to the police department and uh I usually run uh check into those things and involve the traffic unit, uniform patrol, but I also work with uh public works and fire in regards to those issues. And so it could come to us as adding no parking or it could come to us as taking away no parking.

Okay. So it's ultimately just a request that comes in. Yes, the request comes in and then and if we do an internal staff review whereas if we want to recommend the change of the request then we bring that we would bring that to council unless otherwise directed by council. Um, so and and to help me understand, you said maybe up to I if I remember correctly, you said maybe up to a dozen times a year that the where we the BPD is currently getting called to come out to that area to potentially have help with moving vehicles. Yes.

Why is that? If it's a public street, are they not allowed to park there now? They're allowed to park on the street anywhere and those vehicles were taking up not only that area um but they were taking up the culdesac and when delivery trucks were trying to deliver products on that street whether it be for Cox Air or the other stores they're having a hard time getting in down that street because of the parking especially in the culdeac because the semitrs trying to deliver like steel and other supplies they have to make the roundabout and then back up. And some of those vehicles are hindering that. And so they do work with each other, but sometimes there are vehicles there that they can't find the owners to move them around. And it's become more and more of an issue as the businesses have turned over.

I guess what I'm having a hard time struggling with here, if somebody is legally parked on a street somewhere, what do we do about that? You know what I mean that that this is the remedy. I mean there are a myriad of issues why I mean there's no standard. I guess I think you're trying to get as what's the standard. There's not a standard. It depends on the situation of the street depends on you know residential commercial. We get requests for for a myriad of reasons. Um some make a lot of sense and some make you scratch your head.

Yeah. But before I am going there but uh before I go there I'm just trying to understand what role we play if somebody's parked residential commercial I don't know if it matters in my opinion if somebody's parked on a street legally somewhere like in front of their house and it is not a no parking zone so they can be there uh but the neighbor wants them gone because they're trying to I don't know bring a trailer in to do some yard work or something. Why do we get involved in that? You know what? You just That's what this kind of feels like to me is that we're getting involved in a matter that's not necessarily ours.

It's It's not unusual for us to for a city to make a an area either parking or no parking, you know, parking allowed where there's no parking before or to not allow parking when there there was because of the way circumstances roll out. I mean, and it can circumstances can change. And so I think what you've got here, you know, for instance, is this tight area a number of businesses trying to utilize the same tight area when it comes to a public street and not enough space for everybody for all their employees depending on the businesses. And so I mean yeah it's kind of a a cherrypicked this is a specific uh solution for this specific incident. The other the other thing I would say from the point of view of the police department, this falls under the category of community oriented policing where we deal with quality of life issues and sometimes there's not always a hard line in regards to something that is um allowable or prohibitive, but we try to get in there and we try to look and see if we can solve problems before they come reoccurring problems. And in this case, if we solve it correctly, we won't be going back on that block half a dozen to a dozen times a year trying to help out with parking. Council member, I would also note that section 13-3224 uh as part of your traffic code um provisions states that a person may not leave unattended any motor vehicle on any roadway or highway in this city so as to interrupt the normal movement of traffic or which causes a hazardous condition by doing so. So when the PD is having to go out to move cars because trucks cannot trucks for a business cannot get down the road due to a parked vehicle that would be leaving a car unattended making the use of the road.

So I want to be very specific. What I'm talking about is the culde-sac and not the um 78 ft of uh roadway that is inhibiting a federal mailbox as well as a street view. I mean there's a safety concern. And there's a federal I mean we I can I'm actually fully in favor of that piece of it. I'm just I'm just not sure if just cuz somebody asked nicely that uh we should be necessarily involved in you know making an entire culde-sac a no parking. Is it safe to say that every section of street in here gone through the same process over the years in general? Is it safe to say that

a lot of them have? I mean, I know I know a lot of them are old, but it's there's been concerns. It got brought up to the city and the city looked at it and then the city council determined. I think you can make an argument that economic development is not just recruitment of business but retention of business and and helping the e the local economy. And when a situation like this arises and it has a negative effect on a business a business's ability to operate, we can make a change here that seems to work for most if not all or maybe risk losing them to somewhere else and then there go the jobs. I mean I'm just thinking for instance and

I don't get involved. I'm not I'm not opposed to Cox Air or the other business that's on that culde-sac, but there is another business that will potentially have an issue with parking now, right? Um so it's not just it's not going to not you know what I mean? There's other people impacted. Cool. That's all right. You sure? Go ahead. No, that's all right. I'll be quiet. Go ahead.

From the fire department standpoint, too, there are problemmed areas when they've been built in prior codes, right? So when fire prevention goes out, when we're initially building these now, we're making them big enough to turn a fire apparatus around in. And so if you go to an area that's commercial and you fill it full of vehicles, it's impossible to get the apparatus close enough to do the job they need to do in that moment. So it's trying to find a balance to go what's the safe access when we really need the access versus a place for employees to park as well. And and like I said, I fully support the safety aspect if you know I don't know that the end of this culde-sac is fully on that safety aspect. Um have you driven a fire truck through them yet? I have not.

Um but I understand what you're saying. Yeah. Go ahead. Um, can't you also get involved within like private parking private parking lots

as for say uh handicap parking spots? If somebody needs a handicap parking spot or a business is like we have none, can't they have to go through the police department even though it's private parking lot? There are a difference in parking spots on private property that we can enforce and there's ones where we cannot enforce and a lot of times it's on based on the color of the signage and so uh but we do get involved on private property when it comes to those types of things but we would not become involved in like ones that are designated for military veterans that I've seen in the community. those are not enforceable or there's other types of special parking that is not enforceable.

I was just going back to one that we had where the they were wanting a handicap parking spot because there were none in front of this business um and they ended up finally doing it. But I that should be able to be through the police department. I thought where they could call and say, "Hey, I think we need a handicap parking spot because there are none here." But so handicap parking on private property is typically handled through the ADA.

Um so ADA requirements don't trigger until certain improvements are made on specifically on private property. That's why all new developments, you know, post ADA all have significant amounts of handicap parking spots and older ones don't. If an older business were to, you know, for some reason construct a new parking lot, then they would have to bring it up to ADA compliance. But, you know, some of the gravel lots, stuff like that, older lots, it's it's difficult to make an argument that ADA has been triggered. Okay.

I just want to clarify, and I know Chief just stepped back there, but maybe I don't recall hearing about um there being a safety concern for a fire apparatus during the first discussion. Is that part of this as well? Because I mean, basically what I've heard is getting semi-truckss with steel moved around. That was the primary reason the complaint came in. I probably didn't bring it up my presentation, but like I said before, when I get these requests, I I check with the fire department and public works. That was a concern that Chief Sap brought up. Okay. So, that that is I mean, part of this request is that concern.

