Board of Aldermen - Regular Meeting

It is Monday, May 18th. This is a carne board of alderman meeting. Call the meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of 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.

So, any of you had a chance to take role? I have taken role. Everyone is present. You have the form. Thanks. We'll move on to public hearings. We have no public hearings this evening. Is there anybody in the audience that would wish to address the board this evening under open public comments? Okay, we'll move on to consent agenda. Does anybody on the board have any questions or any items of discussion on the consent agenda this evening? Seeing none, if we can entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. So motion second. We got a first and second. All in favor? I

oppose. Consent agenda is approved. We'll move on to ordinances. The first item this evening is a motion approving bill number 32206 presented by David Pavich, our economic development director. An ordinance approving the Church of Latterday Saints site plan. David.

Yes. So, the uh Church of Latterday Saints at 202 West 19th Street proposes a 2,000 foot building addition on the north side of the building. So, we won't really see the addition actually. Uh but they also propose a parking lot addition on the east side of the property and a detention area also with that. Um planning and zoning commission recommended approval there with a couple of changes. one, there's an ADA connection for the sidewalk from the building out to 19th Street that they need to repair or relocate. That was listed as condition. And then there's some minor changes to the landscape plan to identify the species of of plants and and native trees. Um, planning and zoning commission recommended unanimous approval.

Alderman Leman, do you have anything to add? Um, very little discussion. We did talk about Did they identify the There's potential for a wall. Yeah. Wall down by the detention area or maybe on the west side of the parking lot that may require a railing andor if it's over Fort Hall would require a structural engineer stamp at the time of permitting. Okay. Other than that, that was the big discussion. Minor building addition with the parking lot. So, does anybody on the board have any questions for staff? that retention pond like down the hill on the east side.

Yes, it would be closer to Southport Drive is the side street on the east side of the property. Okay, see no other questions. Thank you, David, for that report and David for your uh input there. If we could read the proposed ordinance first reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving the Church of Latter-day Saint site plan. To approve the first reading second. All in favor? I I oppose. Second reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving the Church of Latterday Saints site plan. Motion to approve. A second. Pull the board, please. Alderwoman Spencer, I. Alderman King, I. Alderman Leman, hi.

Alderman Holt. Hi. The vote is unanimous and the ordinance is approved. Second ordinance this evening is a motion approving bill number 332026 presented by Carolyn Yatsik, our economic development director. An ordinance approving a memorandum of understanding with the Mid America Regional Council Mark Solid Waste Management District to receive recycling containers and flag signage at no cost to the city of Carney. Carolyn.

Thank you, mayor and board. This ordinance supports the city's upcoming Cleats and Beats World Cup watch party on June 19th and provides an opportunity to expand recycling efforts in Carney moving forward through a partnership with the Mid America Regional Council Solid Waste Management District. The city would receive recycling containers and signage at no cost to support the event. And following the watch party, those receptacles will remain in the city and they'll be utilized either here at city hall or in Lions Park or Future Hall Park somewhere near. Great. Any questions from the board on the proposed ordinance or staff's report? We get to keep them.

We do. Okay. Thank you for that report and uh staff's work there. If we could read the proposed ordinance of the first reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving a memorandum of understanding with the Mid America Regional Council Mark Solid Waste Management District to receive recycling containers and flag signage at no cost to the city of Carney. Move to approve on first reading. I'll second. All in favor?

I oppose. Second reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving a memorandum of understanding with the Mid America Regional Council, MARK, Solid Waste Management District, to receive recycling containers and flag signage at no cost to the city of Carney. Make a motion on second read. I'll second that. Pull the board, please. Alderman King, hi. Alderman Leman, I. Alderman Holt, hi. Alderwoman Spencer. I.

The vote is unanimous and the ordinance is approved. We'll move on to resolutions. The first resolution this evening is a motion approving resolution 412026 presented by Caroline Yatsk, our economic development director. A resolution approving a wireless access point installation agreement with United Fiber to install, maintain, and operate a wireless access point on two city-owned buildings to bring the free smart town community Wi-Fi program to downtown Carney at no cost to the city of Carney. Carolyn,

thank you, mayor. Um, that title pretty much sums it up. So, I will feel a little bit repetitive here, but yes, United Fiverr has approached the city um with the opportunity to bring the Smart Town uh community Wi-Fi program to downtown. We think it's going to be a great thing. Um, this program is free, as you stated. It would be secure and installed and maintained by United Fiber. Um the two locations uh the two city- owned buildings would be city hall and the old firehouse would be the two locations that they have selected. And so this resolution um if passed I believe it advances the board's priority of strengthening and act activating downtown.

Any questions from the board on the report? Exciting opportunity. Thank you again, Carolyn, once again, uh, for staff's time. And, uh, if there are no other questions, if we read the proposed resolution, please. A resolution approving a wireless access point installation agreement with United Fiber to install, maintain, and operate a wireless access point on two city- owned buildings to bring the free Smarttown community Wi-Fi program to downtown Carney at no cost to the city of Carney. I make a motion to approve. I'll second. All in favor? I I

oppose. Vote is unanimous and the resolution is approved. Next item is a motion approving resolution 422026 presented by Sundy McKini, deputy city clerk. A resolution approving a liquor letter for Fence Still Vineyards, Winery, and Distillery to attend every Thursday of the 2026 market at the park season. This resolution and detached letter will allow fence style vineyards, winery, and distillery to obtain a temporary liquor license from the state of Missouri to vend their alcohol beverages in the original packages at our market in the park. They are very excited to attend the market and see their many clients that typically travel to them. So, they're hoping for a pass.

