City Council - Regular Meeting

All right. Did Ashley go back? Yes. All right. [clears throat] Ready to go. Looks like I forgot to shower again. All right. No one sits by me. Sherry, are you ready? Okay. Here we go. Regular meeting of Washington, Missouri City Council, Tuesday, July or January 20th, 2026, 7 p.m. Bear Briggs Coulter here. Hydridge here. Meer here. Pathky here. Pepsel here. Celich please rise for the pledge of allegiance.

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. Will all the council members answer if they have or have not read the minutes of the council meeting dated January 5th, 2026? Um, Coulter, yes. Hydrrip, I. Holmer, I. PKY, yes, ma'am. Psel, yes. Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Patky, second by Hydrrich to approve. All those in favor say I.

I. against and it's approved. Approval and adjustment of agenda including consent agenda. You have change order number three for the 2024 Earthrest extension bridge project VE. Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Patchy, second by Holtmire. Any comments or suggestions or other? All those in favor say I. I. Motion passes. Priority items, mayors, presentations, appointments, and reappoints, police department reappoint.

Oh, shocked me. Good evening, council. Um, so tonight up for reappointment, we have Officer Craig Smith. Um, within the past year, he's done an excellent job for us. He does bring with him a lot of experience. So, he's got I won't say how many years of experience, but a lot. Uh but he's done a great job um fitting in with the department and uh we're happy to have him. So So are we. Thanks for being here. I'll make a motion to approve. Second. Second. Motion by Pacti, second by Hydridge. All those in favor say I. I. It's approved. Welcome back. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. [applause] [snorts] Public hearing. Special use permit 4832 South Point Road.

All right. Uh good evening, council. Um before you uh we have a special use permit for a group home um just off South Point Road here as this this map um shows. Um and so uh the applicant is requesting to use um this home that you see uh down at the bottom uh that the the Google Street View there um as a group home. Um and they're looking to have um eight um uh residents and then two caretakers in the home. Uh Hanai House, they uh they have several um group homes within Washington already and um they're looking to operate this facility. Uh the reason why this is before you tonight is because um this this house is in uh a commercial zoning district. And um typically our our our zoning does not allow uh group or I should say this, our zoning does not allow group homes by right in commercial zoning. And so they uh need to apply for a special use permit. And uh staff thinks that you know since it is a single family home, it's just in commercial zoning that it's uh a good good location for it. Um and yeah, we have the the applicant here tonight to uh speak more about it. Um so I'll have have her come up to give her give her the spiel.

Good evening, council. My name is Tanya Henkins. I'm the executive director and founder of Tsunami House, which is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that operates here in Washington. Just pull that down a little. Okay, there you go.

And um as mentioned, we this will be our fifth. It's it's considered, I suppose, a group home, but it's really a recovery residence that's certified through the National Alliance of Recovery Residences and certified through the Department of Mental Health. We have a very intensive uh program. So, it's not just people coming and living there. Uh, we have groups at our outpatient facility at 602 East Fifth Street. We were in this room not too long ago last year because we opened up a recovery community center in the lower level of 602 East Fifth Street. So, there's a very intensive schedule, lots of requirements. We are really only looking to serve men and women who are serious about getting their lives in recovery back on track. And so they're on a strict probation the first 30 days um in which time we're able to kind of determine whether or not their actions align with their words if that makes any sense. So uh we want run a great program um as mentioned we we opened our women's house at 300 Burnside in um June of 2021 and then 130 East Fifth Street is a men's residence. This will be our third residence in Washington, but we also have two other women's recovery homes in Augusta.

Questions Karen? Okay. I will just state that in planning and zoning, it was discussed a little bit. Um she gave great detail. Um Erin, correct me if I'm wrong. We talked about having pending that the certification stays as part of the special use permit, right? I mean, we looked at different options as far as making sure it was going to stay the group home um and not just the property as a special use permit, but if they would keep their certification, then it would keep the home under the special use permit. Is that right?

That's that's correct. We discussed that they didn't uh PNZ didn't end up recommending that. I think Mark had some concerns about uh HIPPA violations and all that. I don't want to, you know, misquote him, but I I believe that that's why they kind of aired away, but we did discuss that. Yes. And and just so you know, we are uh the National Alliance of Recovery Residences, the certification is good for two years. We just did have them come through, so we'll be certified for the next two years. And we can't actually operate as a contracted recovery housing provider for the Department of Mental Health unless we keep our certification, and that's what we mentioned last time. So, it's kind of we we're going to do that anyway. Uh but we're also required to do that in order to receive some of the the funding that we received to operate the homes.

