City Council - Regular Meeting

But it took most of my hearing and 70% of the balance on the left side of my body. And it also made me dizzy at times. And I've had some pretty good falls. I'm too old to be falling. Believe me. Yeah. But I wanted to thank everyone. I was overwhelmed by the phone calls and the texts and the emails and the prayers. I know Reverend led prayers for me, and I think that had a lot to do. I haven't totally recovered yet. My hearing's not too good yet. But my balance is getting a little better. I have therapy three times a week, so that helps. So again, my hearing is not great yet. I think Courtney and Kathy will be helping me a little bit there tonight. I certainly want to thank everyone. And I especially wanted to thank Councilman Henchey for filling in. Did a great job while I was out. I listened and watched and was proud of everything he done. So I want to thank you personally.

It was a pleasure, sir.

That being said, we'll move on to comments from visitors. If you have a comment, please come to the microphone, state your name and your address, and you'll have three minutes to address the council. The council will not address you or answer questions at this time.

I would also clarify, if you're here to speak during the public hearing, please hold until that agenda item. Thank you.

Seeing none, we'll move on to, uh, we have 3 public hearings tonight. And, um, the format of those will be, I will. Issue 3 calls for anyone that wants to speak in opposition. And 3 calls for anyone that wishes to speak in favor of. Um. and we will ask you to come to the podium and again, give us your name and address. And for the public hearing, you will have five minutes to speak. The first one is to consider the request for the proposed rezoning of a track of land located at 305 West 14th Street in Fulton. from this current zoning of R1 residential to R2 residential. Is there anyone here who wants to speak in opposition to this rezoning?

Yes, sir. I bear witness. I normally don't do things like this, but I did write it out, so I hope I don't stutter too bad. My name is Timothy Walker. I live at 1417 Monroe Street. So good evening members of the Council. My name is Timothy Walker. I live at 1417 Monroe Street, home located within the proposed rezoning area, and have with my family for over 50 years. I'm 50 years old. I can remember a time when my neighborhood didn't even have sidewalks. I stand before you tonight not as a developer, a investor, or a political figure, but as a father, a resident, and a property owner who calls this neighborhood home. When we lost our home to a house fire, my grandfather and I didn't pack up and leave our community behind. We chose to rebuild our home in the very same spot that it burned. We stayed invested into our community in the quiet streets where I once played and walked my dolls, where I learned and my children learned how to ride their bikes, staying invested in the relationships that we built with our neighbors and friends. Having a family atmosphere, getting to know and doing for one another is the character of our neighborhood and a sense of stability that makes it a special place. Tonight's zoning decision may look like lines on a map or numbers on a proposal, but for those of us who live within that neighborhood, it represents something much deeper. It represents the future of the place we have worked hard to build and protect, the generational wealth and the legacy that we wish to leave behind to our own children. Growth is important and progress is necessary, but growth without proper consideration can come at the cost of the very qualities that make a community worth living in. Once the character of a neighborhood has changed, it cannot simply be restored. So I ask you to consider not only what can be built, but what also can be lost. Consider the families who have planted roots here. Consider the residents who have invested years of their lives into this community. Consider whether this proposal truly serves the people who already call this neighborhood home. Consider the request to change the zoning would allow realtors of Pathway to come into our neighborhood to build on registered property where there once stood single-family dwellings, multi-level duplexes. I would like for you to consider the proposal would cause a domino effect with other realtors building similar style duplexes. Consider how such duplexes could affect property values of existing homes, like my home, within that community. A duplex would be much easier to prove if the property was rezone from R1 to R2. But this neighborhood is a single-family dwelling area. The homes in that area say that. And there should be no change to that. The decision you make tonight will outlast all of us in this room. Please make that decision with the understanding that a neighborhood is much more than land that can be bought and sold. It's a place where memories are forged, relationships are built, a place you find safety and a sense of belonging. Thank you for your time and consideration.

of this rezoning.

Seeing no one come forward, we'll have three calls for anyone that wants to speak in favor of. First call, is there anyone present who wishes to speak in favor of this matter? Seeing no one, We'll have the second call. Is there anyone present that wishes to speak in favor of this matter? Seeing no one, we'll have the third call. Is there anyone present who wants to speak in favor of this matter? Seeing no one, I will declare that closed. Now we'll have the third public hearing. And this is to consider the proposed annexation into the city of Fulton of approximately 16.53 acres located at 4930 State Road HH in Fulton, Missouri. This is near Tanglewood Business Park. the full legal description if anyone's interested in is on file with the clerk. Okay.

