Council - Regular Meeting

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. All those in favor? Aye.

All right, let's see some participation. Let's see, hold on for just a minute, guys. Okay, you're it.

And we are representing the senior class this year for 2027. And I'm also on the park board. And so we are asking, we gave you copies of what we would like to do in November at Red One. And so there's a chicken bingo. And then Kathy's going to explain how it's going to go.

And so if you'll just give her a few minutes. Did you all look over that for me? Everybody got a copy of it? So the main start here that I wanted to bring up was probably having live chickens in the auditorium. So I just wanted to bring the diagram and as much information where you didn't even have to read for two days, but in a smaller scale so you guys can see the breakdown of how we were going to run it as far as the chickens were concerned. The diagram is pretty detailed. I tried to get it as detailed as possible for you guys just so that you could tell that the chickens were never be loose within the facility. We will always have one adult up there supervising the chickens. We're going to have one experienced person that's used to handling the chickens. Beside that, from transfer from the holding page, which is this one to that one. And these chickens that we have selected are used to being so they're not going to be up in an uproar or anything. We're going to try to make the process as calm and controlled and safe. as possible. We, of course, want to be very respectful to the facility. I have one here where it shows that we would lay down a tarp to protect the stage. These cages would be up on the stage. We're going to have live feed around the truck line so that way nobody has to come up on the stage to see the chickens or know what they're putting on or anything like that. because this will be like a family friendly type thing for the fundraiser for our class. So anyway, the chickens will be up on the stage. Everything will be tarped. The tables will be dropped. The paper, as you can see where the one chicken is, that's the bingo cards that we will be laying in there per game. That will be cleaned every single time and a trash can will be right there for everything to be disposed of. So no chicken, to what should be anywhere except for on that paper and then directly into a trash can. So we, like I said, want to be respectful to the facility. If there is any additional precautions, if you guys would approve this for us, if there is anything else that you would want us to take as far as precautions to keep the buildings safe and secure and clean, we would be more than willing to do that if you were willing to work with us and allowing us to have those chickens in that building. So anyway, that's really all that. So do you guys have any questions for us? And this is November, by the way. Yes. I was just getting ready to ask.

Yeah, November 7th is what we're doing. We have a specific date.

November 7th. November 7th.

And time?

I think we were wanting to start it around 5.30 PM and run it until about 9.30 or 10. No later than 10, guaranteed.

And of course, this is not just anybody. This is our youth, our community, our seniors that are graduating. And we're just trying to get enough. Everybody has trivia all the time and all those other things. And we just thought we'd do something a little bit more

Before the council makes any decisions or anything, I'll read, we reached out to MoPIRM, since it's an animal going into a public facility, so we'll read you what MoPIRM stated. It's not a city-sponsored event, so liability coverage wouldn't extend to the event itself. The city would have premises liability which would be covered as usual. It would be similar to a group having a reunion in the city park. There's some liability because it's city property, but the city wouldn't be liable for the activities involved in the activity. I would still recommend the group should be insured for public liability and have the city of Cuba added as an additional insurer at the very least. and providing you a certificate of coverage showing this. And that was signed by the Mokerm insurance company.

So you want our class to go get insurance?

Well, that's just what Mokerm is recommending. That's totally up to the council.

Well, we make everybody else get the insurance.

Usually a bit of insurance for a single is not expensive.

Okay, that's what I was going to ask. If you guys knew what it was going to cost or anything like that.

It all determines on how much liability, deductibles, things of that nature. That's more of an insurance question you would have to ask. Basically how many people are going to be there and... Thanks for that, Patriot.

I think Mr. Edson could give you an idea of what the event insurance will cost you. I actually have to quote.

It's $145. This city requires $1,000 coverage. And what we were told is that it doesn't matter the amount of people. It's like a coverage, and it's $145.

Would you like us to come back next month for a vote? Would you like to do that now?

Well, we're here to discuss it with you, so I'll leave that up to the Alderman to go into it first.

Do we approve it if they get the insurance? Yep.

I'll make a motion to approve it. I'll second. Based on whether they bring an affidavit for insurance. Okay. And you better secure the date now because...

Correct. We have to dare to say yes.

Before we go, do you have any further questions?

When do they need to produce that? By the next meeting?

We can do, or I will have to go and talk to my other board that we're on right now. It's just a couple ladies. And then I can look into it this coming week and get us the insurance coverage. And then I can bring the certificate to the lady within, you know, by next Friday I can do that.

As long as our next council meeting is September 1st. It would be done before then.

Because I was looking at like the beginning of October, our first council meeting in October, so October 7th.

So again, I mean, it shouldn't take that long one day to get insurance coverage for whatever. And I would just ask for events insurance. Is that what it would be? Okay.

We have a first.

We made the motion on the second.

All those in favor? Aye. All opposed? Aye. We thank you guys very much.

Thank you. Have a nice evening.

Citizen participation? Anybody else?

Hi, y'all. I'm here with Caged and Crazed Promotions for the Derby. Our derby was set for October the 10th. Things have come up. Some of my guys are not going to be there. I'm going to lose about 15 drivers to a big show in Kentucky, and I'm here to propose change the date to the 17th of October.

No, he called today, and he did speak with Amy again.

She might have stayed with him.

I know Cuba Fest is going on. I'm hoping that everybody's tired by like about 4 o'clock, and then move to the slums.

No, we're going to allow it. Okay. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

Okay. Congratulations on your win, Jerry. Yeah. Appreciate it.

Good evening.

For the record, my name is Daniel Sung. I live at 505 Kidwell Drive. Mr. Mayor, Council, thank you for allowing me to speak. Care to start the timer? What's that? Can you share the start of the timer? Sure. Okay.

I'm being perceived. Okay.