Okay. Thank you. Now, when you do your uh your accreditation, do you go through and audit? So, they come and inspect your facilities? Absolutely. Okay. Matter of fact, for when we got the 130 East Fifth Street occupancy, uh the NAR criteria was so much higher. And not that Washington, the city of Washington wasn't, but you know, they were like, "Wow." You know, they really make sure that every eye is dotted and tea is crossed and they're pretty strict [snorts] about their ethical standards and safety standards. So, we adhere to those very closely. I know them with very well. Excellent. It is very strict. We're very stringent.

And just so you all know, I was also at that planning zoning meeting just to listen in on this and there was only a few um neighbors from the church that had some questions and they were satisfied with with all their answers. So, other questions, guys? Thank you. Thank you. This is a special use permit and as [clears throat] such uh I welcome any input from members of the audience who would like to comment about the special use permit. Please approach the mic if you do. Okay. Thank you. So we need to accept into the minutes. To the minutes. Motion by Patky to accept in the minutes. Do I have a second?

Second. Second by Pepsil. Further discussion. All those in favor say I. I. [clears throat] Passes. An ordinance granting a special use permit at 4832 South Point Road in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. PY introduced by Py. Other other questions. Okay. Second reading. Sherry, please. An ordinance granting a special use permit at 4832 South Point Road in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. Holtmeer, I. Patky, yes. Pepsel, yes. Halter, yes. Hri,

I by your vote, ordinance 3B passes. Thank you, guys. Citizens comments. Uh, folks, this is the time of the evening when anybody in the audience would like to approach the mic and talk about whatever as long as it's not on the agenda. Okay, let's move on.

Report of department heads, Washington Parks and Recreation Charitable Foundation. Good evening, council. Um, we're finally at this night or whatever. This has been going on for quite some time. And u, I just like to go ahead and read the letter that's within your packet. Uh, for anybody listening at home and and um or anybody else that that wants more information on this. Mayor and Council, we are pleased to inform the city council of the formation of the Washington Parks Recreation Charitable Foundation as a result of a generous donation from one of our residents in 2024, which was in the amount of 100,000, and an additional $100,000 amount in 2025. We've been able to obligate funding for projects such as the recently approved trail connection uh project at a riverfront to include a reconstruction of the flag plaza. If you'll remember when we were going through the uh funding for that project, that was we highlighted that it was going to be a donation. That's where this comes from. Prior to 2026, the foundation received their certificate of incorporation from the Secretary of State's office shortly after the same resident donated a check in the amount of $1 million to the charitable foundation. The foundation will be available to assist the parks department in funding projects to add amenities to projects and assist in supplemental funding of large projects. The foundation is already looking forward to assisting the city in their efforts to dredge Lions Lake in the future to include fishing peers and other amenities yet to be designed. The Lions Lake project was listed as a potential project should the capital improvement sales tax be renewed in April of 2026. This one example, this is one example of how the foundation can help the budget of the parks department with funding future capital projects. The city would like to recognize Mark Tobin for his generous support of our parks department and the initial

donations of 200,000 and 1 million for the Washington Parks and Recreation Charitable Foundation. This is the largest donation to a foundation to help support one of our city departments. Officers and members of the foundation include the following. Darren Lamb, president, Mark Tobin, vice president, secretary treasurer Sher Clayamp, Doug Hegedorn, Lori Rice, and Jerome Sparky Shooken Schneider. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. At this point, I'd like to go ahead and introduce Mark and have him come up and state a few words. SO, [applause] [applause] BEFORE [applause] I begin my comments, I would just like to personally thank the mayor, city administrator, city officials, and you councilman for your willingness to serve the public and keep this city going. I've been in administrative positions myself. It's not always fun. And my sincere thanks to all of you. Good evening. It's an honor and privilege to address the honorable mayor Doug Hegodornne, city administrator Darren Lamb, and the illustrious city council to announce the formation of the Washington Parks and Recreation Charitable Foundation. This is a federally and state qualified 501c3 taxdeductible foundation. Its purpose is to assist in the funding the parks and recreation department. Its charter permits donors to give targeted donations as I have done or generalpurpose donations. My purpose in establishing this foundation was twofold. First, to make the Washington Parks and Recreation

