City Council - Regular Meeting

Can you think before you before you start? Okay. How many mayors is this now of you swearing in? Number six. I thought it was number six. I I specifically emailed her over the weekend to make sure that she was that I was going to get to be the lucky number six. But you can look at the audience. Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your name. I, Bobby Guard, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I possess that I possess all of the qualifications all of the qualifications for mayor for mayor as required by the laws of the state of Missouri as required by the laws of the state of Missouri and the charter and ordinances and the charter and ordinances of the city of Cape

of the city of Cape Jordan I will support the constitution of the United States I will support the constitution of the United States the constitution of the state of Missouri the constitution of the state of Missouri and the charter and ordinances and the charter and ordinances of the city of Kardo of the city of Kardo. I will faithfully demean myself I will faithfully demean myself in the office of mayor in the office of mayor of the city of Kardo of the city of Kate Gerardo. So help me God. So help me God.

Congratulations. Just now at 3 name. I state your name. I, Dwayne Shuff, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I possess that I possess

all the qualifications all the qualifications qualifications city council member Ward one for a city council member Ward one as required by the laws of the state of Missouri as as required by the laws as required by the laws of the state of Missouri and the charter and ordinances and the charter and ordinances of the city of Cape of the city of Cro I will support I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the State of Missouri the Constitution of the State of Missouri and the charter and ordinances and the charter and ordinances of the city of Cape of the city of Cape I will faithfully demean myself I will faithfully demean myself

in the office of city council member Ward one in the in the office of city council member Ward one of the city of Cardo of the city of Kardo so help me God so help me I made a little short. You see all those men out there? And they are American fires.

I say your name. I, Tamika Randall, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I possess that I possess all the qualifications all the qualifications for city council member W two for city council member W two as required by the laws as required by the laws of the state of Missouri for the state of Missouri and the chartered ordinances and the chartered ordinances of the city of Cape Dorado of the city of Cape Dorado I will support I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States the Constitution ution of the state of Missouri, the constitution of the state of Missouri, and the chartering ordinances and the chartering ordinances of the city of Kar. of the city of Kerado. I will faithfully demean myself I will faithfully demean myself

in the office of city council member Ward 2 in the office of city council member Ward 2 of the city of Kado of the city of Cart. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. I did not wear it.

I Mark Martin domly swear domly swear that I possess that I possess all the qualifications all the qualifications. City council member Ward 6. Proceed. Council member Ward 6 as required by the laws as required by the laws of the state of Missouri of the state of Missouri and the charter and ordinances and the chartered ordinances of the city of Kora of the city of Kora. I will support I will support the constitution of the United States the constitution of the United States the constitution of the state of Missouri constitution of the state of Missouri and the charter and ordinances and the charter and ordinances of the city of Kerado of the city of Kar. I will faithfully deem myself I will faithfully deem myself in the office of city council member W 6

in the office of city council member of the city of Kar of the city of Kerara. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations.

All right. Now we are official official. Um I've got a couple things I'd like to um say. First off, thank you all for coming here tonight and being in attendance. Um, great welcome to the city council and Kate Gerardo. It's a very special first time you take that oath. And Tamika and Mark, we meet again. We reunited at last. So, uh, I want to say first off, um, thank you family for being here. Kenny, I'm glad you made it here. Instead of friends and family now praying for you, you've got the whole city of Cape praying for you. So, um, that's my dad, Kenny Wallace.

Um, I'm so grateful to represent this great city and to be able to work with this council and staff. Um, I'm reminded of, uh, our number one asset always will be our residents and our city employees. Always. And when I when I wrote that this afternoon, I started thinking about people like Gail Conrad who's been here 36 years. Uh thinking about Mike Trip, um Todd Fulton, Adam Glick's been here. He told I thought it was 24 and he said, "Well, it depends, but it's closer to 27 years." and uh the Scott Williams, the the Brock Davis's and whenever you think and Stan uh Stan and uh so whenever you think about that, how special is that? Um the the the people that we have that are working working here for the city of Cape Gerardo. Um as your mayor, I promise I will always listen. I will always push to have an aversion to the status quo and I will always be passionate and loyal to our city. I am eager to get to work and and I will always make sure that we as a council are a voice for the people. Thank you all. Um if if you were here for the swearing to end, uh if you want to leave, go ahead and we won't be upset. If you want to uh skate out, as my wife looks right at me and says, "Can I skate out?"

No, don't make her be first. Hi Rachel. I'm going to get a picture.

Well, yes, you can. I'm going to go Please All right. Now, this is the fun stuff. Um, we have a parks photo presentation sponsored by Councilman David Canrell. I'll let you know.

Everybody left has no idea what they're doing. Beautiful. Thanks for allowing me to do this, mayor. Uh but things sometimes things happen and they require not they don't need they require uh recognition and u what was accomplished over the last nine months out at Shaune is one of those things for this city. If you're not in the park and recre advisory board or if you're not in the park and rec department or the park and recre uh foundation board, you haven't seen over the last nine months the multitude of texts coming from uh members of the parking rags department about the progress of what's been going on out there. And uh and I I mean everything, you know, from your from your weather, from your supplies issues, all the hurdles that that come with taking a sports complex and really making it a mega complex. And uh so I want to share with you, I'm going to share a video slide with you. It's pretty well done. Thanks to our Cape Ambassador Jim Ryder and Element 74. They put a really good slideshow together for us from all the multitude of pictures that were sent out. Um, I've got just a little a few note cards I want to go over. Um, so I don't want to miss some things. There's five new baseball fields added. Um, that may not seem like a big deal, but I'm going to tell you why it is. Along with those baseball fields, you've got your your added concession stands. Um, you shaded shaded bleachers, restrooms, new scoreboards, and lighting. Now, if you're not in that baseball world, I mean, it's been a long time since my daughter played softball, but uh this these things are what parents and and uh

and directors, tournament directors look at to see what facility they want to go to cuz it's important not just for the players, the kids don't care, they just want to play ball. It's important for the parents that they have facilities and ancillary things that kind of meet their needs and uh and and requirements as well. Um so over the last 9 months they have accomplished this and the result is one of the areas and I mean border states as well one of the most sought after sports complexes around here and I'll get to some more uh facts regarding that in just a minute. So the the big change of these fields was turf. All right, we have 13 baseball softball fields and none of them were turf before. Now in keeping up with the Jones and the Marians and the Padukas and the St. Louis without turf, you really weren't on their radar screen anymore because that's something most everybody has. Why is turf important? I bet you young men could tell me why turf's important. I bet you play baseball, don't you? Turf's important because what happens when it rains? You get a rain out, right? Okay. And also on turf, isn't it easier to ground that ball to field that ball than hitting that club and catching it in your eye or losing it, too? All right. So, turf is important. And so, that's what we've done with the fields. and uh along with all of the other things that was a requirement that you all voted in the PSNR2 tax to upgrade our facilities and the sports that Shaunie was the place to do that for the size of the area that we had and Doug Gan our director is going to touch on that in just a little bit but uh it was important to get that turkey so the mega plex was completed last Friday all right nothing like the

