City Council - Regular Meeting

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If I would have known what I know now years ago, I would have been here much sooner. Hello, Lee Summit. I'm Jordan. Here's your flash briefing for the week of May 11th. City Council will meet for regular session Tuesday night at 6 in council chambers and city hall. Meetings are open to the public or watch live on the city's YouTube channel. If you can't watch, catch the recorded meeting on demand on the YouTube channel or by subscribing to the council debrief newsletter which breaks down three to four key agenda items. Subscribe at city of ls.net. Looking for a fun night out with friends or someone special? Green Street is hosting adult night out on Friday, May 15th at 7 p.m. Learn about the history of prohibition and view a mocktail demonstration from Libations and Company. This event is for those 18 and older and is free to attend. Stay up to date with new events at greenstreetls.com. Tour to Lakes bike ride is Saturday, May 16th, beginning at 7 a.m. at long view community center. Choose from four different routes around five different lakes in the Summit. Registration ends Friday, May 15th at 700 p.m. Find more information at lsps parks.net and join the wellness commission for a leisurely bird walk on Sunday, May 17th at 2 p.m. at Bailey Park. All birding skill levels are welcome and bring binoculars if able. This event will happen rain or shine and last about an hour. Thanks for listening and have a great week. The city of Lee Summit has hundreds of traffic lights across its more than 1,000 lane miles, all managed by the city's public works traffic technicians. The work happens inside those metal boxes on the side of each intersection. Inside, technicians program a device called the controller. The controller communicates directly with each signal head via underground wires, telling each light when to turn on and off based on a

program cycle. City traffic engineers designed this cycle to allow traffic to flow as efficiently as possible for that particular intersection. In order to best match current traffic patterns, they install something called a detection system. Detection systems have taken many forms over the years, from sensors in the pavement to radar boxes, but in Lee Summit, they primarily consist of cameras, which workers mount above the traffic signals. These cameras don't record video or your speed. Instead, they monitor the spaces at the front of the intersection and identify when a vehicle is present in a specific spot. Once a vehicle is identified, the detection system sends a message to the controller, which then adapts its standard cycle to best serve the cars that are present. The pedestrian button works in a similar way. When the button is pressed, the controller receives a signal requesting that it allow that section of the pedestrian walkway to go, which it then inserts into the signal pattern. Technicians also install something called a conflict monitor. The conflict monitor is a device in which they program all the potential patterns of lights that would lead to a collision. If the other systems mistakenly trigger those patterns, the conflict monitor sends the intersection into flash, causing all lights to flash red and directing drivers to treat it like an all-way stop. City traffic technicians implement and maintain these systems so effectively we rarely consider them. But every time we safely pass through a signal controlled intersection, it's all thanks to their work. So the next time you're waiting at a red light, remember the delicate coordination of super smart systems that move you through that space safely and efficiently every day. Keeping 500 m of public sewer lines flowing keeps utility costs low and our environment healthy. The Lee Summit water utilities operations team does this every day. Sewer lines can be blocked with everything from roots to flushable wipes to food grease. When a potential blockage is identified, teams use detailed mapping to locate access

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A camera truck parks at one end of the sewer line and a jet truck at the other. The camera truck carries a rover type camera which the team lowers into the manhole. The operator then drives the camera into the pipe where it views and records from its adjustable lens. Here it can identify the cause and precise location of the blockage. The jet truck will then use high pressure water to remove the blockage. Starting at the opposite end of the line, the operator inserts the jet head into the manhole. Pressurized water shoots out of the head, clearing out debris and propelling it forward. The camera observes this process and the two operators communicate via walkie-talkie to coordinate movement.

Hold it right there. Go ahead and fire it up. Half pressure. I'm in front of you. Once the jet head has passed the blockage, the operator reels it back in. The camera can then inspect the pipe to see if the blockage is cleared. Yeah, go ahead and pull out. We're done.

With the job complete, the camera is removed, cleaned, and returned to the truck, and the crew moves on to the next job. In addition to addressing identified problems, the team will systematically check every line in the city in a 5-year period, keeping costs low and our community healthy today and for years to come. Officers in route 914 armed. Heat. Heat. Keeping our city beautiful is a collaborative effort for all citizens. The city of Lee Summit supports these efforts with a set of guidelines or ordinances and the city's neighborhood services team helps put those guidelines into practice. These guidelines ensure grass stays trimmed, fences are maintained, home exteriors are kept up, and much more. We can all help out by first making sure our property meets these guidelines. If

you notice a potential violation on a neighbor's property, first check the guidelines on the city's website. If it is a violation, the next step is to communicate with your neighbor directly. If that is not possible or if the problem persists, it can be reported through LS Connect. LS Connect is an online platform for submitting issues to the city. You can access it on the city website or by downloading the app through your mobile devices app store. Once you submit an issue, it is reviewed by the neighborhood services team. A neighborhood services officer will then visit the site. For any violations found, the neighborhood services officer will leave a notice and speak with the property owner if possible. The officer's goal is to help the property owner solve or abate the problem as quickly as possible. After a 10-day period, the officer will inspect the site to see if the issue has been abated. Normally, by this point, the issue has been resolved. If not, depending on the type of issue, an extension could be granted or the city might fix the problem at the owner's expense. In rare cases, if all other measures have been applied, the issue will be resolved in the municipal court. Neighborhood services officers work hard to resolve problems quickly and positively. They are here to support the community as we work together to keep our city beautiful. Le Summit has lots of local destinations, but where do you start? Green Street, a vibrant community space in the heart of downtown, is where Lee Summit comes together. Its three dynamic areas have something for everyone. Green Street Market is a modern event venue and home to the downtown Lee Summit Farmers Market. Green Street Lawn is a covered performance space hosting live music, family activities, and more. Green Street Grove is a mixture of gathering spaces, an immersive playground, and bold architectural

features. And all three areas host community events year round. So the next time you set out to enjoy the city you love, remember, meet at Green Street. Heat. Heat.

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Will you please rise for the invocation the pledge of allegiance?

Dear heavenly father, thank you for bringing us together tonight in service to our community. Grant us wisdom, patience, and understanding as we make decisions that affect the lives of our residents. Help us listen with open minds, lead with integrity, and work together and respect the per and respect with respect and purpose. May we always remember that leadership is a responsibility to serve others with humility and care. Bless this meeting, our city, and those who call it home. Amen. Amen. To flag of the United States of America to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Welcome everyone. I'd like to call the city council regular session number two meeting to order. Can I please have roll call? Council member Frasier present. Council member Rder present. Council member Prior here. Council member Craravens here. Council member Funk present. Council member Atkins present. Council member Carlilele present. Mayor Perim Shields here. Mayor Lopez

here. Thank you. We will now uh uh take a motion, please, to approve the agenda as presented. We have motions been made by council member Carlile and a second by council member Funk. There's no questions. Please cast your vote. Mayor, I am an I. Oh, and we have an I. I am an I. Also, two eyes.

Got it. All right, motion passes 70. Approve. The agenda is approved. Takes us to the consent agenda. We have a motion by council member Carla and a and a second by council member Funk. Uh there's any no questions. Uh please cast your vote. May I say something? Yes. Uh I just wanted to make a comment um congratulating Council Member Prior who's going to join us on the Lee Summit Economic Development Council and I believe that appointment is on our consent agenda tonight. I know that she's going to be a really excellent addition to all of our discussions there. SO

thank you. Thank you for pointing that out. I actually forgot about it. So thanks for reminding me. Great. Thank you. That in line, please cast your vote. Mayor, I'm an I again. Great. All votes are in. Motion passes 90. Thank you. Please record that vote. All right. Takes us to council roundt. Anybody? Yeah. Council member Carile.

I'm already on the on the mic. So, I'm just going to say tomorrow we have a CDC meeting at 400 pm here in Chambers. Great. Thank you. We'll let you slide. All right. Uh don't see any other anyone else wanting to speak. So, we'll proceed with the agenda. Uh takes us to a couple proclamations. I know last week we had a few uh not quite as many this week. So, uh our city clerk can help us read those and we'll meet uh each group separately, one at a time. So thank you.

The first proclamation will be for public works week. We're going

to smile. All right. This proclamation recognizes the courage, dignity, and dedication of federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officers who serve and protect their communities, often at a great personal risk. I'm going to switch these two with you. That one's yours. All right, let's try that again. Okay, we're trying some new things around here.

This proclamation recognizes the essential role public works professionals play in maintaining the infrastructure, facilities, and services that support safe, sustainable, and resilient communities in the Lee in Lee Summit. It honors the engineers, managers, and employees in both government and private sector who work to build, improve, and protect critical systems such as transportation, water, waste management, and public facilities that contribute to public health and quality of life. The proclamation also encourages residents and community leaders to better understand and appreciate the importance of public works programs and recognizes 2026 as the 66th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association with a theme rooted in service powered by community.

Great. Thank you. So now I, Betho Lopez, by virtue of the authority vested in me as mayor for the city of Lee Summit, Missouri, do hereby proclaim May 17th through the 23rd, 2026 as National Public Works Week and urge all citizens to join with the representatives of the American Public Works Association and government agency agencies in activities, events, and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to our public works uh professionals, engineers, managers, and employees, and to recognize the substantial contributions they make to protecting our national health and our safety and advancing the quality of life for all of us. So, thank you, Mr. PARK. Each person come and introduce themselves or I'll pass the mic around. But, uh, yes, I appreciate the acknowledgements and recognition for public works. It includes water utilities, uh, development services. It takes a a village really to to do this. Our theme is again rooted in service powered by community and all of these professionals are rooted in service and and what that means is really the the foundation of a community is rooted in the infrastructure you see and don't see. You see the projects, the roads, the bridges, you don't see the utilities, the storm water systems, the water, the sanitary sewer, uh you see the airports, and you see all sorts of public works infrastructure. And it's that infrastructure that makes a community go, right? It's that community and that uh the power of a community that's built upon this foundation that we we offer. So, thank you very much. And I'd like start on this end and maybe work our way down.

S Piles, development engineering manager. Jeff Thorne, director of water utilities. Chris Busen, Salway, Superintendent. Karen Allison, senior staff engineer. George Banger, city engineer. Joel Arrington, airport manager. Mike Anderson, deputy director of public works operations. Barry Allen, construction manager.

Great. Thank you very much. We we we talk a lot about our fire and police and how amazing they are for this community, but this group is amazing as well, and we should always remember that and recognize them. So, enjoy your week. So, thank you. We'll take a photo. Love each other. Yes. All right. Three, two, one. Thank you.

The next one is for National Police Week. I'll start with public works and then I'll fix it.

Well, we'll go with this one. This proclamation recognizes the courage, dignity, and dedication of federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officers who serve and protect their communities, often at great personal risk. It honors officers who have been killed, disabled, or injured in the line of duty, and acknowledges the establishment of Peace Officers Memorial Day and National Police Week through public law 87726 signed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962. The proclamation al also recognizes the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial as a lasting tribute to fallen officers. Specifically honors the 111 law enforcement officers including two from Missouri. I'm sorry 111. I don't know why I said 111 law enforcement officers including two from Missouri who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2025.

Thank you. So now I, Bethl Lopez, by virtue of the authority vested in me as mayor of the city of Lee Summit, Missouri, do hereby proclaim the week of May 10th through the 16th of 2026 as National Police Week in recognition and support of law enforcement personnel and the essential mission and service they provide to their communities and in solemn appreciation of law enforcement personnel who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. We salute and honor these heroes. THANK YOU. ALEX WALKER HERE with me uh from our operations division, our captain. Um it's it's a week that we celebrate, but it's also a sobering week for us. 111 officers, as you heard, were uh lost their lives in the line of duty last year, which uh is still way too high of a number, but thankfully it was a 25% decrease from the year prior. So, it was good to see it trending in in the right direction, but still far too many. I've been to Washington DC to the police officers memorial. I would encourage everybody to go see that. Unfortunately, I have a personal friend's names on that wall. So, it's really meaningful this week to me. And obviously, this last summer, we had uh an officer severely injured in the line of duty in a shooting. uh he is he's uh progressing and but it's been difficult and it just is a sobering reminder of what uh these men and women that I have the honor of working with go through every day. So, we're so thankful to be part of a supportive uh community uh that not only does things like this, but uh just every day this community does really wraps their arms around us and uh lets us know how much they appreciate what we do. So, we're very thankful to work in Lee Summit. So, thank you.

Absolutely. Thank you, Chief. and we'll take a photo. But before that, u I do want to acknowledge yesterday they had their annual 2026 annual awards ceremony right across the street. Um, and I was fortunate to attend with a few of my council colleagues and that event I've attended it a couple different times and um, you know, chief already said it all and and the proclamation had a lot of detail as well, but the work they do and the messages and the award recipients from yesterday is super inspiring and we're so grateful at Inley Summit to have through Chief's leadership and an amazing team do what they do for our community and keep all of us safe. So, thank you again.

All right. Thank you very much. Uh we will proceed. Um item number five on the agenda um is being postponed. Um but uh we will have Mayor Prom Shields. Do we have to open the Okay. All right then. We will go ahead. I'm sorry. Don't open that. Yeah, I didn't think so.

Great. I didn't think so. Yeah, if we can read read the ordinance, please. Um, I move to uh continue item 20267523 public hearing for application PL 2025338 and PL2025339 preliminary development plan a special use permit for a convolescent nursing or retirement home summit senior community 5101 northeast Lakewood Way le summit senior living community LLC applicant to a date certain of June 16th 2026.

Great. Thank you. The motion's been made by CH Mayor Pro Tim Shields and we have a second by Council Member Funk. Uh if there are no questions, uh please cast your vote. All votes are in. Motion passes 90. Thank you. All right. Uh takes us to public comments. And um before we begin that process, um I will read uh just for clarification, the public comment portion of the city council meeting is a time where the public address the council on any matter listed on the council agenda for this meeting or directly related to the operations of the city of Lee Summit. Except for those matters that are subject to the public hearing requiring that testim testimony to be sworn. Each person wishing to pro provide public comments will afford be afforded uh three minutes to speak. Any person wishing to speak to provide handouts or information materials to the mayor or the council shall provide these materials to the city clerk who then will distribute it to us as council. And I will also add uh before we have a couple people that want to speak that I ask that you please please do address us as council. If you do have questions, please do not ask staff. We will wait till after your comments are completed and then we will ask staff the the appropriate questions. So appreciate that. Thank you. So, first off, we have Miss Wallener.

Teresa Volenwiter, 5201 Northeast Maybrook Road. First off, I want to ask if anybody that has this district where it's 1700 Northeast Tutor Road, if you'll recall, this property was Ms. Breedens and it was going to be uh combined and reszoned from R1 to all egg. And I've been watching and I still haven't seen a plat. So technically speaking, I do not think that resoning has taken place. And I want those people who have that district to start checking to see what happened to this plat. Where is the plat for this com combination of properties parcels? Should have been done. Should have been recorded. I can't find it. And the road should still be 30 feet wide. I'm going to start off um there's so many things I uh find very frustrating. This is the Maybrook team. Mark Dunning, Ryan Elim, David Busher, Josh Johnson,

Bob Burns. Uh there's more of them. But I point out on this that Mark Dunning claims that he had made clear to my neighbor Stephanie Mullins that the city would not be involved in any matters that may involve disputes over private property lines, but will only be taking any enforcement actions with regard to any encroachments or other matters related to the right of way. and she understood. This is January 4th of 2022. What happened between then and 11:2522? Well, there was this and from what I gather, David Busher came up with this. This again is on an unsigned unsigned unsealed document that Bob Anderson came up with was not to be used for any purposes like this but was used. So the neighbor puts on it.

Thank you Miss Fenwire. And then of course what happened on 11:22 2022 and then 112522 at some point it no longer was a civil matter. What happened? People get new teeth. Thank you ma'am.

Money teeth. What was it? Next we have Mr. Chip Floyd. Mayor, council, city manager. First, the camera angle. I do realize that more men have walked on the moon than people who actually care about this camera angle jazz. I know that if I really wanted my face on the screen, I would set up my own camera right here. But I don't. I care because I see this as an arbitrary weaponization of a public process born out of jealousy and fragility, spitting on the transparency that so many of you ran on and surviving the previous administration because the leadership and decisiveness required to fix it is not present in this room. And that's embarrassing. It's re it's recently gotten even sillier and I strongly disagree with the disposition but like I said the moon walkers outnumber the concerned so I shant opine further second at least I got replies to my questions not everybody replied but some did you know who you are and I thank you for that I can't make you I can only rely on your pledges of transparency engagement and communication Time will tell. Third, I don't I still don't think I've made any enemies here. If I have an enemy, I'm not aware of it. I don't use personal attacks, but I do attack what you do in your public capacity because that is fair. Sometimes I get heated and I often get

sarcastic, but that is my way and that is my right. Fourth, let's have a council sponsored block party or some such. I'm serious. Some sort of event where people can come have food, meet their government, meet and greet type deal. That's a serious proposition. I'm just throwing it out there. I'll donate the first $100 and you have my word on that. Also, I want to throw in that we can try, mayor, if you would consider this moving comments further toward the front of the meeting. I think that would drive engagement. Uh, just an idea. Finally, to all of the 22 people who will see this video and these comments, please spread the word to get involved. Come to these meetings, speak your mind, and redress your government. It is your birthright and it too is very fragile. Protect it. Done.

Council member Prior.

Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to ask how long does it take for a plat to be recorded or has that specific plat been recorded? Do you know? Uh good evening Shannon McGuire, assistant director of planning uh plan services. Um we do have a minor plat application in that is under current review. So uh depending on uh the comments under that first review and and the response time for them to corre make any corrections that could take anywhere from uh you know 30 to 45 days typically. So, um, but it's in the the hands of the applicant at this point.

Okay. Thank you for that. Thank you. All right. I would also like to say if if anyone knows of a way to get people to the meeting and get people more engaged, I would love it because I love an engaged community and we have a pretty engaged community, but we could always be more engaged. So, thank you. Thank you. All right. We will proceed with the agenda. takes us to um item number 7A. Um we have a couple presentations tonight. First one is a conceptual economic development incentive request for O'Reilly Senior Living Community, 5101 Northeast Lakewood Way, O'Reilly Development LLC is the applicant. I assume we'll have Mr. Bushek first.

Good evening. David Bushek, uh economic development council to the city. This is a conceptual presentation and I will be speaking second. We'll have the applicants speak first. And they are here.

Mayor, council, good evening. Kurt Peterson here on behalf of the applicant. Yes, sir. Excuse me one second. My my screen is off. I'm going to get it to I don't know what I did. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you, Mr. Peterson. I just had to see what you were going to put up on the screen. Absolutely.

