County Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you. Oh, good. Okay, yeah, yeah. Those are our two CUPs. There's Betty. Right on time. How are you doing? Well, thanks for talking to her, Dwayne. I appreciate it.

You should do me a favor and read that tonight.

Right over my head.

good evening everyone welcome to the monday july 27th st charles county council meeting we will start with our invocation that's going to be done by councilman dave hammond and our pledge of allegiance um mr swanson would you lead us in the pledge tonight would you please stand mr heavenly father we thank you for this opportunity together here this evening for all the things you have bestowed upon us

We come to you asking for your guidance and wisdom at this meeting up the council to understand the issues before them with clarity. Given the wisdom to find solutions to problems encouraged to those see through those. Bill us with your great Lord God as decisions are made and will affect the citizens of this County and continue to remind us that all that we do here. All that we accomplish is in the pursuit of truth for the greatest glory of you and for the service of humanity. We ask these things in your name. Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. You may be seated. Please call the roll.

Watson? Here, ma'am. Councilman Brasel? Here. Councilman Hammond? Here. Councilman Elam? Here. Councilman Hollander?

Council on your here Councilman Baker here we have 2 public presentations tonight, our first is from the family vision education center.

County executive and council members. Thank you for allowing us to be here tonight. I'm Brad Lambert, and I'm currently the interim co-director together with my wife Kathy at Family Vision. On behalf of our board, staff, volunteers, and the thousands of families we serve, we are truly grateful to be here tonight and receive this proclamation. Family Vision is much more than a homeschool resource center. Our vision is to prepare the next generation of leaders, workers, entrepreneurs, and citizens who will strengthen St. Charles County for years to come. Let me briefly explain why this matters. Homeschooling has changed dramatically over the last several years. Missouri now has more than 61,000 homeschool students with over 5,000 families right here in St. Charles County. These young people aren't on the sidelines. They are tomorrow's nurses, electricians, teachers, business owners, engineers, police officers, and community leaders. The question isn't whether they're capable. The question is, are we helping them find their pathway? Research consistently shows home school students perform exceptionally well academically. They're motivated, they're independent learners, they're prepared to succeed, and then they transition. Ironically, that's where the challenge begins. Parents tell us the same three things over and over. I don't know the next step. My teenager needs direction. Where do we find internships, mentors, and career opportunities? The education is there. The talent is there. The employers are certainly there. What's missing is the bridge connecting them. And this is our vision. We want to become Missouri's first coordinated leadership and career development hub, specifically designed for homeschool youth, a place where young people can discover careers, connect with mentors, earn workforce credentials, serve in internships, explore entrepreneurship, and become positive, productive members of our community. Imagine students graduating with industry credentials before they're age 20. Imagine local employers finding motivated young workers. Imagine young entrepreneurs starting businesses right here in St. Charles County. Imagine more of our young people choosing to stay here, work here, raise families here, and invest back into this community. That's the future we believe is possible. Tonight's proclamation is a tremendous encouragement, but more importantly, we hope it's the beginning of a partnership. Family Vision cannot build this bridge alone. It will take employers, educators, workforce leaders, churches, nonprofit, and public officials working together. And finally, we invite each of you to come visit us, see what we're building, and join us as we prepare the next generation of leaders, workers, and citizens in Saint Charles County. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much County executive.

Thank you, Mister chairman, I got a proclamation I want to read and Boy, I've known Lambert for a long time, and you have been involved in the not-for-profits for, gee, the last 20 years at least that I know of.

Well, going on 30.

This sounds like a really good one, having been a former teacher myself. So let me read it, and also I want to recognize Mary and she's over here in the corner taking that she's over there in the corner, OK that she she's still she's volunteers. Yeah, she was a he was our communication. I know and we had to look we had to lose what we got are glad. All right, OK. We're a Saint George County government believes education cultivates a skilled local workforce drives economic development reduces crime rates. and social costs and whereas Saint Charles County government believes families are stronger when they are connected encouraged and supported and whereas there are over 5,000 families in Saint Charles County where children are home schooled and over 62,000 statewide and whereas family vision education center in Saint Peter's Missouri a nonprofit organization provides families in Saint Charles County and beyond with resources that include a lending library home school curriculum materials parent collaborative opportunities and growing programming. And whereas the 2026 labor market remains tight with employers continuing to struggle with labor shortages and whereas family vision education center is creating a coordinated system connecting you to career pathways internships apprenticeships workforce employment systems and employment now therefore be it proclaimed that I think Steve Elman St. Charles County executive on behalf of St. Charles County government To hereby extend my appreciation to the staff, board, and volunteers who work together to provide exceptional resources for homeschoolers and their family through the Family Vision Education Center. And in so doing, make St. Charles County a better community in which to live. Would you like one with the council? That would be great.