The full legal description was also noticed in the public hearing notice in the paper also.

Okay. Okay, we'll have again three calls for anyone wishing to speak in opposition of this matter. Seeing no one, we'll have the second call for anyone wishing to speak in opposition of this matter. Seeing no one, we'll have third call for anyone wishing to speak in opposition of this matter. Seeing no one, we'll move on to three calls for anyone, first call, anyone wishing to speak in favor of this matter. Second call, is there anyone present who wishes to speak in favor of this matter? And third call, is there anyone present who wishes to speak in favor of this matter? Seeing no one come forward, all public hearing are closed at this time. and we'll move on to approval of the consent agenda. And this is Tango Wood HOA for an Independence Day celebration on July 5th.

Mr. Mayor.

Do I hear?

I'd like to ask that we take the first one off at 305 West 14th for further discussion.

We're going to take it off for further discussion.

Okay.

All right. Thank you, Councilwoman Railton. We'll go ahead and move to item seven, which is consent agenda items for discussion. I'll turn that over to you to bring up whatever you'd like to talk about.

I'm confused. Do we need to make a motion to remove this consent agenda so we can discuss it?

We do not wait to make a motion to remove it. We'll need a motion to discuss it.

Okay.

Your question, Councilwoman, was for this item?

Yes, it was not for that one. It was for the one further down, for the Tanglewood.

For the Tanglewood Independence Day? Yes. That's perfectly fine. That's where we are now, so I'll leave the floor to you.

That's the one, Mr. Mayor, that I would like to remove from further discussion. Pardon me.

All right. Well, the floor is now open for discussion. So whatever points you guys would like to discuss, please go ahead.

For me? Is it my turn? Okay. um it seems to me that we would be voting on two different things here not just the street closure or the parade but also the food truck so i'm uncertain if one vote if a yes vote would vote all of it in or if it should be separated that's my question for discussion

Okay, so typically on the consent agenda items are a simple yes or no vote and it encompasses a lot of different facets. If you guys think about the street fair request that we considered at the last meeting, it had a lot of moving parts on the consent agenda, you would be voting for everything one way or another, yes or no. However, since you've removed this item for discussion, the council has the opportunity to still make one motion to approve the entirety of the event, or you can talk about separate pieces if that's your desire.

So, is it up to me then to make a motion that we separate the. Items in this.

I think because we have it up for discussion right now, it would be perfectly fine to just begin your discussion with any points you want to consider. And then if you do want to consider some of these things separately, Councilwoman, you would just make your motion based on whichever items you want to direct that towards.

Okay, I'd like to open the discussion by saying, um. I'm fearful that if we approve a food truck in a residential neighborhood, that that would set a precedent for it to happen any place in a residential neighborhood. And according to city code, if I understand correctly, that shouldn't be happening.

Anybody?

No discussion?

May I? I think we've approved them to be in some of the city parks in the past. So we already kind of set precedent.

But that's not a residential area.

True, I agree. I have mixed feelings on this one, quite frankly. I don't know that'd be a huge deal, but I have trouble differentiating Where we allow them and where we don't in the first place. That's just me, though.

Okay.

I can't really answer your question. I'm sorry.

Well, it's not a question. It's just if we allow it to happen in one neighborhood, then it's going to happen in another neighborhood and perhaps another neighborhood. And I just thought if we go by city code, it should be restricted period in residential neighborhoods.

So i'll give a little insight into that, yes, the City Council did authorize an ordinance Kathy it was a few months ago is that about right to restrict. food trucks or food sales in residential areas and kind of tied that to some zoning discussion. To also agree with Councilman West, yes, you have authorized. these kinds of requests in parks for public events in the past. It is also, as you have indicated, different because we're talking about a residential area which does go directly against the code the city council approved recently. um so ultimately the city council does have the authority to override the ordinance that you passed and allow food trucks in residential areas as part of this private event you do not have to that's fully your decision i do agree with what you're saying councilwoman it may set a precedent it's this is the first case that's come against the city council following that approval of that ordinance ultimately though that is a decision that lies with this body as to whether or not you would like to to grant an exception well would it be practical to make a motion to separate that one item from a blank check vote and make it a separate item you could absolutely do that so if there i guess if there are no concerns from the city council as to whether if you're okay with shutting down the street and allowing the fireworks display you can make a motion to authorize those pieces and then allow for separate discussion on the food trucks. You can really, the world is your oyster. There's a lot of ways we can cut this. But essentially, I think it would be imperative to understand if multiple city council members have a concern about this, if there is a desire to vote it up, vote it down entirely. So just a little bit of feedback from you guys as to what you're thinking would be helpful.

