City Council - Regular Meeting

change it up. All right. Good evening everyone and welcome to our work session uh meeting for Monday, February 9th. Uh it is now 5:33 so we are going to get our work session started. Thank you again for joining us. We'll proceed with the next item on the agenda which is the roll call. Mayor Geritano present. Council member Farmer Council Member Dodwell. Council member Nying. Council member Utenberg. Council member Traier here. Council member Mabberry. Council member Rablooski here. Council member Preston here. Council member Marshall present. Council member McCutchen here. Council member Rambo

here. Council member Bockart present. Council member Crayons here. Council member Vanic here. Council member Alers here. Council member Galani here.

All right. Great. Thank you everyone. Uh welcome again. I do not have any items under uh the mayor's comments and announcements for our work session. So uh we'll proceed. uh for information is the next section on the agenda for this evening. This again uh you've been provided with information related to these items. This would be the appropriate time if you wish to ask any questions, seek clarification on these items. Just remember that for information, these items uh are not uh do not require any action. Does anyone have any question? I council member McCutchen and and which item is that? Um I it's I don't I just have notes. Is it okay if I just or do you want me to actually attach it to an item number?

Oh, is it not related to one of the four information items? Yeah, it's a four information item. Okay, go ahead then. Okay. Um, so I guess basically, um, I don't know if this is a Rick question, but the MSD funds that we're getting for, or it might be a joke question, that we're getting for erosion and the ones for evergreen forest. I keep being asked when is that going to start? Do you have any idea?

Miss McCutchen, based upon information that has been provided to the city by the Metropolitan St. Louis SU District, the work is scheduled, I believe, for 2027. So, they'll do their design and engineering, the permitting processes. they have to go through. They're not immune to the board of engineers and other federal requirements and then hopefully they'll come to us with the plans at some point for our review and comment. But 2027 and we can't do anything to help those residents then because it's MSD territory. Correct.

Mr. McCutchen, as you know, that was the number one priority project that came out of the watershed erosion task force led by Mr. Farmer. But if we spend money there, MSD will probably pull that money away and this way we can do more projects and address um the that list of needs sooner than later.

No, I understand. Um [clears throat] so I I can just tell him what what to expect. Um and then my other comment um is in planning and parks we were discussing about adding uh Route 66 to the celebrate Wildwood. Did anything come about that for certain or

Yes. Um for the benefit of the other city council members that the planning and parks committee decision was made to eliminate the plane air event as a standalone component of the city's recreation schedule. But the committee also agreed that there's a way to kind of work it into celebrate Wildwood, reduce the cost substantially, but still get products from our residents in terms of art and photography that we can basically display here at city hall during Celebrate Wildwood the day of the event. So that's we just as a footnote, we talked with the Wildwood Celebration Commission on Wednesday. They thought it was a great idea, so they're ready to move forward with it as well. And we also talked about including um Route 66 celebration within Wildwood Celebrate Wildwood. Do you know where that is?

Yes. The Wildwood Celebration Commission will have at its meeting in March a discussion of how to basically coordinate the country's 250th birthday and Route 6600th anniversary. Two major milestones in a single year. Save some funding. Thank you. That's all the questions I have. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member McCutchen. Do we have anyone else with any questions or items again related to anything under information? This would be the appropriate time and certainly if uh there is anything else that comes up, we can uh revisit under miscellaneous. Sure. Council member Crayons.

Hey Joe, we talked about this and I think we should u let people know. Um I asked the question who gets the the vendor fees uh the manager at the farmers market. Yes, Mr. Cray as we discussed the city provides a stipen to the market manager who for the past few years has been Natalie Mackoy. That stipen is $18,000. That's not been raised since she accepted the position as I say about four or five years ago. We do provide another $1,000 for all the memberships we require in those farmer market organizations, Agro, Missouri, etc. And then we do allow her to keep the fees for all the vendor booths.

Initially, that fee was about $25 a booth. At this stage, I'm not sure if that's the same or not. And my promise to you was I'll find out what she char plans on charging for 2026. H uh how many vendors uh normally do we have? That's a very good question. Initially when Miss Makavoy first started the farmers market was more of an a downward trend. That's changed. Last year there were several weekends where she had 60 vendors. So still $25 attend or vendor. That's about $1,500 she collected. And you you how many days uh is the market open

this year? There'll be two in May, then June, July, August, September. So 16, it's roughly saying four Saturdays a month. That's 18. Then four um two more, one in October and one in November. We're talking another 25 to 30 grand, right? Uh potentially. I just want to I just want to make sure the public's aware of that. That's all. Um so we say 18,000, we're we're we're talking much more. Yes. as the vendor numbers have grown, so has her her salary. So, she does a great job. So, yep. And it's a great way to that's the incentive to get out and kind of beat the bushes and get vendors if she can.

Right. Thank you. More the mayor here. And and director Vunich, uh I'll add too, I believe she's also helped us out with the holiday events. Uh do you want to mention that?

Yes. As you know, the holiday tree lighting has become one of the signature events of the city. And for many years, the department of planning and parks had attempted to get vendors to participate. We were successful generally, but the last couple of years, Miss Makavoy as just a thank you, has helped us, and the vendor numbers have multiplied at our holiday tree lighting. And so, she's an effective salesperson for the city, and we'd like to keep her around. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Anything else, Council Member Grans? Okay, great. Anyone else? Council member Troy here. [snorts]

Thank you. I have a two-part question for the admin and public works. Uh item number two, contractor bids for concrete work. My first question is for the city attorney. Um, this item is for information in the work session and then I think it is listed as bill 3042 for its first reading during the meeting. At what time in this bill's process is it appropriate to make a motion to amend the bill? After the first reading, so the second meeting at which it will be presented.

Okay. Thank you. And then for the department, uh my question as it relates to the Turnberry line item specifically, um I believe it was mentioned during the July 9th meeting last year that this particular line item would be considered when the city is performing concrete maintenance work in the area. And I did not notice any proposed work in the Turnberry uh Strucker intersection area for 2026. Well, I think part of the motion was to proceed um as quickly and efficiently as possible. So we put it into this year's improvement project as a line item, a separate bid item for the contractor. So as to get clear-cut costs on the additional costs incurred to restore traffic on Turnberry Place at Streker. So it's in there as a separate line item. We just felt by doing this we would be meeting overall the intent of the motions that came from city council and from Edmond Public Works.

Thank you. city administrator has something he wishes to add.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, just wanted to add as well that that July meeting that was when it was initially discussed the most to expedite it in the most feasible and equitable manner. Uh, the department looked into it and there were no plans to do concrete street slab replacement work in Turnberry just yet. It was looking more 2027 28 couple years out. Uh but when the budgetary process came back and an admin PW uh administration public works committee in October when we were reviewing the road and bridge fund it was then discussed that we they there was a discussion to include this item in the 2026 fiscal year budget under road and bridge and then to consolidate it to make it equitable and as efficient as possible to bid it out with other relevant concrete work. So then at that point we compiled it. We still had it called out independently, but that's the reason and the rationale for it being in the capital uh the concrete tree side placement RFP.

Understood. Just to be clear though, there is no other work concrete work taking place in that vicinity. Thank you. Um city ministry Lee, I do have a question. uh when that was discussed because I understand the reasoning that's been mentioned regarding the turnberry but we have other streets or areas that are not connected. Were those also identified that should be also quoted?

Yes, we did have and I can I'll defer to director Brown a little bit on this. His team conducted the the review, but there were some um other areas that were identified but none of the other ones had were private in nature. So the other ones had the Ballards up, but they were connecting to a privately maintained roadway. So this was the only one identified um as a public street connected to a public street with Ballards serving as some type of obstruction. Um I think Birch Forest though that has that's a public road and it connects to another public road. That one was not included in the analysis, but that is there's that's a fair point. So administrator can

I would think then um if we're going to be pursuing that we have to make sure we have a comprehensive list of every location in the city and treat them fairly if I may. So that that was included in the review mayor and it was not considered a public roadway. Those an installation is on a permanent easement within common ground of the HOA. So, it was not considered a public street for the purposes of the review, but it was it was included in the original listing of barriers and gates that was in was reviewed as part of the policy that was passed by the council. All right. Thank you, Rick. Yeah. Uh, city attorneys, you had something.

Yeah. I want to correct not after first reading, it's second reading. I apologize. is when an amendment is appropriate pursuant to the city code. All right. Thank you. Anyone else have anything? Council member Farmer.

Um, yeah. I don't know if this is technically part of the investment thing, but I figured it's a good question to ask. And I might have missed it, Tom, if you put it in something else. But I [snorts] am pretty sure that when we changed some of the like related some of the financial stuff to like consumer price index and things like that last year, uh we were going to put a memo [clears throat] or something out that just said, you know, here's what like your spending limit approval limit is, here's what the voter approval limit is, all that kind of stuff. just so we all know what we're looking at when it comes time to it. We had a it's not as directly stated was a document included in the budget, but we can send it out as a separate memorandum.

All right. Anyone else have anything? Okay. Seeing none in the for information then we'll proceed with the next part of the agenda which is for action and the first item is a department of planning and parks. So I ask director Vonage to come forward regarding the event matrix evaluations and discussion.

Thank you Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor and members of city council, on November 18th of last year, the planning and parks committee endorsed creating and accepting the project prioritization and event life cycle review framework for so I don't have to say that again the evaluation matrix that evaluation evaluation matrix was reviewed and completed by the department of planning and parks staff and presented to the planning and parks committee. at its last meeting. The matrix looks at the major events that the city offers over the course of any given year. Those major events do not necessarily include early childhood recreation programming, some of our smaller pop-up events, etc., but it does, as mentioned, include all the major recreation events. The matrix allowed us as staff to the city council to consider the revenues that we generate from those as well as the expenditures. And ultimately the planning and parks committee decided to remove one of the events that were part of the matrix and its evaluation. And as I mentioned, that's the plane air event. Typically, that event cost approximately $7,000. we generate less than $2,000 in revenue and the committee believed that that was one that should not be pursued in 2026 or thereafter. As also was mentioned in response to Miss McCutchen's question as we talk through the plane air event decision was made to potentially have it on a much more informal basis over a two-eek period in the latter part of summer have it either do something related to the country's 250th birthday or Route 66 and

its 100th anniversary to accept photographs or artwork to have that judged and and displayed as part of Celebrate Wildwood and ultimately have a component of our annual event reflect our plane air efforts. And so with that, the committee is forwarding to you its recommendation regarding the remaining events which would be retained some with minor modifications and the deletion of the plane air event which occurs at typically on the first Saturday of May. Is there any questions regarding the committee's action? The chair and the department are available to address them. Thank you.

All right. Is there anyone that wishes the council member? Um so I was descending vote on this. Just be upfront about this. Um I don't have any problem with any of the events. Um I am concerned about the scoring matrix. I feel like that it is very subjective. I don't feel like the residents have had enough input into how this is scored. And I guess one of my questions is it says maximum score 10. So how is that 10 determined? And then can it have like three or four or five? And what are the criteria for doing that?

Well, from the department's perspective, it was subjective. We tried to be as fair based upon the criteria that's associated with each of the category scoring the 10 points or less. Ultimately though, we prepared the rest of the information on the matrix so as the committee members and now city council can review it and make their own subjective analysis and tell us if we are close, far away or right on target. And so is there scoring numbers like under 10 or is it just a 10 only and then it's a zero? Do you know what I'm asking?

Yes. From the department's perspective, Lisa's director, we did assign 10, five, and zero. It just seemed like trying to figure out if it's a nine or eight. Either it's something very strong, very weak, or in between.

So what was equivalent to a number five? Um what I would describe, let's say for the perspective of the Haunted Express, the train ride, the five was um did we do everything right? And I gave us a five because we didn't have enough light down in the parking lot area and when you're eating chili and trying to do some different things, got a little difficult. People were using their flashlights on their phones quite a bit. So I gave us it wasn't completely dark and it sure wasn't light enough. Thank you. And

director Voonage like following up on that item. That was the first time we ever held that event. So does the scoring take into account like an event that's been established where you know we've already ironed out all the wrinkles and things that you know because the haunted express was our first time. So I would think that as we do this over several years we will get better at it. Does the scoring take that into account?

