City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome to tonight's meeting of the Kirksville city council. Please be joined by so many folks here in the room tonight with the expectation that a lot of folks may want to speak tonight. I thought I might just explain how that works for you before we start our meeting. If there's a matter on tonight's agenda that you'd like to speak about, there'll be an opportunity when we discuss that agenda item to offer anything you'd like to share on that. If you're here to speak about something that's not on the agenda this evening, there will be a portion called the citizens participation component at the end of the meeting and we'd be happy to have them speak at that time.

We'll go ahead and start with our vision and our mission statement.

The City of Kirksville will create a welcoming and thriving community as Northeast Missouri's center for education, commerce, health, recreation, and culture. Our mission statement, the city of Kirksville offers opportunities for building quality of life and meaningful community through ethical and responsible government. I now ask that you join me for a moment of silence. Thank you very much. I'd now like to invite BSA Troop 401 to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance this evening. Scouts, good evening. We'll go ahead and begin when you're ready to start. Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Scouts, thank you very much. Have a good night.

Thank you.

Let's take a look at the order of tonight's agenda. Mary, any recommended additions or changes this evening?

There are none.

Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion and second to approve the order of tonight's agenda. So moved. Councilmember Gartner? That's what we're handling with the 2nd, on that 1, all those in favor please raise your hand and say, aye aye. All those opposed agenda is approved. I'll now entertain a motion 2nd, to approve the minutes of our regular session meeting held on June 22nd, 2026. So moved. Councilmember Gardner second from Councilmember Hanley. All those in favor please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion is approved. I'll now entertain a motion and second to approve the corrected minutes for a regular session meeting held on June the 8th, 2026. Councilmember Hanley. Second. Second from Councilmember Gardner. All those in favor please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? The minutes are approved. Go ahead and move into our information presentation and public hearing section of tonight's meeting, which will include a presentation on the 2025 annual comprehensive financial report and the single audit. And I'd ask Lacey King, our finance director to come forward for this particular presentation. Lacey. Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. I really hope our auditor is on the computer screen. We think he is, but there's no name. So we're not sure if it's our auditor, but Mike Williams.

There's Mike. Hello, Mike.

Hey, great. Okay. We just completed our 2025 audit. with Sikich that is our auditing firm as part of our audit process when the audit is completed we have a full annual comprehensive financial report and then depending on our grant awards if they reach or exceed a million dollars a year then we also have to complete a single audit which the city did We have Mike Williams from Sickage here to go over our audit documents, their findings, and then briefly go over the single audit. So I'm excited to see all these people here to talk about our annual financial report. And I'm going to turn it over to Mike.

Oh, wow, that's a great introduction. Thank you. Lacey. Uh, yes again. My name is Mike Williams. I'm a principal at tickets. I'm the principal in charge of the city's audit and, um, and I was holding up my, I've got paper copies of the, uh, annual comprehensive financial report. So, I'm not sure if you have a paper copy or a PDF copy. We've got PDFs in front of us. Uh, but when I go through here, I'll be looking at my paper copies. So I'll be. When I say page number, that'll be the page number of the, at the bottom of the page, not the page number if you're looking at that. But anyway, um, and like Lacey said, there is an annual comprehensive financial report. This contains the basic audit financial statements. The auditor's report. That's the main part of the audit. Um. And then there's also these other couple of reports I was going to go over. There's a auditor's communication report and a single audit report with the grant information in it. Um, but anyway, we start with the annual comprehensive report just because it's the main, uh, main part of the audit. So I'll just flip through here. Um. It won't take really that long, but just point out some things that I think are important or different from the prior year and feel happy to take questions as we go along our questions at the end is fine too. But anyway, to jump right into it past the table of contents, the 1st section is the introductory section and the 1st part of that is the transmittal letter. It's on city Kirksville letterhead and I like to point out. Excuse me information on this, because on the 2nd page, it gives more information than just the numbers on a balance sheet or revenues and expenses. Um, like Roman numeral page 2 talks about the city's profile structure, some accounting and budget information. But on Roman numerals pages 3 and 4, there's other good information too. It says about the local economy and future outlook. Roman numeral 4 has long term financial planning. So there's some forward ideas also included in the report. Let's see, Roman numeral page 5, some major initiatives. So again, I think it's good additional information for this annual comprehensive financial report. And then Roman numeral page 7 is the certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting. So that is issued on the report from December 31, 2024, because the city submitted it to the government finance officers association, who reviews a report for compliance with the accounting disclosures and compliance with their guidelines. And it also provides additional information, like the transmitter letter, the introductory information, and all the statistical information in the back. And regardless of all that, I think this, this certificate, this goes to show the city's dedication to accounting and disclosures. information in the report, full disclosure on that. So anyway, congratulations to the city on that certificate.

Mike, I'm going to pause you right there for just a second so we can congratulate Lacey and your team again for some quality accounting work on there. And this has been with the city for how many years in a row now? 41? 41.

41 years for quality accounting. Correct. And then once this financial statement was completed, we have sent it off to the government finance officers association to see if it again meets their qualifications for an information documentation and all their requirements.

Well, I appreciate your team's diligence and attention to detail. So thank you Mike. Please continue.

Good good information. Um, okay. So then for the boring part of the report, there's a org chart and a list of principal officials. And then after that, then there's a letter from it says independent auditors report and. I do like to spend a minute on this, because this is what you pay for when you get an audit. It's the auditor's opinion, because all the other information in the report is the city's information. It's your representation. Our job is to audit that information. So just to point that out. So in the financial section, on the letterhead, it says independent auditor's report. And the first couple of paragraphs are the important paragraphs. It says we've audited the financial statements of each major fund, aggregate remaining fund information. And so we've tells me what we've audited and the 2nd, paragraph says, in our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly in all material respect. So there's no modifications that report or no qualifications or is basically noted in her memo that that's a clean opinion. And so that's important, I think, and it's also what the city received in a prior year. So. Uh, anyway, that's good. Okay, there's other information on the next couple of pages about the other parts of the report. Then on page 5, there's another report on internal control and compliance for an audit done in courts with government auditing standards. And I'll talk about that a little bit more when we get into the single audit report, which is the next one I was going to review. But anyway, after those two letters, there's a page called MD&A page one, and that's the first page of the management's discussion and analysis. So there's some highlights noted on page one, but I generally like to go, we're gonna talk about some of those, so I was gonna skip some of that, but go ahead and jump to MD&A page five. I like to talk about MD&A page five and page seven because Uh, these are like, high level, big picture numbers this year compared to the previous year. Uh, the balance sheet is on a page 5 and the revenues expenses are on a page 7. uh, so these are broken down into a couple, a few different columns. The governmental activities are pretty much all of the funds, except for the water and sewer utility funds. And then the business type activities are the water and sewer utility funds and then there's a total. So. The top part of the schedule on page 5 shows total assets. So we can see the total assets for the governmental activities, the business type activities this year compared to the prior and then the total columns on the right side of that page. Show total assets of the city at the end of 2025, about 171,918,000, and that's compared to around 166Million for the prior year. So an increase in total reported assets. There's some deferred amounts and so, but the long term debt, those are the next biggest numbers. Uh, shows the total liabilities around 26,216,425 and 27,026,000 for the prior year. So, overall, there's an increase in the assets compared to the prior year decrease in liabilities compared to the prior year. So, when you have those 2, that's. Uh, that generally is an improvement and the net. Financial position, so that bottom section called net position, that's what accounting standards calls the overall net financial position of the city. So we can see the bottom line on the right side shows total net position around 145,000 compared to 139,000 the year before. Now, some of that is, it's not necessarily like equity of a regular company. like retained earnings, but because a lot of governmental assets in that position are investment in capital assets. That's like roads and bridges, vehicles, equipment, those types of things. Also, there's a big portion of the debt position that's restricted for outside purposes or by law, and that's $12 million. But we can still see the unrestricted net position of all. Now, this is all the funds blended together on a full cruel basis. It includes all the capital assets, all the debt, like the bonds and things like that. But still, overall, there was an improvement in the unrestricted that position for the year. In addition to the, um, increase in total net position. So. Anyway, um, assets up liabilities down. Generally, the right way would be on page 7, then there's a page 7 again, just a big picture comparison this year compared to the prior year, governmental activities, business type activities, and concentrate on the total columns on the right side of the page. Shows total revenues this year around 37,366,000, that compares to around 34,112,000, the prior year. Uh, and we see, we look down the 3rd line down says capital grants and contributions. That's the biggest difference between 252024 because of the, the city's additional capital grants primarily related to the airport programs. So revenues are up. Uh, then if we scroll, look down the page a little bit further, the expenses, we can see expenses, uh, total of that for 2025, around 30, 30,697,000 compared to 30,294,000. So. Some increase in expenses, um, but overall larger increase in revenues and. The difference between the revenues expenses is the change in that position show about 4 or 5 lines of the numbers from the bottom shows with increase around 6,668,000. so anyway, that's the improvement for the year for the net position. And changes in revenues and expenses this year compared to the prior year. There's a lot of other information in the next few pages of the report on some analysis of those increases and decreases. We'll make some more detail of those. I was going to go ahead and jump into the financial statements. So that's after the management's discussion analysis, six or seven pages after that. And then there's a page called page 7 is the statement of that position and we've already talked hold up a 2nd there Mike want to make sure we get to the right page there. Yeah. Yeah. There's a page 7 just says 7 at the bottom.

Yeah. Okay.

And then we're there now is a horizontal page.

Yep.

So, those are the government wide statements again. We've talked about the assets and liabilities again. Those are, those are all the funds together. But what I wanted to talk about was the font. So, if we go to page 9. So, this is more like, I think what you're used to seeing on a. And your budgets and reports page 9 has this is the balance sheet for the funds, not the utility funds like water and sewer. This is the governmental fund. So. For instance, the general funds on here, the parks and the airport, those are the major funds of the city. There's some smaller funds called non major funds and those are listed in the back and then there's a. Uh, the total anyway, just to talk about the general fund, since it's the main operating fund of the city, we can see that it reports. Assets, including cash and some receivables, lease number, and then it has total assets of around 15Million, 403. Others liabilities around 338,000, some deferred amounts of 2.3Million. But then again, the difference between the assets and liabilities and deferred amounts is called fund balance on this page. So this is like equity for a regular company, but this is just for the general fund. And we see the total fund balance for the general fund is around that 12,724,000 a second line from the bottom. But part of that money, it's non-spendable for prepaid items. Part of the money is restricted. Part of the money is assigned for purchase orders and for the subsequent year budget. But we can see the unassigned balance of the general fund too is around $6.5 million. And there's historical information and things like that in the back. But overall, that's relatively consistent with the prior years, the fund balance amount. And we can see the balances for the other major funds on this page. But so then I wanted to talk about page 11. So, page 11 is the revenues and expenditures for the governmental funds. And again, just to talk about the general fund, it shows total revenues on here around 12.6Million expenditures around 13.3Million. So, 668,000 expenditures more than revenues, but then there's other sources and uses primarily transfers of positive 803,000. So overall, the general fund increased around that $135,000, which reconciles to $12 million, which reconciles to the previous page. So that's the overall revenues and expenditures reconciling the fund balance for the general fund. And we can, again, see other funds on the page here. And there's more detail in the back of these. Let's see, what else? Okay, so then to jump into the utility funds on page 13 and 14. So, this is water sewer storm water activity. The balance sheet is on page 13. We can see the primarily the cash and investments and capital assets that it has. And then on page 14. I was going to mention that like a regular company, this has operating revenues because it primarily has charges for services rather than taxes for its revenue base. So we can see the top part of the page shows revenues. About 9,951,000 expenses around 8,790,000. So, operating income of around 1.1Million other operating revenues or non operating revenues, expenses and transfers capital contributions. But overall, we can see on this page that it had an increase of around 2.4Million. So, so that's positive for the utility fund. A cash flow statement, I won't get into that much, but it reconciles the. Revenues and expenses to the changes in cash. I'll say it's pages 15 and 16. there's some smaller fiduciary funds on pages 17 and 18. I wasn't going to talk about those much on pages 19 and 20 are the component units, which are the 9, 11 American and the 4 community improvement districts. So those operations are also reported. And the city of Kirksville's reports. And that is the financial statements after that, then page 21 begins the notes to the financial statements and notes to the financial statements don't change much from year to year. So. Because number 1, the 1st note is summary of significant accounting policies. Yeah, the policies don't change much from here here. So I was going to go ahead and jump to page 32 and 33, which discussed the cash and investments. So the first note says deposits, but in our technical term, that's the bank deposits. It's just that there's a state requirement that the city's cash be secured by pledge securities or FDIC. And so this says that your cash is secured by pledge securities or FDIC. So that's good. Note 2B on page 33, if you want to know what the investments are in, these are the investments. Sometimes you want to know what those are. So these are also listed by maturities. There's other information on the next couple of pages related to investments. And then page 36, we get into capital assets. And I like to talk about capital assets a little bit just because this is such big numbers. So the capital assets are things on this page that shows like land, construction, buildings, infrastructure, machinery, equipment, things like that. Because once you place those types of assets in service, they begin to depreciate. So this top part of this schedule shows the asset acquisition values and the bottom part of the schedule replacement service, they begin to depreciate. So you look at the bottom line, shows some increase in the overall capital assets. So it looks like the city's assets did generally increase for the year for both the governmental activities, which are on page 36 and page 37, which is the business type activities, the water and sewer function. Okay, anyway, that's capital assets. Page 39 talks about Interfund transactions. Page 40, we get into lessor disclosures. These are leases the city has. It looks like they're primarily cell tower properties and airport properties. And then page 43, we get into long-term debt. Generally like to talk about long term debt, because I think that's important because that's the debt that needs to be paid off into the future, like a mortgage. So this shows the city has certificates of participation, installment contracts, leases and also for its business type activities. There's bonds outstanding of around 14,000,003. So, so that's the, that's the debt looks like there's no significant additions, but there was reductions in the debt. So the debt was paid down somewhat for the year.

