City Council - Regular Meeting

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Welcome to the December 15th Blue Ring City Council meeting. If you would stand with me, I will lead us in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You can be seated. [clears throat] I will now call the meeting to order. First item on the agenda is confirmation of a quorum. Council member Kaylor present. Then present. Ruml present.

Erikson buddy is here. [laughter] Edmonson here. Rowan here. Mayor let us say here. Do we have a quorum? Yes, we have a quorum. After that, I'm not sure. Next item on the agenda is the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Council member Kaylor. I. Then I. Ruml. I. Ericson. I. Edmonson. I. Rowan. I. [snorts] Marilo. I. Carried unanimously.

Next item on the agenda is an exciting one. We again have a room full of state champions uh rescheduled from our last city council meeting due to snow. We have the Blue Spring South High School girls cross country team. Council, if you will follow me down to the floor here. Got a proclamation to present to these guys. And team, if you want to come on up and join us as well. Coaches, whoever's here to represent the team.

So, normally with these uh proclamations, we don't always read all of the whereas clause. just stand up here with me and face out there so they can see you, see how good you look, coach. Which one's it? Coach, under your hand here.

Nice to meet you. Good to see you. But there is a lot of good things on this proclamation. So, I want to read all of it just to celebrate how exciting the work you guys did. And uh it's only three or four of them, so it won't be too bad. So, it says, "Whereas the Blue Spring South High School Girls Cross Country team will be honored on the well December 15th Blue Spring City Council meeting. And whereas the Wishing South High School girls cross country team won the class 5 state championship in Columbia, Missouri on Friday, November [applause] 7th. Congratulations. Let's see if I can get all these names right. Whereas Ashlin Warren Brock, Emma Price, and Bailey Bayer each earned all state honors. And whereas this victory marks the Jaguars second state championship title, their 12th consecutive qualification for state championship and their 10th straight top four podium finish. And whereas the Blue Spring South High School girls cross country team is led by head coach Ryan Andrew to my right here. Assistant coaches Jennifer Espinosa and Dan Sunberg. And whereas the mayor and the city council recognize all of the hard work, dedication of the Blue Springs South High School girls cross country team and congratulate them on a successful year. Now therefore, I Chris Levis, mayor of Blue Springs and the Blue Springs City Council, do hereby proclaim today, December 15, 2025 as Blue Springs South High School Girls Cross Country Team Day. Congratulations to all of you. [applause] Good afternoon. [cheering] Do you have any words you'd like to share about the hard work this year? Um, thank you for having us. This is a big honor for us and I just These girls are awesome. They're great representatives of Blue Spring School District in the city of Blue Springs. So hopefully we can come back again soon.

Absolutely. We look forward to seeing you next year. Congratulations. I think we're going to get a picture here to get everybody in. [applause] looking. [laughter]

Let's do another round of applause. Congratulations again. [applause] Thank you for coming. I did already apologize before the meeting to the team for our festive attire this evening. They just happen to fall pretty close to Christmas. So, thank you for coming. You guys are welcome to stay if you want to learn some more about local government. If not, you're welcome to leave as well. Enjoy your evening. [clears throat and cough] [snorts] Give them a second. Everybody get settled. I think we scared them off. Tinkle Bell shoes. We've been lucky to have lots of state champions already this year and still got half a school year to go. So, pretty exciting.

All right, with that we'll move on to item five was withdrawn by the applicant. So, I don't need any action on that just to be aware and noted. Uh don't have speaker appearance forms for the items uh the bills on the agenda tonight. We'll move on to item seven, introduction of reading bill 5372, declaring surplus property located at 204 Northwest 15th Street. I'll introduce it, your honor. First reading of bill 5372, an ordinance declaring certain parcels of city-owned real property located at 204 Northwest 15th Street as surplus and authorizing the solicitation of offers for disposition thereof. Your honor, I move we approve on the first reading and move to the second. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion?