Department the best of any comparably sized city in the state of Missouri, as well as one of the best in the entire United States. Second, to express my profound thanks and appreciation to this amazing town. Parks and Recreation has been a major incubator for community health, unity, and personal success. From my early years growing up on Hickory Street with a disciplined and loving father and a mother of profound faith, our entire family has benefited immensely. Three siblings have one or more doctoral and postdoctoral degrees with the other four all having one or more master's degrees. Supervised playground, the swimming pool, competitive sports, all contributed. Little league baseball, including the year myself and my two older brothers all pitched no hitters

to my game-winning home run off Dave Hoffman at [laughter] [applause]

Pay attention. [laughter] Amazing coaches including John Gadkkey, Jim Gardner, Wes Miller, my father, Omar Tobin, and most notably Dicky Kravitz. [laughter] Little League football with the Redskins under the amazing Paul Zelner as well as Bill Balkam and Buckshot Waldy all were important.

Wow. Little League football with both the Redskins and the Rams have assisted in the development of local superheroes including coaches and educators Dale Gilda, Jim Gart, Steve Rather, and Dave Nyer. As I now move into my later years, I take immense comfort in watching children and families using the new riverfront playground. Walking the improved trails at Miller Post Preserve are standing under the new pavilion built with a collaboration of the vocational school building trades class. I take great comfort in knowing that the flag pole plaza and the connecting trail will be finished properly. And finally, the proper completion of the Lion Lake restoration project to include dredging, bank stabilization, water quality improvement, and including enhanced fishing, hopefully including trout. In aggregate, I have donated $1.25 million and sincerely hope to do more in the future. In closing, I speak in to the families in our area of wealth. Specifically, I ask our attorneys, our bankers, our money managers, our business persons, and the numerous health care professionals as well as those of inherited wealth to please consider this foundation as one of your sources for charitable giving. Together, we can make the Washington Parks and Recreation Department the best of any comparable city in Missouri and one of the best in the entire United States. God bless the United States of America, the great state of Missouri, and Washington, the amazing town we call home. [applause]

[applause] [applause]

Thank you, sir. Folks, thank you. Thank you, sir. You're one of my buddies. I appreciate.

I'm gonna give these to Sher. She'll have them for the others here. Make sure that other There you go. Thank you, Mark. [applause] [snorts] Nice.

I think it goes without saying, your honor. Um I know it was a long time coming as Darren said and uh what a surprise to us. What a great contribution. And again, Mr. Tobin, thank you so much. And we hope that you're just the beginning of others. And uh I know everyone has that look on their face of wow. And we all say wow to you. Thank you very much. Amen. Gav, folks, we've been blessed. We have Gavin, would you like? Can he come up to the mic, young man?

Recently, another great friend of the Washimo Parks Department passed away, Dr. Bill Huber. And uh the memorials were uh uh uh there were several but one of them was the Washo Parks Department. Will those be some of the first additional donations to this foundation? Do we know? It can be uh you know we haven't really uh I don't know what the total amount of what we've received since the you know

I don't know if the memorial is just I don't know if you received that yet or not but I think it would I think it would be you know obviously Mark has placed the seed money but I think it'd be a a great addition and I I know Dr. Huber would certainly appreciate it. Yep. Right now we received $2,40 as as of last week. Okay, great. We will look into that. Hi, Evan. [snorts]

I got to say on a personal note, I'm uh Mark is my first cousin. Um [laughter] and uh to uh to have known Uncle Homer and his family is a real uh they were some some serious supporters of Washington, Missouri. Uh our families grew up together. I had brothers and sisters who were the same age as his brothers and sisters. So, uh, proud of this moment. I forgot to mention was my youngest sister Teresa and it was like eighth grade or whatever won the Washington free throw shooting contest against all the boys. [laughter]

That needs to go in the minutes for sure. [laughter] So, do you. That's great. You guys, we could talk about Washington's all night long. You know that. Golly. [clears throat] Cool. [snorts] Sherry, next one. Let's get get going here. 2025 building report.