So, thank you. As I was saying, I'm here on behalf of the applicant tonight. Uh the applicant is a developer, O'Reilly Development. Uh with me is Eric Walsh with O'Reilly. They're in the back. And I also have our operator, which is Arrow operates all our facilities. And Tim Moore is the director of operations that's sitting next to Eric in the back. So just a quick road map so you know where we're going. Uh talk a little bit more about O'Reilly. Uh look at the senior housing demand here in Lee Summit in the area. the project site, the proposed project for that site, address the public incentive request that's before you in this conceptual, and then end with what's most important, which is why we think and contend that this is a win for the citizens of Lee Summit. And ultimately, that's what it comes down to. That's for you to figure out and determine. So, and then of course at the end, listen to your feedback so we know whether this is something that we should continue down the road to uh try to secure ultimate approval. But let's start with O'Reilly. Who is O'Reilly? O'Reilly is a development company. They're based in Springfield, Missouri. They have an expertise in senior living facilities. Our focus today is just that, but I will also say they develop student housing, multifamily. They do historic preservation and other types of development. But again, tonight, they have a great expertise and track record in senior development like this project. When they develop, they are full service. They handle design, they handle building it, and then they handle through their operator um operating the facility with excellence. They have one experience that I've talked to many of you, many of you know it. It's the Princeton. It was a kind of prepandemic construction project that came online just at the wrong time, but it did. And it uh has a great reputation here in town. It's over on 50 uh east of Ranson. That is a little look at who O'Reilly is. Now, senior housing demand. I often get nods and so I speed this up because I think we all know from personal experience and from reading in the press that there is an extra extraordinary demand for senior living not only in Lee

Summit in the county and the state but in the entire country. Um, so I have some stats up on the screen that I'll look you let you look at on your own. I know this was in your packet, but the the takeaways, the thesis is we need more senior housing units and we need it at all types, assisted living, independent living, um skilled, memory care, everything. And we need it at all price points. A little more specifics getting into the data for those that are in into the numbers. The numbers are really quantifying the unmet need. I'm going to give you some official numbers. They're official because they come from the certificate of need process or con. When you hear that thrown around, you got to get a con. In certain states like Missouri for certain types of senior here, this is a certificate of need facility for the assisted living and the memory care portion of the overall project which has been awarded for this site should we be able to get approval from the city and move forward. By the way, I'm going to give you some numbers that have to do with assisted living and uh memory care, but I in my personal experience and with other projects and just living here in town, independent living could blow the roof off in terms of the numbers that are needed. And that's not even in the numbers I'm about to say. So, with that, the official numbers say that within 15 miles of the site that assisted living and memory care are short one more than 1,200. They say beds as the term, but places for somebody to live, which is a huge number. The unofficial numbers are way higher. And again, this leaves out independent living. Jackson County has the highest need in the entire state of Missouri. And in case what comes to your mind immediately is, Kurt, you just said 15 miles. 15 miles is just not Lee Summit. Do we really have this unmet demand in Lee Summit? And the answer is first, that's a great question. And the answer

is you're right. That stat did go beyond the limits of Lee Summit, but the demand and the lack of supply for places for our seniors to live and stay in Lee Summit is is huge. Amazingly, if you look back just a decade, you'll find that with all this un unmet demand, you have some renovations and expansions at John Knox, which is important. You have the Princeton which was a pre- pandemic construction project by O'Reilly and then you have Rainree Village which is again is amazing down on 150 which was delivered in 2025. There should be way more activity to meet this demand in the summit and there hasn't been. Now maybe more telling we actually just went back and methodically pulled this statistic so I haven't no one has heard this outside our our team. This again goes to the point that we have a major unmet demand in the city itself. So going back to the Princeton which is again the project that was uh uh delivered just as the pandemic was getting started approximately 75% of all of our residents at the Princeton came from within generally single family homes from within the city. Thought that was a really and I went through all the data to pull that it was actually about 73% but approximately 75%. So leaving this point hopefully feel like it's salient and well supported which is we have an unmet demand in the summit for our seniors. So let's look at the project site before we get into the project itself. We are up um at 470 and Bolan in the northeast quadrant. It is 12 acres that you can see in red just to the kind of northwest of that lake. the transition here from a this is we're having a conceptual presentation on public private partnership but I would be remiss if I didn't talk about land use for a second because it's relevant. You can see sort of the nice transition from single family housing to the north and then to this use seniors and then as you work

your way down to the interchange and then south of that you have commercial businesses and things like that. So a nice sort of perfectly planned transition in the in the planning world. The project itself is going to be a mix of independent living units, two types, 104 units that will be you can kind of if you can see on the screen, you can see the the site plan. So the independent living units you can see are here in this portion of the overall project and there's 104 there. But we also have another type of independent living to offer which are two-bedroom villas that will be over here in the northwest part. Then we have 48 assisted living units which is a higher level of care as you know and that's this portion. And then finally we have our highest level of care which are the memory units and we have 20 of those which is this portion of the building on the screen here. So it gives you a sense of of the site plan and the project that's being proposed. Just to go through these slides quickly because I think it's important to understand what the quality and the operations. So again I won't read all these words but you'll get a sense. This gives you some visuals and some description of the high level of unit amenities inside when you live in these units and then also the community amenities. One of you'll see a few other pictures that always make me smile in a minute because it's super relevant. This is getting seniors the opportunity to come out of their single family home where many of them are by themselves um isolated, unable to go around and putting them in a community where there was all sorts of community activities and amenities. You're seeing some of the amenities on the screen here. It allows seniors to age in place with these levels of care that I've just described, which can be really incredible to come in as somebody in that's in independent living and know you have a long-term community that you can stay in as your needs increase. This is an award-winning uh both developer, owner, and operator. When it comes to places to work, you can see the awards they've received, but not just to

work there, also to live there. same thing, awards for their facilities. Um, as as a resident, they really believe in community engagement. It goes back to part of the allure and the benefit to our community and having a facility like Princeton or a facility like this should it be supported is that it is constantly looking for ways to support the seniors and activities, but also to support the community. So, this helps seniors and children. This is actually two schools um interacting with seniors living at the Princeton. So we picked those because it's Lee Summit, but this is what O'Reilly believes in and Arrow as they're operated at all their facilities. Community engagement. And then last, just a few pictures just to show, like I said, not making it up. There's lots going on in these communities. By the way, that is chair volleyball and apparently is very, very popular, I'm told. Chair volleyball and very competitive. That is two different. You can see the Madison, which I think Madison is Kansas City, Missouri against the Princeton. So, we even have the jerseys. That brings us to the proposed public private partnership. There's one tool that this project needs to be able to move forward. It's chapter 100. There's two components to that. The first is the fixed pilots. The request would be a 50% real property tax abatement for 10 years. The chart on the screen shows what those numbers would look like. And you can see this would be year one after construction, a $266,000 payment, and then every other year increases with an inflator for a total of payments that would be made by this project over the first 10 years of just over $2.8 million. The second of the two benefits is sales tax exemption. This means that a certificate would be provided so that the beginning of construction when materials are ordered, Missouri sales and use tax would would would not be owed. you'd be exempt. And what's highlighted on the screen is the total

benefit to the project, which is really helpful. But then also the estimate of what that would mean from the city, the city's portion contributing to that would be the $237,000, which makes up 23% of the overall amount. And again, this is not the city writing a check. This is an exemption from CA from Missouri sales and use tax that would otherwise be paid. So, in total, when you add up that sales tax exemption savings and also that uh real property tax abatement savings, that adds up to uh about 8.93% of the overall investment O'Reilly is making. I know we always use that metric. Mr. Bushek probably will provide a slide that puts that in context, but that is on the lower end of the scale, but it is exactly what this project needs, not not more, not less to be able to move forward given some of the extraordinary site cost. If you've been to this site, it's will have serious retaining walls and grade issues. Um, and then also just dealing with the gap between costs and rents that can be paid in the market that have kept, like I said, over this last decade almost any other projects from moving forward. This exact request, this 8.93% will make this project feasible and start construction this year. I want to end with what I always say is the most important part. It's what you will make your ultimate not tonight but feedback tonight and in the future make a decision on which is does this is this a net benefit to your constituents to the taxpayers and lease summit. I always start by looking to the policy to say is this even in an area where the council has indicated that this type of tool should be considered at least it is. It's in the targeted area named the I470 north area as the arrow indicates on the screen. When it comes to job creation and taxes, this will have approximately 450 construction jobs involved. In terms of uh permanent jobs, it'd be in the range of 50 to 55 full-time equivalent employees, many of whom are nurses that will work at this facility. There'll be excise tax paid with this project.

There'll be the parks fee that will be paid with this project, all enduring to the benefit of the city. When it comes to real property tax today, this entire piece of ground is generating approximately $50 in taxes per year. During the proposed chapter 100 that I put on the screen, that table before the total amount from year 1 to year 10 would range from 258,000 to 290,000 annually. And then after that, the estimate is it would go to about $600,000 of payments in year 11. wanted to end with this because honestly it really does this is what gets me most excited about this type of project and there just hasn't been enough of them. Um, we retain our active seniors. So, it provides independent living for seniors rather than sending them to, I mean, you can name your own cities, but I think of places with new projects, Overland Park, uh, Prairie Village or where it doesn't matter, wherever that are providing independent living facilities. We lose them and you probably lose them forever because people like to age in place and and and many of them probably will not come back. So this allows seniors to stay in Lee Summit and allows them to age in place and then and including the active seniors. The folks in independent living are spending money in the city. They are helping our Lee Summit businesses and they have many of them do have uh disposable income to do that in a time in their life when they when they can not saving for you know kids education or something like that. And then lastly, uh, just over my career, I've found this. I could do I'm going to do 20 seconds on it, and I want to do 20 minutes on it. Dramatic pause. I think this is that important. We have single family housing with older people that we love. It's my, you know, my my grandparents, you know, pick where you're at in life. It's it's parents, whatever, that are in their homes and they don't know where to go. They don't want to leave Le Summit. They want to stay in their general area. that's their city, but they don't have a good place to go for independent living. They certainly don't have maybe a place to go

for a continuum of care where they could stay. And what this does is allows them to leave that single family home and the neighborhood starts to turn over. That's what I get excited about. It does. Younger people move in, they care a lot, it's their whatever. Maybe it's their first home or whatever. They put money into it and it turns over the neighborhood for a whole another generation of growth and excitement. And by the way, provides affordable. I mean, this is what I mean. goes it goes on and on. Provides affordable housing in many cases for people that are looking for their first home. That's what happens when we make senior projects like this of high quality happen. So with that, um I'm really excited about it. We'll keep going, but mayor will I know you have a long agenda, but I would like to stay around to see as we get feedback if you have any questions now or later.

Thank you. We'll have Mr. Bush come up and then uh we'll open it up for questions after that. All right, David Bush, economic development council for the city. Uh, first a few procedural items um for for the full city council, but in particular for the new elected officials. Um, this is a conceptual presentation that we're considering. This is not a formal public hearing. You're not being requested to provide any formal vote tonight. Under the city's economic development policy, something that the city decided to do many years ago was give developers the opportunity to come to the city council and present their request for incentives to receive feedback from you so they don't spend a significant amount of time and money trying to advance the incentive request knowing that it's not going to proceed. So, the city council many years ago added to the economic development incentive policy this conceptual presentation that we're hearing tonight. So you can provide feedback to the applicant and the feedback that you provide, it's not binding. You're free to make whatever decision you feel is appropriate if this project moves forward and you uh when we get to the public hearing, the formal public hearing, you're always free to vote however you feel is appropriate at that time. But we have a pretty good track record of through these conceptual presentations um providing good solid non-binding feedback to applicants so they have a sense of where the city council stands with an incentive request. That's the purpose of the conceptual presentation tonight. So, um they are asking for your feedback and that is common for the council to provide non-binding feedback. So, I will get into the specifics here. So, starting with the timeline analysis during the construction period, they're requesting sales and use tax exemption on construction materials for this project which consists of 187 units. So, they will receive a benefit from that construction period if you grant the

sales tax exemption. And then for the 10-year period, they're requesting 50% abatement, 50% pilots, which means the 50% of the property taxes flow through as normal to the taxing districts, and 50% would be abated. The per door calculation based on the total number of units is 1426. $1,426 per door per year would be the calculation. And that will become relevant in a moment when I show you some other data. Benefit to the taxing districts. My analysis of the property valuation last year is that the total taxes are about $87. I think he had 50. Uh I looked it up um recently. It's it's a nominal amount of taxes this property is producing today. Then if you grant this request and the project is constructed, the pilot payments that this project would make during the first year after it's in operation is this amount in this column. The city's portion is highlighted in green. Uh and the city's portion at this point with this array is about 15% of the total tax bill. And then over 10 years, this is the amount that would be paid. This is the raw dollars, not net present value. So this is the actual dollars that would be paid to all the taxing districts. And you see the city's portion of that benefit if that does uh if the incentive is granted the value of this request to the developer. It's a $43.2 million project. The net present value of the tax abatement the 50% of this number over a period of 10 years. That valuation to the developer is about $2 million which is $4.8% of this total project cost. And the value of the sales tax exemption during the construction period is about a million dollars which is 2.4% 4% of these cons of the of the total project cost. So the total benefit to the developer from this incentive to provide an applesto apples comparison to other projects is about 7.2% of the total construction costs. And then at the bottom we have the impact to the city. The sales and use tax exemption as we've

discussed that's about 24% of the number up top and the real property tax abatement the city's portion is 15% of the tax bill. So that's the impact of the city if you grant this in Senate request. This is then this the simple summary of this incentive request. Both tools will use chapter 100. That's the request. Sales tax exemption on construction materials at 100% just during the construction period results in the benefit that I just showed you 2.4% of project costs. And then the real property tax abatement at 50% for 10 years results in this net present value benefit that I just showed you. So this is just a re summary of the data that I just showed you. This is the benefit to the developer from this request. This next slide, this is some data that we track to an this is mostly apartments, but it's a data point that is somewhat useful in this evaluation. So I will walk through all of this. This is the first time some of you may see this and we may look at it again depending on what other projects come forward. But I have presented this data set to the city council in the past and I'll walk through this. These are the projects that the city council has approved a chapter 100 incentive for, mostly apartment projects. Market value is what the county assigns as the value of the property. So market value is what the county says this is the actual value of the property in a pre-market type transaction. That's the county's assessment of what the valuation was in 21 and then we updated last year. The most recent data point is the North Point apartments at 66 million. And then as you move on through the chart, the next column is the assessed value. This number is 19% of this number. The calculation process for property taxes, the county assigns the market value. And depending on the type of the property, we calculate, the county calculates the assessed value and that results in the tax bill. So the assessed value times the property tax levy rates that I just showed you on the previous slide results

in the tax bill for each of these parcels. And then we divide by the number of units in each of these complexes. So we can calculate the taxes per unit. So the the output of this top part of the chart is what are the taxes per unit for these projects if they were on the tax rules. If you had not provided abatement, what would the taxes be? This is important because about five years ago, the county told us how they value these projects. Um, when it comes to residential projects, they attempt to value the project at 90% of the the original construction cost. They technically evaluate property based on the net operating income approach, but since there's no operating income for a new project, they've also told us that they attempt to achieve about 90% of the total cost. So, what the what that means is the county tries to make this value be about 90% of what it costs to build the project. That's what the county's told us. and they have essentially carried out um what they've told us because these taxes per unit are much higher than what we saw in the past. So the county is carrying out the the valuation of these new projects based on what they told us. Then we can look at this data set down here. These are the pilots per unit that the city council approved for each of these projects. And in some cases, because these properties are on the tax roles now or they have a valuation as I discussed up here, we can compare the pilots that each of these projects are paying to what the taxes would actually be if they were on the tax roles. And then we have um one unique project here. This is the apartment project in the downtown. Uh that was a tiff plan, but we calculated the um taxes per unit just as an additional data point. So this column here shows you what the city council has approved on a per door pa basis for previous projects. And so this is this is information that you can use in your evaluation of the previous number that I just showed you. Their proposed pilot is about 14 I think it's 1426 on the previous page. And the comparison would

be this column here. if you want to look at what the city council has done for these other projects in the past to compare to the request that you're seeing tonight. Then this next table, the this table summarizes um most of the incentives that the city council has approved since 2020. This is the wall of data that we've talked about many times in the past. This tallies up all the in all the incentivized projects and the data set up here. I'll just I won't go through all of these, but I'll show you the type of information that we're tracking here. The year, acreage, total project cost, total amount of reimbursement, and the total uh percentage of benefit to the company as a benchmark to compare to that 7.2% that I just showed you on the first slide. So, if you want to do the apples to apples comparison between projects, this would be the column to look at for each of these projects. And then the graphic over here shows you in kind of a graphic form, a a bar graph what that um benefit to each project looks like, which is a calculation of this number over here. And then we get to the summary at the bottom of this table. We have the averages for each type of incentive that the city council has approved historically. tax increment financing, land clearance for redevelopment authority, CIDs, transportation development districts, and chapter 100, which is what we're considering tonight. So, if you look at all of this data, historically, the average is down here. The the average for your comparison tonight, the average of the chapter 100 projects that the council has approved in the past, the valuation benefit compared to total project cost is about 9.2% as compared to the 7.2% that this project is proposing. That's the applesto apples comparison that I described to you. There's a lot of other information on here. Um, a lot of things we could talk about, but the salient point of this table is to give you the summary so you get a general sense of where this incentive request fits into

the other incentive request that the city council has approved in the past. Um, there may be other questions you have, other points about the um the project. One of the things that is I suppose unfortunate in the the sequence of events tonight, it was the intention to hold the zoning hearing first so you'd hear all about the project and then consider the incentive request, but we haven't had the zoning hearing. So, I will stop there. That is my summary and explanation of what their incentive request is, and I'd be happy to answer questions or listen to your discussion. Thank you. Yeah, we have some questions. Uh, Council Member Prior, please. Thank you, Mayor. Um, does this company do you guys typically retain ownership of the facility?

Council member Prior. Why yes, and I actually pulled the data so we could share that. So, the business model and preferences that for long-term hold, sometimes there's, you've heard this before because it happens to be true, that sometimes you have equity members that get in a pinch and they need liquidity. So, there's been a few of those, but overall, um, O'Reilly has built and has operated 17 projects like this, and they've only sold four. So, less than 25% in their history, but the the business model is Yes. Abs, just like the Princeton. That's good to know. You just see the ones that sell a lot and those typically go downhill pretty quick. Not not the business model. Okay. Do you want our Do you want our thoughts right now, too? I guess since we're not in public

overall, I think I'm in support of this. It does give me a little pause, the incentive, because I know it will generate um 911 calls, but I know that uh you guys can't proceed without the incentive. Um but that part does give me pause. But overall, I know this is needed and I am in support of it as of right now. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Rider. Thank you. Uh this question is for Mr. Bush. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. I kind of want to simplify. So, it's $1426 per door, correct? That in pilots at the at the outset of the project. Yes.

Okay. And so, what do what does the city of Lee Summit get from that 1426? Do they get that entire amount or does part of that go back to the developer? So the 14 26 pilot would result in this amount to the taxing districts and then when we apply the taxing district's tax levies this is the the amount that the city would receive. So the answer in the first year to your question is this number and over 10 years it's this number. So we're getting 41,000 the first year correct that comes back to our taxing districts. Um but just this is just Lee Summit that 41,000.