All in favor? I. Any oppose? No. Motion carries. Second reading. Second reading of bill 5372, an ordinance declaring certain parcels of city-owned real property located at 204 Northwest 15th Street as surplus and authorizing the solicitation of offers for disposition thereof. Your honor, I move to approve it on the second reading. Provide a proper ordinance number. Is there a second? Second. Any further discussion? Roll call. Council member Tholan. Hi. Ruml. Hi. Ericson. I. Edmonson. I. Rowan. I. Kaylor. I. Mayor Lee. I. Carried unanimously and given ordinance number 5471.

Next is item eight. Introduction reading of bill 5373 approving an intergovernmental agreement with Mid America Regional Council. I'll introduce it, your honor. First reading of bill 5373, an ordinance approving an intergovernmental agreement with Mid America Regional Council for the city's participation in the 2026 regional household hazardous waste collection program. Your honor, I move we approve on the first reading and move to the second. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Okay. Council member Taylor.

Yes, your honor. I I'm I'm I'm really [clears throat] thrilled that we're doing this again and and I know there's some residents that are thrilled. I think this is a good thing that we do and I just would appreciate the rest of the council proving this. Council member Ericson, your honor, I would like to ditto that. But uh my comment was that back [clears throat] in the co days and when finances were tough, we decided at one time to not do this. And I would like to acknowledge one more time and I'll probably continue to do it that that was a mistake and this council saw that. We listened to the residents and we've moved on and it's a great deal.

You council member, any further discussion? All in favor? I. Any oppose? No. Motion carries. Second reading. Second reading of bill 5373, an ordinance approving an intergovernmental agreement with Mid America Regional Council for the city's participation in the 2026 regional household hazardous waste collection program. Your honor move to approve the second reading and provide the proper ordinance number. Is there a second? Second. Any further discussion? Roll call. Council member Brel. I. Ericson. I. Edmonson. I. Rowan. I. Kaylor. I. Then I, Mayor Leay, I

carried unanimously and given ordinance number 5472. Next on the agenda is item nine. We have a presentation from Flock Safe City. Looks like uh Chief Muns is going to kick us off.

Yeah, thank you. Appreciate it, mayor and council members. Flock representative uh representatives led by Ryan Mertz are here to present to you this evening information on the safe city program. [snorts] As you know, we've been using Flock for several years. I think since 2022, maybe beyond that. Um, and we have LPR cameras, license plate reader cameras in town. We have live 911 calls coming into the patrol vehicles, and we use their expanded search functions uh for several years now. All these things have increased our ability to not only solve crime, but even to some degree prevent crime. I'm going to turn it over to Ryan to introduce himself and his team. Um, and then we'll take questions at the end or obviously if you want to jump in and ask questions during the presentation, please feel free to do so.

Thank you, Chief. Thank you, Chief. Appreciate it.

Mayor and city council members, I'm honored to be before you tonight presenting our proposal to expand our partnership and recognize Blue Springs as the first safe city in the state of Missouri. The proposal is for a $4.6 $6 million total investment over the next 10 years, which includes several incentives and a consolidated contract structure that has a significantly lower cost per year than your current annual investment up until the year of 2029. PAL has been partnered with Blue Springs, as Chief Muntz had said, since 2023 and to solve hundreds of cases through our LPR deployments in the city. We're working with the largest agencies in the state, upwards of 150 uh in Missouri to achieve the same results you've experienced here in the city of Blue Springs. Our mission at Flock is to leverage all of our technologies expertise as we employ several prior law enforcement officers um to deploy our expertise and resources to build as many thriving communities as possible. Safety is the first descriptive word in your newly founded mission statement for a reason because it is the core principle and essential baseline for a thriv thriving community that every other initiative is built on top of. Working in tight coordination with Chief Muntz and his staff, this proposal reflects a collaborative alignment with your strategic plan and reflects your long-term commitment to public safety infrastructure by providing foundational technology and resources for the PD to operate as a modern real-time policing agency for many years to come. Next slide, please. Chief, you all have put in a great deal of research and effort over the last year to establish your strategic plan as a flock safe city. You will see broad impacts for all of your initiatives and city departments. Blue Springs brand will be the one of innovation and forward thinking as you operationalize flock technology first, just as your rich history of adopting the 911 platform early and is still a point of pride for you all today. Your ability to protect your investments with the

