City Council - Regular Meeting

Uh, Chief, could you help us out with the invocation again this evening?

Be happy to. Thank you. Thank you, J. All right, if you'll pray with me. Almighty God, we just thank you for your presence. We thank you for the ability to serve you, Lord. We pray that you would just guide us tonight in our decisions. Give us wisdom to do the right thing for the community. Lord, protect those who serve. And Lord, bless all those who are in attendance and who are listening tonight. We just pray this in your mighty name. Amen. Amen. Join me for the pledge of

allegiance. I allegiance [clears throat] 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. Right. Madam clerk, could you take the role? Uh, Mr. Th here. Miss Febach here. Mr. Grant. Mr. Mr. Delgado here. Mr. Savage here. Council President, we have a quorum.

Thank you very much. Um, moving on, we're going to look at the uh approval of tonight's agenda. I see that we're pulling off item six and item 12. Is that correct? So, scratch those off for the evening. All right. If everybody's okay with that, um, are there any other questions or concerns regarding tonight's agenda? Nothing there. Then I entertain a motion to approve tonight's agenda as amended. So moved. Second. Got a motion and a second. Then no further questions. All those in favor? I I opposed. Motion uh passes 400. Awesome.

All right. So, starting off tonight's uh festivities, we've got a presentation from Jooko Aging and Human Services, who's taking care of that tonight. Awesome. [clears throat] Good evening. Okay, so I will need to dock into here. Alrighty. Well, good evening. Um, my name is Colin Jones and I'm the still newly hired um, human services manager for Johnson County Aging and Human Services. And so before we uh, start tonight, just wanted to express my gratitude to um, to the mayor and to the council members this evening um, for giving us the opportunity to speak a little bit on our utility assistance program. You know, it's really our community partnerships that keep this program going. um and they're so of such vital importance to us. And so we just want to thank you again for your time tonight um and also for your generosity in providing financial assistance to your neighbors in need. So I'm going to get right into this and talk a little bit about our utility assistance program.

So our program was first established in 1979 which makes it the AY's longest running service program and really it serves as a really critical safety net um for individuals for families experiencing financial hardship u due to income changes, family disruptions or unexpected crises that happen in life. The program also provides really a lot of essential support to individuals and to households living on a fixed income. Um, so folks, you know, on a retirement pension or disability or social security and really the primary goal of our program is to prevent utility disconnections. So we know that this helps folks maintain a stable living environment and reduces the risk of eviction. So, our program provides financial assistance for past due utility bills um or assists individuals on a payment plan who are unable to make the minimum payment to avoid the utility disconnection. Um, one thing about our program that I should note as well is that you do not need to have received like an official shut off or a disconnection notice to receive our services. Um, but we partner with 15 cities currently as well as five local utility companies um to assist residents in need. Um, uh, electricity, water, gas, and propane, um, and wastewater utility bills are all eligible for our assistance. And to give you kind of a snapshot of um our last year, we served 1,745 households um for a total of a little over $833,000 in utility assistance in 2025. So, I'll talk a little bit about the qualifications for utility assistance.

Um, so residents first must be a Johnson County resident and a resident of Spring Hill uh to utilize both the city of Spring Hill funding and the Johnson County funds. Uh, though we know that Spring Hill extends into Miami County. So wanted to um advise that Miami County residents who live in Spring Hill would be um eligible for city of Spring Hill funding only. In addition to that, um residents must have a past due utility bill or need assistance, as I said, with an established payment plan. Um residents must be at or below 200% of the federal poverty uh income guidelines and provide proof of ID, income, and residency uh to receive our services. Um I'll also tell you a little bit about uh some of the reasons why residents do seek our support. Um we've done some recent polling and there are some um you know reasons that kind of come to light year after year. Oftentimes it's you know low or stagnant wages, unemployment, difficulties finding work, perhaps an inability to work due to older age or to do due to disability. Um increasing costs of utility bills due to inflation or increasing health care costs for many of our families. Um or maybe it's just an unexpected expense. Maybe it's something like a car repair or a replacement or a veterinary bill. Um that really makes it difficult for our families to meet their financial needs for that month. Um I should note often um really year after year 50% of the folks that do enter into our services to receive util utility assistance do not return in the same calendar year. So I'll kind of explain a little bit about the um federal poverty guidelines that we abide by. So um so the federal

poverty level that's a measure of income right that was uh is updated by the department of health and human services and it's used to determine eligibility for many federal and nonprofit programs services. Um, you can see in that chart on the left there, the number of people in the household as well as the monthly and annual income levels that they need to be at to receive our assistance. Um, as well as a um kind of a breakdown of different federal programs and what like poverty level they serve. So, for example, SNAP, the state benefit program, they serve folks at about 130% of the federal poverty level. For LEAP, it's 150. Uh women, infants, and children, it is 185. And for two of our um nonprofit community providers, uh Catholic Charities and Salvation Army, it's 150. So really, by serving 200% of the federal poverty level, really what we aim to do is be an added safety net for individuals, for households that are in need but don't quite qualify for those federal programs. Um, this really illustrates the value of our partnership, um, and kind of serves to describe your guys's return on investment for partnering with our county. Um, currently the city contributes $200 um, per resident per calendar year for utility assistance. Um, now those funds are matched by the county um per resident per calendar year for up to $300. In addition to those funds um kind of dependent upon the time of year that a resident were to reach out to us or the funding um availability that we have uh we also receive utility assistance funds from our utility company providers for