Mike, can I pause right there?

There's schedules on how that Mike, we're going to pause you for just a second.

Sure. Lacey's got something was there a question?

Well, we've got quite a few people in here and I just wanted to mention all of these financial reports and the single audit. They are on the city's website. They go back multiple years in case anyone wants to follow along on your phone. So they are on the city's website and. Mike is covering a lot of information right now. But for those people who basically want to read about the city and where we are, I would recommend you go over the management discussion and analysis, and then maybe the notes to the financial statements and at the very back the statistics. I think those would be very interesting to our citizens.

Yeah, there's a lot to digest in 1 of these again. I'm trying to hit just the highlights, not read everything to you, but just tell you what I think. So maybe the bigger, more important numbers too.

Right. And, you know, how many pages is our financial statement this year? 130? 149. 149.

Which was some very good reading this weekend.

I'm seeing a lot of excited people in the audience. They're getting ready to read that tonight. Right, right, yeah.

I love these things, but, yeah, I'm the only one.

No, I am right there with you.

Oh, yeah, so, uh, so that's the debt schedules, um, then, uh, also employ, you know, just to mention a few things about employee, uh, retirement benefit plan that starts on page 48. Because sometimes you hear about governmental funds that are significantly under water, or that there's a deficit related to their pension. So this discloses the information related to the city's plan, which is through Missouri loggers and there's a schedule on page 51, which I wanted to mention that there's a. Scheduled the bottom page shows total pension liability. So that's the actuarial liability amount and then there's a plan fiduciary net position. So those are like the assets to pay that liability. And then the column on the right that is the net number. So, it does show that there's a overall that at the bottom bottom right side shows 1,105,000 of a net pension liability for the year. So, and if you look on the top of page 52. There's a confusing paragraph there, but the 2nd paragraph, this says that the net pension. Uh, liability is 90, the liability is 97.4% funded. So I overall, I think 97% still pretty good. Let's see, there's other information page 52 related to the pension page 53. then we get into risk management, which is insurance and contingencies page 54 is self insurance. And then commitments related parties. Conduit debt tax abatement agreements on page 55 and. Page 57 gets into detail of Merrick. More disclosures on that and then on page 58, the last page of the notes has deficit balances, which there aren't any, and then a restatement just for changes in the presentation of the statement. So that's the financial statements and the notes to the statements. That's the crux of the audit. After that then, there are lots of other pages on here. I'll just talk about pages 59 and 60. Because these are supplemental pages, but page 59 and 60 are the. There's because there's a lot of budget, actual schedules. Well, page 59 then shows the original budget shows the final budget for the year. It shows the actual revenues expenses for the year. And then you could see the over under budget of the final budget compared to the actual amount. So, in the revenues on the top of page 59, it shows that the revenues are around 312,000 over budget for the year for the general fund. And the expense expenditures are on page 60, the top lines there, a third of the way down. It shows the total final budget, the total actual expenditures, and it shows that the expenditures are under budget by about 713,000. So over budget on revenues, under budget on expenses, generally the right way you wanna be. Okay, so there's more budget to actual for the other funds. Page 63 and 64 is a history lesson on pensions. After that, then the other supplemental information begins on page 66 and 67. these are the smaller funds, smaller prints go along with it. Plenty more budget actual schedules for each 1 of those funds. And I think Lacey maybe mentioned the statistical information, which begins on page 86. So, page 86 begins a statistical information, which is primarily the general summary of the information in the front of the report compared to 10 years ago. But you got that information for the past 10 years. So, um. I think we talked about the current year balances, um. But if you're interested in seeing where the city is now, compared to where it used to be, that's where you want to look. So, I was going to conclude with that for the annual comprehensive financial report and then switch over to 1 of the other reports. Yeah, I'll be happy to take any questions. Later on to if anybody has any sounds good.

I don't think we have any questions at this time. So we can go on to the next section.

Okay. Um. The next thing that I saw on the link was a single audit report. And it's a little smaller, uh, because the city does get over a 1Million dollars in federal program money on your audits required to have this, uh, these additional audit procedures. And to explain this 1st letter here on signature letterhead says, independent orders report on compliance. And internal control, so if there are any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses, either with the audit of the city, or with the audit of these federal programs, the major federal program, we would have to put it in this report, but there are no significant deficiencies or material weaknesses. So I think that's important. And then on page 4 and 5 of the single audit, there's a list of the. Uh, the various federal programs, the largest 1, big airport improvement programs, which were the major. Federal program audited this year and then another information about the report after that page 678. So, um, well, let's see here. I was going to mention. Yeah, the total on page 5 of the federal schedule, federal expenditures, there's awards expended around 4Million dollars. So, I mean, that's a good amount of. Federal money coming to the city for improvements and it is we talked to about the changes in revenue. So that was the big number change in the revenues too. When we talked about the difference in revenues between this year and last year. Okay, then the last report I was going to talk about is a separate report and, uh, it's called the auditor's communication to mayor council. Um, now, auditors are also supposed to report to the mayor to the, those charge of governance, the mayor council. If if we do have any other significant deficiencies or discussions or. Adjustments made other recommendations, things like that and there's. There happened to be none of those types of things for this year in the past. We have like auditors to find journal entries. Sometimes make it recommend adjustments to the city. Um, or we find other recommendations for, I think, in prior years are related to the airport and. Amounts reported for that. So, anyway, in the current year. Yeah, we just have this list on pages 6, 7 and. A future accounting pronouncements, so. Um, those are things to watch out for in the future. So, that is the 3 reports that's going to review and I'll be happy to take any other thoughts or questions or ideas.

Mike, I appreciate the comprehensive look at all of the financials appreciate the. The strong support that came out of that 1 and a good report for the operations here at the city. Any questions or comments from counsel on this at this time?

I think, Mike, just for the non-auditors and non-accountants in the room, there may be one or two, the overall view is that we're doing things the right way and there aren't discrepancies that we would be concerned about in how we're handling our finances. Is that correct?

Uh, I guess you could say that. Yeah, I mean, there's, there's, there's a clean opinion on the financial statements. No, uh, significant deficiencies material weaknesses, uh, no adjustments that were required to report to the board. So, um, right. I mean, we, we audit the financial statements. Yeah. And that's the conclusion.

Thank you. Mike, that might be all the council has Lacey anything else for this presentation?

Uh, no, I just want to thank all the departments that helped. provide information to the auditors and I'm glad another year is behind us on that. It takes a while. It starts with us in January and we don't finish until the end of June. So it's quite a process.

It's a lot of work, a lot of documentation that the finance department has to get to the auditors, test balances. And so we request all kinds of information, backup documentation. So anyway, I appreciate the help of the finance department to getting us done.

All right. Well, thank you both very much. We appreciate it.

Thank you, Mike.

Okay. Well, thank you. Okay. We'll be in touch. If you do have any questions, feel free to let me know. All right. Take care now. All right. Thank you. Okay. Bye.

Go ahead then move into our action items for this evening and our 1st, action item will be a city clerk reading of a resolution resolution at the city council of the city of Kirksville, Missouri, recognizing equipment operator Bruce star upon his retirement after 23 years and 2 months of service to the city of Kirksville, Missouri.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion and 2nd to approve? So moved. I'm going to gardener 2nd. Council member handling with the 2nd, our staff report tonight will be from Adam door, our public works director. Good evening Adam.

Good evening. So, I'll talk just a little bit. I'm going to talk a little bit as well. Bruce started with city back in 2003. he's been here just over 23 years. It's a long, long haul utility maintenance department. Most of the utility department. Um, so he was, um, he's been key staff member the entire time. Bruce is, uh, is 1 of those guys that. You can count on all the time. Daniel said he never complained about anything. So, which is a great as well. A lot of the work that utility maintenance folks do is buried underground unless your water goes out. You don't really think about the work that they're doing, but they are out there every day. They're installing new water range or their own call, or they're coming in to fix water leaks. I remember 1 that I was out there for at the water treatment plant, utility maintenance folks, Bruce as well out there. in a hole with the water leak at the plant that was going to keep us from being able to operate. The staff, the crews were out there all night long and got that back up and operational in time for the plant to kick on in the morning. So he's just always going to guide you if you count on steady and dependable and we are going to miss him. But just on behalf of Public Works, just want to say it's been a privilege working with you, Bruce, and getting to know you over the last few years. So congratulations on your retirement.

Daniel, anything you wanted to add Adam covered quite a bit of it. I would say, though, that. Side by side work with Bruce for 23 years. You know, it's just one of those guys that you can depend on in the middle of the night. I was teasing Rob and his wife that, you know, he'd call him in the middle of the night. Is Bruce there? Yeah, of course he is. Sometimes being in the utility department in the middle of the night, emergencies, he was always one. If you called and you needed him, he would be there. A lot of people don't know we push snow in the wintertime, too, if it's an emergency in situations. But the square, we come in, you know, all hours of the night. So he just – I'm going to miss him. I don't know if we talked about that earlier that – Right now, we don't really realize it, but we'll be doing a leak or we'll be fixing something in the middle of the night and he won't be there for me at all. You know, all those guys, you know you're going to miss him. So, Bruce, we really appreciated everything you did for the city of Kirksville. He's laid miles of water main. We would have a leak a day. sometimes and you know we've cut that back to you know once a month now so the work that he has put in we're starting to reap those rewards um but yeah just i can't say enough about him i mean we're gonna miss him so daniel thanks for sharing um any council discussion on the map this evening

I mean, 23 years is a long time. Appreciate the service. And especially when it's that work that a lot of people don't see, but it's so critical. That moment you don't have water is, it's a mess. And so, so thankful for that. Thank you for your time. And we appreciate it. Maybe Daniel will call you in the middle of the night anyway, just for fun or something.

Bruce, I'm so glad you brought your wife this evening so we can thank her. When we talk about this kind of work, it's about pulling him away from your family. It's about pulling them away in the middle of the night. And so this has been a sacrifice for all of you to benefit the people of this community as well. So we wanna thank you and your family for being a part of this journey over the last 23 years as well. Thanks for sharing him and he's fully yours again now. So I don't know if that's a good thing for you or not, but I hope it is. So good, very good.

Thank you very much for everything you're done for the city. Thank you so much.

Is there any citizens input on the matter this evening? Seeing them, we'll go ahead and take it to a vote all those in favor. Please raise your hand and say, aye aye. All those opposed and with that, the resolution is approved and I'd like to read that resolution at this time. Whereas the city of Kirksville desires to recognize long term employees, especially upon retirement. After 23 years in 2 months of service to the city of Kirksville, Bruce star retired on July 9th, 2026. Darby and his work with the city of Kirksville on April 17th, 2003 as a seasonal maintenance worker for public works and became a full time employee on June 22nd, 2003. In February 2004, he transitioned to the utility division as a maintenance worker. Dar was promoted to equipment operator in March 2013 and has maintained this position since then. As an equipment operator with the construction crew Bruce played an important role in improving the city's water infrastructure. Throughout his career, he has helped install several miles of water main. Hundreds of fire hydrants and numerous water valves contributing to the reliable delivery of water services for the community. Bruce's hard work, dedication, and commitment to excellence have made a lasting impact on the City of Kirksville. His knowledge, experience, and dependable work ethic will be greatly missed by all of those who've had the pleasure of working alongside him. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the City Council, on behalf of the citizens of Kirksville, Missouri, extends its appreciation to Bruce Darr for his devotion to his duties over the past 23 years and two months of service to the City of Kirksville. Be it further resolved that the Kurtzville City Council congratulates Bruce Starr on his retirement on July 9th, 2026, and wishes him all the best in his future endeavors. Bruce, if you'll come forward for a moment. Thank you very much. Let's move now to action item number two, which will be city clerk reading of a resolution.

