City Council - Regular Meeting

Lee 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's 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.

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 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 device's 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.

All of the city's storm system end up either in a creek or a lake. We have five or six lakes in the city. We have numerous creeks in the city. All of that is open conveyance, which means there is no treatment. If it goes into the curb inlet, it will end up in a creek or a stream or a lake with zero treatment. Things that people don't know they should not put down the storm sewer system. Grass clippings. We cannot be blowing grass clippings off of your lawn, into the street, from the street, into the storm inlet. Yard waste. leaves, trash, washing your car. If you have a commercial vehicle, the city by code requires that you wash your commercial vehicle at a commercial car wash. If you're washing your car in your driveway, your personal vehicle, you can wash your car in your driveway by code. Keep in mind though, that all of the soaps, the detergents, everything you use, the waxes on your car will discharge down into the storm sewer. So we would recommend that you use an actual car wash to just get all of that captured properly and it will then be discharged and managed properly as opposed to potentially impacting the streams that are nearby. Fourth of July comes along, people shoot off their fireworks, they leave them at the edge of their driveway, which is a good place temporarily, let them cool down. But at the end of that, they do not belong in the street to get washed down the street, swept down the street into the storm system. If you don't want to swim in a lake full of trash, we don't recommend you discard your trash that way.

Every time you turn on a tap, high quality water is ready. But where does it come from? In Lee's Summit, water flows from two trusted sources, the Missouri River and its surrounding aquifer. This water is collected and treated in the cities of Independence and Kansas City. In Independence, the Courtney Bend Water Treatment Plant operates 42 water wells. These wells reach 85 to 125 feet underground, drawing water up from the Missouri River Aquifer, an underground water source that naturally filters water through layers of soil and rock. The facility filters, cleans, and softens the water before pumping up to 7.5 million gallons a day to Lee's Summit. In Kansas City, the KC Water Treatment Plant draws water from the aquifer and the surface of the Missouri River. It then filters, cleans, and softens the water before pumping up to 25 million gallons per day to Lee's Summit. In Lee's Summit, Water Utilities controls the flow of these sources into the local system. Advanced software monitors the entire system, including three pumping stations and eight water storage tanks. which maintain the water's pressure as it moves through 639 miles of water mains, carrying it to your home and the homes of more than 100,000 citizens. Water utility staff collect samples from throughout the system and send them for extensive laboratory testing, ensuring your water is safe, meeting or exceeding state and federal standards. When you turn on a tap, you're accessing a vast system spanning hundreds of miles, each foot carefully planned and strategically maintained. A system that leverages innovation to harness nature, turning a vital life source into an ordinary convenience, bringing you safe, reliable, high-quality water 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. To learn more about Lee's Summit Water, visit lswater.net.

Welcome to the Leaf Summit sign department. We are going to walk you through our process from start to finish. We make signs as needed here. It's not like we just go out into the field and place a speed limit sign here, no parking here. Our traffic engineers, they go through and they'll do field studies. They'll send us down an engineering work order for us to go out, place new signs or remove signs as needed. Coming from the material, our blanks come in and they're just aluminum blanks. We can put our white our red, our fluorescent yellow, green, whatever. And basically what it looks like is just that there. Throw it up into the roller. And once we got it covered, take it to our work table here. and Tim will cut the corners, cut all the access off to where it's lined up right. As far as the plotter and the software that we use, there's a street name sign there, and he's gonna go ahead and print that out on the plotter so you can see the plotter and how it operates and runs. There's standards for the height, even just on letters on the sign blind. Basically what we have on the computer there is it's pretty much set up to those. And it goes through, it's got a very small but sharp needle. that goes through and cuts everything out letter by letter. Once that's done cutting, our next stage would be bringing it over here. Currently picking out the sign letters right now. We call it weeding or picking or however you want to call it. Next, putting it on the transfer tape. Then after it's taped, we bring it over to the roller. That's where we apply it to the actual sign blank. And we'll roll it through one time just to get the air bubbles out. And the last stage is basically just, Taking the transfer tape off the front of it. And there's the finished product of the street name sign. We'll take you out to the field and show you our process that we go through. We're gonna go out and follow our sign guys and get something installed for you. This is where we check our underground utilities. Tim, you got AT&T?

AT&T is back here. Ever-G, Google.

We should be good to go. We normally put all of our stuff together out in the field. Then once the base is installed, we'll go ahead and put the post in there. That's how we do it. Simple, quick.

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legislative and intergovernmental relations committee meeting for monday august 17th 2026 could i get a roll call please chairperson funk present council member atkins present council member frazier present mayor lopez i know no changes to the agenda could i get a motion to approve the agenda

Motion to approve this agenda.

Motion. Can I get a second?

Second.

Motion. A second. Can I get a vote on the approval of the agenda, please?

Council Member Frazier? Aye. Council Member Adkins? Aye. Chairperson Funk?

Aye. Thank you. no public comments so we will move on to our first item of business item 5a that is the approval of the july 20th 2026 legislative and intergovernmental relations committee action letter can i get a motion please motion to approve a motion can i get a second second i have a motion a second can i get approval can i get a vote for approval of the action letter uh council member frazier

Aye. Chairperson Funk?

Aye.

Councilmember Adkins? Aye.

Thank you. We'll move on to our next item of business, item 5B. That is the review of RFP scope of services for state and federal lobbyists. Mr. Head, take it away.

Thank you, Chair. Crystal, could we please turn on sharing? I want to

It says that it is turned on.

You can request sharing for this meeting.

There you go. Yeah, you have to request it. There you go. Okay.

No, you're good.

Okay.

Make sure that I have the right thing here. Okay, I think that's the one we want. Whoops.

