City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Welcome to our Kirksville City Council meeting. Pleased to be joined by folks here in the room and those who are watching online. We'll bring our meeting to order and we will go ahead and start with our vision and mission statements. The City of Kirksville will create a welcoming and thriving community as Northeast Missouri 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 the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic Thank you very much. And if you'll now join me for a moment of silence before we begin the meeting.

Thank you very much.

Go ahead and discuss the order of tonight's agenda. Mary, are there any recommended additions or changes to the agenda this evening?

There are none.

I can see none. I'll entertain a motion and second to approve the order of tonight's agenda. So moved. Council Member Gardner. Second. Second from, let's see, here we got... Does that fit council member? We'll give it. All right. So council member Mayberry gets a second on that one. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion is approved. I'll entertain a motion in second then to approve our minutes from our regular session meeting held on the 10th of August, 2026. So moved. Council member Bansal with the motion. Second from council member Hanley. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Aye.

Motion is approved.

We're going to move into our information presentation and public hearing section. We do have two components this evening. We're going to start with some employee recognition. I'm going to invite Lucas up from our Dare County Central Dispatch to give a presentation on this one. Lucas? Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Good evening.

All right. Can everybody hear me? In recognition of exceptional service during the severe weather and flooding that impacted Adair County on the week of June 10th, 2026, I'm honored to present the Meritorious Service Award to Annalise Riley, Hannah Rasso, Angela Gashweiler, and Callie Allen. During this event, the communications center experienced a significant increase in emergency calls and radio traffic involving flooded roadways, stranded motorists, trapped residents, utility emergencies, and other weather-related incidents. Through the rapidly evolving situation, these employees remained calm, professional, and focused. Annalise, Hannah, and Angie demonstrated exceptional teamwork and dedication while handling emergency calls and coordinated responses with public safety agencies across the county. And although her scheduled shift had ended, Callie voluntarily remained on duty to assist. She was able to staff the backup console and developed a resourceful solution using a laptop to maintain cat access while answering calls and managing radio traffic. Together, their initiative, professionalism, and devotion to duty went above and beyond normal expectations. Their actions brought great credit to our Emergency Communications Center, the City of Kirksville, and Adair County. So I'd like to invite each of them up to receive these lapel pins.

On behalf of the Council, we want to extend our thanks for your hard work during a very trying time. We appreciate your support for the whole community during that occasion. So thank you very much. Thank you. All right. Come on up over here, and Austin will kind of direct how the photograph's going to work out. So take your cues from him. The rest of us, we're going to smile behind you.

Three, two, one.

We appreciate the hard work, the folks in our emergency dispatch center. And I think one of the opportunities to recognize a different career within public service here in the city of Kirksville that isn't always seen, right? That isn't often known. But when we post for these positions, these are incredibly important positions to serving our community, a great opportunity to make a career out of that one. So again, thank you all for being strong representatives of your profession and the city.

Well, I think one thing I'll say is that I was having a conversation with my daughter about 911 calls. And first of all, the concept for her that not everybody has 911 was wild. But the reliability of 911, when you need it, they have to be there, especially in moments like this. And that we have such exceptional folks operating those. We're just very thankful. So thank you for what you all do. We really appreciate it.

Thank you.

All right, we're going to move on to a public hearing now on our property tax levy. I'm going to invite Lacey King, our finance director, up to the podium. And since this is a public hearing, I'm going to officially gavel it in. I'm assuming we've got some signature sheets that are going to go around on clipboards. So if a clipboard makes its way to you, we'd appreciate if you would sign in. If you're running out the door, that's okay, too. We'll get those who remain to sign in.

I can clear a room. You really can, Lacey.

You've got a skill about you.