test the next today, which is when we had 50 softball field softball teams descend upon the megaplex and after about 2 in of rain, by the way, um to play for the whole weekend. Now, we guesstimate that's about 3,000 people that came into Cape. That's a that's a small town and it's a lot a lot of areas, right? Came into Cape. About half of those, about 1,500 people, stayed in our hotels, ate at our restaurants, shopped at our shops, uh the mall possibly. Maybe they grab a snow coat and walk down the river and enjoy cuz there is time between games. And what do you do with kids in between games? You sure don't go back to the hotels and hang out, right? You want to do something with them. And the great thing about Cape is we have about a population of about 42,000 I would say Trevor Kenny I'm about right 42,000 but man we got a big city feel here we've got the university we've got two hospitals all the things that that uh smaller towns maybe like ours have 42,000 don't have we do have and yet we're centrally located right in between St. Louisis men. So if you want the pro sports, you can go have it. But if you want a nice, quiet, safe uh place to live, reside, have a business, then you've got cake. And the lowhanging fruit of all these visitors is just that those people see our city when they come visit and they play on our fields and they eat in our restaurants and they stay in our hotels. They're like, "Wow, Cape Dorado is a really nice place." So, next thing they're doing is they're like, "Hey, we're going to go back and just take the family back for a long weekend, you know, catch a movie, just go down to the park, do something where we're not on a full schedule and enjoy ourselves." And also, that same verse make me think and you know, I'm also thinking about expanding my business. You know, what a

cape would be a great place to expand a business. It's got 100,000 people in it on a daily basis, but yet you don't have the congestion of that like you do in a big city and your traffic and stuff. So that's why that's why these visitors are so important. Let me go another step further. Our sales tax that uh that we all pay, right? Um that goes a portion of that goes into our general fund which funds our our city's operations on a daily basis. All right. You may not know this, but 60% of that sales tax comes from outside sources. Now, I'm not just saying it comes from just parking reps, but that's when you think 53,000 people. All right. And by the way, the 50 teams that descended upon us last weekend is nothing is short of the 60 teams that are coming this weekend. And by the way, every weekend from here from from this one to end of June is full. So you can just count on that. And the 50 teams is one of the one of the smallers. All right. So uh I spoke to the tournament director. Uh help me out. Uh Lori Lori Scott was Lori. Okay. I spoke with her. I asked Scott for a phone number. He said what he wants. I asked for a phone number. There's two sides of every story, right? I wanted to talk to her about her experiences. She's been a UTA USSA uh tournament director for 15 years. She runs tournaments over six states. Quote unquote, King Toronto is her favorite place to put on a tournament. Now, that I I don't know, you know, that's that's from the horse's mouth, right? Um, and then Erica, uh, Erica Driver is coming in this weekend with the 60 baseball teams. And she said, "We love coming to Kate. We love we love not just the

fields, but we love the people that support us there, the park and rec division." She goes, "Nobody works harder for the make conditions right and the best they can be than the staff here at the park and rec department." And so kudos to you all. that is those that's that's that's profound I believe uh and and talking about the sales tax not only are you supporting the city we're supporting a lot of business owners particularly small business owners they count on that traffic the hospitals I mean they they get I mean they have a you know demand goes there but you know going down walking down Main Street grabbing an ice cream cone walking down Main Street you see all these shops you may go into the antique shop or go get yourself a cup of coffee. Those business owners just rely on the visitors and park. Nobody like Park and Rex brings them in. Uh, sorry, I told this book every weekend and it's critical to our city's bottom line. As council member, I am I have the honor of being the liaison to not just the Parker Rex advisory board, but to the CV advisory board. So, I get to see the chemistry between the two. And truly, there is chemistry. You just got to sit back and watch how they talk and how they manage and how they plan and strategize together. Every application that the tournament director is going to fill out, the website for the CBB is on it. And what that website does, it takes it brings them to everything. Cape, one-stop shop of where to stay, where to eat, where to get this, where to get that. And and so the two they work together. And I just found out from Lori, she shared with me the CBD actually helped pay for their umpires.

And she goes, "No way." And so I mean I don't know if I got anybody in trouble by saying that but okay I mean it's to me it's whatever it takes to feel build feels fields. All right and they're doing that. Um let's see. So, I'm going to wrap it up here and talk about our park and rec staff, which I had worked with as a not only an adviser, but I was on the park and recovery board before I became a councilman. And I think that's kind of what motivated me to go the next step because I didn't know a whole lot about the city. I knew I love Cape, born and raised here, and came back after 20 years of service. Um, I saw other cities. I lived in San Diego. I lived up north. I saw big cities and all I want to do is get back home to Cape because I know other people and I know what we have here to offer and uh and that that that just that's what brings a lot of people back. If you notice I notice a lot of my other friends came back after careers and stuff too. They made it their home. So, uh what does that is all of the work that goes into the parking racks. Uh one of one of the aspects of the parking racks. Uh, I talked to Scott. I went by Sunday after church cuz I knew there was going to be 50 teams there and I just wanted to see this whole control chaos and I knew it rained. I knew they had to work like they humped it. U, they worked till 11:00 one night cuz three of the fields are still dirt. Uh, they had they had to prep those fields, not only till them, they had to put a compact compound down that helps absorb the rain and the dew the next morning. So, they were out there till 11:00 at night. And then actually a couple of the guys even stayed, correct me if I'm wrong, they stayed in Ashley in the in the maintenance shed out there because they were back up 5:30 in the morning doing that again. And I talked to uh I was

walking around while I was out there and I talked to one of I talked to several uh parents that were hanging out just watching their kids and introduced myself and where y'all from and that and they're like, "This is just this is awesome. So, we've been coming here. This one guy, Aaron in Springfield, Missouri said, "We've been, my daughter's been on travel team for 5 years. We've made a tournament here every year." And he goes, "We always look forward to it before because the people here are really gracious. Uh, it's a very nice town. It's a very clean town and uh we enjoy coming to Cape. It's not that far of a drive. And uh but what we've seen here over this last couple of days, this has been very impressive. And you can for sure and we'll be talking about it to our other parents who have kids in teams about you want to sign up for this tournament. That's how it goes, right? We all spend if you're in business, you spend boooo bucks on advertising. But what is it that brings people in the door more than anything is that word of mouth and it's got to be good word of mouth as well. Um I asked Scott as we were talking I went over there about 11:30 and he was in the concession stand. He comes out with his gloves on from food prep. Okay. He's 11:00 at 5:30. Now he's coming out from behind the concession stand. I was like, "Scott, have you got a man?" He goes, "Yeah." He's pulling his gloves off and we're just talking about everything that I kind of share with you what they had to do to get the fields ready and that there was about an hour delay. Um, and he talked and Scott actually talked to a lot of the parents as well. They were all good with it. You know why? They saw how they were busting their tails to get it ready for their kids to play so they didn't cancel the games so they didn't waste their money, right? And uh I asked how I know the allergy could how I said why did you choose this field? He goes uh he goes really kind of chooses you. You just have to decide whether you you

can do it or not. And uh he's been doing this for 35 years. And I I know he I promised I wouldn't call out names cuz I know I know there's so many here. I asked uh Rex, I asked him I asked Doug and Kate, Scott, those guys to bring people in because we can't pay him a whole lot more money. But I think I value recognition almost as much as that. And so I hope I hope you all feel that. I hope you appreciate that. what I want to do for you and I appreciate what you do for the city as well as everybody up here. We know how important you are. And without further ado, I'd like to share with you a pretty cool slideshow we put together. And if you want to get up and dance, that's cool. This is pretty good. But how about go ahead and hold for us and then Doug K is going to come up and give you Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat up Oh yeah, come up for a second, please. Now, I want y'all to remember that last bit of income, 60% of that sales tax. Okay? Remember next year when that restaurant, hotel tax, we got to put that back on the ballot. Remember that 60% is from the outsiders. So, let's vote yes.

