City Council - Regular Meeting

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How about you ready to go.

Regular meeting of Washington, Missouri City Council, Monday, July 20, 2026, 7 PM. Behr? Here. Briggs? Here. Coulter? Here. Heydrich? Here. Hultmeier? Here. Pecky? Here. Pepsil? Here. Solichuk? Here. Please rise for Pledge of Allegiance.

justice for all.

Folks, if I could ask you to stay standing, please. I think it's appropriate that we as a council and as a city have a moment of silence for our friend who passed LB. Thank you.

Well, all the Council members answer if they have or have not read the minutes of the Council meeting dated July 6th and July 13th, 2026. Behr?

Yes.

Briggs?

Yes.

Coulter? Yes. Heidrich? Aye. Holtmeyer? Aye. Patke? Yes. Pepsil? Yes. Sollentrop?

Yes.

Motion to approve. Second. Second. Motion by Patke, second by Sollentrop. All those in favor say aye. Aye. It's passed.

Approval and adjustment of agenda, including consent agenda. You have the collector's treasurer's report summary for April 2026, monthly investment report for April 2026, and fireworks display American Legion post 218 regional baseball tournament.

make a motion second your honor i'd just like to make one comment the it's not the regional tournament it's actually the state tournament thank you but the regional was the last two years just there's no confusion it's not it's not the regional again it's still a big deal it is still a big deal there's probably be more people here next this coming weekend than there was last year so but anyway the state tournament okay i will i'll reflect that on the agenda it doesn't it doesn't affect anything it's just a matter of that i heard mark make it who seconded it

I second. And set the second Joe thank you. So for the approval and adjustment of the agenda, you guys all those in favor say aye. Passes.

Priority items mayors presentations appointments and reappointments Board of Public Works appointments.

Your Council members are here with submit for your approval of following for appointment to the Board of Public Works. Finally Robbie Jasper his term will end February of 29 Bill Dickinson term ending of April 2030 Okay Make a motion I'd like to ask a question if I could Oh

I know it was. A while back, but Mark on tech and Mark hydrates would know and I'm sure maybe share would know but when we had some positions come up for board of public works are planning and zoning or something. I remember seeing applications and a bio for each person that wants to be on the committee still is still you still get those we don't I've never seen one.

You still get them. In fact, I just sent you guys one today. It had the letter and then it had the two attachments, the letter and then the application. And the application was in there and stated.

It was emailed. It's not in the packet, but it was emailed.

And the application states what they're applying for and gives them their background.

I thought it was always in the packet, though, too.

Yeah, it. I thought it was in the past.

It used to be, yes, yes, but then we just when we do the letter now for letting you guys know that hey, this appointment is coming up. The bio is attached to your letter.

Okay, I'm not disagreeing with any of the points. I'm just saying of the way we used to do it and it just seems like it's not happening anymore and I guess I got to show we change the process.

But if you'd like to go back to that process we could we happy to come up stick we change the process so that we didn't receive this in the packet on a Sunday night and proven on Monday. this way we get an email a week or so in advance that you have any questions we can bring it up rather than just come at approval time and say we don't approve that person is not good practice so i thought we did the email earlier is what we is what we change to if i'm not mistaken correct

If you guys have objections, I would rather you object as soon as possible so I can get somebody in there because it's always hard finding good people to populate our boards. It's a constant struggle.

And on the same note, if there is an opening, is it posted on the website that someone who is interested?

Yes, it is. If you go under boards and commissions and you go under each board and it'll have vacant on the bottom of it. Vacancies are on there, right? Yes.

Okay. I'm adding a motion.

The board of public works to appointments you guys there they will be in the advisory position and The way it works is when a regular member Retires or for whatever reason can't serve then the advisory members come up and it's in order of seniority. So That's what these two are That's correct. They're both advisory members. It's a good learning process. So I still need to ask you guys for your votes. All those in favor of appointing these two gentlemen, please say aye.

Aye. Opposed?

Thank you.

Planning and Zoning Commission appointment.

All right. Dear Council Members, I herewith submit for your approval the following for appointment to the Planning and Zoning Commission. Bailey Kitchell.

I'll make a motion.

Okay. Second. Motion by Briggs, second by Coulter. Her term will expire in July of 2030. And I think Bailey is here tonight. I think I saw her come. Bailey, you want to stand up so they can see your face? I thought she was.

Thank you.