The last city council meeting, you attempted what was nothing short of an administrative coup of the Cuba Police Department. You managed to find an outdated city ordinance and strong-arm your way into the back door of an organization that already has an elected official to answer to. It was horrific and deceptive. It's clear you have a problem with the way Cuba PD is being run, but trust me, the way you went about attempting to fix it will not end well. Of the five officers that I spoke with, at least three are ready to leave the department if there's an assistant chief appointed by you. It's not necessary. It does nothing to better the community, and it draws a clear line of division within the department. That's not good. If you've done any research, you'd realize that Doug Shelton was elected by the people to oust Paul Crowe in 2018. And at one point, I was proud to have been part of that. Sadly, like you, I feel that there are things that can and should be improved upon, that this is not the way to bring about change. Based on my experience, there are only two ways to get satisfaction involving an elected official. Number one is run for that position yourself. And number two, find somebody who is willing to run against the offending incumbent. That's it. My apologies, Mike. And since I can't see you toting the badge around, Mr. Mayor, your choices are very limited. I'm going to leave every one of you with this parting thought, and I'm addressing everyone. As you folks sit out there making decisions for our community, I really want you to ask yourselves one question prior to it. How does this affect the citizens of Cuba in a positive way? That's it. I think that you'll find, I think you'll find that by applying that litmus cylinder dose, it will become clear how you should vote.

Thank you. Thank you, Dan. I would like to address that, since there is a little bit of time, and the only way I'll address that is this. When the Park Board was dismantled, you championed it was our fault because of the ordinance being outdated and not being spoken to and being addressed. I ran on the premise that I would look into the ordinances myself, and any ordinance that was outdated or that had a requirement, we would look into it. If it had a requirement for a date, it would be looked into. And we are doing exactly that. So when we found this ordinance that has been enacted, Jeff, how long have you been on here? I've been on here, I started my 12th year in April.

Okay, so that ordinance was- I don't think we could respond in citizens participation. Yes, you can. I was told we couldn't.

I can respond because there was an accusation made to me.

There were lots of accusations made and we were told we could not respond during citizens participation.

We cannot limit your Second Amendment right. Say it again. Sorry, First Amendment right.

You can't limit it.

Citizen participation is for citizens to speak to the board. We have had discussions about that in the past as to whether responses were appropriate or not.

It was never permitted.

I don't think it's forbidden. It's just not recommended.

I was asked when I ran, would I do anything about that? And in fact, by you, David. So my thing is this. I have an ordinance on the book that has an assistant marshal. So therefore, I brought it to the council, and the council did what they thought was right. They voted not to take the recommendation, even though it had already been addressed with the chief and with the individual. They decided not to take the recommendation. It followed the proper process. That's what I'm about. It followed the proper process. So tonight, we either have a choice to Address that as we're going to do away with the ordinance. I talked to Alderman Bouse to make sure that was acceptable to him and also Ray Mortimer who recommended adding the chief of police to the thing so that we could address the issue. So that's exactly what we're doing. Is that not right? I watched the video over and that's exactly what was asked. I called Jeff and validated that. Did I not, Jeff? So I am following the proper processes. Whether you agree with it or not, I'm following the proper process. Any ordinance that is on our book that we find, and there are hundreds of them that we've got to go through, Any ordinance that we find, we have to bring it to council to go through the exact same process that we're going through right now. Am I right? Yeah. Okay. So I'm doing what the due process is. Unfortunately, this time it's the chief of police because by the time we got to that ordinance, this was brought up. So that's the only thing I'm doing is I'm following the processes, Dan.

May I respond briefly? Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Instead of taking the council's hint that they're simply not needed, you decided to put it back on the agenda and bring it up for rehash.

Have you watched the video there? I was there. You need to watch the video because it was distinctly said at the end of that video that we would readdress whether or not the chief of police would be put, the title would be altered so that we could readdress this issue. Go back and watch your video.

Does it, I'm sorry, I don't mean to keep taking your time. That's all right. Is this still going to give some type of a power to you to have somebody answerable to you on them? No. That's what this whole thing was about. No, it's not, Dan.

It has nothing to do with me. We have an ordinance that's outdated. Or if it's going to be kept in place, it's got to be done right. That's simply it.

And we're going to have a list of people. Not only is the second in command going to continue on with whatever duties he has right now, but he'll be answerable to you. He was an answerable man.

That's what it says, and it will be answerable to the mayor.

So that's what he asked the mayor. You were admitting a certain man, an elected official, who he answered to already. That's not true.

But that's okay. It's your reception, man. Anybody else want to assist with this question?

And now we have the rest of the story, I suppose. Jackie Hunt, 303 Margaret, Ward 2. And I'd like to talk about complying with existing ordinances. First, in compliance with ordinance 1150.050, every one of you should propose to, among other things, support the ordinances of the student. In our last meeting, Mayor LeSing read a series of ordinances regarding the appointment of Assistant Marshal. 200.080 established the office of Assistant Marshal. 200.090 provides the Assistant Marshal will be appointed. Not may, but will be appointed. In some of your reactions to this ordinance that has had me scratching my head since last meeting, Alderman Hartzell said, and I quote, but couldn't we just change the ordinance now because I talked to Doug and he said he didn't think we needed this, unquote. I'd like to know, when did the chief of police start deciding if we need an ordinance? I thought one of the things that we people elected six of you to do was decide if we needed ordinances. And I thought we elected the top law enforcement officer to enforce ordinances, not to decide we don't need them. And I am wondering why would the top law enforcement officer not want to enforce an ordinance that gives you, the alderman, some control over the police department? Alderman Vow said, and I quote, I say disregard the ordinance, unquote. You take an oath to support the ordinances, and then you want to disregard that one.

You know, there's an ordinance on the books. There's an ordinance on the books. I mean, if you read through there. Excuse me?

They're not finished yet, and then you can respond. All right.

There is a very good reason for you to comply with the existing ordinance, a very good reason to appoint an assistant marshal. The chief, as we have just been told, is an alleged official. As such, except for serious misconduct or other similar circumstances, you, he ultimately, have no direct control over him. You can exert some indirect control through appointments with police officers or through this budget, but the Chief has no duty to follow a direct order from you. On the other hand, the Assistant Marshal is subject to the will of this Council as directed by the Mayor. My understanding is you, the Council, do not receive regular reports about the performance of the Police Department. Other department heads show up here and report to you regularly at these board meetings, but the police department is largely a black hole. How do you hold police employees accountable? How do you judge their performance? How do you even know what is going on in the department? Are you satisfied that one of your sources of information is contact by irate citizens such as when an officer shoots a pet or posts disgusting videos on social media? If you are not satisfied with the current situation, vote for the appointment of a district marshal. Then follow up your vote by letting him know what you need from him so you can do a better job of running the city. And with your permission, Mr. Mayor, I'd like to know what point you'd like to make.