Well, thank you, Mr. Canrell, and thanks council and and the mayor and Dr. for having us here tonight to to recognize this um this this accomplishment, this huge accomplishment. So, as you can tell, we're very excited about the addition of this facility and what it means to the city of Cape Vardo. This was one of our marquee projects that was identified as part of the PRS2 tax, which was passed by voters in 2018. Um we faced a big challenge when this facility was being built or when the idea of this facility came up. we didn't have split. Um, and and we explored a couple of options. We explored a a partnership option. We explored a land donation option. Neither of which came to fruition. So, um, our ambassador and good friend Danny Esner took it upon himself to try to find a place to put this complex. Now, I always laugh and tease with Danny. I'll never forget the email that we got from Danny and it said, "Guys, I think it'll fit." and and the space he was referring to was the land just to the west of the existing Shauny Park Sports Complex. And I remember thinking, hey, you tackle football fields are there. That's a big ravine with a big ditch line right through the middle of it. Um there's a shore truck running through there. Um is this even going to be a possibility? So, we worked with public works, we worked with the public services, we worked with a local engineering firm, and we did determine that it was a viable site to put the complex. Um, so, so then we got things moving. So, we put a committee in place and I would like to recognize our committee. Um, that was the committee that reviewed the RFP, interviewed the contractor, selected the contractors. We dug into this thing and did a lot of work to get this thing up and running and that was myself, recreation division manager Scott

Williams, which I think Scott's in the building. Um, parks division manager Kate Horl, parks, recreation advisory board chair of Mercy and of course foundation member um, Danny Eser. And we also got great support um, from Dan Drury and Diane Gury Janet on this project as well. So we we appreciate their support and allowing us to to move forward with this development. So we put the RFP out on the design build project in May of 2024. Had a contractor in place January 2025. We selected Pinsel Construction as our contractor and they assembled a really excellent team um that that really tackled the complexity of this project. We had a lot of flood issues, flood plane, floodways. Um, you know, we looked at maps with different lines going through them. You can't build here, you can't build there. So, a lot of a lot of things to navigate. We started excavation on the project March 25. We had to start early because evidently there's some bats that that live in trees that we had to get the trees down in time before the before the bats came back in. Um, and so we started March 25. We hosted a 52 team tournament uh last weekend and we're certainly proud that that tournament went off without a hitch and kudos to all our staff that made that happen. So we as as councilman Gerald said this was a multiaceted project. We got the five field youth complex and we were also able to turf our fields that were constructed in 1997. We put infield turf on those. We put new fencing on fields one through five. bleacher canopies complex wide. So the youth tackle football fields that we existed just to the west of the complex, we moved those across the road. There's land there by Jefferson School, Jefferson pool along College Street. There's some city land there. So we're actually putting the KPU

tackle soccer fields on at that location. We were able to implement a PA system complex wide because we're getting so big now. If we've got severe weather coming in, we've got missing child. We've got something that we need to broadcast out, got concession sales, we want to to to just get people excited, play music, we've got the ability to do that. And then we also were able to take the dirt. So, we did the we did the the turf on fields one through five. We moved all that dirt over to Arena Park. And we had a contractor come in and recrown those fields in Arena Park because those of you that have played in Arena Park know that those fields really hold water and and and we really struggled with trying to keep those things ready for play. So we crowned them all with the dirt from Shaune. So So this project kind of grew as we moved along. Um and and I I really want to thank Lisa Mills as well because Lisa really supported our financial part of this project. So I can't let that that go unsaid. Um, so there's many benefits to this location. As I look at what would have happened if we would have had to choose another location, we would have had to mobilize an entire new maintenance crew. We would had to build a new maintenance facility. We would had to buy more fleet. So doing the project where we did, we were able to share resources with the existing operation. We use the same maintenance building. Uh we we used the same fleet, the same personnel. Uh we had no additional staffing that we requested as part of this and we had minimal increase in operating cost because we were able to free all the expense out that went to maintain the infields on the on the dirt um with turf. We didn't have to buy all the supplies to use to maintain the u the fields on those other fields. So um if we would have moved locations we would have had to to incur a lot of those additional costs. So this complex is going to bring many benefits to Cape Gardo. We're going to continue to support Cape's strong position in sports tourism, uh, which is extremely important. Uh, we will generate tax revenues across the board when people

come to town and spend money that's lifting all all taxes in the city. Uh, we're going to provide more opportunities for local leagues and field rentals. The funeral rentals have gone crazy. Kids are loving the idea of playing on the turf. They know they're going to be able to play. Um it's really uh and and I think um I seen a text last week that a young man came into the field um to play for the first time and I it was some phrase that I guess is a young person's phrase now. He said this is really I I can't remember exactly what it was but it was this is awesome. I can't even explain to you how awesome this is playing on these fields. So we we were able also to replace some of the Asian fields in Arena Park and we share those fields with with we love the fair and what they do for the community, but every year those fields were ravaged by fair parking and fair activities. So these are going to be dedicated um to to play at Shauny Park. More opportunities for recreation programs. We want to open the fields up for spark program. We want to open the fields up for kids to come in and just have the experience of playing on turf. And those things are all going to be things we put in in the works. The biggest thing I think is if you come across the river going west on 74 and you come into the city, you're going to see Jefferson pool to your right. You're going to see the baseball or the soccer football fields. You're going to see the new the the Shauny Park Center. You're going to see fields one through five, the exist the older complex. You're going to see the new development across the road. So you really as as Mr. can railstead, you're going to see a bank flex when you come into the city and I think that's going to be a very impressive entryway into the city coming from the Illinois side coming across the river. And then we will continue to to promote Cape is a great place um to live and work and and that's certainly something that we want to do. The infield turn, as Mr. Canrell said, has been a game changer uh because we had the ability to pull this tournament off this weekend. And if we would have got the rain Saturday that we got without the turf, we would have lost that

tournament. Um, so that would have been one hotel night for a large number of teams and that would have been a a lot of lost revenue to the city. And I give credit to our predecessors back in 1997. We have the vision to build the Shauny Park Sports Complex and the Osage Center because we were really ahead of our time on sports tourism. Um, and we've continued to develop those assets as we've gone. And as I said earlier, we've become a very popular place to to to to come for for sporting activities. Not only Shony Park Sports Complex and the Sportslex, but also Cape Splash. A lot of people come into town for the day, come to Cape Splash, spend money in Cape. Brenda estimates that the CBV estimates that a person coming to Cape Gardo to visit spend $80 a day while we're in town. you know, so if they come and make a splash, you can count on them spending that kind of money before they leave town. Rose, convenient store, stop, and get gas, maybe have lunch while they're here, dinner while they're here. And the O center serves that purpose as well. And we've got the new Cape Aquatic Center that was also a PRS project. They had 175 swimmers over there this weekend up for a big swim meet. So, we have become a very popular destination for sports. And I think our customer service and the the the the lengths that we go to make sure people have a good time and a good experience while they're in Cape and the integrated services we have um that visit Cape also play into that as well. So and as we talked about this just this past weekend in Cape we had 52 teams Shaunie we estimated 35 of those from out of town um we had 3,000 people as as Mr. Andreo said 108 teams played in the sports. We estimated that 50% of those teams stayed in Cape for the weekend. We had approximately 2500 people out there at the sports this weekend. Not a hotel to be found within Cape Gerard. Probably not even in the Sykes area as well. So these hotels really fill up quick when we have these these these activities in