Spring Hill residents um that would mean from Atmas and Water One. So really what you see is a single $200 city investment per resident can generate up to 500 plus dollars uh in utility assistance for one household using all the available funding. Um and really what this you know serves to show is by partnering with the county Spring Hill residents benefit. All righty. Next I want to talk about some stats we've got. So, in 2025, we served 25 households uh in Spring Hill, and we provided a total of $11,170 in utility assistance uh with the average amount of assistance received per household clocking in at around $141. This pie chart looks really at the contribution of funds per agency. So you can see um and I have the figures here. So Johnson County government um last year contributed $4,115 worth of funding to Spring Hill residents. The city contributed $3,548. Utility providers, so that's Atmas and that is Water One, contributed $2,64. And lastly, $92 were accounted for by our uh donations that our agency receives. So, this is funding that went to Spring Hill residents. Um, this looks at really all the available funds. So, that number I mentioned earlier, a little over 11,000 and where those dollars were utilized. Um, and as you can see, kind of the large majority of that is for electricity bills. And that really seems to be pretty consistent across all of our locations that that tends to be the

bill that you know folks are needing assistance with. Um coming into second place is water thin gas and then a little sliver of waste water there. Um this pie chart really depicts kind of a similar breakdown just only using the funds that were contributed by the city. And so you'll sort of sim see a similar breakdown there in terms of of where the need was for utility assistance. And then this last slide is a three-year retrospective. kind of looks at the households we served in Spring Hill dating back to 2023 and the um total amount of utility assistance that was provided by the city. Now you can kind of see that there is a pretty stable trend in Spring Hill. Um though I will note that generally speaking kind of across our locations we are seeing a demonstrated increased need for utility assistance and we tend to um attribute that to inflation cost and just increasing cost of utilities. Now I do want to highlight some additional services that um are available for Spring Hill residents. So, in addition to um receiving utility assistance, um qualified Spring Hill residents can also take home a bag of food. So, we have a food pantry. Um it is located in our gardener office. We also have food pantries in um two other locations that we serve. Um but really, if um if Spring Hill residents were to um indicate a need for food assistance, we'd take them through a pretty brief screening process to determine eligibility. And then once they're certified, they

can be certified for up to a year. They can visit our pantry once a month or every 30 days. Um the stuff we provide is typically food and hygiene products, excuse me. [clears throat] And really what it is meant to do is it's meant to be a supplemental aid to free up more household funding um for things in the budget. Now, in addition to the food and to the utility assistance, um our human service specialists do a really excellent job of identifying needs that residents might be experiencing and helping them bridge the gaps to those needs um by connecting them to resources that they might be in need of, interested in, um or eligible for. This could be things like federal programs, SNAP or LEAP, or it could be a referral to a healthcare provider or a nonprofit resource. Uh we participate in a closed loop referral system uh for community organizations to create a warm handoff. Um and we uh we partner with a lot of agencies through Iris um the health partnership clinic, Jewish family services, El Centro and many more. Now in addition to that and I failed to mention this upfront, I am I've been in this role for about four months. I am a licensed clinical social worker by trade. So, one of the reasons why I was brought onto this team is really to build out um case management services that we're hope hoping to provide folks. Um so, we're working on building a model for short-term light touch case management that would really seek to um help us move beyond timelmited or one-time assistance. um really to be able to help folks partner on goals that are meaningful to them related to education, employment, benefit access and the like. Um really to help them move um to a place of greater self-sufficiency and economic mobility.

So we do try to get the word out about our program and I should note that there is program information posted on both the county and city websites. We try to have printed flyers um available at this civic center and at the life springs church food pantry. Um we would love to partner with you guys to do more outreach and advertising um through the city newsletter. We do um some advertising through the chamber newsletter and of course we do advertisements in best times magazine, Jooko magazine and through our social media channels. So you might be wondering okay this This all sounds great. How can a Spring Hill resident access these services? So, it really starts with our human services phone line. That is really the single point of entry um for our utility assistance program. And how it would work is a resident in need would contact us. Our phone agent would take them through a brief eligibility verification process. And from there, they'd be scheduled for the next available appointment at the location that's closest to their home or their work. if that were um to be a better option for them. Um they would be served out of our gardener office which is located off of Main Street in Gardener, Kansas. Um we serve Gardener, Edertton, and Spring Hill residents out of that location. Um I do want to say as well, we really try to um meet the demand for utility assistance in the community. We pride ourselves on being able to offer um appointments the same week and we're often successful at that. Um so we we do prioritize getting folks um connected to resources and to the services as you know quickly as we can due to the nature of this right you know the looming disconnect notices um and and things that our community members are facing.

Um so that is really short and sweet. That is it. Um, our contact information is there listed um, for myself and Brandy Hodgej who's here with me tonight. She's our division manager and um, yeah, I'm happy to answer any questions you've got, but I appreciate the time today. Thank you so much. I thank you very much for your presentation. Uh, we got questions. I do. Well, first of all, you did a good presentation. Imagine being new,

you know, it's kind of nerve-wracking. Um, first of all, I'm very much in support of this service. Um, and you answered pretty much all the questions I had through your presentation. One question I did have is, um, you talked about how you have case management and you have you're able to get other resources if if you know, jobs, employment, different things, um, housing. Um, so do you have people that can if if it appears to be maybe not just an immediate crisis but more long-term, do you have people on your team that are eligible to um help people apply for Medicaid if needed? I was just curious.

Yeah, that's a good question. So, benefit access is definitely something that we focus on. Um, we have not so much focused um on Medicaid, Medicare, those types of things as we have LEAP, SNAP, WIC, things like that in the past.

Okay. um though it's certainly not out of the question as something that we could help with. Um I think our our human service specialists do a really good job of identifying needs and we really rely a lot on our county partners as well. Um so if there is like a medical need um we can sort of identify some other resources if there's a mental health related need. Johns County Mental Health would be our our first go-to there. Um they have a program called the SOAR program that helps people apply for benefits. So, we would kind of lean on county partners in that way. Um, but I think it's it's not something that would be out of the question for us to provide as well. I would say, you know, really what we are doing right now is some follow-ups with folks connecting them to the immediate resources that they need. But part of us doing the work that we're doing right now and and working with a software company to build out our program is really to provide more intensive case management services and then be able to track those outcomes and really speak to what we're doing in the community. I think there's a lot of good that we're doing that we're not necessarily tracking.

Um so we're trying to change that right now. I think the only last comment I'd like to make is um maybe doing your presentation among the city employees, people that interact with the public. I think there's always kind of um there can be a disconnect there. So people that are directly working with citizens like up here at the window when they come up and they tell you, "Hey, listen. I've got an issue here. I I can't get my bill this month." And then just making sure that the employees know the service so they can refer to it. a big proponent of, you know, that I'm in mental health as well, so I understand, you know, the the different things. But, um, yeah, I think

educating our staff here would be important about your program, too, just so they can come up with a solution if they have somebody coming forward saying that a citizen saying they can't afford their bill. 100%. And thank you for that feedback. I really appreciate it. Yeah, we'd welcome any opportunity to speak with anyone who's going to help get the word out about our services. I do want to say I've got some rack cards for you all. Um, so I will leave this stuff here with you. Does have our our line at the bottom there. Awesome. My kind of a perfect segue is what are you looking for as far as assistance goes from your municipal partners? Is there something that you're we're hoping to to ask us today or is there any uh are there any immediate needs that you might want to might want us to start kind of looking into for you?