It's not covering the whole screen, but all right, whatever. Okay, so you should be seeing the scope of services with some red and black and red and yellow all over it. Is that what you're seeing, hopefully? Sure. Okay, so during our last meeting, we reviewed the scope of services, and from that we had some clarifications that you all wanted us to include in the scope of services. As you know, most of the rest of a bid document is kind of a boilerplate document. The pieces that are kind of important for us are the scope of services, a little bit about how the fees are going to be calculated, and then the schedule. What we have here is that scope of services. Most of what's in here is the same as last time. However, there are a few pieces that have been added based upon your feedback last time. Specifically, one of the items that you all wanted us to address was to be more specific regarding the scope of duties expected for the federal lobbyist, i.e., having a purpose statement. So we've included Section 1.5, purpose statement. The purpose of the services requested is to seek funding for projects and initiatives at both the state and federal level as requested and directed by the city identify analyze and track legislation of interest to the city and to advise and coordinate legislative visits for city officials and employees. Generally, that in broad terms are the activities that we are going to be expecting from them. Then going on in that one of the requirement or one of the things that you asked us to look at was The value of having both state and federal lobbyists, that was kind of another provision that you wanted to see. So in seeking a singular service provider, it is the intent of the city to create efficiency and realize cost savings by allowing for close coordination between both state and federal partners. However, the city will accept bids from a contractor utilizing a subcontractor for a portion of the services provided those entities can show substantial coordination. I think that is consistent kind of with both the idea of having a single provider, but then understanding we may not get very many, there may not be very many single providers out there, but there needs to be a strong relationship between the two partners if there's going to be a combined, or if they're going to try to go together to provide these services. So that was that one. Um, let's see, there was another here. Uh, you wanted a little bit of clarity on communications. And so we basically said throughout the year that the general statement was, you know, wanted them to inform the city and so on. And then we added such reports shall be provided on a weekly basis during the Missouri legislative session and as developments occur with congressional items. So those were the big changes. And then I have a separate document where we can talk about the timeline. But if we can, I'd like to talk about this one first and then we can switch gears and go to the timeline.

any questions or feedback council member frazier council member atkins anything um chair i could give feedback sure go ahead um mr head i one of the things i remember talking about was

was trying to lock in on the zone of transportation as it relates to the federal government, because we were trying to, I think, I thought the spirit of what we were saying was that we wanted to say federal government, but not all the things happening in the government. We just needed someone to help us connect with transportation related topics. So does that, because the purpose of that would be to narrow down the scope of the contract so that they're so that their RFPs might be, so that their responses might be more tangible, more in scope with what we're asking. We're not asking for everything, just transportation related stuff.

And and if that's the direction, I. We talked about transportation. I didn't I don't guess I realized that that was a sort of a direction item, but but yeah, we can absolutely put some some in a statement in there that says, you know, at the, at the federal level, we are primarily interested in transportation related funding. However, it's not limited to that. something like that, that would still be fairly, it would still be broad, but it would let whoever is trying to bid on this know that transportation is our primary area of focus.

And the reason for doing that is that I think it might help the pricing that we get back so that they don't give us a price expecting to cover everything across the government for the next year. And as you know, that we're just zoning in. So that would be the, that would be the purpose behind that.

We can do that.

I think we would, Brian, I would not to create a clog here. I don't want to, there is a lot that goes in. And I mean, I think for the sake of conversation for Council Member Atkins and Council Member Frazier, I think we ended up at our last meeting proposal but we're we're talking about 120 150 000 a year I think was our cost um we're not talking a big bucket of money that I don't I don't want to limit us with someone having a singular focus of transportation due to I mean the nature of our visits from last time we we walked away from there with zero dollars in transportation and we came back with a significant amount of money in public safety there were some some other grants that happened via some stormwater stuff that was really momentum a lot of momentum on in the federal government i don't think um i don't think we want to limit that to someone that may think, oh, well, all they're focused on is transportation, where there's such a broad sector for public works, for public safety, our nonprofits that come out of the federal level. I think we want to be cautious by seeing our focuses on transportation, that we don't We don't have maybe a prospective bidder that says they're focused on transportation where maybe we're a lot broader and this isn't something we would choose to bid on. But I like the suggestion, yes. We know what we're after with 470, but we don't want to limit ourselves to any nickel that we can walk away from the federal government with.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Sorry. I'm sorry. What is the best way to incorporate verbiage that would, you know, I don't want it to be too broad that, that, you know, it's, it's too general, but, you know, I like the idea of, of, of transportation, but also there are a number of other things that, that, you know, we could possibly use support for as well. I E I'm going to think I'm going to say housing. Um, and I don't know to what extent they could act on our behalf, um, for housing. And I'll give you, I think a brief, um, um, example. So, um, After we met last week or so regarding housing and our joint planning meeting, that same day, wait a minute, that was on Tuesday. The next day, there was a huge housing conference discussion for the Kansas City area, at which Cleaver and the feds were involved in. And I don't believe we had any representation. So I don't know if that's something that we could insert ourselves or at least have our thumb on the pulse with the lobbyists or what. And again, I don't know the details of that, but it was all over social media. It came to my feet because Cleaver was involved in that sort of thing. So what I want us to do is be involved in all things regionally, federal, but I don't want to limit it. And I don't know how to just say, you know, do we call you when we need something? You know, do you continue, you know, I think their presence needs to be there, but I'm just, Mr. Head, I'm not sure how we would incorporate that.

Real quick. Did someone let the mayor in?

I'm in, I'm in. Sorry about that.

Okay. I can't, I was looking at, I can't see it in there. I'm looking at Brian's stuff on the screen. So I think, where Sherry that I think from council member Atkins is coming in about, you know, yes, we have a big focus on transportation, but I think you, you're going to kind of along with the point that I was talking about that we don't want to, I feel, and I'm here for everybody's feedback is I don't feel like we want to narrow the lobbyist scope of work to Anything. I think there's the potential for housing. You know, there could be some housing dollars or grants or something of that nature that are there at the federal level. And I think having the experience and the mayor can chime in to our lobbyists that we currently have are very active on every level. They are. Our reports are very detailed. They're in strong communication with Mr. Head. on a regular basis of different things going on in the government. And I think later on, And on our agenda here, we're going to have a discussion on our 2027 legislative priorities. They understand what our priorities are. They understand transportation is big. They understand the nuances of things that we have going on that we're looking at. Things that we're not looking at that they're always got their eye on is, you know, is always a positive too. So I think We don't want to narrow their scope as much as what we would share with them in our legislative priorities. And again, I know we're looking at fiscal responsibility. This isn't a huge dollar amount that we're, you know, I don't know what the next pricing is going to come back. The pricing before wasn't a huge dollar amount for what we reap in return.