downtown revitalization efforts and your central and southwest parks will increase substantially. Consistency. Consistency across our platform will modernize, help modernize, and support organizational health throughout your departments and cross collaboration with neighboring agencies. [snorts] As you approach your goal of one sworn officer for every thousand residents in the city, you'll be able to leverage high-tech, high-caliber operations to enhance recruitment and support officer retention uh into the future. You have the resources to support strategic infrastructure decisions through our traffic analytics platform. Essentially, every LPR that is uh deployed in the city can function as a traffic analytics tool for all of your infrastructure decisions. And you'll complete your goal of implementing drone as a first responder nearly two years ahead of schedule. Next slide, please, Chief. So our technology falls into three distinct categories and I won't go into grave detail about each one included in the package but essentially where we focus our energy is the detect aspect of flock technology is to represent all the hardware assets in the field that alert the agency to what is occurring investigate which is helps you deploy real-time policing technology to to your analysts and your investigators to see all assets in one single pane of pass saving time and efficiency as you build out investigations and reporting. And then the respond element, which the the flagship piece of that is the DFR functionality that we've talked about in those critical seconds that saves lives, DFR and having eyes on the scene early for situational awareness and overall safety become paramount to success. I'll now segue into kind of the safe city overview. Chief, next slide, please. So what we've established in the last year is a new contract structure that consolidates all of your existing contracts with Block into one platform. So what you'll able to do is ultimately

build out a 10-year program and we'll have a very specific uh long-term savings that would be much uh more financially maintainable than the current trajectory you are on with an alleart upgrades that you're going through. Roughly over the course of the first three years of the contract, you'll save up to $2 million. And there's an additional $90,000 or so in additional savings that aren't reflected in the numbers to the right. We're going to cover all your installations for permitting and the energy and effort that it takes to get cameras installed. We're going to swap out our newly uh Americanmade drone uh alpha um when that's available at the end of 2026 at no cost. And then as we know very well, the pace of innovation and technology is rapidly increasing every year that goes by. We're going to provide two hardware refreshes over the course of 10 years, roughly around the 3 to sevenyear mark. So any of the technology that has been upgraded in that time span will automatically be refreshed and reinstalled by Flock at no additional cost. This also includes all of our Flock OS and software upgrades. So, our real-time policing platform constantly being upgraded, different features and assets of that sort. And then we have a a significant investment in new AI capabilities that will be grandfathered into this agreement with you all. I would like to speak specifically on the impact that we've uh analyzed on the DFR side. Chief, next slide, please. Over the last 12 months, um, you guys have pulled in CAD data and we've analyzed that to show different types of 911 calls, different levels of priorities, and their response times. And we were able to estimate that the average response time for a DFR program to get eyes on the scene first would be just under two minutes. Essentially, a 200% increase in eyes on scene versus the current priority one recall response time. and a potential force multiplication of one additional officer roughly totaling 126,000 in ROI in each

year. [snorts] Next slide, please chief. Here's kind of a a high level overview of our implementation timeline. Our full implementation is about four to six months with several components of the platform being available on day one with all of the hardware and software and DFR being implemented by the end of May, early June. And we anticipate that this will be ready and directly impact the preparedness for the FIFA events that are coming to the region in the next year. So very timely. Next slide please. Chief [snorts] Block is built on a core principle of privacy in mind. All of our data, all of your data is 100% owned by you and will never be sold. Um all of our private customers never have access to government data or hot lists and Flock automatically deletes all data after 30 days by default. Only your agency divides who decides who you share your data with and that is 100% in control of by you and your agency and your PD. Next slide please chief. Specifically, you already have the LPR transparency portal um live and active. We will do the same thing for the DFR program. So any flight that is taken by the DFR program will be logged and audited so you can see a full history of any flight and is very much focused on privacy as well. in the same vein as the LPR transparency portal. So, focus heavily on all of our auditing and uh capabilities to to make sure we're clear to the public. Just background. Good.