Yes. Well, I'm going to take advantage to to be able to point that out any anytime we're having a problem. So, I wasn't originally involved in that, but he did have a brief discussion. And so, if you're thinking about an 18-wheeler not getting through, if they're not getting through, we're not either. Okay. Yeah. So, when we can address them, it's always great. We'll we'll, you know, Well, again, originally how it was presented was not that they couldn't get through per se. It was more that they got down there and then couldn't turn around and um back in, right, to do the steel. That was the right the primary thing. So, okay. You sure you don't have none. Anybody else? Hearing none on the motion as amended. All in favor?

I I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Item four, motion approving first reading of bill 2026-25. An ordinance amending chapter 2, division 4 of the code of ordinances of the city of Belton, Missouri by clarifying the procedure for return payment fees. Present. Second. We have a motion to second. Where? Oh, there you are. You're up.

Uh, so this should be really quick and simple. Um, non-sufficient funds fees. We do charge those to our customers who um where we have return checks and return payments from debit cards. Um there was an instance I believe in community development or licensing where uh a person had applied for a license and was the payment was returned and then the license actually wasn't um given out because they decided they didn't want it. but we did not recoup the return payment fee. So, this putting this in place uh codifies that, solidifies that and um actually puts in writing a process that we can go through. So, perhaps next time someone applies for a license or or any other circumstance um we can recoup that fee at a later time.

Any questions? Any questions? Go ahead. So that's on like credit cards, debit cards, and return checks. Correct. And return checks. Um on the credit cards or debit cards, let's say somebody got their debit card stolen, which I have multiple times, and I enter that in to pay, let's say, my water bill, and it comes back declined, the credit card company is charging the city. So, if the payment actually goes if if you um immediately get a decline or whoever is who's stolen it, um as long as it doesn't hit the bank and get returned, but sometimes it will actually hit the bank and then yeah, they will charge us to return it.

I know we we use credit cards quite a bit at our business and I've never had a return fee of if the credit card didn't go through. So, it's usually not credit cards, it's usually debit cards. Or debit cards. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We our our payment processor charges us for that. Did Did I hear you properly say that? Or did I hear you properly? I worded that cor poorly. Did I hear you properly in that you said that we currently charge is just this oneoff situation that we don't

Well, no. I mean, we So, we are charged by the bank a fee if there is a return payment. um we don't have it. I mean it's just it's a practice everyone does. This is specifically saying that we um can go after the only way that we can currently go after someone right now. Say a utility account, a a a utility account, we can put that fee on their account and recoup it that way. if they don't come back to the city and do business and there's no way we can recoup that fee unless they come back and then we can at that time but it is a fee that the city is that we are charged. So, we're talking about kind of two separate things. When you have a reoccurring um expense, water reoccurring every month,

that's different than when you have someone who came in and asked for a license and then didn't didn't use it and didn't didn't pay for it. Those are two separate kind of things. Correct. Yes. Two separate type of transactions. Yes. So, one is reoccurring. So you could automatically put it on their bill. That's correct. And the other one, you just get stuck because they're not around. Right. Okay.

Mr. Mayor, if I may, the permitting was just a a demonstration of why it's necessary to codify this. This is a policy that's in place. This is a practice that's already in place. We're asking to codify it, which would allow us in an instance like this when the someone would try to purchase a permit, and we get charged for us to be able to recoup that. That's what the codification is. The the fee for the return check, return debit is is already there that we already charge. We just can't go after someone who doesn't have a recurring bill like a water bill. There's no way for us to recoup that if they jump ship essentially unless we have it codified. If that makes any sense. And we're not sending Patrick after a $20 fee. That's not Go ahead. Either one of

How often does this occur? Would we guess NSF fees or the oneoff where we can't go after? No, the NS in general the NSF fees. I mean we often often okay do you know what often means it's a daily thing I would say. I mean there are returns daily. Okay. We have we have returns daily. Is that so that includes water utility all that stuff is I mo I mean I would definitely mostly deal with water. Um, I don't know about golf or parks. Uh, I I don't get ind depth with that, but I I'm going to assume that they might have some.

And I I heard you say that this is a fairly common practice to charge the customer for that. Oh, yes. I don't know a business that wouldn't. Yeah. And I agree. I mean, I'm I'm that's not a surprise to me, but I guess when it comes to specifically something like water, where is a you know, bit of a necessity for life? Um is there not I mean to your point, we don't go after, you know, we're not going to try and hunt someone down over a $20 fee. Um but I guess um is there at some point do we have a grace period built in or you you know what I'm getting at here? like can we

there's definitely a grace period built in. I mean, we're not going to shut someone off um immediately because they have the fee unless they're at the end of their due date and the end of their extension period and then and then we have a return. I mean, so that grace period is at least six weeks. So to put any more on that, I mean, we're not going to do that. Um, but again, at that point, they've already been extended out uh a month past their due date. So, go ahead. Go ahead. So, debit cards. Yes. You pay your water bill with the debit card. It gets declined. That bank is now going to charge the city.

So, a fee. The our payment processor charges us a fee. Correct. Yes. What is the fee on a declined debit card? $20 on every debit card. I mean, yeah. I mean, if it if it comes back to us, that is what we are charged. So, going towards golf and parks, I mean, golf, I know you guys use credit card machine out there and if you swipe that credit card and comes back declined, you get charged the fee. No. If it comes back declined, then it hasn't actually gone through. So for us Uhhuh. Uh they go online. This is not like a point of sale. Okay.

They have gone online and they've paid a bill. Mhm. And it comes to us, registers, uh actually posts to their account and then it takes a little while to actually hit for our bank to hit their bank and then we get um a return payment. It's not it's not a point of sale. a point of sale, you'll know right then and there, no, we do not get charged for that.

It just declines it right there. Automatic payments. Um, if people sign up for automatic payments and they um change their account number or I don't know, there are silly things that we see all the time. Um, and that can charge uh or cause a return payment fee as well. Anybody else hearing? None. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Five. Motion approve resolution 2026-51.

A resolution approving an agreement with Bamboo HR for human resources information system services. Present. Second.

Have a motion and a second. You're up. So, Bamboo HR is the HIS system that we use for our applicant tracking and some other employee tracking information. It's not our employee of record and it's currently under Central Square Finance Enterprise. The integration that we thought would come from that isn't what we ultimately wanted. So, right now, Central Square Finance Enterprise is a reseller of that and this document is basically asking that we can sign the service agreement on our own. So we own the data and we can make changes um without going through another company. So the recommendation is to sign or approve the agreement with Bamboo HR directly.

Any questions? So we skipped the middle. Yes. And magically it saves us money. Isn't that funny? Yes. And we did, to be fair, we did um take a few services off that we thought were unnecessary because of the integration. So, and mine is more for Patrick. I understand it's a boilerplate contract, but why are we going through Utah?