What year was that ordinance written? Doesn't matter.

It was all in books. I'm asking, what year was it written? I'm going to be known for the first time. What year was it written? 1996. It looks like it was reviewed several times. And it was on the books the whole time. You've been an alderman. You're an alderman. You're a mayor and an alderman. So all of a sudden, I'm the mayor, and I want to make a decision to actually assign the person that you guys have. This has been on the books forever. It's not something that I invented.

And I would like to say one of the things I said was the attorney said, when we found old ordinances, we could either change them to fit what we're doing now, or we could just delete them. And that was Carolyn when she filled in for Emily. I suspect she did not say delete.

I suspect she said repeal. And there was a process for that. But we're going to do that. Yes. We're going through right now. But is there anything else? No. OK. Thank you.

I don't know how it's going to go. It's going to be a great night. Yeah. I know. OK. Anybody else listen to this question?

Come on.

I'm . Hi. I'm . I'm Diane Cooper.

I live over on Fair Street. I'm trying not to get upset here. Okay, so two things. Within two blocks of my house, I have 30 abandoned buildings. They're falling down, roofs taken in, windows, doors boarded up. I don't care that there's electricity to one, it shouldn't matter. There's burning. stray animals, all kinds of stuff. I'm like, you know, if the owners of these carpets are being fined, subpoena something. Like, you know, what's being done about this?

Are you aware of the nuisance process here in Cuba? No, I'm not. There is a form that you can fill out. Okay. I recommend that maybe you talk with Mike and Doug Shelton, our chief of police, and they can get you the proper forms to fill out. Okay. And that's called a nuisance complaint. And then that gives them an idea of where the location is, whether or not it's something that we've already addressed and need to readdress. Okay.

And then the second is, I live on Barrick Street, right across from the ballpark. People from, what is it, McCormick, the county, they speed up and down that road. One is harassing us. He stops in front of our house, runs his engine, 3, 4 o'clock in the morning. It's really getting ridiculous. I had to spend $500 on cameras. We spoke to the police. We spoke to Darren with the Sheriff's Department. I would like to be able to be out in my front yard without somebody harassing me. I love Cuba. I moved here three years ago because I've always loved Cuba. It's getting where I can't even enjoy my home. So I don't know if we need speed traps, speed bumps, extra stop signs. and it should show up ahead. They can park in my side door, they can park in my driveway. But I'd like something done. And I know that the police are aware, and you've done what you can. And I appreciate that. But something more needs done.

On the houses, Mike, can you get with her and get the address on the nuisance houses? Yeah.

And the nuisance report form would be up here at City Hall.

Okay. Okay. And then that goes with derelict vehicles, too. Okay. Okay. I appreciate you. Thanks. Absolutely. Thank you.

Anybody else have something to say especially?

I didn't intend to say this. I'm Connie and I've been here for four years. My husband was a police officer and at one point chief of police while they were getting another chief of police in a neighboring town. Many of you know that. That town, the chief was appointed by the council. He was offered that job permanently and he did not want that job because he felt that the mayor and the council asked things of the chief that he had to do because that was his job that he did not feel was best for his town. In human, he was elected by the people, and he did what he thought was best for the people. He got out, he talked to people, and he worked for them. So I just want to put this out there for if you guys are voting on this, I want you to have the other perspective of this also, coming from a law enforcement side.

Thank you, Tommy. I do believe, though, if Cuba would end up going or considering an appointed decision, I'm just saying, it would have to go before the public for a public vote. Am I correct?

No. No? No. Did you see the paper I left you?

Mr. Mayor, this is a discussion approved. It doesn't say discussion and approved. It doesn't say anything about repealing.

Well, that's part of the process. We've got to discuss it first, and then we repeal the ordinance, but then that's going to happen. Let's see. Anybody else listen to this question? Regular meeting minutes of July 21st, 2026. Motion. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Disproved. Executive session meeting minutes of July 21st, 2026. Motion. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Disproved. All right, bills to be paid. Second. All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed? Discussion and approval of Ordinance Number 300, Assistant City Marshal and Assistant Chief of Police. Okay, two things that were brought up as before, was Alderman Bob Faust recommended, I think he meant to say repeal the, correct, Jeff? Okay, so he wants to repeal the ordinance. Ray mentioned adding the name Assistant Chief of Police next to Assistant City Marshal to make it a voteable ordinance. So we're here to discuss who wants to keep it, who doesn't want to keep it. If we want to repeal it, then we have to get it over with and get it repealed. We can't discuss until we need a first and second. I'll make a motion. The approval of ordinance number 300, assistant city marshal adding assistant chief of police.

Wow. Can we just talk about it?

Are you talking about altering the language of the current ordinance and the wording, Assistant Chief of Police? Correct. That's what you have right now? Yes. I think we need a motion, a second, and a discussion. We need a discussion.

We got a first?

I was checking. Second to motion for a discussion.

I believe the motion is to amend the ordinance to add or change the language from assistant city marshal to assistant chief of police because that's what we go by.

Okay, we got a first from us, second from Reagan.

I have been looking at the ordinances for the appointment of the assistant marshal, and it says the assistant marshal will hold his or her office at the pleasure of the mayor and the majority of the members of the Board of Aldermen. It doesn't say that he's under the chief of police. It also says under duties, it says as may be directed by the mayor of the city of Cuba. And we already have ordinances that say all of the officers are under the chief of police.

There's a contradiction in the rules.

Yeah. Well, one is appointing and one is under the direction.

But it says they're all appointed, but this one says at the direction of the mayor. And neither Doug nor Ben want to be taken off of being under the chief of police. And this way it's just outdated and doesn't apply to what we do anymore.

