City Council - Regular Meeting

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Here. City Council Minutes, motion to approve regular City Council meeting minutes dated June 8th, 2026.

Motion to approve as presented.

Bridenhour?

Yes.

Osborne?

Yes.

Latari? Yes. Jones? Yes. Euler?

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you. Adoption of agenda.

Motion to adopt agenda as presented.

Ridenour.

Yes.

Osborne.

Yes.

Latari. Yes. Jones. Yes. Euler.

Yes. Thanks for your patience. We're seeing all the new vehicles the city's got. So they're fantastic. And then the fire department's not far behind, right, Mike? Maybe a little bit.

On their way.

All right, 5.1, presentation on the Warrensburg Freedom Festival Jolly Force Celebration presented by Mayor Bruce Euler. But I've also asked, Councilman Reitenauer to just talk about it with us together. You're on the committee, and we just want to thank that the Freedom Festival Committee in Warrensburg is amazing. It's all volunteers. There's no profit in it. Food trucks, and I can go down the list, Parks Department, Public Works, Police Department, Fire Department. Everybody's so been involved with it, and I want to thank They were having it on July 4th this year, 4th of July, which is great, but most cities around here are not having it on 4th of July. And the problem was they didn't have licensed ATF shooters of the fireworks. And Michael Malloy noticed that early on, that that's something we needed here. There was a shortage of shooters. And because everybody's doing fireworks this year because of the 250th anniversary, we needed ATF-licensed shooters. So at this point, I know Max is going through the shooting school right now. Appreciate it. Yeah, go on. We really appreciate that. Tony, you're going through the, you're planning on going through the shoot of school.

I have to do my third shoot, and then I have to do the school. Yeah. They've already done it.

But it's just fantastic. Michael Malloy, and I don't know who else, do you know who else?

One of his employees actually went through the shoot. Oh, right. Michael. He got approved last week. Okay.

And...

And we're very fortunate to have this come back. We haven't had fireworks in Warrensburg for several, several years. So I'm excited to see it come back to the same area it was before over at Grover Park Baptist over by the hospital. A lot of great things we got going. It's a full day. Parks and Rec actually kicks it off Friday night with the Pickleball Tournament. And then Saturday, pretty much events from 8 a.m. until 10.30 p.m. So very, very excited to have that event come back to Warrensburg and have a A really, really good fireworks show. I think it's going to be impressive.

It's going to be an incredible day for Warrensburg and families just to get out and see the Freedom Festival that day. So we know there was a patriotic bike ride downtown that morning. Another bike ride with the Spirit Trail Committee, Sally Ash, David Pierbolt working on that. There's a golf tournament we now know at Wichita. Sandstone that afternoon. There's also a longer bike ride, a historic bike ride. They've set up with QR codes to ride around town and take a picture of the QR code and it'll tell you about that site in Warrensburg. And then there'll be a longer ride heading out to the mural out toward Whiteman Air Force Base about halfway up Bristol Ridge. If you all see that beautiful mural, there'll be a ride out there, probably starting at the high school because there's work going on the Spirit Trail on the upper part up toward the soccer fields. I appreciate the sponsors. The whole thing is we couldn't do it without the sponsors. So appreciate Harris, Summer, and Pappard with their donations. We've got, I think, about eight people now or eight groups or organizations that donated to it. I don't know if you have that list in front of you. I don't, but the city's a donor.

Yep, the city. So on the flyer itself, it has Abilities, InterSys, Josh Natasa Medic, Insight Eye Care, American Senior Benefits, the Home Team, Community National Bank, FNC Bank, Dr. Steve and Katie Ritter, American Legion Post 131, the City of Warrensburg, Harris, Summer, and Pappard, and Walmart, Constable Trash Service, and Complete Septic Services.

yeah fantastic and then we have american legion i know just made a donation recently too so anyway we appreciate everybody's support there is also besides a 5k run farmer's market of course is that day so that's incredible um we're hoping on good weather food trucks bouncing you're on charge of that yeah so i'm in charge of all the food trucks but uh food trucks will get set up over at five

p.m. over by the hospital and also have bounce houses. The community band's coming out to play that evening. We have Twister Sports coming in also for an event and a lot of great stuff. Everything pretty much kicks off over there on that side of town at 5 p.m. Otherwise, we're kind of scattered all about. There's all sorts of festivities.

Burkhart's partially shut off.

