City Council - Regular Meeting

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We just see it every time. There we go. All right. It's 7 o'clock. I'd like to call the December 4th Dotto City Council meeting to order. We'll start with roll call, please. Lane, here. Hon here. Daniels, here. Patterson here. Mcmaran here. All present. All right. Our first item of business tonight is a proclamation in honor of re across America.

Designating December 13th as National Wreaths Across America Day. Whereas Wreaths Across America is a national nonprofit organization founded in 2007 to continue and expand the annual wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Whereas Wreaths Across America's mission is to remember the fallen, honor those who serve and teach the next generation about about the true cost of freedom. Whereas Wreaths Across America is made up of more than 4,700 participating locations across the country run by dedicated volunteers looking to share the mission to remember, honor, and teach through annual wreath laying ceremonies each December and awareness and education events throughout the year. Now therefore, I, Rick Walker, mayor of the city of Dotto, Kansas, do hereby proclaim December 13, 2025, as National Ree across America day in the city of Dodto and extend thanks and appreciation to our veterans and gold star families for their service and sacrifice and to Reese across America for bringing this honor to our community. And I have presented the proclamation to the A [clears throat] that brought this proclamation forward. Thank you ladies. [applause] I got so excited to do Reese across America, I skipped the pledge of allegiance. Please forgive me. [laughter]

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. All right, our next item of business tonight is to recognize our outgoing city council members, Rob Daniels and Kevin Hanaichel. So, um, I'll go over here, uh, Rob and Kevin, one at a time. I'll do Rob and then I'll do Kevin.

[clears throat] But it's my honor uh as mayor to present this uh award uh in recognition and appreciation for your eight years of service to the city of Dotto as a city council member. Thank you, Rob. [clears throat] [applause] and an egg pl you want that as well.

And likewise, Kevin, it's been my honor to serve with you, my honor to present this plaque to you in appreciation and recognition of your eight years of service to this city. Thank you for your time. Appreciate it very much. Mind if I say? Sure. [applause] I want to express my appreciation for the opportunity to serve this community. It's been a privilege to be able to be part of a leadership team that has made real progress toward the future and growth of DInnesota. I've been part of a commu of community development since 2001 when Mayor Dave Anderson appointed me to planning commission. This past eight years on city council has been transformational. I look back when Lori Murdoch uh organized the broadband committee and got me plugged in. Dotto needed high-speed internet connectivity to be a relevant place to live and work. We accomplished bringing gigabit fiber internet infrastructure to Dodto and that actually resulted in competitive gigabit fiber internet providers. That was my initial focus in running for city council along with bringing Dninnesota to the economic development table. We are certainly an economic development community with national prominence. I'm super proud of what we've accomplished together. I want to thank our current and past council members for our time together. Danny, you're our senior civic leader now and um I want to thank you for the friendship and mentorship that you've provided over all these years in terms of this role. So, thank you Danny. Appreciate it. I want to thank Lori Murdoch. I'm glad you're here tonight. Uh you are my inspiration and my champion for public leadership and you're an example of a public leader who does the right things for the right reasons and in the right ways. So thank you Lori. I appreciate you. Victoria and Rhonda, keep up the good work. You're early in this journey and you have a lot to experience and to contribute. carry the baton and

recognize that you are the next generation of city leaders who have the experience and exposure and you also have the ability and obligation to meaningfully impact the future of this community. Congratulations, Zach and Joe on your election to city council. I'm excited for all you have to experience and for the future you'll create. Start by understanding that you have so much to learn. You're entering a very complex environment with big decisions to make. I had the opportunity to spend time with both of you. You're both intelligent and your motivations are in the right place. I know you have the ability to lead. You have so much to learn and you're going to be in inundated with information. So, take the time to seek to understand before you seek to take a position. We've been successful because we've worked as a team seeking to accomplish the common strategic goals of the community rather than individual positions or opinions. I hope that you'll be a servant leader and that you'll lead with humility. Rick, I want to thank and congratulate you. You were running for mayor when I first ran for council and I was motivated by the idea that I could work with you as mayor. I knew you'd be a cheerleader for Dodto, that you would give your personal time for the position and that you would have unwavering commitment for the good of the city. I so appreciate working with you over the last eight years. I know Dotto is in good hands with your collaborative, engaged, and concerned leadership, and I offer to you my continued support. Thank you, Mike, Brandon, Patrick, Joe, um, Whitney, and all the city staff. You get the job done. For the incoming council members, know the know your role and trust your staff. Mike has built an amazingly talented staff that does the work of the city dayto-day. And Mike, you swing way above your weight class in

your leadership of complex issues that you deal with every day. Your ability to understand and digest the complex business deals of the massive public private initiatives that we have faced is impressive. The leadership, integrity, transparency, and commitment of this city staff is unmatched and unique. For all council members, you're truly blessed with an amazing staff, and I hope that you appreciate and leverage the talent you have. Literally, they are an award-winning staff. My passions in economic development. I'm looking forward to my new role on the board of directors of the Kansas City Area Development Council and the ability to contribute to the economic growth of the region. I'm very excited to be part of the leadership of the DInnesota Economic Development Advisory Committee and of the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. So, I previously turned in my keys to Bonnie and the last thing I need to do is turn in my badge. [laughter] There you go. Thank you. This is an old picture. [laughter]

It's like my LinkedIn profile. Thank you. [applause] All right. Now we will have swearing in of our newly elected mayor. Which side do you you want me over here? Over there. Do you have a natural? Okay. This is not natural. So, all right. Place your right hand on. I have to raise my hand. You do have to You do. You have to raise your right hand. I have to raise my right hand.

That's my understanding of it. I I Rick Walker do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Kansas and the Constitution of the State of Kansas and faithfully discharge and faithfully discharge the duties of the office the duties of the office of an elected mayor of an elected mayor of the city of Dotto Kansas the city of Dotto Kansas to the best of my ability to the best of my ability so help me So help me God. Congratulations. Thank you, sir. [applause]

All right, we'll move on with the swearing in of our council members. Uh, alphabetical order. First up, Zach Bradley. Take the Bible. There you go. All right, let me flip this over. I I state your name. Zachary Bradley do hereby solemnly swear do hereby solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Kansas and the Constitution of the State of Kansas and faithfully and faithfully discharge the duties and faithfully discharge the duties of the office of an elected city council member of the office of an elected city council member

for the city of Dotto Kansas for the city of Dotto Kansas to the best of my abilities to the best of my abilities. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. Thank you. [applause]

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All right. Can you You can do left hand if you want. That's all right. I can get it on there. All right. [laughter] I I state your name. Joe Sabbo, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Kansas and the Constitution of the State of Kansas and will faithfully discharge and will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of an elected city council member the duties of the office of the elected city council member for the city of Dotto Kansas for the city of Dotto Kansas to the best of my ability to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. [applause]

All right, we'll let uh Brandon make his way. All right. Our uh first task before us is uh to fill a vacancy in the office of the council president. Um I would u I guess I would offer that um as our senior uh as Kevin put it. Not sure. Didn't call him senior. Held him our senior states council member leadership. [laughter]

Senior leadership. That perhaps uh Danny might be a a good nomination. I'd like to nominate Danny Lane as the next council president.