Oh, we are getting ready to do our 2026 property tax. We have to have it finalized by September 1st. And part of the process is having a public hearing so our citizens can come and speak about what we determine the tax is going to be. This is a joint effort between the county clerk's office and the state of Missouri auditor's office. They work together and provide the city with the information they need and part of that process is recalculating 2025 tax levy. And then we start from there and move forward with the 2026 tax levy. Based on the information provided by the county clerk, I got to put my glasses on. I'm so sorry. I would love to be able to not wear them, but... Our assessed value for 2026 has decreased overall in both real estate and personal property by $942,073 or 0.4% overall. And where this decrease has happened is mostly in personal property taxes. And that is attributable to depreciation. On personal property taxes, those are depreciable assets. So if you have a lot of assets in the previous year, then rightly they will decrease. So based on that information, we calculated the tax levy and it looks like the tax levy is going to increase because the tax levy is limited on the income that you can increase or decrease the taxes based on three principles. The first one is your actual increase in your tax levy and since the city had a decrease, it is zero. The second would be the consumer price index for the state of Missouri, which is, I believe, 2.7%. I don't have that right in front of me. That's right. And then the last would be a straight 5%. And you are to take the lesser of each of those three, which it's zero for the city of Kirksville, meaning that we cannot earn any more than we did last year. And so since we had a decrease in... the assessed value it only makes sense to increase taxes to get the same amount of revenue and that's why there's going to be an increase of zero point zero zero six cents so it's going to go from 0.6692 per hundred dollars of valuation to 0.6758 and what that means for our taxpayers is if you have a resident with a market value of two hundred thousand dollars Last year, you paid approximately $317.87 in city property tax. And then this year, based on that same levy, you would pay $321.01. So it's an increase of $3.14. is what that looks for us. So that's why we have a public hearing. So we let our taxpayers know what their levy is going to be and how we calculate it.

Lacey, thank you for that. It's a hearing. We'll start if there's any questions from counsel, and then we'll move on to opening the podium up for anybody who would like to speak on this matter at the hearing. Any questions or comments from counsel on the matter? In that case, the podium's open. If you'd like to speak at this hearing to the tax levy for 2026, please do so and make sure to introduce yourself at the podium. All right, seeing none, I'm going to go ahead and gavel out this hearing. Lacey, thank you very much. Thank you. We'll move into our action presentations this evening, which will start with action item number one, city clerk reading of bill number 2026-35.

An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri, establishing the property tax levy for the general operating fund of .6758 per $100 valuation for 2026.

Is there a motion and second to approve on first reading?

I motion.

Councilmember Mabry with the motion. Second. Second from Councilmember Vancil. Staff report will be with Lacey.

Okay, what we just discussed, we are asking Council to set the tax levy, and that would be .6758 per $100 valuation for 2026.

Lacey, thank you for the report. Any questions or comments from Council? I feel like this is coming out of nowhere. Snuck up on you, didn't it? Any citizens' input on the matter? 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 now call for city clerk's second reading of bill number 2026-35.

An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri, establishing the property tax levy for the general operating fund of .6758 per $100 valuation for 2026.

Thank you for that second reading. Is there a motion in second to approve on second reading? So moved. Councilmember Gardner? Second. Second from Councilmember Hanley. Any additional council discussion? Any additional citizens input? Then we'll vote on second reading. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed? Motion is approved. Lacey, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Let's move into action item number two, city clerk reading of bill number 2026-36.

An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri, approving Schneider Minor Subdivision, which includes a tract of land located at 19 East Hamilton Street in Kirksville, Missouri, and lot combination of tract 2 of said Schneider Minor Subdivision with lot 26 Hamilton Meadows Subdivision in Kirksville, Missouri.

I just want to check on two things. That's 1900 East Hamilton and not 19 East Hamilton.

1900.

Okay. And it's Schneider Minor Subdivision, not Schneider Manor Subdivision, correct?

Correct.

Okay. Yes. Just wanted to make, it's all good. Just want to make sure on the record that it was all out there. Is there a motion and second to approve on first reading? So moved. Council Member Gardner? Second. Second from Council Member Bansal. Our staff report and our first time as city planner before the council, Diane Albrecht. Good evening, Diane. Good evening.

good evening mayor and council um i have caught myself several times at the last couple of meetings getting ready to start reading an ordinance or tonight when i walked in it's like i didn't get the agendas down here but as uh the suggested motion said we have a minor subdivision along with a lot combination they have to be done together originally it was just going to be a lot split then a combination but since may 20th 1985 it had been split we had to go through the minor subdivision process the track two that they're splitting off it does not have street frontage but by combining it with lot 26 it does so basically we're taking one backyard and putting it on another essentially um Water and sanitary surmains are not an issue since the lot combination, they're already established homes. I can't think of anything else other than it does go with our Think 2040 comprehensive plan, the chapter six, objective 6.5. It's allowing both homeowners to grow their property the way it works for them. Happy to answer any questions.