I apologize for being a little tardy. I had a meeting that ran over earlier. I caught part of Councilmember Frazier's statement, so I didn't get the full context of it. The only thing I will add to what Councilmember Funk said, having worked, I know Mr. Heads helped us in the past with these agreements with our lobbyists, but having gone to a number of meetings Oh, lobby trips to both Jeff City and Washington, D.C. I think, yeah, the only thing I would be cautious of is not to pigeonhole ourselves so that it limits kind of so that we can be flexible and adaptive. to whatever the need might be for our community. And that's the way I always focus it. What's based on goals that we've set for ourselves, transportation being a big one for now and housing, I think this allows us to stay focused on that. But as we know, like when ARPA money came down and other opportunities came about, we can pivot if we're not pigeonholed. So that's the only thing I would caution us is to not pigeonhole ourselves and limit are opportunities at any level of government. Chair?

Yes, sir.

I might add, so our current lobbyists, I mean, they do know that transportation's big, they know 470's big, and it's a huge ask. But they're also, because they're in communication with, example, Representative Cleaver's staff, they're hearing that, hey, there's this grant program that's out there that the congressman needs to submit something in. If you guys have got a project, we'd be happy to submit it. I mean, that's the way a lot of this grant making and these appropriations end up working. You may not even know that something exists, but there's something that a congressman does and we find out about it because our lobbyists are having conversation with staffers. And they're just keeping that line of conversation open. So while I certainly know that like 470 and transportation and the airport, those are both really big priorities of ours. And I think we could absolutely add something in there that say, you know, a major priority of the city is transportation. But, you know, we don't want to limit the representation to that. But We need someone that has experience in transportation. I think that would be appropriate. I do know from the last session, our current lobbyists indicated that if we really wanted to go hard on transportation, like if we thought there was the possibility for an actual appropriation, like a big-time appropriation, then they might want to bring in one of these firms that's out there, lobbying firms in D.C., That has someone there who's been a staffer on a transportation committee who could then really insert us into that project. I don't think they've seen that opportunity at this point to do that, but it would also be a substantial cost. you know, to get that firm. It would probably be as much just for that limited engagement with that firm than we're spending overall right now. So probably keeping it general, but with maybe a focus, as Council Member Adkins has indicated, I think would be fine. But I do agree with the mayor also. We don't want to make it so specific that we can only get transportation firms.

Absolutely.

And I think that's a good point, Mr. Head. I mean, I think as long as our lobbyists understand our expectations and our goal setting, obviously they are, that's why we've engaged them is they're directly involved both at state and federal levels with key representation, representatives. And that's why it's important for us in our roles as the elected individuals, when we do have these opportunities to go on to these conferences or these trips, We tried to meet with every one of our representatives as possible. And so just from the personal relationship kind of perspective and Congressman Cleaver came through for us here this past year. And you're right. It was kind of reactive to some grants that were available for our public safety for our first responders. I think the police department was able to leverage some funding. And the airport got some funding as well, based on what Congressman Cleaver was helping us, supporting us with. So, anyway, I think that's just as important the relationship building that we do when we go meet with our representatives.

Well, Mr. Ed, I think, I mean, are you looking for, I know you have the timeline in place for I think the only thing that I think we discussed in the last, and Mayor, I know you were out on the last meeting, was maybe, I know we're asking for an all-in lump sum, and then we were going to ask for a line item of additional visits. We know we have our excuse me, our main visit that we do to Jeff City. And then we also have our main visit we do to Washington, D.C. And I think we've just wanted to be aware of what the cost is. If some traction starts to build in a manner that we think it's necessary, And also, we're going to see a November election and maybe some change in faces up there that we want to make an additional trip outside of, quote, the conference times, what that cost is.

Chair, on the screen right now, I scroll down. I'm going to talk to our procurement people to put this in procurement lingo, because this is not procurement lingo, and there's a whole section in the procurement itself that talks about pricing. I'm trying to get your intent so that we can build it into the RFP. So what I have here, and I think what I just heard you say is exactly what I thought our intent was. The price quoted by the bidder shall be inclusive of travel, arranged trips to the Missouri State Capitol and Jefferson City, and required reports in person to the City Council and one prearranged trip to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., The bidder shall provide detailed costs for additional travel to Washington, D.C., which shall be prearranged and preapproved. Something like that.

Yep. That's perfect.

Jeremy, hi.

Go ahead. Go ahead.

Thank you. When I'm my... My point of view from the RFP is to use it as a tool to get as many a la carte items, get pricing so that we know what we're looking at in the future. If the price that we're spending this year is fine, then that's great. But if we want to continue to add on things in the future, It helps to have context for how much each thing is so we can start to build that into our future. So I'm picturing this pricing section as more of a bullet pointed list. Like how much does it cost every time we go to DC? How much does it cost every time we go to Jeff City? How much does it cost if you're doing an in-person video with us once a month in addition to the weekly online reports? And these are the topics in general that we're wanting to focus on at the federal level, including transportation, public safety, and any other thing that comes up And then these are the topics here. So that way, you know, we're not trying to do cancer research or anything like we're kind of we kind of have our priorities, even though we can go outside the priorities. But these are things in general. And then how much would it cost if you got us onto the transportation committee or whatever? Like Mr. Head was saying that they can bring in their extra guys to get us tapped into a committee. So what does that type of line item cost? how does that impact us? Cause I think if they come back with one big giant price, then we won't have a way of breaking it down to see what to add or subtract, you know, to see what our leverage is for, if we want to move, if we want to add a couple more things in the future, we kind of need to know how much those line items come out to. So if we can approach it from that direction to begin with, then we know how to keep adding and building our, our program. So that's my, that's the direct, that's the impetus when we see back.

Council Member Atkins, I think that's what we're doing. We're asking for a lump sum cost for our lobbying services for a state and federal lobbyist Um, we know that we go to just city once a year, and we know we go to Washington, D. C. once a year. So that would be included. In our lump sum costs for our lobbying services for a year, and then we would have, as you mentioned, like, a bullet point line item saying this is. This is what it costs for an additional travel to Washington, DC. Most of our lobbyists are going to be based probably out of Jeff city so that that cost might not be, they should be there on a regular basis anyway. but i don't know if we want to go as deep in the woods of if we had to add a service from washington dc for the transportation committee i think we would just want to see if we need to cross that bridge um we could come back and and request that number um i don't know how deep mr head you want to get as far as um breaking down line items in this requested RFP?

