County Commission - Regular Meeting

Okay, we're going to go ahead and call the meeting to order. It is Tuesday, July 7th, 2026. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge 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.

Do we have any minutes or reports received in five?

Yes, we have the county clerk's June 2026 fees, record June 2026 fees, and the auditor's June 2026 revenue and expenditure report.

Okay. Commissioner committee liaison reports, upcoming meetings and events.

Oh, I did my notes. All right. We have an introduction to polymorphic Zoom calls this afternoon. Tomorrow, we've got the athletic club board meeting, declaration reading at the courthouse at 430. We've got public works planning, committee meeting down at the city hall tomorrow morning. Thursday morning, I'm sorry. saturday there's a few local communities having some fireworks so if you didn't get your fill on this weekend because he was too busy cleaning up sticks or trying to get your electric on catch up so rosita honey creek i think russellville's got one no russellville's has been there he did there that was okay june it's 11. saturday oh the fireworks system oh i didn't have that at the lions club but i know the one was the 250th i think okay so okay

Tomorrow we'll have maybe our final salute 26 meeting to do a postmortem on 4th of July and start to plan for salute 27 There's a We're gonna start building code Eric Is that on?

Wednesday, we have the second of two meetings, informational meetings for the public. And then after that, we'll take comments and roll them into a final draft and then presentation to the County Commission and three hearings.

Good. Thursday, I'll attend the West Central County Commissioners Association meeting in Boonville. Friday is the... Moreau Valley Apartments. Is it a ribbon cutting?

It's groundbreaking.

Groundbreaking. And next Monday is United Way fundraiser golf.

The weather's going to be beautiful.

It better. Okay, that's my calendar.

Okay. Well, tomorrow we have a United Way golf tournament meeting at 10. The reading of Declaration of Independence, Wednesday, down at our monuments. 4.30, we have ice cream. We have an ice cream social, and then reading will be at 5. I won't make the West Central Commissioner's meeting because I've got an MU health care meeting. Very groundbreaking Saturday. Fireworks. Sunday is the St. Martin's Parish picnic, I believe. And that is all I have. Okay. Presentation from staff, consultants, invited guests. Presentation from Public Works on Binder Lake Watershed Improvement Study and future stormwater control projects.

So if you recall a couple years ago, we had the ARPA stormwater runoff control projects. We did two areas, or actually three, but we combined two into one that Barr Engineering did the study of, and that's the Bender Lake watershed, and then we're calling it the Natchez watershed. It's the one just to the north. But if you take a point and move it just a little downstream to Henwick Lane, you combine the two. And so we've been working on the studies been complete and working on projects. We've completed 1. The second is out for bid right now. I have identified other project areas, and as we identified a project in Pioneer Trail School, it has led to other things coming into the picture. So, Eddie Alvarez is going to talk about where we're at to date on it, the partners that are part of this now, and what it looks like going into the future. So, I'll turn it over to Eddie.