Diane, can you, since you provided the maps, can you talk just a little bit about those?

Okay, the original plat that was in the agenda packet is rather complicated looking. There's a lot of lines and numbers. I did put at each of your places color coded that shows just the subdivision and then the lot combination. It just makes it a little easier to understand. And if you have no questions, we ask that you approve.

Are they planning to build on the top one, or is any building going unrelated to that?

There is a home, and there's some outbuildings there, too. That are already there? Yes, the 1900. Are they not planning to build more? No, it's their residence.

I just know there's been some flooding based on... How the building and ground have worked in that area. So I just want to make sure as we move forward that if anyone is building over there, we are thoughtful about that.

Yeah, it is not in a floodplain. I checked that.

Yeah, no, it got into some of the basements because a lot of the water got redirected. So anyway, just wanted to make sure that was being thought about, but it doesn't sound like that's part of this.

And I think that is one of the reasons they were looking forward to adding to their backyard to kind of work around that.

Dan, the history on this one, it almost looks like we're putting some land back together. Like maybe this had been the Schneider farm before the home were developed. And now this land is coming back into the Schneider property.

Well, the Schneider property is the parent tract.

Right.

We're actually removing some land from it. But I would say the Hamilton Meadows subdivision, I know on the other side, is owned by the same developer. So it very well could have been brought off of that.

And I do want to mention, when we did have those heavy rains, we did, actually the city did go in and do some dirt work to address the amount of water that was flowing, especially into that property that you were referencing.

Right, I think after the 2023 or whenever that was, but they got hit pretty hard that time.

I know the homeowners on Meadowview, their kids... We're very excited when they found out it was coming to council saying, so it's really our backyard now. It's like, well, we're, we're working on that trying for you. Um, he had talked about at some point, putting up a small personal outbuilding back behind there, too, for themselves.

Any other comments any citizens input on the matter. We'll go ahead and take this to a vote on 1st, reading all those in favor. Please raise your hand and say, hi. Hi, hi, those opposed. Motion does pass on 1st readings and now call for city clerk 2nd, reading of bill number 2026 dash 36.

An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri, approving Schneider Minor Subdivision, which includes a tract of land located at 1900 East Hamilton Street in Kirksville, Missouri, and lot combination of tract 2 of said Schneider Minor Subdivision with lot 26 Hamilton Meadows Subdivision in Kirksville, Missouri.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion and a second to approve on second reading? So moved councilman bands with the motion. Well, a lot of seconds going there. I think I heard it 1st open council member Gardner. Any additional discussion, the additional citizens input. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say, aye. All those opposed motion is approved. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

We'll go into action item number three, city clerk reading of bill number 2026-37.

An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri authorizing the submission of an application with the Missouri Department of Transportation for a Traffic Engineering Assistance Program grant for the Downtown Pedestrian Infrastructure and Intersection improvements and establishing the Mayor and City Manager as authorized representatives for the City of Kirksville for the submission and execution OF ALL GRANT ADMINISTRATION DOCUMENTS.

THANK YOU FOR THAT READING. IS THERE A MOTION AND SECOND TO APPROVE ON FIRST READING? SO MOVED. COUNCILMEMBER HANLEY? SECOND. SECOND FROM COUNCILMEMBER PANTSELL. STAFF REPORT WILL BE WITH RODNEY SADLER, OUR DEPUTY CITY MANAGER. GOOD EVENING, RODNEY.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. SO AS THE REPORT STATED, LAST YEAR WE DID APPLY FOR A TAP GRANT FOR A SIMILAR AREA OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE DOWNTOWN. to take down some of the existing traffic signals. We discussed that at length. And unfortunately, that TAP grant was not funded. So the idea this year is to apply for a TEAP grant, which often is the predecessor to applying for a TAP grant. It gives us that base of engineering and survey work to be done ahead of time. And so to do that for approximately 13 different intersections, there are currently 11 intersections in our downtown that do include those traffic signals and there's a couple of extra intersections that need some pedestrian infrastructure redesign. So that's what we'd be looking to do. This does align with the Think 2040 Chapter 5 of Maximizing Reliable Sustainable Infrastructure in Public Facilities for Future Generations. All of these TEAP grants for as long as I can remember have been $15,000 where the state allows for $12,000 to be provided to a community and the match is always $3,000. If you have any questions, I'll answer those now. Otherwise, I would ask you to approve. I will add the reason we're bringing this as an ordinance, a lot of grant applications or resolution, is so that because it's with the Missouri Department of Transportation, so that if we were to be awarded the funds, we wouldn't need to bring this back. Mary or the mayor could allow us to move forward and accept those funds. And the MoDOT does require an ordinance for the execution of certain grant funding whenever it comes through.