We are trying to follow the right process. So we asked to have this done. Once this is done, the next part of the process is to repeal the ordinance. You repeal the ordinance with this stipulation of this chief of police, everything goes away. Whether he wants to bear his authority to run the police department, That's not the point. The point is strictly an assistant marshal. Now it's going to be assistant marshal because the marshal itself is also chief of police. So to get it right, marshal and chief of police, assistant. Once it's gotten right, once we have done it right, then if we want to appeal it, we can. So the process that Dan was worrying about was getting ready to be taking place no matter what. So one way or the other. So we don't repeat it. It's on the books. It's law. Whoever did it, I remember myself in 94, it never was ever adhered to. So we're trying to get, what's America trying to do is not create a job for himself, but to get to do this, take care of one way or the other, period. So...

So I'm a little confused and the reason why I'm confused is

I was always under the interpretation that the definition of a city marshal is because he's an elected or an actual police chief. Let me go further back. So we have an elected city marshal, which technically is a marshal's office. where a police chief or a police department is an appointed position. So that's why I'm concerned about terminology and making things right. So if we have an elected city marshal, should the term be assistant city marshal? Or are we going to have an elected city marshal and an appointed assistant police chief where there's no police chief? Well, I don't know. I don't know.

Here's the thing about it. When there were just two people,

His marshal and his assistant, they used to run the police department, that was fine. But later on, the marshal had specific jobs like kissing babies and cutting ribs and stuff. What they tried to do when they put this second part in here and make him chief of police was to give him authority to make arrests and other things. He actually was a physical chief of running the chief department and he could go in his head. That's the reason that was put in there. So it's got nothing to do with a power grab or anything else.

It's just that's the reason he was put in the chief of police. I don't get a vote, but most people don't know that the assistant chief of police is really their role as community involved. It has nothing to do with running the police department. It's strictly community involved. They literally do all the things that the chief doesn't have time for. If you just Google it and if you look up assistant chief of police or assistant marshal, it'll tell you their job is almost 100% community involved. It has nothing to do with the police department. In fact, the only thing that they really do for us is provide us the reports. Am I right? Look at our ordinance. Our ordinance basically says all you can do, all that the assistant chief, the assistant marshal does is provide the reports to the city. Council. I think there's a misconception about what we're doing here. We're literally just deciding whether or not we want to keep the oldest one books or not. I don't know how to do something else.

Well, because it says that he would answer to the mayor and the city council. But what we do and the other ordinances say he answers to the chief of police. So this would make a change and I don't think we should do that.

Again, that's why I said it. Let's either repeal it or just continue on with it. Thank you.

So what is the motion on the board?

Just to add to the thing, keep up the lead.

But if we're going to do it with this, why would we do that?

Because that was what was on the agenda, and that has to be addressed first, and then we can do it.

And why don't we repeal it? We will repeal it next, at the next council meeting. But we have to discuss it.

It's an act of ordinance. Okay. We're going to be made in a second.

Right now we're just changing.

We're changing the ordinance.

We're going to have a rewritten ordinance. You're voting right now to either add it or not add it. If you don't add it, then we will go for a repeal next time around at the next council meeting.

So we don't need to add it. It needs to be repealed.

But we haven't discussed it until we add it to it.

So we have a first and a second. All those in favor of adding Assistant Chief of Police?

Wait a second. If we add it, we can't repeal it. That's what we're voting on.

If you don't add it, then you can repeal it next time around. Then you don't want to add it.

You see what I mean? All right. So we're voting to see whether or not we have a first and a second about adding the assistant chief of police to the ordinance. Or the wording of the ordinance. The wording of the ordinance. If we don't approve any, then we will bring it back to council to repeal the old ordinance. We have to discuss it first. So, what we're addressing tonight, we have a first and a second to add the wording assistant chief of police to the existing ordinance. We have a first and a second. All those in, no, let's poll. Let's poll them.

At the next meeting.

we will bring up the repeal of the portals. How's that? OK. Next item, electric department. Andy, .

Well, I'm not guaranteeing that one.

Before I do start, I want to give you guys a map to kind of understand. A lot of you guys wasn't here when we started the report coordination project.

I'll try to explain the best way I can.

I'm not guaranteeing how good it will be. All right, so this is the first season. That is the main feeder. And on top of that piece of paper is a green triangle. And that's the recloser and reclose control for our main feeder. That main feeder controls two separate circuits. On that second piece of paper, it's an overview of everything that the main circuit controls. So it controls what we call circuit 3 and circuit 7. On normal operations, if there's a fault on circuit 6, the main feeder, it will blink circuit 3 and 7, since that's the main feeder. On your third piece of paper, it's also a map of circuit, just circuit number seven, one of the downstream circuits. And then the last piece of paper is circuit number three, that is also downstream circuit that feeds off of the main feeder circuit number six. The problem we were having was when there was faults on Circuits 3 and 7, it was making Circuit 6 see the blanks when it shouldn't. Think of Circuit 6 as a main water line, and tap off that water line is a firefighter. Somebody on Circuit 3 or Circuit 7 turned off the water and turned it back on really fast. Well, the main feeders should not see that, of course. Well, it was. So whenever we had twirl low fuse or trees in line or anything that happens in circuit three or seven, the main feeder was seeing it and it was flicking everything. And that wasn't how it was supposed to work. So that's when we got electrical engineers involved, since legally I can't change the settings in their controls. You have to have a stamp of approval from an engineer. So you don't mess up nothing that showing power has. The other problem we were having was circuits 3 and 6 had old obsolete controls, old 3A controls. You couldn't program with new settings. and circuit 7 didn't have a re-closure control at all. It was just a WE re-closure with no control of it whatsoever. Just a re-closure in itself. So the first thing we had to do was change out the re-closure completely in circuit 7 and also we had to add some bypass switches so when we changed out the re-closure there wouldn't be an average for circuit number 7. Then we had to add a little transformer power control and then put the new control on the pole. So circuit seven has a control on it now. Circuits three and six, we were able to switch out the controls normally, worked out perfectly, I don't know, super smooth. After changing out the controls and adding settings in them, it has been successful. Circuit six has not seen downstream pulse from circuits three and circuit seven. So that is a really, really good mix. And we installed the new controls, I do believe it was on May 21st. We've had six events on Circuit 7 since we've added the control. With the control, you can also see a lot more data that comes in. It tells you which phases give you problems, how much fault banks you're having, all that good stuff, and a lot more in the back. to help narrow down some areas that were causing blinks, with also the help of fault indicators we installed online. We changed out 18 dead-end insulators by the interstate and replaced a dead-lighting arrestor. Between those changes, we haven't had a blink on that circuit since June of that. So two months without a blink was normally, that circuit went a lot harder than that. Now, circuit number three, we had 20 call events, but 14 of them were from August 2nd, when we had an adage from squirrels getting on a lightning rod. We got a court because they didn't lock down the circuit. So 14 of those were just from that. We had four fault events from storms, one from a bad incline around East Main, and one unknown fault, but probably the fault light got it somewhere and cleared itself out. But we've had zero faults on Circuit No. 6. Now, kind of to give you an example, Circuit No. 6 also feeds your industrial park too. So whenever they blink, they get pretty upset with the past. So in closing, we prevented 26 fault events from the main feeder seeing anything. I also need to note that this should be an ongoing coordination with engineers, but with budget concerns, I've dialed it back where I've stopped completely. There are four more circuits that could greatly benefit from having this coordination done, since there's seven circuits total for Pacific Cuba. This study also provides available fault current for information for commercial and industrial businesses that need that info. Before the study, I would have to tell businesses that the available fault current was infinite because we've never had this type of data.

