Board of Aldermen - Regular Meeting

Evening everybody. It is Monday, May 4th, 2026. This is the uh Carne Board of Waterman meeting. Call the meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. 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. Sunday, have you had a chance to take role? I have taken role and Sher Spencer is absent this evening. You have a qu.

Thank you. We'll move on to personal appearances this evening. Uh the only personal appearance we have this evening, excuse me, is uh I have a a friend of the audience here, Miss Marie Steiner, who is representing the Klay County Senior Services Board uh as a board member. Uh Marie, I think you have a few uh items to share and then we will read the proclamation presented to you and uh get a photo opportunity. Yes. Thank you. Yes. We'll give you the floor. Go ahead.

Thank you for this proclamation to raise awareness of older Americans for the month of May. Congress passed the Older American Act OA in 1965 in a response to concerns by policymakers about a lack of community social services for older persons. Although older individuals may receive service services under many other federal programs, today the OA is considered a major vehicle for the organization and delivery of social and nutritional services to this group and their caregivers. This year's theme is champion your health focuses on prevention, wellness, and personal responsibility as cornerstones of health healthy aging. It encourages older adults to take active roles in their health, advocating for themselves, asexing, preventive care, and making informed decisions that support independence. I am part of the community of older Americans. I would like to take this opportunity to raise awareness. Meals on Wheels, our senior centers, has programs for older adults health and wellness awareness. I joined a bowling league. Not to brag about me, but when I joined the senior bowling league, I saw how great these older adults are at this game. No, they were not physically fit. Some had had a stroke. Others are in their upper 80s. We all are a little slower, but we accomplished the job and the sport at hand. The fact the fact not one of these bowlers let any physical condition stop them from a game they loved. If you would like to see age in action, you will witness age doesn't stop even with a health issue. Then please come and watch for yourself many of the older adults teens. Then in January on the last day of the month, I joined the senior center for lunch to celebrate all birthdays for that month. There was a GJ playing music we listened to when we were young. I was taken by no one in the room allow age to stop them

from participating even when they could only stand near their seats at their table and make gestures to keep time with the music. Championing your health is about making daily choices that support your body and mind. [clears throat] Small consistent actions from preventive care to staying socially connected can help people maintain their health and independence as they age. We're old, but we are not done. and we can and we will and we do. Thank you. If you could read the proclamation, please.

A proclamation recognizing older Americans month in Carne, Missouri. Whereas May is older Americans Month, a time for us to recognize and honor Carney's older adults and the value they bring to every facet of our society. And whereas through their wisdom and wealth of life experiences, older adults make immeasurable contributions to the community through intergenerational relationships, community service, civic engagement, and many other activities. And whereas communities benefit when people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds can participate and thrive. And whereas Carney must ensure that older Americans have the resources and support needed to stay independent and involved in their communities, reflecting our commitment to inclusivity and connectedness. Now therefore, I, Randy Pogue, Mayor do hereby proclaim May 2026 as Older Americans Month. This year's theme, Champion Your Health, highlights the importance of prevention, wellness, and taking charge of your own health as you age. I call upon all residents to join me in recognizing the value and contributions of our older citizens and promoting programs and activities that help them to live longer, healthier lives with dignity and independence while ensuring that all the members of our community can age safely and successfully. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused to be affixed the seal of the city of Carne, Missouri, this 4th day of May, 2026. Congratulations. [applause]

If the board would join me for the photo opportunity with the seal in the back. Yeah, absolutely. David, you know she's talking bad about us, right? What? She's talking about us. Yes.

Thank you, mayor. Thank you for all you do. Thank you. Thank you, Dan. [clears throat] And dancing will be there. Oh, okay. That would be nice. I have another I think I got yours. We don't have like a big audience so you guys can fight over. Yes. And uh

thank you for sharing the sweet treats. Yes. Yes. [snorts] And nailing my favor. Have a great evening, Marie. Thank you. Thanks, Marie. Does anybody uh wish to address their elected board under open public comments this evening? All right, we'll move on to the consent agenda. Does the board have any questions or items of discussion on the consent agenda this evening? Seeing none, if we can entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented move second. All in favor? I

oppose. Consent agenda is approved. We'll move on to ordinances this evening. We uh first item is a motion approving bill number 30 20226 presented by David Pavich our community development director. An ordinance approving a cost sharing agreement with the Mid America Regional Council Mark for the 2026 Kansas City Regional Aerial Photography Project. David.