Uh, yeah. So, this we reached out to Bamboo HR, asked them to change it, asked them to utilize our kind of standard um form superseding addendum to remove that. There's also some indemnification stuff, some confidentiality stuff, none of which is applicable to us. Um, they said they do not accept superseding addendums. They do not do any changes to their contracts whatsoever. So it was discussed internally regarding the uh necessity of Bamboo HR and the services that they provide similar to Amazon, Apple, those sorts of other large tech companies that we have agreements with where all of that stuff has also changed and given the uh necessity of the service and then also the fact that this is essentially month by month. Um it was one of those things where it's hey let's just take the risk if anything truly occurs. we only have to we can terminate immediately and not continue on with the service.

I figured that but just wanted to ask. Anybody else? Hearing none. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Motion carries. H consent agenda. One motion non to be able to approve the recommendations noted. Any member of the council may ask for an item to be taken from the consent agenda for discussion and separate action. Present. Second. A motion is second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries information. Communicate. City council. Council member Johnson.

We had the sip. The coalition had the sip and stroll on Main Street last weekend. Um I think it went really well. Um, we know what we need to do to make it better for next year and looking forward to that. Um, the coalition will have its monthly meeting on the 26th of May at 4:30 at Random's Coffee. Council member McCllum.

All right. I want to take a moment and say hi, Mom. Happy Mother's Day. Um, I hope it was great. I hope all the moms enjoyed their Mother's Day out there and had some uh peace and affection over the weekend. Um, I also had the pleasure of taking my kiddo to the youth fishing derby this last weekend and uh it was a really great day and it's just really awesome to see a bunch of young folk interested in outdoor activities. Um, and uh um I wanted to this is public works and public works adjacent. I wanted to just say uh I took some time to stop by our ongoing road projects and it's just great to see the progress and they're all seem to be moving along very quickly. So just excited about that. Uh, of course I have some updates from parks. Um, summer camp registration is still underway and that's for kids 5 to 13 and goes from June 1st to August 7th. Uh, upcoming events. Um, the outdoor water park planned opening is May 23rd, assuming there's no um bad weather like there was last year, so that'll uh hopefully go well. And then Carrie Nation Days is uh May 29th and 30th. And remember, um there's a a drone show and and um concerts and a lot of stuff for the families to do. Um and then June 20th is the Hatchet Granny disc golf tournament that registration is currently open. And uh and I of course want to remind everybody our farmers market did start last week and will continue uh every Thursday um starting at 400 p.m. So um check that out. It's everything I have.

Council member Richardson.

Um I've received quite a few calls about some people camping um in doorways of places. Um and I guess there's nothing we can do about this. Um, and I I would like to I mean, if it's if they're camping in a doorway of a business and that's the only ADA accessible entrance, I would feel like there's something we could do about it. But I would like to see if we could consider some way of possibly an ordinance or something to come up with to prevent that so we don't have that all over town. Um, because I got business owners calling me saying, "I got people afraid to come into our business." So, um I don't know if there's anything we can consider, but I would appreciate if we could

if it is on private property and it's the private property owner of the the business that has called you uh have them call potentially PD, that would be uh trespassing at that point since it's on private property. If it is on sidewalks, we do have some provisions regarding that. uh if it is on private property and is being permitted I guess by the owner that's where we get into a little bit of a trickier situation and trying to craft something that would um act to regulate that while avoiding regulating say council member McCullum setting up a tent in his backyard with his with his sons or something is kind of the the tricky part. So if a person's living there for say a month or so there didn't the US Supreme Court come

so that's on public property and I don't know if this is public I think if it is on private property that business owner and that property owner does have the right to say that you cannot come here you need to leave this is trespass that that is 100% okay and our current code does have provisions related to uh for example camping on uh park grounds um limitations on that. So it's only public property, no private. Well, so this is on public property. No, it's private property. So private property that

again trying to draft something that would pro stop somebody from camping or sleeping on a a a front porch or something like that while also not then swallowing the whole again kids camping in their backyard could be something different. Obviously, I don't know the whole facts and circumstances of how long they've been there, but again, if this is a person sleeping on somebody else's private property that they do not want them on, they can contact PD for trespass. Okay. Okay. Go ahead,

Council Member Lawson. Um, I missed the last meeting because it was the second grade concert and that's a can't miss event. But I did want to take a moment and say great job to everybody with the city um staff and and people that volunteered after the tornado. Like the mayor said, it kind of wasn't a question of if, but when. And I don't know a time in Belton history where we would have been as prepared and responded as as well and completely as we did. So, um, it was nice to hear the proclamation and the names called out specifically. Those are folks that um you know I know some of them and and they're kind of the best Belton has to offer and that's really what makes this place great is the people taking care of each other and we saw it in full force. So thank you all so much. Council member Prime.

Um it is also National Police Week. So thank you to all the Belton PD for all you do for us and policemen everywhere especially officer Myers who protects us every week. Yeah. When he shows up. Member I'm the nice one. Council member Davidson. Um I attended Cinco de Mayo and it was kind of a a nice it was a perfect day. The weather was great. It was scaled back but it was still everybody enjoyed themselves. Um hopefully next year it'll be back with the dancers. Um white.

Thank you. I just want to say thank you to all the employees of the city and what a great job they do. Um, they showed up all the time. So, thank you. I have nothing. City manager.

Mr. Mayor, um, I want to take one second um, and and call attention to the t-shirts everybody's wearing. Um, we just took the picture. We had the proclamation for public service week or recognition week. Um, but on the back of these t-shirts, you will see an acronym heart. Um, heart for Belton. Uh the acronym stands for honesty, excellence, accountability, respect, and teamwork. And they those were uh each identified as um our values, our our operating and behavioral values. And with with each of those words, there's a description that goes with them. And we'll have, you know, that stuff's available online and and we're we're utilizing it throughout our organization. But that essentially came from a process that included about half of the full-time employees here at the city. Um and so the idea is that you know the belt advantage is that we uh empower our employees to act as leaders um at all levels of the organization and we literally took in input and feedback um and curation from all levels of our organization to create these behavioral and operational values. And so um we wanted to show them off. That's why they're on the t-shirts. That's why we gave them all to you. And so I just wanted wanted to call attention to that. And then in addition to that, um, Memorial Day, May 25th, city hall annex offices will be closed. That's that.