Resolution of the City Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri authorizing the submission of an application to the Missouri Department of Public Safety, Missouri Blue Shield grant program for the annual subscription fee related to installed license plate readers and establishing the mayor and city manager as authorized representatives for the City of Kirksville.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion in 2nd to approve? So moved council member gardener 2nd, 2nd for council member handling our staff report tonight. We'll be with Scott Williams and our police chief. Good evening Scott.

Good evening.

Hold on just one moment. Something going on. What's that looks like it got turned off. You'll tap right here on it.

Scott. Right here there we go.

There we go. Go ahead and begin your report again.

Okay. All right. So, April of 2026, we became renewed our blue shield grant, or excuse me, blue shield designation from the governor. What that demonstrates is the city's dedication to law enforcement and crime prevention and that. What that comes with is a fixed grant amount from the governor. He has so much money that they put together for this blue shield grant and it's divided among. All of the recipients, so last year was $50,000 this year. It dropped down because there's quite a few more communities that joined in there, which I think is a great thing to have more and more communities around us support law enforcement and crime prevention. What we're looking at trying to do is to use this to cover the big portion of the fees for the license plate readers and. Fiscal impact wise right now, the 36,000 dollars is the annual cost. The grant itself comes out to 28,985 dollars and 50 cents. That's the maximum allowable through the grant based on how many blue shield communities there are. That leaves the remaining of 7,014 dollars and 50 cents from the general fund. And just to give a little bit more information about the flock cameras, because I know. Councilmember Hanley, you weren't here for the three different meetings we had discussing them and just a reminder for the council members. The cameras we have, so there's a lot of information out there that's just not correct and to kind of give you exactly what our cameras do and what they don't. For example, our cameras do not have any kind of facial recognition. They don't record audio. They don't see inside vehicles. They don't record video either. Now, they do have upgrades we can get to do that, but I think that would be silly to have video of a roadway. If it was a school or some kind of secure area that you need video, yes, but it doesn't make any sense to have them on the cameras that we have. They're not connected to any state licensing information or vehicle registration databases, so they have no access to personal information themselves. We get the information off the photo that comes from them, then we have to log into the state system, the state Mule system, to actually get any personal information based on what vehicle's in the picture. They are not used for any kind of traffic enforcement. So there is no speed record. There's no stoplight, stop sign monitoring. No traffic citations can be issued from any information from Flock LPR. They're only for criminal investigations. So there is no revenue tickets, stoplight tickets, anything like that for them. Our policy is no arrest can be made on data just from the flock LPR. That is just a clue in probable cause. You have to have several verifiable sources in addition to that to actually build probable cause to make an arrest. So you can't just go out and make an arrest because there's a picture of a car. Data is not stored longer than 30 days. It's automatically deleted at that point. And I have tested that. I tried to find one 30 days, 31 days old, and it is not available. There is no way to recover it. The Flock LPRs, they do not collect any data from digital devices in your vehicles or from the vehicles themselves. And this is some of the things I've seen comments on saying that they do. They don't read your credit cards or tell how much cash you have in your wallet. The Flock Hill PRs do not take images of pedestrians and they are not used for crowd control, monitoring protests, tracking any type of healthcare, political affiliation, or immigration status. They're also not pointed at any playgrounds, schools, hospitals, mental health providers, drug stores, cannabis dispensaries. They're pointed at public streets. They don't build profiles on people or vehicles. They're just a simple photo every time a car goes by. That's it. They don't link them all together. If there's a search done for a particular vehicle, then that's where we put that information together. It's not a monitor system, so there's no staff that sit and watch the camera because it is not a live feed camera. The FLOC LPR is not available to all officers. Only senior staff, detectives, and sergeants have access to search or interview information. So when you look at the FLOC system out there, have there been abuses from some law enforcement government? Of course there have, and that's reprehensible. It is not acceptable. So my job as chief is to make sure I have policies in place and practices in place that put safeguards in there, put checks and balances in. For example, only senior staff and sergeants are able to do any of the searches or enter things in. In addition to that, it's automatic two-factor authentication. So when you log in, you have to have your cell phone and your password available to actually log into the system. To do a search, there's a required field that you need a criminal report number. So you can't even just go search things just for the fun of it. You have to have a criminal report number, so it has to be linked back to a criminal case to actually do a search. So that's just some of the checks and balances that we put in place to kind of keep control on how they're used. What our cameras actually do, they take a still image of vehicles traveling on public roadways. Several court cases have ruled that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy on a public roadway. Specifically, you're looking at 2024 U.S. v. Martin, federal court ruled they do not violate Fourth Amendment. 2026, State v. Simonson in Washington, Court of Appeals ruled they don't violate Fourth Amendment. 2024, Virginia Court of Appeals upheld the flock cameras. And 2025, U.S. v. Jackson, the federal court upheld flock, citing there is no reasonable expectation of privacy the way that they are deployed. So with that, I'll leave it for any questions that you may have for me. Thank you for the report.

Questions or comments? It's not your turn yet, but we'll give you an opportunity gladly.

So they're taking pictures of cameras. And so is it, what is that, how's that helping you guys? Like, how do you know, like, so if somebody's reporting a crime, a car coming on that road, what's the process that that works on?

Right. So I'll give you an example. We had a stolen vehicle. Stolen vehicle was taken and within about, From the time it was stolen, about 12 hours, they reported it to us. We were able to jump on there, find that vehicle, and get it recovered within 12 hours. What the camera does, it takes a picture of every vehicle that goes by, focusing on basically the license plate. It tries to get the clearest picture of the plate that it can. We can take that plate, then go to the Mule system, which is the secured state system, put that in there, and find out who that vehicle is registered to. That gives us a pathway, a clue to follow, to where we can go actually talk to this person and see if they were there, get information from them.

Is this statistics wise? How many crimes have been solved by this? Have you got any idea about that?

Nationwide?

Yeah.

Thousands upon thousands.

I've just read an article today about this. I was doing some looking up on this. So 2200 a day. They're saying that they're solving crimes out of.

Yeah, it's crazy the amount. Yeah.

Scott, when this came before council, before we heard from folks in the community, and we heard some concerns that were shared and 1 of the things we talked about was that upon that initial implementation, our contract allows for, and would continue allow for us to cancel it. If counsel problems with it. I have not heard reported problems from our existing system. I'm curious if you have any problems that have been presented to your department since the implementation last year.

I haven't seen any problems with it. They're finishing up the last two cameras February, or excuse me, the 15th of this week.

And by problems, I also mean where a citizen feels there was a situation that was unfairly done because of the flock cameras. Has that been brought to the attention of your department as well?

No, there's been no complaints about anyone that has been involved with the flock camera investigation.

Okay.

So most of it is the abuse of it that's been a trouble.

I think that's a legitimate concern. And I mean, just as a citizen, I would be concerned about that. Definitely that there's a factor of abuse, just like doctors can abuse prescriptions, just like lawyers can abuse their position. Politicians can abuse their position as well. Law enforcement is not exempt from that. And my job is to make sure I have checks and balances in place to prevent that kind of thing.

is one more question so uh for the accountability factor on that matter there so if you have control over it in this area here do you have an accountability to anybody above you like governmental wise like so it's you know anybody

So the Blue Shield grant, they do require some sharing, for example, with the Highway Patrol. That's one of the cases we did help them with. They helped track a wanted fugitive that had a warrant for his arrest. They were able to track him through town here. Those are the kind of cases I want to hear about. I want to hear about someone from outside coming in here that's a bad actor coming into Kirksville, and we're able to locate them quickly and get them arrested. So those are the kind of cases I look for, for sure. As far as sharing out there, I can pick and select what they can see. And it's the basic amount that they're allowed to see at this point.

Scott, I do have some concern about the fact that the grant isn't fully covering it this year. I recognize that there's been increased participation on that 1, but I think 1 of the things that made counsel particularly apps to pass this last year was the fact that it was fully covered. Is there any indication from the governor's office that they'll be increasing funding towards this that they're able to provide more substantial grants? Or are we looking at more likely in the future? Reduce grant amounts coming from the state.

For the Blue Shield grant specifically, I don't know about the other grants because what they do is they'll drop a grant and they'll, for example, this Blue Shield grant they dropped in June and said you'd have to apply in July by the end of July 31st. Right. So it's a very short window. The Blue Shield grant specifically is predicated on how many members there are. So if there's more next year, it's going to go down some next year. There are other grants out there that are available for other things as well.

And I think that will become a continuing factor in our decision making is how much of this is covered.

Yeah, Scott, you've talked about the controls in terms of how to access, you know, the. Password and your phone, you got to have 2 officers that's upper level people, that kind of thing. Do you have an audit report that you're planning to run regularly in terms of going in to see who's done what in there so that you can verify that it's been done appropriately and things of that nature? Right.

There's two levels of audit. One, Flock does regular audits on their own, which that's great that they do them, but that doesn't account for what I want to know. My audits internally will show what case numbers all the searches were linked to, who did them, when they did them, and then we can go back and actually go through the case numbers that they put in there to see are these actual cases that align with what they're looking for.

And how often do you plan to run that kind of audit?

I would think monthly or quarterly, depending upon the volume that we're looking at right now. Volume hasn't picked up that much because it is still a brand new system. It hasn't been fully implemented yet.

Other things from council.

With that, I'll open the floor up for folks who'd like to speak on the matter. You're welcome to come to the podium. We do ask that you introduce yourself. You'll have up to five minutes to speak on the issue. And you're addressing the council, so you're sharing any ideas, questions, or concerns that you want to make sure the council is aware of. With that, the podium is open.

Hello. My name is Morgan Buckingham. I'm going to discuss something about Flock that wasn't brought up. It's powered by AI. The entire system uses an AI data system to actually process the pictures and is able to actually keep them and allow them to be recognized and send them to the people. AI is a dangerous system. I don't know if necessarily we should be using a system that implements AI as security systems for the city. And that would be all I want to bring up.

Thank you very much.

I'm Jack Thompson. There's several communities that have dealt with the flock cameras and they're doing away with them. Kansas City has done away with them because they have found out that it is an overreach. No matter how well somebody monitors something, we all are human. We all have desires, thoughts, and if... I'm a cop and my old lady's cheating on me and I know somebody's license plate number and I want to search them up. Who's to say that's not going to happen? We're all human. You know what I'm saying? And I don't care who we are. Sometimes we get desperate. And there's just too many things that's going on with that. Anytime you're willing to sacrifice liberty for freedom or safety, you don't deserve either. It's an overreach. That's all there is to it. You can set whatever up. It might not read our data when we drive by it, but how long before it does? Because it does.

And we can all do these upgrades.

That's not the way that works. How many people here are against Flock today? I mean, it is what it is. Our community, the whole community on all of the online chats around for Kirksville don't want this shit. We don't want it. We don't need it.

I'd ask you to please check your language in the council chambers.

That camera records everything all the time. It records everything all the time with all of the updates or upgrades, whatever you want to call it. And it just gives back what we pay for. Anyone that is in that system has access to it. Who's running it? How's it not going to get hacked? Can it not get hacked? Everybody gets hacked. It's electronic. And like old boy said, AI, it's in the beginning. So how are we going to trust AI that's in the beginning to discern it's AI? It's a freaking computer. There's no one. And anyone running checks and supports on all this stuff? I mean, I can put any case number in, I guess I want, and if they check it back 30 days later and they find out, shit's already, stuff's already, the problem's already happened at that point. and it you can't prevent crime from happening with a camera it don't happen like that you got to be a detective you got to be cops and do your job sir you're addressing the council if you want i'm addressing everybody well if the podium you're addressing the council though anyways it shouldn't be allowed in our town we're all looking after one one one and another around here They need to be doing their job. I think they're doing a good job. We don't need a camera to tell us that some psycho is coming from Texas. I mean, that's what the radio is about. The Motorola don't work no more. I mean, with all the computer stuff we've already got, all the monitors, everything's second to second. And now all of a sudden a camera is going to make it to where they can stop crime ahead of time. That's not real. That's a false sense of security. It feels like to me that, well, we got a camera. That's another reason to be a little more lazy. I'm not for it, and anyone else who's not for it, I can't say of everything that I've thought of that I wanted to say. I hope somebody else will step up and touch the points that I missed. But there's just no sense in it, man. It's not trustworthy. It ain't trustworthy. It's a camera and it's a computer. And it's also individuals on the other end of that that are holding it closed or keeping it tight. And we all know that we're all human. And at the end of the day, everybody makes mistakes. And all you can do is ask for forgiveness later, but when that's already interrupted someone else's life, or maybe caused somebody to be hurt, there's also damage that can be done by that. And I would hope that you would consider that. That's all I got to say. Thank you.