well i'm going to try to pack about three years of history in about 10 minutes for you i'm ed golberth i'm with bar engineering company uh our office is over on edgewood diamond bridge um i've got my colleague craig bugger with me today and uh i personally live in the county i live off of rainbow drive and this is kind of in my neck of the woods so i'm pretty excited to uh to to be part of this project we do work all over the country and and and so forth but it's really nice to have a a project here in our own backyard so as as uh as eric said we're here to kind of update you on what started out as a some fairly simple arpa stormwater projects has kind of morphed into a kind of neat opportunity Where we're at now is we're working with, can you pass? Okay, you got the TV right there. So we're kind of at the bottom line up front. We've kind of developed an informal partnership with schools, with parks, with DNR, with conservation, where we might be able to really get some money for the county to do some projects. and that will lead to the betterment and protection of Binder Lake going forward. But let's begin at the beginning of our story. And I all my life i've said binder so now and and didn't realize that what i was going to ask i was stepping into and this is like one of the great controversies of that divides cole county apparently but so sometimes i'll i'll say bender sometimes you say missouri or missouri yeah well it depends on where yeah it depends on where i'm election just check yeah yeah so um So this started out as some stormwater control projects. We looked at a number of places in the county in those two watersheds, Natchez and Bender, where there's been trouble with high stormwater flows. So for example, this project, what we did is we used rainfall modeling software to predict how high water would get during certain very large storm events. And that's what you see in like the blue outline of that picture. And then we would design, do a concept design on a project and then model it again and see, well, how much would that reduce the height and velocity of the water? Basically, is this project worth doing or not? Will it do any good? So in this case at Ravenwood, we knew from historically that the water is coming over kind of a bridge that's created there, an older bridge. we realized that the problem was just sediment had accumulated in the in the downstream tunnels and in the creek itself so we designed a project to get all that cleaned out in a way that wouldn't require a court permit and and and that was completed a year ago so um in the natchez watershed we had um does this have a it does um i guess if you're not looking at it but So high water issues here downstream from this lake, high water issues down here next to the park. We looked at a couple of possibilities there. The one that really kind of got traction was what's happening here is we've got two creeks coming in. one here, one there, and these houses here have experienced water in their basement. So we said if we can take some of the water from this creek during high flows and move it over here, this is the outflow from Bender Lake here. So if we can move that over here, that'll release some of the water pressures downstream here. So that project's going out to bid. It's out for bid right now. It's out for bid right now. So hopefully we'll see that completed this year. And then there was, so that's the design. That's what the design actually ended up looking like for that. And then we looked at another project on Babe Ruth Drive to kind of alleviate some high water inflow there, kind of putting a berm around it. That hasn't really gone forward. I think we kind of reached the end of our ARPA life at that point. So I think that's one that's kind of, you know, a possibility for the future. So forgive the resolution on this, Matt, it's not great. But at the end of the project we said, well let's make sure, we've done all this work, we've done all this modeling, let's kind of summarize what we found and make sure we preserve. and you know the information that we had and we looked around the watersheds and we looked at county properties vacant properties and said where are some other areas that we might in the future be able to do some projects and we kind of sort of put the whole thing the whole matter to bed but then we realized there's this opportunity right here right south of the pioneer trail school where we've got a county property that's totally unused, we've got school property that was not being used and didn't have any plans for being used, We could put a pretty good sized basin in there that would hold back storm water and possibly alleviate some downstream high water issues that some of the businesses downstream from that. So downstream is this direction down towards business 50 down towards Apache. So the stream comes down through here. Sorry, my hands are shaking. Comes down here, flows down through here. Anyway, so we're like, well, okay, well, that's cool, but that's a big project. That's going to cost money. We're out of ARPA funding. So we went to the school and said, you know, there's some advantages here. We could partner with you guys. We could address some localized downstream flooding. We could utilize some vacant property. What are the possibilities here? And we said, well, while we're at it, if we're, you know, we can control water, but we can do other things. We can layer other benefits. Can we add some water quality benefits to reduce sediment and nutrients that are running off that area? And then it was like, okay, well, who's going to pay for this? So that led us to take a step back and say, What's a strategy for getting some money for this and similar projects in the watershed? Well, lo and behold, this last year, DNR, based on the data, said that Bender Lake is listed as impaired for high nutrients, basically chlorophyll A, high phosphorus, high nitrogen, which is kind of good news, bad news. Bad news, it's impaired. Nobody wants to be told their lake is impaired. Good news is there are dollars available for projects. uh for for that kind of situation now i i want to be clear from from to the average person you know there's no algae blooms out there there's no fish kills from a fishing recreation boating aesthetic the average person does not perceive bender lake is impaired but dnr's definition is basically what does the data say and so this is kind of a complicated you know sort of a graph that shows you where where our chlorophyll data is compared to the red lines which are the which are the thresholds so so let's take this you know lemon and make some lemonade out of it we went to the dnr and said what does it take for us to get project grants to do projects to help Improve the water quality in their lake and they said well you've got a you first you've got to have a complete watershed based plan You've got to have a sponsoring organization and you have committed local partners. Well start the last one first We've got the county we've got part. We've got the school So we've got committed local partners Sponsoring organization, I think the county there the public works is willing to take on that role the only thing you don't have is a complete watershed based plan and So we went to DNR with all these partners and said, hey, we're really excited about this. Would you write the plan? And they said, yeah, we will write the plan. They already have to do some work on it, but they said, we'll write the plan. So they agreed to that about a couple months ago. So basically what a plan is, it's basically a diet plan for pollution, right? How much pollution is going to the lake? How much do you have to reduce it to get into shape? what's it going to take what are the how many projects would you have to do you know how would you implement that how much time would it take so on and so forth so and i want to be clear that the plan itself when it's completed we'll have input to it the school will have input to it parks will have input to it the plan itself is not a binding agreement it's not a regulatory requirement it's no legal requirements it's not a funding commitment it's basically the partner saying We're interested in this. This is important to us. We're generally committed long-term to this. We think we have funding and resources to put towards this but it's a long-term project. But what happens is once the plan is in place, then you apply for funds for projects, then you are kind of signing up for, you know, you're entering into agreements to do projects and so forth. So the project grants are 60-40 match. So the federal government pays 60 cents on every dollar. The local partners pay 40 cents either in cash or in-kind or volunteer labor. There's all kinds of ways you can meet the match. so that great so we said all right so um basically that that whole slide is what i just said right there sorry um so back to our back to our project so we sat down with the school and said okay if there's real money behind this and you guys are willing to pitch in some and the county's willing to pitch in some You know, what could we really do here? How could we make this not only for water flow control, water quality benefit, but also another benefit. How can we make this an educational feature? Because they already take the students out to Bender Lake, you know, for educational purposes. It's already in their curriculum. Now, if we can tie this to this is something that helps improve water quality downstream. And the administrators and the school officials and the STEM educators, they were stoked about it. So we came up with this very high level conceptual plan of maybe putting an interpretive observation area here, a path around it, a path through it, some other observation points, some naturalized plantings. Things that teachers not only a pioneer trail school could use but other students could come in from other schools come in use this as part of their their environmental education curriculum So we got input from the school. We did some modeling. We said we could remove about 50% of the solids from this. We could remove about a quarter of the phosphorus. So it would have real environmental benefits, help control downstream flooding, educational benefits. That's kind of the excitement or the opportunity or the synthesis or the symbiosis that's going on here. So, you know, education, interaction. I like this slide. This is one I think is very realistic, you know, having ways for students and the community to sort of interact with this once it's completed. um make it kind of an experiential thing uh definitely have signage interpretation water quality education and so forth these are just examples from another project different ways to interact just examples brainstorming maybe if a local artist would be willing to get involved we could you know put some kind of an interesting feature in there Again, this is all just very high-level conceptual ideas. And then, you know, the community uses Pioneer Trail now. They use the playground. People walk up around there. I walk up around there. So, you know, this could also be something for the community to learn from and benefit from. So basically, in summary, the path forward is we work with DNR to get this nine-element or watershed-based plan in place. Then we apply for funding, 60-40 match funding, and then we implement our projects. And it's, you know, this is not going to happen in a year or two years. It's a multi-year, maybe even multi-decade process. But it's an exciting start. Yeah, well. So what is the approximate cost? Do we know? TBD at this point. And part of it is... it's kind of it's a little bit of you know peeling back the onion we we have to know we have to know that this plan is ready and in place and then we can get the funding and then we have to sit down and just really make some realistic estimates of you know yes we want to definitely move forward to pioneer trail but are there other projects other wetlands other basins other things we can do and just map out a long-term even five-year ten-year plan and then just say okay can can between us and other partners you know what what are our resources what can we realistically do and then that'll drive which projects we go for okay so