town. So Visit Cape estimates that when somebody comes to Cape D for a tournament, they spend $95 a day. If they come in town for a convention or meeting, they spend $220 a day. If, as I said, they come to kick splash, they'll spend or just visit Kate for the day, they'll spend 80 a day. We we think each player brings about 1.5 spectators with them when they come. Um, and and Visit Cape is continuing to refine the numbers of the data that we're able to capture. Whenever as as as Damon said, whenever people re uh apply for funding to uh for a tournament, they'll put down the number of people they think they're going to bring. Uh when you're going to have lodging, you know, what's the activities you're going to do while you're in Cape? Then we also do a post survey if we give them funding to come to town. And then that survey, they will give us specific numbers about the number of people they they brought, number hotels that they're renting. And then Visit Cape's also working closely with the hotels as well um to be able to just call in and say, "Hey, can you give us an idea of how many rooms we use this weekend for that activity?" So, we're continuing to try to uh to refine those to work on the occupancy rates for for the CPP. So, we also see a lot of direct revenue with these places for from our facilities from activities with Shauny Park Sports Complex will make between 9 and 12,000 in the weekend just on field rental. The sports flex will see between 5 and 8,000 on facility grow and then concession operations generated significant income. We'll make 13,000. I think this last weekend they made over 20,000 at Shaune uh with concessions. U so typically a most weekend two two-day tournament 13,000 at sports flex will make between 19 and 22,000. Um so we benefit everybody in the city when we bring people in. and we'll pull from Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas. We pull from a great distance. So, as we look to the future, we certainly want to keep the momentum going, keep keep your vibrant, keep people coming. We got an opportunity

down the road to potentially expand some some facilities, and we certainly want to to take a look at doing that. We are positioned right between Memphis and St. Luke's. Um, so we can pull from the south, we can pull from the north, and we can meet in the middle. we had mids south activities here in Cape Gardo and we certainly want to keep doing that. So anyway, thank you for the recognition um and and the opportunity to come up and share our story and showcase what we've done for Cape Gardo and uh we look forward to great things coming to you. So D, we do have a letter of commendation to the parks and recreation department for departmental achievement during the renovation and development of the Shauny Park megaplex. From June 1st, 2025 through April 19th, 2026, the entire parks and recreation department and staff took on their dawning task of creating a megaplex within the Shauny Park facility and grounds. Your team de demonstrated a sense of dedication and loyalty necessary to successfully complete this lofty task and be show ready for a full summer of weekday and weekend tournaments and sports activities. The logistics, the management, the coordination and leadership were exceptional, which is what we've come to expect from the entire parks and recreation department. Your efforts will not only serve our city and our citizens, but will undoubtedly bring in necessary revenue from visiting teams, coaches, and family members. Your department's initiative and devotion to duty reflect great credit upon themselves and are welld deserving of recognition and gratitude. Presented this day, 20th day of April 2026, Rygard, Mayor Kate Trevor. Thank you, sir.

All right, study session item. Is this you, Mr. Ky, or is this Oh, this is Ryan. Sorry, Mr. Shrek. I didn't know. Uh but we will have a study session of the amendment chapter 25 and chapter 30 for updating the billboard ordinances. Um come on. This was actually on the my last meeting on plan, wasn't it? All right. All right.

Did we have a side of the actual text of the amendment? I see it. Okay. To those staff. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. I just want to take a few minutes to review some proposed changes to the billboard regulations. A little bit of background. All billboards in the city require a special use permit. Um they're only permitted in certain zoning districts. They're only along on parcels of land that border certain streets and street sections of the city. Okay. Um the impetus behind this uh there's a couple different things. Uh one is we've been approached recently by some outdoor advertising agencies. Uh they're looking for some new sites to build some billboards and uh the sites that they have identified uh aren't currently authorized under this ordinance. So we have conversation uh well I've had conversation with a couple different uh companies about amending the regulations to add in those areas. Um the other thing is we're considering adding in uh a section for billboards in the downtown area. um that's coming off of the uh the newly opened well not so new now the Espire I think it's got a marquee and they have been selling ads on that premises advertising currently doesn't meet the code but we discussed it as staff felt that that was something that we could accommodate uh in Gardo not just for that area but for area other areas downtown have some careully crafting regulations so you'll see that also this amendment So, I'm just going to walk you through this very quickly here. Let me know if I'm going too fast or if you have any questions. Okay. The first thing we're we're looking at and there's two amendments. Most of the changes are in chapter 25 of the city code, which is the development code. So, that chapter is this section 25-9 pertains to billboards. uh there's a much smaller amendment in the zoning code which is chapter 30 which just add billboards into the zoning districts where they're currently not uh listed.

So um so the first thing we're proposing in this amendment is to add a definition of billboard. Okay, good regulation has good definitions that's very clear to everyone what a billboard is in the city. Okay, that's an outdoor sign. It advertises the business goods or services not located or available on the property upon which the sign is located and it excludes signs that are permitted for off- premises advertising in article 5, which is the sign regulation. So, we don't want to run file for that. Um, so as I mentioned, billboards require special use permit. There's a process for that. Um, and then as far as the zoning districts where billboards are currently allowed, they're allowed in C2, which is our highway commercial district, M1, which is light manufacturing industrial, M2, which is heavy manufacturing industrial, and PD, which is a plant development district. U, we're proposing to add in C1, which is the general commercial district. Okay, so that's that's a new one that came at the request of one of our outdoor advertising uh companies. Uh the second one is the street sections where properties uh would qualify for a billboard. Um some of this is just clean up language as we as we're working on the amendment. Any type of clarification things I just go ahead and add those in. Uh the changes here, the first one is on Shauny Parkway. Currently the only section of Shauny Parkway that qualifies for billboards if it's zoned appropriately is the portion west of Kings Highway. So, this would change it to include all of Shining Parkway around 74 all the way to the bridge to the terminus of 74. Uh, the other change is adding in a section of Kings Highway. Right now, billboards are permitted on Kings Highway starting at Woodrest Drive and going all the way south all the way down to where it it turns into the interstate. Um, this would change it to

add in the section of uh, Kings Highway from Interstate 55 down to and stopping at Kura County Park North. It would include the park property, but it would include the Mid America Hotels development. That's a sports flex uh, an area known as Center Junction. That is what is proposed to be added uh, into this uh, ordinance. Um, jumping down. Um, currently the code allows a billboard to kind of have a Vshape and then at the apex or the back uh there's a small uh area sign billboard area that's permitted. Um, right now that sign area is capped at 150 ft. One of the billboard companies asked to increase that to 300 ft to keep that in line with kind of their standard. Um, another major change is uh for billboards that are on parcels of land board in the interstate. Right now, billboards are treated the same in terms of the maximum sign area, maximum height. Um, we're proposing to increase that for parcels of land that are on the interstate. Again, that came from conversations with our outdoor advertising agencies. Um, if you obviously if you're familiar with Cape Gerardo, you drive down Kings Highway where we have a lot of billboards on William Street. Once you get out onto the interstate, you'll notice that the billboards are much bigger. Obviously, because people are traveling at at higher speeds, there's more land, it's open, uh, they need more visibility. So, um, currently maximum billboard signp total is, uh, 600 square ft. Um, we're proposing to increase it for properties bordering the interstate to go up to 800 square feet per face and 1,600 square feet total. Um, and then as far as the length of the billboard face, the maximum is 30 for those on the interstate, the maximum will be 50. U, also as far as sign height, the maximum