OK, so just given the mere fact that it is against city code, I'd like to make a motion that we separate the three items, the parade, the street closure, and make the third item the food truck issue.

OK, so to keep it nice and clean then, can I get a motion to authorize the event request to allow for the fireworks display?

I make a motion to do so.

And do I have a 2nd, 2nd, all right, mayor 3, making that an amendment. I mean, yeah, yep.

So we have a motion in a 2nd, if we could just get.

All those, would you reread that motion please?

Mr. mayor, the motion is to allow the fireworks display. In the street was included. Oh, thank you.

Okay, is there any discussion on that motion?

So we're so basically we're approving if we approve this, everything, right?

Yes.

Yes, I'm sorry to approve the motion is on the floor to approve the fireworks display and street closure portion of that event.

Okay, is there any question or discussion on that motion? Do we all know what we're voting on? If there's no discussion mayor, I'll let you ask for everyone in favor.

Yeah. Okay, we have a motion on the floor. All in favor please say aye aye. Opposed motion carries.

Okay, and then as the 2nd consideration council woman realton, you would like to discuss food truck operations in the residential areas. Is that correct?

Once you set precedence, if we allow and say, OK, we make an exception. The next time somebody comes along and says, hey, we made an exception here. Why can't we do it here? How are we going to distribute that? So I agree with you. Once we stand up present, then from here on out, we're going to have to do the same thing for everybody else. So I agree that we should.

Technically, we already did make an exception for the 4th of July event. That's it, even though it's not a residential where houses are, it is a zone residential. And so if we're looking at purely zoning codes and exceptions, we've already done that. Personally, I would say we can approve this. And then if we are concerned with future issues, that we create some sort of process and procedure to address that. Because the other zoning issue, the ordinance that was created was for certain protections of residents. But if a community area can come together and say, hey, we want to do this, we've closed off roads for them before and let them do barbecues and all sorts of things before. This is just the opportunity to bring in food trucks. And if the organization is willing to come in and say, hey, let's close up our road, which means they can't drive in it either, I don't see why we would penalize them if it's a group working together, especially when there's lots of other things they can be concerned with.

I agree. This is not a chronic issue. This is a one-time issue and therefore it would not be something that would be bothering the residents over a long period of time. It would be just for a special celebration.

Okay. Anything further? Okay. We'll move on to what?

hold for just one moment do i have a motion um to approve the food truck portion of this request i'll make a motion to approve it also noting that we just approved fireworks which were not approved and so to me it feels like we're approving one without the other we're saying fireworks benefit a larger breed of people than food truck i'll second that motion okay so your motion was to approve the food truck operations in this area

Everybody understand that? Okay, do we have any questions, comments, concerns, discussion? Okay, with that, Mayor, I'll turn it over to you. All those in favor?

We have a motion on the floor. All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Roll call.

Roll call.

Yeah. Would you give us a roll call vote, please?

Mr. Calvert? Ms. Hanson? Mr. Hinchy? Yes. Ms. Railton?

No.

Mr. Clue? Mr. Washington? No. Mr. West?

No.

Mr. Combs?

Yes.

We're tied with three to three. Okay. Motion fails.

Motion fails. We were unable to secure five affirmative votes, so that portion of the request will be denied.

Okay, we do not have any unfinished business tonight. We'll move on to new business. Uh, 1st, we'll have a presentation by Nathan Brown and senior resident inspector of and. Nuclear regulatory commission recording the Callaway plan. Mr. Brown.