Okay. Okay. Um and then oh gosh so what would we get? You I think you had a graph. What would we get if there was no incentive? Uh this in this case it's a really simple answer. It's double these numbers because the abatement request is 50%. So these numbers here repres represent 50% of what the property taxes would be. So if this project were to actually develop with no incentive, it would be double these amounts here. Okay. So let's do the first year. So it just be would be double the 41,000. Correct. So first year the city's portion would be double that amount.

Okay. Um let's see. I made a comment last last earlier I think this year I don't remember about these concept. um presentations. I don't like them because it gives I think I believe it gives the developer an assumption and we just don't know enough about this project. So at this time I probably wouldn't move forward on this since we really don't know enough about it to to for me to make a decision on whether I think we should plus the fact that just the incentives in themselves and how much we've given away and and so I think we need to be a little more diligent about that. So thank you. Thank you, Council Member Shields.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, so I wanted to to go over first just a couple of terminology things. So, a pilot that stands for payment in lie of taxes. Correct. Payment in le of taxes. So, basically the because of the structure where the city takes the legal ownership, the entire taxes get abaded, but then they enter into a structure where they pay half of what the anticipated tax bill would be. Right.

Yes, that's correct. And this is probably a good discussion point um for the city council but also for our new elected officials also. The mechanics of this um simplified the city takes ownership of the property. Property that the city owns city doesn't pay taxes. So the city's sales tax exemption is extended to the developer during the construction period for this benefit. And then the city owns it for the 10-year period, leases it back to the company. The lease contains a number of protections for the city. So, it essentially looks and functions just like a private project, but the city owns the dirt. The city technically owns the building and then the lease provides the protections for the city. And during that 10-year period, taxes are zero. And then contractually, that's the payment in le of taxes that you're asking about. They're contractually bound to make the 50% pilot every year. And then the city administers that

and in this case, it would be a fixed pilot. So, it's not 50% of whatever the county says the tax bill would be. It's just this number with the escalator. Right. Correct. We're looking at a fixed pilot structure. So that provides certainty to the that right. So so part of the incentive or part part of why this is attractive to developers not just the abatement in taxes but also knowing that Jackson County won't go insane and triple their taxes that they for that 10-year period are protected from that those fluctuations that we might that we have seen in some cases.

Yes, that that's exactly right. when we back in I'd say 2018 when the county did a significant valuation jump in 2019 then again in 23 one of the things that we heard consistently from the development community is the desire for certainty in their tax structure and I'm sure the applicant could talk to you about that tonight also but having that certainty during the first 10 years is often critical to a project getting getting out of the ground okay so that's that's helpful just to understand kind of what they're going at but based on that other data that you showed us think that that this is a good estimate of what those taxes would be based on how other similar properties are being assessed by the county? Yes, it probably wouldn't be precisely that number, but I think that's probably

and and you know, I know we've heard from um in these kind of presentations before that those numbers may be a little bit inflated, but the because if they're in an abatement, then that they're not necessarily appealing the taxes, whereas if it wasn't an abatement, they might be trying to appeal and get those re-evaluated. Is that correct or does that not apply to that data set? So, in some cases, and this is a bit of a debate that we've had with some applicants, they come forward and they request um abatement at a certain level and then our calculation is my calculations, the staff's calculation is here's what the impact would be based on our evaluation of what we think the county would do with this property. And then the applicant often counters by saying that's not accurate because if this were a free market situation and there weren't incentives, we would be appealing that valuation to knock it down. So we often get into this sort of un unresolvable debate at this point. Where would the valuation actually be?

This is my assessment and we evaluate. So based based on your professional judgment and and the best data that we have available, this is what you think is is correct. Okay. Um and then you talked a little bit about the net present value of that abatement. So that's basically the time value of money that if if they had all that abated value, that 2.8 million today, it'd be worth more to them than the fact that it's strung out over several years. they aren't accessing that full value today. So, um it's just not worth quite as much to them, right?

Yes. Precisely to to really highlight the point, 6% net present value. So, that assumes that um we just need 6% inflation and then 6% interest rate in the net present value calculation. The difference is this number 2.8 versus 2 million. The net present value of this revenue stream from 10 years is this number here. And that's that's pretty common calculation, right? Because if if they had that money cash in hand, they could invest it in anything and and have more money over the course or in this case, they're needing to borrow money to to do what they're doing and kind of paying it off over time. So

that's right. The the company will have interest costs to to build the project and then inflation decreases the value of the money over time, which explains the difference between this 2.8 and this 2 million. Right. Okay. So that's when you're calculating those percentages, you're you're not doing the full um face value of the incentive over time. You're doing like what what today's dollars, right? The value of that revenue stream over 10 years calculated in today's dollars. Okay.

I I I still occasionally have trouble wrapping my head around that one. So I think it's always good to to go over again. Um as far as this project goes, I think the project itself I really like. Right. I think senior housing is very important. Aging in place is very important. Having those opportunities for people in our community, freeing up those, you know, single family homes for for young families so that, you know, someone who doesn't want to keep maintaining their fourbedroom home and wants to have something smaller maintenance provided but still near their family, like everybody can win in that scenario. So, I I like that. Um, I guess what I what I want to understand though is like beyond that kind of generalized public benefit specifically why this incentive is needed. So is there extraordinary infrastructure costs? I know it's kind of mentioned that there's some retaining walls and grading needing to be done, but are there other extraordinary infrastructure or public infrastructure needed? Um, is this just a pure gap in in the profitability that it doesn't get them the ROI they need, the return on investment without this or why is this being requested? So in this case, it's not public improvements. It's not being driven by public improvements. Something we'll talk about extensively in the next presentation. I think in this case, it's to the the simplest summary is is to make the project um financially viable for the developer. And I'd ask them to come up and give you a more detailed answer to that.

Thank you. That question, Council Member Shields, that's exactly right. It's both. one there. It's approximately a million and a half dollars in additional cost over a normal green field site given the extreme grades we have in retaining wells like I mentioned and then on top of that it is truly the gap. It's the same gap that Rainree Village which again I didn't go into great detail but the project that was approved and delivered in 2025 had this exact same structure. All the all the numbers and percentages were exactly the same. So they face the same situation then that we're facing now, which is rents don't keep up with the cost and you you literally can't get your equity. You can't close your loan to move forward. So the short answer again is it's both of those factors play a role here.

Absent this incentive, what would the return on investment be? Or would it be be negative? Um it wouldn't be negative, but it would be below we just went over all this. It would be below what you need to be able to get your financing and spec and your equity. So, it's not literally like you lose money, but you can't get to the return to actually be able to get to the place where you build it. Are you able to share that number or or no? I on it. It's like is it leverage? Is it unleveraged? I don't have it memorized, but

but basically, if you're an investor looking at a project, you know, well, I could put my money into treasuries and make this percentage. You have to give me more than that to make it worth it to induce me to take the risk and and do this. Is the basic everything you just said, right? They have hurdles that if they don't get over why they're not going to send the capital, you need capital to flow to a project. it won't flow to the project unless the return is above the alternative. We talk sometimes about like the the but for test but for this incentive this project doesn't happen. Yes. And I could unpack that more given other things we have going on in the market if if we need to but yes is absolutely the answer.

Um and then a question to staff um kind of following up on one of council member Prior's question about or comments about um EMS demand. Do you see significant um EMS calls from a site like this? And is that something that we have the capacity to to handle? How do you think about that?

Mike Snder, fire chief. Um, on average, it's about 1.5 calls per unit is what we experienced in similar facilities. Uh, with the ambulance in the district that it would specifically affect. Um, they're towards the bottom of our call volume currently. I would tell you in general, the system can handle it. It just depends on the location. This just happens to be in a location that is lower volume. though in general the system can can handle it. Correct. Okay. Sorry. I was just wasn't sure if I heard you correctly. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, sir.

Mayor C. Council member Shields, that's such an important point. Can may I elaborate on that because there's an incredible story here with respect to exactly how O'Reilly does things. um they have found empirically over 17 projects they've done with Arrow sitting in the back operating each time that when they focus and they do in everything they do to make sure they have preventative and keep people from making calls and then when there are calls they're less expensive as compared to when people are still in their single family homes it's dramatic and here's what I mean just some examples that came straight from them um when and it's funny I have an expert that was just at the podium that I think will not nod his head. If you have a choice to go uh on an EMS call to see a senior at a facility like the Princeton or this facility if it moves forward versus going to a single family home, which oftentimes will be somebody that is on their own, cannot unlock the door in many cases. You have to knock, you have to have a forced entry. Uh you don't know their medical history when you get there. You don't really know what's going on often times because there can be confusion and things like that.

Um it's a totally different ball. It's more it's harder. Again, I've had the expert here, but it it's it's harder in a lot of ways, I've heard. Um, and it can be more expensive and timeconuming. And not only that, uh, but then and remember, 75% of the people that will live here will actually be coming from an environment in the city that we're bringing into a great facility like this. But to end on that, it's not only that comparison of it's more efficient, better for the seniors, and less costly when a EMS visit comes to the facility as opposed to their single family home. They have a they have a a provider that they partner with called Empower Me. Empower Me. And Empower Me is all about prevention. And if we needed to, we could do a a whole pres, we've done a whole presentation before just on Empower Me, but it's meant to prevent the calls from ever being made. And the statistics, um, I'm skipping through some details. We could go into it, but I'll start with just the statistic. The clinical data shows that the hospitalization rates, the need to go pick someone up and take them to the hospital decreases 52% with this method. So summing up again two two answers about this, we'd much rather have our seniors in Lee Summit in a place like this. It will reduce the load and make the overall care better. Um, and then second of all, we will prevent the calls to begin with, at least a huge portion of them by this empower me and just the strategy empirically that Arrow has uh put in place here and the other communities that we're in. So, thank you for letting me

that's a really good answer. Thank you. An aside really fast that C council member Rder, if you don't mind, um, just talking about not knowing that much about it, the the site plan and the details that I provided is what was and you wouldn't necessarily know this. You can't know everything that's happening, but planning commission gave a unanimous recommendation. So, this body hasn't heard it because there was a notice issue. We would have otherwise been doing it tonight. I just wanted to give you some level of comfort that this is designed and everything I've talked about has already been through planning commission. So, just wanted to note that. Thank you.

Um I guess that the last couple things I'll say is one, I think, um the questions I had have been answered well and I would be comfortable looking at this moving forward. Um, and two, I I really appreciate these conceptual presentations. Um, obviously we'll need to see full details. We'll need to go through all of the PDP process, which we'll do later. We'll need to see more um detail on the the final version of the incentive package. That'll come back to us. But I think it is really helpful for me to have this initial talk through before things are set in stone to be able to really um dig into a project and understand it better and give some initial feedback. And I think it's helpful for our development community to be able to get this kind of high level feedback from us to before because to go through one of these projects is very expensive to to do all of the detailed design work to do all of the studies that you need to do. There's there's a lot that goes into that and I hate to see someone spin their wheels, waste their time, waste their money if it's something that's not going to move forward that if there's just really not the appetite for it in the city. So, I think this is a really helpful way for us to all have a chance to discuss that before um more happens. So, obviously the work still needs to be done. Those details need to be figured out and fully vetted and finally um reviewed by the council. But at this point, I'm comfortable with you moving on to that next phase, and I I appreciate the answers and the the feedback tonight. So, thank you.

Thank you. Uh, Council Member Funk. Thank you, Mayor. Council member Shields got a lot of my questions answered. Do you know, I guess the gap? What's the gap there of the return on investment with without the incentive? I see all these guys in the back. somebody knows that number.

So my suggestion would be that's something that because there's a bunch of different metrics. We have return on cost. We have leverage 10ear return. We have all these metrics. So it probably we could get into that right now. But I think that's something when it goes to council member Shield's idea of over the next coming weeks as we have to get into all the details, we could sit down with any council member that wants to go through that certainly with professional staff, council member Funk, um, and get into those details because we we do we do have them and we can go through those.

Okay. I mean, I I I think this is a needed product. Um, I know we've had the conversation that I'm going to push real hard when we get to the final stages that we that this group Arrow the operator um over at Princeton um good bad feedback on that project that we are really really really focused on local contractors if we move forward with an incentive. In fact, just the fact that we had a quick conversation about that and that was a priority for you and probably others on council. We have actually prepared an RFP that we're doing that we're sending out to se we did a pre-screening process um to go through and try to find qualified businesses in lease summit that could do this and we're going to send out an RFP. We are waiting just to be totally candid till after tonight. We want to see if we're uh moving forward but then we're going to do that and it started with your comment and a comment that council member Rder said that was very similar.

Sure. Um, I mean, I think I would be in support of seeing this move forward. I'd really like to know what that gap is. Um, if we could tighten up the incentive and and really the hard focus for me moving forward on some of these larger incentives with people that want to invest in our community and they want to ask for these is we're really really we have an EDC, we have a chamber, RFPs are great, but those are great people to talk to, too. a lot of people invest in this community and I think it would be important that they have conversations with them as well. It's a good point. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Appreciate that. Uh, Council Member Frasier,

just a couple of points of clarification for me. um on the slide that you have now um we've talked a lot about the benefit to the city or the taxes to the city of Lee Summit, but I want to confirm that um also in the this is the Blue Springs School District area as opposed to LSR7. Correct. Exactly. Right.

Okay. Okay. Um and can you go back to the slide that talked about the certificate of need and I think the number was 1,218. the need. It was early on. I apologize. I didn't see the the slide number. Um, my question is, does that include the proposed 187? I know when I said it, I just have to find I put it on the screen. There it is. There.

Oh, I remember that number. Um, so within 15 miles either way of the site, the deficiency numbers are 1,218. Is that just for assisted and memory care? Exactly. And not Yes ma'am. So regarding the I mean that's for the independent living those are in fact apartments, right? So just age restricted apartments with house cleaning and food in our case. Exactly. So, I was just just asking for a friend here. Um, is it 55, but it's not necessarily 55 for the assisted and memory care. That's probably more diagnosis dependent. Everything you said is right.

Okay. All right. Thank you. Um, and you proposed, you know, I'm curious about the timeline. So, if if today, you know, and you get started, say this year, is it what's the build look like? Let's think of this project. I believe this was, let's see if I get it right. I think this was a 20 month. Okay. 20 to 24. Yeah. 20 to 24 months depending on weather and things like that.

And I'd like I probably need to go back and do a little bit of research on this. Does a does is your does your business model include and the word I'm going to use is is um subsidized or income any income dependent like a sliding fee for um independent

I think the simple answer is no but always make sure that I'm right that that yeah I'm My name is Eric Wallish. It's uh E R I C W A L E SH 9100 West 158th Street. Don't hold it against me. That's Overland Park. Um could you reiterate your question? I don't totally understand.

So I'm just wondering if and I'm just speaking now for the independent living. Sometimes there are um subsidize sounds such like a negative word, but income dependent. So um just a sliding fee scale for a certain percentage. I think if you're referring to like like say in Denver they have what's are called set aides. You have to provide a certain you know 80% of the median income. No we do we do not provide that.

Okay. Okay. Um and then my final question or comment is actually for the city. What would be helpful I think for me is you listed all of the the incentives. Um what I would like to see is an expiration date for those. So the chart because the chart says you know 7% or that sort of thing but you know did it start in 2015? Is it going to expire next year or last year? That sort of thing. So going forward that will be that will be helpful because we know what to look for what's coming. Uh just to be clear to make sure I'm following what you're saying. Uh ending dates. Yes. Okay. Yes, I'm with you. Yes, absolutely.

That may be challenging in some cases because some of them um there's a projected ending period, but we don't know precisely. But I understand the sentiment of where you're I understand when. Okay. The projected is fine, too. So, we don't know if, you know, they're all going to end, you know, 2027 and we're stacking it now. So, just kind of curious. Yeah. Actually, and I'm I'm processing this data point. Each of these each of the statutory tools has u a man has as there's a um certain districts can only go so long and certain tools can only be used for so long and um tax abatement under the Missouri constitution 25 years is the max. So I'm thinking how to plug that into this data.

Okay, perfect. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Atkins.

Thank you. And thank you, Council Member Frasier, because I have lots of ideas, too, about the chart. I love the chart, but I'd love to see it extended with um revenue to the city after the pilots are finished. Um I'd love to see the long-term impact to the city when they're all stacked on top of each other. Um so, Mr. Bushuk, I had a question for you about um I think a slide before this you were you were showing averages and comparisons. So, this is 7.2% 2% of the total project cost, which I think is fantastic because I know that over 25 years we've averaged 20% across all of them. So, I think 7.2 is is low and that's great and that's conservative. But I think you're also pointing out this middle this pilot per unit

that this is coming in higher than what we would normally give. Is that right? Um just a couple like just a hundred. Is there I suppose it it depends on what you look at. And the one thing that I think that we I need to have some more data for you if this does move forward is the scenic project that they in the um down on highway what did I say? Yeah. Yeah. Scenic r the rainree village project. Um we need some more data on that if this comes back. You would you would build out these spreadsheets further with that data. That's what I'm saying. I think we need some more data on that project as a point of comparison which is missing here. Just something I noticed tonight.

Okay. And um maybe to the developer, can you tell us the price point of the units? So, the easiest one to quote um would be the independent living is in the $3 to $4,000 range, but that comes with, as I said before, just to be clear, it's not just quote a nice apartment. It comes with food services and it comes with house cleaning. So, it's a little bit more like a hotel, but uh and is that is that monthly? Sorry. Yeah, I I'm being short speak. No, that's okay. I just don't know how the industry works. Is it monthly like indefinitely?

In that sense, it's like an apartment. Yes. All that you you pay per month. That's right. Three to $4,000 range starting out per month.

Okay. Um and then in terms of I in terms of the but for statement you had said like I can continue talking about the market and I kind of do want to hear about the market. Are there other areas in Lee Summit that would be that you've also looked at or are there other towns that you would do this because I also want to know how much have you spent so far in this investigative process? How far how far along are we how much has been invested? We do we call it sort of site selection or site discovery and so I do even in my role I get to be a part of that and it's all around uh especially in Missouri with with me and yeah you do early you you have to tell me how much you want to talk about it you you look at the site itself you look at the characteristics you look on the cost side oftentimes get very early estimates from engineers or contractors on what the cost might be early estimates and then you match that up with can you get a certificate of need which is a big deal. We have consultants that just focus on on that in Jeff City. Can you get a certificate of need? And then you start looking at um overall on the revenue side, you start looking at what can people pay in the area, what's the market in that part of the state or in that part of the city? And you have to start matching it all up. And then you build proformas and and you all of a sudden you start saying, well, which sites, okay, what does this look like? Okay, this site would work, but we're kind of to council member Funk's point. I'm making this up for this hypothetical, but when you look at a assume a uh you know 10-year leverage proforma looking at 7030 debt at 6 and a half% and rents of this and you go, "Oh, I'm 150 basis points off." Okay, Kurt, what could we do about that? We kind of like that site and that city. Well, let's look at it. Look at the city's history. Look at the tools available. We run the model. We plug it in. That's the process that leads us out of looking at, I don't know, at any given time 15 sites across Missouri and beyond Missouri and

we might whittle it down to five, start some conversations. Well, for X or Y reason, that's not going to work. Then we get down to three and then you start to see these proceedings with about that number right now that I'm working on with them in Missouri. So, and so how much has been invested so far in this process to where you are? I I wouldn't say an exact number, but like would you hundreds to to be fair, I know you get rather than give like to everybody in the world, it's in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to get to this point, multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars. Um, thank you. Appreciate that.