Colin, I'd be happy to answer that for you

unless you you can add on to it. In your consent agenda tonight is the agreement to extend these services to um with the county. We've had a long-term partnership together. Um the city contributes uh to $2,750 a year to this program through that agreement. In addition to that, the last few years, the mayor's Christmas tree fund has given a third of the donations raised to the utility assistance fund. And we do a roundup program. So on your city of Spring Hill water bill um utility bill you can round up and that money goes into the utility assistance as well. we def and so that's what we contribute um in the budgeting process. we can reexamine things like that and say, is there something else, a better way for us to help? And we can certainly do that. And I also wanted to address that we receive payments toward utility bills from this program in 2025. 11 of the 12 months we got a payment from them for a citizen. Um, we often refer people to um the human services group and it c it can be to help pay their bill, but it could be someone who has a repair and they can't afford to fix the plumbing issue or something. We know where to turn and so it's definitely services that get used. Um, and we have a great working thing where we don't cut somebody off because we're talking to them and we, you know, we really work together to um, keep the dignity of the citizen that's needing that assistance. And so, it's a good partnership and well worth the investment that the city makes.

Beautiful. Thank you, Ronda. Um, as far as uh community outreach, getting that information out, know letting people know where they can u make donations. Do we have something in place either through our social media work or uh newsletters, anything like that where we're currently trying to put information out, Rhonda? Oh, sorry. Um, the short answer is yes. Um, we um especially at the at the holiday time where we're, you know, generating donations. Uh Jenna is here with us tonight as well and so I'm sure she'd be happy to have uh any content like that for the uh city newsletter. We also have the employee newsletter as well that they we could put that to work. Happy to do it.

Sounds good to me. Any other questions? Um anything else that you'd like to add before we uh move on with tonight? No, I don't think so. I appreciate your guys' time this evening. Thank you so much for coming and presenting to us. Appreciate it. All right, moving on to the next item on our agenda. It's looking like we're going to go to announcements. Uh lame, would you like to start with announcements tonight?

Uh we are still working with uh KOT on uh 191st Street and 169 highway. I anticipate um hopefully going out to bid that project in July. Uh and then that's probably about a 30 to 45day process and then hopefully by late summer we'll be able to start that project. We're also working with KOD on 183rd Street u to to get the final plans approved on that project also. So hopefully by the I'm going to say the end of 27 we should have both those projects underway and completed. Wonderful. Spencer, anything for us, sir? Y thank you,

Chief. Hello. Okay, good. Yeah, I just wanted to update the council on a couple things from the police department. Uh this week I attended a conference for um Kansas law enforcement um accreditation uh program. So I know this is something the previous chief began and Captain Khan has been working on. And so um I was able this week to get up to speed on um what accreditation will take for the police department to make sure that our policies are in best practice and up to up to date and up to current practices. So we'll be continuing that process. Um, I believe that's going to be about a two-year process to to complete. So, um, I'll look forward to updating you more on on some of that. And then this week, I got the opportunity to speak at a leadership cohort. It's a Johnson County and we do county partnership um, just on basic leadership principles. We have two officers that are participating uh in the uh program and it's all about just trying to uh develop and grow uh those who we believe have leadership potential in the organization. So uh it's been good. We're about four weeks into a six-week program and uh very proud of our officers that are participating. So just wanted to update you on that.

Awesome. Mike, uh nothing to report. Thank you, sir. Rhonda, nothing to report. Jacob,

um, so our crews were busy over the last week uh with some high [clears throat] water with the uh with all the rain that we had, but I mean no no major major problems. Most of them were, you know, just ditches overflowing um you know, impacting uh roadways, a lot of private coverts that were obstructed, blocked. Uh we were able to put the sewer combination truck to good use and and the crews were out uh and helping to especially for those block culverts get those at least cleared enough to to uh drain and get the water off the roadway. Speaking of the combination uh the sewer cleaning truck, it's been working uh this week in the Brookwood Farms uh subdivision. We've been started first on the sanitary sewer lines, but uh we've also been working on the storm sewer lines in that neighborhood as well. So, again, going to thank the council for their support. The guys love the truck, love what they're able to do and putting it to good use. And uh finally, just an update. the school crossing signs for the for Dayton Creek. Finally got word uh today that those signs were were completed and ready. So, we'll be over tomorrow morning to pick those up and install them tomorrow.

Beautifulisha. Um so, just a notice to the public out there in reference to the teens for this summer. We are going to start interviews for the staff positions like lifeguards, head lifeguards, front desk, deck attendants next week. So for anyone that has not applied, go ahead and do that so you can get yourself in the running for that. And then just generally speaking for the city, obviously always go to our website for any opening that we have. Hey, you actually had two young uh young people in the shop today asking me if they knew when we were they were going to get phone calls about uh interviews. So that your timing was absolutely perfect. Appreciate that. Madam clerk, do you have anything?

Amy, you have anything for us? Right. Councilwoman feedback. Um, I don't really have any announcements. More of just an apology. Um, I wasn't here last last meeting because I was stuck in Nashville airport um due to some air some delays. Um, and then I had a massive board meeting the time before that. So, I just want to apologize. I got caught up on what I missed. And that's all. Councilman Dato, no report. Councilman Savage, no report.

All right. If no one else has got anything pressing, we can move on to citizen participation. This is an opportunity for anybody to come up and speak about any uh concerns or questions they have. I did not pick up the sign-in sheet. So, if anybody Oh, perfect. Here we do. We actually do have someone. We've got uh John Waterman. You could come up and uh give us your address, your full name and address. Uh, good evening. Good evening. Uh, John Waterman, uh, 21110 West, uh, 186 Terrace in Dayton Creek. Uh, so, first off, I'd just like to say I I think I won the lottery tonight. I heard two good things about Dayton Creek. So, thank you, Lane, for the update on the on the uh on the uh uh traffic signals at 191st and 183rd. That'll be very welcome for us and and and our neighbors. And uh thank you also for the um notice of the of the school uh crossing sign. So uh that's great. Uh fantastic. So uh what I what I wanted to speak about tonight was specific to the comprehensive plan that's currently in process. So uh this is very important to me. Um, so um, back in October, I I talked to Mayor Elect Young about the comprehensive plan and kind of my the importance of it, you know, to me and the need to get it off a kind of top dead center and moving again because it has been been stalled for so long. And I I think I thank the the um planning commission and uh the the city council and the mayor for, you know, taking that to heart and and really, you know, pushing and and driving forward with that plan. Now, uh it sounds like we have some some good momentum behind