We can do it however the committee would like. The price that we have now for both state and federal is an all-in price. We have not paid any additional amount for travel. The only travel that is really specified in the current RFP is There was to be, I don't remember if it's one or two, I think it's two in-person reports to the city council each year, like one around the midterm and then one post-session. And I'm working with the lobbyists now to find a time when they can come and give that report. We probably should have done it this month, but this month has been a little crazy. So I'm hoping to do that in early September. I don't have a date yet for that. The other trips, you know, for example, the current lobbyists, I know they were there for the National League of Cities trip when officials went and met with legislators. I know they have also, they also have gone out at different times and represented the city's interest, but they've also had other clients that they were traveling on behalf of too. So, you know, I would hope they would continue to do that. I don't know that we want to specify. I don't think we want to break out trips to Jefferson City. I mean, I think, Chair, you're correct that most of the lobbyists that we are going to get are going to be Jeff City based or at least Missouri based. That's what we're likely to get based on the size city we are and our history with lobbyists. Now, the federal pricing may be different because you're talking about airfare and hotels and all of that kind of thing. So you might want to break that out more if you would like. So, I mean, we can do it however you all want to. We can break it out more or less. I was just looking for kind of a middle ground, so I included So Jefferson City trips, you know, sort of assuming, I suppose, that our lobbyists would be Jefferson City based. So it would include those because they're going to be up on the Capitol. You know, they're going to be up there talking to people all the time. And it would include the one trip that we know we take every year to D.C. But then anything above that with D.C., they would give us a la carte pricing on that. That was kind of the middle that I was kind of shooting for.

I'm for that. I think enough of us make enough trips to Jeff City and our current lobbyists have been very, you know, very more than willing to Hey, I'm going to be in Jeff City on this day for a pop in. They've been more than willing to join us or be a part of that. And there's no additional fees that come along with that. Mayor, I know you make several trips as well. I don't think we want to start breaking out. too many different light items that could skew what we're truly after. And that is our continued lobbying services based on what you've spelled out of what we've been doing. And I think the only thing we're adding is if we get a hot button lead that we know we're working strongly with, we've met with, some of our congressional leaders in regards to transportation and airport stuff that we may need to make a quick journey up there, and it would just be nice to know what that cost is.

Yeah, I think we're all saying the same thing. The yellow card breakdown, I think, would be sufficient in case we need to cross that bridge for additional trips or follow up. So I think that's appropriate, in my opinion.

Does that get you where you need to be, Mr. Head?

Yeah. I mean, Crystal's got her hand up, Chair.

Go ahead, Crystal. I can't see you.

Oh, that's okay. Chair, I just wanted to share too, because this is an RFP, what we're asking for in the RFP is only one or two trips, but it's an RFP. So they're supposed to propose to us how they think we should best handle our business. So they could propose additional trips. Also, if we think we see a proposal, we really like the way they've structured it, but it's not the firm for us, in our negotiation portion and in our interview portion, we can ask for additional details. So if they don't give us the breakdown, quite what we're expecting, we can continue through the process to get additional breakdowns and additional information too. So if we miss something here that then later seems like something, oh my gosh, I wish we would have asked that, we still have the ability to do that throughout the process.

Okay. No, I appreciate that information. No, that will work out great. Mr. Head, do you want to talk about the timeline?

Sure. Let me stop the sharing of this document and switch gears. Okay, where's my mouse? There it is.

Okay.

OK, let's try this. So this is from the 2024 RFP that we had. You can see out to the right in red. I'm assuming you all can see out to the right in red the dates that we have. Now that assumes that we would maybe be coming back to you again for the RFP, but given the feedback that I'm hearing so far, I mean, it seems to me like we have enough information to be able to go forward with an RFP a little earlier than what I had anticipated here. If we did a release date of September 25th, then we would say the final date and time for inquiries is October 6th. The proposals will be due on the 16th. Shortlist announced for oral interviews would be October 23rd, if they were actually necessary. You know, I don't think we've ever done oral interviews for this particular service. Generally, it became pretty apparent very quickly who the successful bidder has been. And this is about the third time I think I've done this. And then we would be we would be targeting our the only hard date I would say in this is if we could get this in front of council by November 17th, because the way the council meetings fall in November, it's front loaded in the month. Your LRC meeting would normally be November 16th. We could have it on the agenda for the 17th so that we could finalize the negotiation of a contract and be ready to go for December one. So That's kind of the timeline that we have. If we can get this out, say, by the 1st of September or the first week in September, we can move all those dates up as well.

Perfect. Yeah, if this helps and you can move those dates up a little bit to take away the tightness of the timeline at the end, trying to make those specific council meetings, that would be great.

Yeah, it's still going to be tight to get all of this in so that we can get your recommendation to the city council for the meeting in October. I might ask if we could do like a quick special meeting in order to just get the final review of the proposals and a recommendation to council so that we could get it to council earlier. This meeting happens right in the middle of the month. And very often we might have one more council meeting or we might not. Sometimes we're really close to that, to that break over when this meeting occurs. But, but absolutely. I mean, our, our goal would be to have a contract that would begin for December 1st.

Okay. Nope. That sounds good. I mean, yes. Councilman Frazier. Okay.

Thank you. Mr. Head, I would like an opportunity, and I think we've got at least a few days to incorporate that. I would like an opportunity after you've made the changes that we've discussed today to review again. I don't know that that has to be a meeting, but are you able to share that with us once those are incorporated into the RFP?

Yeah, I can do that.

Okay. And so if that's the case... then are you suggesting that we could possibly, that release date would be earlier in September other than the 25th?

Yes, it definitely could be. I will need to talk to procurement. The city really only has one procurement officer right now, and I need to get in her queue to figure out exactly when we can have a final document put together, although she's pretty efficient and I give her a lot of props.

Okay, and I will say for the record that September 2nd is a magical date, but hey.

That's your birthday?

But anyway, I would like to have a chance to kind of... Hey, I'm lucky to go to Branson in September.

All right.

Hey, I'll be at Mizzou. Actually, that's where I'll be. I'll be in Columbia.

May I ask when the other contract expires, what's the turnover date?

It's December. We've tried to have the contract start when bills start going into the hopper. We've been aiming for December 1. We've been using that as a start date for a long time. So November 30 technically is the end of the current contract. And we want to try to have a contract in place December 1 because that's when pre-filing a bill starts. And we want someone in place to be able to track all those pre-filed bills.

All right. Anything else you need from us, Mr. Head? It sounds like you got what you need and you're going to share kind of the final document prior to dropping that in the lap of procurement. And we're going to shoot for an earlier date in September.