All right. M items review discussion one, emergency management update. All right. Uh, good evening, Mayor and Council. Um, I am here to just give an update on the different happenings we have going on in emergency management. Uh, what this presentation is going to focus on is just three main areas: preparedness, coordination, and community engagement. I'm going to talk about our LEOP workshop series that we have started. Um, kind of what we're seeing from the discussions with those and then, uh, different events and things we've been out in the community and what we have coming up. So, the LEOP workshop program, uh, this is to not just build a stronger LEOP, but it's to review what's currently in our operations plan and comparing it to how we actually respond as a city. Uh, we want to make it a usable document. We don't want it just to be a large book that sits on a shelf. uh we want people to be able to access it and understand their roles, responsibilities should we have uh in situation that they need to respond to. We've had our four uh we've had four workshops so far. We just had one this morning over annex B which is communications and warning. Um but so far we've gone over the basic plan and introduction to the EOP and the workshops and annex A direction and control. So, we will continue these kind of on a monthly schedule through July 2027 to get through annex um and taking what we are learning from those workshops and making sure we are updating our our plan to be accurate. Uh these are not lecture-based workshops. They are discussion based. Uh it's designed to talk through what's there, what people are seeing, what questions

and ideas people have. Uh we will throw out different scenarios. Some of them will have uh specific exercises where they will have a scenario they'll read and work through how the response looks for that. Um we clarify the roles responsibilities, what those coordination points are. We talk about communication flow. Um and then at the end and really throughout it, we're capturing gaps that are there and that are identified, answering questions, and then conducting follow-up actions. So far what we're seeing uh there is an increased clarity in roles and responsibilities and we're already noticing a stronger coordination across departments. Uh we have people the right people at the table who are talking with and interacting with departments that maybe they don't see in their day-to-day operations. So we are already building that stronger coordination. Uh we've already identified improvements for operations. Sorry. Uh to uh

Time's up.

Yeah. I'll go quicker. Sorry. Um talking about the communication flow between departments. Uh resource coordination and tracking. What does that look like? Notification, decision, decision making, timing. Um and then building the confidence in the response. Um, I think even after this last incident and this last event with the tornado came through, uh, we're still learning and there's things from that now that we are having brought up in these discussions on maybe wouldn't have gotten broughten up because we hadn't been through something where our plan had to be put into play. Moving on to community engagement. Um really preparedness starts with the public and I'm trying to be out at different events uh educate folks on what emergency management is but then also what they can do in their personal lives in their their homes in their work environments to be prepared them as well. Uh talking about early education, family preparedness, giving them simple resources uh to start that preparation process. Um, but then also being out in the public, building that trust and visibility and making emergency preparedness approachable and practical. Uh, so these are just some of the recent events that I've been at. We had the Touch a Truck Grace at Grace Early Childhood Care and Education Center. Uh, this is the second year I was out at that. It was great. Um, people stop by, they'd be like, "We don't know what this truck is." And so I'd stop and explain kind of what emergency management is. I'd show them we have, you know, different equipment, saws or chainsaws and um CS, things like that in the truck that we can kind of talk through what the purpose of those things are. And then Old Navy Safety Day, uh this is a a national event that Old Navy's put on and have their different locations set up. So, I've been out there now two years. Again, they have their own safety information set up at a table, but then they make space for city departments, uh, police, fire, emergency management

to come out and talk more preparedness. Uh, I posted about it on social media. It's a casual setting. Uh, it was nice to have people actually come in and say, "Oh, I saw your post." And they just wanted to come in and talk about emergency management. So, I was like, "This is kind of cool." So um other opportunities it also gave us time to connect with the uh business itself in your folders there I dropped off. Those are just some examples of the different outreach materials I've created and distributed in the different city buildings. Um at different events I pass them out as you know people are coming by. Okay, we had them at Old Navy to pass out and let people take um that stay belt and ready postcard uh on the back there allows people to scan that QR code and sign up to be on a distribution list for emergency management updates, newsletters, things like that. Um also give them access or guides to sign up for the mass notification system. Uh that is a simplified version of what is on that sheet on the right there. Um just with some more information on the the flyer there. And the emergency preparedness guide book is something that is provided to us by Mid America Regional Council. It is a coordinated effort by emergency managers to update that every four years. So these are the the newest updates of 2025, but they're great. They're small. They're easy to throw in in bags in junk drawers and having multiples around. Also continuing with the Belton Ready business outreach. Um I that is also in your guys' folders there. kind of the information um that I've gone around to pass out to businesses and still continue to do so. Uh the goal of that is to build business partnerships, but then also act as a resource for preparedness, making sure they've got their continuity plans in place or if they ever need accesses or resources to help with trainings, exercises. um building those relationships before we

have an incident occurs so that we can lean on each other. Uh if they have resources or tools that they can provide to the city in our response, uh we already have those relationships created. We know who to contact. We are coordinating before we're in the middle of a disaster. looking ahead, continuing the work out workshop rollouts, uh continually going out to different community outreach events and finding opportunities to be out in the community, growing the belt and ready business program. And then through all of this along with the workshop series, doing those ongoing plan updates and capability improvements, um just as we continue on as things come to light, not waiting until, you know, something happens and we have to change it. Then that's all I got. So, any questions?

Any questions? Go ahead. Just curious. Turn this on. Just curious, have you thought about putting booths up at festivals and stuff that's downtown? Yep. I'll be at car I'll sharing a booth with fire department, but putting stuff at the carry nation days um in FallFest. So, I've been talking with parks for that.

Go ahead. I appreciate the uh information. I also appreciate the ideology that um while our response was good during this recent tornado event, there is always opportunity to make that better and um improve it in the future and make sure that we have a more robust plan if we were to ever experience again, which hopefully I'm knocking on wood. I think this is wood underneath here. Uh you know, never experience it again, but you never know, right? So, right. Um it's it's very important to be able to say, "Yeah, we did a good job, but also, hey, maybe this is something we need to shore up." So that's, you know, good to hear that ideology. Yeah, absolutely.

Anybody else? Thank you. Thank you. Item two, fireworks code. Are you going to give him a time limit? Well, I only made six slides, so it should go fairly quick. Um, all right. So, here we go. Oh, that's cool. Pretty. You're already winning. Um,

best slides of the year. So, I was I was asked to look into uh the fireworks ordinance the way it currently sets um to see if if it was time to add another fireworks sales site. And that's really all we're talking about today is fireworks sales and the permits to do that. Um so, uh the current ordinance lacks some clarity and the license per population requirements and as it stands it really doesn't describe how to pick the new licenses. So, um, so just a little history about it. In 2010, uh, they they were working on trying to adopt an ordinance. Didn't get adopted till 2013. Back then, actually, as you look through all the different sheets, they proposed four days of fireworks as opposed to the 28th to the 4th, whole bunch of things like that. Um, they decided to limit the amount of firework permits in this of sales permits in the city. So, um, prior to that, the firework sales tents were mostly unregulated. We had multiple tents in multiple locations. Um, when I was a kid, I could walk down and buy fireworks out of a garage. I did it all the time. Feedback, he used to be an alderman here. I used to buy fireworks at his house. So, feedback at Cambridge and uh, and why. Yep. So, it was a legal stand. So, um the firework ordinance that we adopted is adopted through the actual uh fire code and then there's been some changes over the years based on um just based on what neighboring cities are doing and uh safety factors. So, uh currently right now we have permitted sales locations. We have the Belton VFW, the Belton Assembly of God, Lifequest Church, a group called Life 2020 and Heart and Hand or Hartland School. uh they they kept the license so that they could uh keep it going, but they actually donate all their money to

Hartland School. Heart and Hand does now. Um so the current city ordinance for sales, Belton allows civic organizations to have a permit based on 4,000 every 4,000 residents in the city. Uh Liberty, they require special use permit. Blue Springs does civic organizations based on they do 3,000 population. Um, Lease Summit does not for profofits up to 20 permits annually and their ruling is is they open the application and the first 20 get them. Wow.