Thank you. Okay, we have a... Motion and a second, you guys, to approve. All those in favor, say aye. Aye.

Motion passes.

Thank you.

City administrator report, mint.

All right. Dear council members, I respectfully submit for your approval the appointment of Chad Pullman as city administrator for the city of Washington, effective July 20, 2026. He has accepted our conditional offer of employment, pending your approval, and all required pre-employment testing and screening is complete. His expected start date would be August 10th of 2026. And before you guys say anything, I would like to read a quick bio, which, Chad, quite frankly, we didn't want to announce too much about you. with respect to your wishes as well as your former employer, or present employer, I should say. So anyway, you guys, Chad has 20 years of leadership experience across municipal government, public service, public education, military service to bring to his role. He previously served as Parks and Rec Director for the City of Union, where he was responsible for department operations, budgeting, personnel, capital projects, public communication, and the maintenance of municipal property. He is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and the Missouri National Guard with two deployments to Iraq and one deployment to Afghanistan. He holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from Leonard Wood University and he has an executive certificate in public administration from Liberty University. He has brought his beautiful family with him tonight. And I ask for your approval, you guys, in the strongest terms. Would you come up to that place? If you guys have questions, I am sure he'd be happy to answer.

I just saw another gray hair pop out of your head. My question is just, do you have anything that you want to tell us about yourself?

I'm just really interested to start working, getting to know you guys, getting to know the staff here, and just putting in some work. So I'm open. I'm an open book. If you have any questions for me, I think the bio kind of explains my background. But my priorities are my family, my work, and my community.

Thank you.

I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second.

Hold on. I'm not against the appointment either but there again. We had a close session about this we talked about. How many years vacation and we've never seen any of that.

So it was in the guidelines that you gave.

We can send that to you for me will send that to you OK.

And then no disrespect either teach it.

I've just I was under the under I was under the impression to that we were going to see something that was listed and was offered to him before we before we did this also just just want to put that in there.

We will send that to you first thing tomorrow morning.

Any further. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Welcome.

Thank you.

Chad, would you like to introduce your family, please?

I'd love to. This is my wife, Katrina.

public hearings rezoning one zero eight three beaker road

All right. Good evening, Council. Before you, we have a rezoning request for 1083 Beaker Road. This is kind of on the curve of Beaker Road down here near all the existing duplexes. And the request at hand is a rezoning from single family R1A to R2 to match the existing duplexes along Beaker Road. So taking a look at our comprehensive plans, future land use map, which we consult for all rezonings, It has the following description of the area of type 1 residential countrysides, medium to large lot neighborhoods, a mix of detached single-family homes, attached villas in a suburban setting, cul-de-sac curvilinear street systems, optional sidewalks, private yards. They're usually built around common ground tracks. So while duplexes are not exactly one of the recommended uses here they share a lot of characteristics with attached villas which you know as as you all know this this section of beaker road is low density multi-family that is the request before you today so some staff comments about this rezoning it meets all the lot requirements for the r2 family zoning district lot size lot width etc there's no screening requirements for r2 two family to the adjacent single family r1a Most of the homes fronting along Beaker Road are zoned, I should say, along this section of Beaker Road are zoned R2 family or R1C, single family attached, and staff recommend approval. With that, I'll take any questions.

Is this going to be a vacant lot?

Yes. This is one of the only vacant, I think it might be the only vacant lot on this section of Beaker Road.

It looks like there's, is there a structure or a shed?

There is an existing shed, but the applicant has indicated they're probably gonna take that down or use it for storage.

Public hearing.

I'll make a motion we accept in the- No, it's a public hearing.

Sorry.

Public hearing. Folks, this is a public hearing, so if anyone in the audience would like to address this, now's your chance. Thank you.

I'll make a motion we accept in the minutes.

Okay. Second. Motion by Briggs, second by Patke to accept in two minutes. Any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Motion passes. It's in the minutes.

An ordinance rezoning lot two of Beaker Heights subdivision from R1A single family residential to R2 two family residential in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri.

Briggs. Introduced by Briggs. Further discussion on this, you guys. Second reading, Sherry, please.

An ordinance rezoning lot two of the Beaker Heights subdivision from R1A single-family residential to R2 two-family residential in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. Heydrich.

Aye.

Coulter. Yes. Holtmeyer. Aye. Sollentrop.

Yes.

Behr. Yes. Pepsil. Yes. Paki. Yes. Briggs.