Do you have any questions? So there was a report, there is a completed report that was done with this information in it from the engineers.

The study, I mean. Well, the study all in all was basically Just this. It's just for me. It was for, to get to a company called Fletcher Reinhart. We gave them the settings. We don't have the computer software to install the settings. They come down for free and they install the effects that they've gotten. And that's more than one thing.

We're trying to do more of these so that not only the council, but the city knows what their money's being used for. And Andy, thank you. We appreciate all you guys do, especially these bad weather events that we had. It's been fantastic. And I live over by the ball fields and I'm thankful for that.

We've still got some work to do for certain circuits that need it, but eventually we'll take care of it like we've done with other circuits. There's circuit one, six, and... I guess everything else is okay because I know we had a heck of a draw with all the heat we've had.

So we're able to maintain it.

Yeah, there's no problem as far as electric is. That's what I'm hearing so far.

Thank you.

David, advertising sludge hauling bids, discussion approval?

I have the email.

Yeah. So is he the only gentleman that does this service?

He's the only one in the area that does it.

And he's not even really in the area. He's from, I think, Illinois. He's a really common source.

So we've had a contract agreement with these guys since 2010 for 16 years. They were hauling our sludge at like 8.2 cents. And 16 years later, they're like, we can't do it for 8.2 cents anymore. So there is 12 and a half.

So really all I'm asking is, can we just amend the agreement to take 12 and a half?

My biggest fear is if we... Since he's a single source, we can go this route if we go out for bids and we don't get anybody else to bid. He can come in even higher than this. Right now he's only wanting to raise it to like $12,000. From 8.6, you said?

From 2010. Yeah. If you look at the tumor price index, that's right in line.

And he hasn't budged on it since 2010, so I think he's working too hard. Yeah, second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed?

Well, the attorney, do you have a problem with that? You're scowling.

I think you should treat it like any other contract. If you go out for bids, you need to go out for bids.

We can do that. I think if we go out for bids, it's going to cost us at least 50% more.

And we're talking .

But it's considered a single source provider. This is something else in the area, correct?

So we can just reach out to them for a bid, like get his bid and then present?

That's the only possible provider.

Should we say we need to get something written from him at this price? So then we'll approve it next. I think, yes. This email's from you, but it's not from him directly.

Let me get with them and yeah.

There's no one else. This is in Jeremy's wheelhouse.

He's an engineer. This is in his wheelhouse. Yeah, withdraw your motions. Withdraw.

So we need a formal contract and basically tell them what we're going to charge them. In the state, we have to put it out there. All right. Surplus data opening discussion and approval. The first one we're going to open is a sealed bid. It says Public Works Equipment. It does not say which item, so it may be a multiple item. It does have multiple items. Sealed bid for the following equipment from Mack Sales, the Anmar Tractor at 210501, And the Rayco Stump Grinder at $1626.01.

What's that for?

That is for the Enmore Tractor and the Rayco Stump Grinder. The Enmore Tractor was $2105.01. The Rayco Stump Grinder was $1626.01.

Item number two is the MR tractor.

We have three more bids on that. This bid is from Cliff Mercer, the Yanmar F16D Tractor. My bid is $3,255. Okay. So far, this is the finest bid in Yanmar. Heath Medlock bids $2,007 for the Yanmar Tractor. Okay. And Hoyt McCann III, the Yamaha tractor, he is bidding $4,227. That would be the winning bid for the Yamaha tractor. So Hoyt McCann III wins the bid of the Yamaha tractor of $4,227. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Item number five is the Raito Stop Grinder. Minimum bid this month will be $1,500. We have the first one from Max Sales at $1,626.01. Second bid from Hoyt McCann III, Rayco Stump Grounder, RG 16.5 bid of $3,877. And one more bit. Medlock bids $1,507 for the grinder. So the bidding bid, again, is Hoyt McCann on the third. His bid of $3,877 exceeds the bid reserve. So I need a first and second. Second. Okay, all those in favor? Aye. So the bid is being checked.

Item number six, the Honda 1800K generator.

We have two bids. Kenny Staples bid $151.50 on the generator. And then Brian Malali bid $137 for the generator. So our minimum bid was 100. So the winner for that one would be Kenny Staples at $151.50. I need a first and a second. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Okay, item number seven. On the 1600 generator, minimum bid should be $100 if you have one bid. Let's see. Kenny Staples bid $121.50 for the generator. We only have one bid, so he is the only bid that doesn't exceed our minimum bid. Do you need a first and a second? Motion. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Okay. Item number 10, Husker Barn, a self-propelled mower. We have three bids. First bid is from David Wheeler, bid of $68. That did not have a minimum. Second bid is from Ryan Pitchin for $125. Third bid is from Cliff Mercer for $150. And the last bid on that was for $77 from Brian Wally. So the winning bid is from Cliff Mercer for $150. Are you the first and the second to accept the bid?

