Council - Regular Meeting

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.

Oh, Lord, we come to you tonight to make the best possible decision by this council for the citizens of Booneville. In your name we pray. Amen.

Roll call, please.

Venable. Davis.

Here.

Bechtel. Here. Thompson. Here. Wilkerson. Howard, here. Harville, here. And Elbert, here.

Do we have any citizens' comments tonight? Okay, it does not appear that we have any citizens' comments, so we'll move on to the minutes. Has everyone had a chance to review the April 20th Council minutes? Are there any corrections or additions? Seeing none, the minutes will stand approved as presented. Consent items. A, consider payout number one in the amount of $72,292.50 to Spectrum Environmental for fire station mold removal.

Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve the above consent item.

Okay. I'll second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or discussion?

Kate, what's the remaining $8,000?

It is the, like, it would just be what we're holding on our retainage. So when we do the final walkthrough, if everything is good, then we'll pay out the final payout.

Okay, great. Thanks. And, Kate, this is complete, right? Mm-hmm. Awesome.

Any other questions? Roll call.

David?

Yes.

Beckel? Yes. Thompson? Yes. Coward? Yes. Harville? Yes. Elbert?

Yes.

Presentation of accounts and claims. May 4th appropriations.

Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Boonville as follows. Section 1 for the purpose of paying salaries and various accounts against the City of Boonville, which have been allowed by the Council at the regular meeting thereof on 5-4-2026, the sum of $549,803.58. General Fund $150,000. $138.83. Sanitation, $7,619.26. CIP tax, $15,107.41. Waterworks, $122,937.00. Capital projects, $0.00. Wastewater, $114,364.04. Tourism, $9,984.44. Painting, $130,027.06. Parks and Water, $1,551.53. Kemper Sales Tax, $25,074.00. Section 2, the accountant is hereby authorized and instructed to draw checks on their respective Citibank accounts in favor of the persons whose salaries and accounts have been allowed as above amounting to $549,803.58, being the total amount of money being appropriated. Section 3, this ordinance will take effect and be enforced from and after its passage, first reading 5-4-2026. Read for the second time this 5-4-2026 since a copy was made available prior to the meeting.

Second reading title only.

Ordinance appropriating money.

May I like to make a motion to approve this ordinance?

Okay. Do we have a second? I'll second it. Okay. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or discussion? Roll call.

Davis? Yes. Bechtel? Yes. Thompson? Yes. Howard? Yes. Harville? Yes. Elbert?

Yes.

Okay. May 18th appropriations.

Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Boonville as follows. Section 1, for the purpose of paying salaries and various accounts against the City of Boonville, which have been allowed by the Council at the regular meeting thereof on 5-18-2026, the sum of $378,301.16. General Fund, $192,983.12. Sanitation, $6,879.54. CIP tax, $17,507.98. Waterworks, $93,950.42. Capital projects, $0.00. Wastewater, $42,178.16. Tourism, $12,524.81. Gaming, $11,033.85. Parks and water, $1,243.28. Kemper sales tax, $0.00. Section 2, the accountant is hereby authorized and instructed to draw checks on the respective city bank accounts in favor of the persons whose salaries and accounts have been allowed above amounting to $378,301.16, being the total amount of money being appropriated. Section 3, this ordinance will take effect and be enforced former and after its passage, first reading on 5-18-2026, read for the second time this 5-18-2026, since a copy was made available prior to the meeting.

Second reading, title only.

Ordinance appropriating money.

Mayor, would you like to make a motion to approve the above ordinance?

We have a second. I will second. Roll call.

Davis? Yes. Bechtel? Yes. Thompson? Yes. Coward? Yes. Harville? Yes. Elbert? Yes.

Hopefully there weren't any questions or discussions since I forgot that part. You're good.

They would have popped up. They would have chimed in.

It does not appear that there is any unfinished business, so we will move on to new business. Consider resolution R2026-011 authorizing an application to Missouri Department of Natural Resources for lead line replacement.