Yes. Your vote, ordinance 3B, passes. C, please.

Special use permit 24 West 2nd Street, backlit cabinet sign.

Yes, good evening, Council. This is a request to approve a special use permit for a backlit cabinet sign. If you will remember, early last month, the Council approved a code change that required all backlit cabinet, electronic message, and neon signs to have a special use permit downtown, whereas previously they were not allowed at all. And so the sign in question is for Trashy Roots Salon. This is an old Google Street View imagery, but it is to reface this sign right here. And if you've been by that area, you might know that this is an existing sign. It's up today. But they did not obtain a permit to put up said sign when it was not allowed in in the area so this is the current code that was changed in june internally your backlit cabinet sign shall be permitted only by special use permit within any city historic district design review area or any other properties on the national register of historic places so some information about the sign it is an existing non-conforming sign downtown staff became aware of the sign when researching precedent for the elijah mclean uh mangia bellia variants to allow a backlit sign in the design review area so we got in contact with the owner and knowing that new rules were in development staff gave the owner a grace period until the code amendment was passed last month and once it was passed we reached out and said you have to apply for a special use permit So some staff comments on this specific request. The lighting fixture has existed for well over a decade, but the new cabinet was installed sometime after May of 2024. The special use permit is to ensure the new sign face is compliant with our code. We see no issues with allowing an existing sign to continue being lit as it has been for well over a decade. The sign meets all applicable special use criteria and staff recommends approval. And this was also recommended by Historic Preservation and Planning Commission. Any questions?

Take a motion to accept, you guys. It's a public hearing. It is a public hearing. Thank you. Anyone would like to comment on this? Please approach the podium. Thank you.

Make a motion to accept in a minutes.

Second. Motion by Briggs, second by Patke to accept into the minutes. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? It's in the minutes. D, please.

An ordinance granting a special use permit for a backlit cabinet sign at 24 West 2nd Street in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri.

Briggs. Introduced by Briggs. Further discussion or questions about this case? Second reading, please.

An ordinance granting a special use permit for a backlit cabinet sign at 24 West 2nd Street in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. Heydrich?

Aye.

Coulter? Yes. Holtmeyer?

Aye.

Solentrop? Yes. Barrett? Yes. Pepsil? Yes. Patke?

Yes. Briggs? Yes. By your vote ordinance, 3D passes. E, please.

Special use permit, a 514 West Front Street backlit cabinet sign.

Yes, good evening. This is a request for, as similar to the last one, a backlit cabinet sign in the design review area. This time it is a new backlit cabinet sign specifically for the old 514 space down here I believe was driftwood was another name for this space at one point in time But the request specifically is for Papa's pizzeria. You can see the sign in question here here's a rendering of it at night rendering during the daytime and staff comments So it is next to a neon sign, Sugar Fire, which is not a recommended lighting method in our design guidelines, meaning that another sign that is not recommended, it's not out of character for the area that it's in along Front Street there where there's a lot more off street parking and you rely on more vehicle traffic to the area as opposed to the downtown that's closer into Lafayette and front there. So it may be visible from some of the nearby residential homes. Most property owners who will be have been contacted the proposed sign meets all applicable special use criteria staff recommend approval past historic preservation and planning commission unanimously we did receive a couple of comments from individuals who lived up on believe that's ryan river lane right here these folks they were concerned about the signs you know then them being able to see it but it's on the front of the building and that was not really applicable so they had their concerns addressed with that any questions

Ben Zieglin from Zieglin Signs was at the planning and zoning meeting. And he said that the lights on the building will be brighter than the sign will. There's a couple of people that were here that night that were going to talk about it. And once he said that, they didn't have a problem with the sign anymore. So just so you know.

Thank you.

Are there questions or discussions? Again, this is a special use permit, and if anyone in the audience would like to step forward to comment on POPOs, now's your chance.

Okay, take a motion.

I have a motion. So moved.

Motion by Behr, seconded by Coulter. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Motion passes, thank you. After please.

An ordinance granting a special use permit for a backlit cabinet sign at 514 West Front Street in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri.

Mayor. Introduced by mayor. Further discussion or questions? Secondary, please.

An ordinance granting a special use permit for a backlit cabinet sign at 514 West Front Street in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. Heydrich?

Aye.

Coulter?

Yes.

Holtmeyer? Aye. Sollentrop? Yes. Behr? Yes. Pepsil? Yes. Hackey?