Good evening as mayor said, my name is Nathan Brown. I'm currently the Senior Resident Inspector at Callaway Nuclear Power Plant. I work for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Thank you for allowing us to be here and present tonight. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is the body that oversees civilian use of nuclear power. They strive to be a transparent agency, which is why we value interactions with stakeholders and the public. I'm here this evening to introduce myself, my staff, and to give you a brief overview of Callaway Plant's performance for 2025. With me this evening is Dawn Yancey. She's my administrative assistant. She's been a very long-term resident of Callaway County and has worked for the NRC for many, many years. She's been at the Callaway plant pretty much a couple years after it started up. Mayor Mrakas, So the mission of the nuclear toward mission, as I alluded Commission, as I alluded to earlier, is to protect people and the environment and ensuring the safe use of commercial nuclear technology. Mayor Mrakas, As such, we normally maintain to residents on site unfortunately i've been alone for a year, but recently we just selected someone should should be arriving in July, so we will return to that to resident status. So that, uh, two residents are maintained in every nuclear power plant in the nation. Um, and. For Callaway, uh, my headquarters office is in, uh, region four in Arlington, um, and the main NRC headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. Uh, so a little bit about what I do on site. Um, so resident inspectors are charged with the implementation of our reactor oversight program. Uh, which is a prescriptive inspection program, uh, consisting of self reported performance. Um, by the licensee. And approximately 1500 to 2000 hours of direct inspection by myself and counterparts from the region. And this occurs at every nuclear power plant in the nation. Uh, we inspect standby safety systems, observe maintenance and testing, evaluate upper training and performance. Plan security and radiation protection. Each year we review plant performance and the results of our inspections to form an overall assessment of plant safety. We use this assessment information to determine how we, as the NRC, will respond to each nuclear power plant. For example, a plant with only a minimum number of inspection findings, all which were determined to be of very low safety significance, and whose performance indicators are all satisfactory, receives a minimal or baseline amount of inspection. If the findings at a plant are more significant and fall outside of acceptable ranges, then more additional inspections are warranted and we implement as such for the following year. Concerning Callaway, a review of their performance in 2025 indicates that Ameren is safely operating the power plant and they are receiving the minimal amount of inspection for this year. I did bring with me this evening, and Don has them, information on accessing our website, which provides more detail about our oversight program and our agency's mission. You can also find on the website our inspection reports for Callaway Plant and any other site in the nation. I would like to thank you for your time this evening, and I will be happy to answer any questions from the council or the public, and I will be available after the meeting as well. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Anyone have a question? None? Okay, thank you very much. Okay, next we'll have 2025 audit draft.

By our chief financial officer candy Johnson, and as candy comes up, uh, we did change the process a little bit this year following last year's audit acceptance. Um, so we are not going to be discussing any of the draft document this evening, but Williams keepers will be with us at our next meeting to discuss the audit in full detail. But candy is going to provide you an overview kind of summary statement and I would again just remind the Council, if you have any questions, based on the draft that you've seen please don't hesitate to reach out to either myself or Sam. we're happy to go over that information and also schedule a meeting for you guys to come in and do a deep dive if you'd like. But Candy, I'll turn it over to you. I took your whole statement. I'm sorry.

Candy Johnson, CFO. Included in your packet is a draft of the city's annual comprehensive financial report, along with a summary report and auditor's communication letter for fiscal year 2025. At this time, these documents remain in draft form and minor revisions may still occur as part of the final review process, but myself and auditors do not anticipate any significant changes between the draft and final versions. We want to provide these materials in advance of the auditor's formal presentation at the next council meeting to allow you adequate time to review the information and prepare any questions or concerns that you have. If questions arise during your review, please reach out to staff prior to the next meeting. The advanced review helps ensure a more productive discussion when the auditors present the final report and are available to address any additional questions regarding the audit and financial statements. So yeah, they will be here the next council meeting. I would also like to thank everybody that helped with this audit. It wasn't just me, so all the departments and everybody that chipped in.

I didn't take all of your statement. It didn't sound like it. Most of it, but not all of it. Yes, thank you so much to all the city team members who assisted with the audit, but thank you first and foremost to Candy, our CFO, and to Jill, who also worked really, really hard, Jill Custard, to gather all the information. It's a pretty intensive process when we have auditors on site, and I know this process starts for Candy and her team January 1, so... um we're very pleased with the results uh in the draft form again i should say but thank you again to all the team members who helped contribute to that successful result and again if you have any questions or concerns prior to the acceptance at the next meeting please don't hesitate to reach out

I would like to also reach out to Madam CFO. You and your team have done an excellent job.

Thank you.

And I appreciate all that you do.

Thank you. And I appreciate everyone that helps me too.

And I would really like to thank you for getting in this. There's a lot here to digest. So a few days, a couple weeks is really great to have.

Yeah, that was the intention, I think, because I think it just gives you time to look at things. Right.

I don't expect it to change much.

It shouldn't, no. There are going to be a few minor changes, but nothing overall changes.

Right. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we'll move on to Council Concerns. Councilman Henschey.