Chair, Crystal also has her hand up as well. All right, Crystal.

I just also wanted to give the committee a heads up that once we get this finalized, the timeline that Brian showed, something that will be helpful will be to get those oral interviews tied down to a specific date or dates and times. It's great if we can share that in the RFP because that helps give them advance notice to be available on those dates. But it also helps that we already have you guys pinned down a couple of months out before your schedules get busy. So just giving you a fair warning that as soon as he gets that ready, he'll be following up with a poll to get you tied down that week.

Okay, perfect. Thank you.

Chair, just a follow-up question. Would those oral interviews be in front of this committee or in front of the council if they are to take place?

If we need to do oral interviews, they would be in front of the committee. Or even if you all decide staff can do it, staff can do it. I mean, it doesn't necessarily have to be in front of the committee even. But we can have that conversation as we go through the process if we think we need them.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. We will move on to Item 5C, Discussion of Regional Outreach. Mr. Head, do you want to fire this off?

I'll kick you off, but I think Crystal is the one that has the information for us on this to kind of provide some history and some background information.

Yeah, so Chair, this was part of your discussion meeting. Was it meeting before last? Gosh, I had a kid trap. Meeting before last that you wanted to start working on your goal of just being more involved with your regional counterparts when it comes to legislative issues. And you guys had had some preliminary discussions about doing some similar things maybe that we've done in the past just to kick off those relationships. Doesn't mean this is the only thing you do, but a good way to get started. There was a tradition, often on for years, long before I came here, and it happened periodically while I've been here, where we had at least one, but oftentimes they became then two or three. They became regular meetings with our mainly Eastern Jackson County counterparts. We often, they used to call them legislative breakfast. Looking back, we sometimes held them at lunch. Sometimes they were in the afternoon. They weren't always breakfast. Typically, the first one was a very casual get-together where each community was given a chance to talk about what big things their community was facing, also, to be fair, a little brag time for each mayor, and then sort of what they were planning on putting on their legislative agenda, or if we had them in December or January, what was on their legislative agendas. From that, the two times that I've been really involved, one of those times, they found some commonalities amongst the Eastern Jack Cities of some things where we were battling together that may or may not have been similar to what the state was battling through MML. It gave the communities a chance to talk about those and talk about things that they wanted to pursue together. The last time we did that was 2019 leading into 2020 and they did come up with three items they were going to work on together. The councils ended up not working on those together closely as much as councils because of that small thing COVID that came about shortly thereafter. but their legislative representative, so their lobbyist, did continue to work together on some of those items. Eastern Jackson County is a big area, so if this is something that you wanted to do, just kind of focusing on what you would like to get out of your first meeting and who you'd like to invite. So, like I said in the past, it's typically just been Eastern Jackson County because we share some similar issues, but it's really up to the committee about what you think might be the right partners to bring to the table. The meetings have typically been invited all mayors and councils. We typically have had a mayor from each community and maybe 1 to 4 council members from the communities come. It kind of depended on the community. Sometimes it would just be the mayor member attempt. Sometimes it'd be the mayor and maybe a particular council member that was more involved with legislative things. Since all the cities kind of vary in size, not all of them have committee structures like we do. And then typically the city managers, or in some cases like independence, sometimes it's been the ACM that's in charge of legislative matters, things like that attend as well. That's really the extent of the background. We haven't done these a ton. I think there have probably been five over the last 10 years. And sometimes they get good momentum and they start becoming a more regular thing where they do that once before the session, once kind of mid-session and once end of session. So I think really anything you do is just rebuilding that relationship. Also, the, and Mayor Lopez can probably speak to this better, the Eastern Jackson County Betterment Council used to be a much more active and involved group. And for those that are less familiar, that's really the collection of all the mayors of Eastern Jackson County. But over the years, as leadership has changed in different communities, that group has kind of ebbed and flowed. There's also a group called the Eastern Jackson County Shared Services Coalition, and that is city managers and ACMs for all of those communities working through MARC, mainly focused on service provision and doing things better together instead of doing things more expensively, separately. So I think the Betterment Council and the Shared Services Group are growing in their relationship. So this might be a really nice time to kind of bring back this relationship amongst councils, even if you're just starting it to focus on shared legislative concerns. I think it's just a good thing over time to bring that regionalism. And I think oftentimes cities look to Lee Summit to kind of be that catalyst, that leader, that initiator of things. So I think it's a good leadership opportunity for the community too. That's a lot of me talking, so I'm going to stop now.

No, Crystal, I was trying to write as fast as you were going and pay attention at the same time, hard for me to do. I mean, I think that the first question for the committee, as you mentioned, is this something that we would want to see mayor and all council members? Is this something that we would entertain mayor and council legislative committees to get together. I mean, I would open that up for the first piece of discussion of what we would want to see this look like.

Yeah, Chair, and I will share. I think only you and maybe independents have a legislative committee. I'm not sure if independents still have theirs. I haven't asked, but I can check on that.

Okay. I mean, I think my initial thought when we first had this discussion was, was we wanted to open it up to the mayor and all council members to, um, and get to know each other. Um, you know, some places change hands every two years like we do. Um, but I would be open, you know, to kind of see what everybody's thoughts are. Council member Atkins.

Oh, thanks chair. Um, Thanks, Ms. Weber. I have a follow-up question. So I heard you saying that it was city, it was the mayors and then council members, sometimes between one and four of them would come. So if we did that again, what was the format of those breakfasts? Was it like networking for half an hour and then half an hour of going around the room and letting mayors speak or like Was there a presentation that we put on as the host or what was the format of those deals so that when we think about, so we can figure out how to move into it?

Yeah, so those have really varied. It varied just in the ones that have happened since I've been working here and then hearing about the ones that happened before, they have been all over the place. And I think every time it's varied based on what the goal of the meeting was. For almost every time, the very first meeting when we start to kick off one of these initiatives is more a little bit of that relationship building and sharing. We tried not to give each of the mayors 30 minutes because you know they would take it, no offense mayor. It's really easy to brag about your community when you have all your friends and neighbors together. But typically, for example, the last one we did in 2019, only two of the mayors decided to speak and then each city manager kind of gave an update on things that were in the legislative agenda that they were focusing on for those communities and there was some shared discussion. But we did start it with a good half hour of just breakfast and networking and getting to know you. In prior times, they had subsequent meetings that included things like speakers, especially the mid-session get-togethers where they had a speaker on a particular topic. Sometimes it was a lobbyist. Sometimes it was MML coming in. Sometimes these have not, it gets a little confusing because sometimes these were outfalls of that first meeting and then other times they just decided to use the Eastern Jackson County Betterment Council as the vehicle for that subsequent mid-session meeting because they tend to used to have their also had a mid-session meeting. So instead of it just being mayors, they invited councils and staff. So it's really been all over the place. And I think you guys have a lot of flexibility just based on your goals. And we can try to help facilitate whenever I know that doesn't help to not narrow it down for you. But I think it's also been so long. No one remembers.