So, in closing, many of the safe studies we implemented in the last year have experienced dramatic improvements in crime reduction and overall safety efforts. Some seeing their crime rates cut in half as you can see by the examples on screen. I think we're up towards 17 to 18 safe cities across the country. The platform um helps you solve cases in critical situations much fast, much faster than you would otherwise. And the city of Blue Springs is, you know, growing and evolving. Um and that growth comes with the need for clear and intentional strategy to guide the future of public safety in the region. We're excited to impact uh our proposal we can bring to support all of your efforts. And before opening it up for questions, I'd quickly like to introduce our team. We have our director of public affairs, Trevor Chandler, here and also our director of sales, Jake Gotler, here to support any questions you may have. Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you. Any questions from the council for our presenter? Your honor. Yeah, council. Um, I just have a couple questions. I had gotten a video or an email that had the video, the YouTube video that I'm sure that you guys are familiar with and can you guys kind of touch on that a little bit to reassure that the the safety the um I guess the able ability to be able to hack into it type deal. Um since we do have quite a few cameras, we had some concerned citizens. Absolutely. So I'm assuming you're talking about the video says we hacked a lock camera. Yes, sir.

Uh yes. Uh one, first it was not hacked. Uh that's very important to note. Uh second, the individual that was utilizing or dissecting that camera uh was pointing out a lot of uh uh features or uh weaknesses that become completely uh completely non uh critical when it is actually upgraded and uploaded to our server. So you can think of it when you get an iPhone, you take it out of the box, uh that iPhone has no encryption on it, it has nothing. is when you turn it on and you connect it to the cloud that you get all of that encryption on there. And so that is essentially what this person was doing. They were taking basically a dumb camera and trying to show all the weaknesses that this dumb camera had because it was not uploaded uh to the cloud and active on our servers. Uh so uh the cameras have not been hacked. Uh the deficiencies that might have been pointed out uh we actually self-reported months beforehand and fixed when we identified them. And so, uh, it made for a really good, uh, YouTube and Tik Tok video, but wasn't fully based in reality.

Perfect. Thank you. Any other questions for our presenters? I have a council member, a statement. Is that all right? Sure. [clears throat]

First of all, I appreciate gentlemen coming in and uh, doing the presentations. Um, I met with Trevor in Salt Lake City and [clears throat] the other members of the Flock team over the last three or four years along with Council Member Edmonson. And um, we did a lot of research and a lot of study when we originally decided on this and uh, I can't I can't say enough good things for this system. Uh, I know our police department um is just grateful for it and I I've seen it actually happen where they actually catch and caught criminals in the act with it and uh it's just a great great deal and I thank the council for approving this.

Council ribbon. Well, not to say the same things that Jerry said, but uh I know what time I spent on the public safety advisory committee, and I've been on there a while, but I know one of the primary things that the department looks for is response time. And we're always looking for a way to to lower that. And that's critical because that response time is how fast an officer gets a call in and they get they show up on scene. Um, and it's uh it's important because those types of things are like something's happening, they want somebody there right away. And this puts us at the forefront to me of being able to respond quickly. And and your figures that you put up there, you know, like we're in the what, the four minute range, aren't we, Chief? Four

four to five, four to six, somewhere maybe five minutes response time. And so this cuts that in half. on uh you know your your drone as a first responder um which that alone you know to protect the citizens of Blue Springs is well worth the investment that we're putting in over the 10-year period of time. So thank you.