So, it's first come, first serve. North Casey and Gran View don't allow them right now, although Gran View is talking about it right now about sales and fireworks uh being set off. So, here's what we currently have for our ordinance. And the part that's difficult on this is the not more than one license for the storage or sales of fireworks shall be issued per 4,000 population. And it doesn't give us anything else on that. Um so we've always used the census which is every 10 years but the reality is is now my city's growing way faster than that. And uh so Blue Springs, they pass a resolution every single year based on the the um update of or the estimate of the population. So that's kind of the route that I think is the best route, but that would be up to you guys. Um

is that something we could do easily enough? You maybe first meeting in January set our population. Well, the the estimates actually come out about mid year. I think actually Thursday. Yeah, Thursday. So, Blue Springs usually takes at the first meeting or second meeting in June every year. We could do the same type of thing. But if for some reason you're expanding one more license, June is virtually impossible to get for this coming because of the time that it takes to buy the fireworks and all that. I think anything we do will affect the

That's correct. We just want to get it established because there's no clarity in our ordinance on how we're how we're figuring that 4,000 population again. Are we figuring off of the actual census every 10 years or are we figuring it off of that estimate annually? So, so are you approving it for that July and that July only or are you approving it for the next year? Well, so and Matt can explain this better and I'll let him do it because he he looked into the Blue Springs thing. I have too, but go ahead, Matt.

Yeah, so currently it's the code's not clear. So 4,000 it's always just been used off of the um censuses every 10 years and so in 2020 we were just under 24,000 and the 24,000 is what triggered the opportunity for a sixth um license. um the last year's estimate we were just under 26,000 um population and so we'll get a new estimate on Tuesday to kind of find out where we're at. Um but yes, so now if we wanted to proceed with a resolution um annually, we we don't even have to take it in June to avoid confusion with the fireworks season. We could take it the first or second meeting in July to kind of avoid that issue. But that would set up for the following year if we needed to add an additional

anything we do now won't affect this year at all.

So all I'm really looking for some clarity to the ordinance so that we understand it better because um what the intent was back in 2013. I'm not sure. They didn't really explain it. So I'm I'm hoping that we can clarify that with this meeting or amongst you guys to decide if that's the route we want to go. Um, so the the goal of this information is uh what population number are we going to use the census teny year or an annual estimate and then what process to pick the next open sales license. So um again like lease summit they do a uh first come first serve for the 20 permits and there's a rush they open them at the same time and then first 20 permits come in get them. Uh, we've always kind of thought, and I know the mayor knows this, a blind draw where we'll put everybody's name in a hat or a bucket and they'll draw it out blindly and whoever gets it gets it. So, that's kind of the route we're looking. So, um, so that's that's the two things that I really need to clarify with this this year. So, any questions?

Go ahead. Well, nonprofits that use this as part of their I have to admit, my wife's part of life 2020, so I have to set that up front. But there's nonprofits that use this as one of their major fundraisers. And when they're in a position to where they lose funding because they are not the first drawn, then they could go completely out of business because their whole process has been built on this. So I think when we consider this we need to consider those types of things rather than just haphazardly say ah the first five or first six or first 10. So

so how do you do it each year now? Do you right now whoever has permits are currently still based on that ordinance in 2013 that they picked five groups that five groups have maintained that over the years. There may have been some changes throughout the years there, but there's always been that five group. So once you have a permit, it stays with you until you don't pay for the permit the next time, until you don't re reapply for it. Patrick, are we good with that?

Yeah, I'm fine with this process. This was actually discussed about five or six years ago, too, when there was a thought that our population had increased up again to or at that time to a number. And typically, unless you guys want to clarify it via the Blue Springs route, we are always just going to comply with the 10-year census, that is the, you know, legal population mark. Obviously, if we want to build out a resolution similar to Blue Springs, I have no issues with that where you guys set the population and then you're continue with the licensing as you've already done for the previous licenses.

That's kind of what I was asking. Are we okay with keeping the five that we have now? The way that your code is written does not state that it's a yearly license. It seems to be once you receive the license, you have the license until you surrender it or until you get it revoked for something. I wouldn't want to affect any of these organizations that have been doing it for 10 12 years. So the way that it's currently written, it just really seems to me and based on past practice that once an entity receives a license, they have the license until they surrender the license or the license is revoked. So the blind draw would be for additional license. for an additional license once approved.

And I I remember as a fire chief I had to do that once or twice with people changing. I'd have he'd come to me and I'd have to draw one or you know so I'm okay with doing it that way. I just don't want to affect anybody that currently has one because of their financial impact of their organization. Yeah. So this is only specific to new ones and that that on that part of that discussion. Um all the screens are black now. But on that part of that discussion um so I am opposed to first come first serve. There are very basic ways to game that system. You can write a code to have a bot do it for you and guarantee a spot. Um so I think a blind draw is a much better route to go. I agree with that. Is everybody okay with that? Go ahead.

I just have a quick question. How many like how common is it to get inquiries about a new license? I I I get several a year. The problem is is a lot of them aren't not forprofits or not um civic organizations that are going to keep the money in Belton which is what one of the requirements is. So I'll get I'll get the major firework you know companies hey we want to set up a black cat stand in your city and and so we don't allow that right now. And and again, I I grew up in a time when we had multiple tents here in this city. You could walk five blocks in any direction and get a tent. And they they were on top of each other back then.