Yeah. Mid America Regional Council flies aerial photography throughout the metro area every two years and the city has been a longtime participant. So, it's a cost share program. Every community pays into that. Um staff recommends we continue to do that. How we how do we benefit? Um we get updated mapping for our GIS mapping in the city and then also Klay County. The Klay County GIS website gets us updated mapping. Did we do this two years ago? I don't remember. I I knew I remember us doing it before, but I couldn't remember the last time we did.

Yeah, it we've done it so many times it's like how do we do it? You know, we do it frequently. Now this year it's a little cheaper than it had been. I'm not sure the reason why. I think maybe part of the metro they didn't get uh cover and it was done something else maybe, but it's a lot cheaper this year than it has been recently. Appreciate that report, David. Uh, does anybody on the board have any questions on the proposed ordinance or staff's report? We could read the proposed ordinance on the first reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving a cost sharing agreement with Mid America Regional Council, MARK, for the 2026 Kansas City Regional Aerial Photography Project.

To approve on first reading second. All in favor? I oppose. Second reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving a cost sharing agreement with Mid America Regional Council, MARK, for the 2026 Kansas City Regional Aerial Photography Project. Make a motion to approve on second read. I'll second. Pull the board, please. Alderman Leman, I. Alderman King, I. Alderman Hull, I.

The vote is unanimous and the ordinance is approved. Next item is a motion approving bill number 312026 presented by our Captain Brian Allen. uh an ordinance authorizing a mutual aid agreement with the Kansas City, Missouri Board of Police Commissioners and a mutual aid payment agreement with KC 2026 in connection with the 2026 FIFA World Cup events. Captain Allen, that's correct. We have we have a we have a a mutual agreement with Kansas City to that allows our officers to go down there and work uh at they could be assigned to the stadium andor the um FanFest for the uh for the event.

Great. Any questions from the board on the report or the proposed ordinance? Seeing none, if we can read the proposed ordinance. First reading by title only, please. An ordinance authorizing a mutual aid agreement with the Kansas City, Missouri Board of Police Commissioners and a mutual aid payment agreement with KC 2026 in connection with the 2026 FIFA World Cup events. Move to approve on first reading. I'll second. All in favor? I oppose. Second reading by title only, please.

An ordinance authorizing a mutual aid agreement with the Kansas City, Missouri Board of Police Commissioners and a mutual aid payment agreement with KC 2026 in [clears throat] connection with the 2026 FIFA World Cup events. I'll make a motion on a second read. I'll second. Pull the board, please. Alderman King, I. Alderman Holt, hi. Alderman Leman, hi. The vote is unanimous and the ordinance is approved. We'll move on to resolutions this evening. We have one resolution to consider this evening. A motion approving resolution 392026 presented by Shelley Daniel, our public works director. A resolution accepting the proposed 2026 street maintenance plan. Shelley.

Yeah. Thank you, Mayor and board. Um, in the packet, I believe it's on page 81, [clears throat] um, there are there is a list of the roads that we're proposing um to surface this year along with, um, maps of the routes. Um, this resolution approves the 20 26 street maintenance plan and direct staff to prepare a contract with van spreaders for consideration at the next board meeting. As part of this year's plan, we are going to um propose using microsurfacing as a preventative maintenance treatment. Microsurfacing is a thin lift pavement application. It's approximately 3/8 in thick and it seals and protects the road surface, improves skid resistance, and addresses minor wear such as early cracking and oxidation. staff along with representatives from Vance Brothers reviewed the proposed streets to confirm they were good candidates for the treatment. This is a quick process um similar to asphalt painting um it with streets being reopened to traffic within a couple hours um just as the same as a mill and fill would help this minimize disruptions to um traffic. The advantage of this approach is it allows us to maintain strings while they're still in acceptable condition rather than waiting until more costly repairs are needed. This treatment will extend the pavement life by 5 to seven years. It improves overall safety and will make it more efficient for us to use a limited street maintenance budget. In total, we're looking at um surfacing about 10.7 lane miles of roadway with the make microsurface treatment this year. In addition, [clears throat]

um our collector roads such as Nation Road, 162nd Street, and a portion of 19th Street will be um restriped using a durable pavement marking. Um so staff does recommend um approval of this resolution. Great. Appreciate that report. Shelley, I got one question and I'm sorry I've not been able to raise this before now, but what's the difference of this product and the slurry so product that we previously used? Well, microsurfacing is more like a asphalty um pavement. It goes down with a paving machine. So like resin, it's not just sprayed on and

it goes down with a pavement machine.