So answer any questions if you have one.

Rodney, thank you. Any questions or comments from council?

Hey, Rodney. So the removal of the traffic signals, that includes all the time that they're going to have to spend to figure out. Because I'm guessing the infrastructure below is going to be pretty old. So figuring out what's impacting what areas whenever they actually remove those signals. Is that all encompassed in that?

I think that'll be part of what we look at. And if Adam has anything that he's just you know, really wanting to shout, you can't at this point, but otherwise it's also gonna include the redesign of where the new signage is gonna need to go, mostly stop signs, but they have to be located in a certain location as you approach an intersection or looking across an intersection. So that'll be a part of that, but there'll still be some uses for that power that's, everything's sort of interconnected and we're working through that right now in the downtown. So anything else you want to add?

We're hoping when we go through this process that it actually frees up some power, if you will, because the traffic lights consume quite a bit of it. And this way, then when there's events, there won't be, you know, issues because we have had power outages and what have you. So we're hoping just to get them all off there. And then that way events are improved and the traffic flow improves. that makes a little more sense.

Right. And each intersection has a different sort of use. The ones around the square is typically just one corner and there's a singular post on two directions of the traffic signals. Whereas along Jefferson, there are four intersections in a row that have four directions or three directions of where you can go. And so it would be those traffic signals as well as some of the pedestrian crossings or the shorter red, yellow, green. That's just been blanking red for a long time to remove those as well. Lots to look at with whichever firm comes aboard to help us with this.

Is this tied to the Complete Streets program as well? Yes or no?

Well, the short answer is yes, and we have talked about it previously. I don't remember with the council removing the Talk to through ATC to just go through that. Oh, okay. Yes. Yes. The other part of it is. That way citizens can hear you.

The other part is not just the stopping controls, but also the directional controls down there that are. Kind of confusing. Some of them, the signs are in different places. Some of them are high, some of them are on stop signs. So getting all of that. So it's consistent all the way around the downtown area, as well as looking at where we don't have four way stops. So those are consistent as well. We have some intersections where four way stop, four way stop, four way stop through traffic doesn't stop. So just trying to make all of those consistent and get a more uniform with signage and the way the traffic flows and right downtown here.

It's surprising how many people actually go the wrong way on Franklin Street on a regular basis because the signage is. Rodney, thank you.

Any 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 2026-37.

An ordinance of the City of Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri, authorizing the submission of an application with the Missouri Department of Transportation for a Traffic Engineering Assistance Program, TEAP grant, for downtown pedestrian infrastructure and intersection improvements and establishing the mayor and city manager as authorized representatives for the city of Kirksville for the submission and execution of all grant administration documents.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion and second to approve on second reading? So moved. Council Member Gardner? Second. Second from Council Member Bansal. Any additional council discussion?

Just want to add one thing that once the team if we're granted the teeth and once the team study is complete it will then need to go through ATC and planning and zoning and the City Council before any changes are Incorporated or adopted or move forward.

So just want to mention that as well Any additional citizens input Go ahead and vote all those in favor. Please raise your hand and say aye. Aye aye all those opposed motion is approved thank you very much thank you move into action item number four city clerk reading of bill number 2026-38

Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Perksville, Missouri, readopting the procedures for disclosing potential conflicts of interest and substantial interests for certain municipal officials as required under the provisions of RSMO 105.450 to 105.498 regarding conflicts of interest.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion and second to approve on first reading? So moved. Council Member Hamlin with a motion. Second. Second from Council Member Gardner. Staff report to be with Mary Maycum for our city manager. Good evening, Mary.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. So back in 1991, state legislators adopted a conflict of ordinance requirement that all political subdivisions needed to take account, adopt an ordinance. In that ordinance, it outlines the things that should be accounted for. when it comes to public trust to make sure that any funds you get from various sources are accounted for. That began in 1991. At the time, municipalities and others were required to adopt it annually. They changed the law requiring it to be adopted every two years. we have just continued to choose to bring it forward every year. One, so that we don't miss it. And two, I think it's just a good way to reinforce that if there's a conflict of interest, it will be identified recognized by the individuals once you do the filing it goes through the Missouri Ethics Commission and the city also retains record of that I do want to mention in the report it states that the city managers threshold is 500 it's a thousand for all elected officials it is $500 also want to make sure that it's clear when it talks about the penalties because you're adopting the ordinance then you are addressing you're ensuring that the city is not receiving any penalty for not adopting the ordinance however if you are an individual who is receiving funds from other sources who are and you're required to file and i think i think maybe only one person on the council's filed um in the past at least on the current council Um, and council member handling, you will, um, you'll need to look at that as well since you. Because of your business, you just want to mention that. Um, but if you fail to file. Then there are other provisions that this ordinance will not. Prohibit, so I just want to mention that as well.

Mary, thanks for the report questions or comments.

Any citizens input on the matter.

Go ahead and vote. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion does pass on first reading. So now I'll call for city clerk's second reading of bill number 2026-38.

an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri, readopting the procedures for disclosing potential conflicts of interest and substantial interests for certain municipal officials as required under the provisions of RSMO 105.450 to 105.498 regarding conflicts of interest.

Thank you for that second reading. Is there a motion in 2nd to approve on 2nd reading? Council member handling would you like to make the 2nd 2nd from council Mayberry? Any additional. Council discussion any additional citizens input. And then we'll go ahead and vote all those in favor please raise your hand and say, aye aye aye aye. All those opposed motion is approved. Move into action item number five. City Clerk reading of a resolution.

A resolution of the City Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri accepting a proposal to tuck point and seal the exterior brick of City Hall from Dixon Tuck Pointing.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion and second to approve? So moved. Council Member Gardner? Second. Second from Council Member Hanlon. Staff report tonight will be with Reed Yardley, our Code Enforcement Director. Good evening, Reed.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Earlier this year, we sent out a request for bids for this project. It was kind of interesting through that process. I believe we only had two contractors that we were aware of actually come to the location and look at our building. Unfortunately, one of the Dixon Tuck Point did not turn in a bid at that on their earliest bid request. Um, the other bids came in significantly higher than what we had budgeted for. So to move forward to get this project done, we asked for a request for proposal. Um, so that, you know, they, they're the experts in the, in the industry. Uh, let have them tell us what we needed and maybe a long-term plan. Uh, during that meeting, um, Three of the contractors did discuss a possible multi-year plan so we could get this fit in our budget. The budget amount that we had was $100,000. That was based on doing work at the police department, very similar project. The second time still came in significantly higher than what we had budgeted for, with the exception of Mr. Dixon. He came in under budget. And with that, if you don't have any questions, I ask that you approve this resolution.

Reed, for everybody, would you talk about what tuck pointing is and why it's important for the building?

Basically, what they'll do is go through and find any cracks, either in the brick or in the concrete.

Mortar?

Mortar lines. I was going to say grout. Thank you. Mortar lines... They'll grind those bad spots out and reinstall new mortar in those places. This keeps water infiltration from getting into our brick. As we're all aware in our area, we have the free stall cycles that are terrible for brick. With this, we'll get the crack. We have a very minor cracking in our building for this old of a building. It was observed probably some of the worst cracks that we have the worst area that needs work is actually on the flue on top of the roof. but he has also proposed to replace some of the limestone-looking stone out front that's more of a decorative, but it has been deteriorated, I believe, with salt over many years. And then once the tuck pointing is done, then they'll put a waterproof membrane sealant on. It's clear, but we'll even know it's there. And then with that, he gives us a schedule for long-term maintenance for resealing the building.

Thank you for that report. Questions or comments from council?

Reed, we've worked with Dixon before. Yes. Okay. Anyone significantly lower, I just want to know.

He has worked, I believe, on the police department with us, and he has done work at several locations in town. Okay. Not for the city, necessarily. Okay.

Any citizens' input on the matter? We'll go ahead and take it to a vote. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye.

Aye.