I had a concern and I called up our DOA. It was about the grass problem at one of the businesses. And I had quite a few people contacting me about that. And Basically, in 24 hours, she had it resolved and so I would like to. Thank her and her team for resolving that.

Trying to get me in trouble right now. Is that what that is? You're setting me up for failure councilman and she, I want to say thank you to the team who resolved it. um but we have an awesome planning and protective services group they send out letters i know that if you look around the community you're going to see some properties that have some pretty significant grass right now if you and many of you call me all the time about this and i love those calls but they're not popular when we have to send those letters out to the community so i would just reiterate the city of fulton is not a landscaping company when we have to come and mow your grass or a bait in a nuisance it's going to be very costly And it does take our team away from some of the other important things they need to be doing. So just a little reminder, please mow your grass, take care of those weeds, clean those properties up. But yes, thank you to Planning and Protective Services and Jeremy and the Building and Grounds team. They're the superstars out there actually getting the work done.

Thank you to all. And that's all I have.

Councilwoman Rilken?

I have none.

Mary's not with us tonight. Councilman.

Washington none of this.

Councilman West.

All right, good evening. So the human rights commission met last night. They selected the Jane Biederman FICA award. We had three nominations for two people and it was selected and that is to be presented on July the 28th at our city council meeting is the plan at this point in time. We didn't have some key members available for our next meeting so that's why it got moved out to July. Also coming up on the weekend of June 27th and 28th is the annual Juneteenth celebration. There's been a lot of community involvement with planning. This event on Saturday at the Guiding Light Missionary Church is going to be a showing of the film called Juneteenth, Faith and Freedom. I hear it's very good. I have not seen it myself personally. So if you come out and watch that, it starts at 3 o'clock. And then the actual celebration will be on Sunday, July, pardon me, June 28th. Also at Guiding Light Missionary Church. It starts at 3 o'clock. There's going to be shaved ice starting at 2. So come on out. I'm trying to remember who the speaker is. I don't have it in front of me. Anyway, supposed to be a very, very good speaker is my understanding. So anyway, that's all I have. It was a good meeting last night. We were challenged on making quorum, but the rain helped us out a little bit there. So, rained out a ballgame. So, someone could make it. Anyway, very, very good to have the mayor back. And, again, I'd like to express my thanks to all the city staff for all they do. And please don't send me a letter. I will get my grass cut. Thank you, Mr. Hinchy, for cutting my yard while I was on vacation. Thank you.

Councilman Cole? yes mr mayor the planning zoning commission did meet tonight and they have a couple recommendations that are going to be before us again this evening um one note along that i guess it's kind of two notes uh one is i know we've updated the process before things come to the planning zoning commission and I really appreciate all the extra information that's alongside that. It really helps make things easier to understand all the pieces. One thing that did come to light tonight was that there is, I don't know, maybe a lot of information there that's really helpful for us, but for the general public, they still may need it laid out just slightly easier. understand what is actually happening I know it's really easy for us to look at it we've done a lot of work but it was just it made sense to me kind of how they got the questions they had so but I appreciate the work we've done so it was I'm sure we'll get that we'll get continue to refine that because it's it continues to be improved drastically as of late other than that my only other concern of anything is just noticing the amount like we've got a ton of rain noticing the amount of again debris that I've talked about before but also erosion where ditches are eroding away and then water ends up all over the road to in other areas just from debris getting lodged in and it just I don't know what we can do to mitigate that with the amount of rain that we've had but it just seems to at least in the areas i'm driving in there's extra you know two to three inches on the water on the ground or on the roads that can become hazards for us thank you councilman cowper a couple items uh that i've been thinking about uh

Most prominent in my mind right now has been the groundbreaking tomorrow for the turbine generator. Been on the utilities committee for several years. It's been a real focus to stabilize electric rates, to stabilize our access. So that's really something that's come to fruition and I think is real positive for our city. Courtney has been kind enough to arrange various interviews with staff in the city for me, and I've been impressed with the quality of her staff and the systems that are being built or currently in place to serve our residents, and that's a real plus. I'll jump in on Alan's water thing. I've heard a little bit about water since I've been on the council. And I'm proud of the Public Works Department that are trying to address those issues. My wife was with me. We went out and looked at a ditch. And she said, are they having water problems here? And she said, my God, Jack, you've got to fix this thing because we've got water in the basement. And that's really bad. So I don't know. I've got a little bit of pressure from others, too. So anyway, then you all know my background. I can't get away from the school stuff. We have two teachers in our community that have been nominated to participate in the regional teacher of the year that starts at the regional level, Kelly Neidecker. I believe Kelly's at the middle school full-time right now in band. I think most of you know her. And then Heather Dunn over at the School for the Deaf. Thank you.