Um so it to me it doesn't matter. It's whatever you guys decide. I just I think the blind draw is the right way to go. And I think we need to figure out the census thing. Is it 10 years or are we going to do a resolution annually? I'm okay with doing a resolution annually. I think we probably need to do that just for general purposes anyways. So, is everybody okay with that aspect of it? Yeah. And just based on this, we'll review the code to see if there's any other population-based uh legal parameters just so that when this resolution is brought back after the survey is published. It's a city-wide thing, not

Yes. A and you also understand just what you're setting the population for and what affects that can happen. And I'm glad you brought that up because Blue Springs affects liquor license, tattoo shops, some other types of businesses are all based on that population count for the city of Blue Springs. So, I'd like to have it at least brought here after the fourth so that it doesn't get confused with the what brought here? Whatever yearly annual resolution. Yeah. Yeah. After the fourth. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's fine. Jul or end of July, August, whatever. Just some time to where we can set to and then we can do everything off of that. So

the can you can you clarify for those who might not be aware? I mean what you just said was a very good point which is we don't allow you know the large corporations uh in here and this is are these are this is money staying in Belton because I know fireworks I'll just I know we're talking about the sales but fireworks in general are a very uh controversial topic um and cause a lot of heartache. So, I just, you know, I I want to bring that up and I I'm glad you pointed that out and I'd love for you to even talk more on it because if we do something like this, it's we will be adding to our list um because our population is almost guaranteed going to be have gone up past a number that creates uh availability for one more license. So that well that will potentially cause some angst and I think it's important to people to understand there's some there's some good behind it

and and our ordinance is specific where charitable organizations church affiliated institutions uh such as schools benefiting from such organizations shall be located in and operate in Belton to be duly recognized and uh and then no more than one license per duly recognized organization. So, um I think that that's important that we keep that money for those groups because that that that is their money when you look at them and and I can tell you from having a meeting with the fireworks people every single year we have a meeting with all five tents and they say, you know, we're scared of adding a ton of tents to us because this is where we make our money. But I think if we do it in smaller increments, it makes it easier because if we wait till 10 years, we may have to add three or four tens at the 10 year mark. So by doing it slowly with smaller increments, I think that works better. I don't know why. It just seems like it's an a softer blow to them. So

anybody else? Thank you. Y so annual population estimate ordinance or resolution. We'll do it by resolution just because if if we're going to do it every year doesn't make sense to adopt that by ordinance. Yeah. Change change how however we have to rewrite this to affect new license. New license.

I don't believe that we do. Um, we kind of I think staff now has an understanding of how the city council wants us to uh award any potential new license. Awarding licenses and approving licenses is more of an administrative matter regardless. Um, so I think I think everybody kind of knows what we need to do. That was the intent was to get it brought up in an actual meeting so that we can say that's what we've decided because I looked back at all of these all the city council back in 2010 through 2013 and all the stuff they tried to put in there. And so that's it's important because that makes it on record and at least then we can say we know that's what the intent was. And and just to add the just don't want this to be forgotten and I know you said this, but also just review our codes to make sure it doesn't accidentally adversely impact something else.

All right, everybody good with that? I want to point out that if you notice this took three years to pass. You think things move slowly around here? I mean that most things don't take three years. Exactly. All right. Thank you. Anybody? Anybody else for fire marshall? All right. Thank you, Chris. Item three, liquor license investigation fee. We got our own hand out.

Yes, I did provide you the PowerPoint at your place, but as soon as the PowerPoint comes up, I will also have it on screen. Thanks. So recently there has been some conversation and questions about liquor license investigation fees and our code of ordinances um and that being in the schedule of fees and charges. I was asked to present a historical overview of this investigation fee and I've asked Chief Lions to also join me. Um as I go through this, we'll start at the beginning. Um a couple of things to keep in mind. The liquor investigation fee is not a liquor license fee and the investigation fee is a one-time fee only required for a new annual liquor license. The annual liquor licenses are the ones you get once a year that expire on June 30. There's different types of licenses you can get throughout the year, but this is specific to that annual once a year license. The first ordinance I found establishing regulation and control of intoxicating liquor was 1962. A Belton Police Department investigation was required to approve a new city license, but there wasn't a fee. And at that time, only packaged liquor sales were allowed in the city of Belton, meaning a grocery store u um gas station package liquor. In 1965, the 1962 ordinance was repealed and ordinance 1965-209 was approved. A Belton Police Department investigation was still required to approve the new city license, but the 25 it was a $25 investigation fee. Uh, still only package sales were allowed in Belton at that time. In 1967, a special election was called and the buy the drink liquor licenses

were approved by the citizens. You can see the total there. Um just about 700 people showed up to vote and it won 610 to 94. So clearly the people in Belton wanted to have um restaurants and bars and such. Buy the drink meaning when you go to a restaurant and you buy it by the drink. probably wasn't 2,000 people back then either. So,

what I also found very interesting is the next slide. This happened in June of ' 67. It was a petition um ballot. It went on the ballot with uh two weeks before the ballot it was sent to the county or two weeks before the election and one month later it was already in the code. So, they had that ordinance ready to go in 1967. So July 1967, the following month, the 1965 ordinance was repealed and ordinance 1967-299 was approved. A Belton PD investigation was still required to approve a new city license, but now the onremise buy the drink investigation fee was $100 and the off-remise package investigation fee was $25. And that one stayed the same. You can also see what that's equivalent to now about 50 60 years later. In 1976, the city's first code of ordinances was codified and ordinance 1967-299 became chapter 4 alcoholic beverages in the code. From 1976 to 2011, there were many updates to chapter 4, but the $25 and the $100 investigation fee remained the same. In 2011, the code of ordinances was recodified and ordinance 1967-299 along with the 35 years of updates became chapter 3 alcoholic beverages. The investigation fee was also updated and now it was $100 regardless of the type of annual license you were receiving. In 2011, the license application requirements were also updated. A Missouri Highway Patrol background check was added to the city's requirements. The city approval for liquor licenses

were based upon the highway patrol background check and the Belt and PD investigation. An approval letter from the city was required for the applicant to submit with their state liquor license application. In 2020, ordinance 2020-4554 rewrote chapter 3. The language in the code in the schedule of fees and charges was also updated, and the investigation fee remained the same at $100. In April 2025, Ordinance 2025-4910 rewrote chapter 3 again, and the investigation fee still remained at $100. But now the equivalent in 2026 money is quite about the same.

A couple of items to note. Um once again the investigation fee is not a license fee. This fee covers the cost of the background investigation conducted by the Belton Police Department for new liquor managing officers. A couple of changes have happened in the past few years. About 10 years ago, sieges prohibited the use of criminal history information for licensing purposes. In the past six to seven years, the state discontinued the required city approval letter to get an annual liquor license. In 2023, the city clerk's office met with the police department to review current liquor license application requirements and compare those with the state requirements. Because a state liquor license must be obtained before a city liquor license can be issued. Once an applicant applicant has been approved and issued that state license, the PD determined that would generally be considered sufficient for municipal purposes. And the state does have a lot of databases and a lot of background that they check before they issue that annual license to ensure the um applicant is qualified to have that license. The city streamlined its requirements to include only a valid driver's license and Missouri State Highway Patrol background check to be included with the initial application for the liquor license. The PD conducts a local background check. In some instances, this may reveal things like an unpaid citation or a warrant, and those items must be resolved before the liquor license is issued. Uh, only new annual liquor license applications require this PD investigation and fee. This is the city's only license application with a fee for a PD investigation. Other license applications have a PD investigation, but no additional fee. There's also a few licenses that require

a highway patrol background check to also be submitted with the application and they're listed there. And that is what I have. It was quite interesting going back and looking at all the old ordinances. I like the voter turnout. So, so with all that being said, and the state does so much leg work, why are we doing it, too?