Motion.

Second. All those in favor? Aye. I'm staying. You're staying? I'm following along. I'm following along second. Thank you, Jeff. Item number 11 is the spray trailer, minimum bid of 100. First bid is from Boynton McCann III, a bid of $218.

Let's see, from Al Monda, the sprayer is $105.

And the end. Last bid is from Dennis Copeland. Let's see, $251.91. That is the high bid, so Dennis Copeland will get the sprayer minimum bid of $100. He bid $251.91. So I'll leave the motions up. All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed?

All right.

MRPC, let's go to your 26-27 membership meeting for discussion and approval.

I was going to tell the people waiting for the bids, I will contact you tomorrow or just stop by tomorrow.

You can't stop by here tomorrow. Wait, did you hear that? You can come by tomorrow if you'd like.

Okay.

I actually got the contract. I sent it to you guys on August 5th. Okay. And it says for 12 and a half cents. Everything's written exactly like it used to be, just the price is different.

Can we do that today? Are we too late to go back to that?

I'm looking back at that. That was on for approval as well. What's that?

It was on for approval. Do you want to write it to me?

Yeah. So every year we get the MRPC dues, membership dues.

And we just have to basically choose which level that we want to be at, whether it's basic, enhanced, or prime. And that tells us how much that we will pay. So I leave that up to you all to pick which membership lobby you want. What was your membership lobby, Ann?

I looked that up.

Yeah, we were in line when we got that. We did Prime. We did Prime. We use a lot of hours on grants. Great. And that's what we're hoping for.

We'll use more than, if we do one grant, we'll use more than the 20-second membership service hours.

We should get that.

I don't really have a suggestion. That's up to you. Whatever we're in. We talked about cash flow. So either way, we said the prime, but the cost did go up this year as it goes up every year. So it's almost five grand. So when we save money, if we bought more power than that. It would be depending on if we did any grants with MRPC. Otherwise, you would be spending the money and not getting it.

Jennifer, do we have to make a decision on this tonight?

You do not.

The reason I ask is because we sent an email out because they listed on this. 3,288 people at a $1.45 per cabin. So I know we don't, we're not sure.

I don't know where they hit the, because I have not given them that number.

All the census data shows 3189. So we emailed them, they sent me to another department, and we never heard back from them.

She said that I wanted to check all of their sites and how they gathered their information.

And I looked at the census data and I also looked at the other two census data. There's three major census data and all of them show us that about 399 people as of, I think that was 2020. I would say we table it until we at least get that back. And at the same time, this will give you guys more time to think of what form you want to do. Do we want to stay with the prime? Because we will have our budgets out if everything goes well.

Keep in mind that any time we wind over, they charge us their hourly rate. So keep that in mind.

So can I make the motion to move the table until further information comes back from them on population?

Do we have to do the motion or we'll just take it? We'll just take it. We'll re-approach it September 1 after we get that data back. Okay, let's go back up to item 7. Whereas owner, the contract may narrow into this day of August 26th by June City of Missouri, hereafter owner and J. Oros, environmental incorporated, hereafter contractor. Whereas owner has biosolids to be disposed of and desires to appropriately distribute in accordance with the terms herein as follows. Contractor shall coordinate with the owner all farm ground necessary to properly land apply the materials. Contractor shall mix the contents to achieve consistent material and maximize solids percentage. Contractor shall set application rates in accordance with agronomic standards as well as with the state and federal guidelines. Contractor shall load and remove material from its present location to available farm ground. Contractor shall cause the land application of the material to be in compliance with all state and federal regulations guidelines. Contractor shall report to all state and federal agencies and make all necessary reports and obtain all permits required to accomplish the work to be performed herein. Contractor shall provide all necessary liability insurance, including workers' compensation insurance and contractor's liability insurance. Owner, which would be us, shall be responsible for providing reasonable access to the lagoon and providing an update analysis of the material to be land applied. Owner shall pay the contractor the sum of .125 cent per gallon. Payment terms shall be net invoiced within 30 days. Owner shall be billed biweekly for all volume hauled during the preceding week. This shall be the base price for the first 12-month period of a three-year contract. For each year thereafter, the base price will increase by the average consumer price index for your region. If the material does not meet land application guidelines, it will need to be disposed of at a facility which can accept such material. The closest such facility would be the MSD plant in St. Louis, Missouri, and pricing for that service will need to be negotiated prior to removal. And witnessed error. So that reads exactly the same as the old contract, just the updated price. So we need a motion and a second to accept. Second.

No discussion? Yeah.

Discussion. According to the agenda, it says advertising sludge hauling bids discussion approval. And the way I understood it, our contract is in, correct?

Yeah, I mean, there never really was an end date on it. Okay. But they agreed to it 2010.

Okay Because she said something about bids earlier or they have to be put out or can we just accept this?

Okay, so because because we have no other

The reason why there are some companies, but they're not good, is because of the volume of the city.

What I was saying was, there's nobody around here that would probably bid on it anyways, because we're too far away then.

Okay, Matt.

I have a question. What were the, after the first year, what was it going to go to?

The current market value. So, we'll see. Let me read that. Consumer price index for your region. It's like it said. Kind of what the old programs in 2010 said that as well. Okay, we have the first and second. Any more discussion? And we have the first and second roll call.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Airport grant, UBX-11JA funds discussion approval.

So Michelle sent us an email and she said as I am preparing for incoming FAA grants, I see that the airport is getting another $563,000 in IIJA funds. We can't start execution of it until we have the funds, so I wasn't sure if we should reduce the ordinance again. that we used prior or if you need to get a new one. So what we're asking is since that ordinance is still good, since we used it prior, as long as it's less than a year old, what else is that we could reuse it? So we're just asking permission to reuse that ordinance so they can keep, and it's part of the Hanger Grant, so that we can keep they can keep applying those funds to our account, and then once everything becomes available, then they can start making that earning properly.

And we already did this once, didn't we?

We did it once already. Can I make a motion? Second.

Roll call.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Okay, next one, law enforcement tax ordinance discussion approved.

Move forward with it. Yeah.

Discussion? Second. You know, first and second, any discussion?

Is it possible to earmark those funds for that use?