Great. Any questions on the proposed resolution report from staff? Where are they located? Excel, sir. Excel, sir. Nobody out there. That's pretty cool. Great. If there's no other questions, if we could read the proposed resolution for consideration. A resolution approving a liquor letter for fence style vineyards, winery, and distillery to attend every Thursday of the 2026 market at the park season. To approve. I'll second. All in favor? I

oppose. Vote is unanimous and the resolution is approved. We'll move on to items for review and presentation. The first item this evening is a connected carney uh presentation by Shelley Daniel, our public work director. Shelley.

Good evening, Mayor and members of the board. I'm excited to introduce a project that will help shape the future of our community's infrastructure, mobility, and quality life, the connected car plan. This plan marks a significant milestone as a city's first ever planning sustainable places initiative developed in partnership with Mid America Regional Council. It focuses on expanding bicycle and pedestrian connectivity throughout the city while keeping our downtown as a vibrant core with strategic ideas for revitalization. An initiative of this scale requires a dedicated collaborative effort. While our lead project manager, Jim Shushler with GBA was unable to be with us tonight, we are incredibly fortunate to have the key team members here in the room. As I call your name, just please stand to be recognized. So we have S. People um transportation planner with Mid America Regional Council. Carrot Elbert, senior project manager with Shocki Consulting who helped guide our extensive public engagement strategy. Colleen Doctoran, our own communication specialist who co-led those critical public outreach efforts, and our lead presenter tonight, Josh Barrett Green, landscape architect and planner GBA. The full detailed draft of the connected county plan will be shared publicly before our next board meeting and will be included in our board of alderman alderman packet. Our pres presentation this evening will serve as a brief highle overview of the plan. With that, I'm going to go ahead and turn the floor over to Cara.

Thank you. That was a great introduction. I don't I don't feel like I need to do an introduction to the overall plan, but like Shelley said, I'm Cara Elbert. I work for Shocki Consulting. Um I led the public engagement process for the team and excited to be here and tell you guys a little bit about our plan. did this. You let me know and I'll just Okay, move to the next place. We'll do that if I can. Let's see if I can.

There you go. Awesome. So, like Shelley kind of said at the beginning, we had a collaborative team that worked on this project. The city got a grant from the Mid America Regional Council and there was a cost share to that. So, it was mostly grant. there was a little bit of city match that um paid for the the planning process and then there was an RFP process that was done and GBA was selected and then we were on their team as well and so it was GBA leading jockey um supporting and then obviously Mark is a big part of this this puzzle and why you guys are creating this project so it's a big program so this is a little bit of an overview of the PSP program um it's funded every other year from the Mid America Regional Council there's actually a projects out right now. Um I can't remember exactly when they're due, but Sai would probably know if you all have questions afterwards. Um but so it's been funded through MART and it supports local transportation and land use planning initiatives. And the the goal of it is to create stronger connections between housing, landscape or not landscape, recreation, jobs, and then services all while promoting healthy communities. And so we think that this plan is a really good idea of kind of connecting all those dots within your community. What makes this plan really unique is that like Shelley said um and it's here on this slide, it's your first PSP. So this is just kind of the start of your your process of getting involved in this program. And so we're excited to see where you guys take this and uh continue to to move towards implementation in the future. Next slide. So this is why um the goals kind of of our project. So the foundation from this plan came directly from feedback that were received was received during the transportation master planning process. Residents um had brought up concerns related to pedestrian safety um sidewalk maintenance, things like missing sidewalk connections and trail connectivity around the city. And so that was why there was strong interest in doing this planning project in

general. Um, there was also strong interest in connecting community destinations, things like Jesse James Park, the Fishing River Trail, and other things like that throughout your community. This process has allowed us to reaffirm what we heard from the public um in terms of what they value and thinking of a long-term vision for connecting the community. Those are our goals of our project. So, ultimately connecting the community through a variety of different modes of transportation. We just wanted to be able to provide not a way for people to get around that wasn't primarily in an automobile. So things like walking trails, biking, and different modes of transportation that directly connects the goals of PSP program. And so that was kind of our overarching goal. We wanted to look at the downtown and what kind of improvements could be made in the downtown district. And then being able to inventory your sidewalk system, so be able to see where those gaps are and where things could be identified to connect. um and then ultimately give people ways to get throughout your entire community. This is a little snippet of the front part of our public engagement plan. Something that was really important to our project team is to make sure that um we were checking in with the public throughout the process. And so um we had a variety of ways that people could do that. We had pop-up engagement events. We had several open houses at the senior center. And then we also had an online engagement platform that was done through AGIS story map. And so there was a mapping tool where people could kind of drop dots and tell us what they thought about things as well as a survey component. And so that kind of gave us lots of different options to hear from people that weren't just standard in-person meetings. So wanted to make it super accessible. These are the people that were on our steering committee. So want to thank them for their time. They gave us some good feedback throughout the process. And uh I would just also want to commend the city staff for all their uh collaboration throughout the entire process. It was a good project. It was

really fun and we had a lot of feedback throughout the entire time. So I'm going to turn it over to Josh.