Perfect. Um, Cla County has been using it for 18 years and they feel like they've got their pavements under control completely on a good schedule. Um, Klay County also uses Plaque County's um, procurement contract that they put it out for cooperative procurement every year and they've been using it for many years too. And so if you're curious on Wallet rides, Klay County did um Jesse James Farm Road from Route 92 all the way around last year. I believe they did part of it in the fall because they missed this section. I reminded them it was theirs and then they came back and did it in the fall. This the part just north of 92 and the rest they did in the spring.

Great. I'm excited to I I don't think with slurry so we are ever able to cover that much ground in one year. So I'm I'm excited. Sometimes it's real rough and eso wasn't a good Yeah, I wasn't a fan of that product. [clears throat] There's no stripping from the current road. Just goes on top of there.

It does just um it's just a surface. So it's not a cold milling. Um they there might be um some cold milling just for there's um transition section so you just don't hit the 38. So they do like a transition mill. I was most excited for it for Nation Road 162nd where we could get miles in. Um the roads were trying it like on Prospect they are on sections where we don't have a curb and gutter. I'd like to try it there first. So is I'm sure you thought of it but with all the construction on Nation on both sides of 92 he said only down for a little while right the road only down for a little bit. Yeah, they'll do the work under a flagging operation with a pilot car they said on this road was

and then the road will be fine for dump trucks to [clears throat] cruise on. Yep. So the the new surface is is it a finer aggregate or it is? Yeah. Mod um started doing microsurfacing that I know it was like about 25 30 years ago when I was working with them. They mostly use it now just um on for skid resistance for friction and they'll use a lot more of the more expensive products now but they have used this in the past as well. Does it hold up all the snow plows? Yeah, just like pavement.

Just like yep [clears throat] on the interstate. Um used it up by KCI on curbs where you have run them off the road accidents. It increases the friction value for a motors, but we're using it for um prevented maintenance, not for friction, but it will help with friction as well.

SH, I really appreciate you answering all the board's questions, Shel. I I know there's we've had some less than ideal experiences with slurry sill. Um, and so I I just wanted to make sure that the public was aware that it's a totally different product and process. Um, so I appreciate you answering those questions. There's no other questions from the board. If we could read the proposed resolution, please. A resolution accepting the proposed 2026 street maintenance plan. I'll make a motion. I'll second. All in favor?

I resolution is approved. Thank you again for that report. Shall we But we have no items for review and presentation. Uh I want to mention uh briefly under mayor's communications. I know I've had a conversation with our local paper, Miss Kelly, who's here this evening, but um after the tornado in our community, uh just super proud of of the response from our local first responders, uh our our partners at the fire district. Uh you know, we had neighbors out helping neighbors. We had residents out um business owners out volunteering their time and services as well. Um you it's it's just a good reminder that out of some silly things there usually is a little bit of good too. And it's just unfortunate that it takes sometimes silly things for our community to come together and and be kind and cordial and neighborly. Um, but nonetheless, I'm was super proud of of our staff, our public works uh department as well. I can't leave th those guys uh out. Um, it was truly an all hands on deck. Um, and I I remained in constant contact with Fire Chief Kevin Pratt, who is our uh city emergency management director. Uh, constant contact with our administrator and police chief as well. And uh you know that that's uh one thing that I never wanted to have to check off my list is is having to deal with a tornado in our community. Uh but super thankful um that with the help of of all of our staff and first responders um we were in good shape already the next morning and uh so thank you to everybody uh for uh putting in the extra hours and and work. Um you know property can be replaced. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. We'll move on to city administrators report.

Um, I asked Sundy to give a market in the park update. Great. So, our new Market in the Park launches this month. It starts on August 28th and runs through September 3rd from 4 to 7. May 28th. May 28th. What' I say? August.