Within your packets, you've got the uh building report that we do annually for you. Uh Blake and his office have put this together. Uh it's pretty self-explanatory. We, like I said, we do this uh annually. Um, and then you've got highlights of some of the construction on the last two pages. U, so if anybody has any questions, Blake's here. Otherwise, all you need to do is accept it into the minutes. Accept in the minute. Second. Motion by Pepsil, second by Hydridge to accept it into the minutes. All those in favor say I. I. Motion passes. Thank you.

Downtown Washington, Inc. annual report. Come on up, Becky. [laughter] [clears throat]

I can't beat that. There's nothing I can do to beat that. Do you want me to take the clicker or do you Good evening. Um, for those who don't know me, I am Becky Pate. I am the executive director of Downtown Washington, Inc. If you'll notice, I am not Tyler King. um I took over for him in September of last year. So this report is given to the city council annually of [cough] the statistics we track that happen in our downtown to measure the economic impact that our downtown has on our entire community of Washington. These are your statistics for 2025. So we had 10 businesses that opened last year and another two that moved into a new location. This is about what we saw the year before. With that being said, this the number does seem low, but a lot of that has to do with the fact that we have a very low vacancy rate. Um, next year we do have some spaces that are opening up and we have a couple of um people that have already been in contact about potentially moving to the the area or moving a business. Um, so I do think that next year we may see a couple of more a little bit higher of a number here. Um, with the new businesses that opened in 2025, we gained 24 net new employees to our district. This number is gathered by talking to the businesses as they come in and asking how many people they have on staff, full-time and part-time. So, um, two two part-times equals one full-time. So, about 24 net new jobs. Um, there was over $2 million privately invested back into the downtown area over the past year. This number includes commercial and business improvements as well as residential improvements. These numbers are pulled from permit reports each month. Um alongside the privately invested dollars, we do want to thank you all for the dedication to public improvements that the city of Washington does, including but not limited to sidewalk improvements, street repairs, as well as the new restrooms at the riverfront

park. As a mom and park goer, I really appreciate those new restrooms. So, [laughter] we appreciate what you guys do to make our downtown better. Um, we were able to attend quite a few trainings and webinars this past year, especially on historic preservation, which is a requirement for the Washington Historic Preservation Commission, and one of the requirements for the city of Washington remain a certified local government. So, we attended 10 different trainings this past year. We maintain an agreement with our board of directors that they must attend at least one training per year to remain on our board. And we're very strict about that. um that shows their commitment to downtown and to the city of Washington that they serve. Um we were able to continue to award grants this year. Um we offer $5,000 each year to our business members to tap into um to collaborate on events together. Um this helps pay for their advertising and materials and this helps them put on more successful events. We also offer $5,000 in sign and awning grants to update any signage or new awnings needed for their buildings for new signs, new events, and a new sculpture downtown. We saw new signs, new events, and a new sculpture downtown because of these programs. Um, we also ha had the downtown art program, the sculpture down at the riverfront park as part of that. For 2026, we are already working on a new mural and we've already got grant requests coming in for signs and um events. We held 21 days of community events this year. Um, annual art fair and wine fest, barbecue and bluesfest, fall festival, and Christmas parade among all of the other events that we always do. We saw record crowds at most of our events this year. The total event days we held downtown this year was 21. Um, so, oh, to give an idea on crowds, we had close to 28,000 people at our barbecue and bluesfest, 26,000 for our art fair and wine fest, and about 31,000 for our fall festival of arts and crafts. Um, this is weekend totals. And our holiday parade of lights saw over

8,000 people in the parade zone. We use place AI for these statistics, which is based on cell phone data, people that have the location services on. you do have to go up about 20% if you're looking at kids and people who don't have location services on. Um, and two [clears throat] in 2025 we had 79,000 website visits which was a 68% increase from 2024. So that's a huge increase. Um, we've really worked to include our link on all of our social media posts. We've really tried to drive people to our website so they can see that list of investors. They can see what Washington has to offer. it can direct them to the other websites that they need to go to. So, if you're coming to town and you want to know what's good to eat and you go to that taste section, you can find all of those websites. Um, let's see here. Uh, we started sharing what our advertising effects had on there. Um, so social media followers, we have over 30,000 total social media followers. That's a 13.9% increase across all platforms from last year. So once again pushing that, working with the school district of Washington to run our Instagram and our Tik Tok, those things that we're all too old to run um that they're much better at than we are, but using that to increase our followers. Um our streaming services is another thing that we were able to um to grow. So we ran ads in eight different counties surrounding our area. We ran um commercials on 34 different networks and we had, as you can see, 94. Nope, that's not right. [laughter] But we our impressions on streaming services there grew in those counties. Let's see, that number is not right. Sorry. Gift certificates. This is my favorite statistic. Um, with our gift certificate program, we were able to stay at about $68,000 in gift certificate sales, which is about what it's been the last three years. But I think the really impressive thing about