Yeah, this just kind of happened really. It just sometimes things kind of fall in your lap that you don't expect going into it. Really fantastic opportunity, especially with the school district to do that project. And ultimately they're going to maintain it when it's done. So that's an added benefit there too.

Yeah, and I think there's somebody from the school district here too. He's not been involved, so they did not ask him any questions.

But Frank Underwood, the traffic and safety advisor board, he's been involved in meetings and kind of been our contact. It's a very, very good project and a lot of potential benefits in time. Anyway, we just wanted to bring you up to date. There's been a lot of things happening on this. We didn't want to get too far out in front of it until we knew for sure DNR was going to accept the task to do the plan. And then as I got it, it got approved.

So are these just public waterways or are these other lakes and stuff too or cities and maybe they haven't had their parks or something? Because this one just happens to be below the school so that works out as that partnership but I was looking at some maps because I was curious what an impaired waterway was. I thought Lake of the Oaks parks would obviously probably qualify.

so i don't know i probably got down into weeds with it but it was kind of interesting well one one project we looked at we really wanted to do was woodward lake that's a private lake but we could reconfigure the dam and put an outfall structure that would create a detention in that lake as we got into that that became a little more than we wanted to get in with this the funding that we had but With the study being done, we could utilize some grant funds to do something like that. So, yes, Jeff, we could do work in private areas as long as it makes, you know, improvement to the watershed.

Yeah, if it's landowner, you know, landowner's got to obviously be on board.

Yeah. I had a constituent, a resident on Ravenwood. I think the first week I was here on the job, he was calling about this place getting wet. And I just kept saying, be patient, be patient. So there's some relief there already occurred because you removed some sediment out of that area there. This drain's under 50 and then back that way and then get under 50 again? Is that... It goes. The Pioneer does. The Pioneer Trail basic wood, it goes.

Yeah. Right. So that'll provide somewhat, some marginal further relief for Ravenwood because it'll hold back the larger storm events, release the water slowly. Right.

So every little bit helps. It does. Okay. And I'm glad you addressed the issue about vendor-binder. I don't know if I resolved it, but... So...

We will move forward. Any commission comments? Bids and contracts. Approval and signing of vital records MOU.