us and um I'm excited to to get involved and and help where I can. Um I think we we look at We look at, you know, kind of the the comprehensive plan as our guide or our beacon for future development and growth in the city. And it was something I was very prideful of moving here in 2021. Uh but then shortly realized that, you know, oh boy, we're we're out of date. We need to kind of prepare for the future and growth and growth is upon us and happening fast and we need to we need to get ahead of it. We need to have a plan so that when you know people come with opportunities and applications for development, they fit correctly where they're where they're they're they have cookie cutter places for for them, you know, in the city future land use map. And it just all makes sense. Right now, we're we struggle a little bit with having to bring all these resoning applications forward, which sometimes causes some angst or some uncertainty with with residents, with citizens because it just doesn't quite make sense. Why would we do that? That has nothing to do with the 2010 future land use map. So I urge us all to to really want that, you know, want that future vision, the land use map, the comprehensive plan to define what we want Spring Hill to look like in five, 10, 15, 20, 25 years on down the line and all work together to to make development you know, and and make the city grow and function, you know, as it should, as we all want it to. So, I I want to to to move forward and and

get involved. I understand there's a planning commission um u work session on April 2nd, I believe. Not sure if that's been been been posted yet, but uh I plan to be there in support of that. Uh I also understand there may be another meeting later in the month of April uh for for that. I was at the planning commission meeting last week. That's why I have that information. Um so again excited to see that. Would really also don't want to rush to define a comprehensive plan that doesn't make sense. Want it to all make sense. So I I urge the I urge the council I urge planning commission the mayor. I also urge us citizens to move with uh disciplined quickness in in doing it. I mean, it's it's long overdue. We need to get it done, but we have to have discipline in doing it as well. We don't we don't want to we don't want to create a future land use map that doesn't doesn't make sense. So, uh with that, I will go ahead and and and wrap it up and and let the meeting continue. But uh again, just want to express my appreciation uh for for getting this moving again and really look forward to supporting the city and future growth. So, thank you very much,

John. Thank you very much. You're welcome. All right. Is there anybody else like to speak tonight? Please come up, sir. Just uh state your name and your address for us.

Good evening. My name is Lance Caldwell. I'm uh at 15275 West 191st Street, Spring Hill. I hold the uh elected position of Spring Hill Township Treasurer and have been to a few meetings here in the last uh month and probably should have been here before. So, apologize for not being involved, but uh I think we're going to see some more involvement from the community with the things have taken place. I appreciate Mr. Waterman's comments. I heard him speak uh last Thursday night and uh I I too hope that the planning commission meetings coming up in April will be uh well attended and and folks both that vote and don't vote will be able to uh contribute to that that conversation. Um I'm particularly hopeful that the commission itself based on at least the website has uh listed uh county representatives and I think we do have one in Johnson County. I'm not sure if Miami County was filled at the last U meeting or not, but I think going forward, I really hope that we continue to have county representatives on the planning commission. I think that's important given the role that everybody serves whether they they vote or not. We're all here in the same area and want the best for our uh our community. So, just wanted to uh recommend that as well. Um the last thing I had was just a question on uh the parcels that were uh up for resoning. Uh I was looking at the filing and it looks like there is an opportunity for the owner to request uh deanexation within 90 days and I don't know if that 90 days is begun as of Friday or other days but I don't know if that is that public knowledge as far as when that 90 days will begin.

I'll uh point over here to Spencer Law here and direct him. Um we typically don't do a question and answer part of this citizen participation. So Okay. Yeah. Well, I I'm just going to make the assumption it's about that time, but will we be notified as the public if the land owner does uh submit a DN D annexation request? Spencer, same thing. This is more I'm not trying to be difficult. No, no. I I get it. I just I said I just couple questions I had. I didn't know if this was the right forum, but appreciate your time and uh look forward to being involved here in the months ahead. Thank you, sir.

All right. Anybody else? All right, then we will conclude today's citizens participation and move on to the consent agenda. Um, at this point, I'll entertain a motion. If unless there's any questions, concerns about anything on consent agenda, I will entertain a motion to approve that. So, move. Second. Got a motion and a second. There's no further comments. Uh, all those in favor? I [clears throat and cough]

opposed. All right, that motion carries. Uh, is it 4 Z? Um, moving on to the formal council action. Uh, we're going to go with item number nine. I consider approval of property casualty and liability insurance policy renewal. M. Jones, you have the floor.

I wore my really tall hands today. Um, so good evening everybody. So I'm here to go over the renewal that we have for April 1st beginning for the plan year and as always working with Elliot Group who provide us the expertise and experience in brokerage and administration. I am constantly contacting them throughout the year on various things. But during this renewal period, we have a lot of back and forth conversations and working together to make sure that we have all the information we need to the city the best premiums for the upcoming year as possible. Um, as always with insurance, you hear me say a lot of times that the fluctuations in the industry could be due to what's going on with the changes in premium, I should say, is due to the fluctuations in the industry, exposure increases, property value increases, equipment value increases. So, there's a lot of things that go into that. the renewal for this particular year for the city, the total insured value increased by about 4% as a result of some equipment purchases and vehicles. Um, but with that said is that when you look at it line by line, the largest premium increase we see is on our property, but again, that's due to ratings, valuations, different things. But it does seem that the market is somewhat starting to level off um versus what it's been doing in the last five years over those changes with the full requirements and different things like that. So hopefully we can see some stabilization coming up. But even with that said, our current provers renewal premium is favorable with the city with an overall increase of about 7.5%. And then in terms of specifically for our cyber, we did see four quotes which includes our current provider alpha. But with all of those quotes, Alpha still turned out to be the best for service-

wise as well as premium wise for that. So you see there the summary of the premiums below from last year to this upcoming year, April 1st. And so at this point um I would like to recommend that the governing body approve EMC and Alpha providing us our insurance services beginning April 1st. If there's any questions, I'd be happy to. Anybody would like to I don't have a question. You did you and maybe you said this before. You we um have a broker that seeks out to compare all the insurance. Okay. Right. Sorry if I missed that. Oh, no. It's no problem. Thank you.