this number is that when we lost our contrasted postal unit in March, we were still able to keep up with that number and grow but a couple extra hundred. So while people are not coming in to ship packages and buy stamps, people are still coming in to buy those gift cards. Um I would like to see that number grow to 70,000 this year. So I hope next year when I'm up here talking to you, I get to say 70,000. Um so we're going to continue to push that. I'd also like to do a PSA. In case you guys don't know, we're not a post office anymore. [laughter] We have gone a total of one full day without somebody thinking we are a post office. I have promised the staff if we make it two full days without thinking that we people coming in and asking for postal services that I will give them lunch. So, if you could tell three people, you know, that we're not a post office anymore or if you guys just want to come see us. We can't ship your package, but we'll talk to you. So, but we are no longer a postal service, unfortunately. Um this is another really impressive statistic. Every year I know that we are able to get these big numbers, but our organization is based solely on volunteers as you can see. Um most of them are here. If you guys would raise your hand if you're a part of downtown Washington, Inc. Um so we had over 8,000 hours of volunteer work this past year. If you do the math on our total volunteer hours for the year, it would equate to about 12 months of continuous volunteerism around the clock for our organization, which is incredibly impressive. Um, so last week, we truly appreciate the support that you guys give to us as a former and I won't say recovering municipal government employee.

Um, it is truly inspirational to see how you guys support your community and your residents and how you guys support what we are doing here. Um, like I said, I've worked for municipal government and I've never seen this type of support. From the day I started, you guys have been there to help answer my questions or, you know, Aaron and Aaron like what am I doing here, guys? You know, so you guys have been really great. Um, and we are so blessed to have you guys on our team. So, um, I do want to really quickly introduce the people that we have here from downtown Washington, Inc. So, we have Brett Hog, Robbie Boss, Holly Wonderlick, Maggie Hayy, Russ, Elizabeth and Natalie Cash. So, um, they are truly the backbone of what we do and we really appreciate all of your support. Thank you so much.

Thank you, BECKY. [applause]

Any questions of Becky? Thank you volunteers. I don't see how you guys do it and find time to do all the stuff you do. It's It's incredible. Thank you. Do we need uh to approve a contract? That's next. No, you just need to approve the report. Approve the report. Okay. So moved. Second. Motion by PKY, second by Hydrates to approve the report. All those in favor say I. I. Motion passes.

Ordinances and resolutions. An ordinance authorizing and directing the execution of a contract by and between the city of Washington, Missouri and downtown Washington, Inc. Hulkmar produced by Hulkmar.

You have the letter within your packet. We did want to go ahead and point out that over the last couple years, the city has worked to increase that dollar amount that we have for the contract uh from 35,000. The goal was to get to 50,000. I believe this is the first year that we're at 50,000. So last year we we upped it to 425. So uh now we're at 50,000. [clears throat] So that's what we have within the budget. That's within the contract. As long as Becky gets the 70,000 in gift card sales, we'll [laughter] I think he's I think that's a that's fine. Put him down for two. [laughter]

I think he's saying he might give more next year or propose to give more. If you I think he still has [laughter] Thanks, Robbie. Throw you on the bus. Where we at? Did it get introduced? Joe introduced it. Yes. So discussion. Any more discussion, guys? Second reading. An ordinance authorizing directing the execution of a contract by and between the city of Washington, Missouri, and downtown Washington, Inc. PMer I. Pacy, yes. Pepsil, yes. Coulter, yes. Hydridge, I.

By your vote, ordinance 7A passes. Yay. Congrats again, gang. An ordinance amending the 2025 budget for the period of October 1st, 2024 through September 30th, 2025 for the city of Washington, Missouri. Holmar, go ahead Tammy.