height is 30 ft from the grade street to the grade, sorry, to the top of the billboard sign face. Uh we're proposing to increase that to 35 except on the interstate where it can go up to 45 ft. Um another change we're making pertains to uh motion. Uh currently the code does not allow electronic video or digital billboard images to convey any type of movement. Um so we talked about this. you know, you certainly don't want anything that's flashing or that could cause a hazard in driving. Um, but to have a flat prohibition on images that have any type of motion whatsoever, um, we felt was probably a little excessive. Uh, you know, modern technology today, you may see a sign or an image that may have come to school again or something like that. Um, so we're just changing it to where um, we you can't have flashing images, but another and other effects that could be a safety hazard um, as determined by the city manager, the city staff authorized by a city manager. So, it's it kind of broadens it out. As long as we're not deeming it to be unsafe, you can have some sort of movement uh, in your billboard digital images. Okay. And then the next major change is adding a category. This is a subcategory in the billboard regulations. Uh we're calling it downtown billboards. Okay. So, this is separate from the other billboard regulations. Uh billboards would be allowed in the downtown. And then it lists several different requirements. So, it's got a separate set of zoning districts where it be permitted. Uh that would be CBD, which is the central business district. That's our main zoning district downtown. Uh but also C1, C2, M1, and PD. We do have some properties that either are could be zoned at, but they're still in the downtown area. Um, and then as far as

the streets and street sections, uh, we're only proposing allow it on Broadway east of Pacific Street all the way to the U to Water Street and then from Spring Street South down to Maple Street, which is the end of the B-state property there on 74. Um, the regular billboard regulations have a spacing requirement. uh billboard cannot be within 1400 ft of another billboard on the same side of the street. Um for the downtown area, we're kind of scaling that down. We're proposing to have a distance requirement of 500 ft. Okay. Typical downtown block is between 450 and 500 ft. So that basically sure you don't have one downtown billboard on a block the same side of the street. Um there's some other language that's also applies to the general regulations. Obviously, it can't uh billboard can't obscure a traffic sign or obstruct a view of approaching intersection traffic. Um, as far as the downtown billboards, um, you know, when you get you have the idea of a billboard downtown, you're thinking a large structure on the big pole that's very high, very large, and it could be somewhat body. And obviously, we don't have the context for that. That would not be appropriate at all uh, downtown. So, uh, the proposal is to only allow digital displays for the downtown, something that's high quality, and it has to be integrated into a monument sign. That's a sign that that's solid all the way from the sign face down, not on a floor post. Um, or it could be incorporated into a marquee or architectural feature that's over to a building. So the Esquire Theater that I mentioned, that's that's the other type of situation where a downtown billboard uh we feel would be appropriate. So it's really limited to that type of format. No no signs, no pylons or anything like that. Um as far

as the the sign constraints, uh then the maximum area for sign face would be 50 square ft. The maximum length of the face would be 10 ft and the total sign face area would be 100 square ft. Okay. Um the maximum height if it's on a monument sign would be 12 feet. So we're talking something much smaller than what you associate with being a billboard. Okay. But this would afford the ability to have some sort of offremises advertising downtown. Um and then we also state that the the monument sign cannot be located in a public rideway unless it's approved by the council. You do have a license and deputy agreement process. So if it's vetted, the council could bring a license agreement for a downtown billboard that is in the rightway. Of course, like I said, the marquee at the esquire is in the right way. Um, and then at the end, it just says that the downtown billboards are also subject to some other general provisions that apply to all billboards. So, any questions? Quick comment. And I will say thank you for putting a lot of work into the downtown portion. I think that if you go

I'm sorry I forgot I have a map. I took some time to prepare this map so I should probably share it with you. I'm sorry to interrupt. I did want to show here uh this this really illustrates the corridors where uh billboards are are currently permitted which is in yellow. So 55 Kings Highway, Williams Street west of Kings Highway and 74 west of Kings Highway. And then new areas being proposed at the north Kings Highway there at center junction Broadway east to Pacific for downtown spring from Broadway downtown and then that east Parkway. I apologize for that.

I did have a question. But in considering this um Broadway um west of Pacific Street, what was the thinking not to allow signs say out to King?

Uh well, first of all, you start getting on the university property. So the the thought just like with the parks, we kind of assume they probably were not going to be interested in doing that. If the university wants to have signage there, it's probably be for their own purposes and they're probably just going to work with us on that. That was really the main thing. Another thing is a lot of people, even though it's not the official beginning of the downtown district, usually Pacific Street kind of seems to mark signify that you've reached downtown. You start having those group of buildings that are all together there. My only comment would be u about the moving images and that uh I mean I'm concerned that we already drivers already have so many distractions u phones and whatnot. And so I just suggest a great consideration be given to uh what the content what allowed content is and how that's vetted. um a so uh advertisers, you know, don't find out they can't do what they want to do and also for the safety concerns about any accidents and and so forth.

You want to address that because you brought that up at at pl zoning. I know. Yeah. Yeah. So, um you know, the billboards we're talking about, not that it's impossible for the city to have one, but but most of these billboards that we're talking about are privately owned. So, um, we do have, I believe, some representatives of the industry here. I I see some folks from the southwest signs. Um, they might be able to address how they kind of look at those those electronic images with regard to motion to determine what is Well, from my understanding from our the plan zoning, it's 8 seconds every two minutes still. Would you talk about that a little bit?

Yeah. So, that that is currently in the ordinance and we're keeping that an image has to stay up for 8 seconds. Yeah. Yeah. So, now we're talking about like I said ocean. I guess that means the main screen has to stay in a second, but we may have something that comes in. For example, uh I I think I saw an image uh advertising the airport and I think it was showing a panoramic of something, you know, that that's kind of it's showing movement, but it's really the same image. Yeah, that thank you for reminding me that. Yeah, the 8 seconds will remain. That that is an industry standard. We did check with Southwest. That's something they have.

Um, and currently you said we have at the Esquire Theater. There is the current billboard there. And there's also one at the Blue Church, correct? On Broadway.

Uh, there's a digital sign there. I I'm not aware of that being used for as far as like space as the sizing of those two currently in relation to the proposal. Mhm. Uh well the the espart you know there's not sign constraints on the high or whatever but the panels yes I did work with uh Ben tra I guess I should should mention that uh this draft evolved I kept sending it to the at their advertising agencies and I did run it by Mr. Traxel to ensure that his uh panels on his mark fit these constraints. We don't want to pass something and then find out it it's not going to work. So, were there are they substantially smaller than the current uh

I I believe the the sum of their two panel the two panels on the marquee are something around 74 square ft and we're proposing that's a total maximum of 100. So, it's it's fine. Council, any other questions? Thank you, Ryan. This uh will appear on your next uh agenda for first reading. Uh and again I mentioned the other one that just adds the boards to CD and C1 as special pieces. So uh unless there are changes we plan on putting that on your agenda.