Certainly. And I use the haunted express more so than anything because it was a tool. The matrix became a tool to help us understand where we where did we do good for a first time event. Where could we do better if it's a second time event? And per the planning and parks committee, they are recommending that the haunted express stay as one of our 2026 activities. In terms of the more established events, I think the key component there was just an analysis. Are our revenues increasing based upon the direction we received from city council several years ago to increase fees or add fees where they didn't exist? And if so, if our revenues are increasing and we're still not catching up with expenditures, those are the ones we took a hard look at.

Thank you, Director Vunage. And I think you probably would agree when you say revenues, it's really just making sure that uh the revenue meets the cost of the event, and that's certainly something that we're looking at off of. I I this may not please city council but I always as the director of the department I always look at it from the perspective if we could be cost costneutral we've done pretty well if we make money like we do to a certain degree at celebrate wildwood that's great you don't want to lose money though exactly thank you very much thank you

so Mr. Mayor, with the event matrix evaluations before you and as recommended by the planning and parks committee, the department would respectfully request a motion and a second to approve the committee's list of events.

Okay. Is there anyone that wishes to go ahead and make that motion? Council member Crayons. And then is that a second by council member Bockard? Okay. We have a motion on the floor. Any other discussion with the motion on the floor? Council member McCutchen. In this particular instance, Miss McCutchen, I would ask that you're voting on the events because the next item for action is actually the remaining portion of the event schedule for all of 2026. And so yes, I'm asking you based upon the matrix and the evaluation and the committee's discussion and action to vote on the events as they are presented.

All right. Any other questions? Otherwise, we have a motion on the floor. Seeing none, all those in favor, please say I. I.

Anyone oppose or abstain? Right. The motion passes. Moving on. Uh the second item on the agenda also for director Voonage is the city recreation schedule for 2026 final action. Thank you again Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor and members of city council as you may recall at the January meeting the department presented to you three of the events planned for 2026. Those events were partially underway or would get underway almost immediately after the meeting. and so there was the desire to proceed forward with them. One of those events was part of the event matrix um evaluation. The city council concurred with the committee and authorized those events to proceed through the first part of March with the remaining evaluation matrix matrix event matrix evaluations not completed which was planned for the January meeting which in this instance occurred at end of January. The rest of the schedule of events could not be presented for action. Now with the motion and and action of the city council tonight on the event matrix out evaluations, the remainder of the recreation schedule for 2026 is being presented to city council for favorable action based upon the committee's recommendation. If there are any questions, the chair of the committee, Mr. Gotti, and I'd be glad to answer them.

Thank you. Do we have any questions? All right. Seeing none, then uh Director Williams, you would like that motion. Please, if you would a motion to approve the event schedule. All right. Council member Dodwell, do you have a Okay. If you're making the motion, can we get at least a second on the floor? So, we could uh All right. Council member nine. Real quickly, Joe, um, in our committee meeting, we had discussed that in September we were going to move the planair into the celebrate Wildwood as an activity for that. Is that still in consideration?

Very much so. And as I briefly mentioned, the Wildwood Celebration Commission met last um, Wednesday. We talked about it. They were thrilled that we were going to add it. They think it's going to be a nice additional asset for our annual celebration. So, we're moving full speed ahead. Okay, thank you. We have that motion on the floor. Is there anyone else that has any questions? All right, seeing none, then all those in favor, please say I. I.

Anyone oppose or abstain? Right, that motion passes. Uh we'll move on to miscellaneous. Uh we do have um several receive and file items here. Uh and as a reminder to the council, uh unless there's any action taken, then these would just go ahead and be approved. Right, Director Lunich? A couple of the items, Mr. Mayor, relate to conditional use permits. So there is that opportunity for city council to exercise power of review. Sure. And that has to occur within 15 days of your receipt and filing. So it would have to be tonight. So I do have a couple of items I'd like to discuss. Sure. Please go right ahead. Thank you.

If the first item I believe is um Babler Farms LLC, care of Tom Roberts. As you may recall, Mr. Roberts constructed a large water feature that required a conditional use permit. Over the course of time, there have been certain amendments to that conditional use permit. Mr. Roberts requested the planning and zoning commission grant two amendments, one relating to the nuisance bond and the other relating to the three-year review cycle of the permit itself. Planning and zoning commission agreed with releasing the nuisance bond given the condition of the property, not only the large water feature, but now almost 125 acres that is under his ownership. The planning and zoning commission conversely did not want to wave the review cycle at this time but noted that after the three years passes and the review does occur again if all is well then that it would be appropriate at that time to consider its removal. So tonight you have a favorable action on one amendment nuisance bond and no action on the other. And as I just mentioned to Mayor Garitano, if you choose to exercise your power of review and take this matter up before city council as a whole, it will have to happen tonight because we don't meet again in until almost 30 days, not 15 days. Thank you,

Council Member Cray. Easy question for you, Joe. That CUP, what's the length of that? Is that a year? Um, it depends. um for telecommunication facilities which kind of have a notorious history of lack of maintenance. They're on a year cycle. The YMCA and their athletic fields which were at one time down at Lasal Institute was on a 10-year window. So, it varies on the use and sometimes just the track record associated with the entity that has us. What's our situation here?

As you know, Mr. Roberts initially had more of a approach to start the project and if something came up and he was discovered then he'd get a permit and that kind of carried on for a number of years. I list many of the the many of the site visits the department had to make to slow Mr. Roberts down. The department just doesn't want to back away yet. We've had a good stretch of a number of years. Let's keep it going for another three years and then after that we'll do it on a case-byase basis based upon neighbor complaints. So when's the next time he comes out for review?

It'll be three years from January. So roughly let's say January of 2029. Okay. So that's his cup then. mayors and then if the planning and zoning commission and city council concur to remove that then the cup would not be reviewed ever again. Thanks. Please go ahead. I get Mr. Mayor with your permission is there anyone that would like to exercise power of review?

Seeing none go ahead. Um the second item relates to a preliminary plat that was approved by the planning and zoning commission. This preliminary plat would approve reapproves a six lot subdivision at the intersection of state highway T and middle rose road. It is property owned by St. Albins's properties. So it's part of the St. Albins's development and they would like to do six lots in the Wildwood portion of that development. The lots range in size from four to almost 11 acres. Thank you, Mr. Newberry. The image, Muriel image is up there. Now, this is the plat itself. Obviously, all of the lots are greater than the 3 acre minimum. And there was a question relating to the step street on the northernmost lot south of Routt T. And we did inquire of St. Alvin's property, the property owner, and they think they'll serve an additional four lots off of that. Those four lots are in Franklin County. I will tell you though, the street meets City of Wildwood standards in its portion. If there are any questions on the plot, the department be glad to answer them.

All right. Um the next item relates to Ashley Grove, a 5acre track that's located in Town Center uh between West Avenue and Center Avenue south of Manchester Road. This particular um proposal kind of led to the discussion about tea turnarounds, balliards, barriers and etc. Planning and Zoning Commission approved the site development and plan at its meeting last Monday and this project will move forward with 11 new homes to be developed by Prestige Homes and one existing residence to be retained on a northernmost lot that fronts on the center avenue. And as you can see, we have a through street that connects West Avenue to center avenue. So, good job. Hidden activity in town center. If there are any questions on the site to vote and plan or the process, again, Mr. Newberry and I'd be glad to answer them.

Seeing none, please proceed.

Uh, the next item relates to another preliminary plat that has been submitted by JGH Building Group. It is at the northwest corner of Pond Road and Route 100. And in this particular instance, the property is 30 acres in size and the developer is proposing eight new lots. All three acres or greater in size. The developer is dedicating to the city that little 40 foot wide of access. It is property, but it is for access purposes to the city as public space for its future trail that's been planned along the north side of Route 100. The eight lots comply with all of the requirements of the subdivision and development regulations as well as the NU non-urban resident district regulations and the roadway is at 26 ft to meet Metro West Fire District's requirements in terms of width and hybrid access. The planning and zoning commission approved the luminary plat as presented. There any questions tonight? Mr. Newberry and I'd be glad to answer them at this time.

All right, seeing none, you can proceed.

And just as a footnote, um that site originally was 78 acres in size and that was one of the two sites we debated for community park and we ended up where we are out there. The last item is a new conditional use permit for a sales room at Chalili. Chalilly is a plant nursery with green houses at the farmer location of Far Greenhouse. We have the new owners of the property as well as the old owners of property in attendance tonight. I'd like to welcome the bell roses as well as the summers planning and zoning commission granted the conditional use permit for the sales room. For all intents and purposes, uh, Chili will take what Mr. and Mrs. Belrose had for far greenhouse and move forward with it and most in an asis condition. There have been improvements. There are a few improvements required as part of the conditional use permit, but all in all, the status quo is to remain. Tonight though, the department is respectfully requesting that the 15-day period for power review be waved so that the conditional use permit can become effective tonight and Chili can be open for business when the spring season ends. If there are any questions about the commission's action relative to the permit or the department's request for the waiver, the department be glad to answer them at this time. Any questions of uh council member Le.

Thank you. These requests for what I take in effect to be a second reading or a waving of readings, whatever. Uh that's the petitioner's request. What's your what's your not the council's what's your take on that request? Actually, it's kind of funny. It's more the planning and zoning commission's request.

Um the department obviously feels that if you don't exercise power of review, it's a two-eek period where you can't exercise power of review because you don't meet again. But that two weeks means a lot to the petitioner to get things moving and have the sales room ready with um when the plant nursery has all of its things ready to sell for the spring season. So, it's a business initiative I believe started by our planning and zoning commission in this particular case. Thank you. You're welcome, sir.

Well, thank you very much uh Director Vunage for going through these items. Um looks like uh we are now at the end of the miscellaneous section. If I could have a motion and second to wave the 15-day review per Oh, sure. Yeah, absolutely. Uh the permit can be signed and released for recording and business can start out there full speed ahead. Absolutely. And council member Dodwell, I see you are enthusiastically waving your hand. Okay, great. Is there someone who wish to second? I see council member Marshall. So, uh we have that motion on the floor. All those in favor, please say I. I. Anyone oppose or abstain?

Great. Thank you very much. And uh we are now uh approaching uh the end of the work session here. But again, just one final call if there's anything under miscellaneous for the work session. And you know, I'll just comment on that last item there. Uh I do see the former owners here of the Bell Roses and then the Summers family here. And it it just brings me great joy to see the tradition, the work continuing from one generation to the next. Uh I see a lot of energy with the new folks that have acquired the property and uh I'm uh I'm sure you have a lot of pride in seeing that the work continue there. So thanks again. All right. Uh if there isn't anything else, then we'll have a motion to adjourn the work session made by Council Member McCutchen. Is there a second? Council member Farmer. All those in favor, please say I. I. Anyone oppose or abstain. All right. Motion to adjurnn passes. Reconvene at 6:30 for our main meeting. Thank you.

going to get started with our city council meeting. So, you're able to uh please take a seat if there are seats available. I do apologize. We may be out of room in the back here. So, um we're going to get started with our main city council meeting. It is currently 6:32. Um, city clerk, can you please go ahead with the role? Mayor Geritano here. Council member Robooski here. Council member Tradier here. Council member Utenberg. Council member Dodwell. Council member Marshall present. Council member Bert present. Council member Vanic here. Council member Galani here. Council member Preston

here. Council member Mabberry here. Council member Nyan here. Council member Farmer here. Council member McCutchen here. Council member Rambo here. Council member Crayons here. Council member Alers here. I printed the wrong ones out. Thank you. If you can please join me in standing for the uh pledge of allegiance.

Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. All right. Thank you. We'll move on to mayor's announcements and appointments. I'll be coming down in just a second here. We're going to present a proclamation. So, just bear with me as I come down here. Uh this is probably one of the exciting parts of the job as mayor is that I get to present a proclamation from our city where we can recognize uh individuals. So I'd like to ask Mr. for Mark Moser to please come forward uh for uh the proclamation that I'll be presenting to him. And you'll hear more about him in just a second here. But I do want to invite uh another celebrity here who is in the room that is a very true loyal and dedicated fan. He doesn't know that I'm going to call him up here. So I'm going to ask you, Mr. Jamie, you're going to help me with presenting the proclamation. Um, he is a local celebrity if you haven't seen Jamie before. Yeah, I'm going to give Jaime's moment here right now. But Jamie, if you don't know him, uh you can easily find him around uh in Wildwood or where he works. Uh he provides mixed smiles as he says

on social media. And uh I'll tell you, if you're having a bad day, you just go see this guy. He will cheer you up. He's amazing. He's got a magnetic personality. And I know where it comes from. The family there. His mom is right here. Did your dad make it tonight or is he just you tonight here? Okay. So, you know, his mom is here. And Jamie, uh, you're surprised, I bet.

Yeah. Well, you're going to help me by holding the proclamation that we're going to present to Mark Moser. As you could tell, he's a very loyal fan. And so, uh, if you want to hold this for me, I'm going to read it. Okay. All right. So, this proclamation that I'm going to present to you, Mark, uh, is in honor of your, uh, significant contributions here. You are a resident of Wildwood, where you grew up in North St. Louis County, playing youth soccer for Norcco Soccer Club. He went on to excel at Lewis and Clark Community College and Sagamon State University where Mark was a four-time all-American and helped drive Sagamont State to an NIA national championship in 1986 and achieved a final four appearance in 1987. whereas he was integral in Norl's adult national championship, captured the prestigious Open Cup with uh Cudis uh soccer club uh and launched a stellar 12 season professional indoor career, notably with the original St. Louis Storm, St. Louis Ambush, and St. Louis Steamers, earning five all-star selections. Whereas during his indoor career, Mark amassed an incredible 622 goals and 201s across 404 games, including a career-high 89 goals and 26 assists in the 199495 season and led the ambush to their first and only professional soccer championship, earning team MVP and all league honors and ranking among the highest attended games in St. Louis history. Whereas Mark represented the United States with distinction on the US national football team competing in the inaugural 1986

World Championships held in Siggoia, Spain. Whereas on February 7th, 2026, the St. Louis Ambush honored him by retiring his number 15 jersey and unveiling a commemorative banner at the family arena. A testament to his enduring impact on the franchise and the St. Louis soccer community. Whereas in 2023, Mark was inducted into the St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame, joining an elite group of athletes recognized for their significant contributions to the game. Beyond his playing career, Mark has contributed tirelessly as sales manager at KTRS radio for over 27 years, hosts a weekly St. Louis soccer program, and serves as a valued color commentator for Ambush webcasts, continuing to inspire fans, players, and the community. Therefore, it is hereby proclaimed that this 9th day of February, 2026, the city of Wildwood formally recognizes and honors his exceptional achievements, influential leadership, and enduring legacy in St. Louis soccer. And therefore, it's proclaimed that this day, the city of Wildwood does recognize these achievements and all. So, it's a pleasure. Congratulations, and we are proud of you. You want to Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh I'm proud first off to be a Wildwood resident. Been here for 25 years, raised my kids here. It's a wonderful place to raise a family. Uh and it continues to grow and it it's just positive things. The one constant during my soccer career, good game, bad game, Jamie. Because it

didn't matter how you played, he loved you. And he was there every single game cheering me on. And I'm super proud that Jamie's here. And and I want to thank my entire family, some who couldn't make it tonight, but the ones that are here. Uh thank you very much. Love you. And I really appreciate this.

It's a pleasure. Congratulations again. Thank you to your family for being here. Uh I'd like to ask if you want to get some pictures with your family so you can save this moment. Uh we'll have you come up now. Uh so we can get that. So come on up. And Jamie, we're going to have you take a picture, too. I think you earned it after all the games, right? We'll have him be in it, too. But if he wants to take one, too, he can, you know. Great. All right. Okay, thanks again. Uh we're going to continue now with our normal business. So, uh the appointments and approval minutes are all part of the consent

agenda. So now we are going to get into public participation and uh we will uh have you uh come up momentarily when we call your name. If you do wish to speak as part of public participation, we welcome you to do so. Uh just uh remember if you haven't already, fill out a car, excuse [clears throat] me, a card and give it to our city clerk so that this way she can call your name at the appropriate time. Uh when your name is called, I do ask that you please approach the podium, state your name and your ward number or if you're not aware of your ward, uh your address is certainly great. And then to ensure all those that wish to speak that have the opportunity to do so, we do ask to keep it to a fivem minute time limitation and we'll let you know as that time is approached. If you have any questions for us, please mention that during your remarks and identify the official you would like to respond. That vicial will make note of it and at the conclusion of public participation, any official who chooses to respond will have three minutes to do so as all questions directed to that official. The official may choose to respond to your questions after tonight's meeting. Please be respectful uh in making your remarks, interrupting others uh or using profane or abusive language are prohibited. And I again want to thank you in advance for following these guidelines. The first speaker, please.

Tom Mitchell wants to speak on deer reduction.

Mr. Mayor, council members, thank you. I have to tell you, I have the warm and fuzzies right now. That was great. That was awesome. And you know what? This is how the community should be. We're neighbors. And this is how we should cooperate. Especially when you have a group of neighbors like you see these men behind me and women ready to do service for the constituents of this city and to you as council members and politicians. We're here to serve you and you're here to serve us and that was a great example of it right there. So, thank you. I also want to thank the council members who have supported our efforts to terminate White Buffalo and to bring on the Wildwood Hunts program. They call themselves a gang of six. Thank you for that. I don't want to say we won this argument. We didn't. Nobody's won anything. But I will tell you that we were victorious because we worked very hard. We did get our facts straight and we won by the grace of God Almighty. We call that vote December 8th, the Monday night miracle. How many times has somebody won a vote with six votes? I'd say that's probably the first. So, there's two paths we can go by, Mr. Farmer and the rest of the council members. Path number one, you can continue to oppose our wishes and direction for the Wildwood Hunts deer management program. You can use political media. We can use media and political tactics to continue to oppose you. We don't want that. We don't want enmity between you as our leaders and us as your constituents as the consent of those that are being governed.

Path number two, the path we prefer is for you to pivot and cooperate with us, to problem solve with us, and to effectuate a long-term plan to manage this natural resource, the magnificent North American white-tailed deer, to where we do not completely eradicate it, but we reduce its numbers and manage it with the respect it deserves. I've been surprised. I don't get involved in politics, but I've been surprised by some of the tactics. This is not Washington DC. This is not Jefferson City, Fox News, or CNN. We're neighbors. Let's cooperate as neighbors. If there's really a deer problem and you've stated that there is, then you have the fiduciary duty right now to act on it, reduce it, manage it through our program that we've proposed. Use the gift that we're offering to you. Please, we're capable, we're competent, and we're qualified. And we have a quite a few people here to prove that tonight. We'll execute this plan with honor, with integrity, and transparency, just like we have since the beginning of this process. I do have two questions. Do I have a minute left? At least

1 minute and 20 seconds.

I do have two questions. I've never asked the questions of the council members here, but these are important questions and these are in a spirit of unity to try to understand something and to try to get movement. My first question is to council member Farmer. How customary is it to wait until day 60 or day 90 to address a topic that the council has given you to address with the deer management program. On December 8th, the council directed the admin public works committee to take up this deer management program. It's not been put on the agenda. And I'd like you to answer that when I ask after I ask the second question because I'm almost out of time. So, I want to know how customary that is. My other question is, will you add it to the March agenda? Okay. Second question. Mr. Rambo, I'm not trying to call you out here. I want to know the honest answer to this question. When Steuart Green did the deer survey, the drone survey, they were to have surveyed the 5 and a half square miles of the NE1. If I recall, in the meeting on November 18th with Steuart Green, you asked them to take on another 1.34 square miles of NE2. I want to know why did you have them add the extra 1.34 square miles and why did you choose that wedge where hardly any culling took place?

Uh time is up now. That's my question both. Thank you. Do I stay for the answers or uh the opportunity to for council to answer any questions would be after the uh conclusion of public participation. Thank you very much. All right. Uh next speaker please. Um, and just for uh I do ask uh just to help us keep the move uh meeting moving forward if you could uh limit your applause uh just so that we can get the next speaker up. Otherwise, it could really prolong the public participation. Next speaker, Michael Sherman, Wildwood Deer Management Program.

Hey, good evening, Mr. Mayor and council members. Uh Michael Sherman, Ward Six. And uh for those of you who don't remember, I lead the group Certified Bow Hunters of St. Louis County. And I just wanted to reflect with some stats that we had this year on our success that was free. It didn't cost me any of my Wildwood taxpayer dollars. It didn't cost my land owners any dollars and it didn't cost the cities that we support any direct billing dollars. Um, so 126 deer total from 10 professional archers. So over about 40 properties. Um, those vary in size from a quarter to a half an acre all the way up to, you know, 40 or 50 acres. You got to understand, too, that a lot of these properties are where we have had an established presence and we're in maintenance mode. Our a lot of our property owners want deer in their yards. They just don't want 15 or 20. So, we're in there taking out a few deer, working with them on their requests. Um, of those deer, over 90% of them were doe's. So, we're harvesting the breeders to keep that population down and reduce the impact of future deer gen of future deer generations. Um, I do want to call out because I know the question is going to be asked, how many deer did we lose this year? Because there's this impression that we're out there throwing sticks and stones at deer. To be honest with you, we lost one. So that's over a 99% success rate. One arrow, one deer. We do that because we practice. We use modern equipment. We have an experienced crew of archers. And Wildwood can do the same thing. Obviously, you need more than 10 hunters, but it's a good start. It's proven successful for several of our cities around us. There's two things that we really need to do and consider. Once the administration and public works committee goes to work on this is we

need to look at reducing the acreage minimum from three down to at least one to help the bow hunters give them a chance for success and we would really appreciate the same level of effort for getting access to properties that you have given white buffalo. It's pretty simple. Then once we agree on that, we want to cooperate, go to terms, and we'll do the work for you and put deer, you know, reduce the deer population through archery harvest. So again, I appreciate your time tonight. I know you have some very important um topics on the agenda. So again, thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Bridget Fiser, Turnberry, please. Good evening, Mayor Geritano and council members. My name is Bridget Fischer and I'm a resident of Ward 2. I'm here to speak on the Turnberry Place Drive and Shreker intersection. Some of you may recognize me as I've spoken at meetings before and I will continue to attend and speak at meetings until the safety of the residents of Turnberry Place is no longer in question. I'd like to start by addressing a few particular council members. Council member Farmer, it seems like you have a particular agenda to continue to frivolously spend City of Wildwood tax dollars. For example, you continue to push to have White Buffalo charge the City of Wildwood $220,000 to thin the deer herd when you have a very capable group of bow hunters willing and able to do this for no cost to the city. Your fellow council members did not pass the bill and yet you are up to your sneaky tricks of trying to get it passed. You have continued to push the Turnberry Place entrance at Shreker Road to be accessible to non-emergency vehicles even though there are no issues with the entrance as is and it poses a huge safety risk to the residents. You are willing to again spend $35,000 of taxpayer money unnecessarily. So I ask you this, what cut are you getting from White Buffalo? What cut are you getting from the construction companies for doing unnecessary projects? I wonder what the residents of your ward would think about your unnecessary spending of taxpayer dollars after they elected you into your position. Council member Dodwell, have you ever been to a third world country? Do you know the conditions in which they live? Do you live in poverty? Do you lack basic human necessities like access to water, shelter, or food? Oh, you don't? I didn't think so. Neither do the residents of Turnberry Place