Sorry. May 28th through September 3rd at our beautiful Lions Park from 4:00 to 7:00 every Thursday night. It will include 11 vendors featuring produce, crafts, bedding plants, cakes, artisan goods, eggs, and flowers. Three food trucks rotating through each week, including Chick-fil-A, the Good Stuff Truck, Nani, Tom's Coffee, and Kona Ice. And as I said, we'll highlight our beautiful Lions Park. With over 200 parking spots within a/4 mile of the park, many of those spots are located right in front of local businesses in our community. So, we have reached out to them encouraging them to stay open on Thursdays and potentially run specials or invite extra people in just to increase the value that we're bringing through the park and our new market.

Awesome. Sia, I I love your date. [clears throat] I I like the spin on the the food trucks. I like the idea of communicating to our business owners downtown. I mean, what another opportunity to to bring and put people in front of our businesses downtown. So, um I appreciate that report. I'm excited to see the the new market take off. Uh does anybody on the board have any questions on the update? I I do want to add one more thing. We do have a small part to grow into. Okay. So, we are set in the space that we have and we have additional vendor [clears throat] spaces that we can grow into. So, if any vendors are interested, we have a space for you still.

Awesome. That's all I have here. All right. Uh, we'll move on to alderman discussion. Alderman King, I don't have anything. Alderman Holt, [clears throat]

I just want to say um to piggyback on what you're saying about the storm. I have some tree limbs I had to clean up. took it down to the compost pile and um it was a mess down there. We had all the rain. It was all muddy. It was and people trying to get their trucks down there and here it is on Saturday morning. I couldn't tell because his cab was all messed up. But we had one of our guys down there on a backhoe and he was making sure that stuff was drugged back over. We had we had a pond down there, guys. I don't know if you saw that, but we had a pond down there. It was a mess. and [clears throat] he was making sure that not only that the ground could get to where you can get out, but if anybody got stuck, he could pull them out of there. I mean, it was great having him down there because it made people feel comfortable enough to drive down in there knowing that, hey, if they got down there, they could get out. Um, people were bringing all their tree limbs down there and our compost pile was right in the middle of that mess, too, where that tornado went through. And so, we had all the rain down there, everything down there. and we did a great job cleaning it up, making it accessible for everybody to get in there. I thought our staff did a fantastic job down there. Um, I thought everybody got everything around town picked up really well. Um, really proud of our city works people. Um, I had a few people at church comment to me about that about how great it was. They seen all the city trucks out and and trying to get everything getting roads open and and ready to go. So, um, even though it was a bad event, I think it, uh, brought some goodwill to the city to see how we, uh, we we did things and I think it made people feel proud to live here.

Thank you for that report. Hey, Alderman Leman, [clears throat] just piggyback on what been said. Um, I drove through that morning heard of that. Um, and it was it was neat to see public works crews, private contractors, we had to walk working side by side. And, you know, I had had several people want to go

call me and contact me about how great it was to see the small town atmosphere come back in all the negativity that's been spread across social media. It's it was great to see the the small town come back and and rally to to help people out. Um, so it was I had a friend that had a I don't know how many old year old tree in his front yard that went down and um one of our local businesses came out and said, you know, we'll get rid of it. And asked, you know, my friend asked him how much it was and said, not a thing. did it for free. So,

it was good to see. Yeah. We [clears throat] even had a a business. He has ties to Carne, but not a halt uh in here volunteering and uh with his machines, labor, personnel. Yep. And uh yeah, it was

it it was good to see for sure. Um, we do have uh an executive session notice up this evening, a close session per RSMO61021 subsection 1 for legal actions or litigation involving a public governmental body and any confidential or privileged if communications between a public governmental body or its representatives and its attorneys in RSM61021 subsection 12 to discuss matters pertaining to negotiated contracts. and our meeting will be adjourned from the closed session. So this does conclude our open public portion of our meeting. If we could if the board could consider a motion to enter into executive session. So motion.

I'll second. [clears throat] Roll call vote please. Alderman Holt. Hi. Alderman Leman. Alderman King. I vote is unanimous and we will enter into executive session. Thank you all for being here. Have a good night everybody. Hey. Hey. Hey.