Thank you. I just wanted to say real quick, I want to welcome Councilwoman Railton and Councilman Cowherd. I know you're both going to be great additions to our council, and I was really happy to see both of you come on board. Thank you. So congratulations. I haven't had a chance to do that. Next we'll move on to resolution. Councilman Washington, would you read that please?

YES, MR. MAYOR. RESOLUTION 3610-26, ASPHALT CONTRACT WITH CHRISTIANSEN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, THE RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR ON THE BEHALF OF THE CITY OF FOLSOM, MISSOURI, SIGN ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS IN RELATIONS TO THE CONTRACT WITH CHRISTIANSEN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY OF KINGDOM CITY, MISSOURI, FOR ASPHALTING CONCRETE AND COLD MEALS PROJECT COF26-02 AND ESTABLISH AN EFFECTIVE DATE. I'll make a motion that we pass resolution 3610-26 on tonight's council meeting.

Second. Very well. Do we have any discussion? Seeing no discussion, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? We'll move on to resolution 3611, day 26. Councilman Combs, would you read that for us?

Yes, Mr. Mayor. Resolution 3611-26, Burns and McDonald Design-Build Contract for Wastewater Treatment Plant Biological Nutrient Removal Project. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the City of Fulton, Missouri, to sign all necessary documents in relation to a design-build contract with Burns and McDonald Engineering Company Incorporated for the Wastewater Treatment Plant biological nutrient removal project and establishing effectively. I make a motion to pass resolution 3611-26 at tonight's council meeting.

Thank you. I see we have a representative from Burns and McDonald here tonight. Glad you could make it. Do we have any discussion?

we going to let jeff get away that easily i mean he traveled so far maybe anna and jeff come on down so this is jeff vonard from burns and mcdonald and we have been working with them for

A long time. 2016 we started with a couple different projects. This project started probably 2021 when we brought them on to help do some Investigation, figure out what we can do to meet our DNR requirements that are in our permit. Currently, we are meeting our requirements, but this next step that we're going to be doing, building, designing, is going to help us meet those next levels. hopefully after this next level we will be able to get back dnr is going to do some testing in the stream so we can get off the 303d list which is an impairment stream saying that we're we've got a stream that we've gotta get up to standards. So that's why we're doing this project, because we need to make sure that we are sending out clean effluent. And that's what Jeff's team is going to help us accomplish. And then we won't have to do the future improvements to get to an unknown number that are not an unknown we know the number it's below detection limit number if we cannot get the stream off of the 303d list so we brought them on to help us and i'm excited to get this project going i've been wanting this project to go for several years as many of you know is there anything else you'd like to contribute to that you're up

I think Anna did a great job explaining that. It's her plan. She's done a great job with it. And we'd like to say thank you to you all for trusting us to do this type of work because it is complicated is expensive, and it takes a lot of stakeholder engagement to get it done. So appreciate you all every step of the way in terms of helping clear you've been down to Jefferson City to DNR. So it'd be Courtney to assist with some of those discussions to get where we are today. So I appreciate you all. Thank you so much.

Absolutely, and I would just lastly say, thank you to the burns and Mac team. You've been really wonderful to work with a special. Thank you to Anna and Tony Liam. Who's our supervisor there now? And Daryl, there's been a lot of work over the past few years to go into making this come to fruition. So we're excited to be working with and burns and Mac and everyone along the way to to get across that finish line. So, thank you guys very much.

May I ask a question? Mike, do you have anything? Yes, sir. I have a question. I want to make sure I phrase this right. So the effluent limits we're trying to get downstream, is there a differential between upstream and downstream of our plant?

Yes, there is a differential between the upstream and downstream.

Okay. So it's definitely from us is where we're getting to.

I wouldn't say it's definitely from us. We do have, I mean, every plant has effluent limits.

Sure.