neighborhood. In fact, the residents of Turnberry Place all live in half a million to threequarter of a million dollar homes. A far cry from third a third world country. Yet, in the June council meeting, you said the intersection of Turnberry Place Drive and Shreker, and I quote, quite literally looks like a third world country. I'd be really curious to know what the residents of your ward think about their elected representative making such insensitive and ignorant comments lacking any cultural awareness. Frankly, I think you should work on educating yourself on the actual severe and complex realities of third world countries. Council member Mabri, do you understand the role of an elected council member? Did you know you actually supposed to support the residents of your ward? In my dealings with you, you have yet to do that. In actuality, you have been quite rude to me in our interactions. I'm sure you had to take some sort of oath to be sworn in as a council member. Pardon my lack of knowledge. I ran out of time to investigate this. Maybe you should revisit this oath and work on it as a representative of the ward to residents. Maybe you should also work on just being a kinder, more informed person. Now, on to the reason I am here, the safety of the residents of Turnberry Place Drive. In 1996, the Shreker entrance was restricted to emergency vehicle access only due to unsafe road conditions. It was proven again in 2009 to be unsafe. In 2026, here we are again. No safety issues have changed, meaning it is still unsafe to lift the restriction at the striker entrance. There are no issues with the current configuration. In fact, we have in writing from the Metro West Fire Chief that the current convicturation is okay, which should lower our score review, but our response

has gone unanswered for almost 5 months. And since this process is not complete, no vote on contractor approval or movement forward on this issue can even happen at this time. Yet, for some reason, Joe Farmer and other council members want to risk the safety of Turnberry Place residents. one minute

by changing what has been in place for 30 years. In the Wildwood Gazette that came out in the fall, it was stated in two different places that safe streets are a top priority of Wildwood. It is stated that residents are encouraged to take family walks, take their dog for a walk, ride their bikes. So why is that encouraged for every Wildwood resident except those of Turnberry Place Drive? Why is our safety not important? Lifting this restriction is opening the door for somebody to be hurt. If a driver hits or kills a child in our subdivision, the blood will be on your hands. And if you can go to sleep at night knowing you are potentially responsible for injuring or killing a child, I suggest you take a deep hard look at yourself in the mirror. My questions were rhetorical also. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please. And uh this this again uh if you can hold your applause. Next speaker Lauren Jordan Turnberry please.

Mayor uh Garantano and uh council members uh thanks for giving us the chance to speak uh once more. Uh I would say that our residents just for the record state your name and your ward number.

Sure. Lauren Jordan Ward two. Um my neighbors and uh fe fellow residents of Turnberry Place uh have shown up to this council meeting, various council meetings uh since last June when it came to our attention that um there was a reversal in the uh administration and public works committees priorities and their desire to open uh an emergency access at Strucker and Turnberry Place Drive um came to our attention. uh at the June meeting and I do have a few notes I want to reach up read out. Uh at the June meeting the June 9th 2025 council meeting recording uh starting at 21947 uh actually said that uh well three council members said that the bill was looking forward or forward looking as 2994 uh it would not affect Turnberry Place. uh one of your council members, I don't want to call anybody out, but someone brought up why not um in make sure that Turnberry Place is not considered uh put it in writing. Uh we supported that idea, but it didn't go anywhere. Uh not long after uh when we weren't here to show up for support because we thought that in good faith um our voices had been heard. uh something was passed where we needed a score review suddenly and then that was swiftly uh performed. I do want to say that uh there have been zero complaints prooping, many complaints against opening. We do believe our streets would be less safe if this were to uh move forward. Um and then finally, I just have a note here that uh we've not received a response as I mentioned to the scoring review. We did put a lot of time into uh following your process. that was laid out and um you know still the scoring view was

applied to our emergency access point. Although our community invested into the improvements uh within that area, we've delayed further enhancements while awaiting a response. We appreciate the due diligence offered by the administration and public works committee. However, we would like a positive resolution to this issue swiftly if possible. Right. Uh and to be clear, a a p a positive uh resolution is widely recognized as one that leaves our streets safer rather than more convenient for those living outside of our community. So connectivity, I believe, is an issue for the the town center. Uh I think that was applause worthy to to get that thing passed. Uh director had mentioned that that's great. It makes sense for the city center, right? I I I I completely agree. But Turnberry Place on the edge of Wildwood is not city center and it's not going to help anybody in our Wildwood, greater Wildwood community to have our street opened. So, please, you know, consider this as you go forward. How much does this actually mean to you? And then think about how much it means to my community and the children that play on our streets because like Bridget said, it's not a good look and it probably will have a lot of consequences if it goes the other way. So, thank you. I yield my time.

Thank you. Next speaker, please. Bobby Bombstark. Safety issue with opening Turnberry, please. And please state your name and ward.

Yes, please. I'm Bobby Bomb Stark. I'm W two. I live on Turnberry Place Drive. Um and I'd like to speak to having the street um open through to all traffic. Um we've recently moved to Turnberry Place a couple years ago and had we were happy that the street was indeed what we thought closed and it was kind of a surprise to us that all this is happening at this point. Anyway, um seeing all the children and families that we have at the fun events in the common ground pays a real pleasure. However, I must admit it also causes some concern. Not only is their safety their utmost importance, but we certainly they will have family and friends who will come to visit and will be on our street as well. Of course, there will be celebrations, playdates, and other visitors and their safety could possibly be compromised as well. Another area of concern is the hill with the almost blind curve that as it is is already a problem. Turnberry is narrow and when any type of vehicle is parked or even just pulled over to the side, drivers must slow to be sure no one is coming in the opposite lane uh approaching them. This would include residents, visitors, and workers of all types. whether they are a worker for just one particular household or like we've had things dug up for the different um cable companies coming in or any other utility workers that might be there. We also have vehicles that are regularly scheduled like trash, school buses and our daily mail delivery that have to navigate this particular part of the road as well as the rest of it. Um that is basically unsafe. Amazon also must navigate our streets. Um, all these folks would be at greater risk as well. If drivers using Turnberry as a cutthrough to avoid a stop, perhaps they would be even more of a rush and not be as conscious of being safe coming up our street as they probably should be. We are looking into purchasing a mailbox

for my husband and I. Uh, we've seen neighbors who've gotten mailboxes knocked over. Fortunately, ours has not, but we're looking for a mailbox that opens from both ends, so we're not taking the chance of actually having to step into our street to do the daily routine of getting our mail. Um, as far as I can tell, opening to all the true traffic for Turnberry is of greater safety concern than just to the residents. There are many who already use our street and if any of these folks would be injured, it would affect not only them, their families, as well as whatever communities they may be from. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Nile Stevens wants to speak on resolution 2026-6.

Hi, I'm Nile Stevens, W 8. So, uh, resolution 2026-6 call for representation in Jefferson City. And I just wanted to say that I agree in principle that we want competent and effective representatives in Jefferson City, which is why uh, I have put my name forward to run for the open seat. And so, I just wanted to come here tonight to introduce myself to you all if uh, if I haven't got to meet you yet. I'm currently the front runner for the GOP nomination for the August primary. And uh resolution 2026 mentions a number of House bills that would impact uh Wildwood residents directly. There are about 20 of them listed and 18 out of the 20 are Republican sponsored bills. Um whether that's uh Richard West or Mark Matis out in um St. Charles area, Jeff Fernetti at the Lake of the Ozarks, we have local reps like Ben Keith and Holly Jones have uh bills on your list uh on the resolution and those are a lot of the friends of mine within the party and so I've already got the connections and uh the relationships with some of these folks. So if you want somebody who is able to influence these people um I would I would be your guy for that. And uh constituent services uh will also be an important part of my office. So, I'll be happy to sit down with any of the council members if uh you have situations going on in your ward that the uh state level uh would need to address. Um I've already got one bill for a Wildwood family that I'm working with uh State Senator David Gregory on uh to help them uh with the uh the Slayer rule. And so, uh I would just like to invite all of you or anybody in the audience. Uh, I have an event coming up at Senator David Gregory's house and we will be doing a uh a legislative update from State Senator Gregory. Um, and that is on February 26th. Uh, all that information on my website, nilesfor missouri.com. And so I just wanted to introduce

myself. Uh, for some of you I have not got to meet since I was on council back in 2018. Um, so I'm just happy to connect with any of you, connect with, uh, any of the residents here tonight to see what I could do at the state level as your next representative. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Next speaker, please. Anne Hogan wants to request a second reading of bill 3037.

Hi, I'm Anne Hogan. I'm in Ward One. My husband and I have lived in at this location on Wild Horse Creek and Wild Horse Valley for 40 years. And we just want to request a second reading on a simple simple subdivision. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, Liz Zizer wants to speak on Turberry Place.

Good evening. Liz Zizer, Ward 2. I'm an 11-year resident of Wildwood and Turnberry Place neighborhood. I'm here tonight to speak again because I'm tired of our neighborhood's collective voice being ignored. Over the course of several meetings and many months, our residents have spoken clearly and respectfully in our opposition to opening our main drag to non-emergency vehicles. We've sent emails, made phone calls, we raised our concerns about the unnecessary danger. We explained how it would affect our daily lives. We asked repeatedly. We asked to be left alone. And yet, here we are again. One of the reasons this project was originally brought to the table was because, in the words of a council member that sits before me, the entrance looked like a third world country. The absurdity of that comment aside, that statement says more about the decision-making than it ever did about our street. Here's the part that matters. It's been fixed. The issue you initially claimed to be addressing no longer exists. This project continues to be pushed forward at a time when the city is openly acknowledging some budget constraints. And yet time, money, and attention continue to be spent advancing a project that residents do not want and no longer has a clear justification. Re recently, [sighs] uh, Council Member Farmer, you had, uh, the opportunity to speak to hundreds of Rockwood eighth graders seeking career advice. What are you teaching them through your role in this chamber? Because it's not an example of listening or fiscal responsibility. Right now, it looks like stubborn persistence in search of a purpose. Why are you still pushing it forward? Who stands to benefit from this $35,000 project? What is the motivation? Because here's the thing, it's okay to change your mind. In fact, it's what responsible leadership looks like when new information is presented or when the community speaks clearly. What's not okay is continuing to force a

project forward simply because it was started, especially when the residents most affected are asking and demanding that it stop. You tell us you care about residents. You tell us you value community input. You tell us we are being heard, but your actions say otherwise. When people show up meeting after meeting, when they speak clearly, calmly, when they explain the real impact on their families, their streets, and their lives, and you continue anyway, that's not listening. That's not representation. We are not confused or misinformed and we're not asking for special treatment. We're demanding that you stop forcing a project onto a neighborhood that has clearly and repeatedly said no. We tried to ask nicely. We tried to be patient. We came to your meetings and you told you what we wanted and we were dismissed. We're done repeating ourselves in this room while our concerns are ignored. This council continues to move forward against the clearly stated wishes of the residents it impacts and this conversation will not stay here. We will make this process visible and we will ask publicly why a residential neighborhood was overridden by its representatives. Because if our voices don't matter in this chamber, they will matter somewhere else. Tonight, you have a choice. You can continue forward with this project and prove to the people you represent that its voice actually doesn't matter. Or you have the opportunity to show this community that being heard means something. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please. Donald Schneerfield wants to speak about the potential opening of the intersection of Turnberry Place and Streker Road. I'm Don Schneerfile, uh, W. Um, I am a retired family doctor. Um, and we've lived on Turnberry Place Drive for 33 years. We were um residents when the um efforts to um restrict non-emergency vehicles uh was being considered, ultimately approved. Um, our daughter was very young at that point and it had been such a problem that we would forbid her from going to our mailbox to get the mail because it was that scary with cars rushing through. I'm I'm most concerned about the safety of the children in the neighborhood. Um the the way the street was designed um it it has steep slopes on both ends of it. It has blind curves in both directions. Um the um the chances of a driver particularly

one from outside the the uh neighborhood. Uh driving through and and underestimating the difficulties of driving on that street are significant particularly if the weather is not cooperative. Um there are are good alternatives with uh Streker and the subsequent improvements over the years. It just makes little sense to me to uh undo this this effort that was initiated because of safety concerns. Um, I just remain puzzled that this continues to to move forward when the the residents of the street and subdivision don't want it almost unanimously. and and the emergency vehicles that use the street uh have uh publicly stated it is not an issue. So it just baffles me why we need to come to meeting after meeting and recap these facts. So, I ask you again to reconsider uh and and to keep the the restriction to um non-emergency vehicles in place. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker,