Good morning. Good morning. This is our annual renewal of the MOU that we have with the Department of Health and Senior Services for us to access the vital records system, which we print death and birth certificates from. As you know, last year they raised the fee, so it's like point... Well, it's 30.5 cents every time we hit the system, but then we get, you know, $14 for our death certificate and 15 for our birth certificate. So we do a lot of birth and death certificate business. So I would ask to approve this MOU. And the last page is where you can decide.

Yeah. Christy, I continue to get compliments of when folks have tried to get their, I guess that's not fair here.

so right now dhss is only doing them by appointment only from nine to three so you know they can pop into our office and have it printed probably in less than five or ten minutes um so it's a lot more convenient the only thing we can't do is make changes to the record and i hope people get some frustrated with that because we can't change it all we can do is print from the state system and if the names are too long sometimes we can't print them on the paper that they provide to us they have to go to the state so it can be a little confusing but we try really hard to provide good customer service yeah i hear enough good compliments good i'm glad i'll make a motion to sign the memorandum of understanding between the missouri department of health and senior services and the cole county health department

All in favor? Aye. Approval and signing of year two service contract with Hamilton Medical.

Morning. This is a service contract with Hamilton Medical for the preventative maintenance of our ventilators. We entered a five-year contract with them last year, and this is just approval of year two. They are the only resources available to provide the PM because it is an intellectual product. Cost is $13,156, and this was in our budget. So I just need approval. There's nothing else on it.

I'll make a motion to approve and sign a year two service contract with Hamilton Medical. Second. All in favor?

Aye. Approval of on-site maintenance agreement with Renew Biomedical.

So this is the biomedical company that comes on site and services our IV infusion pumps. We've worked with them for several years now and they do a great job for us. So the cost for them to come do that maintenance is $3,520. And again, that is in our budget, but I do have an agreement to sign.

A motion to approve the renewal of biomedical for the infusion pump and IV services. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Approval of professional services contract with TUSA for the 911 strategic assessment study.

Yeah, so for the last several weeks, we've been working with TUSA Consulting to develop a project to take a strategic assessment of the county's 911 infrastructure and our associated financial impacts. um if you recall a few weeks ago the sheriff requested uh you know as we were talking about his sales tax to possibly take a look at 9-1-1 communications and in further conversations we feel that the most important foundation for any sort of assessment or decision making moving forward is to figure out What we are currently paying for 9-1-1 services both To the city and our expenditures for the EMS communication center what a similar sized Population is paying for their 911 services so they'll take that number and compare us to other jurisdictions and then really get into the weeds of what expenditures we can expect moving forward from technology, and the other associated costs once we have that we can really do some educated decision making on how to proceed with this and what options may be available whether that's the county assuming 9-1-1 communications for all of the county agencies whether that's maintaining our current configuration or some additional options that we haven't even considered yet so TUSA Consulting was highly recommended by some contacts in the agency. They are prepared to start work on this month and the price is $29,725 on a professional services contract. uh and my request would be to use the 9-1-1 prepaid cell phone tax funds which i believe the current balance is about 71 000 to fund the study and i'm happy to answer your questions is there a projected uh maybe it's too early to ask this question when they all have a something to share back with uh they are very uh willing to to get working on this um you know some of that is dependent on on-site work how quickly they can get access to all the materials that we have i know the auditor and some other folks have a vested interest in meeting and discussing our current financial obligations so i don't want to put them under the gun but i do believe that they can return results fairly quickly you think quick enough that that it could play into our budget projections and setting a budget for next year i think that is the goal the the other piece um that you know we've talked about strategically is architects alliance is working on a project to renovate uh the south ridge facility and modify our communication center The results of this study will probably heavily influence the scope and some of the other features of that. So we'd really like to have that in place for budget planning. I can't say that it'll be available by the budget due date of September 1st-ish. November but but as we as we move into budget deliberations and really getting into capital projects you know that's that's something that will hopefully have a really good foundation to make some decisions on yep

filled us in on it before so i'll make a motion to approve the professional services contract with tusa for the 911 strategic assessment study second all in favor aye aye okay uh signing of contract for public works shop expansion this is just signing the contract the commission awarded last week to first place

It's two documents. It's got the main document and then the general conditions. I would just put them all together.