Resolution authorizing the filing of an application with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources State Revolving Fund Program for loans under Missouri Clean Water Law Chapter 640 RSMO. Whereas pursuant to the terms of the Missouri Clean Water Law Chapter 640 Revised Statutes of Missouri, the State of Missouri has authorized the making of loans and or grants to authorized applicants to aid in the construction of specific public projects. Now, therefore, be it resolved by City Council of Booneville, Missouri, that Kate Fielbe and she, sorry, is hereby authorized to execute and file an application on behalf of City of Booneville, Missouri, with the State of Missouri, for a loan and or grant to aid in the construction of lead and galvanized service line replacement. that Cape Field City Administrator is hereby authorized and directed to furnish such information as the Missouri Department of Natural Resources may reasonably request in connection with the application which is herein authorized to sign all necessary documents on behalf of the applicant to furnish such assurances to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources as may be required by law or regulation and to receive payment on behalf of the applicant.

We'll make a resolution. I'm sorry. I make a motion. We approve resolution 2026-011. Do we have a second?

I'll second it.

Kate, what's the amount of the grant that we might receive on this? $5 million. $5 million, the full amount.

It's 100%.

Yeah, I knew it was 100%. I just had no idea what the amount was. And that'll cover the entire city for lead line testing? How is that? What's the piece?

Well, so Scott went through, and I'll let Scott kind of talk about how he arrived at that estimate.

So initially we got a grant to do an inventory a while back. Yeah.

There are a lot of unknown lines because we didn't want to dig them up downtown, get into the sidewalks, the streets, the curves, and all that kind of stuff. So there's a lot of unknown lines. Currently, you don't have any known lead lines, but you got a lot of galvanized lines. This is going to cover digging up downtown. We're going to destroy it. In order to replace those service lines, If we find out that they're lead or galvanized, which we suspect that they are in an old town like this, we'll be cutting through sidewalks, streets, getting back into old buildings and so forth. So we hope that the $5 million will cover as much as we can, but that is the limit of the grant application.

So in a real world scenario, if we What's our risk, I guess? What's our vulnerability? Because $5 million is a lot, but if we start cutting into a lot of these and they're all lead, what's our plan of action if we find that we exceed that substantially? Well, obviously.

I think, too, we'll size the project appropriately so we wouldn't go after a hypothetical $10 million project. We're going to size it appropriately to be the $5 million to start with, and then we'll phase in the rest of the replacements.

The biggest risk is hitting a gas line or something. I mean, something really damaging. We just did one city block off of High Street in Jeff City. It was a half a block. It cost us $35,000. And that was half a block. And it was unknown neighborhoods. So just same situation.

Yep.

Yeah.

So... Hopefully, we're just going to plot it out and see where we can get as far as we can get with the $5 million.

Yeah, I mean, to Tanner's point, it's kind of where do you start and where do you stop.

Yeah, like if you find lead, we have to replace it, right? Like do we have a – is it in arrears? Is that how we build toward that grant, or do they provide us the cash up front?

No, it's – you have to expend the money and they'll reimburse. In arrears, yeah, okay.

And you can correct me if I'm wrong, but they haven't yet promulgated all of the rules on lead line replacement.

No, this is a brand new program.

Yeah, so they haven't said, oh, you have to replace by 2030, 2040. There's no time frame yet.

Yeah, we're getting ahead of the game. It's the first come, first serve on this thing is what they're saying. So we're getting ahead of the game because we've got notification from DNR on it early. There's a lot of towns that don't even know about it yet. So we're getting our application in, hopefully one of the first ones.

And we have an eight-month work window on that.

Is that flexible, or do we have to complete that? I don't think they haven't established any work window on it. I think it's on our application date, 228-27-1031. Oh, on this application right here. Is that what you're talking about? That's a self-imposed schedule. It's not set in stone.

But we're allowed to continue to expense our costs beyond that window?

Yeah, they just wanted an anticipated schedule. Do we have a window of time of expense reimbursement?

Does it have to be done in five years? No, we don't have those rules yet. Okay.

I think those are good questions when the grant is awarded, too.

So we're just submitting the grant at this point?

I'm sure the grant will have probably a... two- or three-year window is usually what they have with extensions available. But the replacement...

They're going to give you plenty of time to get it taken care of.

The requirements in terms of promulgating the entire lead replacement have not been done. So all they came out with was the lead line survey that had to be done, and they haven't done anything since then.