Um we would need a second for that. Thank you. And then um any other nominations? And I'm not hearing any. So we'll close the nominations and I would call for a voice vote. All those in favor of Danny Lane serving as council president uh signify by saying I I I. All opposed. All right. We have a unanimous selection of Danny. Welcome. Thank you, Danny. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council.

All right. Moving on, next item on the agenda tonight is our consent agenda. Tonight on the consent agenda, we have approval of the minutes from the November 20th city council meeting, approval of pay ordinance number 109, approval of ordinance 2676 amending the serial malt beverage license regulations, and approval of a temporary use permit for the deck the halls event. Is there any item that anyone would wish to remove for further consideration

or a motion to approve the consent agenda? I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion of the motion? Roll call, please. Lane, yes. Sabo, yes. Bradley, yes. Patterson, yes. M Brandan, yes. Mayor Walker on item D. Yes. Motion carries. All right.

Item two is called to public. Members of the public are welcome to use this time to comment about any matter relating to city business not listed on tonight's agenda. The items that are discussed under call to public may or may not be acted on by the council during this meeting. Does anyone wish to address the council under call to public? asked you to state your name and address please for the record.

Mike Caldwell U 8412 Corass and tonight I just I want to understand how our trail system works or how it's supposed to work. um specifically how things get put on the budget and then without any input from from the people affected by it. But prior to going into that, I I think we could really benefit. I don't know if we have a master plan for for trails, but you know, a lot of people would say there's still a lot of undeveloped uh land in the city, which is a good good thing. And but that's going away. And as these big parcels come up, I think we should be proactive and think about, well, how would how would a connector trail fit? Uh like out at out at what's going on on Cedar Creek Road. I don't know the details. I don't particularly like what's going on, but that's not my fight. Uh, but there's a lot of Cedar Creek frontage there and I don't know how many of you have wandered around that area, but uh, it's it's pretty and I don't know what we're going to do to pre preserve the streamside or they going to build houses right up to the to the stream. We shouldn't have to depend on Johnson County to preserve our our streams. We can uh that would be a great place for a trail. Um, it could be concrete. You can get volunteer groups uh build them. You know, Urban Trail Code builds trails for Johnson County parks all over the place. Um, another example is uh Arbor Ridge. There's still some undeveloped land in Arbor Ridge. We we missed the boat. There's a nice valley on that property in the northeast corner that now is in people's

backyards, but you could still you could run a trail off of uh well your your road, Rick, come down through Aubber Ridge, hook up with all those other sidewalks and uh you know, if you do these trails ahead of time or at least plan for them and then put the onus on the developer to do it, well, you'd save a lot of heartache, money. you don't have to worry about the utilities and I mean the they know where the streets are going to go. You know I I think with a little planning we get ahead of the game. Uh another example is you know it would be very easy to build a trail from Lexington Park down to the river park. Uh our water plant is within a quarter mile of a trail in Lex Lexington Park that you can run off of. So, but that all being said, I'm struggling with understanding how uh you know, I don't know if there's a handful of people that sit around and look at a map without knowing the details of where it's going. I don't know, maybe there there's more thought, but oh, it would be good to have a trail going down this this road through these people's yards. And then when you talk to the people on that road, do you know about this trail? What trail? The trail that's going to go through your front yard. No, I don't know anything about it. Well, do you want it? No. [laughter] And uh and then okay, what can I do to stop it? So, you know, we can manage to have meetings with developers with the people affected. We should be able to do that if the city's doing something with the people affected. And I would think the people who live on the road that that trail is going to go down should have more impact into whether that happens or not. I mean,

person you could spend that $6 million better somewhere else. Uh so I I just you know I I don't understand how that particular road got chosen. And what's the driver? Is the driver people living on roads that feed into Corless? Well, they're not being very good neighbors if they're trying to do do that to us on Corless because like I said, I haven't found anybody who wants it. And now I haven't talked to everybody on the street yet. I mean, it takes time. Uh, enough on that. On a positive note, so you don't think I just up here uh complaining all the time. I like the new disc golf course. Um, I think whoever laid it out did a really good job. Uh, it's makes good use of the trees. It uh it's got some shorter holes so that people that can't throw it as far as they used to can still get an ace. Um, one negative thing ju just for feedback is I think we went over the top with putting baskets on rocks, but that that could be more of a generational thing because I talked to the young guys I play with and apparently that is a thing now to have higher baskets up on rocks, but that's kind of nit nitpicking. Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Mike. Anyone else under call to public? All right, seeing none, we'll move on in our agenda. Item three is old business and we don't have any. So, we're at item 4A, consider resolution 2085, making city appointment to the Northwest Consolidated Fire District Board.

Yes, council. Um, as you know, the fire district board, uh, the city and county, uh, [snorts] have appointments to that board. Uh, one of the city's appointments, uh, which is currently occupied by Doug Bedford, um, his term expires at the end of December. So, the resolution that I prepared, uh, proposes to appoint, uh, Mr. Bedford for another three-year term which would begin on January 1, 2026. So,

and I had the conversation with Doug to confirm that he would like to continue that capacity. So, if you're in agreement, then I would need a motion to approve resolution 2085 Doug to the fire board for another term. I'll make a motion we approve 2085. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Lane [clears throat] Patterson, yes. Mcmarin, yes. Seo, yes. Bradley, yes.

Motion carries. All right. [clears throat] Item 4B, receive presentation and update from the Johnson County Sheriff's Office. Good evening, Mayor Council. Um, as you're aware, Johnson County provides law enforcement services for the city of Dotto. Um, at the beginning of this year, the uh sheriff's office has um graciously offered to provide quarterly reports on activities in Dodto. So, this is our third quarter report. Um we are a little behind just because we canceled that [clears throat] second meeting October, but um this is our third core report. So with that, I'll turn it over to Dan who will walk you through.