Monica Whimson, Turnberry Place. Good evening. My name is Monica Wilson, Ward 2. I live on Turnberry Place Drive. I appreciate all the comments of my neighbors, but I think one thing that we're missing here is a trip down our street. You need to come and visit. Dr. Schneerfile is quite right. It's scary. Let's revisit the original concerns of Turnberry Place residents in 1996. The first speeding and new or unfamiliar drivers navigating the steepest slopes and turns on the narrow streets, hills. These drivers actions were putting residents and others at risk who are traveling in the opposite direction, pulling out of driveways, walking across the street or cycling. Pretty much everyone. The second drivers forced to navigate blind curves and multiple points on the street along those extreme hills. Specifically, when contractors, other commercial service providers, and visitors parked on the streets right away, as the streets with did not accommodate through traffic under those conditions. Now, let's jump forward to today. What's changed in 30 years? Well, topographically nothing. But Turnberry Place continues to be the wild west of residential traffic despite not being a through street. For example, the steepest street slopes of Turnberry Place Drive significantly exceed the city of Wildwood's recommended street slope of 8%. Special approval was needed for those slopes when construction of the

neighborhood was approved and they continue to be a menace. I live this since I moved into Turnberry in 2007. No streets have been widened on weekdays. Turnberry Place Drive continues to demand that one participate in a continual game of car chicken. Then what has changed? Well, only you, committee members, council members, that's the only reason for this conversation. So, I have two questions that I, as one of your constituents, would like answer, but since you cannot answer them forth with, please ponder. First question. Shall the safety concerns of the residents of Turnberry Place and their visitors be superseded by the desire of one council member to stop, and I quote, conversations with developers, which is a neverending process. Is this council member suggesting that their and the convenience of developers take precedence over the safety and needs of our residents? Second question, shall the safety of Turnberry Place residents, especially children playing in their front yards, as well as the safety of others accessing the street, be invalidated if the neighborhood does not satisfy the beautifification expectations of the council member, stating, "Turnberry must dress up the closed street or see jackhammers and shovels come out and tear the street back open again. Is this member suggesting that all we need to do is make it pretty to keep it closed, but you won't tell us how or give us time to do that? And most importantly, what is the desperate purpose of that violent and threatening imagery? 30 years ago, the answer to those two questions would have been no.

The council members in 96 did not sacrifice the safety or concerns of Wildwood residents in order to accommodate their own or the city's commercial, financial, personal, or political gains. They incorporated the access restrictions into the Wildwood traffic Code. They set a president resident safety first. One minute, please. Please keep the entrance closed. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Claire Heinrich is candidate for House District 110.

Good evening, mayor, council members. I'm Claire Heinrich, Ward 4. As she just stated, I am running for our seat in the Missouri House of Representatives, but I'm also here tonight as just a citizen who loves Wildwood. I was happy to see the council's resolution to Governor Kho on the agenda for tonight. While I know that there is likely no legal avenue for us to get representation before November, I do appreciate the council drawing some attention to this matter. Our lack of representation is concerning, especially when you look at the amount of bills that have been filed for this session that would impact our community that we will have no voice on. Tonight, I'd like to talk about one of those bills in particular, and that is the removal of the grocery sales tax, both state and local. This was put up by our neighbor in Chesterfield, Representative Keith Lee, who also seems to be a supporter of one of the candidates for this seat. The thing is, our community pays so much into the state budget and we get so little in return. And now we have representatives who would like to see our local budgets drastically cut and not give us a say on the matter. For anyone in the crowd that is unaware, Wildwood doesn't have a property tax that they collect or a real estate tax. We rely quite heavily on the St. Louis County pool sales tax program. Two of the biggest businesses in our community are our grocery stores. And I know this is true for other pool cities. No one likes paying taxes, myself included, and I have no desire to raise taxes or create new ones. But slashing local revenue, especially in localities that contribute so much to our state and

have no voice in our state house right now. It's completely unacceptable behavior. Forcing cities into insolvency is not the same thing as fiscal responsibility. We have police officers in this community that deserve to be paid. When it snowed, we had, I think it was over 350 lane miles of road that we had to clear. And we have one of the biggest land areas in St. Louis County that we're responsible for taking care of. Last year, I watched the council debate every last dollar in our budget for hours, trying to balance, you know, your responsibility to your constituents, but also preserving what makes Wildwood special. Wildwood and Clarkson Valley deserve someone who will listen to the residents, who will go to the state government and fight for our interests. I am that person. Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you. Next speaker, please. Linda Gibbons wants to speak about the killing of deer.

I am Linda Gibbons and I live in the manners of winding trails Woodmore Ridge and been there about 22 23 years. And we moved there because we love the nature, the wildlife, and we love our deer. And ever since white buffalo organization came in, it seemed like they totally totally eradicated all the deer. We have yet to see more than one or two. So I I really do not want to see that company ever ever again in the city of Wildwood. Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Charlie Pho turnberry place.

Uh hello. We are um my name is Charlie Bellow and this is Ken Jaclyn

and we are both residents of um the neighborhood in question uh Turnberry and we are here to speak about um the fact that the councilman and the mayor are um considering getting rid of the blockade that would keep us safe. Um many many of the cars when when I was young it used to be open and many of the cars that would go through went through quite fast and I feel that was not very safe because I have many friends on that street and many friends in other places in the neighborhood that would ride our bikes in the street and on the sidewalks going everywhere wherever we pleased in the neighborhood. And if we would when when that blockade was added, I felt safer cuz I would know the cars wouldn't be coming through and the only cars that would have a chance to hit me would be the ones from the neighborhood. And that just made me feel safer. And the fact that um you guys are discussing opening up the blockade again, that just doesn't make me feel good because I can think of countless families in and around in the neighborhood that have young children. um from preschool and all the way up to high school and some even going into college. And with the young kids running all around and the older kids doing whatever they want, I feel like that would not be very safe. On Halloween night, for example, I was um I was walking around with some friends and there were some young kids going in for the night with their stash of candy and I saw a black Ford F-150 that was coming out of the neighborhood that wasn't necessarily from the outside, almost hit them. Now, if that if that would have been from the outside, there would have been more cars, more people that would have been coming through and taking our neighborhood as a shortcut, and that would just present a

more a wider safety concern for that. And I don't think that would I don't think that's very safe. And so I I feel that we should not take away the blockade because it it keeps and ensures the safety of um the ch the children and not even the children. I mean also the adults cuz not only children I mean anyone can get help car. So I feel like the adults and the children and the elderly everyone could be hit by these cars. So I feel that we should keep the blockade and keep our neighborhood safe. I love riding my bike to my friend's house. Please keep me safe.

Thank you for your time. Thank you. [snorts] Next speaker, Megan Jackson, Turnberry Place.

Good evening. My name is Megan Jackson and I live in Turnberry neighborhood Wi 2. I'm also a third grade teacher and I've lived in Wildwood for over 30 years. Currently, I've been teaching my students about the importance of being involved and how much one voice or a few voices can make. I'm here tonight because the decision to open our neighborhood puts children and families at risk and that should concern every single person in this room. Turnberry Place Drive was blocked back in 1996 for safety reasons as already stated. Those reasons have not changed. In fact, they're even more relevant today. As previously stated, the road does contain two extremely steep segments peaking at 18% and 22%. As also stated the top is should be 8% and we had to get special uh guidance or uh we had to get special um I'm sorry they're just classified as extreme when analyzed segment by segment turnberry place drive has the narrow lanes extreme curves limited sight lines and consistently high pedestrian activity, including children riding their bikes to and from their houses of their friends. I want my children to be safe in their own neighborhood. Emergency vehicles already can and do access the neighborhood without issue. There's no public safety benefit to opening the road, only increased risk to our children. So, I need to ask, why is the safety of our children being deprive prioritized? Why are we pushing to spend over $33,000

in taxpayer money on a project that creates danger where none currently exists, especially when Wildwood has acknowledged bud budget constraints? And to our elected representatives, why are you not representing us, the residents who live here, who chose this neighborhood precisely because it was not a cut through. I did grow up here in the '9s. I remember exactly what happened before this road was blocked. Drivers flying through Turnberry to save a minute, going around on Streker. That behavior will return. We were some of those people that cut through to save the extra minute and it will return. Especially those high school drivers. Our neighborhood is not a shortcut. This is our neighborhood. This is where our children ride bikes, where families walk, where people children should feel safe outside in their front yards. Spending money to make our neighborhood more dangerous is unacceptable. I urge the council to prioritize safety, fiscal responsibility, and the voices of all the residents who live with the consequences of this decision. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker,

Avery Critell, Turnberry Place. [clears throat] Let's hope I don't choke. Uh, my name is Avery Critell. Uh, word number two. Um, as you know, my name is Avery. Man, I can't believe how much people have come up here talk about gay clothes. I agree with them. Okay. So, um, I am here tonight to speak on the behalf of kids in Turnberry. I disagree with this decision of opening the gate. Me and my sister love to play outside. We love to ride bikes. We love to rollerblade, play bubbles, play with chalk, and so much more. It's already so dangerous that um people lie by on the hills that we have in my neighborhood. Um think of how much more it's going to happen if we open up that gate. People just cut through short, like late to work, fly by. Um, what if like if I was playing catch with my sister and a ball goes into the street? Um, I would go get it and somebody who's not paying attention lies by and I could get hurt or even worse killed. Um, so yeah, for the safety um for me and the kids in my neighborhood, please keep Turberry closed. Thank you.

Thank you. Do we have any more speakers? More. Amy Flity, Turnberry Place.

Good evening. Here. Amy Flity, Ward 4. I'm in Timber Ridge, right across from Turnberry. And I've been listening all evening and I haven't come all the other times when there have been all the meetings, but there seems to be a disconnect. And I guess I'm just trying I don't know if I can ask for a show of hands, but I don't know how many of you have actually ever driven in Turnberry, but it is a V. So the one end that's blocked here, it literally goes down to where the common ground is at the bottom and it's the other side of the V that goes up to Clayton. My grandkids, two of which talked or came up tonight, live on Berry View, which is parallel to Clayton. They're 10 and seven. They just are now finally so excited they can ride their bikes. They actually ride down the bee, back up the other side, and come across where there is the nice uh side, this crossing that you guys put in, which is great. They wait for the light. They come across over to Timber Ridge. That's awesome. They're so excited. It gives them that sense of independence, but there is no way that they will at all be able to do that if this is removed. Because if you haven't ever driven over there, you should you have to come in through Clayton obviously, but you should go go to the far end, turn around and head down that street. And I used to be I've lived here since ' 92. I was one of the people who used to cut through because yes, from Timber Ridge, you get to turnberry first instead of going around Strucker. And there's no way you can't go fast because it is such a steep hill. Someone was saying 18 22%. It's a steep hill. Even if you've got your brakes on, you cruise down there and it is dangerous. And one of the best things that Wildwood ever did, even though it was annoying and all of us had to go around, was put

that in. And there is no reason that you should take it away because people will cut through again. And if you have never driven in there before you take a vote or make a decision, go in through Clayton up to that end and go through. So that is my my final thought on that one. So thank you. Thank you. Do we have any more speakers? Anyone online that wishes to speak? If you can please use the raise hand feature.

Okay. I don't see any. Um but thank you to again to all our uh public speakers. And I do especially want to acknowledge uh we we don't get too often some young speakers like we did tonight. So, thank you for being part of the democratic process and exercising your voice uh at such a young age. And uh I know it takes some courage to get behind that microphone. Uh so, thanks again for being a part of it. Um moving along, uh we do have a section on the agenda, officials responses. So, if there's any council member that does want to take the opportunity now that had a question, then um certainly let me know. If not, uh, you can certainly, uh, address it, uh, after the meeting through other means. Okay. Council member Rambo.