Aye. All those opposed? Motion is approved. Thank you very much. Thank you. Let's move into action item number six, which should be city clerk reading of a resolution.

a resolution of the City Council of the City of Kirksville, Missouri, awarding a bid for the Factory Addition Improvements Project to BRS Construction, LLC, pending Missouri Department of Economic Development concurrence.

Thank you for that reading. Is there a motion and second to approve? So moved. Mr. Gardner. 2nd, 2nd, councilman Vansel staff report.

Good evening. Um, so we're excited to get this, uh, project going. So this, uh, for, um, some of the new council members, this is a factory edition project. It's been in the works for at least 5 years. Um, we do have, uh, the mention of, uh, Missouri Department of economic development concurrence is because we have funding community developed block grant. So they have to review all of the bid documents and ultimately approve it. So that's why we're, we're asking for your. Approval to award the bid pending their concurrence. They are still reviewing that document, but I don't want to wait until the next council meeting if they get it done. Sometimes they move really quickly. Sometimes they move slow. So we're just kind of at their mercy. But this project is over kind of near the intersection of osteopathy and the harp includes Friedman street, Shelby street. Orchard street and Hildreth Hildreth. Yep. Sorry. Um, clinger and associates out of, uh, Hannibal did the design work and we advertise the project. Uh, we did receive 3 bids very competitive bids. They were all very close, which is kind of shockingly close for a project of this size. So it was actually, uh, we're confident that we got good bids. Um, the, uh, winning bid was 2,195,830 dollars and 50 cents. That's with construction out of a diner. They have done work for the city in the past. Some of the larger drainage structures. I believe they did right about the time I started. They were finishing up over on deer and meadow street. Those 2 big box culverts over there. And did they do the 1 on, uh. But they have done some work for the city. They've done a lot of this, this type of work. So we're confident in their ability to get it done. Work is planned right now, pending approval for to be completed sometime in April. That's what we're looking at. So, after any questions, we were over the budget, as we noted there, the 2026 budget, the additional funds for the project will come from the mill street project, which is getting pushed back to 2027 due to delays with utility locates.

Utility relocation, so military, there will be funds for military. There are funds in the fund balance as well to cover this.

And thank you for the report questions or comments from council.

What's the details like? Yeah. What are we doing that?

A full roadway reconstruction and some pretty significant storm water. So. The storm water up there right now, if you've driven around the neighborhood, the roads are nearly poor condition. A lot of that I do just the way the drainage the water doesn't get out of there. So there's a. Peace kind of in that ditch that runs through there where we're installing. It gets up to 24 inch, I think, stormwater lines that will collect that water off of the street and get it out of there. And then we're tearing up all of the new streets, putting in carbon gutter on all of those roads as well. Shelby Street had some work done back in 2016. So if you see that section, that's kind of what the rest of the roads will look like.

Thank you.

The other thing to note, the homes along the harp, several of those during heavy rains will flood due to their location. and the way the storm water flows in that area. So hopefully containing it all and flowing it to the right place.

Yeah, and it's some significant changes in the elevation of the road and the way the grades work. So we're doing some cuts in some areas and some fills in the other to get the water flowing where it needs to flow.

This is very exciting.

Yeah, yeah. This is a long time coming.

Excited for these residents to have just much better roadways to use and water. So this is great. Thank you.

Any citizens input on the matter this evening? Go ahead and vote. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed?

Motion is approved. Adam, thank you very much. Thank you.

Move to action item number seven. I'll entertain a motion and second to approve the donation of a conference room table to the Scotland County School District. So moved. Council Member Bansal. Second. Second from Council Member Hanley. Staff report will be with Mary.

So mayor and council, I could just let these things go and pass them on and not bring those forward for council approval. You did discuss this in a study session, but it's part of a newsletter. But this is an opportunity for the council when you've got other communities that need things. that maybe they're not useful to us and they're just sitting in surplus when they have a need. This conference table will be going to Scotland County School. It's going to be used for parent-teacher conversations, student conversations, and then staff meetings. So a good use for a regional neighbor. We always talk about how Kirksville is the regional hub. So when people say, well, I pay taxes here, Well, then these are small little things that are done that we ask the council to consider. So anyway, I appreciate your consideration on that.