All right. Uh good evening, council. Uh for those of you who do not know me, uh my name is Captain Dan Dirks. I'm the patrol division commander for the sheriff's office. Uh I am actually over the district officers that are assigned uh to what is our one district, which is the Dodto area. Uh I also have a counterpart, Captain Josh Ty, who is over our community policing unit. he cannot be here tonight. Uh but he is over our SRO's and the contracted officers uh specifically for DO. Um but as Brandon said, uh one of the duties associated with my position is to provide this quarterly report. I know you've been given a packet, but uh for the new council members, I'll just provide some basic information here. Of course, uh we are led by our sheriff Byron Robersonson and our two under sheriffs, under sheriff Cindy Hansen and under sheriff Darren Schaefer. All right. Um, as I mentioned, one of the things we provide for the sheriff's office is 247 coverage within the assigned district officer uh that works within the patrol division. Additionally, what we also have are the two contracted officers that provide power shift um duties for the city of Dotto during peak hours and during events such as DOT days, um um the um Friday night events during the summer and things like that. So and additionally we also provide the animal control officer for the city. Uh slide there of course has your information regarding the budget which was uh agreed upon last year actually for this year for the next three years that that'll run through 2027. Uh and as I said those costs reflect the additional patrol units used during community event support. Uh also that's the power shift deputies during high uh demand periods and as I said we also uh coordinate for those special events within the city. Now one thing uh

little photo there two of your uh contract deputies uh the power shift deputies assigned to uh this is deputy Skyler Miller right here but his uh counterpart is deputy Allan Heidi and you will see them regularly throughout the city. So just this year the sheriff's office uh um took on a new system for collecting our data. This is uh what's known as the PowerBI system. Uh it's a much more efficient and advanced system for us to collect data. Um and we began incorporating this into these reports for you so that information be readily available. Um and I'll break this down on each and if you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to ask. Uh this first slide here is just our main screen. Uh this is for the third quarter of 2025. And you'll see there were 876 dispatch calls. Uh 843 uh self initiated that were not traffic and 1,659 uh self-initiated traffic events. In the little map there towards the bottom left, what you'll see each of those dots represents each of those calls that took place within the city during that quarter. All right, this next slide uh this is indicates the uh group A and group B offenses which have taken place in the city. What we've done here is a 2024 to 2025 comparison for the same time period being the third quarter of this year. Uh you'll see in 2024 there were 84 group B offenses and 131 non-reportable and 361 total offenses. And as we look at 2025, we'll see there were 85 uh group B offenses, 127 non-reportable, and 396 total offenses. As you will see on the charts

there, your group A and group B offenses. Your group A offenses are going to be your more serious crimes, and your group B offenses are going to be your lower lower level misdemeanor and things like that. Any questions I could answer for any of you? Okay. So, this right here is again another view of the total calls for service. uh for the third quarter this year. Uh all calls for service, every type of call, whether it be traffic, uh dispatch call, animal control, an SRO event, uh the power shift officers for the city, we had a total of 3,000 calls for that period. Uh 84 of those were selfinitiated, not traffic. And uh 1,637, as I said, were traffic calls. Now, these aren't just calls involving the uh contract deputies for the city, but this is also the district officer that's assigned 247. This also includes any other calls that might be taking place, such as the supervisors who may be responding to a call. It could be somebody from our civil division, warrants division, or any of the 11 divisions within the sheriff's office. So, this is representative of the total calls for service for that period. And this is what we call the heat map. This is a just another uh view of that same information. Um the previous map was just a dot indicating each of those calls. Uh we use these heat maps to identify as to its name hotspots uh where we can focus activity. All right. So this next slide is indicative of the accidents that have taken place in Dodto

during that period. Uh during the third quarter we had four accidents within the city. Um this is actually down four from 2024 where we had eight for the same time period. One thing when I come back uh to brief you on the fourth quarter of this year, regrettably that number is going to be a little bit higher and that's going to be due to the events of this week. Uh, Monday obviously was a very busy day for us. Um, just in the radio traffic I was listening to, even me being the captain for the division, I was out all day long for 11 hours. Most of my day span up here. Dotto got hit very hard this area uh with the ice and the snow. So, there were quite a number of accidents. Fortunately, there was only one with very minor injuries, but uh throughout the entire area that we patrol, our five districts, uh that was the only injury that we had. So we were very very fortunate.

And your final slide there um this will give you an idea of the citations that were written uh both within the larger district which we call one district which is encompasses most of Dodto but also your powers shift officers within the city. It also it shows the number of city citations, the number of county citations and the number of drugreated cases to that. Okay. And just some key takeaways as I talked about, uh, dispatch calls decreased from 951 in 2024 to 876, but selfinitiated calls increased from 1,352 to 1,659. That's

Can you tell me, walk me through what a self-initiated call is just real? Yes, sir. So, that is action taken by the deputy themselves to observing a situation and then

Exactly. It could be a traffic stop. It could be they see someone littering. It could be see they see a loose animal. It could be anything of that nature. But but as its name that's their own activity that they've initiated whereas the others are referred to as dispatch calls. And like I say over this last year what you have seen is um Deputy Miller and uh Deputy Heidi who have been working as the power shift and the district officers. Uh the patrol division for the sheriff's office is very young right now. We have a lot of younger staff within their careers. Um they become trained. They're getting on the field and they're showing that uh initiative to get out there and be active. Uh as I [clears throat] said, you see almost an increase in 300 calls from 2024 to 2025. Um I mentioned there was a decrease in the accidents. Unfortunately, we'll see a short small increase in that here probably in the fourth quarter. And we have also established a new system for writing citations. We no longer do handwritten citations like many of the jurisdictions around us. We now use an electronic ticketing system. Uh much more efficient and allows us to collect that data much more efficiently as well.

Any questions from council? Okay. Are there any general questions that I could answer in regards to our patrolling duties? Anything of that nature?

I I think the key concern that's always on my mind is are we seeing any concerning trends uh year-over-year um in crimes, right? The nature or frequency of the crime that we have here in Dodto. So, I mean, that's kind of the thing that I've always looking for to get from your report. What's interesting is um you know u Brandon and Mike and I meet regularly at least once a month and of course one concern with the Panasonic plant coming in was with all the increased traffic would there be an increase in accidents and things like that and as the data is starting to show there's been no greater increase in that um you could contribute it to enforcement action on our part being present being visible kind of deterring uh the road rage incidents and the people driving too past and things like that. So, uh we haven't seen that. Have not seen that uh increase in general crime such as theft and things like that either.

Okay. Thank you. Absolutely. Anyone else? Well, thank you for coming. Appreciate your report. You're welcome. I look forward to seeing you next quarter.

All right. Our next item tonight, item C. Consider contract with Clark Enerson for the community center master plan project.