Thank you. Thanks. So yeah, I will um kind of walk through the high level ideas of of the plan and the the study we put together. So, uh, goal one was the really the citywide connectivity. Um, you can go to the next slide. So, we it was always from the beginning we wanted to make sure that we stay true to Carney and keep that small town feel that Carney has. So, there's some facility types that won't be mentioned in the in the study like uh separated bus lanes for example. Um, cuz we wanted to select facility types that really fit uh the community of Carney. So, these facility types listed sidewalks on on street bike lanes, shared use paths or multi-use trails, um shared lane markings or sheros, asphalt trails, greenway trails, bike routes, and complete streets. We're uh represent the group of facility transportation facility types that are appropriate for the some of these uh seem very similar. There's some nuance to an asphalt trailway trail for example. The asphalt trail will really be those trails that are present in your city parks whereas the greenway trail might be in a riparian corridor that are connecting to uh distant parts of of the city. So um so what we're looking at here is that overall connectivity plan. We're looking at the north half of Carney here. Um so there's some big ideas represented here. Um the first of being really establishing a loop that goes around the city. Um, so you'll see on the western edge that that pink line represents a complete street that uh makes that north south connection on uh the west side of town and goes over on the the north side of town with that complete street extends and then on the east side of town moving north and south there's a couple of options. um uh bike

route um along Jesse James Farm Street and also uh in that green dash line would be uh greenway trail and that riparian uh drainage corridor there. So really making that loop around town is one big idea. Another big idea is creating the north south connection through the center of downtown. This was um a really sought-after piece of connectivity that the community mentioned multiple times in our engagement was creating that north south connection from uh Jesse James Park, backter park up north all the way down to the to the future hall park um and really bringing that through the heart of heart of the city. Um so you can see here um how that overall loop is completed on the southern edge of the site with the complete street uh which builds off the existing uh complete street that you all have in town already. Um and another thing to note here is how we we did an extensive research on previous planning efforts uh they were maybe not done by Carney but throughout the region. Um, so the regional bike trail and the metro green plan, um, which, uh, Mark was also involved with, we want to build off those trails and really use those, um, to create regional connectivity from Carney to the to your surrounding communities, Excelsier Springs, um, other towns around as well. Um, some additional things we looked at in the plan were school zones. This was a hot topic from the community as well. Um even even some streets that are marked uh the community members say are not very well respected and that they uh would like to see more for their for their for their children in those school zones. Um e scooters and ebike usage is becoming a hot topic in the KC metro and the the country alike. So, uh, we want to make sure that we're, um, acknowledging those and making a plan

for those moving forward, whether it's a it's a class system or or a limit on wattage or maximum speed, it can be achieved. And, uh, we want to make sure that our trails and multi-use trails are safe for all users, um, pedestrians, ebike users, and making sure those com those different types of mobility don't conflict with one another. And that leads into trail etiquette signage as well. Really uh improving the safety and making sure people um acknowledge the the proper etiquette on the trails when there's multiple uses. Um goal two is downtown planning. Um as Cara mentioned, we had uh extensive uh public engagement. The downtown planning, we uh offered a survey specific to the downtown. Uh you can go to the next slide. So, this uh was an example of a board that we brought to the October Fest, one of the popup uh events that we held where we invited the public to vote on what improvements they would like to see downtown. They were asked to put stickers on their uh the improvements that they valued most. Um so, there's some clear winners on this board. Um, pedestrian focused intersections, alley enhancements, and more plaza or public gathering spaces were some some key standouts on this list, as well as more landscape and public art and wider sidewalks were also popular choices. So, we developed multiple concepts for the downtown area and I'll go through them now. There's there will be something to note in all of these that are consistent. for example, uh the intersection there of Jefferson and Washington Street. Every concept will have improvements to that intersection. So, we're bumping out curves on Washington to really narrow that uh distance where pedestrians have to be in the the vehicular lanes of traffic. Um the crosswalk will be u stand out with a

different materiality or different color in the crosswalk itself. And on the north side there on Jefferson is a pedestrian island uh refuge island in the middle of the crosswalk. So all of those will be consistent throughout these concepts. Uh this concept number one is enhanced pedestrian experience on the southern side of Washington uh adjacent to your downtown uh the commercial buildings in downtown. So really making sure that sidewalk is extra wide, creating that amenity zone, maybe cafe type seating, uh street trees, benches, bike racks, trash receptacles, things of that nature. Really to enhance that pedestrian zone. Concept number two is the idea of the the multi-use path, really emphasizing that north south connection through the heart of downtown. So you see in the the yellow sidewalk there in the plan um is an extra wide multi-use path that runs through downtown. Um so really this concept really creates that multimodal corridor. So we have vehicles uh cyclists and pedestrians all accounted for in separate um separate spaces in the corridor. Uh the final concept is the idea of the improved alleyway. So, this was uh very populated with our public feedback. So, really using this underutilized space in the heart of downtown to create more uh more public space for the community. So, in this plan, we're showing a small p pocket park, a pavilion, a space for outdoor music to take place, uh covered seating, um and different uses like that, all while maintaining um the service use in that alleyway and screening some of those more uh unsightly things like dumpsters, things like that. So, really creating underutilized space and using that as an

advantage for the community. Um and then finally, uh we identified in the greater downtown area four locations for future investment kind of opportunity zones to create more gathering space in the heart of downtown. Um those uh lots there in green, create those those opportunities for that. Um, these are city-owned properties already. So, we see that as a as a real opportunity to to bring more uh public gathering space, plaza space into the heart of downtown. Uh, part of the plan also was to develop an imple implementation strategy to help the city uh moving forward take this plan into action. Uh so we developed in the in the the study five key priorities moving forward. Number one, the complete street conversion uh of Nation Road from 19th Street to Route 92. Two, the shared use path from uh Mac Park to Hall Park that north south connection to the middle of downtown. Uh number three is to fill identified sidewalks gaps. This this was I mean has been highly sought after from community feedback. Um number four is to build and leverage relationships with adjacent land owners to to fully uh realize the that plan. We were looking at the citywide connectivity plan. Some of those uh greenway trails have that privately owned land in the riparian corridors. So building and leveraging relationships with those land owners can really help u implement the plan in the future. Um and then number five, uh creating a plan for ongoing trail and sidewalk maintenance. So um setting up, uh a plan for maintenance at regular intervals for existing trails and sidewalks as well as future ones. So we put together a highle unit cost estimate for each of these