Yes, of course. And I would just add that a big a lot of the efficiency gains you're able to clear roughly 10 to 15% of calls that you don't even have to deploy a patrol officer to. So they can spend their time where needed most for those critical calls and situations. And what I can do is also we're not as a council looking at this as a replacement for officers on the street, you know, in a car in the neighborhoods. What we're [clears throat] looking at here is how to augment and make their life easier and help them basically have the best tools they could have at their disposal, similar to what life1 was. just trying to give them everything in the, you know, in the bag or the kit that makes them an effective and gets them there and protects them and also protects our citizens.

Absolutely. Other questions for our presenter. Quick question. Yeah. Go ahead. I believe when [clears throat] excuse me when I read the literature about the drones that there was a lot of autonomy in those. Could you describe in a couple of sentences like drones called out what does the humanoid have to do? What does the dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr drone do I have to go to my thing and get my little mo out or will it do it by itself?

So it's it's automated but it's not fully autonomous. So the drone actually because we have all the assets in the field today like your LPRs, we basically have what we would call an events drawer. So if there's an LPR hit from a specific hot list, it's a click of a button and the drone from a pilot and the drone can be sent to that uh event. So they can take over manually but typically that's how it's deployed. It's sent from a pilot sent from a dock launch location and the pilot essentially with the technology you're coming out with can pilot the drone from anywhere any or it can do it without the pilot once the button is pushed to take it off. It can fly automated in an automated way but the pilot always has to be there. Okay. Kind of pursuing Yeah. surveying your technology.

Any other questions? Thank you for your time for your presentation. Thank you. Mayor, if I could just

Chief Go ahead. make a couple comments based on that. Um, you know, I I we have we looked for some of our um stats related to that and I have that, but I don't want to get into that now. I'm just going to if you remember back to the homicide at Wilbur Young Park that we had several years ago, that's what I remember the most influential use because we were taking those u park cameras that identified that we were able to identify the vehicle, find out what happened. We were able to then track that vehicle through the flock system that night and they were doing it from their MDTs in the car. They came back to the station for bandwidth. It was new to us and then the next day they found that vehicle to car wash because it hit on a couple flock cameras and sent out a trigger. So that was instrumental in helping to solve that homicide that video camera footage. But to to your to your question, I was going to say if we're approved to move forward, we're going to do a much better job of not only tracking what Flock does for us and helps us with our clearance rate, but we're also going to track continue uh officer response time, but we'll also have a drone response time and we'll be able to say this is our response time with eyes on the scene. Now, what that will require and part of this package and and he mentioned it and it's in your packet is a real-time crime center or a smaller version of that, our version of that. We'll have that in our communications room. We'll have that set up and it'll be occupied uh Monday through Friday, day and evening to start and someone will have to fly the drone. It may be automatic based on the call that comes in. We can fly it to all of our priority one calls, but you still have to have a pilot. So to that effect, I just want to let you know part of this package is using PSST funds. We're going to initially recruit and hire two additional personnel, put them in the communications unit, and then fly that drone. And then as we move on and uh I think it'll be beneficial and uh we can expand that to weekend coverage and expand our coverage as we hire more personnel to do that. And it's not about

replacing officers on the road. is getting them there quicker, getting the information faster, making the scene safer, we can tell if there's a fire going on or not. We can tell if there's an accident in the intersection or not. So, I think if um you know, if we proved we'll do that, so I just wanted to add that to it. You do have to have a pilot. All right. With that then, uh is there a motion on item 10 for the resolution? So moved. Is there a second?

Second. Is there any discussion? I'll just add my comments. I also had an opportunity to sit down with the representative from Flock and I told him in the meeting I had a lot of hard questions because just as uh council member Brummel asked, there is information out there about concerns of privacy, concerns of security. Uh I felt comfortable with all the answers they had. Even a few years ago when we started this process, I think a lot of my questions revolved around the control of the data. uh what was done with it, how long we kept it and uh I was comfortable with it at the time. I think those same uh safeguards are here and I believe that uh the availability of information and uh the transparency that's been available with this process is there that make the public comfortable that this is a good process to move forward. So, uh we're not hiding from questions. We're open to any questions you have with this process as are the representatives from Flock. Uh part of our responsibility and part of our commitment with the strategic plan is to make Blue Springs safer and uh as has been described many times, this is a tool to help us do that. I think it will be very useful. One thing that was not mentioned, um there are several safe cities. This if Blue Springs were to approve this, uh we will be the first safe city in the state of Missouri. And so that's a big deal as well. I'm sure there will be others to follow pretty closely, but as of tonight, if we approve this, we'll be the first one. So uh with that then all in favor I