Um, I will say that I love the concept. I mean, I I know I've talked to a lot of people about how badly we need this for our community because you're right. I mean, I you're saying people move out of their homes into this and that's what makes affordable housing for the rest of us is when we can rotate people through in all phases of life. So, I appreciate the um product very much and I know that we need it. Um, one last point I would make is that I know we didn't do the other presentation tonight about the zoning and the buildout, but I have been watching on planning commission and I've seen um what you've been presenting. Um, in it matters to me whether the people along the fence are happy with this project because it does go up close and I know that it's been moved a little bit, but that that does matter. And I know that you've I know you've removed shrubs down by the culde-sac so they can still see the pond and that's wonderful, but it really matters um if the people that are right there are are content with the way that it's going to build forward. Um, so that's what I'll be paying attention to as it moves forward. Um,

and to be fair, just because not everybody knows as much probably as as you do in terms of watching that, we have really the team has really earnestly tried to get everybody on board. We cannot always promise that because everyone can have their own opinion um that everyone will get there, but we will be prepared to explain like you're doing probably not this second, right? what we've what we've done and um if that comes up I think we'll be probably at the mid June meeting and we'll be prepared to talk about that because you're right that's really important we have to show that we've done everything reasonably possible to make it a harmonious transition so appreciate the mark

okay thank you I appreciate that um yeah and so otherwise I I do like the project and I I don't in mind I don't mind investing I don't mind the concept of investing in great projects in the city I think that's our duty so I I do appreciate that And thank you, Mr. Bushek. Good. Yes. Thank you. Appreciate that. I know there's a couple council people that want to speak again, but I'm going to allow council people that have not spoken yet to to go first. Uh, Council Member Craravens.

Thanks, Mayor. Um, so I am always in support um of um filling a gap, a need that's in the city, and I do appreciate um a couple of things with this project. um one utilizing a targeted area. Um also, um it's just important that we keep our eye on housing for all different stages of life. And I think that this definitely um fits in that category. A lot of my questions that I did have on there has already been um answered. Um but for me when we talk about um you know this independent living sta or stage um of housing we do have a lot of premium or luxury um uh spaces for our residents. But I would like to see more um opportunity to fill gaps of our residents, our our um aging residents that can't afford the 3 to 4,000 a year um facilities. And I know that we do have um a handful of facilities that are kind of outside that u range of affordability, if you will. Um, but I am um happy to hear um in your response that it's not just a matter of um the rent being 3 to 4,000. It does include um extra things that could offset some of that um that burden. Um when you look at, you know, food and cleaning being included. Um, I do want to, you know, kind of reserve my position here just because I do kind of want to hear more. I want to hear what some of the um residents close to

this project is saying because I know that um, you know, we have some areas that may be um, kind of blocked the visibility wise um, in terms of, you know, the vantage point from current residents. But um again I do like the fact that we are focusing on targeted areas. We are um creating new jobs um and we are um fulfilling a need um with our our aging community. So um that that's it. That's that was just my comment. Um a couple of things that was still left that wasn't said. So

great. Thank you. Um we will go to Council Member Carile, please. Thank you, mayor. Um, I just have a few kind of maybe followup questions um that I didn't hear. So, first, um, Chief Snder, if I could have you.

So, earlier you said that these kind of places average one and a half calls per unit approximately. That is correct. And so would that be the for the independent living units or the assisted living units or the memory care units? No, it was looking at the complete 187 units. Okay. So all of those things combined. Okay. And so of those 1.5, those are probably all going to be some kind of government insurance, the Medicare, Medicaid, right? I would make an assumption towards that. Yes. And how much money do we lose per ambulance ride that uses Medicaid?

So I I can simply say that on Medicare at the not specifically speaking to Lee Summit but in general is about a 30 to 60% collection based on what is build and then for Medicaid is 10 to 30%. Okay. And so probably more than 80% are going to be on Medicare, Medicaid. I I would make the same assumption.

Okay. Um, thank you for that. Um, and then the developer, he you kind of had a followup to those comments, you know, of how how you make those ambulance rides better. So, does that go to all of the units or just like the memory care and assisted living? And are you saying that the um independent living folks are getting care kind of as well? So, it makes those rides

it's less acute, which you know intuitively by asking the question, but it's the it's the aspect of being communal. You're around people all the time. So, that's on the independent living side more than the more acute measures taken on the other two levels of care. Okay. So, really you're saying is that you make it better because they're around people. People are seeing them every day knowing that they're not fallen for two days in their home, right? And there's there's more, but that's generally right. Yeah. Okay. Um Okay. Thank you for that. I think the next one's probably going to be for you, too. On your job slide, um you said it's going to after the construction, it'll have 50 to 55 full-time equivalents.

That's right. So, my assumption is like you're going to have a facility manager, probably a maintenance person, maybe two maintenance people, um, and then obviously a doctor that's going to oversee everything. But aside from that, yeah, like how many are going to be actual RNs or CNAs or do you like do you know what the average like cuz I know what the average salary for each of those people is, but so like how many of those people are going to be let's just put it easy really. How many will be able to live in Lee Summit on the salary they're going to be paid here? Yeah, that's good. Rather than even shoot from the hip and that that's one of those things we can pull and then we'll just we'll just get that to you.

Okay, perfect. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Now, we will go back around uh Council Member Frasier. Sorry. Um you talked about the 187 units. What I did not ask is are those one-bedroom units or twobedroom or what? It's a mix. Yeah, thank you. There's a mix across from So I just to comment I think that's good because what it allows for is potentially senior couples to move in together and the independent villas for for example this is just an example because there's a mix amongst everything but those the ones that were up in the northwest corner that were detached those are those are twobedroom. Okay.

But then there's mix within everything else. Good, good, good. And are utilities included? H are utilities included? Thank you, operator. Like you you we got a thumbs up on that. All right. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. Thank you, Council Member Prior. Thank you, Mayor. Um, what is the neighborhood just north? The name Ridgewood Hills. Holiday. Uh, Ridgewood. Oh, yeah. Bridgewood. Ridgewood Hills. Is it all single family in that neighborhood? I think so. It is. Yeah, it is.

Can you show the slide again of the of your facility and then that neighborhood and how far is your facility from the houses? What's the closest? Do we have a different slide deck for the just so you know? We can do this as much as you want for that zoning where we'll get into all this, but let's go to the slide at least have in this deck which is going to be this. And what's it currently zoned? That's probably the best one. Okay. Yeah, that's the one. Uh, is it is it is it bag right now? Do you remember? Yeah. What's the current zoning? I don't know the current zoning, but you could build in essence.

Shannon McGuire is director of plan services. It is currently zone CP2. Oh, okay. Um, that's not the slide. There was another slide that showed like where what you were going to build where. So, the site plan could that be Yeah, that one. Okay. Okay. So, um how far is that? What's the highest? So, how many stories what's the highest level of stories this will be on any of it? So, let's get Do we have a good picture? Is that representative or I know we took it from the other

Yeah, but we're you come on up and let's talk about this together. So I don't have elevate again I not to be I hate not being prepared but this is all of our zoning things where we have all these details. So just so you know so we will be talking in depth but so uh Tim do you want to step up? I'm I'm going to have our architect address this again. We were going to address this tonight but there was a problem with the notification. Yeah. So, um, but Tim can talk about the elevation and how we're using the grade down to the lake.

I just kind of want to know because as council member Atkins said, if people are concerned about this and then they're going to be reaching out to us, I just want to be I just want to know all of the information now so I'm prepared when they reach out to us. So, thank you. Number of stories on the site plan, too. We can talk about that. Yeah. Hi, Tim Wilson with SWD Architects. Address is 315 Nichols Road, Kansas City, Missouri. Um, so this is actually a fourstory project here. This is down in St. Peters, Missouri. Um, what we're looking at, how do I get back to easiest way is right here. If you just go like that, like that. Sorry. You go up and down and tell me where you want to go.

Uh, go back to our site plan.

Site plan is there. Yep. So what what we have on the site. So this is the high portion of the site and this all slopes down to the pond down here. So we've got our singlestory villas up here in this area. And some of these will actually step between the units about a foot as they come down to help absorb that grade as we're coming down the hill this way. And then when we get down to this area here, this portion, the assisted living is two stories. The memory care is single story back here. So, we're keeping our single story as close as we can um to the neighbors back here to help with just the mass of the project. And we're also using these buildings to help absorb the grade as we're coming down. So, the assisted living in this area is two stories. The main entrance into the building at this point is two stories on this end here. And this little piece right here is two stories on the assisted living. This is all single story within this area. This has the commercial kitchen. It's got the dining room for the assisted living, the dining room for the independent living, the pool and fitness area for the independent living. And then when we get to this point here, we're picking up 11 feet of the grade. We're using the building as a retaining wall at this point. So from here down to this end is still two stories on the front of the building. So from the street, this all appears as two stories. And then right here, this will slope down and this end of the building will be three stories along this side here. And this is actually the first plan that we brought to planning commission. After meeting with the neighbors and comments from the first planning commission

meeting, uh we went back had another meeting with the neighbors. And what we've done here is this actually stretches out a little bit here. We were able to bring this road in tighter. We moved the trash enclosures and generators and things like that. But that would all be part of our presentation uh for the reasonzoning or for the PDP and SUP. Okay. Thank you. And I'm assuming since it's grading down towards the pond that it's not going to increase any storm water along any of those houses. No.

No. Okay. Um do you know what the furthest distance is up here where the where it's a little closer? Do you know how far that is? Um, at our last planning commission, Hector, I believe, had this. Um, but I can't remember off the top of my head of what we were there. Okay. It makes me feel better knowing it's already zoned CP2, so it's not zoned a, but No, it it's zoned for commercial use, so it it could be a big box type facility here. Yeah. Okay. Thank you very much. Mhm.

Get it? Good. Thank you. Okay. Um Mr. Peterson, um I'll give you some some feedback as myself as well. Um and new new members up here. We didn't let you down, did we? Good questions. Good questions. Good feedback. It's a tradition up here. We have an action list. Yeah.

Good. We're going to keep it going. Um, so for me, um, I know the site very well. Um, don't live very far from there. I know that through the years it's been on the market for many years. Uh, it's been a challenging site. Topography is a challenge for the type of commercial that will ever go there. Um, I think the concept itself, I think most of my colleagues that spoke in favor of potentially being in support of this have already expressed, uh, this is a concept that's needed, you know, in our community and across the region, of course. Um, so I think that's great to to bring this concept to our community, um, and hopefully for most of our residents to to take advantage of uh, here in our community. Um, I think that uh the site plan itself is something that I I'm kind of curious as well. As I said, I know the area very well. I know Council Member Atkins and I, it's an area that we've represented. Council member Rder as well. We've represented that area for many years and and lived in that area. Um, I just want to make sure the neighbors are respected and there's there's good dialogue and good relationship with those neighbors immediately to the north. Um, before you all come back and I know we will get the calls. So, um, besides that, I, you know, I I I feel comfortable with this. I think this is a proper use for that site and, um, I just would like to see as I've not had the opportunity to look into the public, uh, the planning commission, uh, information, but, I'm curious about traffic flow and all those kind of things as well. Um, I know it's a tight corridor and, uh, so public safety is important up in that area, that part of the city. Uh, but I I would be in supportive of this. So, you want uh kind of some feedback and an idea of kind of I don't know if you're tab in on your own, but I think there's se six of us that at this point feel comfortable in proceeding. Uh there's two that are have question marks and maybe just need to get more detail uh after you all go

and and uh thoroughly vet out the site plan. Um and I think there's one that I know would not be in support of it. So, I think that's the type of feedback you're looking for. So, hopefully that helps. Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, absolutely. So, thank you guys very much. Appreciate it. Oh, Council Member Prior, we have one more question. Thanks. It's actually not a question, but I did look up reviews on Princeton and they have very good reviews. So, yeah, good point. Good operator. So, thank you all very much. All right. Yeah. Um, I think we will take a 10-minute recess, please. Thank you.

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You have some guinea pigs off to the side. All the windows up here are animals that are adoptable right now. Every one of these dogs is ready to go and ready for adoption. And the same thing with our cats over here. A lot of cool cats in here now. So, so this is our 3acre lot we have out back on. This is where we do all the walking of dogs, exercise. We also have a sideyard off to the side over there. So, we can let them run loose. They can run together and we have what's called playgroups. Kind of like having a bunch of kids. Here's our our vet room. We have a vet comes out twice a week. This is our sally port where we bring the animals into. This is one of our animal control trucks and we can hold up to six animals. We have a lift on the other side to put big animals in. We actually have temperature gauges in here and in the truck to tell us how hot it is. Once it gets to a certain temperature, we bring all the animals back here immediately. So, this actually has traps in it. But we do a lot of wildlife trapping. I mean, a lot. So, bats, hot belly pigs, horses, cows, emus, a lot of reptiles. We had a a citizen one time that had over 200 reptiles in his basement. Cayman's and alligators in here that are four or five feet long. You can't keep those. And people do and they're surprised when they can't keep them. I'm like, really? You're surprised you can't have an alligator in your house?

Our main goal here is public safety and also the safety of the animals. And we have very dedicated people back there. And they definitely stay here for the love of the animals, which also includes getting them adopted out. We'll have about uh 4,000 impounded animals a year. Probably about close to 2,000 are dogs and cats. The cats and dogs when they get impounded here, they go on a 5-day hold. And then after the 5 days, if the owner doesn't show up, then we can put them up for adoption. Adopt an animal here is actually really simple. You just come in, look what forever animal you're looking for, find the right pick. you have you go to the adoption room up there and see if you get along with them. You spend as much time as you want to in there. From that point on, it's just a matter of uh making sure they're spay or neutered and all their vaccinations up to par and they're good to go. We have a very high adoption rate because we try everything in our power to get animals adopted out. We have America Humane Society that we do a lot of adoptions through and then we also have other groups. We have some people that literally will just look all over the country for somewhere for a dog to go. And we've sent dogs up into South Dakota, North Dakota, Washington State. So, it's actually it it's a huge united effort to get all these animals home.

Tarzan, lots of energy. Hazel's got a weird bell. She wants nothing to do with the other cats. She'll kind of get her grumpy face going. And the good thing about the people here is that they get all their friends to get animals, too. All of us have probably the limit of all the animals that we can have at home. You know, they are huge animal lovers. If it was up to the people here, we'd have 15 cats running around in here.

We had a citizen one time out there and he was bathing his two uh 9 foot long boa constrictors in the front yard. Apparently, I was I was garning some some attention and so we went out there and had to talk to him about that. Well, I do this job. Oh, dude. I love this job. I grew up on a farm and taking care of that many animals, you can't help but like animals. This is just like fancy farming. you know, you're just bringing animals in here, taking care of them and and find them homes and uh yeah, absolutely animal lover.

This is the best place to work. I love working here. I feel very blessed. I love it here. I look forward to coming to work every day, being a part of this team. Like a family away from home where everyone feels like everybody knows their name. A city that supports you. We see that with our benefits. A pension, vacation days, job security, being able to be heard. We feel valued. We feel respected. Lee Summit is a very progressive city. It's growing. It's thriving. We have this drive towards not just doing a job but doing it with a spirit of excellence. I had the opportunity to continue to grow regardless of 30 plus years doing this kind of work. It's more than just dollars and cents. We're here really to give back

providing a service to better a community to go out and serve people to be a part of something bigger than yourself.

If I would have known what I know now years ago, I would have been here much sooner. Traditionally, we think as police officers, those responding to law enforcement needs within the community. But honestly, we are there to serve our citizens. And our citizens do go into crisis. They do have mental health crises, and we're being called to those scenes on a regular basis. In order to help serve those citizens better, we did initiate the crisis intervention team program. These are officers that are specially trained to deescalate crisis situations. Recently, we've brought co-responders onto the scene, licensed qualified mental health professionals housed within our police department, and they respond with those officers directly to those scenes where a crisis is occurring so they can interact with that citizen and get them the help they need right there on that scene.

The co-responders are either a bachelor or master level in a behavioral health related field. They wear plain clothes. They don't carry weapons or anything like that. I have a police radio that I listen to all day. Listen for, you know, those key words, mental health, behavioral health, crisis. There's a lot of officers that just call for me. I have my own radio number. I also have the ability to self-dispatch to them and say 982 is in route. Officers in route 914. So, typically I arrive after they've made it safe. I'll make contact and get kind of the rundown and then I just kind of jump right in

like, "Hey, you know, my name's Alison. I'm a mental health professional. I'm here to help you. I'm not here to take you to jail or arrest you." Sometimes all a person needs is a voice, someone neutral, someone outside that you know can listen. I do a lot of safety planning, including family, their support network. Who's close to you? Can some if they're home alone, who can come over and hang out with you today? Can we lock away your sharps? Can we put up your meds? Do you need meds? Can we get you over to the urgent care to get you assessed for your medications? Some of them also are like, "Oh, I'm so glad you came. This made me feel so much better."

Our main goal as co-responders is to one get people connected to the services that they need and also divert from emergency rooms and jails and they almost get a different view of the police responding. That lets me know you care and the officers care. Please, please, how can I help you? My husband had in 2020 we had 722 mental health related calls for service. 2022 by that time 1,479. These mental health related calls for service are increasing. How we're responding to that is increasing the number of crisis intervention team officers we have available as well as the number of co-responders we have available to respond on these calls.

So, what I think is important for the community to know about the co-responder program is that we're here. We exist. All you have to do when you call 911 is ask for us, you know, say, "Hey, I want a co-responder to respond to this this crisis and we'll go." I was really struggling about 8 years ago. My personal journey with mental health and I met some amazing social workers and amazing programs that have helped me get to where I am today. I really couldn't see myself doing anything else. We want to help and that's that's what we love to do. So I had a client we got a call she had some suicidal ideations and she really felt that she had nobody and you know and getting to know her story and getting to know who comes around and sees you. Well then we found a support person and they responded immediately and we made a plan. I called back and checked on her in an hour and then I checked on her on 2 hours. We were able to get her into additional services to where she talks to someone every week or more. I just took a person that really just thought they had nobody and nobody would show up for them and show them you do. And you'll be amazed who is in your corner if you just simply say, "I need a little help.

We will continue with the agenda for tonight and uh we have another presentation. This one is a general overview of the Northland Reserve property. Mr. Bushek.