We're still working through that permitting process, but yeah, Burkhart and Mitchell will be temporarily closed during that time. And we do have contingency plans in place in case we do have a little bit of rain that evening, possibly moving to Sunday or Monday, depending on how the rain works out. But hopefully we won't. I know it's been a rainy season this year.

It has. There's a drug dog demonstration from 6 p.m. at Grover Park, Warrensburg Police Department, Johnson County Sheriff's. Community Bain will be out there performing in the parking lot at 645. And then there's community performance by Twister Sports, 645. Community band, 730. There's a web page for this. Obviously, it's Freedom Fest, Warrensburg. You can look that up. They're going to honor America's veterans at 830. Posting the colors, fireworks, sensory bags that day. A lot going on. We're very excited about this and appreciate the whole community getting involved with it.

It got started and just took on a life of its own.

It did. It was a volunteer group and they just said, I'll show up and do it. And they have. And again, we always want to thank Rover Park Baptist Church for the last many, many years of supporting this with their own donations to have the fireworks out there. And it's been a couple of years since we've had fireworks. So it's going to be And the donors, sponsors have made pledges that not only will it happen this year, but we know we will go at least another four years after this based on the pledges we have. So fantastic. I don't know if you have anything else you want to. We just wanted to get that out, though, because we're getting close and appreciate everybody's help on it. Very exciting. Nothing else? No, that's perfect. Thank you. No, thank you. Thanks for volunteering to get your license, too. It's very important. Okay. Looks like we're going to hear from probably Peter Hinkle here. 5.2, presentation of facility grade audit report by Schneider Electric, presented by Peter Hinkle, Midwest sales team leader, sustainability business. Appreciate it. Thanks, Tom and Peter.

I didn't know I had such a great title. I appreciate it.

I didn't know you did either. I'll give a little bit of introduction. I'm sure you all know we, you know, as part of our budgeting last year, we tried to do it, take a comprehensive approach, try to inventory everything we know about our CIP. Some of what you saw outside before the meeting is our plan starting to come into fruition. One of the items that was difficult for staff to really get our arms around and get T. Get into the plan or have specificity in the plan was our facilities and so Schneider we entered into an agreement with them for an investment grade audit. They've been doing that. This is kind of the culmination of that. So Peter has been working closely with staff in terms of what they're seeing in the buildings. We've had conversations about what options we might have, and their plan gives us a lot more focus on how to address some of the building and equipment items that we knew we didn't have in the schedule previously. So I'm sure you'll have questions. It's riveting for me, but you may have questions. It's pretty... complex in some respects. I'll turn it over to Peter.