Thank you. And then and how does it? How does it relate to the MML regional things that they're having? Was that also something that we ever participated in frequently?

So MML didn't used to have as many regional legislative things as they do now. That service has grown over the years as they've grown in their intergovernmental support. It's also those things have kind of varied based on MML standing with the legislature. So there's times when MML is a really effective tool and other times when representative leadership of the state just doesn't want anything to do with them. So I think everything has kind of ebbed and flowed based on the need of the communities at the time. So when they were low MML years where either MML didn't have the funding or wasn't having the legislative relationship, then the Eastern Jackson County Betterment Council or some other conglomeration of our community cities kind of stepped up and did more. Also years that we've had shared action, things that were really important. It looks like back in the day when there were some telecom and utility stuff was really starting to put pressures on communities at first. There was times when the communities came together more than just what MML was doing. So again, not a very good answer. It really has just depended on the need.

Thank you.

It sounds like that we would want to, I'm coming to you, Council Member Frazier. We would want to maybe look at a narrower focus if we say, hey, we're going to invite mayor and all councils, whatever council members show up, it would allow the mayors to share their communities, legislative priorities, and to see if we're all maybe possibly overlapping somewhere. I'm taking that as a note. Council Member Frazier, go ahead.

So what works My suggestion would be to include, at least from initially, the folks in this particular committee. And I say that because I am part of Eastern, well, it's Jackson County Public Health Department, the NCOLAB. And that brings together, in some situations, mayors from Eastern Jack, but then also some folks like Habitat for Humanity that deal with housing, deal with healthcare, and that sort of thing. So, I don't want to, I think it's important that, you know, it's not, I mean, it is a social thing so that we can connect, but I think it's not, it should be an opportunity so that we can talk about what is, you know, what our priorities are for our particular community. If you have Independence and you have Lee's Summit, I mean, those are the two largest cities in Eastern Jack, right? But care to your I think we had some discussion early on in this committee in that I still think we need to somehow or another include, or at least be adjacent to what Lisa, or excuse me, what Kansas city is doing. It seems like we, we continue to, to separate ourselves, you know, from what's going on with them. And at least I'm going to say in my district, it aligns directly with Kansas city borders and we could benefit. Now I know they don't always come to the table and play fair. I get that. but at least extend the invitation. We are in the rest of this year. They're going to get a new mayor next year, new council members and that sort of thing. So timing is, I think, important as well. So that's just my two cents. And I like the Betterment Council. I've not heard of that or the shared services. So if we could insert ourselves at that point, dinner, excuse me, not dinner, lunch or breakfast works You know, fine for for me as well.

I think chair. Yes, sir. These are good ideas. Um. I would just caution us from getting too super formal. With structure and reinvent anything. When you 1st brought this idea to my attention, I mean, I'm all you all know, I'm. In full support of collaboration, regional collaboration. And I think in this case, it's kind of like taking an MML model and making it more custom, more local to Eastern Jackson County. And where you have a lot of good information that's being shared that impacts all of our communities. And I agree with Council Member Frazier. You know, I've taken it upon myself, you know, the years that I've been on the council, there are many, many circumstances and situations where, whether it's a road, like Lee's Summit Road, that needs attention, some kind of redevelopment that obviously falls within three different jurisdictions, you know, Independence, Lee's Summit, and Kansas City most recently, right? The latest improvement of Lee's Summit Road. I've gone down to Cass County recently To work with some of their past county commissioners on roads and impact both in the reentry area. At least summit and parts of cast county, but Kansas City. Yeah, I, I, I'm fine, including them always because there are especially in district in your district council member Frazier. where you have all the interaction with Dewey High Road and Bannister Road. There's a lot of infrastructure stuff we need to work together on. So I guess the long and short of it is, yes, I'd be supportive of it, but let's be careful not to make it too super structured and not reinvent anything if there's already efforts in place. I think the social part of it, it's just networking, getting to know each other, I think is a big part of it. But maybe having a presentation about key issues that are going on within each of our communities, brief reports, I think would be adequate and not keep it too super long. Are you talking about a lunch period or happy hour type period? Those are all things we need to consider.

Sure. No, thank you, Mayor. I think I'm in full support of in this thing kicking off of being somewhat informal and having the opportunity to network, get to know each other and maybe just have the mayors give a brief, Hey, here's, here's kind of what we're doing and working on in our communities. And then we move on to the next one and get just basically give everybody as mentioned by the mayor, give everybody the opportunity to get to know everybody. And, and then maybe we regroup and see how we want to, and maybe one of our, our, neighboring cities will say hey we'll host it next time and kind of let them put together the the theme or, or what the talking points are going to be. I just always thought when I think I shared with my colleagues that setting out to do this was to give us an opportunity to meet our colleagues in different communities and face to names and Hey, what's going on when your community and so on and so forth. So I think the mayor kind of hit it on the head. We keep it not as structured as maybe something like an MML would be, or, anything of that nature, but more of a type of meet and greet.

Chair, if I may, I think a lot of us have some of those relationships with other communities as well. So I think this would do nothing but, you know, add on or enhance those two.

Nope. Perfect. Perfect.

I'm trying to lower my hand online.

Ms. Weber, does that give you something to start with?

Yeah, I think it sounds like you're kind of right where previous councils were with just let's try it. Let's do a first one where we do spend some time just building that connection before we get into content, which helps us on that commitment side later. But we'll get into they'll have an opportunity to kind of share what's going on just broader in the communities, but also their legislative goals. Then some time for discussion about maybe where those goals overlap. And I think it'll be great if the mayor or chair phone kind of kicks off with the welcome and explains that purpose of where we're getting it is that we hope this is an ongoing thing. Or maybe even if it's just 3 times a year, we get together to talk about legislative things. And that will give it the wrap up a chance to kind of get consensus that they want to continue to do this. And maybe if someone's interested in hosting, if not, we'll host it again. We don't mind if no one wants driving over here. The one question I'd like to have is when would you like to do this? I'm guessing you want to do it before session starts, maybe December, or do you want to do it in January when session starts? Kind of what would be a good time in your opinion?