Yeah. Real quickly, um, Mr. Lee can actually answer this question better than I can, but, um, uh, he he reached out to every potential firm that, um, we could get from MDC or other places, and nobody could do the job. Steuart Green's a nationally recognized wildlife biology company and they could produce a reliable count, but they were unable to do um all of Northeast one and all of Northeast 2. They just didn't have the time available at the last minute to do it. And so, um, northeast one was the given as the priority and it was, so it was either count all of northeast one and then go west or count all northeast one and then go north and count part of but they're they're both parts of northeast 2. It's just a different um area of northeast 2. And there are some egg properties up there in the north, but uh as you all probably well know, the ones that are asking the question, uh most deers, most deer family groups home range is like 300 400 acres. Bucks, especially Randy bucks and ruck go a lot further, but um uh there's no egg parcel up there, my understanding, that's more than let's say 100, 120 acres or something like that. And so the deer are going to go in and out of those areas. So I wouldn't have seen that as a problem um to uh to to include that that area because there's you know it was like I said it was either go north or go um west. And um the idea was to get as much data as we possibly could. 7.2 miles was the most they felt they could do. um the boundary to the west of that extra extended 2.78 uh square miles or whatever it is. It's a major thoroughfare and so it visually it makes sense uh to do it. There was nothing

there was nothing more complicated about the decision than that. So hopefully that clears things up. Okay. Uh is that all you have council member? Thank you. Anyone else before we move on? Okay. Well, then uh that concludes public participation. Again, thank you for being a part of it. We're going to move on then with the agenda which is we we don't have any public hearings. So, we'll move on to legislation under unfinished business. There are several bills that are here and I'd like to propose we have six bills under unfinished business. If there isn't any objection from the council, uh I'd like to propose we read all six and mass. Um and and again only if uh there isn't any objection. Council member McCutchen.

Yeah. Can you pull out bill 3031 and bill 3036? Okay.

All right. Thank you, Council Member McCutchen. We'll do that. Um anyone else? All right. Then, uh therefore, I'll revise the uh motion that I'd seek from the council to read bills number one, bill 3030. Moving on to number three, bill 3032. Number four, bill 3034. Number five, bill 3035. That excludes the items on the agenda listed number two and six. We'll treat those separately. Um, can I get a motion for the uh second reading of these bills? Made by council member Bockard, seconded by Galani. All those in favor, please say I. I.

Anyone oppose or abstain? All right, please go ahead and uh read uh the bills.

Bill 3030, an ordinance of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing the mayor to negotiate and execute a city contractor agreement on behalf of the city of Wildwood with Mayor Electric Company Incorporated for construction of the Manchester Road crosswalk improvement project. Bill 3032, an ordinance by the city council of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing the mayor of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, to execute all of the necessary documentation that will grant a singlepurpose utility easement to the Missouri American Water Company, M A, that will accommodate the installation of a water man through city-owned property that will serve Babler State Park. 3034, an ordinance of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, approving a minor subdivision of an of a 2.89 acre tract of land into three lots, each being approximately 1 acre in area, located on the east side of Etherton Road, north of its intersection with Manchester Road, and more specifically situated in the southwest quarter of section 1, Township 44 North, Range 3 East, City of Wildwood, St. Louisis County and to be hereafter known as Etherton Heights. Bill 3035, an ordinance of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, amending sub paragraph 11 of subsection A of section 1110.210 2110 of the code of ordinances of the city of Wildwood by deleting it in its entirety enacting in lie of there in lie thereof a new sub paragraph 11 of section subsection A of section 1110.210 and providing rules of procedure for the city council.

Thank you Colleen. like to ask now uh if Director Buunage or Director Brown has anything else that they would like to add uh in addition to the information that's been provided. Um Mayor Garana, I don't have anything additional other than to mention that the bill for the Manchester Crosswalk project is simply to renovate the existing three crosswalks, get them fully operational. They're currently deficient and not fully operational. So, we need to renovate them essentially, update the hardware at those three locations. If there's any other questions, I'd be happy to entertain them.

Okay. Does anyone have any questions for Director Brown related to that item? Okay. Seeing none, uh, Director Vunage.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor, members of city council, the two bills that have been read for action tonight have not changed since their introduction. One relates to an easement for public potable water extension into Babler State Park which encompasses a portion of a 90 foot wide trail corridor and the other relates to Etheon Heights a three lot subdivision on three acres each lot being approximately 1 acre in size and it has been through the planning and zoning commission and our public hearing process here at city council. There any questions? The department be glad to answer them. Any questions for Director Bonich? Thank you.

All right, seeing none, do we have any other discussion? Okay, seeing none, then uh Colleen, please uh call the role for final passage of these bills. Council member Farmer, yes. Council member Dodwell, yes. Council member Nyan, yes. Council member Traier, yes. Council member Mabberry, yes. Council member Robooski, yes. Council member Preston, yes. Council member Marshall, yes. Council member McCutchen, yes. Council member Rambo, yes. Council member Bockart, yes. Council member Crayons, yes. Council member Vanic, yes. Council member Alers, yes. Council member Galani, yes.

Thank you. Uh, these pass. Now we'll move back to Bill 3031 before the council for second reading um in Ward 8. Is there a motion for a second reading of this bill? made by council member Galani, seconded by council member Alers. All those in favor, please say I. I. I.

Anyone opposed or abstain? Okay, we have one opposed uh by council member McCutchen. Go ahead, Colleen. Please go ahead and read bill 3031. Bill 3031, an ordinance by the city council of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing the mayor of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, to execute all of the necessary documentation to grant single-use easements that will accommodate encroachments of limited private improvements onto city-owned property, which are for the installation of a portion of needed retaining walls and parking areas, all in conjunction with the Wildwood Luxury Living Project, a 188 our unit multif family development which will include a temporary construction easement as well.

Right. Thank you, Colleen. Director Munes, do you have anything else that you'd like to add? Mr. The mayor, members of city council, the exhibits that have provided as part of the bill indicate a temporary construction easement for the purposes of the development of the site and two permanent easements collectively less than 1,000 square ft. Okay. Thank you, Director Vonage. Uh, bills are on the floor for discussion. Any discussion? Right. Seeing none, uh, Colleen, please go ahead and call the role for passage of bill 3031. Council member Farmer. Yes. Council member Dodwell. Yes. Council member Nyan. Yes. Council member Tier. Yes. Council member Mabberry. Yes. Council member Robooski. Yes.

Council member Preston. Yes. Council member Marshall. Yes. Council member McCutchen. No. Council member Rambo. Yes. Council member Bert. Yes. Council member Crayons. Yes. Council member Vanic. Yes. Council member [snorts] Alers. Yes. Council member Galani. Yes. Bill passes. We'll move on to bill 3036 before the council for a second reading concerning Ward 8. Is there a motion for a second reading of the bill made by council member Galani? Is there a second? Council member Alers. [snorts] All those in favor, please say I. I.

Anyone opposed or abstain? Uh we have one oppose. Uh go ahead and please read bill 3036. Bill 3036, an ordinance by the city council of the city of Wildwood, approving a change in the zoning district designation of a 0.4 4 acre acre site that is located on the south side of Manchester Road, historic Route 66, west of Taylor Road to the amended C8 planned commercial district, thereby allowing certain changes to the property's governing ordinance to accommodate another permitted use upon it and extend the time frame for the lot's connection to public sanitary sewer sewer service. All being consistent with the favorable letter of recommendation of the planning and zoning commission dated December 1, 2025.

Director Vunage, do you have anything to add? Mr. Mayor, members of city council, as mentioned, the bill has not changed since its introduction, and it is to accommodate allowing a single family dwelling that was converted 20 plus years ago to an insurance agency office back to a residence while still retaining the professional offices as a possible permitted use as well as allowing the deference of the connection to public sanitary sewer. Until such time it is within 200 ft or reasonably accessible which are the requirements of our code. Okay. Thank you. Bill's on the floor for discussion. Does anyone have any questions or wish to discuss?

Thank you. All right. Seeing none, uh, please call the role for final bill 3036. Council member Farmer, yes. Council member Dodwell, yes. Council member Nyan, yes. Council member Tier, yes. Council member Mabberry, yes. Council member Roblooski, yes. Yes. Council member Preston, yes. Council member Marshall, yes. Council member McCutchen, no. Council member Rambo, yes. Council member Bockart, yes. Council member Crayons, yes. Council member Vanic, yes. Council member Alers, yes. Council member Galani, yes.

Okay, bill passes. Uh, we're going to move on to new business. This is the first reading. Uh just as a reminder, first reading is only an opportunity to seek any clarification. Uh there are no changes allowed in first reading. Um that would be an amendment in the second reading. So uh I'll ask again from the council for the sake of efficiency if we have any opposition to reading uh all the bills uh in mass with the only exception being given the size of bill 3041. Uh we'll we'll do that separately. Uh but otherwise the remaining bills listed under new business bill 3037 303 38 303 39 3040 3042 3043 30 44 and 3045 and 3046. Uh if there is any objection to reading all these for first reading. Um council member TR here.

All right. So, we're going to request this for 3037 to be read uh separately

and 3042. Great. Thank you. All right. So, we're going to make a note of that. All right. So uh anyone else have any questions uh or any objections to reading u with those that we have noted already? All right. So therefore I'll ask uh again this time I'll I'll restate it for you. There's no objection. We'll read in mass. We'll start with number two bill 3031. I mean excuse me bill number two bill 3038. Uh number three bill 3039. Number four bill 3040. We'll go over to number seven, bill 3043. Uh number eight, bill 3044. Number nine, bill 3045. And number 10, bill 3046. Right. Can I get a motion for first reading of these bills? Made by council member Galani, seconded by Bockard. All those in favor, please say I.

I. Anyone oppose or abstain? All right. Colleen, please go ahead and read uh all the bills there. Bill 3038, an ordinance of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing a consolidation plat of lots 1 and two of the Collins acres plat book 351, page 556, thereby creating a single new parcel of ground that is 6.7 acres in size, which will be located on the north side of Babler Forest Road, west of Wild Horse Creek Road and legal and legally described as being a tract of land in US survey 195. 56, Township 45 North, Range 3 East, and to be here hereafter known as Babler Forest Square. Bill [clears throat] 3039, an ordinance of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing the mayor to enter into an agreement with Natalie Makavoy for the management and oversight of the city sponsored farmers market for the 2026 season. Bill 3030, excuse me, 3040, an ordinance by the city council of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing the mayor of the city of Wildwood, Missouri to execute an amended professional services agreement with California custom decks for additional repairs to the two-story accessible slide and the ramp system in association with it, which are integral parts of the Wildwood Community Parks playground area. Bill 3043, an ordinance of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing the mayor to negotiate and execute a city contractor agreement on behalf of the city of Wildwood with Go Green Lawn and Landscape LLC for the maintenance of certain landscape areas within the city of Wildwood. Bill 3044, an ordinance of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing the mayor to negotiate and execute a city contractor

agreement on behalf of the city of Wildwood with Go Green Lawn and Landscape LLC for the maintenance of certain stormwater management areas within the city of Wildwood. Bill 3045, an ordinance of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing the mayor to negotiate and execute a municipal stormwater grant agreement with the Metropolitan Sewer District, MSD, which allows the city to participate in municipal storm water grant program to obtain grant funds for local storm water projects that will reduce flooding and erosion within MSD's service area and within the city of Wildwood. Bill 3046, an ordinance of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing the mayor to negotiate and execute an amended and restated intergovernmental cooperation agreement by and between the city of Wildwood, Missouri in St. Louis County, Missouri for the housing of municipal inmates.

All right. Thank you, Colleen. Uh, directors, uh, Voonage or Brown, do you have anything you wish to add? I'm at the podium because the first bill's mine. Oh, I was wondering if you guys do like a coin toss or uh you know kind of like your turn next time yours or something like that. We try to be coordinated as best.