Thank you, Mary. Questions or comments from council? 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? Motion is approved. Exist in action item number 8, I'll entertain a motion and 2nd, to approve the reappointment of Craig Kaiser Lacey King and Mary may cover to the North Baltimore street community improvement district board of directors. For 4 year terms, expiring September, 2030. So moved council regard there. 2nd, 2nd, from councilman Vansel staff report is with Mary.

So, good evening, Mary council, we're asking the council to reappoint. three individuals, which includes Lacey King, myself, and Craig Kaiser. This is for the North Baltimore Street CID, which includes the Hobby Lobby, Marshalls, that area in there, T-Mobile. Lacey and I have served on the board since its inception. And it is important to note that the developer or the property owners are required to have representation on the board. So we're just asking the council to make that reappointment. We'll add that it is expected, unless the council decides to do something else, is that the new city manager will then be reappointed to fill my unexpired term. Very good.

Mary, thank you for the report. Questions or comments from council 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. Concludes our action items this evening. It'll bring us to our citizens participation component of tonight's meeting. This is an opportunity for folks to address the council on any matter that hasn't been previously covered on this evening's agenda. And you may do so for up to five minutes. All that we ask is that you introduce yourself at the podium before you begin speaking. And with that, the podium is open.

My name is Maggie Ramalino. I go around seeing these apartments empty. When we open it up, still tearing it down, have the homeless people fix them up, let them live in there, find them a place to job, a job to live. If we do that, we won't have landlord having a fit. Because we was going to move in our house, we couldn't move in because the homeless tore it up, took everything out. So if we could do that, that would help. And another thing, like I told you before, we need to get these homeless out. And I seen a couple the other day with a two-month-old baby. And it broke my heart. And I told him, didn't want to go. And you know what? So I put him up. So we need to get these homeless people back to work and back to a place to own. And another thing, I told you before, we need a fire station, two of them, a police station, a city hall, and a jailhouse. Lance? Open the courthouse and have somebody come in and set them until you get the money and get enough money to build the stuff. And that's a good idea, too. So I just want to tell you that.

Thank you much.

You're welcome.

Hello, my name is Cole Furman. I emailed you, Mayor, about a month ago, just questioning when these flock cameras will be removed. I know you mentioned getting rid of them or not renewing the contract. I'm just curious on the timeline of when they'll be removed and or sent back.

We've been looking into that matter. Part of that, and you might have heard some of our discussion, is... when will we be expiring the contract out which will be when we don't fund the renewal so once the renewal is not funded the contract then has language that talks about that they have to come out within a what does it say commercially acceptable period of time do you recall i don't remember the timeline along those lines

The main thing is that the state of Missouri paid for the first year. And so we have to honor that time frame.

When does that expire?

Is Scott out in the hall? Let's see. I'm trying to remember if that... Is it January 1, clock cameras?

It wouldn't have been March or April because it's when the first came with them online.

Okay. It would have been later because I know they were needing to get their business license and all of that. But that's the first thing is making sure.

The contract is over.

That state of Missouri, because they paid for it.

The first year.

They're sort of. It's their understood their authority. Fair enough. That makes sense. Yeah.

And council's agreed not to fund that for next year. So that contract will expire at that point. It'll go through the contract to have them.

They are.

By our understanding, not to remain after the contract is completed. Perfect.

Thank you.

You're very welcome. Are there other folks who wish to speak this evening? Seeing none, then we'll go ahead and move into council comments. Any council comments to share.

Tomorrow's the first day of school for the school district. Truman started last week. MICC started today. ATSU started a couple months ago, but a lot of stuff going on. I wish everybody the best for the school year and especially wish everybody the best tomorrow dropping off their children on the first day of school because it's a disaster. May the odds be ever in our favor.

Be safe. There's nothing further. Then I'll go ahead and turn it over to Mary for a newsletter review.

Okay. First item, high school homecoming parade. Is the council interested in participating?

I am.

OKAY. PLANNING AND ZONING PUBLIC HEARING. SO ORIGINALLY WE WERE GOING TO HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PLANNING AND ZONING REGULAR MEETING, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN SEPTEMBER 9TH. HOWEVER, SPACE HERE IS PRETTY CRAMPED. AND TO GIVE THE PUBLIC AS MUCH, THE COMMUNITY AS MUCH OPPORTUNITY We have set it for the 16th at Baldwin Hall, room 102. I think that's the statement. That allows for more room. And so the question to the council is we certainly can provide the ordinance that is going to be presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission, but you will not have had an opportunity to discuss it in study session as a group. So instead of bringing it to the September meeting, whatever date that would be, is it the 24th? Whatever your council meeting, your second council meeting in September, I'm suggesting you wait until your first meeting. No, I'm going to have to wait until your last meeting in October. If you want to talk about it as a body, unless you have a special study session at some point.