I would probably, I would say my two cents would be just before the session starts. Um, that would be my piece. Uh, council member Atkins, you put your hand up there.

Thank you. Um, and yeah, I had, uh, raised right before the timing question and maybe it would be interesting to do like a holiday meet and greet that way. It's easy getting back into it. If they haven't done it in five years, like it might make it a delightful little joyful happy hour thing. Um, And one of the things I wanted to just put out there for after, like if we decide to choose a date and kind of move forward with this, that's great. And I'm totally in support of whatever we're doing here. But originally, I think when this topic came up, it was because we really want to try to find partners to collaborate with around the topic of 470. So we were really at one point thinking, what's the best way to collaborate with our Eastern Jack neighbors that have a stake in 470. And so in addition to this meet and greet or maybe from it, maybe we can also be thinking outside the box about how we start to maybe pull a rep from each Eastern Jack town to have a little task force internally to build a legislative approach. But just maybe thinking of how we can use it to leverage the 470 stuff. Because I thought that was kind of the original impetus. Like we really should start spying on our neighbors and stuff. And for that matter, figuring out who's going to things like the IncoLab with Sherry, like maybe Sherry, maybe you have other, I'm sorry, Council Member Frazier, maybe there's other people in those meetings that you're at that are talking about housing and, you know, trying to identify who our partners are in these towns who are already participating in Kansas City level regional collaborative places and identifying them and getting, you know, figuring out how we can move the needle on what those groups are talking about.

Like I said, I want to caution us from getting too structured. I mean, if we're talking about 470, I mean, Mid-America Regional Council already kind of leads through the Total Transportation Committee, a lot of those kind of discussions. So we don't want to take away from those efforts. But yeah, just be able to meet ON A QUARTERLY BASIS OR WHATEVER, JUST TO KIND OF SHARE UPDATES ON WHAT'S GOING ON WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES THAT MIGHT IMPACT OUR NEIGHBORS. COULD BE RAYTOWN, COULD BE KANSAS CITY, COULD BE BLUE SPRINGS. THERE'S AN ISSUE, COUNCIL MEMBER ATKINS, AS YOU KNOW, ON WOODS CHAPEL WITH TRAFFIC THAT TRAVELS BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN BLUE SPRINGS TO LEE SUMMIT. THOSE ARE ISSUES THAT WE SHOULD DISCUSS WITH OUR NEIGHBORS. those would be good opportunities, those environments that when you're, you know, whether networking or in the same meeting room with some of those colleagues, it just could be beneficial to everyone. But there's probably examples in every corner of our city where we can interact, even with Johnson County over far east side of the city, you know, but anyway.

Absolutely. Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Frazier, anything? I think we've given Ms. Weber a starting point here. And is everybody good? Kind of thinking, trying to get something set up and situated prior to the session starting. And everybody knows what we're all talking about when the legislation kicks off. Everybody good? We're good.

Okay. Chair, I have one last very short question. Again, just logistics. Sure. Are you all comfortable if we reach out to the mayors, the other community, just to get their feedback on time of day that might work best for their councils? And we've typically done these as breakfast, but again, it's been some years. So the work life has changed for a lot of people, but I'm guessing it'll be breakfast or kind of happy hour-ish time tends to work best. But I wanted to make sure you guys don't have a preference either way. Before I reach out? No. Okay.

No.

Thank you. Easy. Thank you.

Thank you, guys. We will move on to our last item, item B, discussion of our 2027 legislative priorities. Mr. Head, I bet you'd never guess the first item.

Well, it is basically our first item. It's right there. So for the past seven or eight years, we have been utilizing a format that's similar to this. We've been doing sort of a rat card. I don't know exactly what the dimensions of it are, but it's like a three by seven or I don't know, three by six or something. um so it's it's this kind of long narrow card that is just is a leave behind um that our lobbyists can use and that you all can use or staff can use when we are talking to legislators and staff members for legislators that provides just a quick synopsis of the city i mean super quick and then also it hits our hits our priorities It's typical that we start off the conversation this time of year, and it takes some time for the committee, usually a few meetings, to kind of gel around what all of the legislative priorities really need to be for the upcoming session. One thing that I will do between now and your next meeting is I will be having a conversation with our lobbyist as to what they see coming. Because sometimes we have priorities, but sometimes there are things that we need to, I can't say necessarily fight against, but we need to be aware of and that we're making sure that we give input in. That we are pretty sure are coming from the legislature. And so we want to be a little bit ahead of them and try to get them into this document. There is nothing sacrosanct about this particular format. We used to do a bifold full 8.5 by 11 format. which had a lot of text. And I think one of the reasons we went to this new format, it was, you know, you had to read a small article in order to see what the city's position on things was. And this is like really super quick hits. These are bullets essentially. You could do something that was like this size, but a bifold. You could even do something this size. It was a trifold. It's up to you as to how broad or narrow you want to try to create a priorities document. But I'll just scroll down here kind of quickly. There's always a blurb here at the top about priorities. the city itself, where we rank, what our population is, and a little bit about who we are. Last year, we happened to have one of the U.S. News and World Report's top places to live in Missouri, 2526. I think we were, what, number six, maybe? I've kind of forgotten. But we were in that top 10. Transportation is generally always a number one category. I-470, 3rd Street, Amtrak, and right-of-way maintenance were top-end topics at this time last year. Revenues, it's always a little bit of a fight with the legislature to try to keep them from taking our ability to have the revenue we need to provide services. We always seem like we're fighting a little bit of a battle to not have more and more things exempted from taxation. Municipal authority land use decisions need to stay local, right-of-way control, eminent domain, transportation and housing regulations. We've been talking for a long time about updating law to allow digital records to serve as official permanent records. It would really cut down the cost of some of what we need to do. Local elections have been a significant issue for the past several years. I need to talk to our lobbyists and see if that's still going to likely to come up again and be an issue. And then, of course, economic development, you know, we, we have traditionally done a lot of economic development in this community. So it is, it was kind of a significant portion. If you kind of notice, you'll see that we have a big section at the end and a big section at the beginning and the smaller pieces are in between in order to balance out. Balance out the page. But my intention really wasn't today to say, okay, now I want your ideas and we need to start working on this immediately. My intention was just to introduce this to you, give you the document, and then ask you to come back with your thoughts about what needs to be included. Do we want to change a format? Just start thinking about it. I will double check with Gina, but I am pretty sure that we have a document that is a Word document that has all of this information in it. that you would be much easier to make your notes and to mark up and that kind of thing instead of trying to do it on this PDF. But I wanted to show this to you, introduce the topic, and sort of get the ball rolling for us over the next couple of meetings. We need to be working on this document. typically we want to try to get the city's priority list to the council by the final meeting of the year by the final by the end of december so that we can get those printed and we're ready to go when the legislative session starts in january that's really our only i say deadline but it's not even a hard deadline if we had to approve it in you know, early January, we could do that and still get them printed relatively quickly. It's not a hard deadline, but that's our goal every year is to try to get that completed by the end of December. So just by way of kind of introducing the topic and rolling it out and starting to think about what it might look like and what the content needs to be.