Thank you.

Please go ahead. Yes.

You know, I would say I think this is emotional. Go ahead and introduce yourself. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Andy Lineberry. This is obviously an emotional topic and it is because of AI and everybody's misunderstanding and misinformation. I think a lot about AI, you know, people circulate on the internet. The question that I have about the collection of the data is the officer that was up here was saying that it sounded like it was going to be done manually. And you're talking about a huge volume of data that's collected on a daily basis with every car that comes into an intersection. So, I mean, there's just this gross misunderstanding, I think, of really how this stuff is, how this is going to work. And I think a lot of people that came in here, I know I did was thinking this was a means a hidden means of revenue generation, basically a hidden tax type situation for, you know, the cities to use. I seem to resolve. That's not the case that this is something that, you know, the state government and the federal government, but I just came from Colorado. Same things happening out there. But, you know, data is forever. I learned that a long time ago. And once you hit that delete button, it's not really gone. You really can't get rid of it. And my question I guess is, is this an absolutely necessary technological advancement that you need to rush into this quickly before seeing how it really does work in other cities? It just seems like it's an invasion of privacy. We already have cameras at traffic signals, and there's all kinds of cameras everywhere you go. And now it's kind of disturbing to think that the city is going to have cameras that's going to take pictures of my license plate. You know, I was issued a warning for the frost, you know, the tent on my window. The state trooper told me, you know, you're going to have to go down and I have to go down to my eye doctor and get a thing. And I haven't done that yet. So if my camera, you know, the camera comes up, my car comes up, they look at it and see that there was a warning issued. I haven't done anything and I'm past the warning date. You know, what happens? Do I get a citation in the mail? So I would say at this point in time, if I was, well, I am, I really don't see the advantage of what you're doing. And I think I really would urge you guys to take your time and maybe take a step back because it sounds like you can cancel this for any period of time. The cameras are already put up. So, you know, the assets are already installed and, you know, But I don't know if they just turn them off for a while or then you say yes or no, but it seems like you're rushing into this pretty quickly. And there's a lot of people in this community, a lot of people everywhere. Like I said, this is an emotional issue that are opposed to this because this information that happens on the internet. And AI is a scary thing, but it also is a fabulously wonderful technology. And we're all waiting to see what happens. I would just urge that that you would maybe reconsider for an extended period, maybe put it off for a year and see what's happening. I know in Denver, it's a big topic of discussion as an example. I'm sure it is all over everywhere else too. That's all I have to say.

Thank you.

Good evening my name is Dan Anderson since I last spoke with this council last November, the country has caught up with our own with. What your own legal counsel warned you quote flock cameras have the potential to develop into a tool that may trigger potential violations of the 4th amendment. The threat to our Fourth Amendment rights was not theoretical then, and it's not theoretical now. However, since this council still does not believe that this is an issue, let's go over a short review of what has happened since that analysis. One, the day after this council voted to have these surveillance cameras installed, public records request exposed 2.3 million license plates and 223 million searches from unredacted police audit logs. Because of this, have I been flocked This site allows any individual to see if their license plate has been involved in a police investigation, as well as an enormous amount of other data about flock cameras. I invite everyone to take a look. Last week, at least five officers were arrested in Georgia, and Milwaukee had its second officer arrest, all for the misuse of the same system that this council just installed. This only covers the most recent highlights. Three, even more cities have walked away from flock contracts since November, bringing the total to 86. All these municipalities realized that the risk was not worth it. And finally, federal agencies, including ICE, are using this data. In April of 2026, Berkeley's own Peace and Justice Commission found, quote, repeated sharing of surveillance data with immigration authorities. Despite flock denying direct contracts, local flock data has become a federal resource. If that is not a Fourth Amendment violation, I do not know what is. This council was informed by their own lawyers that this could be. A constitutional risk after the implementation of these cameras in Kirksville, more officers have stated have started getting arrested. More cities are saying no federal agencies are actively using the data and this council doubled down. Benjamin Franklin famously wrote, those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety. And now, we all as a community are here to say, get flock out of our community.

Thank you.

Good evening. I have a statement on behalf of a friend who was not here and I have my own statement. Is it okay if I read both?

You can choose one or the other.

Okay.

Well, you can do both, but you have five minutes time to choose, but do make sure you introduce yourself.

Okay. Well, I'll start with mine then. My name is Daniel Floyd. Thank you for giving us time to share our thoughts tonight. I'm a lifelong Kirksell resident and teacher at the school district here. Given my current understanding of the flock cameras, I am opposed to their use in our community. I do my best to prioritize privacy and security in my own life, and I'm very concerned that my travel patterns are being stored even temporarily in a database that can be queried by law enforcement without my knowledge or consent. I believe that in worst-case scenarios, these types of databases pose three risks that outweigh their benefits. One, location and travel data being misused by law enforcement, where they may query the database for personal reasons rather than professional ones. Two, so-called mission creep, where the criteria that justify querying the database has gradually changed or expanded. And three, data security, where a database is hacked and the data leaked to unauthorized entities. Now, I understand that these three risks that I've listed can be mitigated. Kirksell law enforcement can swear to only use the flock data for legally justified reasons and promise to never change those criteria. The flock company can do everything humanly possible to prevent hackers from accessing the data. But even with these reassurances, I'm opposed to these cameras in our community on the principle that I don't think that this data should be centralized even at all, that these databases shouldn't even exist in principle. For me, I'm not satisfied with the mere promise that misuse won't happen. I believe that such misuse should not even be possible. To use my own home as an analogy, at night, I don't leave the doors unlocked and the windows open just as long as no one promises to break in. I lock the doors, I lock the windows, so that petty break-ins are not even possible. I don't react when a problem arises. I take preventive measures so that the problem doesn't even arise in the first place. So similarly, I don't believe that we should settle for our private data being centralized in this way, so long as the right promises are made on how to use it. I believe that our community should do away with these cameras on the principle that private data should not even be centralized in the first place. Thank you. So that's my statement. I'll read. I have not read my friend's other statements, so this is just purely his words. Okay. And who's your friend? So, my name is Dr. Larry Ciesmeyer, and I'm a business owner in Kirksville. I urge you to remove flock safety license plate reader cameras from our city. Kirksville has become a surveillance state. Most people in this community want safe neighborhoods. Supporting public safety, however, does not require accepting the constant surveillance of innocent people. These cameras do not just collect information about criminals, they collect information about everyone. Every trip to work, every visit to the doctor's office, every stop at a place for worship, every meeting with family or friends, and every peaceful activity that involves driving is recorded simply because someone passes a camera. That changes the relationship between citizens and their government. In a free society, people should not have to assume that their daily movements are being tracked and stored simply because they're using public roads. We are often told that we have nothing to hide, so we have nothing to fear. That is not the standard our country was founded on. Privacy is not about hiding wrongdoing. Privacy is a fundamental liberty. It protects free speech, freedom of association, religious freedom, and the simple dignity of living without unnecessary government monitoring. Surveillance technologies can begin with good intentions. They are introduced to solve crimes, but over time they become normalized, expanded, and used for purposes far beyond what was originally promised. that pattern has repeated itself throughout history once surveillance system is built it rarely becomes smaller it grows there are reports of flock cameras used to monitor undocumented people monitoring those who attend protests targeting animal rights activists officers stalking a spouse sharing flock data with ice and border patrol and wrongful arrests The question before you is not whether these cameras can help solve crimes. Almost any surveillance tool can provide useful information. The real question is whether the government should routinely collect and store the movements of thousands of innocent people in hopes that the information might become useful later. I do not believe that this is the kind of community Kirkville should be. Our city has always valued trust, personal responsibility, individual freedom. Those values are weakened when the local government creates a system that treats every driver as a potential source of intelligence instead of as a citizen who deserves privacy that deserves respect. There are many ways to support law enforcement that do not require building a database of where ordinary people travel. Investing in officers, community partnerships, neighborhood engagement, and targeted investigations respects both public safety and constitutional freedom. I ask you to reject the idea that we must surrender privacy to achieve security. We can have both. The people of Kirksville deserve both. For these reasons, I respectfully urge you to remove the flock cameras from our city and reaffirm that Kirksville remains a place where the rights and freedoms of law-abiding citizens are protected.

Daniel, I'm afraid your time has expired.

That's a statement from Larry Ciesmaier. Thank you very much.

My name is Menno Schwartz. And I honestly have not seen a lot about the flock cameras until just like the last month or so. And I will say this as we as Kirksville citizens, if we just go everything by, there's two sides of this. I always look at there's ditch on both sides of the road. If we look at everything as far as like what we see on Facebook and we believe everything we see on Facebook, I think we're, We're kidding ourselves, right? So as a business owner, if I have a trailer stolen, I see a point where maybe it would be a good idea to have a flock camera where you could go say, hey, the trailer, here's the trailer situation and stuff like that, where they would be able to track it down. But also I have on my building, I have cameras so I can see what kind of vehicle pulls in and stuff like that. I think as a city council members, I think it is your responsibility is your due diligence. Take a look at what there's been a lot of concerns and I agree with this gentleman down here. What he said about. Just taking a pause, maybe, and not maybe not make a decision right away, but just, you know, because you guys represent Kirksville and I just moved in a couple years ago. I love Kirksville and it's a growing community and I think it's your guys responsibility to keep this community safe. But also to keep it where we are, we cannot respect our rights and stuff like that. So I don't have a lot to say. I just, I just asked you guys just. Maybe maybe it's just pausing it for this year, but just, you know, it's a responsibility or due diligence. Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Hello.

Good evening. My name is Tyler Burr. I've been a resident of Kirksville for five years now. I plan on making this my home for a long time to come and have concerns with where Flock and other automated license plate reader cameras will go from where they're at right now. It was mentioned earlier, and I came up with the same number, that 86 cities across the United States have deactivated or canceled their contracts with companies operating automated license plate readers, citing unauthorized access to data and proper usage of data and citizen pushback. Among the cases reported include the discovery of flock logins for sale on Russian hacking forums, unauthorized access by federal government agencies, regardless of how local departments have set up their information sharing. Tracking of peaceful political protesters and journalists who have written critical pieces regarding their local police departments, police officers using automated license plate readers to stop domestic partners and other women, police arresting innocents based on faulty ALPR data frequently at gunpoint.

The list could go on, but these are just a few of the instances of which the public is aware.

How many are we not aware of? These can all be verified from AP articles. If anybody wants to look further into these, I promise you I'm not making any of this stuff up. You know, regardless of how policies are set, policies are broken all the time. Freedom is taken away one step at a time. I do not support any ALPR system whenever they are paid for by someone else, and I even more so do not support them when they are paid for by taxpayer money. My questions for the city council is 2 questions. Why do you believe that the warrantless mass surveillance is in the public's best interest? And why do you believe that the program represents the will of citizens?

It's not a question and answer time. It's opportunity for you to provide feedback to the council. Okay, thank you. Are there other folks who wish to speak this evening?

Yes, please.

Oh, okay. You go right ahead.

Hello, good evening. Good evening. My name is grace. We've moved here in 2022 and we love it here. So, my statement today years ago, I heard about social point system in China, where your social score determined if you may travel what stores you could shop at eligibility for loans, scholarships and essentially what kind of life you would have. Something as small as jaywalking could bring down your score. And if you had a lower score, people that had higher scores did not want to be around you because it could bring their score down. I remember believing that I lived in a free country that would never allow anything like that to happen here in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. While these camera systems do not hand out social scores, where do you think they are going? Accepting this is moving one step closer to the system. Allowing this creates a world where our society is surveilled so much that they become complacent, and this kind of control will be allowed. That is not freedom. Our descendants deserve a world that is better than that, and our ancestors did not fight to be controlled. They fought for our freedom, and we have to continue that fight for the future of America. That is all.

Thank you.

Are there others who'd wish to speak this evening?

Can I take up another part of my time? I'm sorry, you've already had- Do you guys know who owns that? Peter Thiel?

Yours is already finished, but we can leave it open for other folks who'd like to speak.