Yes.

Briggs?

Yes.

By a vote, Ordinance 3F passes. Gee, please.

Retail parking changes.

Yes, good evening. So if you'll remember, at our last council meeting, I gave a presentation to this board about some retail parking changes that we are aiming to pass tonight. The ordinance is to come later in the meeting. And I guess this is the same information that was presented to you at the last meeting, but we needed two public hearings because we're amending two different code sections. And I just, yeah, we needed two different, public hearings for that reason. So with that, I'll just give a brief overview over the proposed changes and I'll take questions afterwards. So we are changing removing convenience stores and this is this is for our off street parking definitions. we're removing the definition for convenience stores furniture and appliance stores hardware stores wholesale establishments clothing stores shoe repairs and just having them under the general retail store parking definition because they're these definitions are you know provide excess parking and over parked stores that don't accurately reflect the parking demand And with that, one change that was recommended from planning and zoning was to change the definition to reflect the to go to one parking space for each 350 square feet of floor area to one parking space for each 350 square feet of interior floor area dedicated to the sale of goods. So you're actually getting to space that is being used by customers instead of just overall square footage. So an example that was brought up was Washington Lumber. They have a lot of sort of storage and storage area that is not actually being used by people who are driving to the establishment. So you want to have your definitions reflect the parking demand of the use. Another change that is being proposed is to eliminate some duplicate definitions that can make the parking calculation variable for staff. We want to eliminate anything that can be misconstrued and streamline our definitions. And so with that, having one definition for entertainment, assembly, or exhibition places or restaurants before we had two. And then lastly here Planning Commission requested that we review best practices for clubs nightclub slash bar parking requirements and We have a new all-encompassing definition for drinking establishments and the parking requirements for that use are one space for every 175 square feet and they're defined as a tavern in our use table. And so those are the proposed changes With that I will take questions

So the space of 175 square feet per space is that because occupancy

It's not necessarily related to occupancy. It's just because bars have different... Well, I guess it is related to occupancy, but it's not related to building code occupancy. It's just sort of... We're requiring less parking for alcohol-specific uses to encourage folks to maybe... not drive to bars or things of this nature. Whereas a restaurant, you want to have enough parking for your customers and such. So that's the reason why we're requiring less parking for drinking establishments.

Thank you.

Further questions or discussions, you guys? OK.

It is a public hearing.

Would anyone like to comment on our parking proposals? Okay. Well, all it shows on my sheet is this is for approval.

I'll make a motion to accept in the minutes.

Motion by Briggs. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Behr. Further discussion, you guys.

All right. All those in favor say aye.

Aye. Opposed? Okay, it passes.

Citizens' comments?

Anyone in the audience would like to comment upon something that is not in the agenda tonight? Now is your chance. Okay, thank you.

Report of Department Heads, Banking Services, Contract Extension.

Good evening, Council. I have in your packet an extension. Well, the Finance Committee recommended allowing the automatic extension to take effect for August 1, 2026, to extend the banking contract for depository services with the Bank of Franklin County for an additional year. That's allowed in the contract, and the current bank Contract states that the interest rates if they increase they'll be passed on at the higher rates in addition They'll be We have surplus funds invested at the Bank of Washington and that'll still be the same thing because they've also agreed to pass on any rate increases to the city also so I like to have I like to try to keep both banks. I mean, if we can, you know, I kind of like that. So if the council is in agreement with the Finance Committee's recommendation, no action needs to take place as the extension will automatically take place.

Discussion.

Okay.

Make a motion to approve.

No action. No action.

No, I need action. I need for I need for it to be approved There's no action.

Yes Still have to accept it Motion by Solon truck second by mayor Thank you true action except or whatever except in the minutes.

Thank you. Yes.

Okay further discussion or questions

Thank you. Thanks, Tammy.

All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? It passes.

Now, Sullivan Trump wants to make a motion for no action. No action.

It's going to be accepted into the minutes. It's going to be reflected in there. Ordinances and resolutions. An ordinance of ending sections 400.045 and 400.265.C of the Code of the City of Washington, Missouri. Sullivan Trump. Is the ordinance to follow the public hearing about our parking changes Questions or further discussions you guys Okay, second reading an ordinance amending sections four zero zero point zero four five and four zero zero point two six five point C of the Code of the City of Washington, Missouri Hydrate hi Colter.