facility types to kind of give you guys a baseline um for future future improvements. This is this is kind of a ball a cart you know uh as needed you can use these numbers to kind of generate high level cost opinions for potential improvements. Uh we did look at specifically priority number one and number two the complete street conversion and that shared use path u and developed uh cost estimates for those two priorities specifically not just the unit cost. Okay. Uh with the plan also we developed a complete street policy. Um so just as a reminder a complete street uh combines a lot of these facility types into one corridor. So sidewalks, bike lanes, uh vehicular traffic as well as planting green space. Um, so with the with the policy or this is an example here on on 19th Street of the complete street that you guys have in uh in your community already and this uh we shared images with this with the community and it was it was very wellreceived and they were excited and hopeful to see more of this in the future. Um, so with the policy, we it really it's it's it's the goal. It's what we we're talking about. We to create a a multimodal corridor for vehicle vehicles, freight, pedestrians, cyclists, all in the same corridor and make it safe and comfortable for all of those users. Um, it's emphasized on those major and minor collectors. We recognize that that Carney is a small town and not every street in Carney should be a complete street or needs to be a complete street. So the policy is designed to create flexibility for the city um to implement complete streets again on primarily on those major and minor collectors. Um but it is intended

to to have some flexibility. So that something need if there's an infrastructure failure that needs to be hack needs to be solved quickly. Um there's flexibility to to do that as well. Um and goal number three I'll uh is the sidewalk inventory. Um so we developed a GIS uh layer that highlights all of the sidewalks in town. So, we used uh up as most up-to-date aerial photography, existing GIS information as well as on-site um observation and developed this sidewalk inventory for the city to help identify those those gaps and kind of set the the starting point for improvements moving forward. It's kind of hard to see on the the screen, but you can see if you look at the downtown, it's it's highly segmented where those sidewalks are at. And some of the older neighborhoods, there's maybe no sidewalks at all. Um, so really you using this as a a starting point for those potential improvements we move forward was really really important. So with that, thank you guys. I appreciate your time. U question. I do want to make one correction on the map you showed where the vacant lots are. Those are not all city-owned properties, but they are um available land that is not undeveloped in the downtown core that could serve as like those community spaces in the future. And then also one advantage of a PSP is a very high level um planning study that um a lot of communities use um as kind of a storage point and you could build off of any project that has been identified which we did a citywide connectivity instead of just one corridor. So anything identified in this plan could be used in the future for grant purposes down at Mark.

Great. Y I don't necessarily have a question, but I I do want to not to echo what what Shelley opened up with, but this truly is an exciting time for the city of Carney. Long time coming. I I know it's been a lot of work getting to this point and and we have a lot more work to do and and and to to implement policy and and get working here. Um, but I sincerely appreciate all of staff's time, all of our consultants time, and uh it's it's going to be a an amazing uh improvement for our community. Um, does anybody on the board have any questions on the report or anything that

Yeah, it's exciting. Not connecting the south to north for decades. Yeah. So, it's nice to finally see starting that way. So, well, let's just uh Shel's amazing at writing grants, so let's continue to see what matching dollars are are available out there. No pressure. No pressure. No pressure. Thank you guys kindly for all your work and for being here. I did want to mention our next step is to come to the next board meeting and introduce a resolution for adoption of the um connected caring plan.

Great. Great. Next under items, and you all are more than welcome to stay, but I'm sure you have families and and life and everything else. Now is a okay time to excuse yourself uh if you'd like to do so this evening. All right. Thank you again for being here. Thank you. Thanks, Next item this evening is our quarterly operation results.

So, I'd like to start off tonight. Um we're going to go over our fourth quarter operation results, which means that we completed um fiscal year 2026 and we accomplished a lot of incredible things this year. And I think Ryan is going to try to make it up here. And if David, you make it big like then the board can see it. Also, I could just go to the PowerPoint.

Um, okay. But then I can't tell if D if Ryan is on the right slide. But okay. It looks like Ryan gave up on us. At least try and screen share. Okay, perfect. There we go. And then just make that really big. Uh David, perfect.

There we go. Okay. So, um, every department in fiscal year 26 focused on basic services, infrastructure, housing, commercial and retail, and quality of life, which laid the foundation to continue Carney's vision of creating a thriving, sustainable, and desirable community. And so, our let's start with some of our big wins. Um, we invested more than $1 million in new equipment and vehicles across police, parks, streets, water, and sewer to provide um employees with the tools they need to do their jobs safely and effectively. We upgraded our phone system. We signed agreements for more than $6 million in grants and donations, bringing outside funding into Carne and reducing the burden on local resources. We entered into an agreement with Boone County for K9 maintenance training to increase efficiency and responsiveness. We created a new petition process for residents who would like parking restrictions added to their street. We entered into a cooperative agreement with the Klay County Sheriff's Office spee tactics and response team. The park department brought back movies in the park with food and flicks Fridays. We completed a comprehensive water and sewer rate study addressing rising operating costs and aging infrastructure headon and putting a sustainable plan in place for the future. and we led a successful public education effort on wastewater financing, helping the community save more than $30 million over the next 30 years. Next slide. Yes. Um, we also delivered on major capital improvements to our water system. The 1 milliongalon water tower was placed into operation. We replaced the filter media at our treatment plant and a clay valve automatic control valve was installed in the KC Mo meter pit. To our wastewater system, we lined 4,453 ft of sewer interceptor and replaced manholes. To our transportation system,