That's okay. We'll make a motion to sign the contract for the public workshop expansion with Reslois Construction. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Okay. new business accounts payable review ask for approval accounts payable pending review motion to approve accounts payable pending review second all in favor aye aye okay ada compliance update on document remediation

All right, I am here for my update. Most of the offices are complete. There are a few that have maybe a few items that still need to be addressed but they're they're like there's one that you know there are some documents that they want to turn into electronic form they're trying to figure out the best way to do that The biggest concerns that I have right now are the, and I'm planning on contacting PrEP, they actually have a template that you can have them create for certain documents that are pretty much going to be the same all the time. the cases that I'm thinking for those would be melody with the agendas and potentially the minutes over in the clerk's office I'm just gonna contact them and send them some copies of what we do and have them tell me you know how feasible it is, how much easier it will be for the users to use the templates. That's something that I'm looking into. The one thing that I just want to stress is that anything that is being posted now to social media or to the website shouldn't be posted unless it's been remediated. At this point, everything should be remediated before it gets posted. So I just want to make that clear. point that you know really at this point we shouldn't be expecting that the doj is going to extend the deadline again we don't know our old deadline and what our new deadline the old deadline was april i think it was april it was like mid april and it's going to be mid april of next year So we just need to make sure that, number one, if we have the PREP software that we're using it so that we're familiar and comfortable with it because it's not something you can just use once or twice a year and be able to successfully and quickly remediate a document. It's something that you need to get comfortable with. And I think if any of the offices are having issues with some of their documents or concerns, I think if we could get together now and figure out what the best other ways that we can deal with it, if it's something that's really a complicated issue, then it will be, just want to take care of it now instead of waiting until the last minute.

Is there any way you could put peer pressure on some of the offices and departments that, or maybe even give them a gold star that they've accomplished it and we can start to get satisfied that we're not going to have a...

Yeah, I mean that's what kind of what I'm trying to head things off now So I'm trying to contact the offices one at a time that I think probably have a few issues that they need to address and like Most of like I said most of the offices The auditor's office is done EMS and EMA is done, except for there's one document that was just going to be unpublished that I don't think has been unpublished yet. The collector's done. Let's see. Pringer is done. Public admin is done. Reporter and sheriff. Those are all done. I did do a lot of that work myself, but they are keeping up with telling me I think when they create a document or what documents they have, letting me know what I can unpublish or what I need to remediate. I'm working with Jessica right now on the employee PowerPoint that they use to onboard people. So I think I have one document left there that I need to get a link for. basically it's just a few things here and there like I said there are a few other offices that you know I still need to probably get with and work on some issues but I think for the most part we're in really good shape. So that's all I have. Do you have questions? Yeah, I don't have any control over Okay, so Saturday night the storms go through we got a road closed How do I get that information out?

So what I do two things I said an email out This is at home at 830 at night and I put something on Facebook But I can't, I don't have the ability to do the remediation on Facebook. So does that just not go out?

So are you sending it out? So one thing, Andy, we've been working with Andy, the MnMO GIS to, have a way that he can put road closures and things like that on an interactive map that's joint with the city that we already have.

I don't have access to that.

Yeah.

Now, I could have. I talked to him about that. I could have emailed or tagged or called him or whatever, but what if nobody's available?

Yeah, and that's something...

In an emergency situation.

yeah if so do you send it out in an excel spreadsheet or how is that so now it was just a facebook post and it was like yeah a couple pictures okay yeah and um i mean i could show you how to add all text of those pictures that's not a difficult thing once you know where to go to do it but the post itself should be good you should be good as long as you're not attaching like any any kind of image or anything like that just needs alt text and that's pretty easy to add okay and then the other thing is i know we we do our post our bids these documents i know that one's a big thing and that's something we need to just talk about some options because one thing i was talking to teresa about it and she said that you guys had been looking at other options that you could do and I know that one is huge and it's not really an easy thing to like take 183 page bid and run it through I mean that takes a long time I just did an 86 page financial statement for Jay and it took me several days to get through it so I mean it's just

I feel like we're going backwards a little bit.

I mean, we tried to get stuff to where we can get it online and people are going backwards. You're just not doing stuff because you've got two or three people over here that are requiring us to hold it up for the other millions of people. It's ridiculous. It's still ridiculous. You can't post pictures of where the roads close at because you have to take your time instead of getting resources to people that actually need some damn help to go out here and I've got to figure out how to describe this picture. It's stupid. Sorry I was talking all night. And again, this is not directed at you.

I know. I totally understand. I've been looking on other people's Websites about the big thing to see if there's anybody that's doing something, you know to and I think a lot of people are in the same situation you are like they don't know how they're gonna they need to get the information out in a timely manner, but you know even and I Know that there are some remediation things that will run something through and spit out like this is remediated but you go through those documents I'm pretty sure that you're gonna find issues yeah I mean one one solution is we we go through a plan room and have them advertise and they print plans and all that but it's gonna cost us $1,000 each every time we bid yeah just depends so one thing that I saw someone doing was putting like a summary of what the bid is and then giving information of contact this person if you want this this data so i don't know if that would be feasible or yeah we got to do but i feel like we're going back yeah i i agree that that's why we're putting it online so they can access it instead of bob yeah i mean it eliminates what we're trying to accomplish here yeah that that is a very difficult situation you guys have a difficult situation with that and like I don't know if breaking it into smaller pieces. They actually told me to send them some examples of your bids and they would see if they could create a template for it. But I'm very skeptical about them being able to do that. Or anybody being able to do that because they're so different each one. Everyone's different.