Yes

Holtmeyer. Aye. Soloncheff. Yes. Behr. Yes. Pepsil. Yes. Patke. Yes. Riggs.

Yes. By vote, Ordinance 7A passes. B, please.

An ordinance authorizing and directing the execution of a professional services agreement by and between the City of Washington, Missouri and Lockmuller Group Inc. for the intersection of Pottery Road and Highway 100 traffic analysis and CMAQ application.

Holtmeyer. Introduced by Holtmeyer.

Good evening, Council. So following last year's CMAC grant application at High Street and Highway 100, we've been looking to do a grant application at Pottery and Highway 100 to help with the development growth to the south there off High Street. Locke Mueller helped the city with the traffic impact study for all of that development, as well as putting together the application for the CMAC at High Street and Highway 100. So looking at them again, to help with this one, get the traffic analysis conceptual plan and estimate. And what we're looking at there at Pottery Road and Clay Street is widening that out. So right now you have a combined left and through lane off of both those streets. So separating those out, having a dedicated left turn, dedicated through, and dedicated right turn lane. So, any questions?

They're gonna take consideration if we make that four lanes.

Yeah, and I talked to them about, you know, making sure we consider we're going to widen this in the future, so we plan for that now, take that back far enough so we'd have that.

So you could potentially construct this before we go to four lanes?

Right, that's the idea, right? There's already a demand. We get a lot of calls at Pottery Road because of now we have that connection on Don Avenue between High Street and Pottery Road. The apartments are potentially looking at a second phase there off Don Avenue, so it's coming before we probably get to that. Four lane extension through there. So we'd like to have this improvement but build it in a way that when we do the extension we're not We're gonna build the stoplights for that also at this time for turn lanes and everything for the four lanes, yeah Honestly haven't because now would probably be the time to do it instead of having to go back and tear it out.

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Yeah, that's a good thought. We can definitely add that to the application and see if we can get that. MoDOT may push back, but we can ask for it.

Well, I know with High Street, we had to go back and do it. Right. We can get ahead of it now. We can get it done all at once.

Yeah, we'll definitely see if we can get that and put it in the grant application. You guys are good with that?

That would tell MoDOT we're serious about the four lanes too that needs to happen.

It's going to start from High Street to there for sure.

Right.

Is there a chance of getting a left turn signal north and south on Pottery Road?

Yeah, that's what we're talking about. Adding a dedicated left turn and signal for that off of Pottery and off of Clay Street. This is an 80-20. This would be 80-20. This would be the CMAQ congestion mitigation.

Further questions or discussions, you guys?

No, I just want to say, commend Charles. This is the next step. You know, High Street's there. We kind of made the improvements there. We know the four lanes are coming. This is the next step. We get ahead of this with the CMAQ. You know, it's going to happen again. I mean, the light at the school needs to be better, you know, left road as we go. So, yeah, I think I just want to say keep up the good work and keep the grants happening. That's what we got. We got to go in that direction for sure.

Amen. Other questions or discussions? Okay, second reading.

An ordinance authorizing and directing the execution of a professional services agreement by and between the City of Washington, Missouri and Lockmuller Group, Inc. for the intersection of Pottery Road and Highway 100 traffic analysis and CMAQ application. Heydrich?

Aye. Yes.

Holtmeyer? Aye. Sollentrop? Yes. Behr? Yes. Pepsil? Yes. Pat Key? Yes.

Riggs? Yes. By your vote, Ordinance 7B passes. C, please.

And ordinance authorizing and directing the execution of a contract agreement by and between the City of Washington, Missouri and Pace Construction Company LLC for the 2026 Overlay Project.

Solentrop. Introduced by Solentrop.

So this is our local street paving project for this year. We were able to budget $250,000. So we came in under that budget. Pace was the low bidder. MB West was the second bidder. looking to get these streets that are listed here paved in Nova chip and Should be done by November 15th Grind grind any of the edges.

Yeah, they're gonna taper mill so that we don't have that sitting above the curb like we had Thank you Charles since this is fresh in our mind, too Can we do we have an idea what streets are gonna be on there for next year? I?

We don't. Every winter we like to re-rate them and kind of go off of that. We are looking at, I mean, budgets aren't complete, but we're looking at doubling that and doing 500,000 next year so we can get some more streets.

I know we're asked quite a bit, you know.

Yeah, and if you guys, you know, hear from people and want to, you know, have us take a closer look at certain streets, we can definitely do that. I'll give you a lift. Yeah.