Do you mind coming up here? Thank you both we appreciate everything you guys do not just with family vision, but everything you guys have been doing for the last almost 30 years. With that we will move on to our second public presentation tonight with our police department, the E S G R presentation chief is that you.

I'm currently good marker and my partner in crime over here is general Frank grass, I'll reduce him a little more in a little bit here. ESGR is a Department of War office that was founded back in 1972. In 71 we did away with the draft and our reserve components, National Guard and all of our Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard had more responsibilities put on them and more duties put on them and more training requirements and this kind of stuff that goes along with the increased jobs. They actually now make up over 50% of our Department of War is in reserve components. Just to give you an example, right now, at any given time, the National Guard and National Guard alone, not counting all the other reserve components, have between 40,000 and 50,000 people on active duty worldwide at any given time. Now, in 1994, they passed the USERRA laws, which was Uniform Service, Employment, and Reemployment Act. This was an expansion of the old Sold and Sales Relief Act of 1941 during World War II. We have, since that time, developed the ESGR program where we are two-fold, one, We come out and we talk to employers and to service members to explain their responsibilities to each other and how that affects what is done on their status as reservist and their status as active component. It actually, it only costs one-seventh to maintain a reserve component individual as it does an active component individual, and it also allows those active component individuals to not have to be deployed worldwide to meet our worldwide commitments constantly. Well, that's great, and it saves us as taxpayers a lot of money. However, it does put an onus on you as employers and supervisors to work within the law and with your your employee and with also a service member to fill their positions. We actually are broke out into two separate entities. One is we do the explanation and coming out and talking to employers and talking to service members on what both their responsibilities are. We actually have ombudsmen that come out and do some of that work if need be. This precludes people like the Department of Labor having to come out and sit around and try to explain all this. And the good part, the part that we're here about tonight, is to award excellent performance by supervisors and departments. And we have two awards, actually, they want to give out tonight. First one I will be giving out, it will be the Patriot Award to Chief Curt Frizz. And for his support, one of his members of his force, which is Joe Stroll, recommended Chief for the award because of his support in all of his deployments and all his training. We have given out several awards to the Department of Police here within St. Charles and continue to receive accolades from members of their support. We also have been out there several times, I have, and talked to many of their current police officers, which are former members of the armed forces. And they all speak very highly of Chief. And thank you very much for taking care of our soldiers. Absolutely. Now, it's my honor now to introduce my partner in crime here, General Frank Grass. He's a Missouri-born and raised individual down in Arnold, Missouri. He's currently serving as the vice chair for the Missouri ESGR program. I have just St. Louis and 11 surrounding counties. He has the entire state. He has almost 50 years in uniform. He is also still serving on many state boards, national boards. He's still teaching new general officers how to become joint commanders of multiple services. He started out as a private, as a heavy equipment operator out of Pestis, Missouri in the National Guard. That was in 1969. He has had assignments throughout Central America, in Europe. He was Deputy Director of the Army National Guard for the entire United States. He has been the Deputy Commanding General of NORTHCOM, that's where he got his third star, and his culmination was as a four-star Chief of the National Guard Bureau and sitting member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He's also been known by all those who have served with him as an individual who cares for his soldiers and his soldiers' families. General Graskin.

Good evening, County Executive.

General, would you pull that microphone up for you? Oh, yeah. Excellent. Thank you.