I personally was anticipating some kind of an increase this year. We've added to the city's uh assets. We we've done some acquisitions. There are some things that have really changed as we've as we're growing. So, um, seeing that it's not more is honestly, uh, kind of leaves me with a good feeling and, uh, I always appreciate when you put the sideby-side information there. It makes it really, really clear so we can see where the information has changed one year to the next. So, thank you so much for that.

And I will say some good news happened that has nothing to do with whether or not you approve this. It's just that it I got the information tonight. EMC is really great depending on how their program performs. they try to give back to the um the clients that they have. And so on average, looking at the last couple years, we've been able to get about $17,000 from them back um towards the premiums that we paid essentially is what it is. And but it's not guaranteed. So one, I never put it in there. And then sometimes I don't even have the information by the time I come up here. But tonight, I surprisingly was given a check from the dividend from last year and the net of it is favorable. city a little over $3,000. So that's wonderful.

It's good. Wonderful. Questions, concerns? Good. I appreciate all the hard work. You're welcome. All right. So, if there are no further comments or questions, I'll entertain a motion to approve this here. That's what we're looking at, right? Yes. Yeah. Move to approve EMC and Alpha to provide the city's property casualty and liability insurance for the April 1st, 2026 to March 31st, 2027 plan year. Second. All right, I've got a motion and a second. There's no further comment. Uh, all those in favor?

I. All those opposed? Motion pass 400. Thank you. Thank you, Monisha. All right, moving on to agenda item number 10. Consider resolution number 2026-R6. Acknowledge and review the acceptance of the requested 5-year Johnson County assistance road system cars program for 2027 through 2031. Mr. Spear, you have the floor.

Thank you, Council President. Um, so I think most of you are familiar with the Johnson County CARs program. CARS is an acronym stands for the county assistance road system program. It's a way that the county is able to share its funds recognizing that that the county's road network is shrinking as the uh municipalities and the county's road networks are growing. So they uh developed this program to um help offset the the costs for road programs. There is some eligibility criteria. Won't get into all of the too far into the weeds, but generally speaking, it's the more major thorough affairs within the county that that are eligible. So not every road uh in in Spring Hill is eligible. First, we've got to be on the Johnson County side. Uh and and then also it's got to be those more major thorough affairs. Um with that in mind, we try to put together a program to have um a at least a cars eligible program lined up every year to uh to take advantage of that. Um the the CARS program is a can be up to a 50 uh% funding match by Johnson County. There are a few costs. Um hard construction costs are are absolutely eligible. Um engineering design costs are not eligible. So it's not not quite 50% of the the total cost of the project, but uh definitely covers 50% of the construction cost. The we have we put together a five-year program and we present that five-year program um every year uh to to the county. It it it may look just like last year with with just an additional project tacked on to year five. Uh but cities also have the freedom and the ability to

to shuffle the deck a little if uh [snorts] needs needs have changed. U traffic patterns have changed, road conditions have changed dramatically. Uh we're not locked in to you know years two through five. Next year we can rearrange those as as necessary. Here before you tonight is our proposed program for 2027 through 2031. And again it's a planning tool. Um really the only commitment um from the city is that year one project in this case the 2027 project. We're we will be along with uh this resolution. would be making kind of formal application to Johnson County for that project as our 2027 cars project and if it is funded then there is the uh the expectation that the city move ahead with with that one year's project and and fund our our portion of it. Again, years two through five are are more of a planning exercise. So, with all that said, uh, I'll just kind of quickly run through these and and if you if you all have questions, feel free to to stop me as we go. Um, here's a a quick overview map. I don't know that that shows a whole lot other than it it's kind of spread out uh across the community. um project by project. The 2027 project is 199th Street from generally from from Webster to uh to Woodland. And it may not show up real well in in this picture. That roadway isn't in too bad a shape, which is exactly when we should be um doing these these major road maintenance pro projects. So this photo uh it was a Google image and it's

it's two years about a year and a half old now. Uh there's a little more cracking going on. Uh this would be the time to go in mill overlay any base repairs that are necessary would catch at that time and then redo all the striping as well and and get that road sealed off before the uh the base underneath starts to deteriorate which would lead to much more costly repairs in the future. the uh that's a almost $600,000 uh project is the engineers estimate and almost $285,000 of that um is cars eligible. The 2028 project uh is big change in scope. This is the 207th project along 207th Street, Woodland to Ridge View. This would be a complete street uh project and a complete street reconstruction. I think something along the lines of what is underway right now on 199th from Ridge View to Rener. So this would be um not a completely new roadway uh adding curb and gutter storm drainage um pipe inlets um sidewalks uh sidewalk on one side, trail on the other. So, this is a a full street redo for that section all in. It's about a $15 million project. Um, and the uh cars funding request for that would be about uh a little over three and three/4ers uh just under 3.8 million. We've also talked about and applied for several other grants and other funding opportunities. That's a a large enough dollar amount we'll be trying to um pull from several different sources to uh to help fund that project. 2029 project we are looking um at Ridge

View 191st to 199th. This would be the section near Wolf Creek and along the high school. Um this is a little you know a little larger um again new surface so a mill overlay. Um there's some ditch grading that needs to happen there. There's some places uh especially on the east side of the road where the the ditch gets really really close from from the edge of the pavement it drops off pretty quickly. Can can be hazardous. Really the only way to change that is to is to shift you know the entire ditch and flow line further away. So uh there's a fairly significant grading operation that needs to happen along with that. And then we've been talking uh at the staff level about the potential for um what I'd call some geometry improvements. Um ways to help with turning movements, whether that's turning lanes or roundabouts or things like that to help with traffic, especially getting in and out of the high school. So that's uh around a $ 1.4 million project, just over 600,000 cars eligible. 2030 we're back on 199th. This would be Woodland to Ridge View. And I say Woodland and really the breaking point would be the bridge uh over over the railroad tracks and and Woodland. So this would be from that bridge on over to Ridge View. Much like the earlier one, um catch it before it gets too far gone. Fairly basic, straightforward mill and overlay and and striping. $800,000. you see these numbers just keep um creeping up. Um these estimates are trying to account for you know time and inflation as well. And then uh finally at the year five this is again a little bit unique. So

this would be 215th Street which is also county line um from 169 highway west to the west city limits. This is in the area of the new Aenddale Meadows subdivision. And again, this road is seeing more traffic with subdivision um going in and just more traffic in the area in general. And uh a lot of structural deterioration along this roadway. Um this is one being the county line road. We will probably start talking with our partners both on the Johnson County and the Miami County side trying to look at uh at um you know a way to get some funding participation from from all you know all involved parties but u that's a short stretch of road um so that helps keep the cost down but uh it it needs it needs a lot in terms of the base repair pavement um grading and then striping and so So, those are the that's the five-year um program that we have lined out. Um happy to answer any questions that you may have. Uh the actual I guess formal item before you tonight is a is a resolution. Johnson County um asks that the the governing body approve a resolution that says, "Hey, we've we've reviewed and this is the five-year plan that we that we want to submit to Johnson County for the CARS program." Happy to answer any questions you have.