And we want to make sure that we are discharging to maintain and not degrade. We are not degrading the stream. So we want to maintain the stream, if not put in beneficial things to the stream. I mean, I can't clean the stream now, which some people think we can, but I cannot clean the stream anymore. But we want to do our part to discharge the limits that we are given and well below.

all right thank you and I'd like to thank mrs. Doyle and Daryl gave me a call this afternoon and explained a lot of this to me that I did not remember or maybe I never heard I don't know but anyway I appreciate it yeah this this started I mean I came in on in 2016 and we were doing the first improvement and we did not

get the attainability in in that time and so that's why we have to do this next level okay so all right thank you thank you both very much were there any other questions anyone else have questions i want to say hannah's been working extremely hard on this project for quite some time and I certainly appreciate the partnership we have with Burns and McDonnell. You guys, all of you are just fantastic to work with and we certainly appreciate it. It makes everybody's job on this side much easier, believe me. I know Daryl's been involved in it, but I'm going to say this, Anna did the work. Okay, thank you. Okay. Motion on the floor, all in favor of resolution 3611-26? Please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Thank you. Okay, we'll have next up resolution 3612-26. Councilman Cowherd, would you read that for us?

Sure. Resolution 3612-26, state revolving fund financial assistance for wastewater treatment plant biological nutrient removal project. A resolution authorizing the Mayor on the behalf of the City of Fulton, Missouri to sign all necessary documents related to the State Revolving Fund financial assistance for the wastewater treatment plant biological nutrient removal project and establish an effective date. I make a motion to adopt resolution number 3612-26 at this council meeting. Second.

Do we have a second? Okay. Thank you. Again, Anna's been working on this, and I know Burns McDonald's helped her as well. Do we have any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Thank you. Okay, well, excuse me, we'll move on to ordinances. Councilwoman Rilton, would you read bill number 1783 for us, please?

Bill number 1783 rezoning 305 West 14th Street an ordinance reclassifying under the zoning code attractive land located at 305 West 14th Street in Fulton Missouri from its current zoning of our one residential to our two residential and establishing an effective date. I make a motion that we accept bill number 1783 at this council meeting.

very well do we have a second once again do we have a second can i make a motion to not can i make a motion to postpone to the next meeting yes i would make a motion to postpone uh bill number 1783 or to our next regularly scheduled council meeting

Okay, the bill dies for life in the second.

Yes, so we're actually gonna, we're gonna postpone it to the next meeting and I apologize. Do we have a 2nd. Councilman Washington seconded that so we need to vote now on that postponement. What we'll vote on the.

Okay, everybody understand what we're building. All in favor please say, aye. All right.

Nay.

Okay. Let's have a roll call vote, please.

No. Yes. Yes.

Yes, yes, very well.

Okay, well, we'll move on to. Bill number 1786. Do you read that for us?

Bill number 1786.

Bill number 1786, ordinance number blank, rezoning 1003 Jefferson Street. An ordinance reclassifying attractive land located at 1003 Jefferson Street in Fulton, Missouri from M1 Industrial to R1 Residential under the zoning code of the City of Fulton and establishing an effective date. I move to move bill number 1786 for second reading at the next regularly scheduled council meeting.

Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Discussion?

If I may, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that the council move this forward. They didn't have anything substantial to say about it, but they were in favor of changing the zoning.

Can I add one thing real quick? No, I agree with that. I'm not thinking I'm not going to dispute that by any means, but it is just a house that's been, I guess, demolished in the midst of a bunch of other houses that are already there. This is another one of those areas where I think That somehow some way we should probably reconsider changing the zoning in the other areas around that because it is. All in 1, right? Yeah. And it's. People's houses, they live there and I know the zoning considerations are going to come up again for those people living there. I don't know. The best way to go about helping them do that other than I know Kathy's been. Providing resources to them on. educating them how to go through the process. But it seems like some of that is on us at some point to have not corrected it since it's kind of held over from years and years ago. It just makes sense to change it.

Okay, thank you. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of passing bill 1786, the next meeting, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? We'll now move on to bill number 1787, which is a voluntary annex. Councilman Washington, would you read that for us?

Bill number 1787, a voluntary annexation of 4930 State Road, State Road HH, an ordinance incorporating certain territories known as 4930 State Road HH into the corporate city limits of the city of Fulton, Missouri, establishing an initial zoning and establishing effective date. I make a motion that we move bill number 1787 for a second reading at the next scheduled council meeting.

Second.

Do we have any discussion on that motion? I would just state I did speak with Miss Dan user who is Janae is one of the owners of this property. She was sorry she couldn't be here this evening. But again, we welcome this annexation excitedly and look forward to more discussion in the future on it.

Any further discussion?

I have a question. We don't do annexations very often, so I think in the past or. There was something about we couldn't do a zoning classification. I had to go through a zoning. I don't remember. Can you help refresh my memory?