Plans could be...

any variety and all kinds of detail but also they have a module that if it's a picture or a map or something like that an image also if it's a formula that's kind of an image of a formula it will go through and write the alternate text for you so that might also be something we need to look at need to we just need to figure out a solution we just need to get behind this right now in front of it right now so we don't have like issues later on so that would i appreciate you coming forward and talking about it but I will be happy to send you some information about the alt text and honestly Facebook I believe will generate the alt text for you and you can go in and edit that alt text if it doesn't sound right or if it looks kind of weird sometimes AI does weird things to it but all right well thank you yeah okay but that's all I got thank you all right okay

Discussion of ADA compliant equipment for the health department.

So in an effort to not print more copies, I did not print the email that I sent you. It was Wednesday or Thursday. You should have that. So a few months ago it kind of came up in one of our our region F meetings that there was a new ADA law that was actually passed in 2024 that none of the LPHAs knew about and DHSS just sent out a informational sheet last week about it and WIC also mentioned it so apparently we are obligated to have an ADA compliant exam table chairs and scale in our clinic So Chris kind of stopped working on the ADA documents for a minute and found out exactly what we needed to have, got quotes that I sent you. All of the vendors are on state contract. Jessica and Lexi looked at them. And the cheapest option is to go with Concordance Healthcare Solutions for that brewer model exam table and the lab draw chair with the drop arm. Because I did not know about these requirements, I was not able to put them in my budget for this year, so I'm asking the county to pay for the two pieces of equipment. The total is like $11,423.54. And then WIC funds, WIC admin and WIC Medicaid funds will pay for the scale. That would not need to be covered by the county. So I regret that no one knew about these requirements, but unfortunately the deadline for compliance is August 9th. so i don't yeah i don't know if anyone in the i guess none of us get you know updates when ada updates their rules this would have been in 2024 but um i sure don't get notified of those apparently dhss didn't either because this just came up a few very recently and then there was some question about whether or not we had to comply but um we do.

It'd be good to know how they get that information out or are we expected to be going on their website all the time and looking at it? Exactly.

How do we get that information?

So it's one exam table, one chair.

Right. And then what funds will be used to pay for the scale? And the scale that we're looking at is portable that way, because it's going to be big. It's got to be big enough for someone in a wheelchair to be able to pull up on. We're finding a place for that in the clinic. The other exam table we'll put in one of Michelle's rooms, and then we have one exam table that has a rip in it. I think we'll get rid of it and save what they will. We'll put the exam equipment in the rooms and get rid of our older stuff that we might have gotten that somebody donated when we got the building eight years ago. But the scale, we're still finding a place for that because it's going to be large.

We don't have a choice on this, but we've got to follow, so if you give me those numbers, I'll make a motion.

Yeah, it's the... I am doing some scrounging to see if maybe I can find... Yeah, but we don't... Time is kind of a... Right.

I'll make a motion to approve the required...

purchase of the required equipment at a total of 11,000 get 23.5 second all in favor aye aye christie do we need a separate one to do the uh do we have to buy the

scale we do we're gonna and if you want to approve that but we're going to be used for that okay because i don't think that was in the 11-1-22 no it's not it's the we have a bunch of different things the scale is the 35 i think is the cheapest one 35.

3550 if you want to approve the purchase of that with wick funds tune that to the eastern district to approve the scale our motion to approve

Do you have the amount there?

$3,550. Okay, I'll make a motion to approve the purchase of the scale for $3,550. All in favor? Aye.

Sorry, I didn't look up like the priest do when it's okay to say that. I don't need to say that.

No, no. And we'll work with it to get it ordered.

okay well on that just a heads up jessica and i were talking we will look as to whether it's a contingency request or if we think that we still want to use capital improvement money for that so when we do the budget transfers we'll have that on the forms at that point in time

Okay. Well, we've reached through that. I would ask our EMS Emergency Management Chief to give us an update. He has had a busy, busy last few days. I'm working on getting you a cape. You know, kind of like a Superman cape.