we made progress on the use tax pathways, sidewalk connections, and crossings that were promised to voters. We added three connections at Stone Lake, Stone Crest, and North Grove Street. And we also added two rapid flashing beacons at the Metobrook Drive Fishing River Trail Crossing. We also resurfaced 4.4 miles of streets and replaced the South Brook Drive storm coververt inhouse, saving more than $50,000, and also um replaced 2,72 feet of sidewalk. and to our park system. We completed the design and architecture for Hall Park. We replaced the bathroom doors at Mac Porter Park. And we improved the splash pad decllorination system at Lions Park. And then we also did code updates um allowing backyard chickens, micro breweries, downtown sidewalk displays, waiverss of late and disconnection fees for water and sewer customers, short-term rentals, and we updated the zoning violation section of the city's code, all to better serve residents and increase operational efficiency. Next slide. We started work on an integrated management plan for our water, wastewater, and storm water assets. Began working on facility plan, a facility plan for our wastewater system. Finished the 19th Street complete street project design. Prepared a plan to help connect Carney and revitalize downtown and to make safety and operational improvements at the 162nd Street and Nation Road intersection. And we designed improvements to our water system with the Nation Road waterline extension and Carne Westside CI waterline capacity upgrade and looping project and the MAC Porter Park connector trail. We also were able to partner with MDOT to get the Lions Park State Route 33 pedestrian crossing under contract and we began

designing the Regency Drive, Route 92, and North Jefferson Street pathways sidewalk connections. And we're ready to complete the Lions Park rip wrap improvement. Next slide. Yep. And we continued raising the bar on transparency and accountability, adding reporting requirements to our agreements with Cardi Enrichment Council, adopting a comprehensive fee schedule, approving a rights of way use agreement with Bluebird Network LLC, partnering with ASAR for franchise and sales tax recovery, reviewing and making a determination about the progress of the shops at Carney TIFF project, and launching the Carney current newsletter. All of these things have enhanced how we serve residents. And this year, we also doubled down on our team. We rolled out a new in-house training program for the annual review process and culture amp. And the executive leadership team began developing a capacity and sequencing tool to improve planning and visibility and to help reduce reactivity citywide. Next slide. We issued 281 permits this year, 234 residential and 47 commercial with a total investment of more than $28 million, including 47 single family homes and three new commercial buildings. We approved six K353 redevelopment area projects, two EEZ projects, and three new businesses in the shops at Carney Tiff area. We got a lot done. Yeah, it's quite incredible um every quarter to to look back at at these reports, let alone we look back at kind of the Q4 last year. Uh my sincere thanks to every one of our team members. Uh every every team member has has played a part in a phenomenal year for the city

and uh I appreciate everybody's work. It's really incredible, you know, when we're here working every day and you you don't realize how much we're getting done and the dozens of contracts staff's working on until you really sit back and and look at all the progress. So, once again, thank you to staff, the boots on the ground, uh, getting things done and, uh, I appreciate that report. Any questions from the board or ch I'm sorry. Do you want to hear their quarter? just their fourth quarter or is that good?

Yeah, I'm sorry. I So I I didn't know since you I didn't know if we were doing individual like we normally do. Um that kind of kept everything. So I I didn't know if that was a report, but most definitely if we have individual uh department reports, I would love to hear them. Sorry. Was very confusing. We thought we were getting off. We can skip it if you want. Usually it's just departmentalized. So yeah, I I apologize. Whoever is next, I I am next. And Sheila did a great job recapping citywide. So you might hear a couple of things um that are repetitive, but um here we go.

So um city hall uh the slide here is um city hall, which is composed of comprised of administration, HR, communications, economic development, finance, and IT. continue to support daily operations while advancing your priorities. This slide includes our key metrics which tend to fairly to stay fairly consistent quarter to quarter due to the nature of our work. Um I'm not going to read those statistics to you. I'll just let you review those while I continue with this update. From a financial standpoint, we closed city hall's budget closed uh Q4 at 65.3% of budgeted operating expenses and that is primarily due to the timing of the Davis uh lawsuit settlement that shifted into fiscal year 27. In Q4, we made strong progress in operations and efficiency. We closed out fiscal year 26, began audit preparation, and completed key IT upgrades to improve system security and reliability. We also advanced several policy and planning efforts aligned with your priorities, including adoption of the fiscal year 27 budget, the water rate study, and a consolidated fee schedule to improve transparency and ease of use. Internal improvements included updates to employee benefits and operational processes. On the community side, we continued preparations for the Fleets and Beats World Cup watch party on June 19th at Jesse James Park. Um, as Sheila stated, launched the Carne Current newsletter. Um, expanded our communications reach and successfully led a public information campaign to educate residents on wastewater infrastructure financing. In terms of economic development, the in Q4, the board approved two development projects, Hoffman Custom Homes and Innovation Business Park and a new single family home within the K353

redevelopment area. Looking ahead to Q1, city hall staff is focused on implementing your fiscal year 27 priorities, including completing audit fieldwork, advancing key infrastructure financing, finalizing the development guide book, and continuing improvements in technology communication, and community engagement initiatives such as the National Community Survey. So, that's a wrap for for City Hall Park.