Um, I don't have any real questions. My only concern is it seems like that 215th project might become pressing like sooner in the timeline than it's currently set. Is that something that you guys are looking into as it develops along that line? Yeah, we we have looked into that and and I think you're right. I think we're going to put some money into it probably every year just, you know, honestly just kind of patching and bandating I've tal I've talked with my staff and we've gone kind of back and forth on this one. There's um they've just started construction on that Aenddale Meadows uh subdivision with the first phase, right?

There's a lot of construction still to come and it's a it's a double-edged sword. It would be nice to get in there and fix the road sooner rather than later knowing that it's going to see a lot of large heavy truck traffic. The other side of that coin is if that large heavy truck traffic is going is going to destroy it. Let's see if we can just hang on and let's do the reconstruction after the literally after the dust has settled where that where that road will hold up uh you know even longer and that brand new road won't be subject to that uh intense usage. So, we've gone back and forth um and and kind of landed on let let's push it out to year five with the recognition that we're going to have to, you know, just in-house with city forces, we're going to spend a fair amount of time um you know, repairing, patching, trying to hold it together until that makes sense to me.

Y I really appreciate that. Are there any other questions or concerns regarding this uh this project here? No, sir. Uh if there no further comments, I entertain a motion. 10. Yeah.

Uh I move to approve resolution number 2026R06 acknowledging review and acceptance of the requested 5-year Johnson County Assistance Road System Cars Program 2027 through 2031. Second. Uh, madame clerk, this is just a normal vote. All right. I have a motion and a second at this time. Uh, all those in favor? All those opposed? Uh, motion passes 4 0. Moving on to item number 11. Consider approval of the final plat of FP-25-9 Prairie Ridge at Spring Hill number five.

Thank you, Council President, members of city council. Good evening. Uh this is a request for approval of a final plat for Prairie Ridge at Spring Hill number five. Um the property is located at 195th Terrace and Barstow Street. Consists of roughly 17 acres and includes 45 residential lots. Uh the city council voted on this last uh on the similar plat uh almost the same back in November of 2025 uh meeting where it was approved unanimously via consent. um platt is back before you this evening because there were some revisions to that plat. Very minor uh some new utility easements being dedicated and some new plat language uh for track day to uh specifically call that out uh as a storm water detention facility. There are no other changes to that. Uh staff determined those changes were not signi significant enough to go back to the planning commission for a recommendation to bring for you. um and that that those are the only changes and so we recommend approval of it. Um because the utility easements being dedicated to the city have to come back to the governing body for approval.

Okay. Um I I think this is the first time I've seen a plaque come back without going through the planning commission. What's the threshold for uh that decision? Is it a discretion in your position or how does that work exactly? Typically, they would come back, but this was such a minor thing, just a note or two added to that detention easement or detention tract and then the relocation of utility easement that minor enough. Um, in some cities that would even be an, you know, an administrative amendment to tweak a note, but because of the addition of those utility easements, it really didn't materially change anything from the preliminary plately change any of the lot layouts, road network, or anything else related to the final plat that was before you in November, and that the planning commission did recommend approval. So staff thought this was the quickest way to get it back into uh the developer's hands to get recorded so they could start building houses.

And just to check with Spencer again, this is this is a new process for me, so this all falls in line with our charter and is how it how it should work. Yes. Perfect. Um any other questions there? I really appreciate you. That's a it's a new process for me, so I wanted to make sure that I understood how it was working. So if there are no further comments on this, I entertain a motion. I move to approve uh the final plat FP25 or FP-25-9 Prairie Ridge at Spring Hill number five. Second. I've got a motion and second if there's no further comment. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. Motion passes 400.

All right. Taken off agenda number item number 12. So moving on to 13. Consider approval for 2025 year and transfers. Everybody's favorite topic.

That's right. Good evening. Um, so you know, we keep the books open for the previous year for about two months through the end of February. So we get everything matched up for the year that the money was actually spent. And so we finished up that at the end of February. Now we can put together how the year ended. So, I'm going to go over that quickly with you this evening and then talk about what to do with any budget surplus or cash surplus we had at the end of the year. Um, this is a revenue side of the equation. Um, we budgeted our actual came in at about 11,900,000 in total revenue and that we were 1,752 better than budget. We took in more money than we budgeted, which is about 17.3% of the total budget. The majority of that is in development fees. A couple of things there. We conservatively budget those fees every year because we're dependent on development and one thing changes, we can have a whole pothole in the budget to overcome and so we choose to budget conservatively. Additionally, we added new services last year in our engineering department for construction observation and that generated a couple hundred thousand dollars more than we budgeted. And so together, our total income has exceeded what we budgeted for the year. You're always welcome to interrupt me, but I also have a place for questions at the end. And then I'd like you to be aware of about exactly twothirds of our revenue comes from property tax and sales tax. And the property tax grew a little more this year than sales tax. They tend to flip-flop a little bit, but that's where the majority of the money comes from. And then those development fees are the third largest category. Sales tax, an important trend to watch.