Not needed. all right um so uh try and get as much information and as little talking as possible uh so approximately 1500 on july 4th we experienced severe thunderstorm that impacted the entire region but did cause some significant damage in cole county For the nine-hour period from about 3 p.m. to about midnight on the 4th, we responded to 86 storm-related calls. That's across all public safety agencies. And that is in addition to normal calls for service. So obviously with the 4th of July, medical emergencies, law enforcement activities, significant strain on resources as we responded to this. I believe at the height of the incident, there were 58 active calls for service all simultaneously. one of the big advantages that we had is that we had all of the players and decision makers together in preparation for the fourth of july so we were in the mioc and with a few additions from department heads and staff we were able to get everybody in there and really start triaging and getting into the weeds on how we were going to respond to this So high level, there have been no reported injuries as a result of the incident. We have no reports of destroyed or uninhabitable structures. All needs have been taken care of at this time. And I'll get into a little bit more of the specific assistance that we've provided. all public roadways are open the power grid continues to improve as we've kind of reported in the media the issues that we had here are we had main infrastructure transmission lines impacted and then obviously extensive damage to individual residences and feed lines The power companies have brought in substantial mutual aid resources. As of last night, Ameren reported 5,000 customers still in central Missouri without service. I do not know how many are specific to Jefferson City. And then the last report from Three Rivers is that they had 29 residences still without power as of last night. Both said that they hope to resolve all of those issues today. and get everybody back with power. Due to the storm damage, particularly in Osage City, we decided to limit access to property owners for their safety and to prevent any unintended consequences. That remains in place and the Sheriff has requested that continue until power is restored, hopefully at some point today. Yesterday, the National Weather Service was on site. EM staff assisted with drone reconnaissance of the impacted areas. It was determined that the damage was consistent with a straight-line wind event of up to 105 miles per hour, which is extremely significant and some of the most severe damage that they've seen from a straight-line wind incident. Yesterday, the Sheriff's Department assisted with evacuating one residence in Osage City. The occupants were taken to stay with family. And we have the Red Cross via mobile distribution distributing water and ice in Osage City. Anybody who is impacted can drive out to Osage City and pick up those supplies. It's just not for those residents. We did contact all of the individuals who had information listed in their Smart 911 account about medical devices or needs to make sure that they had power and didn't have any impacted issues. The COAD has assisted us in getting some of those relief items available. the city has been gracious enough to host an ongoing repository for storm information and folks can find in more information at jcmo.gov forward slash storm recovery and that is where you will find a link to the damage assessment so as we kind of shift out of the response phase of this, we really need to get into the information gathering phase and we need the public to report their storm damage. What we're interested in is property damage to structures, vehicles, anything with monetary value. We do not need pictures of just uprooted trees or debris in your driveway or in the roads or anything like that. we feel that ultimately this event will be very far away from the dollar amount or the impact required for public assistance however the utility companies and certain individuals may be eligible for directed assistance programs from the federal government and that's why we need that information so Melissa has the overarching, she has the damage assessment up there that people can fill out, and then if we just zoom in on this map here a little bit, you can kind of see some of the damage reports that have been reported. So that's an overturned trailer at Modern Litho, I believe, in the background there. And then that's going to be a sewer pump station that is damaged and without power and on backup generator. So EM staff, we were able to get up based on citizen reports into Mohawk, Tomahawk, kind of that eastern Jeff City. They do have some structural damage, so we were able to get first-party pictures and damage assessments on those areas. The issue that we're running into here is that this is a county-wide event from north, south, east, west, and it's impossible for us to know where to go to look to capture all of these reports. We really need the public's assistance to submit some of these things so that we can start narrowing down and get into where we actually need to do some of these assessments. super appreciative of all the collaborations i know eric came in and assisted in the command post to get his people out sheriff's played a very active role it's been a group effort between all the public safety agencies and both local governments the one outstanding item and i know we talked briefly about this yesterday and there's been some other conversations and maybe some public comments about yard waste and and tree removal Obviously, the city has a green waste that they provide to the citizens. I've seen some comments and some public discussion about what's the county going to do about that. and unfortunately that's a decision that the electeds are going to have to make because we don't have a process for that in place so i don't know that we need to engage in those conversations here more than happy if you want to but ultimately you guys are going to have to make a decision and the decision can be you know we don't have those resources available strain off my back so that's kind of where we stand we anticipate probably one more update public release this afternoon at about one o'clock if the power comes back on i think we can really transition out of the response phase and really get into damage assessment and recovery moving forward so um a very strenuous uh activity to have the fourth of july did help to have all those resources in place but really to have an event of that magnitude plus a county-wide incident going really stressed our resources and super proud of our people But it's a good test of the capabilities of the organization and what we've been able to do here over the last few months to get this up and running. So happy to answer any questions or entertain any discussions.

This is kind of a curiosity question. The most furthest east red dot, did you actually cross into Osage to do that?

That furthest dot is, that's down in Osage. That is on the Osage Delta, so that is actually in Osage County, yes.