any oppose? No. Motion carries on item 10. Next we have item 11 which is a discussion on intoxicating hemp products. I believe council member Kaylor and Ericson had asked that we have discussion on this. Who would like to kick us off? I think I just got pointed at.

Okay. Council member Ericson. Go ahead. Well, the simplicity of this is what our request is to have staff and legal research uh current and past and future if that's possible to research ordinances that would help us to control these products. The these products are all the way from semi bad to horrible. Uh the it's been proven the uh some of them the seven hydroxy with a long name at the end of it is uh as bad as if not worse than many of the opioids. The labeling on these products is uh is is uh misleading at the best. Uh nitrous oxide is bad as as a propellant but it can be sold in the gas stations and on and on and on. Uh I [clears throat] don't want to get into the technicalities of it. I just would like to have the council direct staff now, not wait for the federal government, not wait for the state government, but to draft [snorts] an ordinance that we can put in place to at least help control uh an oncoming or a growing menace to our kids and actually to us as well.

Okay. I would like to add that Ken City has put a similar ordinance into place and it goes before the their city council January 6, 2026. Um, I agree with Council Member Ericson and I don't think we should wait till Missouri comes out with something or when the federal government comes out with something. Uh, I mean, you look at uh whether you're for it or whether you're against it, we still um Missouri passed marijuana and they didn't wait for federal regulations to do whatever it was to regulate marijuana in the state of Missouri. I think city of Blue Springs, we could be on the for forefront of this and and put an ordinance in play. We've already know um in the last 3 weeks know of two um young students that uh have got a hold of some of this and and actually um did some damage and OD and uh I for one am wanting to get this uh going so we can get this taken care of and get some of this stuff out and help the police department have another tool to have an ordinance. Thank you.

Okay. Any other discuss council member Edmonson? So just just for maybe a little bit more clarity because u I don't know how many people would read the projected image up on the screen that are watching this. What products are we or can you give us a general idea of what products you I think you did some scientific stuff as far as but what in general what are we talking about hemp related? Are we talking about inhalers? We talking other things hemp related nitrous oxy I'm going to do this off the top of my head. Seven hydroxy [snorts]

Tragenine, I believe that's how you pronounce it. Uh mislabeled products, the uh cannabonoids that are 6% 7%, don't quote me on that one, but the majority of those that are sold in G I won't say that. And in places that kids can get to them and there if we need a list of that, that's fine. But I think that might be ahead of that. I'm asking staff or we're asking staff to get those names and I do have a model ordinance here and we can read all those off that that the others have u if we need to do that but there's also packaging

that is similar to other candies and etc that look similar that is misleading u for a a youngster to go in and buy certain things of that and uh I just again feel like we need to be on the forefront and do this. Council member, just a question. Are we are we looking for like an age or you are trying to do 18 and over or are you just trying to ban it completely? It wouldn't hurt to be banned completely.

But here again, back to the simplicity of it, my request and I think Jerry's request would be let's find out what we can do. Let's make it as as u powerful as a protecting ordinance that we can. Whether it's banning, whether it's limiting, whether it's making it age, or whether it's something this product, no, you can't have it here. This product, yeah, you got to be 21. This product, however, it is. There's too many items in here to refer to those items as it if that makes any sense. It's a multiple of of items, not just one. And if if the state comes up with an with their own state statute with it and etc., we can always tweak it to go towards the uh uh and improve our own ordinance like we have with some other ordinances that when the state um changes their ordinance that we have come back and changed it to line up with the state. We can still do that. I just think we need to be on the forefront with this.