Appreciate you being here. Council members, thank you. My good friend Ed there, what he didn't tell you, he is probably the best helicopter pilot in the Army when he was flying, many, many years of flying from Vietnam all the way through. And it's men like that, women too, that still want to give back and come and be a part of a ceremony like this and recognize your wonderful police department here. We were with you not too long ago when we met. So a couple things I wanted to share with you. Why are we doing this? Why is this important? And if you look at today, the whole United States military is about the size it was in 1940. Now, most of that was reserve component at the time, very few active at the time. Of course, that turned on its head after we went into D-Day and also the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. It changed all that. But today, we're sitting at about 2.1 million active Guard and Reserve. About 800,000 are in reserve components. which has put a lot of stress on departments, for one, a lot of stress on the men and women that serve and their families. But they have really performed incredibly well. If you look at today, there's not an operation that happens in the world anywhere. The United States oversees every combatant command, we call them. There's a guardsman or a reservist somewhere in those missions. They're either flying, they're on the ground, they're intelligence. there you name it they are out there helping I share that with you because I really see three parts to being a strong reserve component and it starts with the member being willing to serve Joe thank you the second part is the family our families you know they serve or we wouldn't be in we would have never served and the last part which is very much overlooked I think by a lot of people and that's where ESG are can really help out is the departments across the map the employers, they they give, and we could not do it without them. If you think about it, you know, if Joe didn't have the support, he'd have to make a choice, because his wife probably would say, Hey, you got a job here. And they're giving you problems. They never give them any problems they support. And I think when we met chief, I asked a question to some of your officers, and how do you do this? I think you had three people in the reserve component. And they said, we just all chip in, we take shifts. And you never know when a guard, a reservist, in your case, a reservist is going to have to travel a bit, will be pulled out on a mission because we have gotten such a small all-volunteer force. And it's really about three-tenths of 1% of our population in uniform today. But we like it that way. We like an all-volunteer force. We want to keep it that way. And without support of folks like Chief and your department here in St. Charles County Police Department, It would never, never happen. So with that, Chief, we're going to present your department the Pro-Patriot Award, which is the highest level award the state chairman of the ESGR can give.

In the joke.

One last quick.

Did you get your picture. All right let's we've got to get we've got to get one more get back in there. OK we'll get everybody to go ahead general.

And one last this goes to the county executive I believe if you are OK with this but it's a statement of support for for the garden reserve and we give these out to businesses we give them out to government organizations that support the garden reserve and we'd ask that you sign it put it on the wall so people can see that you are supporting as I mentioned you know this doesn't happen without the great support that you get to the research components so I'll give this to County Executive Gary. We just did one of these not too long ago, right up the road here across the river to Leonardo DRS Technologies. I didn't know they existed, and I grew up in St. Louis. But that's a huge defense contracting company.

Thank you. If the chief asks me real nice, I'll be glad to sign it.

You guys want to come up so she can get, do you want to do the picture? We'll put you here in the middle. You got it? Excellent.

Thank you very much.

Colonel, General, thank you very much. We appreciate that. Thanks to all of our Men and women who serve in our police department and she thanks to you and your staff for being generous in giving them the time away. We also have I don't know if you know, but judge Lassiter who is one of our associate judges here in Saint Charles County, he is also a member of the guard. So we have a sitting judge who's who's part of this as well so gentlemen we thank you ladies, thank you very much and thanks to all those who are serving we appreciate you. So that will get us to our conditional use permits for tonight starting with bill 5, 5, 0, 6.

Bill number 5, 5, 0, 6, an ordinance granting conditional use permit CUP 26-03 for building structures or open spaces for conducting weddings and or wedding receptions or other private parties to Dan Lauderdale and Kelly Lauderdale, property owners, and Bax Engineering, Charles Wardle, applicant.

The last meeting we did the public hearing and public record is closed on that is there any final discussion on this. Seeing none please call the roll.

Bill number 5, 5, 0, 6, an ordinance granting conditional use permit C U P 26 dash 0, 3. For buildings structures are open spaces for conducting weddings and or wedding receptions or other private parties to be in Lauderdale and Kelly Lauderdale property owners and backs engineering. Charles Wardle applicant. Councilman Swanson yes, ma'am. Councilman Brazel yeah, Councilman Hammond yeah, that's been a long yes, and some in our honor. Councilwoman York, yes. Councilman Baker, yes.

Bill 5506 passes. That gets us to Bill 5507.