Uh good evening council. Tonight's item is kind of the next step in our ongoing work to evaluate a potential community center um for Dodto. This item brings forward the contract to bring in a community center master plan. Um it follows up on the feasibility work um and survey that was completed earlier in the year that showed strong interest in establishing um a community center. And this agreement formalizes the next phase of planning, engagement and conceptual design. Um Clark and Emer and Inerson was uh selected through a competitive qualifications based um process that included um Mayor Walker, former council member Daniels, um Jay Garvin, Whitney Lang, and several other staff members um and parkboard representatives. um through we received 11 um proposals and we whittleled it down to three and then held interviews with the final three. Um the scope of this um of this master plan has a robust public engagement um uh program including surveys, popup events. Um we're going to um try to get out into the community to meet people where they're at. So one of the ones we're looking at is shown up to a pickle ball event. Um, another one we're going to try to um come to a youth basketball um game uh Saturday and then we're going to find one third one. We're not completely um sure on that one yet. Um there have two public meetings and then there will be six um steering committee sessions to kind of gauge the interest and kind of narrow down the uh final um outcome of the master plan. The uh $179,500 contract is funded through the CIC fund for 2026. And if approved, the planning process will begin in early 26 and conclude um before the year end with a full master plan, conceptual design, cost estimates, and operational modeling um presented to the council by the end of the year. So with that, I will stand for any questions.

All right, questions from council. I have a quick question. Um Brandon, you mentioned the steering committee and I apologize that was in here, but um is that committee the same committee that did the review committee or will this be um like current residents maybe that might be selected who might utilize the facility to get input from them?

Yeah, that's a good question. I haven't had a chance to speak to the mayor about it, but um I was envisioning the steering committee being kind of a mixture of city council staff um definitely some representatives and park board and then some specific stakeholders. So we're um we'd reached out to the school district um I' reached out to the YMCA and then I was going to reach out to a couple other people throughout the community um with the mayor's input to kind of get a good um sampling of the community.

Yeah, that's a good idea. Thanks. I have a question. Um, in attachment C and compensation, there is a note that says it's only an estimate and that uh if the estimated compensation amount will be exceeded, contractor will mutually agree in writing to additional compensation exceeding estimated amount. How will that work? Um, is there a limit they can go over? Uh, how who does that and what amount? H how will that proceed? I know there's in the past some questions about things like that. So I was just hoping to get a better clarity on how that would work.

Yeah, I I will be tracking the expenses as kind of the project manager of it, but um I will defer to Patrick a little bit on the contract legal ease of that, but um if it does go over, I would come back to you.

Yeah. So the mutually and the only as I understand it the only extra would be the items that um are excluded. So if we were to ask them to do extra work, then there would be extra compensation, but mutually agree would mean that the city would have to agree to it. So that's something they would have to take up the city and if we thought no, that's not we don't want to incur that extra expense and it wouldn't wouldn't go forward. So

thank you. I would say I was impressed with the volume of response we got just the 11 responses on this. The interest in the community uh you know the architectural planning community in the project and then the the three finals we had were all very very strong. [cough] [clears throat] Anyone else? Are we ready for a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the agreement with Clark and Inerson for the community center master plan and conceptual design and the amount not to exceed $179,500.

Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Macaran, yes. Patterson, yes. Lane, yes. Sabo, yes. Bradley. Yes. Motion carries. [snorts] All right. [clears throat] Item D, discuss January 1st city council meeting.

Uh, yes, Mayor and Council. Just a brief memo. Um, the first Thursday of January is January 1st, which is a federal holiday. Um, the memo does outline a couple um of suggested dates where we could reschedule that meeting. Um there is also um that meeting tends to be typically pretty light. Um so if there is a will to cancel that meeting um this would be the time to do it. Um but I did lay out a couple other options on the memo or if there's other date that works for you. Um this is just kind of a discussion item. We can certainly come back at the next meeting. So mayor I'll turn it back over to you. Well, so I guess the question I'd have is I we could probably look at what we might have business-wise for that January 1 or that first meeting in January to to determine whether or not we needed it, make a better decision about whether or not we can cancel it at our next meeting. Would that be a fair statement?

Yeah. Um I was just quickly looking at my calendar to I hadn't checked those dates yet. Um, so I guess I'd just ask everybody to look at the dates that are proposed here. Uh, see if uh which might and then we'll bring those back at our next meeting and um decide whether or not we can cancel or or if we can come up with a one of these times to reschedu. Okay. Fair enough. Yeah, it's fair. Y

All right. Item E, discuss, consider resolution 2086 approving benefit district uh street benefit district and development agreement for countryside.

Yes, council. um this development, the developer has approached city about um the city issuing special obligation bonds to uh pay for the streets that will serve this development. Um and so what you have before you um would authorize what are called special obligation bonds that would be issued by the city, but the financing for that are assessments on the developer's property. So, uh, unlike general obligation bonds that are typically done with a benefit district where you have several different owners of the property within the district, here we have one property owner at the present time. So, uh, that's why we do special obligation bonds. And what that means is if this development were to uh, go belly up, then the city would not have any responsibility on those bonds. that would be the developer's problem to work out. Um with general obligation bonds, if a project goes belly up, then that's the city has to make up for those uh missed assessments. But um the developer here um is just an individual. You know, normally we deal with council. So, um, that's why as late as this afternoon, I provided some information to go into the blanks. I have printouts of that if you want to see it, but essentially it was just decreasing the amount for construction from 9 million down to 7 million. Um the resolution that you have before you would also uh approve a development agreement which you know addresses the

details of the project uh required insurance um shy bonds for the project. So happy to answer any other questions, but would recommend that you make a motion to approve resolution 2086, which will also approve the development agreement. Questions from council? Sure.

Can you give an example when we've done the special obligation before? Yeah, we um currently the Sunflower um sewer benefit district um that was another situation where um Sunflower Redevelopment owns a large part of the land that is in that benefit district. There were, I think, five or six other property owners, but given the large land area owned by one of the people in the benefit district, we also told them you need to do special obligation bonds because we were worried if Sunflower redevelopment was not able to pay their assessments from year to year, then that would be on the city. If it was general obligation with special obligation bonds, if that happened, that would be on them, not on the city.

Thanks. I also have a question, Patrick. Um, can you do we have any idea of how many residents uh this may affect with uh right away and easements for the development?

As far as I know, none. They own the Mike can maybe speak more to that, but they own, you know, these streets are going off 95th Street South and they own that entire uh property area. So all of these streets are on their property. Now eventually when they're done, they will deed those to the city, but so any easements that they would need for those would be on them. I'm not aware of any anything they need for

Yeah. All the improvements defined to be funded with this benefit district are interior to the 75 acres that they own showed on the map here. [clears throat] 95th Streets of the north into that. You can see a little bit of Lexington Avenue down here in the lower. Uh so it's these streets here internal too. So there's not um not any adjoining right ofways to get It's just a different finance mechanism for the developer that uh it doesn't affect our credit or uh bond rating in any way allow them to issue these bonds and doesn't put us at financial risk if they are not able to make their payments.