Um the stack is the way you want to see it, which is the oldest year is the smallest number. And as you can see in this short blue line for 26, we're already ahead of where we were in 25. And we're slightly ahead of budget. I'm not running to the casino or anything on that plot, that thought because you got a 12 months to get through. We tend to be stronger in the early months and then weighing through the middle. um sales tax falls two months behind. One month they collect it, the next month they send it to the state and the next month they send it to us. So in February you're seeing Christmas. So Christmas um sales were were strong this year. Then let's look at the expense side. Um we budget to the bottom line both in departments as well as the total budget. So it's not a perfect picture ever. We have savings in some places because we run over in another area. Um, this is primarily due to staff positions that weren't are budgeted for the year, but they aren't filled on January 1st and so we have some money there. Um, we also have, I think, some good things. We did um work in the aquatic center. We can I think we're doing more and more maintenance and more and more improvements there and you see that reflected here in the budget. Um, other other budgets run under for various different reasons. I have lots of details if you'd like to hear them, but to take a $9.9 million budget and come within $80,000 is pretty phenomenal. Um, as the budget manager makes me very nervous, but I track it quite a bit and and work with everyone on let's wait for next year, let's not do that, or yeah, you've got the budget. And so we're we're good budget managers. Then I wanted you to see what we budgeted in 2026 for expense. And

because I don't want I think that's an important thing. Well, we ran over here. What are we doing for the next year? And for the expense budget, we budgeted about 11.2 million, which is $1.3 million higher. And the two key things were adding positions that were needed. We added a police officer. We added um another person in parks um positions that we need. So that is there and then we have new debt we have to make a transfer for. So that is um included in the budget which is that makes it that 1.3 million. So can I answer any questions about 2025? No actions needed on your part to here and then I'll talk more about what you're going to do with that money.

No, I'm I'm always excited when we bring in more than we spend. Um, I I love when you use the word conservatively because we have to think about how we're spending our money and making sure that we're not counting our chickens before they're hatch is an important part. Stay I agree in the black with that. Those those projects as we've seen, they can

they can come to a screeching halt really really fast. That money we thought we were going to get just doesn't come in. So, um, this always makes me feel good. I love being able to shift the money around at the end of the year to put it where it's going to be the most use. And when we have it, it's wonderful. I prefer to you for you as council to make a conscious decision on real things as opposed to well let's build some something extra in and hope we get there. I'd rather you make you know real decisions about how money's going to be spent.

So let's talk about what we're going to do with it. And this is um open to discussion. I think we've made a good plan here. We're open to your ideas if you have something different. So what we're suggesting, we have an obligation to appropriately keep cash balances that reflect the needs if there was an emergency, if we wanted to, you know, build a different project or something like that. Um, so I wanted you to take a look at where we started the year at 2.3 million. The actual results ended at 4.3 million, an increase of just under $2 million in 2025. Then I'm going to talk to you about what should your cash balance be.

And so I took the operating budget for 25 and I take some things out. Um we budget to spend every penny, all the cash that we have. Well, I'm taking that out because we don't typically spend it. I take out reserve for future projects. I take out the transfers between funds because that money is just one pocket to the other. And then I take out the medical insurance because we have a reserve for medical insurance. So we adjust that budget down to just over $8 million. So that's the number that we're looking at as a year of operation for the city. When can we ask questions? Oh, anytime.

Um on the when you um if you go back, please on the um reserves for the medical insurance, right? So I I get why we keep the reserves for that. But then So do you how does that are you adding to what we already have left over or you're just additionally adding the 1.2? I'm the expense of the medical insurance is paid from the general fund. Right. The reserve is held in a separate fund. Correct. So I'm not going to budget cash in the general fund to cover medical insurance because I have that cash somewhere else. She's asking if we're

No, it is. I'm not proposing that. I'm sorry. Oh, and that's it. It's coming. Okay. Yeah, I'm not proposing that. Yeah. Okay. Sorry about that. That's okay.

So, based on the $8 million budget, I gave you sever I just wanted you to see the difference. If we budget 20, if we hold 20% in cash, 25 30 and the city's been working towards 50%. If you want to keep a 50% cash, we're at 4.6 million. We've achieved that if you'd like to just leave it all in cash. The GFOA, which is the governing body for people like me, recommends a 25 to 30% uh reserve for a city our size. And again, the um target we've been working toward has been 50%. But I feel like council over the last year or so has been pulling back from that 50%. And so let's talk about one, the cash isn't going anywhere till you really spend it. And then we're going to keep an ample amount in there not to impact our um bond rating for borrowing money and things like that. So, these are the recommendations for year end transfers and some really good things are happening here, which is we had a good dovetail tonight on um Jacob talking about cars because our goal here would be to move the cash over. I put 550 on here, but it's 577 is what I suggested in the motion. And the that would be to pay for the 2026 cars project, which is 191st and Woodland. um that project. When that money comes back from Johnson County, which is about um a little under 300,000, I believe, I'm recommending we leave it in this fund and treat the capital project fund like a savings account instead of putting moving money back and forth.

And then I'm also recommending that we transfer half a million dollars unobligated into the project fund. To me, it's starting adding to a small to a savings account. I can't say it's small. So that someday you'll have a project. We can continue to fund cars, maybe without a transfer. Maybe you want to do nickels or hail street. God forbid I say this, sidewalks along South Street is a very big project. Let's put some money back and try to save towards some of those projects we don't have to create debt for.

And so I'm recommending a half million dollar um transfer into the capital project funds and eventually you'll the council will make the decision on how that money gets spent. We'll move $100,000 um for IT projects. We have some projects going right now. We're really working on our IT infrastructure this year. And so I'd like to move some money over to take care of that and then add another $100,000 to your sidewalks. We have about $425,000. This would add another hundred. Our equipment fund is basically depleted. So, I'd like to start building that back towards vehicles or other equipment that we need. And then we've been planning an upgrade to our website for several years. And now that we have Jenna in place, that project needs to move forward. And I'd like to move that money over to the facilities fund and hold it there so we're not hoping we have money left in the budget every year to do the upgrades we need to the website. And this is where you'll see I'm not planning any transfer to the employee healthcare fund.

I will if you want to. No, I was just I was just getting clarification just I don't have any ideas with that.

I am recommending a transfer of $1.4 $4 million from the general fund to these various project funds and equipment funds uh to make plans for the future. So what does that mean? It means if we take the 4.3 million we ended the year with and we move 1.4, we'll leave 2.9 behind, which is 36.1% of the 25 operating budget, which I think is really solid for the city. It's well above the average uh GFOA recommendation and so it reflects well on us towards our bond rating and things like that. Now I'll take more questions.

So um I have a comment but I'd love if you guys have any questions or any ideas I'd love to to listen to those first. I think so in hindsight this is what you're projecting and then you do this upon the approval and everything. Um but you can Can you take something out of like let's say this IT project end up ends up being more than what you think it is. Can you take it out of different Okay. I'll be back to ask for more money as well. Okay. Okay. I think that we did it like that. I just want when if we go to approve that project and it exceeds what we need, you would be approving the project and I'd probably ask for a transfer at that time or we'd make a plan for how we're going to pay for it.