Would you would anybody want me to read a bunch of those or we wait until later to do that? Well, what would be appropriate, I think, is if somebody has a motion to make at this time, if if there's no other discussion, that would be, I think, the appropriate next step. Uh, we would also need to confer with staff a little bit, see if they have enough information to do what you're asking. But make your motion, we'll go from there. Well, I first of all, let me clarify that. I was responding to his question. I I really think that would be up to staff to to research and get those names and and list them all and then we have a time to do that. But if it's beneficial in order to get this rolling, then sure. Okay. Do you have a motion to direct staff to do something?

Uh yes, your honor. I move that we direct staff to create to research and to create an ordinance or ordinances to regulate hemp products uh and various cannabonoids as well as the products. uh and bring it back to us within the time frame that they think they can. Soon staff, do you have uh some feedback on the discussion? Yes, we would like to have the uh ability to bring this back in the first or second meeting in March. Okay. If that works for the council.

Council, do you have any objection to that time frame or would you like to add a date to your Yeah, let me amend the motion and add that. We'd like to have this in by the 1 of February. Okay. So, uh I have a motion from Council Member Ericson to direct staff to bring something back to uh you said the first meeting of February. That's correct. Okay. Do I have a second? Your honor. Yes. Council member Gay. I'd like to amend it though. Well, we have to can't amend it till it's on the floor and right now it's not on the floor. Why? Just letting you know I want amend it. Do I need a second? I would like that. Okay.

City attorney would prefer to have a second before we start amending. Would you like to second the initial? Okay. Second. Okay. Now, council member Kaylor, do you have an amendment? I I'll uh let's go in between and say the second date in February. Second council in February. Okay. If it's easier, sir, I would be happy to withdraw and restate second meeting. I'm going to take it as a friendly amendment. second meeting in February. So, it sounds like you're in agreement. I have a motion and a second to direct staff to bring something back along those lines for the second meeting in February. Now, we're open for discussion. Council member Edmonson.

Uh I'd like to direct the staff. is um is the we're drawing up an ordinance, but I guess I don't know whether the police department's going to enforce that ordinance or is it going to be codes enforced or are is are they all involved in in this discussion also as far as coming forward with this? That would be our first meeting after this meeting is to have that discussion as to how this would work. Any other discussion on the motion from council member Ericson? This need to be a voice vote or roll call. Can't be a voice vote. It can be voice.

Okay. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion before we vote? Okay. All in favor? I I. Any oppose? No. Motion carries. That is all we have on the agenda tonight. Next is the visitor section. I do have a speaker appearance form from Mr. Neil Kellis. Is he here in the audience? I see somebody moving. All right, Mr. Kellis, you will have three minutes to tell us what you're thinking. It looks like it's on the topic of uh southwest corner of Duncan and Adam Parkway. Correct. All right, go ahead.

Thinking it's going to be short and sweet. Uh I believe it was two years ago we came before this uh council and got an apartment complex kind of stopped. Um but here in the last couple of months, there's just there's been some activity. I think it was just utility clearing lines and all, but it got a lot of rumors going in all the neighborhoods. Oh my gosh, he's starting up again. So, I said I would come and ask the city the council, is there any movement on the development of that property on the southwest corner of Duncan and Adams Dairy? Have they submitted any plans of [snorts] any kind that we should know about?

Okay, Mr. Kellis, I'm not familiar with anything that they've done. I'm going to look to our planning staff. Do you guys have any feedback on that property? Yeah. So, the project was denied. So, the project he's referring to as the crossings. Uh, that project was denied at the end of 23. And our last communication with the developer was in November of 24. And at that point, the developer was looking at alternatives and trying to determine the feasibility of the project moving forward. Since that time, the city has not received any uh submitts or modifications to the original plan. Okay.