Yeah. Mechanically what happens kind of behind the scenes is the developer they get a loan. So in this instance from UNMB bank to fund the construction and then once the project is done and deed over to the city then the bonds are issued um and then the the f the bank they get those assessments. So they buy the bonds and so they those assessments that are paid from year to year they have interest included. [snorts] So that goes to the bank. So they get the earning off of that. But yeah, it doesn't the city's credit or financing really has no part. It's sort of a paper transaction.

Mayor, if I could just one more thing from a from a policy perspective, uh this mechanism was one of our economic development tools in the economic incentives policy. Um you know, we we have a policy establishing this. Um, this area has been identified as as one of the areas of the city where this type of a tool could be used by the developer. There's advantages from a financing standpoint. Um, and the developer did come uh months ago with economic incentive requests that specifically asked for uh this incentive. So, this is from a policy perspective um something that um that is within the confines of that of that policy. So it's bigger picture sort of thing. We we've done this in other other instances and it might happen again. So

if I could ask uh I see on there that the street sort of ends and my understanding is that eventually there will be a yeah eventually there'll be a connector there at I guess it's 99th or somewhere around there. Correct. Yeah.

And that that's the purpose and that eventually it will connect once that final layout happens. that that's the hope. Uh there's no guarantee, but we did, you know, the Southwest Growth Area Plan establishes those corridors and one of them is 99th Street and it's not shown on here, but its connection to Lexington Avenue would be right down here at the right and it and is shown that to kind of loop up northward. Exact alignment, we don't know, but yeah, that's the ultimate that's the grid network plan for the area. Yeah. Is that be connected south? Yeah. The uh only other question I had was my understanding is at some point in the past the city did use general obligation funds to fund infrastructure improvements and it didn't work out at one point with a developer.

Uh that's why we switched to special obligation which is no risk to us. Is that that correct? That's correct. Yeah, that's a fair statement. Yeah. uh the housing uh the 2008 recession got a a subdivision that that went bankrupt and we wound up paying assessments for a number of years and we never got any of that money. Right. And when that land the downside of that when that land sold the county kept all of that well we weren't we're not so even though those taxes were eventually paid they were not distributed to us or the school district.

Correct. But another wrinkle to that just for background in my I forgetting the street but that particular developer held um title to uh we wanted to put a street through from Lexington Primrose Primrose.

So she had titled to that and you know she would not deed that over to the city or sell to the city. So, uh, the deal worked out with her, um, was that the city would do a benefit district for her interior streets and Cherokee Woods, her development, in return for her signing over that rideway for Primrose. So, she did that, we put Primrose in, and then years later, her development went flopped. So, that [snorts] was kind of just another wrinkle to it. History Anything else?

I'll make a motion to approve resolution 2085. Second. Just a quick 2086. Oh, I was reading the bottom. Oh, yeah. I think I'm going agenda. It's 20. My mistake. Okay. The thing that says 85. Yeah, that's good. to 2086. All right. And we have a second on that, right? Yes. Okay. We have a motion and a second to approve resolution 2086. Any further discussion? Roll call, please. Lane, yes. Sabo, yes. Bradley, yes. Patterson, yes. Macaran, yes. Motion carries.

All right. Uh item F CIP discussion.

Uh yes, council. Um because of the short week last week, I wasn't able to get any um update in the council packet, but I did put it uh a memo and an update in the packet yesterday. Um, I wanted, you know, with with the two new members, you know, clearly we want to have a discussion, give a little bit of background on the CIP overhaul, how we got to where we are, a little refresher, and then I want to show you um we're down to the point where we kind of have a list of projects that we we've prioritized and we think we might want to implement the next several years. We've talked a little bit about how we might fund those and and uh from an overall perspective what that investment might be and how those might be funded, but we hadn't really taken um taken a look and and program that out the five-year period. So um and really it's kind of six years because uh for 2026 when we did our budget, [clears throat] we were we're in the middle of the CIP overhaul in the summer when we were trying to do our budget. We didn't really exactly know which projects we were going to do for 2026. So, we put a $750,000 contingency item in our CIP uh for projects that we might decide to do. Um so, really, it's it's kind of a six-year window that we're sort of looking at uh currently. Um, by way of just brief background, um, you know, we started toward the first of the year with with staff and council, sort of a wish list of the types of, uh, projects you might want to implement. We had, uh, old lists of projects that have been, you know, kicked around. Uh, Parkboard was engaged pretty heavily, uh, w to come up with with sort of sort of a list from a staff perspective, [snorts] get a get a start on a grocery list. And then over the summer, we uh reached out to communities with some uh public opinion polls and and some online survey getting

further input uh on the list. And what we came up with the most recently was sort of a I'm just going to go through quickly here. You remember uh this sheet here was kind of a top 20 or 20 I wound up to be about 21 uh list of priority projects. Um and these are categorized um well the priority the these projects are ranked in kind of priority um ranking but really the rankings are uh combination of the the citizen surveys, the flashboat surveys. Uh council did a survey and then staff did a survey and we just kind of um combined all those to get this priority ranking. Um, I don't know that it really matters which one's on top and which one's on bottom, but um, that's kind of how we arrived at this list that we think we might want to implement. Um, turns out there's about $42 million worth of improvements there. Uh, that's quite a program for six or seven years. Um, not something we can do with currently identified funding sources to say the least. I would say though that um one of those projects $19.5 million um is the would be the reconstruction of 95th between Lexington and Kill Creek. So east of Lexington headed to Kill Creek. Uh that one uh for the purposes of of the scenario I'm showing you tonight, we do not have programmed in there. So keep that as a placeholder. Um, the other thing we did early on, really kind of before we sent out the public opinion surveys was, uh, we identified a list of mandatory projects. So, projects that either because we're already in the middle of implementing them or almost done here, city hall projects, a good a a good example. um or

because of uh the urgency from a from an infrastructure standpoint or a maintenance or a or preservation standpoint decided that we really do need to incorporate this into the five-year [snorts] CIP um as kind of a mandatory. We have to do if we don't put them in the CIP, they're going to be needs anyway. We're going to have to find out a way to fund them anyway. It's it's coming. It's foreseeable we'll have to do these. Um, so there's a list there in exhibit uh B um on the on the staff report that I uploaded yesterday. Kind of a reminder about what those uh main uh projects are. So those have been already incorporated into this sort of this five-year projection that we're about to look at. Um and then exhibit C, and I apologize. I know it's a lot of numbers. I know we can't see it really on the screen. you're going to have trouble seeing it on your screen, too. Uh, we'll be able to walk through them. A couple things I just want to point out about exhibit. It's a couple pages long. Uh, this is in the format of our typical five-year fund projection. So, in our budget, we project every fund out for five years, revenues, and expenses, and see where the fund balances lie. And this how we do our uh fiscal projections. Um, this is sort of that format, but just focused on the CIP. So there's several sort of colorized sections to this. The first page includes um the revenues um throughout the the the the life of the program. There's reoccurring revenue sources, there's one-time revenue sources, and then there's bonding revenue sources. So the uncolorized ones are the revenues program throughout the pro project. The next colorized box is this purple uh section. These are the pipeline projects. So there's uh three projects that uh rank highly in in in need and desire um in the within the community that we've identified are a scope and