I think... I know everybody else, but I'd rather we waited so we could have the discussion. I think our resolution. Totally encouraging folks to not move forward on it as it is. So. I think we're still moving very quickly. I like to get to the whole thing.

right if staff could make sure planning and zoning is aware of the timeline that way the pump and communicate that to the public that would be appreciated the next thing on the tiny home village project in your materials in your newsletter provided just a summary of all the things that have been going on trying to move the contract forward with the bob and sway richardson construction to they were to put in the water sewer storm sewer the curb and gutter the sidewalk it's been one problem after another a letter i issued a letter sent a letter last week certified that they have so many days in which to rectify the problem if they do not then um You know, that's it. We're done. I will tell you, I've never had to do that with a contract. Adam, in all his years of engineering, has never had to do this either. So we really did try to work with the contractor. We're hoping we are documenting every day whether somebody is out there doing any work. There was some form set on Thursday or something last week, but I was over there today. I didn't see anything happening. So at the end of the day, what you're going to be more interested in is if the work's going to be finished, and then that will, you know, I already talked to Adam about street proof. It's going to have to do this, excuse me, the... the road. We may have to hire another firm to do the sidewalk, but we've got to get this done. Also provided information just on the tiny home.

I think the thing for me on that is that it's such a good project between us can't do anything without the roads in there. So that's, I think hopefully we can get this resolved quickly. So exciting this year, they're not doing anything over there. And so again, it just delays it more to continue to build that out, which I think is what we would all like to see. So just staying on top of it.

So I wanted to give you that update. Affordable Housing Board just wanted to just give a plug for the programs that are being considered this week by the Affordable Housing Board. So hopefully we'll get more people interested in the housing rehab and the demolition program. So that's all I wanted to say there. On the administrative warrant, we actually took forward one to be issued, which was approved and on randolph randolph street um out of town property owner which is neither here nor there but uh repeated contacts were you know we were not able to make contact we did post the um the issues on um the building um it was removed so somebody somebody got the notice So this is for grass and weeds. What will happen is that the warrant will be issued. We have a tight timeline that has to be met. Community Economic Development is currently seeking vendor to do the mowing because that's what we've done in the past is we would mow and then once we're able to get on the property that vendor will do that or mow the property it will go on the tax rolls we'll go from there but again the whole goal is not to punish people but heavens you know, for those of you who mow grass, and you don't have any times you've mowed it this summer, for some of these properties not to be mowed once, and neighbors having to live with that, you know, it's unacceptable. So, wanted to give you that heads up. When we do the next quarterly report, you'll have, hopefully by then, a warrant, and we'll talk about that. And then we can discuss whether that is something you want to continue to allow.

And Mary, just on this one, this is just for the state to get on so they can take care of the grass. It's not like going into residence or anything. So it's taking care of this and then being done. Correct.

And any time, and Scott or somebody else can maybe issue, the warrant's going to be very specific on what's allowed. Law enforcement will be involved in the process as well.

Yeah, whenever a warrant is issued like that, it's called the four corners of the document. You have to stay within what those specific requirements that are spelled out in there. So it would involve going into a house, if it's just to mow the grass, front, backyard, whatever the curtilage of the property is to mow the grass.

Perfect.

Thank you.

I don't know that I had anything else. I will give a plug to Sharon Suela, our tourism Truman State University, receiving a Points of Light Award for her efforts. I do want to recognize that as well. So, Council, if there's any questions, I'd be happy to respond.

Questions for Mary?

I think I want to thank the Police Chief and the Police Department for the capture of these people's healing conditions. So, thank you.

Very good, indeed. Our next council meeting will be Monday, September 14th at 6 o'clock here in the council chambers. With that, I'll entertain a motion and a second to adjourn. So moved. Council Member Gardner.

I second.

Second from Council Member Mayburn. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? With that, we are adjourned. Thank you all very much. Have a good evening.