Thank you. The next section is municipal court and municipal court is has one full-time employee, Shannon Smith, and then Jeremiah Gourney um assists on court night. So, we did have an intern this past year um through Carney's High School. So, um they finished actually wrapped up a couple weeks ago, but was a great help and hopefully a great experience for them. Um Don't see budget to actual on this slide. Um three,

sorry, they were under budget. I just can't tell you the percentage off the top of my head. Um primarily due to uh they were lower in overtime than was budgeted and also office supplies. Um and their biggest accomplishment I feel like um over the year was they reduced our old case load um uh transferring cases from our old system in code to our new system. They reduced it by over 300 cases. So that was a significant um ground gain in that area. Um, they do have uh plans to hopefully, Shannon said, finish by the end of this year clearing all of those old cases out. Um, I think she said they had 800 more to do, but she's very hopeful. Um, they've dismissed 400 in some cases related to officers who no longer work here. Um, things that they can't really hear um anymore. So some of those cases are are dismissed but they are really trying hard to get rid of the old cases and get them out of get out of the encode system and clear to show courts. Um they did instill a Spanishspeaking court session quarterly. So that is a new thing that will be happening going forward and I it was very wellreceived the first time that they held court. And then they've also been working on um court sessions or how they're going to handle violations during the World Cup because obviously many out oftowners, many foreigners, what happens if somebody gets in trouble? A lot of the municip municipal court administrators in the area have been meeting to discuss how that's going to be handled. I know

Mark's been involved as well. So, um, that is another thing that's been high priority for them. I think that's all to really report. Thank you.

David David Pavish for community development. So, uh, last the past last quarter of last year, we issued 70 building permits or 11.2 million of investment, which is quite a bit more than the previous year, 33 permits and $4 million of investment. So, quite an increase. Much of that change was from new single family building permits that covered $ 8.3 million of investment that quarter. Uh we issued 10 permits over the same period last year. So there's quite a change from from last year this year. U new commercial activity included building addition at Mr. Dell's and a new cell tower down on Jesse James Farm down by the Fishing River. So they'll increase cell service on the south side of the city. They also performed 335 inspections which is less which is about 8% less than last year. And I think that's maybe some oh some layover of the building the house building permits. So because we had fewer houses back then over the year you you might takes a little bit to catch up on the permits. Um we responded to 129 code compliance issues which was a third more than last year. primarily unlicensed vehicles and parking in the yard. It was kind of the winter months and early spring. We'll see more of the weeds and things like that this coming summer. We did make changes to our approach and code compliance went up a little bit to 74% compliance and we issued just a few a little bit fewer citations than we did last year. We issued 165 dog licenses which was the same as the year before but we picked up fewer dogs. We picked up seven dogs in the quarter and compared to 16 last year. The four submitts processed through planning and zoning commission which includes site plans for Chipotle and Hoffman custom homes. Both of those projects are under construction. Our operating expenses were 8% of that budgeted. We went high on engineering plan reviews. We had a lot of things

that we reviewed with engineers, but we had a lot of uh other line items that were below budget. So, it evened out. Our accomplishments the last quarter included construction starting for several of our commercial projects that we were kind of waiting on, including the AutoZone, Chipotle, off of Custom Homes. Um, we did some website updates for the short-term rentals. Uh, got information out to those owners and resulted in a couple of short-term rental permits that we issued. Um, I was hopeful maybe we would see a few more before the World Cup, but we haven't seen it yet. Um and then uh we adopted a dog named Woody at the beginning of the year also. We say it's our first dog, but I think maybe we adopted one or two in previous years, but kind of think something. Uh goals for the next quarter include the code amendment related to building materials and facade improvements for commercial industrial uh development. Seeking grant funding for uh dog kennel improvements, simplifying the permitting process with updated application forms and some online forms and pre-approved plans and then collaboration on a developer guide to help uh with process.

Thank you. Good evening, mayor and board. Um, as you can see on our slide, if you take a look at it, we were really busy in uh Q4. During this time frame, we were short staffed due to an officer being assigned to an administrative duties, which caused an increase in overtime pay and a decrease in contacts. Comparing this year to last year's statistics, our traffic stops rose from 1,051 to 1,347 and our crashes decreased from 21 to 13. Our detective case load increased from 55 to 89, which is a huge increase for two detectives. Um, that's a lot more work, which spawns from a lot more police work on the road. A lot of times that's where it comes from. Um, we also increased our community community relations contacts from 19 to 24. I'm really proud of that. We worked with the Carne High School to have an intern at the Carne Police Department this quarter. Uh, senior Macy Walke was a huge asset for us and worked really hard. Uh, a couple notable events, uh, Sergeant Leech along with the Carne Fire Protection District did a free CPR training for high school students. Uh the train prepared students for potential to save someone's life someday. Pretty wellreceived. Uh KPD criminal investigator uh investigations detectives worked a long case involving a child sexual exploit material uh person. And after months of investigating and working with other state agencies, including the state's prosecuting attorney's office, detectives secured $100,000 cash bond for a 26-year-old Carney resident on two counts of felony possession of child pornography. A Charnie Carney police officers arrested a 40-year-old female for domestic assault after she attacked her partner with an ice pick. Uh she was taken to the Klay County Jail on a $75,000 cash bond. Carney Police

Department and the car city of Carney received the Blue Shield Community Award by the Missouri Department of Public Safety. This award was worked on by both city hall employees and police department employees together. This blue shield designation will now allow us as a city to apply for more grants to help booster our public safety efforts and programs. Our Facebook page now has over 22,500 followers. Our most followed video was our fundraising effort by our officers who participated in a Nerf war with the area youth and it received over three million hits. I actually got phone calls from agencies in Maine and Montana asking how we did this because they want to do it as well. It was a really cool effort that our guys kind of dreamed up and and they did it and it was pretty cool a great great community effort. I don't think anybody was injured. It was all Nerf related. So, um, our budget actual was 91.9%.