Thank you. David Bush, economic development council for the city. Um, I'll start by saying some preliminary matters before I get into the the meat of the presentation. This um this item is an update and I think on the agenda it specifically is called um general overview of the north land reserve property and I'll start with a bit of history. Um the city executed a memorandum of understanding with um land reserve two years ago and then in August of last year I made a presentation to the city council. We made a presentation to the city council and it was um fashioned as a conceptual presentation to get the council's feedback on the financing structure that we had put together. This is both a bit of a repeat of that presentation and an update to update um the elected officials who previously heard this and to educate the new elected officials on this. And so one of the things that I will say based on the conversation that we just had about the previous project, this is much larger, much more complicated. And um I had this thought over the weekend, this is the season of detours. You have to take detours occasionally due to road construction. If I if I need to take a detour on this presentation to to explain an issue or to explain what a acronym means or what a term means or if you need any sort of explanation, this presentation is for you. It's to update the city council on what we've been doing and it's for you to understand how this works and it's it's an opportunity for you to ask questions and let us know if you don't understand something because it, you know, there are points of this that are complicated, but we do our best to summarize and explain it in a way that hopefully you can understand. Um, I guess with that, I'll go ahead and get started and walk through the presentation. So, what we are talking about tonight is the we're focusing on the north area. I already mentioned that we executed the memorandum of understanding two years ago. We've been working with uh the land reserve team for I think seven years now. I think we started talking with them in 2019. Um

and it's been an extensive planning period and as you'll see from our presentation, the reason is the scope and the scale of this is is kind of tremendous. Uh it's a unique opportunity for the city and this meeting tonight and the by the time I'm finished with this presentation, you'll see what we have planned for the upcoming meetings. This is kind of the kickoff point. There's been lots of planning, lots of discussion, but this composition of the city council is the city council that will start to make decisions and we'll be requesting votes to be made on the financing plan to move forward with this. So, this is kind of the kickoff even though this is also an update for you and an opportunity to answer your questions. So, I'll start with background. This map shows where the land reserve property uh property reserve property is located today. There's two large areas. The northern area is about 1,000 acres, and I'll get into some more data in a moment. And then the property down here is about 3,200 acres, all owned by the same entity. So, one of the unique things that we are presented with, and this is something that I've emphasized many times at the city council, is we're working with one landowner. It's an extremely rare extremely rare opportunity to be working with one land owner on this scale and to be able to talk about financing infrastructure improvements at this scale. This won't ever happen again in Lee Summit and this probably hasn't happened in any other city in Missouri that I'm aware of. I've talked with um the partners that I work with and nobody's ever seen a land mass of this scale owned by one owner which presents the ability of the city to work with that one property owner to come up with a financing plan. So, this is this is kind of an historic moment for the city and you'll be making some very significant decisions that will have uh significant impact for the city for many decades to come. That's this city council. As I said, we're focusing on the north area. So, this is approximately 1,000 acres. And this is the map that you'll be seeing many times. This is the interstate. This is all located on the

eastern side of the interstate north of CBurn Road. here. I will turn the podium over to the other parties that we are working with and I'll let them introduce themselves and say a few comments and I will come back and continue.

Good evening, Mayor and uh council. So great to be with you all of you. My name is Tyler Buzzwell. I'm the president of Land Reserve and I'm also the global head of Property Reserve. And both land reserve and property reserve are real estate investment companies based in Salt Lake City, Utah. And uh we invest the reserve funds for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The easiest way to understand that is essentially we're part of the endowment for the church's charitable and religious purposes. Um but we are investment companies. So Property Reserve is a long-term land investor. Um diversified real estate portfolio. Um, and we have large investments in land and they are long-term holds in communities that we believe in. Land reserve is essentially the development and master plan company. It's a wholly owned subsidiary of property reserve and it's the company that master plans communities and actually develops those master plan communities. Currently, Land Reserve has master plan communities in six states. Um, so that's just a little bit about who we are and who I am. And again, I've I've appeared before uh this council a few times in the past, but excited to to meet the new council members and those of you that I've met in the past, excited to to continue to collaborate with you. Um, as was mentioned, we've been working on this project for a long time. Um, we have invested in this community long before that, though. So, this property right here that we're going to talk about tonight uh was purchased in 1982. And that is the way that property reserve invests in long-term land holdings. It is um we find communities that we believe in, right? We believe in the infrastructure, we believe in the schools, we believe in the growth, we believe in the jobs, and we invest in large land holdings and hold it till the time is right to develop. That's that's our strategy. That's what we do. And what we are to today is sort of the realization of that

long-term investment. And the other 3,000 acres, by the way, that was purchased in 1990. So again, we have been long-term investors in Lee's Summit. We've believed in Lee's Summit for a long time. And the last seven years is us saying, "Hey, we think it's probably about time to start developing here and start engaging with the city what is right for the community." uh we truly view ourselves as community builders. So land reserve when we are master planning and trying to you know envision what a you know a long-term land and a particular large scale land holding is going to be is what is right for the community? What does the community need and how do we help fill that need? And we feel like if we make a great community, we're also going to get a rate of return because again we're an investment company. So that's that's our goal. But if we're doing it right, that's that's what we believe in. Um, so we obviously collaborate with cities and in this case with uh, you know, city staff who's been wonderful to work with. Uh, the elected officials have been great. Um, and again, it's a long-term process because again, we put our capital in a long time and because these these projects take a long time to develop because they're so large. Again, we we we want to do this handinand with what is right, you know, for the community. Um, so that's a little bit about us. that's what we care about. Those what our values are and um yeah so appreciate this and uh look forward to uh ongoing discussions. So the next few slides provide some data for you to understand the scope of what we're dealing with. The land reserve property is a little over 4,200 acres and you see the precise acreage in the north area and the south area of the city. Some other interesting data points. Lee Summit is the sixth largest city both by population and land area. Um in my research I found kind of surprisingly there's over 10,000

municipalities in Missouri. A lot of them are very small villages and Bergs. Um there's over a thousand municipalities and the land reserve property would be 104 by land area alone. And just as an another interesting fact, I have the the size of Lee Summit there by land area in the nation. This chart then compares the land reserve property both um the land scale to some other cities and then we have the population of these other cities. So just as a point of comparison cities you're familiar with Raytown and Peculiar about nine square miles. The land reserve property is about 6 and a half square miles. Oakrove, Hollister, Green Valley, University City, all smaller than the land reserve property that we're talking about tonight. And you'll see at the bottom again as just a point of comparison there's over 33,000 people in University City which is u in the St. Louis area by rank population rank that's number 20. So the proposal isn't to develop this property with that much density but the point is you can fit that many people in an area that's smaller than the property we're talking about tonight. So the thing that I said last year, it's as if we're planning to develop a city within a city because that's the scope of what we're dealing with here, both in land size and potential population. The goals, as I alluded to in my introduction, we have a an extremely unique circumstance to work with one property owner, and we've been doing so very cooperatively for many years now. The goal is to create a long-term financing strategy to fund the infra the major infrastructure improvements in the north and the south area and very importantly to avoid a peacemeal approach. What I mean by that is if we were to start thinking about all of the whatifs if you don't approve and don't act on what we're presenting to you tonight, what would happen? It's it's it'd be highly speculative, but uh I think it would be a much much more peacemeal approach to funding the infrastructure. That is certain. And I think what we would probably see, and

this will become more clear by the time I'm finished with my presentation, based on the pattern of development and how we funded infrastructure historically in the city, I think that process would probably repeat itself in some fashion if we didn't take the opportunity to work with the one property owner as we have been doing. I think it would be a much more peacemeal approach and the development probably be stretched out over a much longer period of time and it probably would not be as impactful for the city and I can elaborate on that if we want to talk about at the end but I think this is an extremely rare opportunity to avoid a peacemeal approach like we've had in other parts of the city and work with one property owner to develop a comprehensive strategy. So now we're focusing in on just the northern 10,00 acres, what the the project is being called. The entire 10,00 acres is being called Arborside by the land reserve team. This is essentially a tally of what we have been focusing on for many years. We've been focusing on all the different types of land uses, residential, mixeduse, commercial, industrial, institutional uses. We've been planning for parks, fire, police, schools, land reserve has been talking with the school districts. Um, and we are primarily focused on funding the major infrastructure costs. So that's the arterial transportation improvements, water and sewer, and then the primary utilities and regional storm water. I'll be showing you in a moment what those costs are, but this slide shows you in summary fashion all of the items we've been working with with the land reserve team, the school districts, and the other interested parties as this property is being proposed for development. This slide shows you the estimate of the major public infrastructure costs to build the northern 10,000 acres. Major transportation improvements approaching $40 million. Sanitary sewer, 34 million. major storm water improvements 1.7 water manes 6.2 electric and then a healthy contingency at 20% to factor in the unknowns. The city has already secured

funding for two of these items in very important categories. The major transportation improvements at 24 million and the sanitary sew improvements at 10.5 million. This chart, it's it's essentially a recap of what I just showed you. Total costs. This is the target that we're trying to fund. This is the secured city funding and we'll I'll go into that in a bit more detail in a moment. So this is the remainder. This is the target of what we're trying to solve for with this funding package over time. This is this is the number we're trying to solve for for the major infrastructure improvements. One of the action items that this city council has already taken is you the city council previous composition of the city council approved a contract with land reserve for the Todd George Parkway. This page here is a page from the city's capital improvement plan for the Todd George Parkway. So, if you were to go to the capital improvements plan, you would turn to this page, you would find it, and you would see that this is a project that the city has already factored in its capital improvements plan. And this is the approximate schedule, fiscal year 27 through the year 2030, a cost of $24 million. This city council has already approved a contract with land reserve between land reserve and the city under which land reserve will be constructing the Todd George improvements for the city and accelerating it. So instead of the city funding these improvements several years out, this contract allows land reserve to proceed with the construction of this road soon and they're already going I'm not sure what the RFP process is. They may be finished with that but it's already underway based on a contract that the city council's already approved. So, this is an effort that we're already moving forward with. And so, you understand where this comes from up here. That's this $24 million in the secured funding. So, the city was planning on funding Todd George Parkway to the tune of $24 million in a future fiscal year. That contract allows uh land reserve to move forward and then the city will be appropriating those

funds um to to reimburse land reserve under that contract. So, that's one method of secured financing from the city that the city brings to the table in this equation. Next, sanitary sewer improvements. Um, I'll just give a summary of this and we have people here that can provide more detail if you want. There's three pump stations. This is the location of these three pump stations. This shows the areas that this serves based on the geography these pump stations the city has secured. That's the 10 million 10.5 million in funding that the city has secured based on funding from the state. So the city brings to the table 10.5 million in funding for these improvements and the remainder needs to be solved for in some fashion and we can have others that can talk about these details uh and the sewer improvements and how this work if if we need to later in the presentation. This is another slide showing the same area and showing appropriately north north is up shows the areas that the three pump stations in green would serve. um just to give you a better sense of how this would develop out. So the financing plan framework, this is where I provided an explanation to the city council last year and I'm going to go ahead and explain this again. This is the point where it may sound like I'm may sound like I'm wandering a little bit in my discussion, but I will actually bring all this back together when I talk about some of these other items. So, one of the things that I'll talk about first is our zoning and our subdivision regulations. Um, the city adopted a um unified development ordinance around 2000 and I had the the good fortune of working on that um all the way through the process with the city. I was the the primary author of the UDO when it was originally adopted, working with many other city staff and we went through an extensive um period of hearings in front of the

what was I think it had a different name but it was the community and economic development committee um back in the year 2000. The UDOS's consists of I don't know what the count is today 12 or so articles and back then I think it may have been 14 articles and there was a hearing over a period of over 12 months going over every article one at a time. The reason I'm mentioning that is because the UDO is when the city moved to plan zoning and what that means is you're very familiar with it already. uh preliminary development plans. Standard zoning essentially divides um it separates the uses like one of the old cases talks about keeping the pig out of the parlor, keeping uh the land uses separated so you don't have incompatible uses close together. That's zoning. Subdivision regulations, which are now incorporated right into the unified development ordinance. The main point of subdivision regulations is to ensure that as property is subdivided, there's adequate public facilities and services to serve that property. So, we've got zoning, separating the uses. We've got subdivision regulations, making sure that there's adequate public facilities when land is carved up because it enhances the intensity of of the uses on our system. More traffic, more water use, more sewer use, and so forth. So we have the unified development ordinance and then I think it was around 2019 we had a substantial amendment of the UDO to take portions of the design and construction manual which governs um how the public improvements are actually constructed and it was woven into the UDO the zoning regulations and the subdivision regulations in a more efficient manner for the city to move forward um with projects. The reason I'm telling you all of that and giving you the zoning and the subdivision regulation history is for this reason. And what I said last year was my my summary of what Lee Summit has been doing for 25 years is the city has

effectively an unwritten policy of essentially saying yes as opposed to no when it comes to zoning. And here's what I mean by that. every project that comes forward um the city staff meets with the applicant. There's a pre-development pre-application meeting then an applicants meeting and the focus of those discussions is essentially u part and parcel with the zoning and the subdivision regulations that I've been talking about which is from the very first moment of each one of those meetings when our sta when the city staff meets with an applicant they're trying to find ways to say yes as opposed to no. What that means is if a project comes forward and there's inadequate road, water, sewer, storm water, the city would have the ability to say no because of inadequate infrastructure. But from all the focus that this city has placed on zoning and the subdivision regulations and the UDO, all of these projects, the city steers towards saying yes as opposed to no. And when the city says yes, that often comes with conditions. And so something that um council members that have been on the city council before and our new council members will get used to when you see zoning applications, it's very common to include conditions on approval. And the conditions are the developer has to solve the infrastructure deficiencies that the city can't solve through its capital improvements plan. So you'll see many applications where the developer needs to build these turn lanes, this these traffic improvements, put in this signal, these water improvements, these sewer improvements, and it's often the case frequently that the developer says because the city hasn't gotten around to funding these public improvements yet and you're making those a condition of my approval, which is called an exaction. I've talked about exactions with the city council last year. The city essentially has a policy of exactions and requires the developer to build the public infrastructure that is missing. That comes at substantial cost and that is largely the reason that incentives have been so prevalent in Lee Summit. It's to pay for public

improvements. That's sort of the foundation of what the city has done for over two decades, probably close to three decades now. One of the things that I would kind of amend what I said last year is I said it was an unwritten policy and and that is the case. It's it's not written down anywhere that the city tries to say yes in every case, but that is what happens. And so the amendment to my statement last year, I think it actually is written. It is the UDO. And that's why I wanted to take some time to explain that to you. I think the effort that this city has collectively over decades attempted to do is get to yes instead of no with its zoning approvals. But that yes comes with exactions and that comes with the cost that the developer has to bear or there's no project. That's the that's sort of the basis of the incentives. So when I said it was an unwritten policy, I think it's probably a written policy. It's the UDO. That's what the city has been doing for so many years. But an important point, and the reason I would call it sort of unwritten is you always have discretion with your zoning approval. So there's nothing that you would see in the UDO that says we're going to try to say yes for you because you always have your legislative discretion when you're approving these projects. So hopefully you follow all of that sort of rambling analysis of what I think the city has been doing for many decades which is getting to yes with its zoning approvals but using exactions which is which imposes these public improvement costs on developers which have led to multiple incentive requests and that's how sub substantial portions of our city and the infrastructure have been built. The best example of that would be um look at streets of west prior some at woods and some at fair. I I won't go into it unless you want me to, but those projects paid for substantial infrastructure improvements. Chipman Road, the realignment of Prior Road. Prior Road used to go through where Lowe's and Kohl's is located today. That road had to be moved over. There's the flyovers, the exit ramp off

Chipman Road. All of those improvements were funded by those projects and the incentives that were used in those projects as a result of the developer saying, "If you're going to make me build these public improvements, I'm going to need some assistance." And so that's how we get to what I would call the city's unwritten but sort of written exaction policy through the EDO. So that's a long way of explaining what I think is the framework and what the city's been doing for a long time. So this table then this is a a very important table for you to understand how this structure works and I'll walk through each piece of this with you. So starting on the left side, this is the array of land uses that we've been talking about. We have single family R1 industrial R2 we're calling now R2 plus because that's all of the other residential land uses beyond R1 uh densities from town home density on up to higher densities office and then retail. Then there's two primary funding tools that we use and that is real property tax redirection or abatement that's this category and then a new sales tax. This column basically shows a period of 10 years, the first 10 years and the second 10 years for each of these types of land uses which I'll explain. Then these columns here, this is an indication of what happens with these revenues under this plan. So the yellow column shows what revenues flow through to the taxing districts as normal. So for example, for single family, there's there's no modification of how taxes flow with single family under this structure. Single family. None of the incentive tools will be used for single family. They will pay full property taxes. No taxes will be diverted. No taxes will be abated. For the industrial, the proposal is during the first 10 years 5% of the revenue flows to the taxing districts. Then the next 10 years 25% of the revenue flows to the taxing districts. And then the proposal is for the

residential 25 and then 100%. And then office and retail it's 75% straight down. So again, this column shows what revenues would flow to the taxing districts as normal as the system usually works. Tax redirection. This column is largely how we would fund the public improvements. So 20% of the abated taxes would flow in the form of CI special assessments and this would be turned into revenue to fund the public improvements. So in a in very simple terms, property taxes are being abated and the green column shows what property taxes are being reimposed to generate the revenue to fund the infrastructure improvements over a period of time. That's what this column represents. Then tax redirection for local public improvements. The placeholder down here is just half of the new C sales tax revenue would be allocated to pay for localized public improvements as opposed to the big ticket infrastructure items that I just covered on the previous slides. And then the final column here is the abatement column. And this is the characterization would be business attraction. This is essentially land reserve proposal for an abatement that results in a business attraction both for industrial and residential R2 and above. And then the asterisks here are a placeholder for office and retail. They will have the ability to request an additional incentive on a case- by case basis. And that's something that would come forward later, but that's not something that's part of the package that we're talking about tonight. So, the most important thing to keep in mind is this box here. This is where we would generate the bulk of the revenues from this tax redirection strategy to fund the infrastructure improvements over a period of time, plus the new CI sales tax down here. In a nutshell, that's how this structure works. Now, one of the items that was requested specifically by Mayor Prom Shields at the discussion last year was can we see what this structure looks like in the framework of