Bill number 5507, an ordinance granting a conditional use permit, CUP 26-04, for a private school to Glennon McCreery, property owner, and canine consulting and training LLC applicant.

Again, the public hearing was done at the last meeting, so the public record is closed. Any final comments? Seeing none, please call the roll.

Bill number 5507, an ordinance granting a conditional use permit, CUP 26-04, for a private school to Glennon McCreary, property owner, and canine consulting and training LLC applicant. Councilman Brazel. Yes. Councilman Hammond.

Yes.

Councilman Elam. Yes. Councilman Hollander. Councilwoman York. Yes. Councilman Baker. Yes. Councilman Swanson. Yes, ma'am.

Bill 5507 passes congratulations Glenn. We will move now to our public hearing we have to public hearing tonight we will start with our first public hearing which is a 2026 2030 consolidated plan and the 2026 CDBG annual action plan. Do I have anyone to speak on that tonight. Mister Dino is going to speak on that.

I knew that answer before I asked that question.

I know it I I just assume we were going to be here so let's roll there you go. I very much act make it as quick as possible.

No, I understand I'm not going to repeat what I read last time I have a thank you things that I would like to add. So thank you very much Mister chairman members of the Council, my name is Arnie see a CD off County public advocate And I don't want to go, hopefully my other testimony you heard and you took it to heart. The County Urban Consolidated Community Development Block Grant Program First of all, I like to see and I think that there are avenues and ways after discussion with several congressional representatives, congressmen and senators and other people that work for the house, the federal housing and urban development that there are avenues to have a true consolidation with the filing of the the community development block grant. So I'd like to discuss with staff, see if that's possible. I think that the bottom line is if we can save administration and overhead, and have that go to help people who are less fortunate than you and I, I think that that should be the ultimate goal. And I think if there's avenues and possibilities that we should look towards that path. Senior citizens and baby boomers in general are going to be our top priority and one of our big issues for the next decade. We need to assist them more with opportunities and proper resources. Way too many times they have their children or other family members that live in other states. They're very isolated. They come to that point in life when they feel that they're a detriment to the driving public. They surrender their Missouri driver's license and they don't drive. So they're now isolated and we need to make sure that we have programs in place to help them. We need to assist them with the opportunities and resources and transportation is a huge issue, especially around the county in unincorporated pockets, medical medical transportation, grocery shopping, banking library. The beauty shop general shopping and I can go on and on with that list. We need to be cognizant and you know what today's a prime example. We have 100 degree weather and we need to be checking on our senior citizens and making sure that they're okay. And the second issue that I'd like to see as part of this five year plan is a wellness check for our growing and aging population. They become too isolated to reliant upon themselves and you get to that point where sometimes they slip or forget and I think we need to put them on our radar and come up with a wellness check program either through the Department of Public Health through the community block grant program or maybe Corp in cooperation in cooperation with our County ambulance district with the fire protection districts. The next issue is when it comes to money with the economy and taxes, nutrition and feeding our senior citizens. Meals on wheels have been cut cut cut cut to the bone and I think we need to make sure that our seniors are eating in that choosing medical needs and prescriptions rather than eating I think that they could have both we need to make sure that meals on wheels is fully funded in that we have enough money to sustain the program with the ever weekly growing population of seniors throughout our County. And then the final issue that I'd like to talk about is our increasing our growing homeless population. We have 1041 or 1141. I'm sure what the exact number is of the last census count that is growing at leaps and bounds on a weekly basis here in Saint Charles County. We of that number 200 are children and that really breaks my heart and is very sad. Of course, some people don't want to be helped. They don't want to get out of that predicament. But we need to work on a consolidated plan with a true homeless need to help our homeless population and get people a helping hand to get them out of that situation. I know the city of St. Charles just spent $20,000 of certain funds to enter into a contract with Eden Village. to build a village of approximately 30 to 35 homes at the 370 and what would that be 94 i guess somewhere in there and so but it's not going to stop at boundaries we need to take in our entire homeless population throughout our county Those are my comments. Mister chairman, I hope you take them to heart they really need some serious discussion and talking about those needs instead of just rubber-stamping keep moving on these programs we need to make sure the program is going to help the people that really need it. Thank you sir.