Good evening. Um, included in your packet is my budget amendment for the fiscal year 2025. Um, and this was just to adjust revenues, mainly revenues, um, and expenditures that were either higher or lower than anticipated, and to correct items for the audit. Um, as you'll notice, a lot of these budgets, we actually had more revenues than uh the prior years, and of course, that's conservative budgeting. That's just what I do. Um so the interest rates we it was uh higher than anticipated and we had some sale of capital assets that um were some unexpected increases in revenues and um then there were um adjustments because of the timing of the capital projects. Some of them we didn't get all the way done. Some of them we got done more than the prior year so or excuse me than what we thought we were going to get. So that's what's included in these budget amendments for the fiscal year 25. Does anybody have any questions?

Thank you, Tammy. Thank you. Thanks. Any discussion? Further questions, guys? Okay. Second reading. An ordinance amending the 2025 budget for the period of October 1, 2024 through September 30th, 2025 for the city of Washington, Missouri. Holm. I. PY. Yes. Pepsel. I Coulter. Yes. Hydridge. I. By your vote, Ordinance 7B passes. C, please.

An ordinance authorizing and directing the execution of a CMAT congested mitigation air quality supplemental agreement by between the city of Washington, Missouri, and the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the Highway 100 International Avenue intersection improvement project CMAC 6400628. Padkkey by Padkkey.

Good evening, council. Um, as you can see up there is our uh current scope for uh what we call the Rabbit Trail uh Highway 100 CMAC project. Um, so it's adding a dedicated right turn lane there going eastbound onto 100 or going westbound, sorry. Um, we've been talking with MDOT for some time here about the need for um increasing that radius on the northeast corner, so westbound to northbound international. um they completely agree and have been trying to work on how they can get us funding to include that as part of our project. They finally were able to get 236,000 which um should cover 100% of the design, construction, and inspection of including that additional uh scope to our project. So, this is an agreement with them to get that added to to the project and get that taken care of as well.

So, it's not an additional lane, just additional space. Yep. just widening out that turn radius so that big trucks can make that that right turn. It'll also help with um left left turns onto International as well. Kind of give them a little extra space there. Um so definitely need we've seen lots of trucks run over the the curb and sidewalk um that MDOT just put in a couple years ago there. So, and you said the magic word 100% funded. So they seen it as a need that we looked into and approved that. Y that's awesome. They've worked with us on this. This is like the second set of changes I think that we've had. Yes.

Because remember this was a much bigger project. Uh this was going to deal with with the rabbit trail on the south end, but since we couldn't come to terms with property owners on that side of it and not make everybody happy, uh we reduced it back to to what you see what Charles has got on the other [clears throat] end right here. We're really glad to see this though. Feel like this is a much more complete uh project here on the north side. So, and you're right, you're missing more stuff than I thought. But I thought that right-hand turn lane going westbound on 100 would have taken out a lot more stuff. Yeah, not not too bad. So definitely relocating the signal. Still a lot of work there, but yeah. When's construction? We're hoping to have the design finished by the end of March. Nice.

Wow. Get mode out will go out to bid. So hopefully late summer, fall, wrap this up. Be awesome. Still this year. It's way overdue. 16 years ago now. I've gotten on the council just about in April and I proposed this shortly after I got on and it went nowhere. So, some time. It's been needed for a while. Are you saying Charles is doing better than the previous or you saying just had it takes [laughter] a while? John is the one who got the grant. Other questions for as a whole, Jeff? As a whole?

Yeah. Again, Charles, thank you. And I know we talked about that right turn lane and the extra space. I mean, and again, I you say the magic words when you present it to MDOT and they come back and say yes and fund it, it's just like you have to ask those questions sometimes and that's what exact instance where that's what you just have to do. So, thank you for looking into that. Thank you for doing it. And again, it doesn't fix Mark's request from 16 years ago to the south, but this is definitely an improvement there that we need and limited funds for the city. So, again, thank you.

Yeah. Yeah, I I requested both sides at that time because that was actually part of W 2 when I first uh when I first got on on [clears throat] the north side. Yep. [snorts] Now we just need to get MOD out to fix all the on rabbit trail on the south side there. Yeah, there's there's some some of the rightway that they have there is in need repair. Yeah. Right. We have their first meeting with Jordan here in a couple weeks. So, [snorts] keep working. Other questions or discussion, guys? Second reading. Sherry. Thanks, Charles.

An ordinance authorizing and directing the execution of a CMAC congestion mitigation air quality supplemental agreement by between the city of Washington, Missouri and the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the Highway 100 International Avenue intersection improvement project CMAC 6400628. Holtmire. Hi. PY. Yes. Pepsi, yes. Coulter, yes. Hydridge, I. By your vote, ordinance 7 C passes. D an ordinance amending the 2026 budget of the city of Washington, Missouri. So, that's just a budget amendment for Patky. Thank you. Sorry.