scale that it's going to take multiple year effort um and identification and secure of outside funding sources. So these three are the 83rd Street corridor uh essentially upgrading 83rd Street from the east city limits all the way down to K10. Uh the second one is the 95th Street corridor. So this would be kind of from Kill Creek all the way out to Sunflower Road. Um that would be a big effort. And then the last one is the communities uh which we've, you know, just uh looked at the master plan in there. So that's the purple colorized boxes. The rest of the colorized boxes kind of have to do with the nature of the pro of the project. So the orange one are street and pedestrian projects. The blue are the water, the green is the parks and wreck, and gray is facilities. Um, and within each one of those, you'll see there's some black text, and there's red text. So, the red text are uh projects that we um those are the top priority, those 20 projects that are on the other exhibit that we might want to implement, that we might not, that we're trying to program out. We're still still making decision which one's going to be included, which one's not going to be included. um and what the timing for that is and the and the resources for as well. So if it's in red text, it's not something that we've identified as a mandatory project. It's not something that we've budgeted already, but it is something that throughout the course of the CIP uh development is is a higher priority for the for the community. So with that with that in mind um as as a way of kind of explaining what that what all these numbers are um I'll just go through very briefly and sort of um try to summarize this the uh elements of kind of that exhibit C without having exhibit C all the numbers that make your eyes cross and they're kind of hard to

understand but [snorts] um I I did want to just kind of in exhibit C there's a million different ways to do this. Of course, none of the projects are set and uh outside funding sources are are kind of a wild card in in a lot of these. Uh but the one that I the the first scenario and we just kind of take it as a this is a first scenario on how we might how we might do this. I think the important part really for tonight is just to kind of understand what goes into it. Um, and get any feedback you might have about which projects or priorities which should be included, might not need to include. Um, but then get an understanding of how this is developed so that we can come back later uh, you know, in subsequent meetings and and hone in on a specific five-year plan. Eventually, we'll pull all this together in a cohesive document. That'll be our fiveyear plan. We'll explain the projects and and kind of give some narrative to to all this. So, um what exhibit C does um is kind of fundamentally um what we want to focus on are primarily kind of the first two years because each of course each budget year is its own budget year. you're author you're author as we work through the budget and you authorize a budget. It's one year at a time really. Um and so we need to take close look at what we're going to do for 2026 because remember we we've allocated a bunch of contingency. We don't really well we we decided one of them tonight. That's the 179,000 for the master plan. That's part of that. Uh but there the rest of those funds we we need to really take a look at. And then 2027's pretty important too because once we wrap up the CIP um after the first of the year, it'll be pretty close to time to start budgeting for 2027. That 2027 bud cycle starts pretty close after that. And so it'd be important to have a

good idea of what those what those projects going to be so that we can roll that into the budget for the other years 28 through 30 or 31. Of course, we can relook at this at any time. we can change those priorities um you know and and um we can package those in ways that uh it's it's flexible to us. So just just one possible scenario in exhibit T C and what it does uh are kind of four main things in my mind. Uh the first thing that it does is it takes both [clears throat] mostly for 2026 but also for 2027 um it implements some um early phases of the three pipeline projects. So we we start with initial studies. We uh you know we go out and seek outside funding sources. We're doing some initial steps to kick off those pipeline projects because each one of them needs an outside funding source and to go pursue those things. We need better definition of what the projects are going to be. So we need there's some work to be done in there. So it builds momentum on each one of those threes, the 83rd Street, 95th Street, and the community center. Um second thing it does is it uh implements some smaller, more visible quality of life projects in the in the early years. Uh because frankly we're you know as we look at the next four or five years and the activities that are become be going on and the public improvement work that's going to be going on uh in the community with uh the improvements that we're going to need to implement for the coming data center. There's going to be hundreds of millions of dollars in public improvements that we are going to be overseeing uh for that data center project. Massive impact. um that's going to somewhat limit staff's ability to implement other larger type of projects, but it's important um to show the community that there's progress, that there's thoughtful uh work going on, and that so that there's some quality of life benefits going on. So, we've

identified some of those kind of smaller but impactful projects for the immediate couple years. Uh the other thing it does is it delays by several years really a decision point on any larger general obligation bonding. So if you'll see uh we're going to we're going to be relying on outside funding sources as grants um uh possibly um some transportation improvement districts or something something else. but also bonds. Um and and what we've contemplated so far is some general obligation bonds for generally public works or capital improvements and then uh uh parks and recreation bonds uh possibly for the trails and certainly one for the community center. Those decisions are kind of delayed in this in this in this sequence. They're delayed uh for a couple of years. And I think it's it's it's important to do that first of all because we know we're going to be mass community center for at least another year. Uh so we really won't know kind of the nature of that project until then. Uh but also uh it's important to realize that we are in uh an economic growth uh situation uh that that looks extremely positive and and extremely hopeful uh but but at the same time somewhat unpredictable [clears throat] about when uh revenue sources are going to come in franchise fees you know from Panasonic and maybe from a data center uh sales tax how that's it's been tremendous continues to be tremendous. We hope it'll still it'll it'll keep growing. Uh but it it'll give us a few years to really know where those overall revenue streams are going to be so that we can really assess the impact of some major capital improvement of new uh debt financing and how that might impact taxation and other service. So I think

that's that's pretty important part of this. I wouldn't um you know it would be tough for us to say let's let's decide to go out and issue some u significant bond next year for say because we just really don't know where that revenues uh picture is going to look like. Um information. Yeah. The general obligation bonds in here uh under the five years say that uh require public vote. Some do. Yes. Yeah. Is there any structure like how we would do that? When we would do that, any plan for