Yes. So previously, the city's process was handled a little bit differently. Statutorily, we do have to annex a property in and then establish a zoning after that process. So I think in the past, a long time ago, the city used to try to do everything in one step. Statute lays out that it is two separate legal processes. Okay, so annexation would be 1st, and then that property will be zoned. Once it is annexed into the city line.

So, how are we doing in the zoning at this time?

Then we are not establishing the zoning at this time. I believe there was a note in that of a clerk's. Packet do you want to speak to that a little bit?

Kathy? I'm just going to say on the ordinance. It did say establishing the zone. It does because I had old.

Okay, so to clarify, we are not establishing a zoning as part of this ordinance, and if it does state that, we'll get that corrected in the ordinance. There is a zoning they've requested, and so I think we were just attempting to provide that for you guys to be aware, but that is two separate processes.

So we're going to have an amended motion?

We will, yeah, we'll address that error. I'll get the ordinance updated, or the bill updated.

Okay, thank you.

Very well. This has been in the works for over a year and we were finally able to bring it to a conclusion. I think Daryl worked really hard on this project as well. All in favor of bill number 1787, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Thank you. Now we'll move on to the second readings. Councilman Calhart, would you read bill number 1784, please?

Bill number 1784, a code amendment, marijuana facilities, an ordinance amending chapter 22 of the Code of Ordinance of the City of Brooklyn, preserved by repealing Article 8 and enacting a new Article 8, marijuana facilities, to regulate marijuana facilities consistent with Article 14 of the Missouri Constitution in establishing an effective date. I make a motion to place bill number 1784 for third reading at the next regular meeting.

Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. I'm sure that you all discussed this already, but is there any discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Very well. You want to read that again for us? Are we going to go to third reading tonight? Are we good?

No. Okay, just to clarify for the record, Councilman Washington, you're voting no. That has been recognized. And I apologize. That was to move it to third reading tonight. Is that correct, Councilman Cowherd? Was that your motion?

Yes.

Okay. I'm sorry was it next meeting or this next meeting next meeting that's what okay I didn't mean to pressure you there I feel like I pressured you okay so the motion was to move this to third reading at the next meeting and Councilman Washington is on the record voting in opposition I guess so yes okay all right announcements

Legends and solid waste will be closed Friday, June 19th and observance of June 10th. Emergency services will remain in normal operations. The next council meeting will be Tuesday, June 23rd at 630.

And tomorrow, tomorrow is also the open house too. Is that correct?

Yes. So I was going to actually Charlene, I'm going to bring you up so you can make an announcement for next week. But just a reminder to everyone, we have a really exciting groundbreaking tomorrow with our MPUA Fulton Energy Center Generation Project. I think I've thrown some extra words in there, but again, that's what we do. So I just want to also say thank you to all of our team members who've been working in this heat and humidity. And a special thank you to our electric department and our street departments. They did a lot of preparation for this event tomorrow. And thanks to the Parks and Rec team. I'm going to have Charlene make an announcement about something for next week.

um charlene mcarder parks and rec superintendent um i want to formally invite all of the council and everybody in the public to our grand opening of renovations to carver park we are going to have that on the 16th at 10 a.m and have a ribbon cutting the chamber's going to join us and a couple other special guests that have been donors to the project so i would love it if you guys could all come and show your support thank you

Very good. And again, thank you to the Parks and Rec team and the other city team members who've helped bring that project to the finish line. We always appreciate that. Any other comments or questions?

I have one question. Regarding the zoning for 305 West 14th, what did, that wasn't shared when we were on that one, what did the planning and zoning recommend?

Yeah, I'm sorry about that. The planning and zoning also recommend passage for that property as well.

Okay.

And there wasn't much discussion on that.

Okay. Thank you.

All right. And with that, we do have a need for an executive session this evening to discuss legal matters, personnel, and negotiations. Mayor, I'll turn it to you.

All in favor of... Going into executive session, please say, hi, let's start by getting a motion.

Do I have a motion to go into the second. Okay, and then all those in favor Kathy, can you do a roll call vote?

I did it was that's okay. Legal matters, personnel and negotiations. Mr. Hinchy. Yes. Mr. Elton. Mr. Clu. Mr. Washington. Yes. Mr. West.

Yes.

Mr. Combs. Yes. Mr. Cowherd.

Yes.

Ms. Hanson. Six council members are affirmative.

Okay. Thank you all for being here. Brown, thank you for coming as well.