Uh budget amendment for that 236,000. Um but like I said, it should it will be 100% reimbured through mod. No questions or discussion. Second read. Ordinance amending the 2026 budget of the city of Washington, Missouri. Meer I. Kathy, yes. Pepsel, yes. Halter. Yep. Hydridge. I. Vote. Ordinance 7D passes. E, please. An ordinance authorizing directing the execution of an agreement with HDR Engineering, Inc. for engineering design services for the high street and highway 100 intersection improvements project CMAC 6400-633

Patki introduced by Patky. So this is an agreement for our highway 100 and high street CMAC project um to have HR do design and construction inspection. Uh total for that is a little over 605,000 um which is completely covered by the grant. Um, so that's an 8020 split. So we'll pay 20% of that. When is that going to be constructed? [clears throat] Uh, that one would be fiscal year 28. So 2029 you here before you know. Oh yeah, I know.

Other questions or discussion? Second reading. An ordinance authorizing and directing the execution of an agreement with HDR Engineering, Inc. for engineering design services for the High Street and Highway 100 intersection improvements project CMAC 6400 633. Hmire I. PY, yes. Pepsil, yes. Coulter, yes.

I your vote ordinance 7E passes F, please. an ordinance repealing ordinance number 22-13616 and enacting lie thereof an ordinance authorizing and directing the execution of a supplemental agreement with HDR Engineering Inc. for construction engineering services for the high street reconstruction and ADA improvements project STPG6400630

Coulter introduced by Coulter. So, if you remember, two years ago, we um actually returned the construction fund and construction inspection fund portion of the high street project that we originally got awarded from East West Gateway. We returned them and then reapplied for new construction funds to kind of help with inflationary costs. Um we were awarded the new grant. Um so, there's a new STP uh federal number with that. So, basically, this is just we'd already entered into the contract with HDR under the old um federal number, project number. So this is just switching it over to the new number for construction inspection with them. So just cleaning up some paperwork so MDOT can get this project moving. So we are um looking for MODOT approval and then we'll go out to bid hopefully end of February March for this project. Any questions?

Second read. An ordinance repealing ordinance number 22-13616 and enacting L thereof. An ordinance authorizing and directing the execution of a supplemental agreement with HDR Engineering Inc. for construction engineering services for the high street reconstruction and ADA improvements project STBG 6400630. Holm. I Paky. Yes. Pepsel. Yes. Halter. Yes. Hydridge. I. By your vote. Ordinance 7F passes. G. Please.

A resolution authorizing the city of Washington, Missouri to apply for funding through the East West Gateway Council of Governments to provide for the Highway 47 four-lane widening project in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. It's a resolution.

It's a resolution. You don't need it. Um so this we we were awarded the 50-50 grant with MODOP for the highway 47 widening project. This is the next phase um applying through east west gateway for STP. Um so 8020 split of that. Um it is showing the city match would be almost 1.4 million. Um but that number is actually doesn't account for the split that we have with the county. So that number will be split 5050 with the county. So our portion will be uh just under 700,000. So, we are anticipating hopefully that we will be the only STP application uh on from Franklin County that would assure us the funding. Um we will double check that uh and probably triple check that one more time. So, um but uh hopefully I think the the applications are due February 6th.

Yes. So, shortly after that we'll find out. Motion to approve the resolution. Second. Motion by PKY, second by Holtmire to approve the resolution. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Commission, committee, and board reports. Preliminary plat approval. Scholes industrial plat 5.

Good evening, council members. So items 8A, 8B, 8 C and 8 D are all related to the proposed FIK uh quality meetats expansion project. So you have uh the subdivision plat 5 which is related to uh the property that is located next to the MK distributing. Uh what Frank's plans to do is purchase this uh 1.04 04 acre lot uh which will be newly reconstructed into the uh newly designed storm water detention basin because you will see on the subdivision plat for six uh Fights is planning to purchase 1.87 acres of the storm water detention basin that is currently adjacent to their property now. So that 1.4 four acres and the property that is left over and not used uh or not purchased by uh Fry Quality Meets will be part of the newly red redesigned storm water detention basin. So, um, the 353 Redevelopment Corporation has put in their agreement, uh, that the storm water detention basin has to abide by the same storm water regulations, uh, and laws that are currently in place and have, uh, hold the same storm water capacity and have the same storm water runoff. So um just to note the plat 6 was unanimously approved uh by the 353 redevelopment corporation and the Washington planning and zoning and plat 5 was unanimously approved uh last week by planning and zoning. So any questions?