Anyone else to speak. Seeing none that will close the public hearing on a consolidated plan and we will move on to the public hearing of the 2026 tax rates for Saint Charles County is there anyone to speak. Oh sorry come on up yeah.

I thought that's why you were getting up I didn't really I didn't card in quite on time it's all good. My name is Catherine Becker. My maiden name is Gish. I only mention it because I went to school here. I actually went to school with your son, Ms. York, at Duchenne. Which one? At Duchenne with your son, Colin. Colin. Yeah. I actually even taught one of your grandchildren at United Services for Children. Oh, no way. been around St. Charles area quite a bit. I worked down on Main Street. I worked in, my family lives in O'Fallon. I have family in all over the area. I went to the St. Charles Tribute. I live right next to Veterans Tribute Park. I went to the lovely Memorial Day. I listened to the wonderful speech Mr. Elman gave as well. And that the people presented. I try to go every year because I have family that served and I lost family, I lost minds there. I'm a teacher that is out on disability, so I'm a special education teacher that is out on disability right now from seizures. So if I speak a little out of order I apologize I am recovering from those so I am a little nervous so I apologize in regards to plans you have about st. Charles County I really want you to keep in mind when you talk about people who are displaced or traveling through st. Charles please keep in mind when you open up all these new schools in these private schools and take away money from the ambulance district or to privatize things and prioritize seniors that aren't getting out and about or take money away from things and move money here and there. I was looking at the funding. And you've got to remember that these schools, these homeschools, these people are taking money away. And the homeschooling, they don't teach. These kids come out, and they don't have interpersonal skills. They lack interpersonal skills. Oftentimes, they don't have. They don't have, these kids pop out without, they bring racial and religious biases. Please don't. When everyone else was speaking, I did keep myself quiet.

Yes, ma'am.

They often have no, they lack any skills to be around children with special needs. They lack, they might call children names or call them different because they act different. They often will have oversight. They don't have oversight for predators who may take advantage of them. I saw children down on Main Street enjoying themselves, and they were of Mennonite families. And I love that they are down on the streets. But I saw other children.

Can I interrupt you for a second?

Yes, ma'am.

So we're speaking on the, this is a public hearing on the consolidated plan, not on homeschooling.

Yes, sir.

Do you but that part of our community yet it it is but with this is a public hearing on the consolidated plan so I would ask you to keep your comments to that public hearing and the fun to what it's going to if you want to speak on.

other subjects you can do that during public comments so for this if you could keep it to the consolidated plan that be great those people that you talk about that that go to these homeschools that you guys love to give awards to I'm sorry I got lost and all the awards you were giving out I'm I told you I get confused right you were getting so many words to each other and somehow those folks got an award for opening a private school I didn't quite understand that

That's not what it is, but if we could talk about the consolidated plan, if you could do that, that'd be great.

Oftentimes, those children that go to those private schools, they get lost in the confusion, too, because of those reasons, and they end up homeless. And Mr. Steenhoff, He brings so many great ideas to the table, but he changes parties a little bit, so I get a little confused about which party he's in. He often gets to talk about things, and he brought up the homeless, so I figured since he brought it into the conversation, I should get to speak on it as well. So since he brought it in, I thought I'd get to talk about it too.

Can we wrap it up?

Okay.

That'd be great.

Since he brought it in, I thought I would talk about it. You bring this in. You said that there are many homeless people that are part of this problem. It sounded like you had a good start, but this needs to stretch throughout the county. They don't just stay here. And the elderly and everyone, this money needs to be thought about for everyone and for the grandchildren, the other children, your son. I know he is in ambulance. He was part of the ambulance district that was right across the street from United Services. United Services for children of all needs, of all abilities. So please keep this in mind when you think about don't privatize ambulances. I looked at all those things. Please keep this all in mind when you're talking about your plans for the next five years and you're talking about it, okay?

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

We appreciate your comment. Okay, with that, we're going to close. public hearing on the consolidated plan and the CDBG annual action plan now we'll go to the 2026 tax rates for Saint Charles County anyone to speak on that Michelle McBride.