Perfect. Thank you. Uh last thing and I I wanted to talk about this real quickly and I didn't have it on here but I want to discuss it and that's appearances regarding items not on the agenda. I've talked to a few of you about this. Um I know years ago um that they would have appearance appearances regarded not regarding not on the agenda come to the end of study session and speak instead of at the end of council. Um one of the things that I while talking with residents was the um having to register. So I kind of wanted to get council's idea on that. We could still have them register and do it at the end of study session. And I don't want to put words in um city attorney Grady Young's mouth, but if we do it at the end of study session, um if somebody wouldn't show up, we would have some grace to be able to still allow them to speak. Is that correct? Did I get that right? Kind of. I'm not quite sure I follow up here. So if we did uh residents wanting to speak about items that are not on the agenda, if we put that at the end of the study session, technically if somebody forgot to register that we could still allow them to speak. Correct.

The requirement for registration was for the actual um council meeting. So study sessions are not currently regulated by policy. So I did get it right. I just didn't say it right. So this this count yes this council was free to fix study sessions. So so my suggestion would be so that we can have some grace if somebody forgot to register and then they didn't waste time is I would ask you all if if it would be okay if we moved um residents wanting to speak about items that are not on the agenda to the end of study session still ask them to register but we will have a lot more grace if somebody forgot. Mr. was

I just wanted to ask if you could talk about a three minute thing or it would still be regulated by three to five. It's that that would still be something if you guys wanted to talk about going from 3 minutes to five. Um I wasn't going to address that, but I just wanted to ask the opinion on

Well, Tikica, so I would say, you know, being here now, the most important thing when somebody that podium is that they get their point across, correct? Um and that we hear their point. Um, as I'm sure everybody in this room knows, uh, public speaking is not offended for most people. Um, you know, not at all actually. Uh, they hate it. Um, so my my stance would be I think just knowing that they have to register. That that's one key in the cog of okay, I have to be prepared because number one, I have to register to speak in front of council. Okay. So if if we go from no register to or from registering to no register again I think that lessens the serious is not as a resident would have serious comment but I think it's being prepared. Um and generally speaking we've heard numerous people come to that podium. I don't know if I've heard anybody come up that's had to register uh and speak and not be prepared. And that we wouldn't want to lose. I'm a big proponent of register um get your agenda and and I'm sure everybody speak for everybody on the council. If you're in W five or any other ward um feel free to reach out if you have a something you want to discuss. We'll be more than happy to help you get that point across from from your perspective. So um I would rather say how it is because correct me if I'm wrong. We don't limit how many people can register. You can have 40 people register for something.

So I just want to I want to be able to have a little bit more grace. I know that there have been times whenever I was on city council where people have forgot to register and and frankly it's it's been changed over the last 10 years. Um I I just if we move it up to the study session, I would still want to have the registration in place, but I want to be able to have some grace if somebody forgot. I kind of understand both points. Um I I understand what you're saying. I do like the the preparation, but I understand things happen and and people want to voice it while it's timely. Um, and maybe a happy medium would be that uh there's a limit of of uh times that you can speak without registering maybe a one off or a two off. And I would also suggest while I'm suggesting is that that that three that is a quick three minutes. I would suggest you leave that to four minutes and then if um if a member or a council member or yourself would like to hear more after that bell, you give them another minute so they can really prep for four minutes but um sometimes like Brian says uh you get servers up so you can't get it all out.

I mean it was five in the past so yeah give me a chance to speak. Uh I don't when we come to a council meeting, we prepare for the council meeting. The agenda is set out to the public so the public is ready to discuss the business that's outlined by the city council and that's our top priority. So I don't think we should change because do I want to hear what constituents have to say? Yes, all day. For the first hour and a half, no.

We need to We came here to do business. some people prepared for the business. We have public hearings. Usually most governing boards, they got old business, new business, and non-aggenda items. So, if it's a non agenda item, it may it's a priority for the person, but maybe not for council at the time. So, everyone will have breaks if you have a chance to register because twice a month. And if there's more to be done with different council members and mayor, people speak after us. But it's important that you can get off track and you start hearing what 10 to 20 people say and we got agenda items that we prepare for and I don't think we should change them. We still give people grace to register and time to present at the end after we do our business and then we hear what the constituents have,

right? And and that's why I was wanting to talk about that during the session. So, um Dwayne, you want to weigh in on this? You're new.

I am new. Um, and I will say that I have had to spend a fair amount of time getting to this point and, you know, I've spent the last year sitting at most every meeting and I honestly kind of like the efficiency of the meetings. Um, I was able to come in, I knew by picking up the agenda that was outside, I saw what we were what I was expecting and I I kind of enjoyed that. I saw there were times whenever there were heated uh, heated discussions. There were some times where they were fairly swift and they all seemed flickable at their times, but again, it seemed like a really well organized machine. I thought that worked well. Not in a bad way though. I thought that the uh I thought that the meeting ran uh you know

I I think if you have a lengthy session like we just had over an hour study session and then you're going to add uh additional time where people are going to come and talk. I thinking about it, I think we better to put it at the end after we've done the stuff that's on our regular agenda. Um cuz like I said, right now it

all right. Well, that's why I wanted to bring it up um as a council decision. So, we'll just park that one. We'll just keep doing it the way and then as time goes on, if we change our mind, we can always change it then. Uh, I don't believe we have any presentations this evening. Um, I do uh communications and reports council.

Yes, I have one. I've had the fortunate and misfortune of working with a bunch of leaders. Uh, one thing I can tell you about the good leaders I work for is before they set your standard or your bar, they set theirs and then they work towards that as providing them an example of what you should do. It's not something they demand of you. It's something you will eventually demand of yourself. That being said, I'd like to read this if you don't mind. On April 10th, Chief Adam Glenn graduated from the Missouri Police Chief's Command College, a prestigious leadership program for law enforcement professionals across the state. He was one of 41 law enforcement supervisors, commanders, chiefs, and sheriffs to complete the program. Hosted annually by the police chiefs association in partnership with Lincoln University. Command College provides executive level training for current current and future law enforcement leaders. The program focuses on strengthening leadership, decisionmaking, and organizational management skills. Chiefs Kick's accomplishment reflects his dedication to not only his own growth, but to the continued success of the Cape Dorado Police Department and the Cape Der community. Please join us in congratulating Chief Blake on this outstanding achievement.

Anyone else? I don't have anything that special, but I was fortunately absent at the last city council meeting on the way to Augusta National with my daughter. So, I was one. Yes. Yes. So, I would like to say even though I know they're not here right now, I want to say thanks to Stacy Skinner and Preston for opening their arms for me, for being the new guy before Dwayne became the new guy and thank them for their service and and was really glad to get to know them and hope to continue a friendship and and working relationship together as we proceed down the road. Awesome.