Thank you, Mike, and thank you guys for having me out, Council. I appreciate it. I'll try not to be too long-winded, but if you have any questions, feel free to stop me, throw your hands up, give me a stop sign, whatever it takes. But before I get going, I really kind of just want to thank a few of the people who have been involved in this from the city side, because We come in here with a blank slate trying to understand the challenges that they deal with on an everyday basis. You know, starting with Mike and Phil, but also Brian and the maintenance staff have done a really great job of kind of opening up and giving us, you know, the look behind the curtain, so to speak. You know, when you have a lot of pieces of equipment that you're having to maintain, not everyone is the same and not everyone is as challenging or as easy or as challenging. difficult to work on or is trouble free. They're all kind of like snowflakes. And so it's really nice to have good staff who we've been working with on the city side and on the parks and rec side. I know I've got my two buddies back here, Chris and Tony. Appreciate them kind of coming out. Not sure if you're here to support me or just to be here and listen to the next the next agenda item. But either way, I'll take it as support. But their staff has been awesome as well. You've got some great people here within the city and our team really appreciates that because it makes our life that much easier as we try to dive into and try to understand what the challenges are. I don't know who's got the clicker. Thank you. I got the clicker. So just to kind of recap, Mike mentioned kind of when we started this whole process, just to summarize this slide, I think the easiest way that I can is we want to improve the efficiency of your buildings and of your infrastructure. We want to create better operational scenarios to where those buildings are operating the way that they're supposed to. And then when it comes to just what we're trying to do from a community perspective, we want the community to feel like these buildings are theirs and that they're getting everything from a city perspective that they can out of them. And we're really kind of leaning that towards more of the parks and rec sides of those facilities, but making it inviting for people to want to come into Grover Park with better lighting. making it more comfortable in City Hall when folks come into those spaces and use those services. Or even in this building, which we'll kind of get to some ideas that we have there in terms of how do you make council, how do you make municipal court something that's more functional and make this building maybe more inhabitable is a great way to say it. But functional is certainly, I think, the right path. And we kind of look at what your goals are. We really try to hit on those in each of the scope items, but also in the overall process. And hopefully as we go through this, you'll kind of hear that echo throughout. So where are we in the process? Just to give you kind of a quick update. If you remember, we did a solar project back in September. That is generally complete. I'll give you the quick update there in just a second. But we started about that exact same time developing and starting the plans for the investment grade audit. Since then, we've probably had a half dozen meetings with Mike and Phil and Brian and the rest of the staff here within the city. Same thing on the parks and rec side. Just trying to understand all the nuances of what do they want to get out of these sites? What do they want to get out of these buildings? what's today's use, but also what's maybe the future use. It's not just about replacing a unit and hoping it's going to last you 20 years. If there's plans or there's changes or there's ways that you want to use a building that's more effective, having that knowledge and having that conversation with staff has been really helpful. And we're in that kind of phase two-ish kind of into that subcontractor construction kind of financing phase. And in fact, Mike and I shared some emails today trying to get some folks from a financing side to kind of have different conversations with us and engage on some of the options that are available to the city. And we'll be working that as we kind of finish up our design and development over the next couple of months. Really with the end goal of this project being bringing back this, what we call phase two, since we've kind of already done phase one with the solar side, this focus on infrastructure here in the August timeframe. So either the first or second meeting, depending on how it falls. And the goal for that is honestly, we want to get a little bit of construction done in the wintertime because some of the units that we're looking to replace from a mechanical perspective, those will be centered on where it'll be better for us to do it when we have a heating load needed as opposed to 95 and humid, you can imagine the fun times that that will be for some folks in certain parts of the city in terms of dealing with it in the summer for replacement. So kind of trying to plan ahead and also trying to make the construction a little bit easier on everybody throughout the city as well. So the other big piece of this is kind of what Mike alluded to in terms of the capital planning. I think he probably gets more geeked out about it than any other city manager I've met, but that's a good thing. But it's really all about, hey, where are we at from an assets perspective? One of the things that we've brought to Phil and to Brian and their team and to Mike as well is even a capital asset planning tool. We're trying to figure out the number of assets, but it's basically like an online platform that we have and Shiner has actually created internally and that we've been working with a host of both private and public companies, but it essentially captures every single asset that you have that you wanna track. It'll track work orders, it'll track all the data. It'll sort of tell you when that piece of equipment needs to be replaced, the cost of replacement. So it kind of ties into what Mike's really been focused on. And so when you see this here and kind of the list and you'll see the, it's not the greatest of visuals if you're far away and hard of seeing, but the blue line represents the units that you have currently. The red is the ones that were being proposed to replace. You'll see there's one or two, excuse me, one, it's a fan coil unit. It's something that will last forever. It runs very little, so it's not in need of replacement at this time. Replace it as it fails or when it fails. But the rest of them are large heating and cooling type elements, rooftops, packaged equipment, some split systems. But really what we wanted to capture was where are we and where do we need to replace today versus what can last a few years? So you also see those years 11, 12, and 13. You have several units that are not quite at that age that we'd say it's a useful life type of a replacement. And also talking with Brian and Phil, these units haven't had a whole lot of trouble. Maybe that's changed in the last few days. But at the time that this all put together, it kind of stayed true. So we've even worked with Mike to kind of give some suggestions within the 25-year financial model that's been built out to say, hey, in about 2030, 2029, that time frame, you're going to have to start thinking about replacing two or three of these units and just start preparing for it. You know, get yourself back on that track from a preventative instead of an emergency type of a situation for replacement of large equipment. It also helps, obviously, with budgets and trying to work through that. Any questions kind of on that first dive before I dive into scopes or the phases?

I think one takeaway worth noting is that far left set of data. is pre-2001. So those are 25 years old or older HVAC units.

And that was my question. How many of those are there?

Of the pre-2001? Yeah. There's nine that you have in place, eight of which will be replaced.

Oh, sorry. I'm not reading the chart correctly. Thank you.

Yeah, no problem. So then if you look at the ones that are proposed for replacement, that's 16, I believe. That's 16. Not all told at that moment.