I will just point out for them uh Erin lot three which is the fright lot there is a a narrow strip that you see that runs parallel with Emmy Frank Drive down to the intersection with Bluff Road. The purpose of that is uh Fri's intend to put a a sign up at that intersection and that was the way that they could go ahead and keep that on their lot and and meet your code requirements. Other questions or discussion? You guys need a motion, I guess, to approve this the preliminary. So moved. A second. Motion by PY, second by Pepsi. All those in favor say I.

I. Passes. [clears throat] An ordinance approving the final plat of Shell's industrial plat 5 in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. Introduced by Holtmire. Questions or discussion? Second reading. An ordinance approving the final plat of Shelves indust industrial plat 5 in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. PMer I. PKY yes. Pepsel yes. Coulter, yes. Hydridge, hi. By your vote, ordinance 8B passes. C, please. Preliminary plat approval. Shelves industrial plat 6.

As Aaron explained, this is the uh portion that that u you have a preliminary plat approval prior to the final [clears throat] plat. Um, and that is the the final lot layout that we will see out there for the time being. questions. Make a motion. So moved. Second. Second for pardon me by Paty. Second by Hopemire. Further discussion. All those in favor say I. I. Motion passes. 8D. Please. An ordinance approving the final plat of Shelves industrial plat 6 in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri.

Hmmar. Produced by Hotmire. Questions or discussion? Second read. An ordinance approving the final plat of Shell's industrial plat 6 in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. Hm. Hi. Pacty. Yes. Pepsi. Yes. Coulter. Yes. Hydridge. Hi. By your vote. Ordinance 8 passes. Thank you guys. Mayor's report.

Um gosh, how cool was that? Oto and they have downtown here. I just wish all meetings were like this. But, you know, quite frankly, you guys, um, Washington has a lot of good stuff ahead of us. We really do. I, you know, I, the skeptical side of me says, "Yeah, we're going to be tested at some point in the future." But for right now, let's enjoy the good times. Let's plan for the future. Keep looking down the road and uh, and just Thank our lucky stars. We live in a cool place like we do.

City administrators report. The only thing I'm just going to go ahead and mention this. We'll have this on your agenda for the first meeting in in uh February for the workshop. Uh but the the state has uh modified uh the liquor license laws for the World Cup during the time frame of June 11th through July 19th. Uh and basically um the bars can be open 23 hours a day. [laughter] Oh my.

So a lot of cities are looking at whether or not they wish to go ahead and and you can still locally pass an ordinance to go ahead and limit it to where it is today, expand on it up to the point or even if you don't do anything at all, those will be open for 23 hours a day during that time frame. So, uh, Chief and his staff have reached out to some of the bars. I think they'll give you a little bit more information in February. Yeah. U, in short, what we're hearing is that most of the bars do not wish to be open that long. It it'd be hard even for staffing issues for them to go ahead and be able to do so. But, uh, we'll have that as a topic of discussion, but if you want to limit it, you're going to have to pass an ordinance to go ahead and do so. We have to do it sometime this spring. So, uh, Mark brought it to my attention, I guess, back in November, I think, but we [clears throat] just had other things on here. So, we'll bring it up for discussion with you at the first meeting in February.

Food for thought. Council comments. Yeah, I'd like to uh mention uh the street department at Tony and what they did on the riverfront was fantastic. That really turned out nice. uh making uh saving the bank down there and hopefully that stick and stick and stays. So, thank them again. I'd like to wish Darren a happy birthday today. Thank you, sir. Do you want like us to sing? No. Okay. Sure. [laughter] Positive. Come on. Positive. I do have an item for you in executive session. Well, it was a happy birthday. Yeah. A humbug

city attorney's report. Public vote on whether or not to hold a closed meeting to discuss personnel, legal, and real estate matters pursuant to section 610.021 RSMO 2000. Holtmire. Hi. Taki, yes. Pepsel, yes. Coulter, yes. Hydridge, hi. You want to go home, you can.