Good evening Council cherry woman, other members of the Council and Michelle McBride Saint Charles County collector of revenue. I'm here to speak in support of the bill number 5511 before you tonight that the county's 2026 property tax rate specifically to set the personal property rate at 0 while maintaining the real estate at the same levels as last year. As collector, my office sits in the center of every tax bill that goes out to St. Charles County residents. I see firsthand what these numbers mean to people. It's not an abstract policy, but real dollars that affect real households and budgets. Setting the personal property rate to zero and effectively eliminating the county level levied personal property tax this year brings meaningful relief to taxpayers at a time when many are feeling pressures of rising costs elsewhere. At the same time maintaining the real estate rate at the same level of last year protects the road bridge and our dispatch and alarm funds who depend on that money to plan and operate responsibly. This bill strikes a balance real relief for residents without disrupting the essential services our community relies on. I also want the council to know that my office has been sitting waiting for this to happen. Since the projected tax rates were announced in April of this year. the information system department and I have begun the work necessary to implement this change on the tax bills. We understand the technical lift in a rate adjustment like this one that impacts every one of the 200,000 plus tax bills that we issue. We've already researched and started the process so that if this passes tonight, there will be no delay or disruption and getting accurate bills into our residents hands on schedule. That's the job of my office, not just to collect what's owed, but to make sure that whatever the council passes and once implemented is done accurately and efficiently for the people we serve. I want to thank the sponsor for bringing this bill forward, and I respectfully ask the council to support the bill and pass it as proposed. Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am. Mr. Dinoff.

Thank you very much. Mister chairman members of the council. My name is Arnie C. A. C. Dean of County public advocate. Just want to go over a couple issues. First of all, our general fund is zeroed out. There's zero being collected on personal real estate taxes. Our road and bridge fund, the potential setting of the tax levy, which will be done in september is 0.1687 of $100 of such evaluation. Our communications and 911 center operations, which is known as our Dispatch and alarm fund is a potential setting is 0.0324. However, there should be no increase in taxes to any resident. And if you look at the figure that was put together, I'm not sure who the author was because somebody didn't put their signature or name on the document that was in the council packet. I'm not sure if it was Bob Schnarr or Mike Summers, the director of finance. But according to the information that was published in your kind of Council packet, the percentage and change will end up to be 1.956%. So I'd ask somebody on the Council to ask for clarification from either the finance director or your deputy director of administration consultant. Not sure what his title currently is since he retired from the county. Either Mr. Schnarr or Mr. Summers, I'd like to get clarification. Is this actually going to be a tax increase on the bills of personal and real estate taxes to our county residents, or is this a wash with new construction? It just doesn't make sense. There's no explanation written. It's a bunch of numbers of assessed values, total proposed revenue, 2025 to 2026 revenue changes. And I think there needs to be some answers, responsibility, transparency, and accountability from these two gentlemen. And I hope that Mister Elman or the director of administration or you as council people can get clarification. Thank you Mister chairman.

Thank you anyone else to speak. With that that will close our public hearing on the 2026 tax rates that will get us to public comments. The clock in front of Mister Swanson will show 3 minutes. Thank you that was right on cue nice job. When that counts down to 0, I would thank you for speaking and we will move on to the next speaker first speaker tonight is great that lack regarding bill number 5,508. You don't have to Greg said to you.

I don't know what's going on.

Yes, sir. Very generous. Next speaker.

Arne Deanoff, regarding elections, merit commission, county registrar, and ordinances.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of council. My name is Arne C., A.C. Deanoff, county public advocate, running to be the next county executive. I'm wanting to be the next county executive with an out-of-control salary of, I believe, $225,000 Effective January 1st full benefits for to explore and a logger's lifetime pension plus staff and expense accounts need to look at limiting that salary hugely out of control. But we have opportunities for no excuse voting remain going on as of early tomorrow at 08.30AM to 07.00PM I'm sorry. to 4.30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday and Friday, Tuesday and Thursday is 8.30 to 7 o'clock p.m. Of concern, and there's three locations, the biggest opportunity is this Saturday, August 1st from 8.30 to 4.30 p.m. at the County Election Authority. Let's get everybody out to vote. It's interesting that only Steve Ellman and I attend County Council meetings. I believe that I've been more Council meetings fully engaged in part of the legislative process over the last 20 years than the other three candidates in the race. I've never seen Jason in any meeting and I've only seen Bill at one of the meetings.