So when you...

you call the osage county officials and say we're going in or is there some reciprocity issues um so i'll let the sheriff kind of talk about on the standing but the the unique thing about the osage delta is that the only access is through cole county um so you know there was an incident um during the height of the storm related to the rescue on the river All of the resources from both jurisdictions were deployed and kind of through that we kind of said, okay, we know there's damage on the Osage County side. There's damage on the side that's only accessible through Cole County. So we will go respond over there, do what we can. And if we need assistance, we'll let you know. And I think they've had more of a long-standing agreement on the Delta.

So we've had an agreement, a mutual aid agreement between us and Osage County. We actually respond over into that area for them because for him to send a deputy all the way around is time-consuming and sometimes he only has one deputy on. So we go down there, we'll drive down through there frequently. Actually on this incident there was a report of a boat that was on fire had exploded right so he had actually he has uh some boats we call it the osage county armada but anyway he has some boats and he actually put he was in the water to go help check on this boat and whenever those storms came in he actually went to uh he went over there to that area because we couldn't access it there was trees down on that road and he actually talked with some of the residents there before we even got there so uh it worked out pretty well i i i credited him with his assistance too and it really is a joint effort team effort valuable everybody all first responders are doing an outstanding job so so yeah and we know that you know kind of you can see the line there on engineers road where where the county jurisdiction ends um

There's damage down there on the Osage Delta Drive. That's pretty extensive, but Osage City also has damage. So if folks just report, we'll be able to share all that information with the appropriate jurisdictions, but we probably need some more images from uh the eastern part of the county you know out in uh my jeff's neighborhoods wardsville taos uh the areas in between we did get down into bode ferry and saw one structure damaged but not a whole lot else and then obviously we know there's damage in the city and we've tried to capture the areas that we know of damage but you know it's too big to start on our own so

Eric, I'll add that our crews are out currently right now, still cleaning up.

Come on up here.

Our crews are out currently right now, still cleaning up. We actually had somebody on a call the day that it happened at the time, so he was out and we were able to mobilize pretty quickly, but should be done today, we hope. And we're taking, if it's basically the east part of the county we're taking it to the cart facility we got room to store right there we'll have to decide how to get rid of it probably a tub grinder we'll have to pay somebody to come and grind it and we haul it off or whatever we'll figure that out once we know where we stand on some things and then anything south or whatever we're taking it to our shop and burning and like i said hope to be done today one thing uh the guys said uh they were pleasantly surprised that the residents were cleaning up some of the stuff even on the road in areas. So I know the citizens are really doing a good job to do their part and even more and even when it happened they were clear in roads.

I can share this revised website as well as the damage assessment, well that information on the website and our accounting Facebook also.

First off, thank you all. Yes. It's amazing how these things always seem to happen on holidays. If there's going to be a storm or a snowstorm or whatever, it's always on holiday. So I appreciate their dedication, leaving their families to allow us to be able to still do what we're doing. But you mentioned a while ago the water down in Osage City, Red Cross providing that stuff. And I know I had a call about it. you know where we're at some of these services and it's trying to figure out whether everybody's got their leg back on we don't know it's a guessing game we're going to get the information that we have but if anybody ever has a specific need they can contact us and we can get them whatever kind of resources we can figure something out they don't have to feel like they have to wait safety, you know, a cooling place or something set up.

And, you know, one of the difficult parts of this event is trying to get a timeline from the utilities, and this is not to, you know, negative feedback on them. You know, I know that they're trying to work through and get things back on as quickly as possible. But, you know, we kind of fall into this trap of hey we anticipate having the majority of folks turned on by the end of the night obviously the damage is more severe they don't get that you know turned on and now here we are the next day saying okay Are we pulling the trigger now on shelters and some of these labor intensive responses? And then it's, well, you know, again, we hope to have the power on by the end of the day. So, you know, that's probably some information that we as an agency need to look at moving forward is, you know, when do we pull the trigger? Do we pull the trigger just from the beginning? You know, because the last thing that we want to do is generate all of these community assistance groups like the COAD, the Baptists, all the Red Cross, and then have nobody show up for assistance because they are, you know, again, taking volunteers, resources that there is, you know, a significant burden to mobilize these pieces. And we just worry about utilizing them without assistance. any actual need. So we'll look at that moving forward. But again, as Jeff kind of pointed out, if folks are in need, they can absolutely reach out to us either directly through our non-emergency communications line, the PD's non-emergency communication line, or EM offices. But the EM offices aren't staffed 24 hours a day. So if it's after hours, probably one of those two lines is best. Thank you. Superb job. Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Okay. Do we have anything else that I would entertain them with?