I think a better question might be to have Scott explain why or what he's doing when he's doing the local background check. I would say when you go back in history um be you're talking about u periods of time when there was not law enforcement uh computer databases and so I'm sorry I'm sure a lot of what they did was h by hand and took a lot of manh hours to get a background investigation on individuals nowadays since we can't use a criminal history uh the federal government has locked that down in regards to sieges requirements the state state of Missouri had to rewrite a lot of things in the last 10 years and we've moved to checking some of our civil databases like uh Lexus Nexus leads online those types of things and we can come up with local checks into things such as warrants local warrants that weren't wouldn't be uploaded to the criminal justice system because a municipal ordinance violation down by the Ozarks is not important enough to put in a uh criminal database for somebody that has, you know, is traveling through the Kin City area. And so um right now it is for us to do that it costs very little money. It takes very uh little effort on our part to do that. And therefore I think I don't think the $100 fee probably is applicable.

Is applicable or not applicable? Not applicable. So that's my other part of my question. If it's easier to do it now, why do we and we have other things that you do about your on track on that we don't charge for. Why are we still charging? Yeah. And I was with uh Lee Summit at the time when they changed the state rules in regards to the state uh required a different process that basically eliminated a lot of the city requirements prior to obtaining the state license. And now it's reversed. They give the license before they come to us at the city level. We give it because the ordinance says we're supposed to provide it. That literally That's correct. No, I'm I'm with you. I'm with you.

But but if I I hear a need to change that ordinance then. Go ahead. Are there any expenses involved in checking any of the databases that you use? I doubt there is, but yeah, we pay subscription fees, but we're checking those same databases when it comes to applicants for the police department um and other things, criminal investigations, and it's very nominal as far as any kind of charge that we would want to pass on. Okay. So, most the database fees are for are things that you would do anyway. Have we have those things anyway to go ahead? From a manh hours perspective, I understand it's not, you know, having to look through a book and all that stuff nowadays, but I'm assuming there's still someone sitting down on a computer

typing in names, whatever. How what what do you think for one application? What do you think that that entails? We could probably 10 15 minutes at the most. Oh, really? Probably, you know, them discussing what their morning was like. Okay. Um, so I mean I don't know what the rate of pay is, but that we're talking a a quarter of an hour. It's not and I would say at best we have a half a dozen a year. Oh, so it's very limited as well.

Yes, it is. And it's mostly because a business changes ownership. So then they want to have their own managing officer, their own liquor license. So, it's it's not somebody coming in with a brand new license as much as it's a a new officer. Do we Sorry, did you have something I can No, go ahead. Do we have um do we have a history at all on why those applications uh require an investigation um but do not require the if I understood that you said they're application but there's no fee. Good luck.

I don't know. I will say that I've never issued an adult business or a modeling dating escort service license. Mhm. Um not aware not aware that we've had any, but that doesn't mean we haven't. The temporary liquor licenses, we do quite a few of those a year. That's when we have events at Memorial Station. We have Carrie Nation, we have Fall Fest. Those all are temporary licenses. They're a one-day event, two-day event. Um so they have the same process. The PD does look up the managing officer just to make sure there's nothing going on. My guess is that they weren't around in 1965 when the fee originated. So that's why they don't have a fee to them.

Okay. So, so, so what I'm hearing is that not only might this be a bit outdated as you're suggesting, but then also um since we're not we're inconsistent, I guess is maybe the word on when we're applying a fee for an investigation just based on our old ordinances. Go ahead. Um, you're I assume we're including the consumption license in on this liquor license also. It is a liquor license. Yes. Yeah, it's an annual liquor license.

So, what do other cities charge between liquor licenses or consumption licenses? Do other cities charge different rates? Liquor licenses are standard, but the investigation fee, which is not the liquor license fee, uh I had an opportunity to look at a couple of neighboring cities codes, um I couldn't find anything regarding a fee. They they did PD investigations, but they didn't I couldn't find a fee. One city charged a nominal fee if you were going to transfer the license or transfer the location, meaning the change of managing officer.

Um, so Lee Summit, I I actually did call Lee Summit just to kind of see what they did. Um, Lee Summit charges, I believe it's $42 for a consumption fee. They have two licenses for a consumption fee license for the for the for the investigation. Sorry. Okay. So, the the $42 is the highway patrol background check. It's the same thing that Grand View does. Um for us, we require that the applicant bring their highway patrol background check to us. So, they've already paid that 42 or that 15 actually because we don't require fingerprints. The fingerprint is 42. The name is 15ish. Okay. I thought highway patrol was $10 per

I believe it just raised because I saw some indication of that when I was looking online. But it it could be 10. I don't I don't know. I mean, I um I believe they did actually get theirs, but it it was $10 per person. And then Lee Summit did it through a private company to do their background check and I think it was like 42 $42 is what he said. And he said, "We have two consumption licenses. That is it in Lee Summit." And I've called Raymore, Grand View. They didn't know of any that they had. Oh, people who have the consumption license. Yeah.

Oh, yes. Um, yeah, I believe Grand View does not have any. You're correct because I've I've talked to them as well. There are a handful of businesses in the metro that have that particular license. Yeah. Go ahead. So, what are you you're going to be bringing us something? Yeah, that was where my question was going to actually is what what is I guess what are you bringing? You brought us a lot of history here, but is there like a proposal being suggested or I don't have a specific proposal?

Just this is how we got to where we got. Are you asking to think about waving it? If that's a conversation, then I would entertain the conversation. Uh we could certainly bring a code amendment back to repeal that section of chapter 3 and out of the schedule of fees or we could reduce the fee. Yeah, we couldn't ask you we wouldn't ask you to wave it, but we if you would like us to amend the code to eliminate the fee, then that that would be something we would consider bring that we could bring to you if that's what

I would either like to see the fee way or eliminated or lowered and we start charging for each and every one of them. Yeah, that was Yeah, I agree. The inconsistency I don't like. Um and I'm all for getting rid of it completely on all of them. But if if if some of you guys want to keep a fee, we need to do it lower and keep it for all of them instead of just one. I'm not opposed to the idea of a fee from a standpoint of officer's time, but again, if we're talking as limited as we are of half a dozen, I can

So the half a dozen would be the annual licenses. If we applied it across the board, the temporary licenses were probably at 50 a year. That would be a little Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So then I'm probably in agreement with what you're saying there of just eliminate I because we're going to get the consistency is you always hear me say that word, right? Um is everybody okay with eliminating the fee on all of them? Yes. Yes. Just to clarify when you say all of them, you mean the six that may come in a year and then the additional 50. Right now there isn't a fee for those.