Thank you, Brian. I can't see anyone. I probably do it wrong when the screen sharing is on. So just chime in. Anybody have any questions, comments on this topic?

I like this format. Yeah, let's send it to us and happy to provide my feedback.

Absolutely. Yeah.

I like the format as well. I like the coloring. I like the coloring too. I'm going to give some, I want to take a look at that 107,000 population and see what other, I've seen other examples of how we could, you know, what is our projection? Isn't our projection closer to 110, excuse me, 110 or something like that for 2030? But again, I don't know if we need to put that on there, but we are growing.

What gives you that idea? Councilman Rackins.

Yeah, I thought I heard the other day that we were 113 now. So yes, I'd love to see those kinds of numbers on there. Mr. Head, are these line items, so this was from last year, but are they still current for this coming year? Have any of the line items themselves been updated? No. Is there any value in adding more details to the line items, like measured KPIs, or are any of them up for discussion, or how do we...

Some of these items are just ongoing things that just keep coming through the legislature and they get sort of battled back and then but they come back the next year and it happens over and over again. You know, 470 has been on this list now for, I don't know, seven or eight years, probably like the whole time that we've been talking about it. The revenue question, many of those have continued because they are continuing items. One year we have an attempt to exempt more things from taxation, including local taxation. Well, that bill may pass, but then next year there's another bill that is going to do something else that does the same sort of thing. So it's not as easy as just saying, well, this issue is done and now we can take that off and move on because a lot of these issues just keep coming back and keep coming back. Even if they're successful legislation or legislation is defeated, they kind of keep rolling around. And it is it's one of the reasons I need to sit down with our lobbyists kind of go through this and see what they think is going to be coming forward this year, so that we stay a little bit proactive of where we think the legislature may go.

Okay, thank you. Yeah, so we can kind of just have our general philosophies out there about each of these topics and make a statement about where we stand in, in general, about each of them, plus whatever the lobbyists say. Okay, thank you.

Ms. Fowler, you have a hand up.

You are muted, Crystal.

Sorry. Not so much for the committee, but on the off chance that the public does watch our meeting later, Brian talked about how this is something that we use to communicate to the legislature and to communicate to the public about what our priorities are. But it also is a legislative document for us. So it is what gives us direction on what we can and can't respond to when we're The lobbyist is before someone about an issue. So when something pops up on the floor, it gives them their guide box to how they respond to whether we'd be in support or against that. There's some other mechanisms of the committee that will come up later as we get closer to session that Brian will cover. But just for the public to maybe watch this later, it also gives staff our boxes of what we can and can't testify on and things like that as experts. So just for that awareness.

Thank you. Anybody else on this? Brian, I think we're We're ready to roll on this thing and get it done. This is, I got the tail end of last year. I think it was pretty much done, but I'm excited for this. We know what we're after. And I think, you know, 470 being on there for many years, and I think Mayor Lopez can speak to this. It's pretty cool. Our mark is, uh, total transportation committee meeting was canceled this month. I think they're having difficulties getting into their new space and getting that up. But, um, when we were at the, uh, at the mark, um, luncheon the other day, it was nice to hear a few folks kind of congratulate us of how we've moved up the list on four 70. So kudos to the mayor and the team up there on the board, as well as Mr. Park getting here. But, um, He and I seem to tackle anybody and everybody we can to get us moving forward on this list. So it's exciting. I mean, I feel like it's not much, but we're on the list. It's kind of cool that we're moving up the chain.

Yeah, the pressure is about the end all be all, but it definitely does grab people's attention and just stays on their mind. And it's a good talking point for all of us.

Yep. Anything else from the committee on this one?

I will just say on this one, just so you know a little bit more about process. Once we get to about an 80% product on the, or maybe 85%, 90% product on the content, then I'll start working with CPI, used to be Creative Services, to sort of put this into a document that you know, that has the visuals and the graphics and whatever. We have a new team. Well, we have a new leadership. So we may have a different kind of viewpoint. We may have something a little different this time. We've been using this format now with various color iterations, various photos in the background and all sorts of things like that for kind of a long time. So you know, we'll, we'll let the creative folks be creative. Also, we may end up having to pull them back and do something more like this, but, but we can, uh, we can ask for some creative looks at this. And I have a feeling, uh, they're going to be really happy to get a little bit creative with this and, and propose something slightly different than what we've done. They're very talented. Yeah, very much so.

Great group.

I agree completely.

Thank you guys. Um, We'll move on to item number six, round table. Any round table from the committee?

Thank you all for all the information today. Sorry I was late. Council Member Atkins, did you have something?

Not to share, but to request in the future. Is there a way to request information about what happened with Council Member Frazier mentioned it earlier in the meeting. but also KCRAR mentioned it in their letter to us last week with our planning commission joint session, whatever happened with Congressman Cleaver and the road to KC bill. I just don't really have a background on what that bill was. And so if there's a way to get an overview next time of what it was and whether it impacts us or how it impacts us, I'd love that. Or maybe it's just a couple of documents. I don't know, but I'd love feedback on that guidance.

We can research it, figure out something. Thank you.

Anyone else on the committee for the roundtable? Staff roundtable?

Just the next scheduled meeting is September 21st at 1130.

September 21st. All right.

Thank you.

If there's nothing else from anybody, we will adjourn this meeting at 1250. Have a great rest of your Monday, everybody. Thank you.

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