what you're used to seeing on a project by project basis. So now, new council members, you've seen tables which look similar to this on a couple occasions, including tonight. And so this takes this financing structure and puts it into this framework with the understanding that this is for the full 10,00 acres, all three phases of 10,00 acres. So it's very hard to do this when you don't have a specific pinpoint project. We're talking about very large aggregate numbers, but we can we can still go through the exercise. So the two tools that we'll be using, land clearance for redevelopment authority and a community improvement district. The LCRA has two purposes in this case, real property tax abatement and the sales tax exemption. The rate of the real property tax abatement is variable based on the data that I just showed you on the previous slide and that would last for up to 20 years depending on the land use. The benefit of that to the to the developer is it reduces development costs. And if you were to characterize these numbers as a percentage of total project cost by phase, that's what this calculation does. So land reserves estimate is that fully developing this first phase phase one would cost this amount down here $56 million for all of the development all in and then these are this is the calculation of what these numbers mean as a comparison of the total project cost. So trying to do the applesto apples comparison like I just talked with you about in the in the previous discussion. Then the second tool the C this is what actually generates the revenues. So the special assessments would be imposed for certain portions of the abated taxes. That's what generates a reimbursement source. And this is our quantification of the reimbursement source. So these numbers here are an estimate of the monies that would go to pay for the public improvements, the large infrastructure improvements that I just described to you on the previous slide. And this gives you a sense of what this data looks like in comparison to this phase. So as a summary and an answer to the

question, what does this framework look like when you compare it to the framework we usually use for specific projects, the total benefit flowing to the land owner and land reserve in this case from telling all of these numbers up, it's 14% of the total costs of building out this entire phase. That's that's sort of the apples to apples comparison. And then this is the data for phase two. So this is exactly the same chart. The only difference is phase two total estimated cost and these numbers change a bit based on the estimated um cost of these improvements and the estimated cost of building what would be in phase two. The numbers are roughly the same and you can see you can see the math here. And then this is phase three total cost about the same as phase one sort of in the same ballpark. And this is the percentage. So the total then so this chart is all three phases. This is everything in aggregate. This is the full 1,000 acres. Total estimated cost to build everything at full buildout, $1.65 billion. And the valuation of these tools that are proposed to be used, when you tally those up, it's about 14% of that total project cost. So that that's our effort at a very high level on a very large scale comparing it to uh using the comparison that you're used to seeing and this gives you a ballpark estimate of what those numbers look like. So then we get to the city's decision-making framework. And I think the most important point on this slide is that there is no debt being requested to be issued by the city. One of the things that I worked on many years ago, I think it was in 22. Um, a quick story. I I was we were working with the land reserve team and there was a point where I said to Brian Head, our city attorney, and I think um there were some other people in the room, what I

need to do to really focus on this and to dig in back in 22 was I need a I need a week off to to focus on this and try to collect our thoughts and and what I said, I need to like pretend like I'm taking a vacation week and just go work on this. and he said, "Go ahead and do that." So, there's a week on my calendar back in 22 where we put uh Dave's out on vacation, but I actually worked on um a set of spreadsheets that would have led to a debt financing. So, it was a massive spreadsheet that I built that estimated all of the revenues that would flow to the city and I worked with our financial adviser in an effort to come up with what a debt financing structure would look like. Bad news for me, we never used that set of spreadsheets that I built. Good news for you. The request is for the city to not issue debt. The financing will be done entirely by the private sector. So my spreadsheet that I built became irrelevant, but actually some of it was used in in what lamb reserve put together that became the data that we're using here. So one of the most important points from this discussion item is the city's not being requested to issue debt. Benefits for the city. One of the things that we are going to have when the plan comes forward, the the first plan is there will be a costbenefit analysis that will show you for each taxing taxing district what the benefits are to each taxing district and and you'll see some some concrete numbers. So, another benefit for the city, um it sees the property develop presumably to its highest and best use. And this is where it's a bit of speculation, but if you were to pose the question, if not this, then what what else would happen? It's probably the case that over who knows how long, the property would eventually develop, would be sold and developed, but probably in a much more peacemeal fashion like I described to you. We would not be taking advantage of the opportunity that we have to work with one property owner.

I think it's almost inevitable that land will be developed, but it as you've seen and as you're familiar with, it can take a long time for some properties to develop based on all sorts of factors. So, um benefit to the city is I think this plan would result in what we could argue is the highest and best use because we're doing this in such a comprehensive manner with uh a very interested and very patient landowner at this point. Um, so those are some of my comments on your decision-making framework. And I'll end with this, the the next steps, what we're planning to do tonight. We'd like to receive your feedback. In two days, we'll be in front of the planning commission. And for the LCR plan for the north area, there's there's three factual findings that you, the city council, ultimately has to make. One of those findings is, is the plan that we're moving forward with consistent with the city's comprehensive plan? So on Thursday night this week, we'll take that issue to the planning commission and we'll be asking them to make that finding, make a recommendation to you, which you'll consider later at the if we stay on schedule, the June 16th meeting. So the planning commission and then the LC board on May 27th will be considering their components of the plan that we're moving forward with. And then if we proceed um you'll be we'll be holding the public hearing for the LC plan and the C on June 16th. and then after that um repeat the same process for the south area. So that's what the remainder of the schedule shows going back to the planning commission then the LCR board and then if we stay on schedule back in front of you for the south area on August 4th. So that's a summary of where we're at. I think we've been making fantastic progress since the last time we talked with you and this is where things stand today. Uh this is a summary an update for you and I'd be happy to answer questions or educate as as needed. We have some questions. Uh count uh Mayor Prom Shields.

Thank you, Mayor. Um first of all, thank you for what has been years years and years of work um on this for you and for the folks um from PRI and Land Reserve. Um this this is an amazing opportunity. like when you say that like Lee Summit has never seen this. We will never see anything like this again. Most cities never get this opportunity. Um so I'm just to to lay the table. I'm I'm really excited about this. I love the idea of being able to master plan all the infrastructure for this area. When you talk about things being done peace meal, it's not just that it won't develop as well or it's quickly. It's it's that we can't make good decisions upfront that when you're building a little section on a little section, a little section, it's just not as efficient. It's not as as well thought out. It's not it's not done as well for our community as it would be if we have this opportunity to do it all kind of at once, right? So,

yes, to me that's really exciting. Um I have a couple of um clarifying questions and then I wanted to walk through some of the actual incentives and then talk through a little bit about um the the revenues and kind of how we're going to handle handle the service needs and that kind of thing. So trying to get it all straight in my head. So when you talk about the fixed pilots um is that is that this is just purely for clarification for me. Is that um a fixed pilot or is that a percentage of the actual assessment? Like are we going to be fixing the tax level for for each one or will we just see what the county assesses them at and then they'll pay a percentage of that?

Here's what I think will happen on a project by project basis. We will take these metrics and I'm almost certain that the applicants will seek a fixed pilot schedule. That's that is the that's the most common method we've used and so I think it would be a fixed pilot schedule based on our assessment of the project as it when it comes forward and the valuation of that project.

Okay. And then on the slide where you showed the the total 14% abatement level is that um is that just for those in incentive pieces like the sorry not the incentive but um on your other slide you showed some of it is tax redirection for public infrastructure. So is this the redirection for public infrastructure total value or is it just the um like abatement for industrial facilities like how what all is included in that number of of benefit.

Okay. So I think the way to answer that question would be the C revenues. So these amounts are what will actually fund the public improvements. These amounts up here are let me flip back to this slide to to um to put this in context of of what we're talking about here in these these columns.

The business attraction benefit the abatement benefit just for the industrial and residential R2 plus that is the this amount up here. So if you were to look at So if the question is how do I line up the um inducement benefits and the funding public infrastructure money that's what this chart shows. So the blue would essentially be the inducement component of those incentives and the green would be the actual dollars to fund the public improvements. I think that may answer your question.

But that's just the C part on on the um sorry I'm going to keep make you keep flipping back and forth between these charts all night. Um, so there's the like 25% that's being uh redirected for like Todd George Parkway or for the sewer in improvements. That's not a C, right? That's that's real property tax. Uh, okay. So that So is that is that included in this number or is that not considered abatement because that's all public infrastructure? I'm not saying there's a right or wrong answer. I'm just trying to understand. No, I I follow what you're asking. So as an example,

um, let's just take in let's say there's an industrial project and we're in year one or two. According to this schedule, the tax redirect, so we would be abating those property taxes and according to this chart for that project in my example, 20% of that revenue stream would be reimposed as CI special assessments. Okay? And that would become the revenue. So we're abating a certain portion of the taxes and reimposing that amount as special assessments and that's what generates the revenue to pay for the for the public improvements.

We learn something new every day. That's fascinating. Okay. Um, so looking back at the the big multiolor the other big multiolor slide that shows the the Okay, that one. Okay. So, this is sort of saying like table stakes for any project that's approved in this area. If it's an industrial project, years 1 through 10, 20% of the normal tax revenue will go to public infrastructure and then 75% whereas normally we would kind of vet these project by project and decide what's appropriate. But we're saying we think given this area, given what's what we want to induce here and the value of providing some additional certainty to someone who might look at coming here, we're going to say the the assumption is absent some factor that would present prevented is that industrial project years 1 through 10 would get a 75% abatement. Whereas normally we would vet those project by project, but in this case we're going to say we're pretty sure that that's what we're going to give them, right?

Yes. So to to be clear on this point, if we move forward with this structure, we would be signaling to the development community. This is what you city council is preapproving and is locked in to provide that certainty if that user wants to come to the project, but come to the area, but you will still have your normal zoning approvals associated with every one of these projects. You will still have the full discretion to say yes or no from a zoning and entitlement standpoint to that project as you normally do. Okay. But but we're kind of putting out there as a pretty firm policy like this is what we expect to to offer and also that we're not going to offer more than this. If you're an industrial project, we're not going to abate you 95% because we need 20% to go for our infrastructure. Correct.

Right. So it just kind of sets a clear assumption. Yes. Okay. Um but single family will pay full freight. So our school districts as they get more kids in them, they're they're getting the additional revenue they need to pay for that. Correct. that is the case for the single family and then for the R2 plus um there's there's some more discussion to be had and then you can look into there's some other data points there how many student what what's the student age population in in those types of housing units versus single family etc you can you know run down a rabbit hole with all sorts of data but yes that's what you're saying is a good summary

okay so the the column in green that's the money that's going to get sent to our public improvements the sewer the roads the storm water, all that. The column in yellow is what we're going to get. Well, all the taxing jurisdictions according to their normal shares like we've talked about. Correct. And then the column in orange is an abatement to induce businesses to come here like we do a lot with different industrial projects and like we just talked about with a multif family project. Correct. That that is the land reserve request. And then the double stars. So office and retail were saying that those might have the opportunity to get an abatement. That 75% might not be 75% that we're getting if we if we decide to do an abatement, but that would be more case by case. Is that right?

Correct. Correct. It could be that. It could be an adjustment of these numbers and it could be some other type of incentive also. I'm not quite I I don't have an example in mind at the moment because this is pretty comprehensive. But the goal of these asterisks here is to let you know that these could request if there if we have, you know, a home run retailer of some sort that makes some additional request and it's a very desirable retailer for some, you know, in some case the door is still open to make that request. Doesn't have Costco 2.0, we can we can discuss it, right?

Okay. Um, so then the other questions I have are maybe more for um, Mr. Elim, Mr. Dunning. I'm not sure who would take these, but when when we look at kind of the long-term cost to the city for for things like our all the normal public services that we provide, the fire service, the police service, the codes enforcement, how how do you when you look at this, do you feel confident that the revenues generated by this site will be able to fund those services? Do you see any any gaps that the city's going to have maybe during some of these one through 10ear periods? and just kind of what's the framework that you use to to think through that question?

Yeah. So, uh that's a great question and this is something that we've been kind of kicking around quite a bit obviously. Uh and it's not a I'll say 100% a straightforward black white yes or no answer. Uh primarily because of all the different variables that are that are at play here. U but the way we look at this is we do look at uh these being phased in over time. Uh we look at our current service levels. We look at the land use, what that land use is projected to pro produce from a uh tax revenue perspective as well as a service delivery impacts on that. And um something like a way I was just looking at this was if this was to just magically pop up out of the ground today all at once um and the numbers that that would be projected to generate at that versus what our current budget is uh and what our current budget and service delivery we would have to provide services to 10% more of our community essentially if it was developed. Um, and the numbers on that that quick kind of back of the napkin thing look like essentially almost a 50% increase in uh revenue associated with what it was projected for the area if it was just to magically pop up today at a net present value. We already talked about that net present value concept. Um so long- winded way of saying it's a complicated answer but yes uh we are confident that with the timing of everything uh and the roll out of this as we continue to monitor this that that this structure uh is a structure that we've essentially utilized several times in the past uh and and are comfortable replicating it kind of on this scale. That all being said continuously needs to be monitored. uh our service demands fluctuate, things change. Uh projections are just that, projections on both sides. Uh but the other benefit of doing this is is again

it is measured over time. Uh and we're able to have an outlook and a conversation about all of that when it comes forward. And when we talk about long-term planning, we we've known this property is going to develop for a long time. s when we do our long time our long-term forecast things like where to put a new police station or where to put a new fire station or what with the school district, you know, where they're going to build their next elementary school. They we've all been sort of anticipating this is coming and and preparing for it, right? This isn't coming out of the blue.

Yes, that's correct. One of the one of the great things about when this property kind of started to become available for development again was at the time that we were redoing our uh strategic plan and our comprehensive plan. So we had the ability to to work handinhand with uh with land reserve and property reserve at that time uh in order to incorporate that into our current comprehensive plan. Uh also as part of that comprehensive plan, we did do fiscal impact modeling uh based off of the land uses that were projected uh as well. And we even played with that model uh quite a bit to determine levels of incentives for typical land uses and things like that uh as we were kind of analyzing the land use uh impacts of some of these things. Again, I'll just caveat a lot of that. I'm I'm an engineer. I like really precise models and precise things. Um there is a lot of assumptions in a lot of that. Um, but it's still a pretty good model,

right? It's pretty high level right now and we'll have to drill down into it as we get deeper into all this, right?

Um, thank you. This is very helpful. Um, I guess may I don't know if this is a Mr. Bush question. So, when we when you talk about we have to approve each project as it comes through kind of what's what's the enforcement mechanism for these for these percentages that you have up here? like like what is it? Not that I would compel a future council to give a 75% abatement to an industrial project, but if we're if we're saying to the development community, this area we are planning on this level of incentive like how how do they feel confident in that if we still have a lot of discretion? Like how what would that look like when it came through to us? Would it be like here's the standard policy and so here's the recommendation or like what would it what would it be? Well, when I was talking about your level of discretion, what I was referring to as the zone, like the normal zoning process that you go through, reszoning or preliminary development plan, as the case may be, might be a conditional a special use permit. Um, whatever the zoning approvals are, you you have the normal level of discretion to say yes or no to the project. But I think the intention would be that particularly for industrial, this is the framework that we would be using for all the industrial projects when they come in. and and that is informed to a large extent by the climate that Lee Summit has to essentially compete in for industrial development which is different than the other types of land uses on here. When it comes to residential office and retail, I think it's fine to look just for the most part within our city to achieve a fair balance and you're comparing this commercial project to that commercial project, this residential to that residential. When it comes to industrial, we largely have in this scale of industrial we're talking about here, we have to look at what other communities are doing because this type of incentive package has already had already been provided by other surrounding cities to industrial development before this city council

approved its first incentivized industrial project. So, um I mean I like I I understand why the the numbers are there. I guess what I'm asking is more like what what would be different in that process. So like today we had a whole conceptual presentation about a possible incentive. Would we just not would we just go straight to PDP and zoning and just skip all of the talk of incentives and that's just kind of built into the process. Do we still pass that? Like how does that work? I think the answer would be yes. Unless it was a project requesting an additional incentive of some sort based on the particular need or that user.

I think it would and that's a good this is a good question. hadn't really thought about it, but the conceptual incentive requests that you frequently hear for a lot of the bigger projects that wouldn't happen because if this framework works, meaning if you approve it and we move forward with it,

the large infrastructure project uh large infrastructure items will have already been solved. And so the only thing that we'll really be focusing on is this down here, which is and and now that I'm saying this, I have to give some more thought to precisely how that works. But the point is the only thing that's really left open to discussion is what are the localized improvements that this project or this developer has for for their specific project that's 12 acres or 20 acres or whatever it is. and how might this uh half of the extra sales tax be used to address those local improvements? Otherwise, I think it would eliminate the conceptual presentations for these projects because this would already be established.

And I like I think for this area, it makes a lot of sense to me because one, like just the the certainty is an attraction in and of itself to bring in business knowing that um that this structure is already in place makes Lee Summit a more attractive place to invest in. And two, like when we talk about efficiencies, like it's also more efficient for you not to write 300 separate C and TIFF plans just to have one master one that we are executing. It's it's a lot of of savings in terms of of our time. If we if we know what that's a good point,

what we want to to do with this, it's much more efficient for us as a city to have one clear policy that we then execute on over a period of time. And that that's actually a good point that I hadn't really gotten around to thinking too much about yet, which is as these projects come forward, you'll be going through your normal zoning process, but a lot of the time and brain power and paper we spend on those items would largely be eliminated for we can just decide is it an appropriate use of zoning, is it a good fit for the city, and not spend all of our time renegotiating this. But it but it does mean that like the steps we're taking right now are really important because these are going to have a huge impact

over decades for how our city functions. So I appreciate you answering all my questions because I think this is one of the more one of the most consequential things that we're ever going to discuss on this DAS. So thank you. Thank you mayor. Thank you council member Atkins. Thank you. I do have a few questions. I'm sorry. Sure. I got a list. Um um Mayor Prom Shields alluded to this and you guys talked about the strategic plan. So did the strategic plan are you saying that the strategic plan was informed because we knew the land was coming online or how did was it a how did egg or chicken or the egg how did that process work?

We'll chime in a little bit there. So timing was as was referenced just couldn't be better because the city was doing our comprehensive plan. Um and at the time we knew that property reserve land reserve was looking at master planning theirs too. So the efforts were independent. Uh we didn't we didn't collaborate a ton during that time. We said yeah go do your envisioning your master planning and we'll do ours and we'll see how these line up. So that's generally how it occurred and then and then they came together. I'll let Ryan chime in because he was one of the leaders through that comprehensive plan, but that's what I recall kind of the the overall effort was independently working, but then it all came together. My answer was going to be a lot shorter. I was going to say both. Um,

fair. Fair. Um, and may I ask Mr. Boswell, um, did you have you um you guys decided to put everything online during this time? What were your what was your impetus for deciding this was the time to do it?

Yeah, it was a combination. Um, we think Kansas City metro area as a whole has just been like kind of a a quiet, you know, metro, very steady, if you look at kind of the last 50 years, uh, very steady land appreciation, very steady land growth. There has been an uptick uh, in the last 5 10 years. And so again, it was seven years ago that it was started to be discussed. If you look at a number of metrics, um truth is Kansas City, um Columbus, Indianapolis, there's a lot of kind of uh Midwestern cities that have really like popped. And the truth is we have projects in a number of those other cities as well. Um and so quite frankly, it it is u it's a great metro. And so that we we actually have other projects in can in kind of the Kansas City uh metro area as well. Um but the quite frankly, Lee Summit is our biggest. We have 4,000 acres.

This is the largest. Okay. Thank you. And did you uh what was the general population you were shooting for inside that inside the thousand acres?