Peter Thiel owns Flock. He's a good friend of Jeffrey Epstein. Just saying.

Good evening, Council. Good evening. Kevin McMahon. If I can, I'm tired, but I'd like to take this a little more personal. with Mr. Williamson, our police commissioner. He's saying it's only for criminal investigation. I've had drug houses down the block from my house for over 10 years. Can we do anything really concrete? And now there may be another one open up, okay? I also believe with these other gentlemen and ladies said it's a private, it's an invest. It's invasive. It's invasive on your own privacy. Okay. And. Is it possible for the citizens to vote on this issue or it is just for the city council to determine. Just a question. Okay. And I think there's also a mistake. Why should the city, I wrote down, have to pay $36,000 a year for service? That's what it's gonna cost to service these cameras. And my source, he could be wrong, he said that when these cameras take all these pictures, they make a permanent database on that license plate, and that stays forever, whether it actually gets dissipated after 30 days I don't know that's all I have to say. Thank you.

Thank you. Are there others who wish to speak this evening?

okay we got a tim if you'll introduce yourself we got it yeah okay uh my name is tim guy spieler um and um i'm coming basically to speak against not only the expenditure that's up for for grabs here but against the cameras themselves so As somebody said, I don't recall getting a chance to vote on that. So the idea here is that, I mean, I didn't have to go very far. I went to Wikipedia to get an idea that, yeah, we got the license plate reader. And everybody says that's innocuous. Our police chief reassures us that it's not going to look into cars or anything like that. But Those applications all exist. I mean, there's a picture here in Wikipedia's article of a plate reader on a hiking trail. And I don't know why you would need that, but there it is. And it's presented as though there's nothing wrong with it. And my feeling is, yeah. I don't like the cameras. I don't like any, any part of it, you know, so this is, I think we're violating the 4th amendment here in a lot of different ways. But on the other hand, you know, then the real question I have is sure we're accumulating data. Where's it going? 30 days and it's inaccessible. Does it disappear? I don't think so. I never heard of anybody deleting data like that. Does it disappear? And who owns the data? Do you guys own the data? Or does Flock own the data? And Flock owns it, they can do whatever they want with it. So I think we have a problem here with layers of, Lack of solutions here, we've got, we've got ownership of this stuff and I'm just, you know, I'd like to see us not only not pay rent on this again. But to take down the existing cameras, I yield. Thank you.

Hello, my name is Andrew Baker. I just wanted to mention some people talk about pausing the flock cameras, but even if you pause a contract flock does not turn off the cameras. The cameras run, so the cameras are there regardless if you pause the contract or not. And I pose them also, it's. They're detriment to our community. I found it. You're on. vision and mission statement quite an oxymoron because they're not welcoming and or ethical. So I greatly oppose the cameras.

Who else would like to speak on this issue this evening?

My name is Cole Furman, and I also oppose the fly cameras.

Thank you.

Hi, I'm Liz Asouris. My family and I, we moved here last year from a major city. And as we were looking for communities to move to, we visited Kirksville and we fell in love with the atmosphere, how welcoming it was. And one of the major factors that drove us to move here was that there were no flock cameras set up at that time. shortly after we moved here we saw that you guys had voted on establishing the flock camera system and we thought to ourselves that perhaps after this funding runs out that you won't want to pay for it with our tax dollars but however that seems to not be the case and i greatly oppose my tax dollars we just bought a house here in town we're very established in the community we love it here a lot and i just don't want my tax dollars going to this

Don't wanna cut anybody off. Is there anyone else who'd like to speak on this issue?

My name is Tyler Milhouse and sorry, I'm a little nervous. I don't really come and do stuff like this, but with the matters at hand that's been going on in this town between the flop cameras and what looks to be possibility of a data center in our future,

Please, sir, it's his time, not yours. I'll have to ask you to please refrain from doing that again, okay? I apologize, sir.

I'm just an average working class man. I work my job. I go home. I go fishing. I go help buddies with chores they might have. I spend time with my family. I take my daughter out. I take my daughter out in nature. A beautiful environment around Kirksville between our lakes, our forests, and everything we have. We have good people in this town. Yes, we have a drug problem. Yes, we have issues. But we have damn good people in this town with good hearts. And those people don't need this movement that's happening in this town. We don't need the same future, these big cities and all this bull crap that's going on in America. All these systems are ruining society. the same principles that built this town to be what it is. Those cameras are doing us no good. They are 100% for the federal government. Otherwise they would not be there. It is an invasion of privacy. They are being used way outside of the zone of what is told to the common person. I watched another video today, license plate reader, but yet it watches every movement a person's body takes and it moves with them. That's quite a double standard to be called a license plate reader. That's hidden information from every single Kirksville resident. And like they said, I don't remember us getting a choice whether these cameras were installed in the first place. And that's pretty sly to do that under everybody's nose. I know Kirksville could use better funding. We could use some money in this town to help with roads and different things. But honestly, guys, I think there's better ways to go about it. And I truly, truly hope. that whatever the talks are of possible zoning and things for data centers, dear God, guys, please do your research. They are destroying the environments they are in. The amount they raise the temperature.

We're going to have to keep you just to the flock item. There's an opportunity to speak about a data center later if you'd like to.

Okay. That's fine. I didn't know.

He'll have an opportunity.

Regardless, I just want to get my point out there that things are getting serious enough to where the guy like me that doesn't do this is willing to step up and be here. I'm willing to be at the next one, the next one. Whatever I have to do, I'll push my other stuff off. Because if I see the one place I've called home my entire life burn to the ground with nonsense because it's the promise of a better future, it's not. AI is disgusting. It is not good. It's destroying our country. That's why everything's so damn expensive. All the money is being shoved into AI. It's absurd. All so we can train everybody to take our jobs. But these cameras, man, please take the note of everybody's opinion. Some people put in really good work for the research in here. We don't need them. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Emma Danford, and my husband and I just moved here a couple of years ago, too. And probably not even two miles from where we live, there's a camera, and that concerns me. I have a one-year-old, and I know they're saying they can only take pictures of the license plates, but what if they're taking pictures of the whole vehicle? I don't want pictures of my son taken. I don't want pictures of who I'm associating with or who I'm in a vehicle with. And I see how it could be dangerous, so I'm not for it. Thank you.

Hi, my name is Max. Just 1 of the things I agree with just about everything that everyone that's gotten up and spoken has said about this. 1 of the things that I'd like to bring to people's attention is that. Uh, year over year, and I don't have the numbers in front of me, but year over year, the city reports less and less crime. Um, and actually the only increase in crime, like, the only metric that has been increasing has been drunk driving, which. Doesn't flock does not help with so I don't really understand. The usage of flock in this instance, because it's. Not making us safer. We were already getting safer. As was proven by the police department's own statistics in the cities information that they're putting out there. And so the implementation of these cameras is just. I guess kind of confusing on top of it being regardless of what the police chief said that is different courts rule. That's not an invasion or infringement of the 4th amendment. It is like, objectively. So, yeah, that's it. Thank you.

Dave Bags, I'm a county resident. Been here since 1972. No longer live in Kirksville. A few years ago, the city, county, whatever, they said, we've got to make Kirksville 45% bigger. It was 18,000. We want to be at 20. So now we're at 17. Signed deal with the Missouri DOT, a four-lane highway, bridge or underpass on every major road. Well, I live out by the fairgrounds. They counted votes well. I think they should give the people the money back. They're paying taxes for a four-lane highway that was promised. Who took that away?

Did you have anything to speak about the flock cameras? I sure do. Okay, just want to make sure your head is there.

Since I have to come here, I've got to speak about... the whole 10 yards.

Right now, just on the plot cameras, though.

Okay. The governor is just this great state is giving you this money by grants. Is that correct? I mean, what is the deal? We're here on plot cameras. You got plenty of cameras everywhere if you need an investigation. Who's paying you? Where's this money coming from?

To ferry, it's not your time, sir.

I've asked you once more. I'm going to have to ask you to leave, sir.

You know, the public deserves some answers to what the heck you guys are doing. And whatever you do, do not put a clover leaf out of fairgrounds. My God, but we need to know who is. paying for this. A private company putting personal data on the internet forever. This is America. That's all I got.

Thank you. I'd say we're probably at last call.

If there's nothing further... Any additional council discussion? I mean, I think there's still a benefit to these. I know the people in the room don't agree with me and that's fine. Um, I, what I would like, I think is I'm inclined to look at it for this year. But what I would like, so, like, a quarterly report from the chief on how they're being used what we know, I want to see the, I would like to see achieve. I'd like to see your policies. They've written out on them so that we can evaluate those and make sure that they're appropriate. But that's that's sort of where I sit with it. I want to prove it, but I would like a quarterly report and I'd like to see the protocols in place to ensure it's not abused and hear about the audit report to 50 that closed session or whatever. That's fine. But.

I would say I came in tonight trying to look at the good side. I was like, well, is it really helping? I was looking at some of the smaller things. They're not small. These are big things to me, actually. Do they prevent kids from being abducted? Things like that. All these things. These are just things I'm looking at. I'll just tell you this. Honestly, I've been educated here tonight, and I appreciate everybody that spoke here tonight. For me, I'd be opposed to this.

Where am I at with it? I think these are the issues we talked about last year when the matter came forward. We've had a year of implementation thereabouts. I've yet to hear of concerns specifically in our community. I recognize that there have been challenges in others. I also recognize that our law enforcement officials and folks who are in other positions of power within the city have access to a lot of information and resources. And we've talked about the idea that humans are fallible and they absolutely are. But it also means that we still have tools that are available to help us do the things that are important. I think about there's quite a bit of information to the mule system that the police department has that contains a lot about a person's personal history, everything that comes along with that. And there are existing protocols to make sure that that information is used safely. I recognize that's different than what we're talking about tonight, but there are similarities there as well. I'm inclined to look at the benefit that has been made available for the police and helping to solve additional crimes here. I have not heard that there have been specific concerns of it in our community. I would agree that this is something that we need to continue to evaluate. I have concerns about the fact that it is not being completely covered out of the governor's office anymore. And it makes me perhaps more reticent a year from now on where we would be in that position. But at this time, I don't think that I would, it would move me off from a yes vote. And as such, then we'll go ahead and call for a vote all those in favor please say, aye aye aye all those opposed.

It does not.

Yeah, because if we have a 5 person council, we require a majority of the council, not just those present in order to pass it. So, because there are 3 here, all 3 votes did not meet in. So the motion does fail. I would encourage folks to stick around for the rest of the meeting. Like I said, though, I will not be upset if anybody does go. I know some folks probably wanna talk about a data center. I know there's been some rumors on that one. There'll be an opportunity in the meeting in the citizens participation component if you wanted to talk then. But if anybody did wanna leave, I'll take a couple minutes for folks to clear on out. Thank you very much. All right, we'll go ahead and resume with our agenda. We're moving now to action item. We'll move now to action item number three, which will be city clerk reading of a resolution.

Resolution of the City Council of the City of Kirksell, Missouri, accepting the bid from Sparks Constructors Inc. for the Downtown Revitalization Program Facade Improvement Project, Phase 15, 118-122 West Harrison Street, and authorizing the City Manager to execute all necessary associated legal documents.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion in second? So moved. Councilmember Gardner? Second. Second from Councilmember Hanley. Staff report will be with Ashley Young, our Community and Economic Development Director. Good evening, Ashley.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. So slowly but surely, we're moving forward with the Downtown Revitalization Program. This is a bid for Phase 15. which includes 118 through 122 West Harrison Street. That was built as Porter's Corner. That's one building. But over the years, it was split into three separate ownerships, those being 118, 120, and 122. But we treated Phase 15 as one project. It was built as one building. So we opened beds back on May 7th. The only bid we received was from Sparks Constructors for $480,000. However, that bid included an allowance of $125,000 for metal cornice repair that was included because they were not able to get an actual bid from a subcontractor. And so they put that allowance in there to basically pad their bid in the event that when they were able to get a contract or a bid from a subcontractor, they wouldn't fall short. And so through negotiating with that sole bidder, Sparks contractors, or constructors, excuse me, they were able to actually work through the process to get a bid from a subcontractor. That reduced their bid to a revised bid of $403,300. So reduced that down by over $77,000, thankfully. and in that revised bid which of course is attached to your report you can see the breakdown per building of that just over four hundred thousand dollars and and how that's broken down per building again so we received that on june 9th and then the final confirmation to proceed from the final property owner of the three was actually received on july 7th the day that this report was due so just under the wire so we're able to complete that and submit that to you all for your review. So just because we have, you know, I'll be honest, I'll take a minute here. I don't usually have an audience to talk about the downtown revitalization program a little bit. So I might just take a moment to say the last 10 years, this program has been in existence. It utilizes downtown tax increment finance or TIF monies that were collected starting in 1999, actually, and then through the end of 2022. uh for the improvement of the downtown there's a lot of different things that have been done in the downtown with these monies and this program is one of them and it is a program where the property owner pays a share of the improvement to their building and then these monies are used to pay for the remainder of the improvement to that building so that's how that program works This, of course, project would be no different. It's also being funded in part, though, because as we've gone on, we've had to get more fuel in the tank, so to speak, to keep the program going. So this is funded in part by a grant from the Missouri Department of Economic Development's Community Revitalization Program, which came about post-COVID through all those ARPA monies. Some of you might recall that community actually voted on some of these monies through Kirk's Capital Tournament. That was a different program. Pot of money, but you might remember all that money that came down from the federal and state governments for local communities back then 1 of those ways was through these community revitalization grants, which are being used in part to and in partnership with K ready, our regional economic development group to keep this program going. So, with that, I opinion, any of your questions would recommend it for approval.