Yeah, we Well, that'll be that'll be something we do need to plan. Um, and so, so any any financing for street parks and recreation improvements. Um, so a community center would require a public vote. Um, and if we identify in this scenario, we're identifying bigger trail projects. You know, the one down Kill Creek Road, the one out on Sunflower Road, one along 83rd Street. Those are bigger project. If we want to bond just for those, it also requires a vote of the public. And you know, how or when to do that, how much to do that is very much a discussion. We're gonna it's going to take a couple years to figure that out. And so that's why this plan doesn't have those in it here really immediately. Um so yeah, that's a good question. uh and that's as opposed to uh just if we just issue general obligation bond for waterline improvements or for road improvements or for some of the other infrastructure doesn't require a public vote. Um so yeah, there's there's decisions to be made on on those on those general obligation pods as well. That's a good question. Um, and then the last thing I think this does is just identifies clearly that um, some of these larger projects are going to have to, you know, all all else being equal, current budget trajectories, uh, the looking the way they are, um, we're going to need some outside funding sources to implement. So, um, I don't know if I want to ter belabor a lot, um, the rest of this, but I just do want to hit some highlights. um and then u offer some you know opportunity for for feedback there. So on the revenue side, you know, the first kind of couple boxes of that uh of that of that exhibit C uh outside funding sources. So, uh, in the 83rd Street corridor plan, uh, shown an outside funding source of about $3.5 million is

needed by 2028, um, to start implementing, uh, some sort of an improvements in that corridor. And, um, you know, that that project is broken down into multiple phases over multiple years. Exactly. Uh, what might occur in 28 or 29 still yet unknown. Uh but you know it's it's reasonable to think that uh intersection improvements might be might be needed. It's one of the things in the corridor study that we did identify a need for uh inter intersection improvements at Kil Creek, at Penner, at Waverly. Uh this would be kind of the first one of those. So it's really just kind of a baby step in the implementation of that. Three and a half million for that. Uh also 95th Street reconstruction. So, um, the estimate on to reconstruct 95th between Lexington and Sunflower is $13 million. And so, that's shown as an outside funding source as well. These aren't bonds. Um, these would be maybe grants or some other funding mechanism uh for those. Item B, there is an EPA grant. There's $500,000. Actually, we received an allocation, congressional allocation to construct uh the water tower at Astra. Um, but by the time we got that congressional allocation, we were twothirds done with the project and it required some uh uh some Davis Bacon wage and and some other federal requirements associated with that contractor at the time couldn't accommodate. Uh so uh we we've um been in contact with the grant administrator and they've uh requested that we identify another public works projects to allocate that money. Uh so in this um scenario, we're suggesting uh that we allocate that $500,000 toward a force main uh replacement along 82nd Street. So that's shown as an outside funding

source. And then on the bond side, uh this scenario has a total of $7.5 million uh in general obligation bonds for road and water improvements. So these would be ones that wouldn't require a vote. Um, it also shows $6.3 million for trail projects that would require a vote and then 13.7 million for the community center projects that also require a vote. Again, a reminder on the 13.7 big grain of salt with that. We really don't there's there's some orders of magnitude there. This master plan that we're we're going to implement this year is really going to help us come to uh understand better what that needs to be. But for now, that's the placeholder that we developed. I think it was back in a couple years ago. So that's the placeholder for that. On the expense side, again in the table, they're they're kind of color colorcoded there. Um specifically in 2026, talk about the $750,000 allocation. So, as you step through this spreadsheet um and you get your reading glasses on and and you kind of the way you know the the allocations are by column um in the years and if there's money in a column then the suggestion is we may implement that project in that year. So, if you just just have a look at 26 and 27, uh you can see that the work on the the pipeline projects is there. $50,000 for some preliminary work on the 83 83rd Street corridor. Uh the 1795 that we just approved this evening for the master plan on the community center. Uh and then there's another $25,000 for a land purchase option, a possible purchase option uh for land uh for the community center. Um there's also 2.6 6 million for the 83rd Street Bridge construction. That's one that uh we've designed. Um we're having uh some some issues with the railroad approval. Uh

but we hope we'll be implementing that next year. That's a mandatory project. Uh annual sidewalk, annual CDBG, 150 for a heated storage bay at the public works facility. Uh $650,000 for a covert uh replacement along 89th Street. That's in conjunction with a uh a development agreement uh with the developers of the rest of Arbor Ridge subdivision. There's um $300,000 for design of the 95th Street Bridge. Um that uh that's a mandatory project. That bridge is in severe disrepair. The deck needs rehabbed. So design that next year. And then there's 12 $150,000 in for the downtown streetscape project. Um, that one will need a little more definition. I think in the uh in the in the CIP as we were going through it throughout the year, we just said it was a it was kind of a master planning effort. Um, and I think more recent thought on that is that yes, let's master plan it, but maybe we can also do some things uh street lights, banners, you had some good suggestions at the last meeting. Just just some things to kickstart uh that project. So, more on that more on that scope later. um $60,000 for Lexington Avenue lighting. Um there's $400,000 for a water line along 103rd Street. We actually it's already installed. Uh we just k for that. So we got to pay for that. A million dollars in for the soccer field. Um which we've been uh hopeful. We've been designing that and um ready to implement that. Uh almost $750,000 to finish up the city hall remodel. we won't quite be done by the end of the year. So, there'll still be some uh some money for for for next year. Uh $1.3 million uh as the city's match for the 103rd Street. This is a

part of a a previous um agreement with KOT and $2.5 million as part of a previous agreement with KOT, a cars allocation for that uh um for the Lexington Avenue project that they've already done. So that um the colorized items here, I think if you add them up, they're pretty close to 750,000. I think they're a little bit over. That would kind of represent this contingency. The non-colorized items were already in kind of the the CIP. And then for 2027, um again, we're um looking at additional money for 83rd Street corridor plan. Uh designing of the intersection in the first kind of phases of that. Uh $750,000 for a traffic signal or traffic control at 95th in Lexington. Um 50 $500,000 for rightway acquisition for the 95 project.

Again, this is a pipeline. is sort of the next baby step in that in that project. Um, and 200,000 for design of the community center. So, the thought is we we do the master plan this year and the and next year we might or I'm sorry, do the master plan 26 and then 27 we may be ready to have some architectural design work done on that. So, that's that's the intent there. Um, a million and a half for the 83rd Street Bridge construction. That probably going to take two years. So that's that'd be finishing up that project. Again, the annual sidewalk program is in there as is the CDG project. Um 1.2 million for construction of the 95th Street Kill Creek Bridge, the one we designed in 26, construct in 27. There's another 100,000 for this downtown streetscape. Um there's the 700,000 for the 82nd Street Force main. Um we replaced half of it a couple years ago and the other half needs to be replaced. That's the one that we'll use the 500,000 EPA grant uh for um so that's in there. Does that 700,000 include the $500,000 EPA grant?