Arnie.

Yes.

We can't politic from there.

I disagree.

You you may disagree, but you can't politic from there you can if you can stop my time please stop this time please I believe 10 seconds when I'll give you 10 more seconds you can't run from office from a public meeting. So you can't talk about that if you can you can rail about us all you want and talk about how horrible we are but you can't you can't talk about other candidates are running for that after this. That's fine you can get back to your previously Scheduled program. Thanks.

Steve Elman, do you still have a county email at selman at secmo.org or have you blocked me from directly engaging with you? I sent you an email on July 21st and it bounced back three times. There was a reply with no name of whom replied to my email and I don't understand why people don't have the gumption to do that. The questions about the county register still are not answered and not available on the county website is one of your staff people responded. Under chapter 6 10.0 to one through 6 10.0 to 5, I'm requesting the following the full name of the county register the start date current salary address room number direct telephone number and name email address personally of the county register. This should have been so simple instead of being so difficult. Playing games, Steve. Bill number 5506. I want to correct my public testimony. The wedding venue on Missouri Double D was 7.6 acres with 1.3 acres of land coverage with the tent and other buildings. The County Mayor Commission appointment of two commissioners this evening. When is the hearing for fire police captain Chris Hunt? It's been lingering on and on and on without being presented to the county prosecutor and to the county grand jury. Bill number 5510, Flynn Hill, to join the county urban community development block grant. Bill number 5512, providing a full-time school resource officer for private schools at 100% cost reimbursement. And then all citizens... All citizens registered and eligible to vote, take the 10 minutes out of your day to either do the no excuse voting or vote at your assigned precinct on August the 4th. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Nice finish. Final speaker. Thank you very much. So that'll wrap up public comments tonight. That'll get us to an oral report from the county executive.

I think I've said all I need to say tonight. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. That'll get us to the consent agenda. Any items to be removed from the consent agenda?

Motion approved.

Second motion to approve and second all those in favor say aye aye any opposed consent agenda is approved that will get us to bills for final passage starting with bill 5, 5, 0, 8.

Bill number 5, 5, 0, 8, an ordinance amending the zoning district map of the County of Saint Charles Missouri by rezoning land from agricultural district to our single-family residential district per application are the 26 dash 0, 30.

Anybody have any questions for the applicant. Any discussion. Seeing none please call the roll.

The number 5, 5, 0, 8, an ordinance amending the zoning district map of the County of Saint Charles Missouri by rezoning land from a agricultural district to our our single-family residential district per application are the 26 dash 0, 3. Councilman Hammond, yeah, come to me on yes, come to me on there come to New York, yes, come to me and they heard yes, come to me once and yes, man come to me in Brazil, yes.

Bill 5508 passes. I hope your kids realize how generous you are and how lucky they are. So he loves you more than I love my kids obviously. So that's very good. Bill 5509.

Bill number 5509, an ordinance authorizing submittal of a 2026 through 2030 consolidated plan and 2026 annual action plan for St. Charles County, Missouri in its capacity as an urban county and participating in the community development block grant program through the St. Louis Home Consortium. authorizing the county executive to execute all related documents and authorizing acceptance of CDBG funds and the amount of one million eighty eight thousand fourteen dollars any questions or comments about this bill seeing none please call the roll Bill number 5509, an ordinance authorizing submittal of a 2026 through 2030 consolidated plan and 2026 annual action plan for St. Charles County, Missouri in its capacity as an urban county and participating in the community development block grant program through the St. Louis Home Consortium, authorizing the county executive to execute all related documents and authorizing acceptance of CDBG funds in the amount of $1,088,000 80,000 and $14. Come to me on yes, I've been on there Council in New York, yes, Councilman Baker, yes, Councilman Swanson, yes, ma'am Councilman grass on your Councilman Hammond, yeah, bill 5509 passes that gets us to 5510. Bill number 5, 5, 1, 0, an ordinance authorizing execution of a cooperation agreement with the city of Flint Hill to join the Saint Charles urban County is recognized by the U.S. Department of housing and urban development.