Yeah. And part of what we've also done is we've actually and I'll kind of pull back the curtain here. Part of what we've removed is scope in this building. And I'll explain why and what we've kind of talked about. And then also a little bit of scope in City Hall for some remodel work that we've talked about. So but I'll get on to that. And that's a whole nother slide that we can dive into and have a conversation around. But, you know, I think this does paint a good picture. You're not doing terrible. Like, I'll be honest, I've been in many of these meetings where there is a lot of blue and a lot of red and there's a lot of catching up to do. You guys are actually doing a great job and really your staff over the years, I think, has done a pretty good job of really trying to maintain with the funds that they have available. That's always the hardest part. You know, when I talk to people at infrastructure, what's the easiest thing to cut? It's a piece of equipment because guess what? It's running. It's comfortable in there today, even though it's 23, 24, 25 years old. And You've spent ten thousand dollars every year just keeping it keeping it going. But let's just keep it going one more year rather than place. You know, a lot of these units that we saw, I think we're in need of replacement. And so that's not in need of we're definitely in need of replacement. And a few of those ones that are kind of leaking into that, you know, 15 to 20 year term, they've got a little bit of life left. Let's get what we can out of them and let's just plan for replacement, which is what the process has been working with Mike and staff.

So what's your proposal in terms of replacement? Is this a three-year process to get all?

Nope. So our construction timeframe, let's say we sign a contract in August, it'll take us about 12 weeks or so, eight to 12 weeks, spend a piece of equipment to actually show up on site, which is why we're kind of looking towards the end of the year, beginning of really next, as long as it's cold to replace some of these pieces of equipment. And then it's about a, on mechanical, it's about an eight to nine month timeframe. Overall, the project from beginning to end will take about 12 to 16 months. There'll be 12 months of really construction, construction, and then there's going to be the commissioning and punch list type items that we'll work through with Phil and staff just to make sure that things are where they need to be.

So the proposal is to replace all of these that you are that are redlined here. Correct. And then we would get on a rolling schedule moving forward.

Exactly. Kind of think of it like you're playing catch up. You know, you haven't changed the oil in your car for a while. You're 12,000 miles getting a little hairy. Let's get it done. And let's have that plan for every five or 7,500 if you're me and you cheat. But 7,500 or so to get kind of on that track. And really the units that you're kind of seeing in the next few years, they're not the really big, you know, high tonnage type units. They're some of the smaller units. There is one little bit larger unit, I think at police, if I remember right, that maybe needs to be replaced. Police or city hall, one of the two, but outside of that, they're not, they're not huge giant units in terms of cost. So, and we've, we've given some of that data and Mike's worked that into that financial model as well. Perfect. So just in terms of where we're at in the overall partnership, so the solar installation piece, it is complete. The challenge is getting it accepted by Evergy, which is always the fun part. Getting them to come out on site, getting them to approve it and allow us to essentially turn on the overall system. When I asked the question a week or two ago, it was, yes, it's coming. When I asked it today, it was, yes, it's coming. So as you can imagine, we are frustrated, but we are going to work with them as best we can. They are our only electrical resource here in the area, so got to play nice. But I know they're probably overwhelmed. There's a lot of these projects that I think came through all about the same time with the ITC tax credits. kind of falling off. So there's a lot of people who are also calling them and asking the same general questions about getting things approved and turned on. Once they do, though, we'll make sure that Mike and Phil and everyone knows, and we'll make sure we relay that out to you. But overall, the installation is complete. The units are there. The equipment is there. And hopefully you've been able to see it, at least down here at the police headquarters, and be able to see the canopies that have been installed.

I did have one question about that. The warranty begins when it is substantially completed. So is it considered substantially completed when you actually plug into the utility company? So it would, this is not running.

Yeah. The substantial completion would start once the paperwork's been signed, which I don't think we've signed any substantial completion letters. Not yet. So no, it hasn't started yet.

So that wouldn't happen until we actually are plugged into the utility company and they are actually functioning.

Correct. You all have to sign off on the substantial completion for the project, for the warranty to kind of kick in. Okay.

Thank you.

Yeah, and I don't want this to go any longer than, you know, maybe a few more weeks in terms of them being able to not just plug us in, but accept us onto the grid, which is really what they're checking to make sure that the safety, all the requirements that they have in their spec for us to even tie into the grid are there, which they are. It's just a matter of they have to visually inspect and see that it's actually functioning.

Okay, thank you.