Yeah, there's no there there isn't any specific quite frankly. We start any one of our master plan communities with very open mind, you know, and so it's been great and I would I would echo what uh what the city manager and what Mark said is um uh we try and look at what are the city's needs and what are the city's wants. I mean, one example of this is our meetings, our meetings with uh the school district. We've met with the school district, I don't know how many times. I mean, even me personally and my team's probably met with them three times as much as I have about where do the elementary schools go, where do the middle schools go, where's the high school, you know, how does this fit and where do we think the the densities uh are are going to end up that will then require an elementary school and um you know, how are kids going to walk there, right? So even looking at trails and paths and you know ho how how do kids get to school um and what's traffic going to be like on those streets and again we've been having those conversations for years. Um so those are all the type of things that we're we're trying to consider.

Thank you. Um and another one is around tenants. So how at this point in the process since you've been working on it so many years do you have anchor tenants that are already in mind?

We we do have on on this arboride piece. Um we have started to work with a number of uh industrial potential industrial users and so that's kind of where we are right now. That's our main focus of just sort of a catalyst. It uh just even thinking about you know the road infrastructure which is huge right you saw $32 million just on on this piece. So just for the roads, $32 million um right and um so that's where a lot of our focus has been now. But again, we've also been planning for parks and you know uh residential and and we there will be retail here as well, we're sure.

So we have a sense of that, but I would say you know most of our discussions have really been uh industrial and single family uh to date. Okay. Um, and that's good because I've already heard a lot of people in the community asking about keeping the trails and keeping access to the lake that's behind. We we literally named it Arboride because we think the distinctiveness you will always have this beautiful view of trees, right, forever because you're right next to Lake Chomo and we want to lean into that. We want trails going into the park. um we want easy access to it and all of our design and kind of concepts about that community is to enhance uh the availability of nature.

Um could you summarize the length of the phases phase one, two, and three 10 years each? I'm sorry. I know I

No. Uh it's a great question. Um uh I would say um I'm going to ballpark this. uh it it's 10 to 20 years will be in total right so in total of this thousand acres will be 10 to 20 years um and some of it just depends on absorption right if there's a lot of industrial need we'll go through industrial faster if there's a lot of and again we're trying to meet the market on what are the right uses based on our constraints right and also enhancing the community so there's a lot of kind of balls we're trying to juggle um and so but I I mean I think 10 to 15 years is realistic. 20 years is probably if it's a little slower and 10 years is if it's pretty fast.

And and um thank you for answering all these. Um I might have more questions I I think maybe for Mr. Bushek at this point. Sure. I appreciate that. Yeah, no problem. Thank you. Um Mr. Mr. Bushek, in terms of the city and future risk, because I mean this is amazing because it does, you know, the strategic plan laid out exactly why we need activity centers and it it all matches perfectly. Um, and in terms of phasing, if the second or third phases end up not being as populated or if there's some act of God or doesn't get completed, is there any risk left over for the city that we're not accounting for

with undone properties that aren't, you know, that end up getting peacem I guess? like what's the commitment level?

Yeah. So, I I think the best way to answer that question would be when it comes time to do financings and pay for the public improvements, there will need to be an alignment of the projects that are being proposed and the revenue that they are projected to generate and the our capacity to fund the infrastructure from that development. That's probably the best answer I can provide at this point because we don't know sort of the the discussion you just had. We don't know precisely what projects and when meaning over what period of time is it how how frequently do those projects come. But one of the things that we'll be focused on is when it starts to look like there we're reaching a critical mass where we've got projects and something it's time to finance one of these major improvements. We will be looking at the projects that are proposed. And then now to get to the answer to your question, for the projects that aren't being proposed at that point, if we do it properly, the risk should be fairly minimal because we'll be sizing the financings based on the projects that are about to happen as opposed to counting on things that may or may not happen in the future. I know that's a very general answer, but that's probably the best answer I can provide at this point. Meaning, we would not try to rely upon property that's not going to develop to generate the revenues to pay for the financing.

It'll be pay as you go or it's deduct deduct as you go. Uh the this the financings will be based on the projects as they come forward and so hopefully we won't run into the problem that you're asking about. Okay. So there's not a need for there's not a need for an expiration date on the agreement in case No, not really. the master developer wouldn't I'd have to think about that question a little bit more um in terms of like a maximum expiration period but no I don't think that's really in play

okay because the benefit is that it is all a master developed and so it's all the same team managing everything so they will stay till it's fully developed and there's not a re there's not a mechanism to make sure that for some reason the project doesn't get

and I would say that of all of the potential land owners that we're dealing with this may be one of the best land owners on that point which is I know from our discussions and their past practice that they um so land reserve will serve as the master they can talk to you more about this if you'd like to hear more but they will serve as the master developer there will be a package of covenants conditions and restrictions that are placed on the property that restricts certain land uses in in simple terms there are certain land uses that the church doesn't want to develop in this area so they will remain as the master developer and I think we will be working long term with the same party and that's a that's a substantial benefit given who that party is.

Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Thank you for that clarification on the CCRs. Um, and then Okay. So, I think my last question is about the highway because with recent developments with MDOT not funding anything and our traffic on 470, how does this population impact? Do we have any traffic update we can Sorry. Sorry that was a big one, but it's just such a hard thing. I don't know if it's fix fixable.

Uh I know it's a concern and right now it continues to be an unfunded state interstate need. That's there is no funding and right now we haven't had a traffic study. I know the uh land reserve is working on doing a master plan traffic impact analysis uh for the area based on their concept plan so that we know we're right sizing the improvements that are part of the project like Todd George Parkway um the intersections and the other infrastructure that's around just like they're they're doing their study for storm water doing their studies for the water demands and sewer demands uh but with regard to the interstate no that that's not something that's part of the proposal to improve it uh I would just encourage us to continue to work with the and work with uh whoever contacts we have in Washington DC and encourage that you know at some point that that gets a funding solution identified. Do we know at what point if we build without a solution to 470, at what point does it become a loss instead of a gain to the city to the infrastructure of the you know the Douglas exits and the the backup from 50 highway? Like at what point does it

if you're asking at what point does it become like a critical failure um that chokes? I don't know.

I know it's impossible to gauge. that that's not something that really we track. I know that the state will look at that. Right now, I70 is their priority and they continue to look at the other states in the metropolitan areas of the state and says what is their greatest need. I think I35 might be one of those and um some others around the metropolitan area. Um, we just earlier today had a conversation about the MODOT unfunded needs and that will be making its way through Mid America Regional Council as a way of planning priorities for these projects that have no funding source identified and I470 is on that list. It's just it's not tier one. You know that the state has a very different perspective. Um, I know we experienced delay there on 470. Uh but all in perspective, that delay is not as significant as the delay you might experience on I7 or on I29 or some other major corridors that are within even our metropolitan area. So um we'll get there. I wish I could tell you when. I don't know.

Mr. Park, I might help you a little bit. Um so Council Ratkins, that's a great question and um it's something that previous councils uh as Mr. Park said and and administrative leaders uh we have gone and knocked on the door and at the state capital and in Washington as a council we will continue to discuss this topic. This is a very important topic and we will work with the developers to continue to address the the interstate challenges. Um but what we have done and has been discussed quite a bit is control what we can control and that's Todd George Cobburn Lee Summer Road the arterial roads that will help reduce some of the traffic along the main major inter interstate route. So Oh yeah,

we'll keep talking about this as a council. Absolutely. And land use has a big influence on that. And as was mentioned earlier, you'll have every opportunity to review those applications as they come in on a case- by case basis to see is that increment too much to bear. And you have to just make that judgment. You know, what your threshold is as a community. Thank you. I appreciate Mr. Parks. Okay. And last question is um Mr. Boswell, does land reserve invest in advocacy in state level advocacy?

At the state uh state level generally no. Um, as far as I mean, we're happy to talk to anybody. So, the truth is we're as far as reaching out to folks and and and courage in that way for sure. Um, uh, we are not lobbyists, nor do we hire lobbyists to do such things. Um, uh, but we we want to work with the community and any ways we can help there, we would love to. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Yeah. Good. Thank you, Mayor. That's my question.

Great job. Thank you, Council Member Prior. Thank you, mayor. Um, hopefully to Melanie, to Council Member Atkins point, hopefully our federal lobbyists can help us with with some of that funding um or secure some of that funding. But, um, Surprise, Arizona, that's somewhere you guys developed, correct? How many acres was that?

Uh, yeah. So, we have, uh, Surprise, Arizona, uh, home of, uh, Kansas City Royal Spring Training. uh 4,000 acres and so we're about 2,000 acres through that. So that community was master planned uh 2003 to 2006 just in time for the recession. So that's what we were trying to, you know, get there, you know, get all everything ready to go to then not do anything. Uh but that's actually not true. We we did a ton of work during the recession. Uh including working with Arizona Department of Transportation to put in the 303 loop on our property during the recession. So that actually because we're a long-term owner, you know, with a long-term vision, we were able to take some steps there so that then when coming out of the recession, the property was was really primed to go. So yeah, we're about halfway through that uh master plan community and um Yeah.

Okay, that's good to know that. I mean, yeah, you guys have good experience with this many with this large chunk of land. Yes. Um and then was their financing plan and incentive ask and everything was it set up semi similar

very different but there were similar concepts right I mean so one of the fundamental issues uh nationwide that um Mr. Buchek talked about it. It's not just the city of Lee Summit of saying, "Hey, how do we do development?" You know, 40 years ago, uh, the city would have built Todd George themselves. They would have paid every dime. Developer would have paid zero, right? Well, the economics of taxes and how it works within cities is developers now pay for some portion of it or they front the money. This is very normal, right? And so we do this all over America. And so how do you how do you make development happen when uh if the city were just to do it themselves then it would just take so long that kind of the opportunity to meet the market has passed uh or it just it it takes so long the value goes down. Um so in that sense we did have certain things with the city of Surprise to incentivize for us to put in roads and infrastructure so that the development could move forward and then we could be reimbursed over time. So very similar concepts as this but the mechanism was actually a lot different um but conceptually very similar.

Okay. Thank you. And I know you mentioned, and I'm paraphrasing cuz I don't remember exactly what you said, but it was before a lot of people were up here, but you mentioned that even if we hit another recession, um, you guys were in the finan financial spot to where that's not going to harm you. You don't have to sell it off. You can hold for the long term and you guys can still develop responsibly even if it takes quite a while.

That's correct. And the example I did use was Surprise Arizona is you know we spent uh Surprise Arizona I think we owned for about 25 or 30 years before we got uh the entitlements. So then we did kind of this master planning practice that took a couple of years. Right when we finished that practice again, 2006, we started doing some sales and um if we had a bunch of debt on our property, we would have had to sell kind of we would have to kind of fire a bunch of pieces to finance anything else or maybe fire sale the whole project. The only thing we sold were small little chunks 100% consistent with our original master plan. We didn't make one change to our master plan through all of that. The only change that we made subsequently was um we did have a huge regional mall that was you know designed in 2003 and regional malls where you come out of the recession and regional malls don't make sense anymore. So we did have to go back to the city and re-imagine what this retail was supposed to be. It ended up being an outdoor retail center that's been wildly successful. It's mostly built out now. Um, but that's a good example of for us, you know, if it was some other developer and you had to pay off a loan, you would just, hey, I got to sell this retail piece because I got to get some capital back. That's not the way we look at this. We look at long-term investment in the community. Um, and we believe if you do it right, you're still going to come out on top.

Okay. Yeah. I think that was important for a lot of people to hear that, but definitely. Yeah. Um, that's all that I have for right now. So, thank you. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Carlile.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, so I I on here this says industrial. On some other things I'm looking at, it's saying lightindustrial. Can you give me an idea of what you're thinking for industrial light industrial? Hi, Mike Vanbuskirk with Newark Summer. Um, good question as always. Um, I think if we really just use your our zoning code is what I would go to. But what when what I think of heavy industrial, the first thing I go to is smoke stacks, noise

and pollution type things. Uh, light industrial would line up similar to the projects that we've done here in Lee Summit recently. So think of Lisa Logistics Center. Uh some of the buildings that the Ward uh development company has done as well. So more of a class A industrial which could have a manufacturing component inside of it but we don't we don't hear it or smell it is what I usually delineate it. Perfect. Thank you. Mhm.

Um okay. So let me just kind of recap what I've heard and please somebody correct me if I'm wrong. So basically what we are being asked to do is take this financing plan and approve it and say, "Yep, we're going to do that for this thousand plus acres." And everything that goes on in here is going to follow this with the exception of the asterisk. Um, and that's that's how we're going to pay for everything, right? So, it's kind of going to be like our um economic development guide for the area.

Sure. Like we have for the whole city that we put together years ago. This is just for this area, right? Yes. Okay. And then we will still as developers come and want to develop in the area, they will purchase the land from the master developer, bring their plan forward, tell us what they want to do, give us their ask um and we will approve or not approve just like we do today based on application. Yes, that's a good summary. Okay. And then I have a whole bunch of scribbling notes, so just give me a second. I'm sorry.

So go ahead. Um, so in in the phases, we said it's going to be three phases. And can you go back to the the first phase? Yeah. So, in the first phase, which is where we're going to have some residential, not a lot, mostly commercial and light industrial is what it looks like. Um, yes. I'm not sure about the light industrial in the first. I'd have to take a look at the map, but that sounds correct. Okay.

I have the map here. And so for for the commercial, I'm looking at it. I promise I'm not lying to you. Sure. Um, so for the commercial and the light industrial, yeah, we're going to have a 14% abatement in in the first phase total. So, if I can jump in real quick because I think this is the second time, second or third time that I've heard kind of a similar uh question in there and I think we've just got a lot of percentages going around everywhere. So, it's getting difficult.

This slide that has the financing plan on it, that's the abatement percentages, if you will. The guide. The guide. Yeah. the other slide that has this that 14% there that's our traditional incentives to cost or benefit to cost ratio that we use to kind of normalize all those projects. So the value of that incentive if you will is about 14% compared to the overall project as itself. So that's not the actual I see what you're saying. So, this isn't what we're saying is going to come through and eventually this whole area is going to be approved to have a 14% abatement. That's not what we're saying. No,

thank you. Okay. Cuz I was like, how if we are looking at every application can we get to this? Okay. Thank you. I am much better now. So, that Yeah, that number again is that's you see we got a total project cost. We're anticipating that there's going to be the the land reserve and their development partners are going to have over a half a billion dollar investment on here and through this this combination of four different incentive tools uh to use to pay for the the infrastructure that total of that is going to be that $71 million from a net present value right I think it's it might be is it net present value it's probably mixed

probably a mix between sorry over complicated it um but it's yeah that 14% is just 71 divided by 506. So this number here divided by that number here. Okay. So that's just what we think it's going to cost to develop it, what we think it's going to cost for the infrastructure. Yeah. What we think what we think the value of the incentive is and what we think the value of the uh investment is at this point in time. So that that again that's that's kind of our metric not to be confused with the abatement percentage which it as we're sitting here is confusing. Yes. Yes. But but I'm I'm with you now. It took me a while to get there. I was so confused for a second. Yeah.

Okay. Well, for more than a second, but um Okay. What else do I have? Hold on. Let me look. One second. And then Okay. And then the phases. We think the entire area is going to take between between 10 and 20 years to do, not just each phase. Is that correct? That's correct. Thank you. Okay, that's all I have. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay, I'm not seeing any other names pop up. So, I have a couple comments and questions. Um, can someone confirm, I think I've asked this in the past, uh, with the agreement we have with the developer regarding Todd George improvements. Will that entire stretch between Coburn and Woodshap will be improved in this first phase or in this next phase? Yeah, it's it's one project.

One project. Yes. Okay. Okay, that's it. That Thank you. Appreciate that. Um, and then it was mentioned because that is something that I know residents will continue to ask. They've asked for a number of years. There's there's some some sort of collaboration and coordination with the park Jackson County parks. I I assume with Fleming Park and there have been all that. Yes. And so

I I I think that's probably a question for the land reserve team because you have you you talked with the county the most? Um, as mentioned earlier, there's been a lot of coordination over a lot of years on this. Um, school district, uh, both school districts, by the way, have been involved in this process. Uh, especially, do not forget in this north ground that everything north of Strather is in the Blue Springs School District. Uh, everything South Lee Summit on parks, uh, most of our discussion has been coordination with Lee Summit parks department on future park locations both in the north area here as well as in Southly Summit. uh very very high level discussion with the county. We really haven't gone very far with them, but I can tell you from a I think maybe one of the slides show it, but it was mentioned earlier, connections, trail connections. I mean, the trail connections we have here are amazing. Um the residential areas that'll connect right into what is an existing trail system that honestly until I started working on this project, I didn't even know that was there at Lake Tacoma and I grew up in the area. Uh so yeah, our goal is to to work with the county and help activate that. beneficial for everybody and

and I don't know this is all still conceptual but just curious what dialogue there was I guess yeah a lot of discussions though uh with lee summit parks

okay appreciate that thank you thank you Mr. Busker. Um, so I'm not seeing any objections. Um, and I know the intent of this is to get some kind of perspective and and conception or conceptual response. Um, so I think most people up here are supportive of us moving forward uh, proceeding with this process. Um for me my my perspective is uh you know just words that I've heard tonight from my colleagues you know talked about plans all these plans that have been coordinated uh within the city planning department strategic plan PRI um even the airport right across the highway had a plan that has been revised recently. Um, I keep hearing the word responsible development, strategic development, um, efficient. I think Mayor Prom mentioned the word efficient. It's a very efficient process and plan for us to to move forward. And, um, I think that's why we are looked upon as a model in this metro area because that's kind of how we do things around here. And, um, we appreciate, uh, Mr. Buzzwell, you're you coming in town again tonight uh and your team um for all the effort you all have put in and the entire team. Um but this is something I think our community um embraces and we look forward to this partnership and uh I know our our administrators uh we know they've spent a lot of time and effort into this as well. So we have a few new uh colleagues up here. Um but I think this has been very informative, Mr. Bushek. So we appreciate that a whole lot.

Thank you. And um unless there's any other questions, uh thank you very much. This was good feedback. There are various questions that have been asked and points of data that we will bring forward and and items that we will address as we move through the process. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thanks. Thank you very much. Thanks. All right, we're going to go ahead and push through. You guys good with that? All right, we're going to proceed with the agenda. Uh Miss uh Fowler Curry, what's that? I'm just going to grab Oh, okay. She gets grab some water. Do you mind uh reading the resolutions for us? No.

Resolution number 2605, a resolution authoring authorizing the mayor to appoint successor directors to the Southside Plaza Community Improvement District. Great. Thank you. Uh resolution has been read. Um we have a motion. It's been moved by Mayor Pim Shields and a second by Council Member Atkins. Uh if there are no questions, please cast your vote. All votes are in. Motion passes 90. Thank you. Please record that vote.