Ashley, thank you very much for the report. I'm excited to see this project. That's a pretty visible corner. It has long been underneath some aluminum. So to see some life come back on that one, I think will be a particularly great addition to what's already been an expandingly beautiful square. So glad to see this project come forward.

Ashley, when you're explaining this, TIF monies come from a slightly higher sales tax in that area?

No, no, that's a great... So there were no new taxes as part of a TIF. Any TIF does not involve any new taxes. So what it does, though, how a TIF... And of course, the downtown TIF is gone. It's been gone now for about three and a half years. But when it was in existence, it established a base year, and that base year was 1998. And so whatever the sales tax revenue and the property tax revenue was in 1998, any increase over that base year there's an increment of that increase that's collected and goes into this fund to improve the downtown so no taxes were raised but as you know through inflation and also hopefully you know economic growth uh more tax revenues brought in that increment is collected so that's that's how a tiff works yeah great great question absolutely is there any citizens input on this matter this evening

oh yes ma'am you you you are there is not a timeline but you are on the list yeah a very prominent and lovely corner as well absolutely absolutely with a rich history all of itself and beautiful mural and everything see no more we'll go ahead and take it to a vote all those in favor please raise your hand and say aye aye all those opposed and the motion does pass ashley thank you very much thank you Let's move into action item number 4 this evening, which is city clerk reading of a resolution.

Resolution of the city council, the city of Kirksell, Missouri, authorizing the purchase of up to 800 tons of rock salt for winter road maintenance. From central salt of Lyons, Kansas.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion in 2nd to approve. 2nd, Council member handling with the motion Council member Gardner with the 2nd, on that 1, our staff report will be with Adam Doral our public works director. Good evening.

Good evening. Madam counsel. So this is our annual rock salt bit. 1 of the more exciting things. This is, we do this bit in July and it does span for 2 years. So these prices, we get them now. It will be for the rest of this fiscal year as well as the start of fiscal year 27 last year. We use most of our salt in 25 with the big snow around Thanksgiving. We didn't use a whole lot this year so far. So we really didn't have a lot of purchases in the spring. That really there's no way to predict that. We just kind of hope for the best this year. We've, we've been pretty lucky so far. Prices did go up a little over 25% this year over what we had last year likely due to increase fuel costs. But we did get 2 bids and we're recommending acceptance of the bid from central salt out of Kansas at 107 dollars and 99 cents per time. I've been answering questions Adam.

Thanks for the report questions or comments.

If you pile up 800 tons of rock salt, how big is that?

So that's about what we have stored right now in our salt shed building. So, if you remember from your tour, how big that was, that's what we can store right now. Okay. Thanks.

Any citizens input on the matter this evening? We'll go ahead and take it to a vote all those in favor. Please raise your hand and say aye aye. All those opposed motion is approved Adam. Thank you very much. Let's see, we'll move to action item number 5 city clerk reading of bill number 2026 dash 2 8.

Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri, amending ordinance number 12710, appropriating from the revenue of the City of Kirksville, Missouri, expenditures in accordance with the fiscal year 2026 budget of the City of Kirksville, Missouri and providing for adjustments thereto.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion in 2nd to approve on 1st reading? So moved. Council member Gardner? Second. Second from Council member Hanley. Staff report will be with Lacey again. Hello, Lacey.

Hello. This budget adjustment that we're bringing forward basically is for our property out on 3010 Industrial Road. Currently, it's being rented by Simveo. When council approved the Fourth Amendment to the contract in January, we knew a component of that contract, which has been in place before, would be repairs and maintenance to the facility that the city owns, and then some other... options to allow some Veo to do improvements and if they increase the value of the property then we could match some of that what we didn't know when we completed the 2026 budget was what that amount would be so we knew that we would have to bring this budget adjustment back to Council this would be in our capital improvement sales tax fund there are revenues in that and then there are also a fund balance in that account that we knew we would use to complete a budget adjustment later in the year and what we're asking is for council to increase the budget in that specific fund for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to do some completions of some repairs and maintenance on that property If approved by council, that will increase our 2026 budget from $59,588,578 to $59,738,578. And I am here to answer any questions if you have any. Lacey, thank you for that report. Questions or comments from council on this matter? What kind of repairs are we looking for out there with improvements? One of the improvements that we have made thus far would be to replace some of the bathroom stalls. Another improvement we're looking at are some concrete slabs in the parking lot, which we have done in prior years, an air conditioning unit, and maybe some coating to parts of the building, which we have done that before. We've already put one initial coating on the building, but it's to keep the maintenance of the coating up. So we can still get warranty if we need to and know that we're maintaining our own property.

Any citizens input on the matter this evening? We'll go ahead and vote all those in favor. Please raise your hand and say aye. All those opposed motion does pass on 1st reading. So I now call for city clerk 2nd, reading the bill number 2026 dash 2 8.

Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri, amending ordinance number 12710, appropriating from the revenue of the City of Kirksville, Missouri, expenditures in accordance with the fiscal year 2026 budget of the City of Kirksville, Missouri, and providing for adjustments thereto.

Thank you for that reading is there a motion in 2nd to approve on 2nd reading so moved council member Gardner 2nd 2nd from council member handling any additional council discussion on the matter. Any additional citizens input. Go ahead and vote all those in favor please raise your hand and say, aye aye. All those opposed motion is approved. Thank you. Thank you very much. Let's move into action item number 6, which will be city clerk reading the bill number 2026 dash 29.

Ordinance of the City Council, the City of Kirksville, Missouri approving the preliminary plat of Shandy Farms, a major subdivision located in Kirksville, Missouri.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion and second to approve on first reading? So moved. Council Member Gardner? Second. Second from Council Member Hanley. Staff report is with Ashley.

All right. Thank you, Mayor and Council. So this is the land is currently addressed as 3006 North Baltimore, which doesn't mean a whole lot. So colloquially, we would describe that as the land south of United Rentals, south and east and southeast. So there's an L-shaped lot. Of course, it's included in a map and in the packet and everything along with the map or the preliminary plat of the subdivision, but it's that land of the south, southeast, and east of United Rentals. And the current owner is looking to go through the major subdivision process. This is the preliminary plat for that. In order to create two lots, lot one would be all the land east of United Rentals, and the plan would be for that to remain R1 single-family residential. That's the land, of course, immediately adjacent to the Suburban Drive neighborhood there to the north. Lot two would be the land south of United rentals right along North Baltimore Street, Business Highway 63. And the intent would be then for that land to be sold to a developer, a Roads Development Group, which would then develop a plaza tire service. And we have representatives from Roads Development Group here this evening, of course, if you have any questions for them as well. However, for this major subdivision this preliminary plat it does include public infrastructure specifically a water main and so that's what elevates it to the necessity of having a major subdivision going through that major subdivision process even though it really is just just two lots lot one and and lot two so this was all about before the planning zoning commission back on june 24th and they voted unanimously to recommend it to you all for approval and pending your questions i would do the same

Ashley, thank you for the report.

Counselor Hanley. Were you able to participate in that meeting? I was not.

You were not. I was just going to ask if you had any additional insight to share from that then. So, a question I would have on this, you're talking about the Eastern portion remaining are 1 as we go through this particular, which I know we're getting into the next. Well, right there yet. Right. As I look at the plat map, what infrastructure is in place for access into that particular area for R1 development?

Excellent question. So the requirement is a platted street, not necessarily a public street. And so the platted private street would be that current drive off of North Baltimore Street. That would be extended into what, you know, called a T-turnaround or a hammerhead there that would provide access then to the north to that lot one. So we would still have street access, albeit via a private drive.

That's what I thought I could see here in the diagram.

It's hard when you print it off. It's easier if you can zoom in.

It's there.

I can see it. Well, thank you, Ashley.

Other council discussion on the matter?

Any citizens input on the matter this evening? If you'll come on up to the podium, please.

On this, the if a person wants to have land in city limits and develop it for housing, they would be responsible for all the sewer lines and all that. And I didn't quite understand on the business portion of this, or they want in the city to front to bill the developers left to pay for all of that. Oh, okay. That was one clutter fight on that.

You bet. You're welcome.

Other folks who wish to speak on this matter, and I do just want to clarify in response to his question. Part of the reason you have to take action is that once it's finished, they're going to want you to. Bring the water main into the city's inventory that would make it your the city's responsibility from that point forward. It has to be done to our standards and it has to be done to our standards.

Any developer commercial residential industrial they're the ones who pay for the initial installation. Correct? Very good. Let's go ahead and take this to a vote on 1st, reading all those in favor. Please raise your hand and say, aye aye. All those opposed motion does pass on 1st reading. So I now call for city clerk 2nd, reading a bill number 2026 dash 29.

Ordinance of the city council, the city of Kirk, so Missouri approving the preliminary plat of shandy farms and major subdivision located in Kirksville, Missouri.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion in 2nd to approve on 2nd reading? So move council member Gardner 2nd from council member handling any additional discussion any additional citizens input. We'll go ahead and vote all those in favor. Please raise your hand and say aye aye. All those opposed motion is approved. We'll go then to action item number 7 city clerk reading the bill number 2026 dash 30.

Coordinates of the City Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri authorizing the rezoning of property at 3006 North Baltimore Street from R1 Single Family Residential District to C3 Extensive Business District and changing the zoning map accordingly.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion and a second to approve? So moved. Councilmember Gardner? Second. Second from Councilmember Hanley. Staff report's going to be with Ashley on this related matter.

All right. Thank you again. So now that the preliminary plan has been approved and a lot to actually exist, the prospective buyer, again, the Rhodes Group, is looking to rezone this property from our one single-family residential district to a C3 extensive business district. for the development of a plaza tire service, as we mentioned earlier. So this request, it is in conformance with the future land use map of the Think Kirksville 2040 comprehensive plan. And this was brought before the June 24th meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission as well. And there was, of course, a public hearing. We had one individual speak in favor of the request, and no one spoke in opposition. And then the commission voted unanimously to recommend it to you all for approval. And once again, pending your questions, we'll do the same. Ashley, thanks for the report.

Questions or comments? Oh, maybe you had something. All right, citizens' input on the matter. We'll go ahead and take it to a vote on first reading. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion does pass on first reading. So I now call for city clerk's second reading of bill number 2026-30.

Ornette to the city council of the city of Kirksell, Missouri, authorizing the rezoning of property at 3006 North Baltimore street. From our 1 single family residential district to see 3 extensive business district and changing the zoning map accordingly.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion in 2nd to approve on 2nd reading?

So, I'm a council member gardener 2nd, 2nd from council member Hanley.

There's no more discussion from council. Any citizens input on second reading? And we'll go ahead and vote. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion is approved. Ashley, thank you very much. Thank you. Let's move into action item number eight, city clerk reading of bill number 2026-31.

Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri authorizing the City Manager to execute a lease amendment with the General Services Administration to expand the lease space at the Kirksville Regional Airport.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion in 2nd to approve on 1st reading? So, council member handling with the motion 2nd, council regarding with the 2nd, the staff reports can be with Jeff, the fountain, our airport director. Good evening Jeff.

Good evening. Mayor and council. So, yes, the city has been leasing previously in the old terminal, 256 square feet of office space, plus an additional 56 square feet of storage space, making it 312 rentable square feet. The TSA office is responsible for passenger screening and airline security. The proposed amendment extends the lease space from 312 to 680 square feet, which is what they currently have in the new terminal. And then that's what we got for that. The citizen impact, again, approval of this motion is in line with chapter four, think mobility and transportation, objective 4.1, improve regional transportation connections for all modes of travel. This will allow for reliable air carrier service. Some physical impact by this is accepting this amendment. There will be no physical impact until the end of the current lease term, which ends in 2029. The existing lease included language pertaining to forced move. In the section 2.05, I believe the lease agreement was provided in the documents, which does not allow for changes in rental fees based on moving to a larger designated area. Now, again, we made this area by TSA requirements. That's the part that irked me, Jeff, as I read this.

