City Council - Regular Meeting

to the April 28th, 2026 meeting of the Flores City Council. Please stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance. I alsible with liberty and justice for all. City clerk, please call the role. Excused. Sam Harris here. Megan's excused. Egan here. Caputo here. O'Donnell

The next item on the agenda is approval of minutes. Are there any corrections or additions to the executive meeting and the regular meeting minutes of April 13th, 2026? Hearing none, Councilman Sy moves to approve the minutes. Seconded by Councilman Shelildroth. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Meeting minutes are approved. The next item on the agenda are presentations. City clerk, please administer the oaths of office.

You'll find out Oh, you need a mic, don't you? We doing this together or separate? Together. Together. You'll raise your right hand. Do you state your name? I do.

So swear that you possess all the qualifications for your position as councilman as prescribed by the charter of the city of Florison, that you will support the Constitution and the lawyer of the United States and of the state of Missouri and the chartered ordinances of the city of For that you will faith faithfully perform the duties of your office. I do. I do. Congratulations.

Want to be in the middle. Yeah. There you go. One more photo. One more photo here. One more family photo.

He'll get it. Thanks for letting me be here. Okay, we're still live.

Okay, congratulations to Councilman O'Donnell and Councilman Caputo on swearing in this evening. Um at our next meeting we will have uh two more uh council people that were elected that will swear in. Um they're not able to be here tonight. The next item on the agenda is hearing from citizens. It is this is a time to speak to the council on any issue not necessarily on the agenda for three minutes. This is not a question and answer period. If you would like to speak to a council member or the mayor, please stay until after the meeting is over. If you are here to speak on a public hearing, please wait and speak when the public hearing is announced. We do not have any comments tonight. Communications. Uh we have no communications this evening. We have no public hearings this evening. The next item on the agenda is old business. The first item is bills for second reading. Bill number 10206. Councilman Caputo moves for a second reading.

Seconded by Councilman Egan. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Request to authorize an amendment to B5 ordinance number 7149 for EVgo, Inc. to allow for the installation of charging stations at 2131 Charbaner and a B5 plan commercial district. Councilman Shelroth moves for a third reading. Seconded by Councilwoman Pagano. All in favor? Any opposed? Request to authorize amendment to B5 ordinance number 7149 for EVgo, Inc. to allow for the installation of charging stations at 2131 Charir and a B5 plan commercial district.

Before the final vote is taken, is there anyone in the audience that would like to speak on this bill? Hearing none. Clerk, please pull the council for the final vote. Cy, yes. Harris, yes. Egan, yes. Caputo, yes. Shilro, yes. O'Donnell, yes. Bill number 10206 passes and becomes ordinance number 9198. The next item on the agenda is new business. The first item under new business is board appointments. I see no council appointments, mayor.

Okay, moving on. The next item on the agenda is bills for first reading. Bill number 10207, ordinance amending chapter 605, business regulations, article 21, donation boxes to provide regulations for unattend donation unattended donation boxes. Okay. Bill number 10208

ordinance to amend article 6 section 6.3 6.4 6.8 and 6.9 of the charter of the city of Florison to eliminate the position of purchasing officer clarify certain budget and appropriation requirements and provide the p that purchasing procedure are established or modified by ordinance adopted by the city council. Bill number 10209

to amend the charter of the city of an ordinance to amend the charter of the city of Florisonent to add a section 14.16 entitled park protection to article 14 nominations and elections requiring voter approval of certain land transactions concerning city of florescent parks. Bill number 10210,

ordinance to amend article nine, public improvements of the charter of the city of Florisonent to remove the existing pro provisions governing public improvements and to provide that the procedures governing public improvements and special assessments. Therefore, shall instead be established and modified by ordinance adopted by the city council. Bill number 10211, ordinance authorizing mayor to sign supplemental agreement with Alco for asbestous abatement work at 1285 Washington Street. Council Negan moves for a second. Second by council. Is there any discussion? All in favor?

Any against? Ordinance authorizing mayor to sign a supplemental agreement with Alco for asbestous abatement work at 1285 Washington Street. Councilman Sheloff moves for a third reading. Seconded by Councilman Capuda. Roll call vote please. Yes. Harris. Yes. Egan. Yes. Caputo. Shelro. Yes. O'Donnell. Yes. Before the final vote is taken, is there anyone in the audience who would like to speak on this bill? Hearing none. Ordinance authorizing mayor to sign supplemental agreement with Alco for asbestous abatement work at 1285 Washington Street.

Before the final vote is taken, is there anyone in the audience that would like to speak on this bill? Hearing none. Clerk, please pull the council for the final vote. Siam, yes. Harris, yes. Egan, yes. Caputo, yes. Shelro, yes. Odonaldo.

Bill number 10211 passes and becomes ordinance number 9199. The next item on the agenda is council announcements. Councilman O'Donnell. Thank you, Mr. President. I would just like to uh thank a couple of um groups. First of all, um a thank you to the Valley of Flowers Committee. uh this is in advance of the weekend. I just know it's going to be a wonderful event uh for all their hard work, especially uh the chairperson Lori Lowry uh and the whole committee that spend so much time uh preparing for the weekend. Uh I'd also like to give special thanks to a group that came together, a smaller group that came together this past Saturday to help with cleanup in Ward 6 in advance of the Valley of Flowers weekend. And uh I'm grateful to OldTown Partners and specifically and especially to Gina CBI who organized the event along with her husband uh Steve CBI did a lot of u pre-planning and preparation uh potting plants and uh then we uh distributed them and and put them up and down St. Francis while there was a lot of trash pickup and weeding that went on. Um the rest of the group included um Christine and Doug Kyle, Greg Lman, Terry Spring, uh Bridget Fincher, and Jerry Chansy. So I'm really grateful to all of them for their efforts in regard to uh the W six cleanup. Thank you, Mr. President.

Councilman Shield. Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to offer my condolences to the Boil family on the passing of Patrick Bole. He was a longtime attorney in city of Florisonent and very active in our community and he will be sorely missed. Thank you.

Okay, Mayor Lowry,

thank you. So, this is a big weekend for us here in the city of Forest and as we celebrate uh Valley Flowers u celebrating 100 years of Route 66. Um that's uh this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. There'll be activities for all ages, live music, food vendors, crafters. Of course, on Sunday, we have our parade that starts at 1:45 and a crowning of our 2026 Valley Flowers Queen. Um so, please come out. It should be a great family weekend uh down at the Duchaine Home Association. And then in conjunction with that, on Thursday night, there'll be a family movie down at the uh Duchaine Home Association. So, that should be great for the kids. We have two big celebrations happening this year in the city of Florison. Um city of Flores actually celebrate our 240th year, our anniversary. And so we have a publication coming out. We're going to have a ceremony and we'll be hanging banners up and down St. Francis Street. There'll be more information coming out as the same as our country becomes uh celebrates our 250th year. We also have a celebration on the 4th of July celebration then and we have the banners along St. Francis Street for that also. Thank you, Mayor. Councilman Sia moves to reschedule the May 25th council meeting to Tuesday, May 26 due to the Memorial Day holiday, seconded by Councilman Egan. Is there any discussion? All in favor?

Against? Okay. The uh meeting is rescheduled. Uh the next item on the agenda, well, let's see. The next I should say the next regular meeting for the city council will be on Monday, May 11, 2026. Uh, Councilman Pagano moves to adjourn the regular meeting. Seconded by Councilman Gapuda. All in favor? Any opposed? The meeting is adjourned.