Resolution number 26-06, a resolution supporting the state of Missouri's opportunity zone designation for the city of Lee Summit, Missouri. Thank you. We have a motion made by Mayor Prom Shields and a second by Council Member Craravens. Um we do have a comment. Mayor Prom. Thank you, Mayor. I just wondered will we have um some discussion about the opportunity zone designation at some point? I don't know that we need to go into it tonight, but I would love to hear um about those new um opportunities for the city and how we might utilize those. Is that something that staff will bring back at some point later or I don't I don't want to derail us tonight. Sure. We we think we have someone that's ready to go. There we go. It's a great question. So, thank you for bringing that up.

Oh, here we go.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Jessica Vandervort de Montiel, assistant director of grants administration development services. I'm just going to provide a brief overview of the opportunity zone program and staff's recommendation to support the nomination of census track 13706 under the updated opportunity zone 2.0 framework. So, opportunity zones are a federal economic development tool intended to encourage long-term private investment in eligible communities through capital gains tax incentives. The program is designed to help attract private capital and support redevelopment and reinvestment activity within designated areas. Recent federal legislation authorized a new round of eligible census track designations under the opportunity zone 2.0 framework. Census track 13706, which includes a portion of downtown Lee Summit, is eligible for consideration as part of the competitive state nomination process. Take a look at the map here. Um, it's a pretty small census tract just south of Chipman, east of Maine, west of 291, and generally along Third and Fifth on the south side. Staff believes this designation aligns well with city's existing downtown downtown investments and ongoing implementation of the 2022 downtown market plaza redevelopment plan. While the designation itself does not provide direct funding, it could help catalyze additional private reinvestment, mixeduse development, and long-term economic activity within the downtown area. It's important to note that the designation would not obligate the city to provide funding or additional incentives, rather position the city to benefit from a federal investment tool intended to support redevelopment and economic growth.

All right. What's our timeline? The city intends to submit an application to the Missouri Department of Economic Development for consideration. Because the nomination process is competitive and the number of eligible tracks exceeds the number of designations available, this resolution along with letters of support being coordinated from community stakeholders would help strengthen the city's application as the state evaluates nominations prior to the governor submitting final selections to the US Treasury later this summer. That's all I have and I'm happy to answer any questions y'all have. Great job. Any questions? Yes, Tim. I think I wasn't sure if I still had the Oh, you have the floor. Yes, you do.

Um, thank you. That was really good information. Um, I love looking for creative ways to uh catalyze development in our city. Um, in addition to the vote tonight, assuming that we vote affirmatively on this resolution, um, is there anything else that we as a council can do? Is this something that our legislative committee should be talking about? Um, reaching out to our elected officials or what's what's the best thing that we can do to be supportive of this? Yes. So, we like I mentioned, we have letters of support that's coming from folks, but after we submit the application, any advocacy that you all can do with other folks at the state level. Um, this will be with the Missouri Department of Economic Development and the governor's office makes those decisions. Okay. Yeah. We can definitely

Thank you. Thank you, mayor. Thank you. I just want to say your name. Vandervort de Montiel. Vandervort de Montiel. The French. Um, it's Dutch and Spanish. Oh, wow. De Montiel is of the Montiel family. All right. Excellent. Well, thank you very much. Appreciate that. Great. Thank you. All right. So, the motion's been made. We have a second. Um, any other further questions? If not, please cast your vote. All right, we got all the votes. Uh, nine yes and motion passes. Thank you. All right, last one, Miss Aruri.

Resolution number 2607, a resolution authorizing the mayor and finance director to execute the resolutions and agreement for the commercial deposits accounts and related to services with UNMB bank NA. Great. Motion has been made by Mayor Tim Shields and a second by Council Member Carlile. Any discussion? If not, please cast your vote. Motion passes 90. Thank you. Please record that vote. All right. Takes us to proposed ordinances forwarded from committee. Uh Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Mayor. I move second read bill number 26-09 Hen ordinance approving the city of Lee Summit entitlement community development block grant CDBG 202627 annual action plan. Great. Thank you. Motion has been made by Mayor Tim Shields. Second by council member Carile. Uh yes, Council Member Carlile. Thank you. I just have a quick question and this was seen some time ago um in committee. So just did we get the amount we were thinking we were going to get? Did we get shorted?

Hello. Good evening again. Jessica Vandervort de Montiel, assistant director of grants and administration. Um, yes, we got more money than we expected. We got about $9,000 more and it was equally distributed amongst our partners who are with us tonight. Great. Perfect. Thank you. Yes. Other questions? It good. Thank you. Appreciate that. All right. Um, then uh no further questions. Please cast your vote. All votes are in. Motion passes 90. Thank you. Please for adoption.

Thank you. I now move for adoption. Bill number 26-092, an ordinance approving the city of Lee Summit entitlement community development block grant CDBG 202627 annual action plan. Thank you. Motion's been been made by Mayor Pertim Shields, second by Council Member Carile. Any discussion? Not please cast your vote. Ordinance is adopted 90-0. Thank you. Please record that vote. Takes us to action item 9B. Mayor Pertim. Thank you, Mayor. I move for second reading bill number 26-093, an ordinance approving a memorandum of understanding between Jackson County, Missouri, and the city of Lee Summit, Missouri for the distribution of $12,788 from the 2025 Edward Memorial Justice Assistance Grant JAG funds and authorizing the mayor suit agreement for the same.

Thank you. Motion has been made by Mayor for Tim Shields, second by council member Carile. Any discussion? If not, please cast your vote. All votes are in. Motion passes 90. Thank you, Council Member or Mayor Pertim Shields. Thank you. Thank you. I move for adoption bill number 26-093, an ordinance approving a memorandum of understanding between Jackson County, Missouri and the city of Lee Summit, Missouri for the distribution of $12,788 from the 2025 Edward Memorial Justice Assistant grants JAG funds and authorizing the mayor to execute an agreement for the same.

Motion has been made by for adoption by Mayor PM Shields and a second by Council Member Carlile. Uh any discussion? If not, please cast your vote. Motion passes 90. Thank you. All right. Uh for adoption, please. Oh, that was it. Sorry. Takes us to Wait, what is it? Yeah, 9C. Yep. Please, mayor. Pretend. Yep. I move second reading bill number 26-094, an ordinance authorizing the execution of addendum to the intergovernmental agreement between binding between the city of Lee Summit, Missouri and Lee Summit R7 School District for school resource officers in the district's schools.

Thank you. Motion has been made by Mayor Pim Shields, seconded by um Council Member Shields or Council Member Frasier. Any discussion? If not, please cast your vote. All votes are in. Motion passes 90. Uh can you please read for adoption?

Thank you. I move for adoption of bill number 26-094, an ordinance authorizing execution of addendum to the intergovernmental agreement by between the city of Lee Summit, Missouri and Lee Summit R7 School District for school resource officers in the district schools. Great. Motion's been made for adoption of bill number bill number 26-094 by Mayor PM Shields and it's been seconded by council member Carile. Any discussion? If not, please cast your vote. All votes are in. Motion passes 90. Thank you. Please clear the board. All right. takes us to bill number 26-095 for adoption, please.

Uh, this is second read, isn't it? Yes. Second reading, I'm sorry. Second reading. Yep. I move for second reading bill number 26-095, an ordinance approving amendment number six to the budget for fiscal year ending June 30, 2026 is adopted by ordinances 10132, 1013, 10136, 10137, and 10138 by amending the authorized expenditures for the city of Lisa, Missouri. Thank you. Motion's been made by Mayor Pertim Shields and seconded by council member Carile. Any discussion? If not, please cast your vote. All votes are in. Motion passes 90. Can you please read for adoption?

Yep. I now move for adoption bill number 26-095. An ordinance approving amendment number six to the budget for fiscal year ending June 30, 2026 is adopted by ordinances 10132, 1013, 10136, 10137, 10138 by amending the authorized expenditures for the city of Leo, Missouri. Thank you. Motion's been made to adopt by Mayor Patm Shields and a second by council member Carile. Any discussion? Yes, mayor. Council member Prior, this is from Mr. Head. Do I need to recuse from this? I didn't recuse just a second ago, but do I need to

um based on information from the city manager, this does not include fire. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that motion. Thank you. We have a motion made by What's going on here? Oh, please cast your vote. Motion passes 90. Thank you, Mayor Pim. Um, item number 10 A, please. I move for adoption of bill number 26-081, an ordinance vacating a portion of Southwest Jefferson Street rightway located south of Southwest Olden Parkway abuing 1111 Southwest Jefferson Street in the city of Lisum, Missouri.

Thank you. Motion's been been made by Mayor Pritzim Shields and second by Council Member Carile. Any comments, questions? If not, please cast your vote. All votes are in. We have one nay, seven yes, and one recusal. Thank you. Takes us to uh item 26 or bill number bill 26-082. May.

Yep. I move for adoption of bill number 26-082, an ordinance granting a special use permit renewal for outdoor ballfield lighting in district PI plan industrial and R1 single family residential on land located at 1500 Southwest Justin Street for a period of 20 years and 7 days to expire on May 12th, 2046 in accordance with article 6 of the unified development ordinance for the city of Lisa, Missouri. Yes. Motion's been made by Mayor Prime Shields, seconded by Council Member Carile to to adopt bill number 26-082. Any discussion? If not, please cast your vote. All votes are in. We have eight. Yay. One recusal. Thank you. All right. Moving right along. Mayor Prom. Item C.

I move for adoption of bill number 26-083, an ordinance preliminary development plan for land located generally at the southeast corner of Northwest Shipman Road, Northwest Prior Road for John Knox Village Country Club Quarter, Hybrid Vill, is all in accordance with the provisions of chapter 33 unified development ordinance of the code of ordinances for the city of Lisum, Missouri. Thank you. Motion's been made to adopt by Mayor Protemp Shields and seconded by Council Member Carile. Any discussion? If not, please cast your vote. Motion passes. Eight. Yay. One recusal. Thank you. All right. Takes us to committee reports. We're almost there. Any committee reports? Yes. Council member Carlau. Thank you. Uh we have CEDC in these chambers tomorrow at 4 and then Monday um at 11:30 we have legislative and governmental uh via Zoom. Thank you.

Great. Thank you, Mayor PM Shields. Uh Monday we will also have finance and budget committee 4 p.m. in chambers and we will be looking at the um more refined version of the I think we call it scenario C budget that we had uh kind of come to a consensus at the last committee meeting and then after that meeting will come to council for a public hearing. Is that correct Mr. Dunning? That is correct. We'll bring uh the general fund and all funds uh on the meeting on Monday and then be prepared for a public hearing at the city council on June 16th I think is what is targeted. Okay. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Any other committee reports? If not, council comments.

Council member Prior. Thank you. Well, so I got a compliment today from actually somebody had gotten a compliment that had gotten a compliment from a resident, but so I wanted to read the compliment. Um,

Matt Leosia and with our water, both of them are with water, I guess. And John Thompson showed incredible professionalism, persistence, and care while helping resolve a major sewer issue that could have cost the resident tens of thousands of dollars and potentially forced them from the home they love. Instead of stopping at the minimum, they took the extra steps to make sure the problem was truly solved. Their dedication made a real difference and it's a wonderful reminder of the impact that city employees can have in people's lives. Thank you, Matt and John, for representing our city. Excellent.

I got the same notice. So, yeah, somebody's very happy and proud of that. So, thank you all. Okay, Council Member Rder. Thank you. Uh just to address uh Mr. Floyd's comments earlier. Um, we have meet and greets. Uh, we need more meet and greets. I think we should have them more often. Um, I don't know what the standard is, Mr. Dunning. I think you told me it was what, two a year or how or not maybe a standard, but what we try to do. history would say, you know, we from we plan for having town halls, we'll call them, uh, twice twice a year within each district if if there's that desire. Twice a year. Okay. Thank you.

Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Per district. Sure. Um, and then um I believe that the camera um matter is supposed to go to rules committee. Is that what we're thinking? And when is our next rules committee meeting? Does anybody know? Committees need to be formed first. May I? Um, so the new committee assignments will be made before the end of this month. And then once those uh assignments are made, then I was going to go ahead and refer it to the committee after that. And then I'm not sure uh how long the chair has to to take that up, but I assume it will come onto an agenda in relatively short order. So it won't be will it be in May then or June? Probably June. Be in June or after I would think at the earliest.

Okay. All right. Okay. That's all I have. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Council Member Prior. Sorry, I forgot um public comment last week. There was a public commenter that brought up an audit and I just wanted to say uh I've gotten several questions why we didn't take that to vote that night. So, I just wanted to say like we can't take something to vote unless we're fully informed. Like I know I'm not comfortable and I think I can speak for everyone up here that we're not comfortable voting on something unless we're fully informed of the cost and the process and who's doing a specific audit. So that is why it didn't go to vote um last week. So but I don't I mean

it's not a and it's not on the agenda. Yes. Thank you. Yes. Does it so it needs to be on the agenda in order for it like 24 hours in advance? If my understanding and Mr. Head can certainly chime in, but if the council is going to take any direction uh on a vote or a matter then we it should be published in an agenda so that the public has awareness of what's being considered at that meeting.

Okay, perfect. That's that's good to know. And then is that something that we need to discuss publicly? Is that something that will be discussed during the council? What's called a retreat, but it's really just a meeting room with bags of chips, I guess. I don't know. I I was going to wait till everyone speaks and then I was going to make a comment about retreat, upcoming retreat, and some stuff I want to share with everyone. Uh, but can you hold for a second on that? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Uh, Council Member Ratkins,

and I would add that the comments from a citizen were kind of about like six different kinds of audits, and I don't know who's in charge of spending time to figure out how much all of them cost or how much of them can be explained through reading our existing policies or reading our existing books. Um, so I I think there's more work to be done before uh before that becomes an actual there's a lot of work that goes into proposals and plans. um and a lot of need for what is being searched for in each of the multiple categories and some are city based and some are personal. Um so I think there's a lot of of work to be done there.

Thank you. Appreciate that. So kind of in closing um and then then Mr. Dunning will get a few get an opportunity to make a few comments. Um Mr. Dunning and I have met on a couple different occasions and had discussions. Uh, one of the things that um I think I've spoken to everyone up here, but I made public um you know during during the election season was that I thought it was important for this new body to get together and we call it a retreat, but it's whatever you want to call it. It's a it's a way for us as a as a new body to get together and also have some staff involvement uh administration involvement um to help us um kind of get more in sync and a little bit more aligned. as a new body and um in the past we've done these with previous councils and we have facilitators and you know people that can help us with that. I we're still trying to plan that but we're looking at a date sometime in June uh maybe we we'll we'll confirm a date as soon as we have it but we're looking at probably it being a one-day event like on a Saturday. So as soon as we get the date confirmed we will share share that with everyone. But I think something to point out as far as some of people that come up and make public comments um there's a lot of discussion, let's go ahead and say it during the election season um about housing, apartments. Um right now recently there's a lot of discussion about budgets and I think it's important um we cannot be reactive. Um we we take public comments very serious and very respectful um but we can't react to that. Um we have to continue to follow a certain cadence. uh there's always a process that we have to follow and a lot of it's mandated by our charter. So I think it's important for us collectively as a group to get together to be able to answer those kind of questions that are being posed to us on a on a weekly basis. Um and and they're not I know the comment was made earlier. It's not a black and white answer. Um there's a lot

of variables involved and we have to be very careful with what how we respond and um so but we will always be transparent. Um we will address some of these tough issues. A lot of these issues and questions that are being brought up really quite frankly are part of our strategic plan already. They're they're goals within the critical success factors that every citizen can go onto our website to look at and review and and and and looked at a lot of detail that went into these these success factors, these goals that we have. So, as a council, we will look at the strategic plan and uh we've addressed many of the goals already. Mr. Dunny, I'm looking at you, you know, the last few years. Um but there's some unfinished work we we still have to continue to focus on. Um so just yeah if you all can just hold off and we will collectively be able to address and discuss some of these key issues that are being brought up by our citizens which are very valid questions and we will never ignore them or disregard them. So I want to make that very public. Okay. So um that's all I really have. I appreciate tonight. I know we are going to as soon as we we're finished Mr. Mr. Dunning will finish off but we will read ourselves to go into executive or close session and so but Mr. Dunning floor is yours.

Yeah, thank you. It was referenced earlier the Lee Summit Police Department held their awards ceremony and if it's okay with you mayor Chief Forbes could highlight some of the awardees from last night and then I just have a couple quick follow-ups after that.

Good evening, mayor, members of council. Travis Forbes with the police department. That's a Scottish in nature, by the way. But not as cool as that one.

That's right. Yes. No, not nearly. We uh had a great award ceremony last night where we were able to honor some folks. Uh chief among them were our civilian of the year Christy Mitchell who's kind of our uh workday superstar who uh guided our department through uh that uh changeover process and detective Ryan Small who's been involved in numerous uh large cases um and and does excellent work for our investigations unit. And we also issued a Purple Heart which is something we don't like to issue very often. It's a serious uh line of injury or line of duty injury for Jared Timbrook. We have multiple injuries throughout the year, but most of them don't uh rise to the level of a Purple Heart. And I think we all know and Jared suffered four gunshot wounds last July. So, uh it was honor to uh give him that award with his family present and uh as he continues his recovery and makes his way back to full duty. So, I have any any questions? I appreciate uh the attendance. It was a pretty long uh and we'll try to be more efficient in the future as something we're going to work on, but uh it was great to hold it uh in in uh the green street space and show it off more as a as a beautiful asset to the city and I appreciate all who attended and uh all who couldn't attend. We appreciate your support.

Thank you. Well done, Chief. Thank you. Thank you.

Yeah. Uh just one correction. I think I just mentioned June 16th for a public hearing at city council. It's it's lined up to be June 2nd uh for the budget public hearing assuming all things go well at finance and budget and we move forward with public hearing notice. So it should be June 2nd uh targeted for that public hearing. And then lastly, I'll just mention with respect to the the suggestion about audits is just a reminder. Every year uh we have an independent financial audit done uh on our finances here as an organization and those audits we refer to them as the annual comprehensive financial report and those are publicly available on our website. So if if folks have concerns about financial audits and things of that nature, it's all public and those are independently done every year and shared publicly. So I would just mention that too and that's it. Thanks.

Thank you Mr. J. Appreciate that. Uh with that being said uh we will go ahead. Mayor prom can you read us into close session? Absolutely. Pursuant to section 6, excuse me, pursuant to section 61021 of the revised statutes of the state of Missouri pertaining to legal actions, causes of action or litigation involving a public governmental body and any confidential or privilege communication between a public governmental body or its representatives and its attorneys and pursuant to section 610212 of the revised statutes of the state of Missouri pertaining to the leasing, purchase or sale of real estate by a public governmental body where public knowledge of the transaction might adversely affect the legal consideration. Therefore, I move to enter a close session. Thank you. Please have roll call. Second. Oh, we have a second. Roll call, please. Mayor Pro Tim Shields. Hi, Council Member Prior.

Hi, Council Member Atkins. Hi, Council Member Frasier. I, Council Member Rider, I, Council Member Funk, I, Council Member Craravens, I, Council Member Carile, I, Mayor Lopez,

I. Thank you very much, everyone else. Enjoy your evening. Baby. Hey, hey,