Yeah. Yeah, I did see that. Thank you. This particular bill relates 30. This particular bill relates to a consolidation plat of two existing legal lots of record. As you can see, the lots of record are rectangular in shape served by Babler Forest Road and a private roadway easement created as part of the three lot subdivision, only two of which are part of this particular action. The consigned lot will be 6.7 acres in size and have one single family dwelling located upon it. If there are any questions, the department be glad to answer them. The second item relates to the agreement with Mr. Makavoy to be the farmers market manager for the upcoming 2026 season. As was discussed in work session, Miss Beaka Boy has been the market manager for a number of years has taken the market from what I would describe as a downward trend to last year having over 60 vendors at several of the Saturday uh market days. And so again, in this particular instance, the planning and parks committee supported Miss Makavoy for that role. Um, the next item I believe is Mr. Brown. Oh, sorry. The next item relates to a repair of the accessible ramp that serves the twotory slide at the city of Wildwoods Park playground area. As you know, in the latter part of summer of 2025, repairs were made to this particular ramp, but in another location. As those repairs were made and the ramping system was removed, they

discovered that an additional area had the same problem. The company California Deck System has provided a proposal and that proposal in com combination with the previous work does exceed the amount of the resolution previously approved and is here tonight in an ordinance form and I believe now Mr. Brown is

great. Thank you directors. Um, mayor and council members, I don't have any new information to add on the three bills, but uh, 3043, 3044 are extens basically extensions of existing maintenance agreements. The current contractor, Go Green, has submitted pricing in response to our RFP and actually submitted lower pricing than we are currently in contract with them. So, the recommendation was to move forward with an agreement with Go Green. I would comment and make clear that we only did get one response to our RFP. However, again, the pricing is lower than current. So, we thought it was a good recommendation and it was endorsed by the the admin public works committee. 3045, as was referenced earlier, is an MSD agreement. We are required to sign this agreement if we want to participate in their stormwater grant program and if we want to get those funds and utilize them for our residents for stormwater projects in MSD's area. And I'm open for any questions if there are any. Thank you.

Hey, do we have any questions at all? Council member Rambo. Yeah, should be a real quick one. Um Mr. Brown. I um uh I read the the the attachments to bill 3043, but I did not see the westernmost um um landscaping area like in the T Highway Wild Horse Creek kind of area. Um that's not included. At least it wasn't in your list unless I missed it. Can you explain that or um

um council member? I'll double check that, but it it should be included. So, it's probably an oversight getting it into the bill or something like that included with the other route 100 areas and it does go that was the question. All right. Thank you. All right. Anyone else have anything? All right, then these will come back uh for second reading at the next meeting. We had one more six. What's that? Did we call um wait 3046? Uh oh. City ad uh city administrator Lee, you want to speak to that?

Y uh thank you, Marin. And I also just wanted to add at the front end uh that the department would respectfully request two readings of bill 3046. Uh what this is is an amendment to the current agreement that the city has with St. Louis County for the housing of municipal inmates. So if someone is arrested and housed at their facility on um on behalf of the city, this is the fee that the city has to pay St. Louis County. Uh where this is coming from, the county council submitted an order at on December 16th, 2025. And now that's currently in effect. Um they will still have to countersign this amendment, but overall it's currently in effect and we would not be able to make any payments to St. Louis County for reimbursement uh until this change would be approved there. The change is uh moving from $50 per day to $75 per day um as a fee. This has happened in the past, but overall the city has minimal instances where this occurs throughout the year. Uh it's more so if it if something that we you'd rather have it than need it then need it not have it. Um but overall we don't anticipate that this should really cause any major disruptions or large expenditures for the fiscal year.

Thank you. And after we complete all the first readings I'll come back for any of those requests that we have for second readings. So uh therefore those item those bills that we just talked about will come back at the next meeting for a second reading. Uh let's now go back to those that we have not yet done a first reading. So back to number one under new business bill 3037. Is there a motion for the reading of bill 3037? Uh concerns ward one. Is there a motion for that bill made by council member Preston, council member Roleski. Seconded. All those in favor please say I. I. I.

Anyone oppose or abstain? All right. Please go ahead and read bill 3037. Bill 3037, an ordinance of the city council of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing a minor subdivision plat of lots 1 and four of the Wild Horse Creek adjustment plat book 372, page 408, thereby creating two new lots and adjusting the third parcel of ground, which all are located at the intersection of Wild Horse Creek Road and White Oak Valley Road, legally described as being attractive land and US surveys 668,52 and 1 956 in township 45 north range 3 east of the fifth principal meridian and to be hereafter known as Wild Horse Creek adjusted platoon.

Mr. Mayor, members of city council, this particular subdivision action involves two existing legal lots of record. The intent is to adjust one of the lots that's shown as the 12 acre parcel of ground and subdivide the second parent track into two 10 acre parcels of ground. The intent is for the owners of the 12 acre parcel of ground to have their children build on the other two. And as you can see by the yellow lines be plenty of access to all of these lots. And during public participation, the property owner, Miss Hogan, asked for a second reading tonight, and the department has no objection.

Okay, great. Uh any questions on this item here? All right. Uh then we will uh after we complete the first readings, we'll come back to this one and uh seek a second reading from the council. Uh moving on, uh we have bill 3041 uh which concerns Ward 8 and is before the council for first reading. Can I get a motion for uh a reading of bill 3041 by council member Galani second when you second by council member Dodwell. All those in favor please say I. I.

Anyone oppose or abstain? And please go ahead and read bill uh 3041. Bill 3041, an ordinance of the city council of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing a series of change orders for the Village Green phase 1 project with Bombshell Construction Services LLC for certain enhancements to the project's original design component components and other specific corresponding work that has been set forth in the attached information while amending the current contract to reflect such. Director Rooney.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor, members of city council, over the course of the last couple of years, the department of planning has on a monthly basis provided to the planning and parks committee updates on Village Green phase one. A key component of those updates has been a summary table of the change orders that have been submitted based upon conversations and actions by the planning and parks committee at those meetings and ultimately submitted to city council for information and discussion. Principally, there are approximately nine change orders. Of those nine change orders, the total amount is approximately $240,000 relative to the original $1.9 million contract. I would note that generally speaking, the primary and first change order constitutes almost half of that amount. And that was the change in the park light standards from 25- foot tall poles with spotlights to the 16ft tall poles with dark sky certified lighting that's now on and available in the park. The other change orders came uh based upon electrical issues that we all are wellversed upon and those that refined the park improvements to meet the demands of the city relative to removal of the trash enclosure, the impact on the mayor's grove and other items relating to the change in the type of pavers I should say surface from the organic lock which was a more material to the pavers. All of these again were submitted to the planning and parks

committee ultimately active upon favorably and received and filed by city council. Okay. Thank you, Director Voonage. Any questions for Director Vunage? All right, Council Member Farmer.

Yeah. Uh I guess I don't I don't really have an issue with the change orders, especially if the work's been done. But I am a little curious because I think with I mean [snorts] with this and the playground and the cabin I feel like we're getting really close to a dollar amount that we can't exceed. So my worry would be how do we prevent that from happening if if unless my math is very incorrect which it possibly is that we're not getting close to that number but I feel like we might be. Well, that's a very good question and certainly one that is always on the mind of the department of planning and parks because as you know we have a second phase coming forth with which is the all-inclusive playground. So just to kind of summarize if you add in the change orders to the original contract we're approximately at $2.3 million. of that subtract out approximately $600,000 for the grant that was received from the municipal park grant commission. So we're at 1.7 million. The cabin is 300,000. So we're at $2 million. The estimate for the all-inclusive playground has been anywhere from about 2.1 million to 2.3 million depending on the rest of the facility. So, we're around for all intents and purposes about $4.3 million if we go with the high end on that playground. I believe the city administrator and the city attorney have looked at the CPI and measures used to calculate the increase that can be accommodated under the charter and the language and I believe it's 4.6 million. So that leaves us 400 grand

approximately. And there is a group both our wildwood celebration commission and our planning and parks committee that are looking at some type of stage and shade structure for this stage. So we're getting very close. There's no doubt about it. Now failed to mention the all-inclusive playground has a $600,000 grant as well. So, we're in much better shape. My apologies.

All right. I I just think I mean I think we've talked a little bit about this. It's it's you know this is one of those little things that maybe a lot of people don't realize that we do have, you know, very specific spending limits we have to reach. So, you know, I think it's important, especially when we have change orders and overages and things like that, that we're just, you know, obviously making sure that we have a level of flexibility in there because we might have those change orders on these next two projects, and that would be difficult then to accommodate.

Certainly, the all-inclusive playground, as you know, we're trying a comprehensive fundraising effort. Mr. Replowski is a representative from city council there. So, any money raised through fundraising doesn't count toward that charter requirement. Um and certainly um the project started in March of 2024 when we removed the trees to address the bat requirement from the federal government. In a on April 16th, you received the first update report which included the change to the park lighting as well as the trash enclosure relocation. So in defense of the department, I feel that we've tried to keep the city council ab breast of all the change orders on a monthly basis and certainly if there have any questions from the committee, we've been prepared to answer them. And in some instances, Bombshell Construction, their owner has been present at those meetings to discuss them as well.

I can add a quick note to Mayor.

Sure. Just wanted to add to that. Um, we do have with this total, and this is expected to be the end rung, if you will, uh, that we'll have to pay out for the bombshell construction at 2 uh, 2.13 million. But then for phase 2 with the all-inclusive playground and the bathroom enclosure, uh, bathroom structure, that is capped at 1.8 and we do have that 575 thou $575,000 grant. and you add in the 300,000 for the Essen log cabin, if you take out the amount that we have spent towards um from grant funding, it's around $3 million. So, a lot less well 3 million about 3,100,000. Um so, we still have some room, but overall it's something we need to be very cognizant of as we proceed.

Yeah. I mean, I think I mean, correct me if I'm wrong. I again I'm not I think Joe, you guys are doing great. I mean, I know this has been a difficult project to do. it. If great is this project, then we need to redefine great because I think I've done a miserable job.

Well, [laughter] okay. But, uh, I guess my my concern is like when we look down the road from this and you know, unless I'm misunderstanding this, if once we hit that cap, I mean, obviously that cap adjusts every year, but they're relatively incremental adjustments. So, when we're talking about having to do things in this park in the future, that then becomes the problem. So, if we have if we get a stage in there, that's great. If then we have to redo that stage or we have to redo the cabin or whatever it becomes, th those are the things I am perhaps more concerned about than just getting it done the first time out of the gate.

And I I'll refer uh defer to the city attorney on this, but I do think if you if that rule applies to any capital expenditure. So if you're building a pond, but if say the stage, let's just say over time it worked out and you had to replace the decking on it that uh or someone would get injured, the maintenance of that facility is different is categorized differently than the actual construction of a new thing. So what we have to look at very closely is um like a stage that is definitely a qualifier for what we're talking about here going over the threshold. If that stage were to put it over that number, then we couldn't do the stage unless we went out to vote. But I actually did just want to confirm with the city attorney. Do you happen I know you might have to look into it but it maintenance of a capital expenditure does that qualify for under that charter provision.

The constitutional limitations by its own language is limited to construction and reconstruction of capital improvements. So maintenance would not be included in that language. But if we had to rebuild something it would if we had to rebuild or reconstruction. Okay. So John, would you say that would would that include just this is a in theory item here, but like the decking of a stage, say it's a deck stage that has wood. But if you're I guess there's a how where's that line drawn of reconstruction versus just general maintenance. That would be something we'd have to okay review and talk about offline depending on the circumstance.

All right. Do we have any other questions or clarification items? Council member CR, I'm concerned about that stage. Now, is that going to work out, Tom? Right now, it should depending on uh the cost of it, but we'll have to go out and get bids for it. Yeah. So, that gets out of money. Okay. Uh do we have any idea how much a stage will cost you? Not right now. The department is looking into it. I know that's something that the committee had given direction to, you know, getting a

It's critical to have that there. getting a portable stage. So, it really comes down to a couple different components. If we want a stage that um portable stage you can put up every time, that's totally different than a permanent structure that's going to service and stay there. Rent a place for it somewhere. Exactly. Well, we we could probably store a stage, one stage. It would be depend on the sizing of it. But I would I would recommend we would build some type of concrete slab structure with structure with a shade structure attached to it. Keep it simple. I do think if the city gets involved in getting uh all the electrical components that can go into some of these fancy stages, that's when we start getting dangerously close to that expenditure threshold.