Guys, I have a couple things. Um, first and foremost, uh, first I want to say, uh, the city of Karo and the the, uh, Kardo County will be lowering city, uh, flags to half staff in memory of former mayor and city manager J. Ronald Fiser. Um, I had just gotten I'd always known uh, growing up in Cape Gerardo, you always knew who Jay Ronald Fischer was. And the first time I met him was at Sam's Pancake House right after I had gotten elected in in 2016. And all he said was, you know, as one of the older gentlemen introduced me, he said, "Well, you know what you're getting into?" And I said, "But I don't really know." And he said, "Well, you'll figure it out." Um, but Jay Ronald Fisher, um, for those of you who know, was the city of Cape Gerardo mayor from 1966 to 1967. And I got to tell you, I there were some Thank you for putting this together, Gail. Um there was some of this growing up in Cape. I had no idea. Talk about the rich city history of and and J. Ronald Fischer's fingers were all over uh Cape Charter becoming the the city that it is today. He was the at 31 in 1966, he was the second youngest mayor in the city's history. He was on city council from 1965 to 1966. He was the city manager here in Cape Gerardo, which um Gail found out that a lot of the articles that that were written about him were written by Mr. Bliss. Um but he was the city manager from 1988 to 1995 and then he was um appointed by the governor and reelected nine times the Cape Jared County Commission from 1968 to 1988. some of the accomplishments that are noteworthy. Um, city manager form of government was adopted while on council

in 1965. He hired the city's first city manager. Um, comprehensive plan was adopted in 1968. The city's water system was purchased back from Amron in 1992. Cape Lori Walker Ranch flood control project which saved u our plaza area. Um, anybody who grew up here remembers all the flooding there where um, Cape Airport major renovation, Lexington Avenue street project, implement implementation of curbside recycling. Um, he's known for just being a plain spoken uh, plain speaking common sense approach to the city manager position. He mended a lot of fences um, in that time in Cape Gerardo. um partly the Show Me Center and other issues. He was one that would really come in and and mend a lot of fences with a lot of upset parties. I'm a mentor and a leader to many, one of which was Gail. Um Gail um considers um Jay Ronald and his wife um second basically second parents. So I wanted to read that about J. Fisher and and prayers and u love to his family and and friends. Um also when we're talking about some condolences, I want to send condolences to Father John Hearth um his family and friends. Father um Hearth, who served as chaplain at the Cape Gerardo Police Department for many years and the Cape Gerardo Sheriff's Department and was heavily involved in the Springfield springfield uh Kate Gerardo um dascese. So, um, condolences to his family. Um, I saw where prosecuting attorney Mark Bucker, but thank you to, um, him and and Chief Glick for hosting um, Dr. Haskin and I over to talk about a multitude of different topics and

appreciate your, uh, time with your staff. Um, Chief Glick, um, Riverfest, um, sponsors are needed. I was talking with one of their coun or one of their committee members, Jeanie and Jean Jeannie Mockerman, and I told her, well, I said, I guess I'll put my money where my mouth is. So, my bank will be a 1776 sponsor, and I'm going to challenge um all of our other small businesses to see if they can help raise some funds for for that as well. Um, and then I wanted to do some housekeeping on our boards and commissions. Sorry, this is um it's been drinking through a fire hose the last week of my life. Um I will I will um serve on Simo Ready board uh the executive board. Dr. Haskins will continue that role as well. Um Dwayne Dwayne will be on the Redar NDI that's currently in active, but you will also be the council liaison for the convention and visitors bureau if that's okay. I know you currently sit on that and you're talking with uh Councilman Canrell that makes sense to keep you on there as a liazison and then we'll be able to get another um uh business owner like yourself to be on the board. As far as uh Cape Charter Enhanced Enterprise Zone, I was going to appoint Mark to that. I appreciate that, Mark. Um comprehensive plan oversight committee. We needed three positions for that and I would ask Mark um Brian and Dwayne to be a part of that. Um Tama keeps all of her boards and commissions.

I I have Would you like some more? I have other Yeah, you didn't ask. Yeah. Yes. Yes. So I am interested in legislative legislative liaison position. you know, I've started doing some work up there, talking to Wayne, talking to the city manager. Um, that is an interest that I have along with still Oldtown K. I know Nate, he's not here, so I don't want to, you know, that's what happened. You're not here. Well, I'm not going to commit to meeting you and sit down and talk about that. This is my first meeting. I mean, come on.

We wait. We've been around in a while. like me,

Tamika and I go way back in center board. We all go way back really. Um but and then um the only other thing and and I will get to this in um other business tonight, but I have asked Nate uh Thomas to be Mayor Pro Tim. Um, I'm extremely uh I was excited in 2019 being that nominating him and to be able to um he is such a wealth of knowledge and and uh so maybe that does make sense, but being mayor of votes and and I can lean on him some more, but uh we'll we'll get to that. had a uh Nate is such a um smart individual, handles himself well spoken and uh I I believe he's been on council now for

six years. Are we keeping those four every I didn't want to change any you guys I know Dr. Asin said that you so but we will talk about the legislative leaison. Um thank you mayor. It's Robbie. Uh, let me dig in here. Sorry about that. Okay. Um, items up for discussion. Appearances by advisory board applicants. Do we have any here tonight? If you wouldn't mind, give us your name and address. And even though I do know you.

I'm Harry Sha. I reside at 315 North Sunset Boulevard. And I'd like to reiterate my desire to serve on the airport advisory board. Uh have spent a career in aviation. Uh I'm currently the vice president of EAA chapter 453. Uh been involved heavily in uh airport renovations, hanger construction, aircraft maintenance, budgets related to that. So to be able to offer that expertise, nice to have and service for change of art. Awesome. I'm also a great supporter of Conqueror Aviation scheduled in July and have two different flights coming out of tour. So whatever I can do to add to the party, please consider me for the

All right. Thank you for being here. Planning and zoning commission report. Mr. Nick Martin, Mayor, Dr. Aspen Council. Thank you guys. Um, congratulations, Mayor Gar. Appreciate that. Um, and before I get started real quick, as a father and coach of two young boys that play every sport, uh, I am probably more excited than anybody in this room about this. and it's it's it's going to make my life a lot easier and um it's it's it's it's great for cake and um it's been a long time coming and uh I know what kind of impact it's really going to have on families like us and it's huge. So very very excited. Thank you guys so much for all your hard work there. Um I'll keep it really short. Um this is our summary from the planning and zoning commission meeting on April 8th, 2026. Uh first item was 306, 308, 406 and 450 North Main Street and adjacent partial to the north reszoneing. So this is property directly I guess directly south of the casino. Um the request to reszone property from M1 Light Manufacturing Industrial to CBD the central business district. Motion to approve pass with a vote of five in favor zero in opposition and two aband. Next item was 576 South Mount Auburn Road sign exception was an exception to exceed the maximum square footage of the freestanding sign approved with condition that no freestanding sign shall be allowed for the Chelsea Drive frontage and the maximum freestanding sign area for the Shauny Parkway frontage shall be reduced by 3 and 1/2 ft in exchange for increased square footage along Mount Alburn Road. vote seven in favor, zero in opposition. Zen property uh right next to property down there. So, uh last item which I don't really need to touch on. Mr. Sherman did a very good job of explaining. The commission also

recommended approval of an amendment to chapter 25 development code regarding billboards and amendment to chapter 30 resort zoning ordinance to allow billboards in the C1 general commercial district central business district with special use per. Any questions? No.

Before we get into the regular session, I wrote down a note and I'll get used to this. Sorry, Dr. Asa, but I also attended I wanted to make special mention. I went to two retirement parties. One was um um Greg with the fire department and the other one was Penny Williams. And those were uh those were awesome to go to and I would just ask staff that if we have some of those that are outside recognition of of here at council I'd like to know. So I want to try to make get to all those that I can. Um as as earlier in our study session whenever I see people like uh Chief Glick and others that have given 20 30 plus years um I think that's very special. So I wanted to mention that and then uh we will jump into regular session. call.

Oh. Oh, sorry. Hey, it's my first job saying this interview. Thank you. I appreciate that. Keep me on the tongue with that.

Thank you, Mayor Council. We added D9 D10 uh for your review tonight. Basically in in D9, we're we're basically asking for uh the ability to execute the release of a lean for property located at 701 South Indian Street here in Cape. Um they have completed the uh the rules of engagement regarding the property and we are now in position to request that the uh the lane be released. And of course D10 uh a request uh to release the performance agreement uh for the public sidewalk improvements in the Walden Park phase for subdivision. Again that request they have completed uh the uh the agreement and u and have gone up to it and it's now time for us to to move on and release them from that agreement. Mayor, that motion to review.