This is the expense. That's the total expense for the project and the 500,000 would be a revenue for that. So the rest of the CIP is picking up their difference. Yeah. Um and then 300,000 for a design of the Kil Creek Road pedestrian path and then 300 grand for a splash pad in Miller Park. So those are kind of the first, you know, the 26 27. They're pretty important. Now, not that we can't adjust and even if we decide to put it in the budget throughout the year, we can make other decisions for sure. But those are the two that I think, you know, by uh the first part of next year, we want to be pretty confident about and we want to feel pretty comfortable about what's on those lists because that's what going to be on the 27 budget. That's what's going to be uh the focus of staff's efforts in 26 and 27. As far as 28 through 31 uh goes, I I I didn't articulate and list them out specifically. You can go through that that spreadsheet on your own. Um the the bigger projects are uh you know $13 million for 95th Street, $12.5 million for the community center, um and about $5.5 million of trail construction. So the um the thought there is, you know, that that's kind of that the trail construction would be upon referendum obviously. Um so that's what I have uh tonight. I know that was a lot. Um, I want you to be able to to digest that. I don't want you to think that this is any sort of a firm recommendation from myself or staff or anybody else. Uh, but I think it's a at least for me, it's a good way to think about this because, you know, there's some uh certainly some uncertainties as we go on the next three or five years if you think about what's what's happening in town. Um, but it is the way we kind of have to program these

things. we do have to think about cash flow in the CIP. Uh and we, you know, we do need to think about um workload and other things going on and how it impacts the rest of the budget. So, um I'll leave it there, mayor, and happy to have this more discussion and we will certainly pick pick it up um again in subsequent meetings probably hope to finish up, you know, in the first quarter of next year. I think could be that's a good uh a good target for us. Um so that we can roll right into the budget.

Okay. Before we drop that, any any parting last questions on that before we move on from council? All right. So I omitted to get a agenda amendment to include item 4G that you should have gotten an email about uh regarding right this class action settlement and it's also on the the Google drive. So if I we could just get a motion to amend add uh item 4G then we can further discuss it. A motion to amend the agenda to include item 4G to include item 4G. Thank you.

Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. All right.

So, council, as I indicated in the memo, um there has been a class action settlement. Um and this was brought um by several water suppliers uh all across the country. So um where we are at now is in order to uh qualify to receive money from the settlement um we have to do certain testing and the testing has to be done uh by the parameters set forth in the settlement from the lawsuit. So, uh, law firm Perry and Trent out of Bonner Springs, they are serving as local counsel, um, for the the firm out of New Orleans who's handling the national litigation. Um, so what we're asking is that you authorize the city administrator to pursue this claim. Um, the city is not responsible for any of the expenses for the testing. the only way that the city will uh pay any attorney fees will be if we get a recovery. Um so feel like this is uh really kind of a no-brainer. Um and uh I don't know how much you guys know about the these PA PFAS. Um it's hard to it's a poly floracalide substance. Um, and I included in the memo the the causes of it. Um, might also note, and Joe maybe can speak to it, um, for our new wells, we're having to test, uh, for for these substances anyway. Um so uh it'll be good to you know by pursuing this claim against the

class action all of our wells will be tested and so we'll get test results on uh you know if there are these substances uh in our water and then uh could qualify for settlement monies. Um I think Joe and Mike indicated our our flow rate was between a th00and and 1,200. Um and so that's why I highlighted this column. Um which sort of shows the amount of money the city would receive if there are in fact um those particles. So again, just ask uh for um a vote on authorizing the city administrator to sign this uh agreement with uh Perry and Trent and the National Law Firm so we can move forward on getting the testing done and make the claim against the settlement.

Any questions from council? It is uh completely contingencybased. No fee whatsoever other than on recovery, right? Correct. Yeah. Ready for a motion? I'll make a motion to authorize the city administrator to sign the representation agreement and proceed process. Second. All right. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion of the motion? Roll call, please. Lane, yes. Seo, yes. Bradley, yes. Patterson, yes. Macaran, yes. Motion carries. All right. No executive session tonight, so advisory reports. City administrator.

Uh, nothing from me this evening. City attorney. Nothing for me. Thanks. City planner, city engineer. Nothing. All right. Brandon, round us out with nothing. Don't forget your tree. Okay. All right. Council comments. Um, Danny, I'll start with you. Uh, wanted to say he said he had did a fine job on the winter mess and cleaned that up and, uh, road cruise. So, ditto from the people I heard from on that. They said we did a better job than anybody else. So, uh, I hope that's good.

We like that. And, uh, the, uh, I kind of made a mistake with Mike. I told him that that that they weren't finished with Cedar Creek and they were that was the city cruise out there and I accused that of being Mac and Annies but anyway I was wrong so the city finished up out there and it looks real nice and a real good job. So that's all I had. Thank you ma'am. Thank you Dan. Victoria anything you know um only thing welcome Zack Jeb. Congratulations

Rhonda going to repeat congratulations Joe and Zach and also wanted to give a shout out to the to the road crew. Zach

well I look forward to serving with all of you here on city council representing the interest of our fellow citizens. Um only one thing I wanted to say was I think of uh pick a verse for myself. Um do nothing out of selfishness or out of vain glory. Rather humbly regard others as more important than yourselves. Each looking out not for his own interest but also everyone for those of others. And I keep that in mind in serving this position and look forward to being a a servant leader for our community. Thank you for your welcome and I also thank the outgoing council members for their service as well. Joe,

uh I want to give a thank you to uh fellow council members. Thank you for the warm welcome. Um thank you to Rob Daniels and Kevin Hanichel. You guys have uh set a high bar. Um but most of all, I'd like to thank the residents of Dotto for electing me to this position and I hope I serve you all well. Thank you. Um, I just have a couple items. Um, I'll echo the welcome again. Welcome, welcome. [clears throat] Congratulations. Um, another on the congratulatory note. I got to spend a little time in Emporia today to watch Mike receive his major award as a leadership award for the Kansas

Association of City Managers. Um, so um, welld deserved for his efforts. um leading the complex project of bringing Panasonic and our in our efforts to to stay on top of that uh rolling ball, if you will. Appreciate you coming down for that, Mayor. Patrick and other Whitney and and Bonnie and Joe all came down as well. So, means a lot to have you there. I appreciate that.

It was good. uh another uh we and we also got another award on um a road project while we were down there. Well, we didn't the the road project did. So, um but it was a good trip. Um one final item. Um remind you all of the tree lighting event Saturday evening. Um right out here. Um looking forward to that. Um, it looks like it's going to be a little winter uh temperature- wise, but uh no, I think precipitation's out now, but it should be a cool evening and uh always a good time to be there. Uh fun event and um um I guess to Mike Caldwell, I appreciate your comments, Mike. Um and I I'll get I'll get with you. I'd love to have extend the conversation a little further. So, uh thank you. Um, I think that's about all I have. So, entertain a motion to adjurnn.

I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Uh, any discussion? All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed? We're