I think we all have a lift.

Yeah, we can definitely do that. But we try and every winter, you know, re-rate all of the streets, take a look at them, and really hit the ones that need to hit. A lot of these ended up having water main replacements and patches that have just been settling and really taking care of it.

Have we been looking at alleyways that we own?

Honestly, we've been kind of keeping those on the lower priority, but I have been getting more kind of calls about the alley, especially near the ends where the trash trucks have been, you know, kind of getting off of them on the steep approaches and that. So something we can take a look at, but they've always kind of been on the lower priority just because they're not.

I don't know about anybody else, but I do get calls about alleys.

Okay. I sent him some today. Huh? I sent him some today. Yeah.

This is the most common question that we are all asked.

And with passing the new tax, I mean, when we get into 2030 and that year, we should have, you know, more money to focus on these local street paving projects, and that's really what we're hoping to focus on at that point.

That's what I was just going to say, the same thing, Charles, is the fact that we have the ability to do this. You know, a lot of times we're scrounging on the fixing potholes or whatever, but now we actually have a pavement plan in place and go forward. And if we can double the... budget next year if you're looking at that we're in a good spot we just got to find that you know find those streets so again i just want to say it's a good thing that we're in that situation no doubt we could start in ward one easy easy now four i want four with three with leaf pickup You didn't finish your sentence. That's with leaf pickup. You always get it first every year. So we're paving other points.

We have the most trees on it in town.

Oh, right. You always pay from west to east. That's just the way it works. Charles, you brought up a good point about 2030. it goes without saying that that's when the bonds that we took out to build the bridge, not the bridge, but the four lanes on East 100, they expire. So everything we get from that tax is now gonna go to what we've talked about tonight. Future improvements, yeah. That's correct, future improvements. So gang, we're, I don't wanna jinx this, but we're sitting pretty good, road-wise.

But our constituents, our residents, have voted for that. And therefore, we follow through and do it. Right. We're not looking to keep it in the bank. We're looking to fix streets and projects as needed, no doubt. Yep. Action.

Action.

Action on this one.

Action. Will do. OK. Any other discussion about Ordon 7C, you guys? Second reading, sure.

In ordinance authorizing and directing the execution of a contract agreement by and between the City of Washington, Missouri and Pace Construction Company, LLC, for the 2026 overlay project. Heidrich? Aye. Coulter? Yes. Holtmeyer? Aye. Solentrop? Yes. Behr? Yes. Pepsil? Yes. Papke? Yes. Briggs?

Yes. By your vote, Ordinance 7C passes. Dee, please.

In ordinance approving a boundary adjustment for Stonebridge Platte 8 in the City of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri.

Good evening. Here you have a boundary adjustment for two lots in Stonebridge. As you can see, the lot lines that they're changing are very close together. What has happened here is the developer home builder wants to put a three-car garage on lot 165 are and was just didn't have quite enough room. So they're adding a couple feet onto this lot and taking a couple feet away from 164 so any questions Square footage is right. Yep meets meets all minimum lot sizes lot widths all that.

Okay For the questions or discussion second reading I

An ordinance approving a boundary adjustment for Stone Bridge Platte 8 in the City of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. Heydrich. Aye. Coulter. Yes. Hultmeyer. Aye. Sollentrop. Yes. Behr. Yes. Pepsil. Yes. Patke. Yes. Briggs.

Yes. By your vote, Ordinance 7D passes. Next, please.

Commission, committee, and board reports and ordinance approving the final development plan submitted by Unkoe Development Corp for the commons at Foxcrest on property as described below.

Sondrup. Introduced by Sondrup.

Good evening. Yes, this is the final plan and after this we'll have the final class approval of the Commons at Foxcrest which is the land just south of Foxcrest Drive here by the new firehouse and so this is a final approval process in the plan development plan process the preliminary plan was approved By Council in April and the final plan and plats reflect all changes That were requested and and conditions that were put on by Council and If there's, so yeah, this is an 83 lot subdivision, mostly attached town homes. There were some concerns at the time about addressing and these, so because these town homes right here, their front door faces this common area right here. So these homes are addressed off this alley, and same goes for these homes right here. They're addressed off this alley. 12-foot alleys throughout. Actually, I should say these two alleys are 12 feet. This one's 15 feet, and there's an additional bump out right here for trash trucks. 30-foot streets, no parking on one side, the south side right here because you have all the driveways that are going out onto Bluestem Drive, which is the loop road right here. There is screening. They're going to cut a rock wall right here and then build another block wall right here and have a fence along both walls right here and keep the natural tree buffer to the south.

houses ahead. They're facing what street is that on the far right.