Okay. Yeah. I just want to make sure like approve it now. Yes, we'll do that. [clears throat] That was the only question I had. So, this compared to last year makes my heart really, really happy because it shows that you guys are listening to what we're asking. Um, this is, excuse [clears throat] me, down to the letter. what we were kind of hoping to see. Good.

When people see that we uh we come in under budget every year and then immediately start moving these dollars around to plan for these future infrastructure changes, all these things that that the voters are asking us for every single day, every single conversation we have. This is how it's supposed to look and I really really appreciate it. Um I know the medical fund is something that is still a priority down the line. And I appreciate that you're listening to what we're saying and that we're we're happy with where we are now. We want to get to eventually to a higher reserve. Um I like to bring it all back to my household. I love having money in my savings account. Nothing makes me feel better than knowing my bills are paid if something happens, but we've got a lot of other priorities and this really addresses pretty much everything I'm worried about right now.

Good. Um Jacob has a lot of big numbers attached to those projects. We all know they need to be worked on. So being able to start moving money in the right direction now to get ahead of those projects brings right back to what John was talking about earlier during citizen participation. We need to start moving forward intentionally and having a clear path forward and this is the perfect step in that direction for me.

I also wanted um two comments to you on that. one when we budgeted for 2026 I bumped we have been kind of consistently carrying the same amount for development fees and I bumped it a few hundred,000 as if that's a small amount but several hundred,000 to sort of bridge that gap to say we have things we need to do you challenge us to lower the mill levy we have to find other ways to do it let's account for some of that revenue in the budget which we did the second thing is um starting here in 2026 six, you're going to get in your monthly snapshot a report of these funds. So, you can see how much cash is in there, the things they're earmarked for, and then you can ask we can see what we're spending and and we can you'll be aware of those funds and and how they're moving um each month.

I love that. Absolutely love that. Great. How much so like after if this is approved and everything, how much are you putting out there for people to kind of see that in case they're curious? I mean, this is this can be accessible for people to see. Um the we'll report it in the snapshot. Yeah. And it will it is available to the public and kept on our website for 24 months, right? So they can go back.

I just want to make sure. I'm pretty Yeah, because I always get it here. So I don't go to the website to look it up. I just want to make sure. Okay. Another quick thing too is we always come to council and ask permission to move money between funds. That is not a state requirement. That's a Spring Hill requirement for transparency. You make those decisions. I don't have to do this very often, but if say a mistake was made and we recorded something in the wrong fund, I even come in and say I got to fix this and move it somewhere else. And so this is a transparency thing. You make those decisions, not staff. You've done that before. Yeah. Yeah,

I uh I I love the plan. I love the intent behind it. Um I I do like the idea of moving towards that uh that that elusive 50% mark slowly and surely as well as addressing all the other issues. So I am I am very much in support of these these recommendations. Great. There any other questions? Any other concerns? All right. Then I entertain a motion. I move to approve the 2026 budget interf fund transfers. That's actually the next one. That'll be the second. That's okay. One back there on 13 year end. It's okay.

I've got it here on my screen. year end. I move to approve the listed year end transfers as of December 31st, 2025 and to leave any remaining balances in the receiving fund after projects are complete glasses. Is that a second? Second. All right, I've got a motion and a second. There's no further questions. All those in favor? I I. All those opposed? Motion carries. 400 and it's done. You've got the floor still.

Yes. Um the next step is I'm here to ask your permission to make the budgeted transfers between the funds. And what you'll see here is actually a page from the budget. Um that shows where we make u transfer to special parks. Uh that's the split of the alcohol tax that comes to the general fund. They we turn it over to special parks. Um I have a couple on here that are important to me. I'm not asking to at this time to make the transfer from special county which is a public safety tax into capital projects because we've made some done some projects with the police department. We're paying out of that fund anyway. So to me this is kind of a double whammy. So we don't really need to do that at this time. I reserve the right to have to come back and do it for something else but I think for now this is a good thing. And then um special city tax. These debt service items are pretty straightforward. The special city tax, that's a payment on the swimming pool.

The excise tax is a payment on Veterans Park and Veterans Lane. And I believe this is the last year and that'll be paid off. Uh wastewater is uh improvements at the plant. and then the general fund. These are um more recent like 23 and 25 bond issues related to street and other projects in the city. And then for now I'm asking not to make the transfer from the healthc care reserve back to the general fund. I'd like to kind of wait and see how the year goes if we need that. We did that to bridge that gap and be able to lower the mill levy and I'd like to wait to see how we do and then make that res that reserve transfer if needed. The total for these transfers are budgeted at 2,260,000.

All right. I actually I like the idea of holding on to the money in the uh the reserve fund there. That's uh those those premiums and things tend to fluctuate a little bit. So having that ready in case we need it, right, is good. It'll it'll save some time addressing those issues. Yeah. Um I don't see any problems here either. Um any questions Rhonda? You won us over tonight. Good. Expected these should brought some more stuff. And we didn't BJ sake. Can we afford it? Yeah. Can but that's okay. The answer is yes. Good. Okay. I move to approve the 2026 budgeted inter fund transfers. Second. Got a motion to second. If there's no further questions or comments, all those in favor?

I. All those opposed? Motion carries. 4 0. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. All right. That concludes all formal council action. Um at this time, uh we're going to move on to executive session number one. Just one. Just one. How long are we going to need tonight? 20. 20 minutes. Does anybody need a break beforehand? Are we all good? Just ready to roll? Roll.

All right. Got that, Ivan. I move the city council recess into executive session for 20 minutes to receive advice of council regarding threatened litigation pursuant to KSA75-4319B2 of the Kansas Open Meetings Act. The open meeting will resume in city council chambers at 2039. No formal action is anticipated following the session. Persons to be in attendance are Lane Massie, city administrator, Mike Malone, community development director, and Spencer Laauo, city attorney.

Second. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. Motion carries. 4. We'll be back soon.

All right. All right, let the record reflect that the governing body reconvene chambers at 2039. Uh, no actions were taken, decisions were made. Um, the uh subject discussed was limited to the subject stated. Um, at this point, if there are no other items of business, I entertain a motion to adjurnn. So move. Second. Got a motion and second. Uh, all those in favor. I. All those opposed. Uh motion carries 400. We are journed.