Okay. All right. Great. Thank you very much. Uh Council Member May.

Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Director Vunich, I looked through I didn't study it, but it's an imposing 220 page report. Thank you. I looked but could not find the $385,000 general contractor bombshell um extra for uh I want it because I'm asking for it. Uh I was delayed it bad weather and I had a lot of work to do across the way high school. Uh is that anywhere in here to sully the overall total of what we're talking about objectively?

Mr. May very no sir. That particular change order was presented to the planning and parks committee. They rejected it and then that recommendation not to accept the change order was forwarded to city council and received and filed. No action was taken. So the committee's decision stand.

A summary rejection despite the fact that this this request had virtually no quantities, no nothing. U just a bunch of lump lump sums and eaches and one lots and per each. Uh but that summary rejection um can either communicate one of two things and the one of them would be threat to this capacity if it's a cause for action that the contractor feels that he should proceed with. Well, in conversation with the owner of Bombshell Construction, the department did say that if there is legitimate cost for the storm water pollution prevention steps, then provide that that might be a legitimate addition. But without the background to understand what that means, then certainly we can't proceed forward.

Okay. It's been raised and and and they need to be or aware it was not the intent ever of this city council nor the committee that from the city council to ignore the change order. We did discuss it on two occasions at committee and at the last meeting in January it was a report that was provided to the entire body. It's just there was no background. There was no discussion prior to its submitted stand the intent and so you know it wasn't a simple decision but it was a decision I think that had a simple answer. Thank you director.

Thank you. Great. Great. Uh I don't see any other hands up. So uh this will be back before the council at the next meeting. Uh moving on uh bill 3042 for first reading. This uh concerns all ws. Is there a motion for the reading of bill 3042? Uh council member Farmer. Is there a second? Council member Bocker. All those in favor, please say I. I. There. Anyone opposes or abstains? Opposed. And we have one oppose. All right. Bill 3042. Uh, Colleen, please go ahead and read that bill.

Bill 3042, an ordinance of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing the mayor to negotiate and execute a city contractor agreement on behalf of the city of Wildwood with Kelp Contracting Incorporated for the fisc year 2026 concrete street and sidewalk placement project, including other incidental items as shown on the project bid documents. Okay. Uh, Director Brown.

Um, thank you, Mayor Goano, council members. Um, I didn't have anything additional to present to you tonight specifically about this bill. Obviously, available for [clears throat] any questions that you might have. Again, as was referenced in work session with the discussion about the Turnberry work. When we prepared this, we did split out Turnberry work separately as a separate bid item or line item in the bid. So, we have quantified those costs and uh they are actually about 6,800 lower than we presented to you last summer when this came to you at that point. So, we feel positive from that standpoint that we got some reduced costs for the actual removal of those improvements to reopen the road. So, uh beyond that, I know there's a lot of questions potentially, so I'll just wrap up and if there's anything I can do to address them, I'll do my best.

Okay. Uh again, this is an opportunity just for questions or clarification. Any debate would be for the second reading. Council member Tradia. Thank you, Mayor. Um out of curiosity uh we've you've separated the turnberry issue out as a line item but assuming we proceed with kelp. What is the advantage to lumping that proposal that line item proposal and the cost in this bill in particular for maintenance throughout the city?

Well, I think the idea was to and that was the motion I believe from Edmond Public Works was to include it in this work. um as part of a larger improvement project and from that standpoint capitalize on the low expected unit prices. Um so we got five biders this year for our project. Kelp was a low bidder. Um, and the, as I referenced earlier, that bid item that the price that we got for it was about 1,6,800 lower than the estimates that Tehill Construction gave us last summer when we presented it to you at that time. So, we felt like it was favorable from that perspective.

Is it fair to say that Kelp would honor the same price if this were two separate bills? Uh, and perhaps one of them did not pass. I don't know that I could could say that. No. Uh they would, you know, they provided this pricing as part of the overall project. So if they were not um if they were to do it as a standalone project, I wouldn't expect that they would they would hold that pricing. It just seems odd that we're entangling a specific project um in an area where there's no other maintenance related work occurring. um with the the grander maintenance throughout the city of Wildwood. I would venture to guess that if we split this into two bills, one specific for Turnberry and one for maintenance, and if both passed, help would likely honor the alleged discounted rate for the Turnberry project.

I I can't speak for Kelp. I suppose we could reach out to them in the meantime. Um, again, we split these out the the work out separately as a separate bid in the contract. So, it's very easy for the department if it's the desire of the council to remove it and underrun that work. Uh, if that was done, we would take we'd like to take that that money, the 26,000, and then use it on street slab work throughout the city. So, that could very easily be done if that's the desire of the council. So that would be a little different than what you're saying. It would be a um separating it out not as a different bill but as the quantities remain the same, the cost remains the same. It's just having that directed towards a different purpose. So is is there an action that I can take tonight to try to get two separate proposals so that they're not entangled between maintenance and turnberry project? And I'm not talking about the bill, but can the uh department move forward with exploring this option?

At this time, this is just question and answer on the bill. No action on the bill or anything is appropriate until after our second reading.

But I do think I believe council member TR is asking for uh I guess some additional information. So would that be like a motion that can be done separately uh either now or maybe as part of miscellaneous? I I think that's how um you know we probably have handled some other items like this because it's more related information. So that I guess depending on what comes back I think may impact what he determines he's going to do for the second read. And and maybe I misunderstood the question so forgive me, but are you just asking if you can direct for additional information?

Correct. And the additional information would be to go back to the contractor Kel who's submitted the lowest bid and identify if they'd be willing to enter into two separate contracts with the city. One for maintenance and one specifically for Turnberry yet honoring the prices that they proposed. So I'm not asking to modify the bill. I'm asking if the department can entertain kelp uh kelp contracting for two separate proposals. City administrator has an idea maybe of maybe what uh you might want to suggest.

I think that the issue with that approach is this is if that if the turnberry project were to not proceed that bill were to proceed then that could potentially jeopardize. I think asking kelp is fine but I don't know if they will honor it. Um whereas if the city if the city council wills it and there's an issue here that we want to proceed with just maintenance work then we have quantities here that are set up uh and the even the turnberry thing is set up as a quantity that money could be easily spent on more concrete street slab work. Luckily this bid came in at under what we had budgeted for fiscal year 2026. Um if it was over we'd be probably having a different discussion. But uh the bids came in good. The only thing I don't want to have happen is this is the maintenance for the entire year. So, having um it split up and then having the contractor back out, that could be very highly likely. I would say possibly after the second reading when there's motions available to redirect um redirect the work versus um having two different bills set up.

So, should we at least ask help if we choose to redirect the work from Turnberry to maintenance that they would still honor the net pricing? Yeah, we can do that. Okay. So, therefore, the city attorney just advised that we don't need a motion for that that uh we can direct you to seek that get that information for the second meeting. That's fine. All right. Uh anything else, Council Member Tia? No, the city attorney said uh I think it can be clear for that information to be available. Yes, Council Member Bramble.

Yeah, this is another real quick one. Um, Mr. Brown, um, can you remind me of the cost of the Turnberry work again? Uh, the cost is $26,674. Okay, that's what I thought. Thank you, Council Member Cranes. I just looking for some information. Uh, Rick, um, the Wart 7, are you familiar with Waterfront Way? I am familiar with Waterfront Way. Yeah. Okay. uh it stops that old state uh does not connect. Do you know why that does not connect?

I don't know the complete history of that. U no I I know there was at one point a proposed development there that did not move forward. You want me to tell you why I didn't connect? I'm too late. That's the ress were not happy and I I heard the same complaints from Turnberry residents tonight. So what I'm saying is that these situations do exist in Wildwood and u but I'm not going to de debate it tonight. So thank you. Thank you. I was wondering where you're going with that. Um okay. Thank you. Uh anything else?

All right. All right. Well, then bill 342 will be back at the next meeting for a second reading and uh we have that additional information that's been requested. So that means we've all believe the first readings. We do have two bills that we we have a request for second readings tonight. Bill 3037 and bill 3046. So uh believe those are the only two. Director Vunishes, do you have any other bill or is that it? No sir, the first one relates to the minor minor subdivision if there are any questions.

Okay. Um well, let's see if uh if there's no objection. Are we okay with doing both of these in? All right. Can I get a motion for the second reading of bill uh 3037 and bill 3046? A motion uh made by council member Marshall, seconded by council member Galani. All those in favor, please say I. I. Anyone oppose or abstain?

Colleen, please read these bills for the second reading. Bill 3037, an ordinance of the city council of the city of Wildwood, Missouri, authorizing a minor subdivision plat of lots 1 and four of the Wild Horse Creek adjustment plat book 372, page 408, thereby creating two new lots and adjusting the third parcel of ground, which are all located at the intersection of Wild Horse Creek Road and White Oak Valley Road, legally described as being attractive land in US surveys 668,52 and 1 1956 in township 45 north range 3 east of the fifth princ principal meridian and to be hereafter known as wild horse creek adjustment plate 2 bill 3046 an ordinance of the city of Wildwood Missouri authorizing the mayor to negotiate and execute an amended and restated intergovernmental cooperation agreement by and between the city of Wildwood, Missouri and St. Louis County, Missouri for the housing of municipal inmates.

These bills, we just saw these in first reading. Uh do we have any uh discussion or debate uh regarding these bills? All right, seeing none, then uh Colleen, please call the role for final passage. Council member Farmer, yes. Council member Dodwell, yes. Council member Nyan, yes. Council member Troier, yes. Council member Mabberry, yes. Council member Rablooski, yes. Council member Preston, yes. Council member Marshall, yes. Council member McCutchen, yes. Council member Rambo, yes. Council member Bockart, yes. Council member Crayons, yes. Council member Vanic, yes. Council member Alers, yes.

Council member Galani,

okay, bills pass. Uh, moving on then. Uh we don't have any first readings uh from favorable uh with from hearings tonight and um resolutions are in the consent agenda. So the consent agenda is before the council several items. If there's no objection with approving the consent agenda, we'll move forward with that now. Seeing none, all uh can we get a motion for approval uh approval of the consent agenda made by council member Ber, seconded by council member Preston. All those in favor, please say I. I you're going to oppose or abstain. Great. Thank you. Uh miscellaneous, I do have an item that will require us to go into close session and therefore um we will uh it does pertain to um I believe subsections of RSM 610.021 021 subsection one um um let's see uh communications between the at city attorney and uh we have subsection three which is um hiring firing disciplining and promoting of employees by public funmental body. Uh we have eight which is oh 13 yes 13 uh which is um related to uh individually identifiable personnel records performing uh ratings or records pertaining to employees or applicants or employee. So uh therefore um we will need to do a roll call for going into close session. Can I get a motion made by council member Marshalls? Is there a second on the motion? Made by council member Nyian. All those in f um I guess we have um all those in favor please say I

I Okay. Anyone oppose or abstain? All right. So we have uh we'll have to do a roll call. I Oh, we doing we need to do a roll call. Yeah. So therefore, go ahead and do the roll. Council member Farmer. Yes. Council member Dodwell. Yes. Council member Nyan. Yes. Council member Tradier. Yes. Council member Mabry. Yes. Council member Rooki. Yes. Council member Preston. Yes. Council member Marshall. Yes. Council member McCutchen. Yes. Council member Rambo. Yes. Council member Bockart. Yes. Council member Crayons. Yes. Council member Vanic. Yes. Council member Alers. Yes. Council member Galani.

Okay. Uh therefore, uh we are going to go into the community room for the close session uh to discuss these items and then we will come back in here to the council chambers to adjourn the meeting. Uh so um everyone is welcome to to stay here but of course just know uh when we come back it will be the adjournment uh of the meeting uh unless anything else comes up but um move forward and uh be back Hm.

Travis, are you getting it ready? Are we back on? Great. Thank you. So, we uh just concluded executive session. Therefore, uh we'll look for a motion to adjourn the council meeting. Made by Bockard, second by Galani. All those in favor say I. The motion is non-debatable. I okay