Blue stem drive and then those those are going to face blue stem drive so they'll have direct access to a to a 30 foot. I mean that they're they want of garages that will front that street but that the home itself will face.

Blue stem drive there are wider those 2 streets where people have that one over here and one over there.

1212 feet. From for everything we need I I believe so I believe that was worked out with the street department and Waste connections. They said that was that was adequate enough

Correct me if I'm wrong, Aaron. They agreed to put sprinklers on the inside. Yes, I believe that was what the Planning and Zoning Commission gave. Correct.

That was a condition of approval that those interior units didn't need to be sprinkled.

For the 12-foot streets, we let them have 12-foot streets and they put in sprinkler systems. Correct. That was give and take for that.

Correct. The other thing I should mention regarding final plat and well, more relevant to final plat, but I'll just address it right now is the minimum improvements are not complete yet for this subdivision. So the developer is escrowing to be able to get that approved tonight and start applying for building permits.

Questions, discussion? Are you ready for a second reading? Yes, please. Mm-hmm.

An ordinance approving the final development plan submitted by Unco Development Corp for the Commons at Foxcrest on property as described below. Heydrich?

Aye.

Poulter?

Yes.

Holtmeyer? Aye. Solentrop? Yes. Behr? Yes. Pepsil? Yes. Patke? Yes. Briggs?

Yes. By your vote, ordinance 8A passes. B, please.

Ordinance approving the final plat of the Commons at Foxcrest in the city of Washington Franklin County, Missouri And this is just the final plat for the same subdivision we discussed Their discussion or questions guys Second An ordinance approving the final plat of the Commons and Foxcrest in the City of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. Heydrich? Aye. Coulter?

Yes.

Hultmeyer? Aye. Sollentrop? Yes. Behr? Yes. Pepsil? Yes. Patke?

Yes. Sorry, my question is, what did we just approve? We approved the final development plan. Yes. And now we're approving the final? Platt. Platt, yes. Okay. Sorry, I was going to confuse you. Aye.

Yes.

Is that it? By your vote, Ordinance 8B passes.

Mayor's report.

Gang, the time we're going through now is a time of transition. Our city and our citizens and a lot of folks are gonna be getting used to life without one of the most influential people we have ever known in our lives, especially in Washington, Missouri, being LB. And we're also, as a city, we're going to get used to a new city administrator. And we're in that time of transition, you guys. Chad brings new ideas. I can't wait to hear them. but i ask all of us in this room especially you guys in the audience to give chad a break help him along the way and all of us too you guys and i just just because we're washing that's what we do here we get stuff done welcome to getting stuff done

I also do it in Washington. I live in a town without an R. That's okay. You have a German last name, man. I just want to make sure Chad starts off right.

He's got a German last name. He didn't apply for the wrong town.

He made a point in Germany to say it was Washington to everybody.

That's all I got.

In terms city administrators report there will be a budget workshop meeting on Monday August 3rd, 2026 at 06 PM. Council comments.

To have to be on the 3rd. It be the following week.

That's when we usually have it every year. We always have it the first week of August. That way it gives us time if we need to change our budget highlights, then we can present it at the next meeting, for the meeting in September, because we have to approve the budget by the end of September.

Yes, Mother.

Council comments?

I don't have what Steve and Al and Tim have, but that's fair week, and that's why it's being talked about. If it's possible, it should be the week before if we can do that for budget. Right, Steve? Yeah. That's what we're saying.

I mean, we can do it this year like that, but I think in the future.

Now you're talking about next Monday. That puts a lot of pressure on us. We're not going to be ready by next week.

We can't do it this year. I know that. But, I mean, you're saying we've got to do it in time for the budget to pass. Correct. We just need to be a week or two earlier to talk about budget if that were next year possible for next year We can do that.

Absolutely.

Yeah, that's just something that It's not because Steve's crabby, it's because he has stuff to do.

I never said Steve was crabby.

Hey, I just appreciate it when you take action.

All right. Stop it.

We're on Council Commons. We can say what we want.

Motion to adjourn.

Second.

Second. Second by Hydridge to adjourn. All those in favor say aye. Aye. We're done.

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