Okay. Does anybody have any questions? See none, we'll get into the regular session and call this meeting to order. Mr. Bliss here. Mr. Cantrell here. Mayor Darn here. Mr. Johnson here. Miss Randall here. Mr. Shaw here. Mr. Toss. All right. Um so we have the uh and entertain a motion to adopt the agenda. So move second. Okay. All those signify by saying I. I.

We do not have any public hearings and we'll um the consent agenda is before you. I would entertain them. I Craig I have to remember this one. So then it's Yeah. Okay. So, but we have the consent agenda before us. I would entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda. So, move. Second. All those in favor signify by saying I crap. I'll need to leave first. I got I was kind of opening.

Sorry about that, Greg. B. will strike the emotions and second offic.

Yeah, it's been a couple years, right? I should have watched one of these on YouTube first.

Go ahead, Greg. Sorry. You got to listen to me go through. All right, here we go. Bill 2626 an order chapter 34 ordinance to speak Missouri property located 539 Al Street the city and county of K Missouri C1 R4 R5 bill 2626 ordinance amending chapter 30 go to ordinance to be care by changing the zoning property 539 street county and R4 R5 bill 2627 ordinance 30 to city by changing zoning of property located one north park in city County Missouri C1 RD 2627 30 ordinances city of Missouri by changing the property located one county bill 2628 chapter 30 excuse me amending chapter 25 ordinances city improvement parking bill 2628 chapter 25 ord improvement of parking bill 2629 91 rep subdivision. Bill 2629 approved repition. Bill 2630 ordinance accepting temporary temporary construction ements related to Cape Rock sidewalk project. 2631 accepting temporary construction 2631 schedule K section 2612 the city code estim 2631 schedule K section 26132 the city code establish southern intersection Bill 2632 an order authorizing the city of paper to issue it as taxable industrial revenue funds west poss to pay cost and improvement industrial

development project in the city approving and planning for the project to enter into certain agreements and take certain other actions their way to authorizing the city is taxable industrial revenue balance west plus redevelopment project series for the purpose of providing funds to pay the cost of environmental construction improving industrial development project in the city of planning project and authorizing the city to enter into certain agreements actions there with bill 2633 resolution authorizing the release of property located 71 south street in the city of K Missouri. Okay, council, you have the consent agenda before you.

Entertain a motion. So move. Second. We have a first and a second. All those in favor signify by stating I. I opposed. Any no discussion. All right. I'm watching Greg. Okay.

All right. There are no items removed from the consent agenda. So then we will get into new ordinances. A bill number 2634, an ordinance authorizing the city manager to execute a transportation planning consolidated grant agreement with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission in the city of Cape Gardner, Missouri. First reading simp Alex isn't here, but Mr. P will be taking care of.

Thank you, Mayor Council. Dr. Ask Alex Sitta. So, I'm a fill in for Alex tonight. This ordinance is an agreement authorized for the use of federal funds for simple activities. The city acts as a hosting agency for simple and is required to execute this agreement annually. Simpo is a fedally mandated funded policym organization overseeing transportation planning for the city of Kro Jackson urbanization area as authorized inou. The city of kids provides administrative services and staff support. Each fiscal year, SIMPO receives grant funding from the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transportation Administration to cover eligibility expenses. As administration body of so, the city of Cape receives the funds and therefore is required to execute the transportation planning coalition grant amendment. The agreement for 20 27 is attached. The agreement period is July 1, 26 to July, I'm sorry, June 30th, 2027. Council, any discussion, questions?

Oh, yeah. Okay. Um, is there anyone here that would like to speak on behalf of this item? Anyone who would speak in opposition of this item? Council, do you have any questions? Discussion or a motion? Motion first. So I'll move second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Okay. Thank you. Give me a couple years. I'll get it right.

Bill number 26-35. An ordinance to an ordinance approving the record plat of Lorentes Larksburg subdivision. First reading. Mr. Sherpl. Uh this is a record plan for a lot that contains a duplier. So they'd like to sell one unit off from the other. So they need to split the two box. Okay. Is there anyone here to speak on behalf of this item? See none. Is there anyone here to speak in opposition or in favor of this? Team none council and entertain a motion. So move.

All right. Discussion. Discussion. Pretty self-explanatory. You ready, Ryan? Okay. All the hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.

Okay. Bill has it. Bill number 2636 an ordinate an ordinance accepting permanent utility easements from Forefront Holdings LLC for property located on Old Hopper Road first reading. Mr. Shley, this is related to the deer and estates phase 2 development that was recently approved. Um there's some uh sewer line extensions that extend outside the boundary of that subdivision phase. Uh so we had to execute a separate uh they had to execute separate easement stock for that. So, this just accepts that that Okay. Is anyone here to speak in favor of bill number 26-36? Is anyone here to speak in opposition? Hearing none, I would entertain a motion.

So, move. Second. We have a first and a second. Council discussion. Anything? Um, Greg, I will mark my vote in abstension due to financial conflict of interest. Okay. All those in favor signify by stating I. I. Opposed. Okay. Other business. Um, I would like to nominate um Nate Thomas to be mayor pro 10 for Cardo City Council. entertain a second. Second. Second. Okay. All those in favor say goodbye by stating I. I.

All right. Um I guess Oh, yeah. Appointments. Thank god I got K, too. Um All right. We have an appointment. Um and it looks like the incumbents uh for the airport advisory board would be Keith Beller, Justin Davidson, and Sean Wson. Um I would entertain a motion to accept those three. So second. Okay. Um all those in favor signify by by saying I. I.

Um other business. We do have um appearances regarding items not on not listed on the agenda and that would be um Mr. Frank Allen. Name and address, please. Yes, sir. Frank Allen, 1971. Congratulations to all y'all. I love you personally. Dwayne shop. I need you big time. Anyway, I'm here to let you know uh what I've been doing out here in my community. See, I've been feeding the homeless, the needy, the greedy, and people like us to work hard for free. And I'm here to talk about it. there's any like funding because I always hear there's no case not making no money. There's no funding to help what I'm doing so we can keep it going. And um I'm from Kado and I've been um at that park right down the street on the it's called Maker and Garden Park and the parks and reaction the parks director that can't even tell me when that park was established and I'm trying to get electricity there. They tell me we don't have a fun. I'm trying to get vacuum there. They tell me I'm a pundant, but I feed people and I'm trying to continue to feed people. And on Friday, there was some kind of miscommunication where I'm banned from all the parks in Kado because I told the parks director I was going to bash him at this meeting. He called the police and told him that I said I was going to mash him. You know what I'm saying? So, they're trying to stop me. I'm helping the people that need me help. They're trying to

stop me because I haven't to do that job. You know what I'm saying? I'm just a a CEO of an organization that's called Allmighty Little Children that's trying to help everybody and we are God's children, right? So, is there any way that you can get that band where I'm not banned anymore than parts? because somehow I'm not bad at all. I'm a positive individual for my community. And if you don't know about me, you can look at me on Facebook like, you know, I'm the real deal. But I couldn't be nobody without the people that's helped me with that. Thank you, Mr. Al. Thank you,

council. I would entertain a motion to adjourn. So move. All right. All those in favor seed by CD9. I made it. I promise I will work on my school. Okay.