No. Well, yes and no. The question, is it a good idea to do so? The legal answer may be different than the accounting perspective, but the city does not qualify under a specific law. statute to impose a law enforcement tax. Those statutes are very specific. We happen not to fall within those. But under the General Sales Tax Act, and other cities have imposed a similar tax, sales tax, but stated in the ordinance and the ballot language that the purpose is specifically for law enforcement services. That's been done in Lee's Summit, City of Gerald, Steelville, Mansfield, other cities have enacted it this way. So the problem may be some of those cities have indicated that to track that there should be a special fund created, the Lawn Portable Services Fund basically, to track and account for those funds specifically under such a tax. But my understanding and discussion with Jennifer is it will not come in that way to the city. So that would be difficult to do.

It comes in from the Department of Revenue through one lump sum. They will not separate it. It will come through the general sales tax like it always does, and it will be one lump sum. So if we pass it for 1.5%, which it will go up 1.5% if the citizens do pass it. So it will come in from the state of Missouri, the 1.5%. city sales tax and they will give me a deposit slip for the 1.5% granted that I would have to do the math and separate all that out separately there will be human error in that there will not be any record that says 100% record that says that this portion is earmarked for Law enforcement, there will be no sheets for that. It will all say city general sales tax when it comes in from Missouri Department of Revenue. So anyone that would want proof of that, there is no proof from the Department of Revenue that states that we got X dollars from the Department of Revenue for law enforcement tax. It all comes in straight as city sales tax.

but it'd be up to us at the city once we've received the check to divide it up on how much would go towards that and is that something we can do and have the ability to do um i've not verified with the auditor as to what they would want to see on the auditing standpoint um because this just came in today um

And so as far as the accounting portion of it, it's not something I would like to be responsible for, but that's the way the council wants to do it. That's the way we will handle it. But like I said, there's no proof.

We can always check with some of the other municipal places and find out how they're controlling it and how well they're doing and maybe model something that you're doing.

It can be that person. We'll figure that part out. So basically, we just need to change the wording of this from law enforcement tax to a sales tax earmark for law enforcement.

Well, that's what the... We don't need to change it. That's what the proposed ordinance already says. You have a proposed ordinance on it. We already have an ordinance for it tonight for approval with the appropriate language.

Okay. As long as the language is correct. What's the deadline for this one now?

It has to be certified by August 5th. I mean, I think the goal of this is to help one of the police departments.

I don't know whether it's classified or whether it really matters.

I mean, it matters, but it's in this state.

And we need this for 10 years.

Any more discussion? We have a first and a second.

Let's do a roll call. Okay. So we have a first and a second to accept the ordinance as written.

Motion.

You already have a motion.

We already have a motion.

One second.

All those in favor?

Aye. We're not going to approve on that. All right. Anybody opposed?

Okay.

Next one. Number 12, recent report. Recent report.

So we haven't had a whole lot of this department. We've had a few of them. We've taken care of them right away. Just the officers running out to take care of them. But I do want to encourage everybody to make sure you fill out. I know there's one. citizen was here not understanding you know pick up paperwork from city hall make sure they get filled out so they can't because i don't have dedicated officer for our ordinances um we take care of quite a few tall grass and overgrown properties that still belongs to an lsc so it's hard to hold those people there's no house to knock on so so on and so forth. Encourage everybody to make sure that they fill out those nuisances as they see them. Because most of our officers right now, most of the time they're working by themselves or at night and not seeing some of those ordinances that people may see during the day when they're really just doing a lot of traffic, but the ones that do come in and they'll take care of it. Davis as well, there's a couple of those there across from Wagonville, just kind of taking care of itself. That's all I have, for instance. We do have an agenda for ACA. I contacted her after interviews to let her know I was going to recommend her for hire. She was true, did not accept. At that point now, I haven't been able to get a hold of anybody else that applied or that was qualified, either they didn't answer the phone or they didn't leave a phone number on their application. So I went ahead and let our animal control supervisor on the shelter's Facebook page go ahead and just continue that and refresh it and see if we can get some more new applications in hopefully before the next Thanksgiving we receive.

Anybody have any questions?

There's two dogs that have been running around. Yeah, that too. We are contacting trappers that would come in and try to get it. She's worked with them. I gave them the number. She's contacted the trappers coming in. You're talking about the brown and the white one? Yeah. I mean, I've seen them try. I've tried. Public Works have tried. They're too skittish. So we don't have the appropriate traps to do it ourselves. So we do have a company that will come in. I spoke with Missy Mullally. They usually work. They don't charge. But Missy usually gives them donations. I let her know she's on board the attack itself. I saw your post.

There you go. Is that it?

That's all I got. Bill on number 2233, an OMS authorizing the mayor to enter into an agreement with Minmo Trust Company for the sale of electrical transformers.

Motion.

Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Aye.

An ordinance authorizing the Mayor of the City of Cuba, Missouri on behalf of the City of Cuba, Missouri to enter into an agreement with FemTown Trust LLC doing business as a mid-none trust company and Missouri Limited Liability Company for the sale of the transformer.

Motion to approve the first reading. Motion.

Second. We'll call it. Herzog? Yes. Prepper? Yes. Mortimer? Yes. Bernary? Yes. Roseman? Yes. Bass? Yes.

We'll call.

Motion to have a second reading. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye.

An ordinance authorizing the Mayor of the City of Cuba, Missouri, on behalf of the City of Cuba, Missouri, to enter into an agreement with MM Trust LLC, doing business as a mid-node trust company and Missouri Limited Liability Company for the sale of the Transformer.

Motion to approve the second reading.

I'm going to go with that one.

Okay.

Roll call?

Beck? Yes.

Rosen? Yes. Ranieri? Yes. Mortimer? Yes. Crocker? Yes. Hartzell? Yes.

And I declare the bill becomes, bill number 2233 becomes special ordinance number 974. What happened to Logan?

You did a roll call. No, we did. Yes, I did. Yeah, we did.

You guys said it ten times. I just said one.

Okay. All right. Don't take a shower when you're hearing me.

All right. Let's see. Bill number 22. Bill number 2234, an ordinance approving half-cent law enforcement tax on November 3, 2026, MAPA. Motion to approve. Second.