Potentially, then, if this turns out to be Which seems like a lot of money, but it turns out to be not enough money. Potentially, there is the ability to go back and request additional funds from the— They haven't propagated the rules yet.

They haven't given you those rules yet. And they haven't given you the $5 million yet either. No, we're very early. We know as much as we know, and that they're offering $5 million at 100% because you're a high-risk county. Okay. Okay, that's basically what we know.

To clarify, what we're approving is just the ability to apply for a SED grant. The application. Okay. Kate, go get it.

I'm going to hit SED tomorrow, don't worry.

All right. Great, thanks. Any other questions? Roll call.

Davis? Yes. Bechtel? Yes. Thompson? Yes. Howard? Yes. Harville? Yes. Albert?

Yes.

Okay. Item B, consider Resolution R2026-012, authorizing and approving an agreement between Musco and the City of Boonville for new lights at Lyons Park tennis courts.

The resolution of the City of Boonville, Missouri authorizing and approving an agreement between Musco Sports Lighting LLC and the City of Boonville, Missouri pertaining to lighting... lighting at Lyons Park Tennis Court and providing an effective date therefore. Whereas the City of Bloomville has solicited and received bids for this project and determined that Musco Sports Lighting LLC represents the best proposal pursuant to purchasing code set forth in Section 2-20 of the City of Bloomville Code of Ordinances. therefore be resolved by the City Council of the City of Booneville, Missouri, as follows. Section 1, that a certain agreement between Musco supports lighting LLC in the City of Booneville, Missouri, relating to lighting at Lyons Park Tennis Court, a copy of which is marked Ziba A, is attached here too, and made a part hereof, is hereby approved. Section 2, that the City Administrator is hereby authorized to execute and attest said agreement on behalf of the City of Booneville. Section 3, this resolution shall take effect and be in full... from and after its passage and approval passed 19th day of May, 2026 by the City Council of Booneville Reserve.

Move to approve resolution 2026-012. I will second.

We have a motion and a second. Are there any questions or discussion on the resolution? Yes. Section 1, it says that certain agreement between XXX and the city.

That'll be fixed. I fixed it in my packet, but when we actually, he signs a resolution tomorrow. Okay.

And do we have a line item that this goes to, or is this additional cost for the budget?

No, it's in the budget.

Okay.

I think it's in 17, or is it at 05? I think you're right.

And this is the same group that did Lions, right?

That did the ball field, yeah, the baseball field.

So this was in the budget that we did for the last two years.

Yep, it's called out in the back. If you look on the back pages, the bigger capital projects were in there.

So newbie question, is this like a standard price for what lighting would cost? Is this like really high quality light? $65,000 feels like a lot, I guess.

It's about the going price for lights. I think it's good for understanding. Yeah. They did get three bids.

Yeah, they got three bids.

Will these be LED lights? LED, yes. I know it's LED.

And they're also controllable from the phone, which is really nice because you can control them. There's a push button to control them, but then also they have like a set shut off time in case they don't get turned off. Paul can do it from the comfort of his living room.

And it standardizes what we have in the other ball field as well, correct? Sorry, Paul. He's like, man, I can almost get through this without getting up.

I got three bids actually and one bid I threw completely out because all they did was just materials only they didn't have for installation we can't install them so and must go we already have them at the Lions Park ball fields and their LED lights the lights that we have there now are probably I'm guessing 25, 30 years old, I can't even get bulbs for the lights anymore. So that's why they really need to be replaced. I mean, and we don't get a lot of tennis players down anymore, but we get a lot of pickleball players.

It's your pickleball crowd. They're really anticipating these lights.

So it standardizes how you control them, right? Like you control the other fields as well?

I can do it through my phone or my computer either way. Okay. Set it up. And they're also going to have a switch on there that you can, which is similar to what's there now. You can push it and it'll come on and stay on for like two hours and then automatically go off.

Are the old bulbs, the sodium bulbs, do we anticipate energy cost savings with these?

I would hope the LED lights. I mean, you would think so. We've not quantified it? Yeah.

Okay.

So, Paul, I've got to ask you a question. On your Park and Recreation Board, which I'm appointed to, how come when the Park and Recreation Board never did meet to discuss things like this before it brought you to the council?

I couldn't tell you to be honest. To be honest, that's a whole other story.