Thank you, Chief.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh this past quarter, we put in place our scheduling for the new fiscal year with summer health planning and preparation, new and renewal of spring and summer contracts such as food trucks, Santa Theater events, our fireworks contract, and other park reservation agreements. Our spring signups take place in quarter 4 for the start of our soccer, baseball, softball, t-ball, and pickle ball leagues. As you can see, many of the metrics are shown on on the screen, but I wanted to highlight our budget to actual was 92.2 at the end of the fourth quarter, fiscal year 26, um, which is almost identical, um, to fiscal year 25 at 92.9. Brian and I had 72 hours in the quarter 4 of training um, as we attended the NPR conference. Uh just looking ahead to this quarter, staff is preparing ball fields for practices and games which have already started. Uh we've already had about uh 5 days of rain outs, but we can't control mother nature. The dates for food and uh flicks, our movies in the park um is now set. And I'd like to mention Constantino's price chopper. Uh they sponsored $2,000 for the four movies this year. uh look for various food trucks at our city locations and all of our park properties. And new this year will be market in the park held in Lions Park. And I'd like to mention uh many other members of city staff all collaborated together to try and make this as good as we possibly can for our first year. Uh there'll be food and craft vendors and food trucks and this kicks off on First Street of Lions Park as we block that off. um will be held on Thursday, May 28th from 4 to 7. Um and then we'll also block First Street around the Pier Creek area.

Some of our capital items have arrived. New soccer goals have been installed for our spring leagues and the additional rip wrap will be installed in the creek at Lions Park. And we look forward to our new piece of equipment, our John Deere Gator arriving around June. Capital improvements to the rodeo arena. the demo derby and the barbecue parking areas of Jesse James Park have started. Um they're 2/3 complete. Um the only location to um get completed is the barbecue um parking lot where they hold the barbecue cookoff for Jesse James Festival. Um this work is being done by Plat Clay Electric and that was all funded through use tax. Our concert season has been announced and those four free concerts along with the dates can be found at carnetheater.com and Hall Park is now out for bid and this has been an extremely long process to get to this. We had our pre- bid meeting May 20 uh excuse me May 7th and the actual bid opening is set for Thursday afternoon May 28th and we're hope hoping for uh good bids. Just a reminder what Carolyn mentioned earlier, World Cup watch party will be held in Jesse James Park Friday, June 19th. Many staff members have also helped um get this project uh come to fruition and we're hoping for a great turnout. The concert featuring featuring bangers follows the actual uh soccer match that day. We asked uh people come out enjoy the event and bounce houses for the kids will be available. Uh soccer camp will take place prior to the actual match and many food trucks will be on site. This is a free event except naturally soccer camp and the food concession purchases and that event starts at 11:00. Thank you.

Exciting to hear about Hall Park. That has been a long time coming. you and me both. Look at all the improvements of the parks the last eightish years. So, it's amazing. It'll be nice when that that gets online. No doubt. All right. And I think you have the next report as well. Yes. Um Marco spent 26 hours uh cemetery cleanup mainly in March due to the extreme weather in February. We spent 14 hours uh tree trimming and removal of dead and dying trees.

22 grave sites were marked for burial or stone placement. They had 26 grave sites sold.

Um Marcos made 52 trips to the cemetery and budget to actual was 74.6%. Um, looking ahead, our rule sign uh was installed this quarter and looking forward to the beginning of the implementation of many of these new uh rules and regulations that you guys all approve. And we plan to remove the corner entrance posts uh this quarter and we will also be placing headway stations as we're seeing uh that was asked and it's needed if you know what I mean. So, thank you.

Public works. So, the public works department continued to advance key infrastructure and planning initiatives during the fourth quarter. Operational accomplishments include the delivery or removal of 64 solid waste containers and the mapping of 4,485 GIS data points resulting in more than 14,000 GIS views. The department also issued six rightaway permits and managed 17 active contracts, including two active construction projects. Major projects currently underway or nearing construction include the I35 water tower project, the 2026 park pipes replacement project, the Nation Road water line extension project, the Carney Westside CD improvement district waterline extension project, the Clark Street waterline replacement project, and the 2026 street maintenance project. Looking ahead to next quarter, priorities include the adoption of the connected carne plan, the completion of the I35 water line or water tower project, and the start of our resurfacing project, the bidding of several major waterline projects, moving into the rightway acquisition phase for the 19th complete street project, the submission of a mark grant for the proposed Nation Road complete street project and the adoption of two MS4 ordinances to strengthen storm water compliance and environmental stewardship.

Next slide, please. The water department. During fourth quarter, the water department operated the treatment plant for 1326 hours and conducted 7,867 treatment tests along with 74 distribution system tests to ensure water quality and regulatory compliance. The department treated 54,000 gallons of raw water during this quarter compared to 55 million gallons during the same period last year. Additionally, 21 million gallons of water were purchased from Kansas City, Missouri. Routine maintenance activities include operating 82 valves, flushing 41 fire hydrants, replacing 21 meters, and installing 14 new meters for development projects. Staff also responded to 560 utility locate requests, a decrease from the previous year due to the reduced fiber installation activity. The department concluded the fiscal year at 85% budget to actual. Lower spending was highly attributed to carrying over funding for the security cameras, filter media replacement project, the roof replacement, and the for the heart street water line replacement project. Key accomplishments included the completion of the filter media project which re rehabilitated two of the plants four filters in improved treatment efficiency as well as installation of the upgraded security camera systems to enhance our facility safety. In addition, the new 1 milliongalon water tower became fully operational this quarter and is already improving the system reliability and or hydrant flushing capabilities.