Okay. temporaries. So, I I believe what you're saying is to repeal the section of the code that says that there's an investigation fee, not necessarily the investigation. Yeah. And to take it out of the schedule of fees. Correct. Thank you. Because I do still want there to be an investigation to occur. We shouldn't have someone with a belt and warrant or not paying their bills um for utilities or whatever to be then getting a fee. I mean, getting a um uh permit. I agree with that mentality. Could I ask our finance director to just share the thoughts that she may have about this?

Just my financial opinion, eliminating revenue, even though it's small. I just don't think we get in the habit of doing that. I like potentially lowering it because I do think that $100 is a lot. And if you just do quick math with benefits, of course, I mean, you're looking at 15 $20, depends on who's doing the check for 15 minutes. That's all I'm going to say. Thanks. Go ahead. And you're still talking about all of the not just across the board. I I think I if we're going to have a fee, it needs to be across the board for everything, not just I agree.

Not just the I also agree with that. But I am also okay with eliminating the fee for all of them as well. Whatever you guys feel I'm okay with lowering the feed to cover all of them or eliminating it completely. Obviously, you didn't hear what finance said. I I heard her. I'm just What is there any from a legal perspective if we I know we've talked about fees a lot previously. Is there um any concern? So, I know you said the number might come out to like 20 bucks, but do we have to go with what that number would come to in terms of a man-hour thing or can we just say it's going to be $10?

Our ability to to charge fees is got is limited to what it costs us to provide the service. Yep. Makes So, as long as it's less than that service, we can charge that. So, we could go below that arguably. Yes. And I'd also note, like this is the kind of unpopular thing when it comes to fees, but everybody does fees just based on man-hour and salary and benefits, but there's significantly more costs that go into an employee than just that. There's electricity, there's computers, there's

subscriptions, there's a laundry list of things. So the $20 we're just using as kind of shortorthhand, but if we were to do a full investigation and study of the fee and the cost and the time and manh hours, it would probably be a little bit more than that. But we I just want to make sure we're not putting ourselves in any kind of No, there's no the state does not get upset with you when you incentivize a private business, which is what having a fee lower than costs does. I I like the idea of $10. I'm going to throw that out there. I think it's quick and easy and it's reasonable. It's nominal. It's

But I understand what you're saying. But with that, is that going to cost us more money processing that $10 fee than no fee? Finance director. I mean, that's usually a quick swipe of the debit card adding another step unless it comes back. I mean, she's That's I knew that was coming. I knew I knew that was coming. That's Mr. Mr. Richardson beat you to that. I mean, that's why I think 2025 is more in line. 20 is even. How about a nice even 20?

Are we charged a processing fee for every time we swipe a card for somebody? We are. And that's definitely it's a discussion for another day. Right now, those fees for my side of the house are are passed on to the business owner. So, the city's not paying the fee. I would be cautious in having this investigation fee for every temporary liquor license just because we have so many of them and I think we when they're going to see their cost increase to have a one-day liquor license. Yeah, we're affecting more there than what we're trying to

I understand that. But I also think I mean we're talking about talking about events. I I think $10 is a reasonable thing to have to Well, there's also a liquor license fee and then you have the investigation fee every time somebody would get a temporary liquor license. Oh, wait. So, it's Hold on for Let's talk about the temporary liquor license. Okay. There's no What would that entail if we had a $10 investigation fee?

The standard temporary liquor license for a one-day license is $15 for the city. And then there's another option. If you're a nonprofit, it's 37.50, but you get seven days. Okay. So, but we're only adding $10 to that $15 to get to a am I am I missing something here? Well, if they're doing any 10% increase. So, every event that they do in a year, they're charged the or would be charged a fee. So, if they did five events, there'd be $10, it would be $50 that they're not currently paying. That they're not current.

So, there's no way to go. If you got a temporary license within a year, that's good for the year. No, the temporary licenses. No, I meant the investigation. investigation. The code could be written that way. Do a once a year investigation. I would just hate to add anything to the people that are in the groups that are not doing anything now. So, the extra investigation fee might be more trouble than it's worth in that regard. Yeah. And then then you're having to track, okay, do they have they paid this year? Have they not paid this year? I just created

what what I mean what events am I missing here? I mean like is there's who is this going to affect? You know what I mean? Like 50 licenses. It affects the events at Memorial Station. Okay. So we're talking like a couple of different cersions that come through there. Uh affects all of our social events. Carry Nation Fall Fest. Um well Car Nation's done by the city, right? They still have to get all It's the uh liquor. It's the city's not providing the liquor. It's a vendor who provides the liquor. Okay.

So, she gets the liquor license. It last year the Eagles had liquor licenses for the car shows and then each person who's at Carry Nation who provides liquor will have these licenses. So, every time you see a tent or a booth selling beer, they have a temporary license to sell the beer at that booth. It's individual. And they have to go through the investigation in addition to Yeah. But they're which they do right now. There's just not a cost for it, right? But if we put $10 in that would add to that. Yeah.

Where we at? I'd say wipe it out completely. If it's if it's going to create more of a problem, I think. Yeah. I mean, I hate obviously giving rid of revenue, but we're talking and we're going to add a burden to people that aren't have that burden now. So, well, I'm also in favor of having moving that temporary to a from a every time you apply investigation to an annual investigation because it it doesn't make sense if every every couple of months I go to apply and nothing's happened. You don't know nothing's happening that year.

Sometimes people have temporaries three or four temporaries a month. But I know I I agree with what council member White's saying there and that if if we let's use the car show as an example. If we have someone using the car show that wants to get a liquor license and it's a temporary situation, right? It's the picnic one or whatever the right term is. That's correct. Um they would then have so there's an investigation done every single time every month there's an investigation done. Depends on how they apply for it. If they apply for it six times rather than one application with six dates then there would be an investigation six times or one time.

So really okay. So then I go back to there's no need to have that annual one because the person applying just needs to do it. However, most of the time there was just a change. We were actually brought to light this today with this change at the state. They're not the state is not issuing licenses in bulk anymore. So, they're only issuing them one at a time, which means our licenses will have to now be issued one at a time. We just got an email on that this afternoon.

So, now they will have to apply individually. No charge. We okay with that? I don't know that I'm okay with it, but I think I'm out voted. So, bring it forward and we can have this discussion again if we bring Well, when the we will also have time to talk about it. Yeah. Well, I struggle with making someone pay six times when it's they're not paying now. Yeah. Yeah. Know. All right. Thank you.

Clear as mud. All right. Item n motion to enter executive session discuss matters to legal actions according Missouri state statute 610.021.1 pertain to lease and purchase seller real estate according to Missouri state statute 610.021.2 two pertaining negotiated contracts according to Missouri state statute 610.021.12 021.12 that the record be closed in the meeting adjourned from there present. Second. We have a motion to second. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call. Council member Richardson. I. Brian. Yes. Davidson. Yes. Johnson. I. White. I. Lawson. I. McCllum. Hi. Mayor Larkkey. I. Motion passes.