Any questions or comments on this bill. Seeing none please call the roll.

Bill number 5, 5, 1, 0, an ordinance authorizing execution of a cooperation agreement with the city of Flint Hill to join the Saint Charles urban County as recognized by the U.S. Department of housing and urban development. Councilman Hollander Councilman York, yes, Councilman Baker, yes, Councilman Swanson, yes, ma'am Councilman Brazil, yeah, Councilman Hammond, yeah, Councilman Elon, yes, Bill 5510 passes where 5511. Bill number 5, 5, 1, 1, an ordinance fixing and establishing the rate and living of taxes for the general revenue fund and for various special funds oven for which the County of Saint Charles Missouri receives a portion of the revenue for the year 2026.

Any questions or comments on this bill. Seeing none please call the roll.

Bill number 5, 5, 1, 1, an ordinance fixing and establishing the rate and levying of taxes for the general revenue fund and for various special funds of and for which the County of St. Charles, Missouri receives a portion of the revenue for the year 2026. Councilman York. Yes. Councilman Baker. Yes. Councilman Swanson. Yes, ma'am. Councilman Brazel. Yes. Councilman Hammond.

Yes.

Councilman Elam.

Yes.

Councilman Hollander.

Bill 5511 passes. We're at 5512.

Bill number 5, 5, 1, 2, an ordinance authorizing the St. Charles County Executive to execute the St. Charles County Police Department to expand the school resource officer program to include Emanuel Lutheran-Winsville and Immaculate Conception-Darden parochial schools.

Councilwoman York.

Yes, I would like to make a motion on this bill to amend and replace with the substitute bill number 5512 that removed language in section 6 that incorrectly called for intergovernmental agreements with the city of Saint Charles.

With the motion to have a second any discussion on this bill. Seeing none would you please read the bill call the roll.

All in favor of the amendment.

All in favor aye any opposed.

Thank you to go through that you don't number 5, 5, 1, 2, an ordinance authorizing the Saint Charles County executive to execute the Saint Charles County Police Department to expand the school resource officer program to include a manual Lutheran Wentzville and immaculate conception Darden Prokiel schools. Councilman Swanson, yes, ma'am, that's been Brazil, you're coming to him and yet that's been on there. Councilwoman York, yes, Councilman Baker, yes.

Councilman, you know, yes, there we go. All right substitute bill 5512 passes that finishes up our bills for final passage.

We have 2 bills for introduction tonight starting with 5513 bill number 5513 requested by John line sponsored by Joe Brazel in ordinance approving a supplemental agreement with Missouri highways and Transportation Commission for the South Point Prairie Road project.

The questions on this bill.

Seeing none bill 5514 bill number 5514 requested by Ryan Graham sponsored by making them in ordinance authorizing the county executive or his designee to execute a shared use path easement and a related temporary construction easement with the city of Fallon for the darting Greenway Sports Park to Bluebird Meadow Park project.

Any questions or comments about this bill. I know Ryan was dying to come up and talk about that. So we'll do that at the next meeting. That'll wrap up bills for introduction. We are up to announcements or miscellaneous. Any announcements that anybody would like to make as we come to the end of July on this scorching day? County Executive.

Mr. Chairman, I'd just like to thank you for passing the tax rates. And we've been lowering those property taxes every chance we get since I've been here. And the only two people who have been doing it longer are Mr. Breslin and Mr. Schnoor. So I thank you because you all started this long before I got here. And we'll continue to do it. And hopefully the economy stays the way it is. We can continue to do that.

Thank you. Excellent. Any other announcements? Nothing's going on in defiance that we need to talk about, Joe? Just remember to vote.

I was just going to say, whatever you do, get out and vote.

Yeah. As Mr. Dinoff talked about... uh it's not early voting but no excuse absentee voting is going on right now so you can go do that and then obviously a week from tomorrow but who's counting uh is election day so i'd like to wish everybody the best those who are on the dice and those who are in the audience who are running i wish all you the best and uh We would love to see 100% turnout on August 4th for everybody to come out and vote. So it's very important that you make your voice heard. Then you can show up and complain here like Mr. Deanoff does. With that, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Have a great night.