Looking ahead, the department is currently rehabilitating well number one to address reduced performance and continues its annual spring flushing program to maintain fire protection readiness and evaluate system pressure and flow rates throughout the distribution network. Next, the wastewater department. During the fourth quarter, the wastewater department treated 76 million gallons of wastewater and produced 154 tons of sludge while operating at approximately 75% capacity due to the unusual dry weather conditions resulting in less inflow and infiltration, meaning treating less rainwater. Operationally, staff completed 69 lift station inspections this quarter and 308 inspections for the fiscal year compared to only 256 the previous year. The system experienced seven pump clocks during the year. This is largely attributed to non flushable wipes entering into our collection system. Staff continued to emphasize public education regarding proper disposal practices to help reduce equipment damage and prevent sewer backups. Additional system maintenance included 18 manhole inspections and 124 for the year along with 1,221 laboratory tests completed this quarter. The department finished this year at 88% budget to actual. The variance was primarily due to a lift station project that remains pending completion. A major comp accomplishment this quarter was the voter approval of the wastewater bond initiative allowing the department to move forward with a critical plant expansion and collection system

improvement project. Entering the first quarter of the fiscal year, crews have already completed the spring lift station and collection system cleaning activities and successfully brought the UV disinfection system back online. Looking ahead, HDR plans to finalize the facility plan and provide a update to the board of aldermen in June prior to the submission to DNR. Next training. Next. Oh, I'm sorry. Street department. Got you.

Crews completed 40 40 hours of street sweeping, 89 hours of roadway beautifification, two tons of asphalt patching, and 561 linear feet of sidewalk replacement. This reporting period, storm water maintenance efforts included 40 linear feet of storm pipes and staff responded three weather related events. Department utilized 69.8 of its annual budget. Lower spending was primarily due to the carryover funding for the heavy duty truck purchase that is still pending delivery as well as reserved funding for future replacement of the Raymond Hall Bridge. Additional variances resulted from reduced operation activities based on reduced staffing levels and unfavorable pavement conditions that didn't allow us to get as much cracking done. During 2026, our crew replaced 2,72 linear feet of sidewalk, representing a 46% increase over the previous year, and the department's continued emphasis on pedestrian infrastructure and public safety improvements. Looking ahead to quarter one, department focused on contracting an emergency pavement resurfacing project on Shanks Avenue for a severely deteriorated section of the roadway. Priority efforts will continue to include sidewalk replacements, routine mowing, pavement preparation ahead of our microsurfacing project, and a citywide cleanup effort in advance of the cleats and beats event. Are there any other departments you wish to speak for?

Just giving you ourselves.

Once again, thank you all for uh and all of your staff for your work and those amazing presentations. Uh I have no communications this evening. We'll move on to city administrator's report. Eric, do you want to talk about the splash pad opening? Sure. Um, this Friday, um, much anticipated from the public is the splash park opening. Um, we had a great working relationship with public works, specifically the water department, on getting that up and running. Um, and daily operation is 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. every day. So looking forward to that.

Excited to. It's all been tested. Bucket works. Good. Good for now. It's seal bearing, so we think it's going to be okay. Excited to drive by and hear all the kids screaming and laughing and hearing the bucket dumb. So, thank you, Eric. And then Sunday was going to

Mhm. Market of the Park opens Thursday, May 28th, 4 to 7:00 p.m., which is a week from this Thursday. As the icing on the cake, I'd like to announce as of last week, the final food truck sign up is nothing but cakes from the Liberty location. And I would like to invite everybody to come experience Market at the Park where community grows. I like that.

Awesome. And then I'd like to invite everyone to the Carne Chamber lunchon on June 3rd where the mayor will be giving the state of the city. Um if you would like to attend, let me know so I can sign you up. Um and that is at noon. And then also the National Community Survey right now it has went to selected people for the statistically valid portion of the survey. But next week on Memorial Day, May 25th, um the communitywide survey will open. So if you were not selected as one of the statistically valid um addresses, you still have a opportunity to get your have your voice heard and that will stay open until June 15th. And then of course our next meeting will be Monday, June 1st, um right here at 6:30 p.m. We'll

move on to alderman discussion. Alderman Spencer. I uh am thrilled to be back after 5 weeks gone and I will say that there is a lot of enthusiasm for FIFA all over. I saw advertising in Spain and Portugal and England. I even saw one ad um on a building in Edinburg, Scotland. So, let's hope that they show up. Great. Well, glad you guys had an amazing time and welcome back home and glad you made it home safely. Thank you. Five weeks. Alderman Leman.

I have nothing. Alderman Holt. Um, I just want to piggy back on Jerry's. Uh, my son came in from Portland for Mother's Day. The surprise by my wife. And uh they're making a big deal in Portland about FIFA and they're also making a big deal about Kansas City about uh cuz they are big Messi fans and Messi's going to make Kansas City. So Portland's given Kansas City a lot of kudos. So it's cool that other cities in our country is uh pointing to our our city as well. So um I think that's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Let's hope they show up. So that's all I really have. Alderman McKeen. I don't have anything. Great.

Well, we do have an executive session noticed up this evening uh per RSO621 subsection one for legal actions or litigation involving a public governmental body and any confidential or privileged communications between a public governmental body or its representatives and its attorneys at RSMO61021 subsection 12 to discuss matters pertaining to negotiated contracts. Our meeting will be adjourned from the close session. If we can consider a motion to enter into executive session. So move. I'll second that. Roll call vote, please. Alderman Leman. Hi. Alderman Hull. Hi. Alderwoman Spencer. Hi. Alderman King. Hi. Vote is unanimous. Everybody have a nice evening. Thank you.