We had federal design going into this airport, TSA requirements on what the space needed to be, and it's then called a forced move under the terms of... I mean, I get that we're under the terms of the contract until 2029, but oh, that irked me when I read that. You're not the only one hard on it.

The issue is with all the government shutdowns that recently happened. Most of the people that started this project are no longer working there and the new people are not acknowledged. In fact, we've been discussing this new building in this new space, which they required since 2019 when we. Renew their lease lease agreement while we were talking about building a new terminal. Um, and unfortunately, it's in hard writing in their current contract, and we're just kind of no way around it, which is fine.

But we may need to consider this when we come up with our lease agreement in the future. Oh, yes, we may need to be, um, picking up some lost revenue as we set those lease rates in the future.

Unfortunately, they do set the standard on what they pay for their. Oh, even better. Okay.

yeah i mean you're talking about the federal government i know and then it's largely the federal government that has paid for the airport yes which i appreciate that very much just the whole thing is sour yes and that's the consolation that they paid five million dollars for the terminal versus minimal rent right we will yes yes but i can still be cranky about it

We all were, I can tell you, I fought the good fight.

I tried my hardest. That's one of the, one of the reasons this is bringing brought now plus. The barracuda kicked out this new officer email to me, which is why this is getting brought now instead of when I brought on the other lease agreement with regular.

Other than my crankiness and the additional council discussion on the matter, any citizens input on the matter, please come forward to the podium if you would.

Can the citizens help demolish the old terminal?

It's already torn down. But come on out for ribbon cutting. We're going to have a good celebration out this year before long. There's some pictures of it on Facebook if you want to take a look. They've got coming down.

If there's no further citizens input, we'll go ahead and vote on first reading.

All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion does pass on first reading. So I'd now call for city clerk's second reading of bill number 2026-31.

Ordinance at the City Council of the City of Kirksell, Missouri, authorizing the City Manager to execute a lease amendment with the General Services Administration to expand the lease space at the Kirksell Regional Airport.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion and a second to approve on second reading? So moved. Councilmember Gardner? Second. Second from Councilmember Hanley. Any additional council discussion? Any additional citizens input? You just saw the pictures of it coming down out there. So I missed it there.

All those in favor please.

I got confused there. Sorry folks. Um, any additional discussion any additional citizens input then we'll vote all those in favor please raise your hand and say, aye aye all those opposed motion does approve Jeff. Thank you very much. It brings us to action item number nine. I'll entertain a motion and second to approve liquor license renewals for 52 liquor licenses requested by 29 businesses for the annual period through July 31st, 2027. It's a standoff.

So moved.

Council member Garner with motion. Second from council member Hanley. Staff report will be with Lacey.

Thank you. This is the fun part of what I get to do tonight. All liquor license in the city expire July 31st. So this is our 1st batch of liquor license that we're bringing forward to council to renew those for a year. I know it doesn't sound. quite right to say 29 businesses want 52 license, but how that works with the state of Missouri is if I have a license for retail drink of spirits and wine, I also need a Sunday license. So technically I'm one business, but I need two license. So barring any questions, I ask that these businesses' liquor license be approved by Council. And then on another note, they have all been brought individually. When they first go into business, they are brought to Council. So these are all renewals.

Lacey, thank you for the report. Questions or comments from Council on this matter? Any citizens' input? Go ahead and take it to a vote all those in favor, please raise your hand and say, aye aye aye. All those opposed the motion is approved. Thank you very much. We'll now go to action item number 10, entertain a motion and 2nd, to approve the appointment of hunter Kelly to the watershed management commission for a partial term expiring March 2028. So moved council member Gardner 2nd from council member handling staff report will be with Mary may come for our city manager. Good evening, Mary.

Good evening, mayor and council. So, the current watershed commission member was Tom Stinson due to changes in circumstances. His availability was reduced and therefore he submitted his resignation that opened the slot. We did solicit through the city clerk applications from the community and Mr Kelly did submit that the council was agreeable. All right, I hope is agreeable to approve his appointment and it would be for a partial term expiring March 2028.

Mary, thanks for the report questions or comments from counsel on this matter. Any citizens input, we'll go ahead and vote all those in favor. Please raise your hand and say aye aye. All those opposed motion is approved. Move to action item number 11, I'll entertain a motion in 2nd, to approve the appointment of Pete that Weiler and the reappointment of Jason Hunsaker to the airport and transportation commission for full 3 year terms expiring August 2029. Council member Gardner 2nd from council member handling staff report is again with Mary.

Good evening again, Mayor and Council. So we are asking the Council to appoint Pete Detweiler. It says appointment, but I do want to mention that Pete Detweiler has served on this particular commission since 1994. So as the current members, he is the longest serving member. However, your policy requires that um individuals can be reappointed for two full terms he has done so um and when that happened then he needed to resubmit an application which he did um as well as i think there were were there others to that there were several others okay so anyway uh through that process um mr detweiler we're recommending mr detweiler to continue to serve on that commission this would be his last term. He has stated that and then Mr. Hunsaker would also then be reappointed for one full term as well.

Well, thank you very much any council discussion on the matter.

I should have said this on the previous 1, but it applies to 10, 11 and 12 is that we get phenomenal applications for these. We're so appreciate it. There's a lot of talented people in this community and this is a great way to get connected. So we're so thankful for everyone who's applied and decisions are very difficult in terms of. Who gets appointed, so thank you for everybody who's. Any citizens input on the matter this evening.

Go ahead and take it to a vote all those in favor, please raise your hand and say, aye aye all those opposed. Motion is approved this brings us to action item number 12 on entertain a motion in 2nd, to approve the reappointment of Dan Martin Bruce Thompson and Jeremy Hopkins for full 4 year terms that will expire in June 2030 to the planning and zoning commission. Council member gardener 2nd from council member handling staff report is with Mary.

So first I have to say when I read 2030, that just sounds so far away. But anyway, they're four-year terms. And so we are asking the council to reappoint Dan Martin. Dan currently serves as the chair. And he's been on the commission since 2018. The other two members are Bruce Thompson and Jeremy Hopkins. Both have been on the commission since 2022. Mr. Hopkins serves as the vice chair currently.

All right, thanks for the report.

serve on that commission. Anything else you'd like to add on these particular folks? I'm new to it. I'm good at this.

Okay. These folks have been long serving and have done some really great work. I've appreciated their professionalism particularly on this. So I think we're wise to keep them on this commission. Any citizens input? We'll go ahead and take it to a vote. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? The motion is approved. That concludes our action items for this evening and we're going to move into our citizens participation component of tonight's meeting, which is where anybody can speak on any item that hasn't already been on the agenda for this evening. Like, before would ask to introduce yourself before you begin speaking. I recognize based off of some of our earlier conversation that we probably have some folks here to talk about the data center. And before we get into that boy, I've seen a lot of things online. I've gotten a lot of phone calls and emails about it. I will say right off the bat that the city council has not been approached about a data center. We have not been. Um, that's not to say that we are probably not going to at some point. Right? Um, as we look around the state, as we look around the nation, these are conversations that are happening. And while I have some pretty significant personal concerns, we will have a fair and open discussion about this in this community as we have also done with the flat camera, both last year and this year and everything else that comes before. We will have a frank and open conversation. We're committed in the city of Kirksville to transparency, education and conversation. I know there have been some concerning instances of some other cities around the state of Missouri. I don't. I don't want our city to be in one of those situations ever.

We will make things in the open and strong decisions on that.

I will share that the governor did host a, for lack of a better word, conference on the matter, presentation. How would you qualify that, Mary?

Well, it wasn't the governor. It was the Missouri Association of Counties. Oh, that's right. And the Missouri Municipal League, who works with the cities, and also the School Board Association of the state. So they hosted a conference. It was... An educational conference, and myself and Anastasia Tiedemann, who is the executive director of K ready attended our interest was to find out more about data centers. And so I think some of the conversation that you may hear tonight, or you've seen was sparked by my putting in the newsletter that will be talking to the council about what we learned. That'll be on the 20th of July in a study session. Study sessions are opportunity for council to learn. We did also invite the county commissioners because that's, you know, if you want to talk about. Acreage and what have you more land lies outside the city limits than. you know, that would be maybe more attractive.

So we've invited the commission to join us for that conversation next week. Have we heard back yet on whether or not they're planning to attend?

No.

We have not heard back. And I'll share with folks that, you know, again, as Mary talked about, the acreage for any sort of thing that might come along is probably more available outside of city limits than it is inside there. So we don't usually talk this much to set this up. John?

Mary, you said Anastasia Tiedemann was going to be there from K-Ready. Yes. For those who don't know what K-Ready is, what is that over there?

So K-Ready is the Kirksville Regional Economic Development Group. They are the entity that works with outside entities who are interested in coming in to build, for example, Kraft Heinz when they were doing all of their work or The business that's over in Hollister now, so that is who is really the 1st call. They receive the information 1st city has a contract with them to do that work and any action that would be needed for the council would have to come before the council in a public. Setting like this.

So there's all those caveats. Your conversation is welcome. It was welcomed early in the meeting. We'd appreciate hearing from you tonight on this or any topic. With that, the podium is open and I welcome anyone to come forward this evening.

Hi.

Is this on? It is.

I'm Holly Llewellyn, and I did want to speak about that. And thank you for letting us do that. So I wrote it down, so I'm going to read it so I don't forget anything. Good evening. It is with a deep sense of concern that I speak to you this evening. But first, let me tell you where I'm coming from. I've lived in Adair County my entire life. Generations of my family have lived in Adair and Schuyler County for well over 100 years. Both my parents and my maternal and paternal grandparents are generational farmers in this county, and the vast majority of my 50-plus cousins have been through the Kirksville public school system. My parents' farm is just years away from being eligible to become a century farm, and my brother and I will eventually take over operations with the hope and intent to pass it along to our children someday. Currently, my husband and I live in town and we're very thankful for John Hanley, by the way, and his services. All that to say our roots run deep here and we love the community. We love it so much. We don't ever intend to leave and don't ever understand why people wish to. However, our way of life and the environmental health has been drastically compromised over the last eight to 10 years. First came the wind farm and then the solar farms. Now these were not inside city limits and they are private land sales and leases. So there's nothing that we could have done about them. We are also getting additional large transmission lines yet again out of our control. However, each of these technologies contribute to various lasting health effects of varying degree. Some people are affected, some people are not, and there's no real way to decipher who will be and who won't be. But as a more dire example, there are already studies existing and published that show that rates of childhood cancer skyrocket when transmission lines are in close proximity to homes. So with all that in mind, I'd like to speak to this rumor that we've all been seeing on Facebook about a data center coming to our area. There's just so much that we do not know yet about the health and environmental effects that might be the direct result of data centers, and we unfortunately cannot reverse the wind or solar farms or the transmission lines. And my understanding, like you mentioned, is that there are no permits that have been filed for any data center here. I just ask that as we look ahead to the future, you would keep our citizens best interest in mind. Adair County, as we know, is kind of the beacon of Northeast Missouri. Um, and I wish for my children to grow up here, um, and for my grandchildren to grow up here someday and. Hypothetically looking at the data from other. communities that have data centers coming in, it just makes it a big financial burden, it seems like, on folks when you look at the increases in utilities and water, the quality of water. And so all that said, I yearn to preserve our community and prevent any further intrusions by these, I guess, tech and energy giants, for lack of a better word. but we need your help. And so I'm asking tonight that you would consider a one-year moratorium so that there is time to review the lifelong impacts. Many of us are very concerned, lifelong residents of Adair County and Kirksville, and if you can offer help, we would be eternally grateful. Thank you for your time.

Thank you. Thank you. Podium's open. Please, go ahead.