And there's nothing on the horizon at the moment for anything. Even the stuff that could go on there the way it is zoned, there's nothing. Okay. We just want to get it on We just want to get it on record. That developer does have another project in Blue Springs currently active that they started advertising for. So, that may have got their attention, right? thought it could it could have, but now we can go back to the H, you know, the HOAs and go, "No, we're good right now." As of now, that's where it stands this evening. All right. Thank you. Appreciate you being here. Yep. All right. The next we'll go to council member comments. Anybody want to talk about who you're wearing this evening or what your what your style uh guidance was for the honor

for your outfit? Yes. Council member Kaylee. Since I'm not the only one in one. I was told I look like Charlie Brown, but I [laughter] I I dispute that, but that's what they said. I guess we'd have to see your Christmas tree to know for sure, but [laughter] it's not up yet. Oh, well, that might be the Grinch more than Charlie Brown then. Yeah. [clears throat] Yes. Do we got anybody down here? Council member Evans, I would like to thank Council Rummel for uh organizing this tonight and uh following through with it. So, we do look rather festive this evening. Well, thank you, Council Member Breuml, for arranging such a festive outfit for your

honor. I I wore this at the ugly sweater [snorts] contest at the First United Methodist Church last weekend. Not last Sunday, the weekend before. My wife was a judge, therefore I did not win, but it was a lot of fun. It was communion Sunday. It seemed irreverent, but everybody laughed and we had a good time. So, here we all are here. You got your money's worth being a little youth having a good time. Yeah. Well, great. I don't know whether you're going to bring it up or not, but this would be the last weekend for Santa Claus at

the North Pole Trail of Lights. Yes. This weekend, Friday and Saturday night will be the last weekend for Santa Claus at the gazebo. I think he's going to be in the gazebo, right? It's not too cold this weekend. Okay. Um so, Santa Claus will be there for the last weekend. Also, um we do have the city offices will be closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the day after. So, that's going to be coming up next week. So, excited to have staff have some time off. Uh we also have the New Year's Eve at the Fieldhouse at Blue Surf Bay. They will drop beach balls in the pool at noon. So, everybody go to bed by 2 p.m. and call it a night. Be great for especially the kids. Get them in bed early. What else do I have? Council member council member. Which council member is that? Uh, we'll get to that one in a minute. So, [laughter] next this Friday is uh best for hall has their Christmas lunch Friday the 19th. Chef Dale always does a great job. It's good food. And there's a ninja cross competition uh [clears throat] on the 19th as well from 4:00 to 5:45. So, I think we're all participating in that, right? Okay. ninja cross on Friday.

Did hear rumors that you might be working out now. So maybe Oh, at the field house. Yeah, absolutely. Council member Rowan is going to be leaving us this uh for over the holidays because Blue Springs South Band and choir is traveling to London. They will be in the London and orchestra and Oh, and orchestra. And I missed one. Okay. London uh band, choir, and orchestra. They will be in London on New Year's Day. So, he's traveling with his family for that. So, that will be exciting. We're excited. school is at Woodr South. This is what I said twice [clears throat] tonight.

Okay. Whoo South choir, band, and orchestra. That'll be pretty exciting. And next council meeting is January 5th. So, this will be the last one for the year. We want to I know holidays are already in full swing. Christmas is next week. Uh first night of Hanukkah was last night. So, we are in the down the down low for the rest of the year. So, we want to wish everybody some happy holidays. Merry Christmas, a happy new year from the council, city staff. Anybody got anything else to add for the good of the council? The only other thing I had to add was I'd want to thank all the police officers that were involved with Shop with COP on Saturday. It was a great event that we all were able to attend and be part of and yeah, definitely a lot of holiday joy there.

We don't have any snow in the forecast, but Wednesday I am doing a town hall with a special guest from public works. talk about snow removal, how we do it in our plan, answer questions, and then just any other questions that are open to the city. So 3:30 town hall on Wednesday, a little bit earlier, so might catch some of you still at work that want to listen to snow removal while you're at work. So with that, then I will accept a motion to adjurnn. So move. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? I. Any oppose? No. We are joured. Merry Christmas. Hope you get on the right airplane.