All in favor? Aye.

An ordinance calling for submission to the qualified voters of the City of Cuba, Missouri, at the next general election day scheduled for November 3, 2026, a proposition authorizing the imposition of a municipal sales tax of one-half of one percent Beginning January 1, 2027 to be used solely for law enforcement purposes.

Motion to approve the first reading. Motion. Second. No comment.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Motion to have a second reading.

Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye.

An ordinance calling for submission to the qualified voters of the City of Cuba, Missouri at the next general election day scheduled for November 3rd, 2026. A proposition authorizing the imposition of a municipal sales tax of one-half of 1% beginning January 1, 2027 to be used solely for law enforcement purposes. No reading.

And motion to approve the second reading. Second.

Call the call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Bill number 2235, an ordinance adopting and enacting a new code of ordinances, steps to renovate. Motion to have the first reading? Motion.

Second.

All in favor of the motion? Nope. Discussion? Anything? Mr. Mayor, you've already explained the ordinance. You've explained it before you . It's very complicated, OK?

What it is, is we have an organization. Actually, I think Jennifer can explain better not to. Jennifer, you want to do it?

We have our ordinances through General Code. They maintain and they provide with us every year a list of statutes that have changed.

they will update those with us. Our legal team has reviewed all of them.

I think Wayne said he looked up each one and verified that each of these changes are necessary, yes.

So basically what you're saying is that the state law changes RSMO changes that it doesn't conflict with anything that we've already approved in the past.

They will update it. This is kind of like a yearly maintenance update that we are required to do.

Satisfied. Thank you.

Okay, we have a person to say it all. All right.

An ordinance adopting and enacting a new code of ordinances of the City of Cuba, County of Crawford, State of Missouri, establishing the same, providing for the repeal of certain ordinances not included therein, except as herein expressly provided, providing for the manner of amending such code of ordinances, providing penalty for the violation thereof, and providing when this ordinance shall become effective.

Motion to approve the first reading.

Motion. Second. Roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

An ordinance adopting and enacting a new code of ordinances in the City of Cuba, County of Crawford, State of Missouri, establishing the same, providing for the repeal of certain ordinances not included therein except as herein expressly provided, providing for the manner of amending such code of ordinances, providing penalty for the violation thereof, and providing when this ordinance shall become effective.

Motion to approve the second reading. Move it.

Second. Roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

A couple weeks before the election, I was made aware of a computer issue that we had with our software program, and it wasn't allowing what I was told it wasn't allowing When we paid bills, it wasn't subtracting that from our bank account. When you won the position, I made you aware of that, and I have not been updated on whether that was corrected or not.

Well, we're in the process, Jeff, and I'll go ahead and address it while we're here. I met with the auditor and Jennifer. That's one of the reasons that the audit has taken so long. They have been fighting battles with GWORKS. I got on the line and did some research, and it turns out G-Works is in a lot of lawsuits right now for the exact same reasons that we've been struggling with. So during the last couple of months, we reached out to two of the software programs that other organizations are using around us, and that is VSA and TIRE. And we have since went through multiple meetings with them on the cost of switching us to them. I also talked to another CPA firm to say, are these good? They like both of those. The other CPA firm likes both of those. Our auditor likes both of those. However, there's a high cost that comes with switching the software, and we're talking just on, well, I hate to speak to the numbers. There is a cost associated with it. We have reached out to them. We've had multiple meetings, myself, Jennifer, Jessica was involved. We wanted to make sure. We also got some info from the public works guys concerning our inventories. We want to make sure that the software that we're looking at would enhance our abilities, not hurt them, and find out whether or not they had the same problems that G-Works. If they were a hybrid, we were an analyst. So far, they've answered, those two organizations have answered the questions good. We reached out to the other municipalities, and they were favorable for both of them. So we will have, we will be addressing that pretty soon. I just haven't brought it out yet because we literally had the last meeting, what was that, Friday? Thursday, Friday of last week with the second software program. So we just haven't put everything together to bring it to council. We were waiting for our financial status from 2025 to get done, the reconciliation on 2026. Because during this process, if there are problems, it may affect an inmate and say, it wasn't a problem. So we have to be careful in the swap whether or not we missed something. But our auditor validated that we have problems with this software. And highly recommends that we change.

kind of the reason why we spent a million dollars. We were told we had $3 million and you were a part of that.

That's why I'm being real careful with these guys too because we're afraid that if we swap, what if they do the same thing? They're just telling us what we want to hear for us to get it. So that's why we only interviewed two that were from local areas, people using them, and then we're kind of checking with them how happy are you with them. We want to do a little more due diligence than what we did with the G-Works. That came on the board. It has not lived up to the needs of the clinicians.

Did you know, when did we buy that software?

1998.

That's right. 98? 98. Yes.

Now, I have one other thing.

The electric at the fair, I went and checked the, I took pictures of the meters before the fair and after the fair, and there was consumption. Andy, you went down and hooked into a transformer. What did you hook up with that? It was just some of the Carnival rods. that went straight into the principal. We're not looking? Yeah, we've got to ask them some final thoughts. All of that has to stop.

We have met with, we took public works. We went down and we met with the fair board and let them know. They asked us to wait until after their elections in September. So they want to make sure whoever's on the proper board will meet with us. We're already addressing not only the rent for the RV spots, when they can come on, when they can't. So we'll be in the midst, probably around the first week of October, of working on a new contract with them. Along the same lines, we have some major problems inside that building. Almost every room inside the event center, when it rains, They pour through. We went in with Public Works right after meeting with those guys, walked through there with the prayer board, and almost every room in there had water standing in the floor. The new drywall that was put up in the hallway is already coming down. They want to meet with us to consider what needs to be done, what kind of help we need, but none of that really needs to happen until after they have their elections.

We're going to address that.

If you don't mind, we'll address that probably in a September to October time. We don't need that expense. We don't use it.

All right, that's all I have.

Okay, that was everybody. Okay, closed executive session, so we're going to take a five-minute recess. This will be closed in public pursuit of RSMO 16.1, section 1, legal advice and litigation. Five minutes left.