Polly's having a panic attack right now. Okay, hello, my name is Abby Newland. I'm from a farming family, and our family owns a local business here in Kirksville. I'm here today to express that I, like many others I think in this room and in this community, have about a potential data center coming to our hometown. Data center's a buzzword, so I hope you can understand the worry residents had when it showed up in the newsletter, so apologies, but I wanted to speak up into a line and get ahead of things. I just wanna use my time tonight to ask for full transparency for us as residents from city staff and the council as conversations around this topic continue or begin on your end anytime moving forward. I wanna learn more and I hope our city can be proactive and allow our city plenty of time for strategic planning and community public health input. We don't wanna rush. What I think has been proven here tonight is being proactive versus reactive on controversial issues is probably the preferral option for the council and us both. While we understand there can be positives to bringing big projects, Like beer... While I understand there can be positives to bringing big projects in like this for tax revenue, temporary jobs, other communities are proving weakly that protecting the people and their local resources outweighs those big tax selling options. Things like restrictive zoning, a one year moratorium, or other preventative options would allow us as a community to be smart and strategic about big economic development decisions. If the city and county both were to issue parallel efforts and pass, for example, a one year moratorium, I think of how much would change in a year's time. That's legislation-wise, regulations for the developers, tax agreements, environmental impact studies, and more. A few of us are also talking with the county commissioners as well, as the city aligns efforts that would benefit everybody and don't work against each other. So if you're thinking right now, Abby, you really should be talking to the county and not the city, you're right. So we are. We have a conversation. We're hopefully going to meet with them again after the study session. We're on it. We're doing it. We're trying to do it right. There's safeguard policy language I hope the council will look at from other cities in Missouri that you can keep in your pocket as conversations continue that might be a good fit to integrate into our Kirksville's current zoning ordinance language. Our town is not huge, so our residential zone areas are still fairly close to the commercial industrial zone areas. I do worry many businesses and families would be affected by a large-scale data center within city limits and in county limits without smart safeguard regulations in place regarding noise, water usage, electric usage, setbacks, generator hours, et cetera. I believe the council has the people's best interests at heart, and you all seem like you support public health, which is very reassuring. So I do look forward to learning more about the data center summit that you attended next Monday, and I'm grateful for the ability to speak tonight. And I do want to commend you guys all for your calmness through the chaos of topics. Thanks.

Thank you very much.

Hello. My name is Morgan Buckingham. I am part of the Northeast Rainbow community. I am coming to the council to discuss the dangers of possible data centers. Data centers will not benefit the city as much as people say it does. It will cause noise pollution, health problems, our already high utility bills to skyrocket to some reports as much as 100% in some cities with data centers already installed. and that will only provide temporary relief to the collapsing job market. In fact, we'll add only an average for most data centers, 50 new permanent jobs. This will hurt us in every way imaginable. It uses an extremely large amount of water and electricity. The cost of this will be passed on to us, the citizens of Kirksville. with the already rising prices of the utilities and the price of living going up. The average consumer will not be able to financially handle a data center in Adair County. This is for AI, which is already collapsing under its own weight. I hope the officials that may be considering a data center reconsider this, as the vast majority of citizens who have elected them do not want one in this county. I hope any private citizens who are thinking of selling land to these companies realize that the companies are chasing short-term rewards despite the devastating long-term consequences. I have lived in this area for over 20 years. I don't want the rich to destroy this town that I have grew up in and the surrounding counties. I thank you for your time, and I hope that you consider what I have said before you make a decision for the future of this city. Thank you.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Corey Lubring, and I've been a citizen of Kirksville for 20 years now. I'm also a candidate that's running for state representative for District 3 here, which would represent Kirksville and the counties east of here. I just want to also commend you all for your transparency on the topics that were going to be discussed tonight, because there is a lot of speculation online that there was a shadow docket and that data centers were going to be discussed. And I do believe that you all were going to be transparent if that were to come up. And I think also So the rumors were also fueled a lot by images of the helicopter with the instrument that was searching for underground aquifers and whatnot. And it's a reason for being here. On top of that, I just want to say that I was asked by a lot of people within the district that I would come to represent if elected to be here tonight to speak upon this matter, if it were to come up, to say that there is a lot of bipartisan opposition to... a data center coming to the area. A lot of people in a lot of communities around here do want new industry coming to this part of the area to bolster our communities. But this is not it. And so therefore, I am here honoring the will of the people that I would come to represent to tell you that the people of this district do not want a data center in this area. Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Dan Anderson. I only had time to prepare one speech, so I'm going to be off the cuff on this one. I don't need to prepare a speech because there's exactly five points that I and many people consider when they think about data centers. One is water. Whether you have an open system or a closed system, the identity centers, any data center takes an enormous amount of water and that needs to be properly rated for both providing and for collecting, recollecting the water if it's not an evaporative system. The second one is power. I think we all know the downsides of the power. So I'll just kind of glance over that one. It will cause the utilities to go up. The third one is the sound. And this is the most interesting to me by far. There's two kinds of sound. There's the audible sound and then there's the inaudible sound. All data centers, pretty much all things, but especially when you cluster this many fans, this much cooling, this much equipment into one place. you have very loud, relatively compared to ambient, sound that you can hear. And then there is another kind of sound called infrasound. An infrasound is a type of sound that you cannot hear. It carries for miles, and depending on the size of the data center, it can carry for tens of miles. This has been known to cause ill health effects, not just for people, but for animals and a lot of other health effects. I'm glancing over trying to keep my time low. And then the other one is water, electric, power, sound. The other one is The promise of returning money to a community or of providing money to a community. Most of these data centers, when they are built, they hire contractors from well outside of the state, well outside of the immediate municipality. They don't come from local individuals. In the long-term upkeep of these data centers, well, they don't really have long-term employees there. They have maintenance workers. Those are all shipped in from very specialized training centers well outside of our area. And any kind of other skilled labor is transferred from wherever the company's headquarter is to the data center. I understand that I really appreciate that nothing has been proposed, at least for inside of the city limits. However, I would like to say this as a preventative just for information sake for the future.

Thank you very much. Are there other folks who wish to speak on this or other issues this evening that weren't on the agenda already? All right, then we'll go ahead and move into to council comments. I just want to start by saying, I really appreciate everybody being here tonight and sharing their thoughts on things both about the data center and on the flock cameras even recognize that. I disagree with most folks in the room on it. I appreciate the conversation that was had your. Your ability to come and speak to counsel obviously had an impact on things and want to show that we continue to put things out in public. Always. Somebody shared with me that apparently I passed last year's flat cameras by executive decree, which I don't have the power to do that. And nobody should in a city government. We do things in public. We put them on agendas. We have them available to speak. Dan's been to it twice and has been an ardent conversation list on this 1. other folks have come here on the 2nd time around. We don't always agree on things, but we will always do our conversations in public and with full transparency. And I appreciate everybody coming to be a part of that conversation today. Data centers will likely be something there too. And again, we will have a robust open and transparent conversation on that as we will do with all things here in the city of personal. So, thank you everyone for coming tonight for your patients this evening. I know it was a long meeting with a lot of things in between. Everybody had the opportunity to speak. So I offer my thanks on that tonight.

yeah i want to concur we'll try to put more controversial stuff on the agenda to get more people here but no because usually it's like should we buy a police car and you guys are like we're not that interested in that um no but we really do appreciate hearing everybody's point whether we end up agreeing or disagreeing i think that's really valuable as well as we got a lot of emails about this i talked to a lot of community members um and i think it's really important um that that we hear that and we understand that and we may not we may not always vote the way you want us to but It's important for us to know how you feel. So thank you for that. We really do appreciate it. And I was shocked when I became a city council member that I was like, there's got to be secret meetings that we have behind closed doors. And there really aren't, except for very few exceptions where we announce it because it's Missouri revised statute, whatever, whatever, whatever, related to a few certain things like real estate. But we just don't have secret meetings. Everything's in front of you guys. We publish, you know, the newsletter that we get is the same newsletter you see. The agenda that we get is the same agenda that you see. And that's really important to all of us. And as I've been on the council for five years now, the value of that is really clear. So keep us informed about what you think, about what's important to you. It really helps us do our jobs better and we're thankful for it.

If there's nothing further, Merrick, could we do a newsletter review?

Certainly. So the first item I wanted to bring up is the Missouri Rural Enterprise and Innovation Center Revolving Loan. And earlier, individuals were talking about privacy. So Merrick has a revolving loan for small business development. City policy allows me to approve anything under $40,000. Aside from that, then it has to come to the council and it's a public, it becomes public. The Small Business Development Center through the federal government requires that there be confidentiality retained when small businesses are putting their information together. proprietary information, et cetera. Anybody who's a small business owner, I'm sure they understand they don't want their business out in the public. So the Merrick board, who is also established to support Merrick, they've asked if the city council would consider Making a change to the purchasing policy that would allow the Merrick board who signs off on the on all of the applications. Anyway, once they do, it comes to the council. So they have asked if the city would city council would revise the policy that for revolving loan only. That it just required the Merrick board approval. I will tell you the Merrick boards meetings are also public. So, these actions are not behind closed doors, but it's really about the potential of somebody who's wanting to do a business who's requesting more than that 40,000 dollars. How many that will be? I cannot answer that, but it was just a question and so I thought, well, I'll bring it before the council for your consideration. If you're agreeable, then the policy would need to be amended and would be brought forward to your next council meeting.

Mary, I appreciate the need for confidentiality as folks are taking some risks to put forth a new business in our community. I like that the revolving loan program is there to help people to do that. Um, so I'm in favor of extending your authority to do those in a way that's going to maintain confidentiality in line with both the risk they're undertaking in the federal requirements on that. The only stipulation I might put forth is that, um, you inform the mayor when that happens. So that doesn't necessarily need to be something that's brought forth at a public meeting, but it does allow for 1 member of the council to at least have.

seen and have some oversight on that can I clarify because I certainly can let the council know when the board makes a decision on a loan I just can't give you the particulars and so well in that case yeah so that's the issue it's um it's the details yeah as long as we continue to be informed on that I think that's my only my only concern I think we need to be notified and then if we have concerns about the way it's going then we can discuss that when it comes up yeah And this only came up because the city graciously became the fiscal agent for Merrick and that was a requirement by. University of Missouri extension, small business development center.

Yeah, sounds good. Do you have what you need to bring that forth? Yes. Okay. Yes.

The next item I had was the PFAS settlement. I'm not going to try to pronounce what PFAS stands for, but it's really the whole chemicals that were introduced into the water system through larger corporations. And so a class action lawsuit was filed. 1, and so there's a settlement process that we've been working through. 1st, step was testing pleased to say that our water system had, if anything was negligible.

Yeah, we had 11 out of 3 out of the 4. There was a deposit.

But it didn't meet the threshold. Right. It didn't meet the threshold. But in order for us to move forward, just to keep the opportunity, should there be something down the road, in order for us to do that, then there's paperwork that has to be filed. You already took action back in 2023, I believe, adopting a resolution authorizing moving forward with the settlement. Yes. Participation in that settlement, but I wanted to bring it to your attention just to make sure you were still agreeable. What this does is it requires Adam's people to fill out a form and then the city attorney will finish it and submit it.

Sounds like a good thing to keep us in the works on that. Just in case.

Okay, the last thing I had was seagoing containers. When the council was asked about approving an accessory structure for seagoing containers, the code very clearly says accessory structure seagoing containers are not allowed. Our burn building is made up of a series of seagoing containers, and originally we thought, well, okay, let's move that to a different location. After we've worked on it, and John can explain more, The time frame and the additional cost, there's a variety of reasons that once we take acceptance of the seagoing container, they're going to be delivering it to us in October or November. If we can't take acceptance, they're going to start charging for additional costs. So provided additional information to the council, basically stating that we want to retain the Burton Street site for the training center. And if you've got any questions for John, we'll move this seagoing container that's there as an accessory structure. And there's a few other things that we talked about moving.

Yeah. I mean, just general cleanup aside, I just, um, when we did the research, uh, the, the code is very, it's very, very specific as seagoing containers, as accessory structures dug into a little bit more and it's silent on any use of them in another structure. The reality is that tomorrow somebody could come in here, come upstairs, ask for a, uh, a building permit for a residential home in an R one zone area constructed out of seagoing containers. And there was nothing in the code that would prevent us from, from approving that. So as a component of a broader structure that's engineered, completely allowable and city ordinance, the, you know, the international residential code, the international billing code, it's all allowable, just as a standalone accessory structure is the only only prevention.

Appreciate the information.

Okay. Um, that is all I had, um, just again, remind you that, I mean, there's some operational notes of things that the city staff are going to be doing this week. Um, and then we will meet again next Monday in study session. Um, I will let, you know, if the county commissioners. Except the invitation sounds good. Okay.

All right, well, like, Mary said, we'll be meeting our study session next week and our next regular council meeting will be on Monday, July 27th at 6 0 PM here in the council chambers right at the end of the agenda. So I'd entertain a motion in 2nd to adjourn. So moved council regarding 2nd from council member handling all those in favor. Please raise your hand and say, aye aye. All those opposed with that. We are adjourned. Thank you all for coming tonight. Have a good evening.