The second phase that we're talking about is really focused on facilities. I'll dive into that in a little bit more detail here in just a minute for both city facilities and then highlight the parks and recs projects. And then the third is this remodel. I think Mike maybe have mentioned this to you guys at some point, but just kind of giving an update of what we're thinking. About a month and a half ago, two months, we came out with one of our architects and looked at this space here. and trying to figure out, okay, how can we make this more functional? We had both the police chief, as well as a number of staff who helped walk us through the site, kind of using different entry points and trying to understand both from a safety security perspective, as well as just a function perspective, how can we make this work? And we're gonna get to a couple of those options, but just wanna kind of give you a little teaser that I think we've got some really good ideas centered on this space in particular. And then at City Hall, And Mike said, hey, we're going to do this same kind of a process, but just a little bit smaller scale. There'll be some economies of scale that will help to kind of design and develop those initial drawings and renderings. And from a design build perspective, be able to bring that back to you as well. But again, I'll get into a little bit of the details here in just a second. But that's kind of the three different projects, if you will, in terms of one being complete, one nearly finished with design, and then the third, hopefully about ready to kick off with regards to a few of these other facilities.

I apologize if you're going to get into it, but I did have a question, Justin, how Schneider Electric fits into the remodel piece, because I understand your role is to energy and sustainability initiatives, such as the solar installation and the facilities. How does Schneider Electric fit in to bring in architecture plans and wanting to remodel buildings and things? That just seems a little bit out of scope.

Yeah, it's a good point. Well, one of the things that we're doing is also impacting the energy use within the space. So there's mechanical, electrical, and plumbing that we'll be doing. A lot of the GC work that we'd be looking at as well. You can use capital dollars to help pay for those improvements, but there will be energy efficiency and savings related to your work.

What is GC?

General Contracting.

And from my perspective, what really caused me to think about it is we were talking about the HVAC units and kind of their assessment of this building. It was almost an, oh, by the way, I'm not sure we told you we have remodeled plants. Does it make sense to start down the path of your design before we figure out the configuration of the interior space? And then the conversation led, do you have anybody that can kind of integrate that whole conversation. So I think we've talked about previously municipal court moved in front and kudos to them for making the most of what they have in the way of the space there. But there's some efficiencies that could be gained just in terms of reconfiguration there. And then space here, and Peter will kind of get into some of that thinking. But it really kind of came out of, well, are we getting ahead of ourselves to talk about doing system upgrades until we know the interior redesign of this space? Okay.

And then would you guys be providing those interior plans also? Is that part of our partnership with you all?

Part of it would be, and we'll get to kind of what the scope of work on that would be, but yes, we would be able to provide that initial, call it like a pre-designed development scope, kind of giving you a sense of what that's going to look like in terms of this location or the other location that we're considering for this space and kind of reconfiguring space in here, as well as all the mechanical, all the duct work, lighting controls into this building. And then City Hall, very similar, but it's a much smaller scale, just with kind of the front entryway on the first level. And then as you go down those stairs, the public work entryway as well. Okay, thank you. So to give you kind of a sense just of scope and facilities and just give you an idea of where the project sits, when you're talking about like HVAC systems within the city side, so I'm going to focus only on city, no parks and recs, I'll get to them here in just a second. We've got about seven different sites, everything from multiple split systems at the fire stations to reconfiguring portions of city hall, as well as police HQ. And really, the end goal is obviously to save and become more energy efficient. But in a lot of cases, it's also to become more comfortable in these spaces. If you've been in a few different areas within a few of these buildings, the temperatures will vary slightly. By slightly, I mean 5, 10 degrees sometimes, depending on where you're at and If you're walking through a nice sunny hallway or if you're in a corridor that's cold and not as inviting. But really, when we look at that, we want to find a way and what we've designed and developed with each one of these solutions is not just looking at it from the energy efficiency side, but also ensuring that we're keeping that comfort as well, mainly for staff, as well as those who are visiting the spaces. And I'll actually kind of give you more of a detailed one here. with what we're thinking about over at City Hall and what we considered here in just a second. The building automation system, so this is really tying everything together. You know, right now you've got a lot of disparate systems, meaning that you've got multiple types of building control. Some of them are like the wall stats that you see there on site. Some of them are simply kind of interconnected controllers that really have no front end. You know, they might've been something at one point, but over time, maybe they've just been left alone, forgotten, whatever the situation might be. But right now, you know, you really don't have something that can allow Brian, allow his staff from a maintenance perspective to log on, see the controls, see the temperatures, understand what the problems may or may not be, or just check to make sure that everything's perfect. And over the last two or three months, we've had A little bit of kind of training, but also just kind of a, hey, let us show you what this system looks like. As we get into the construction, part of what our job will be is to really work with Phil, work with Brian and the staff here within the city to make sure that those folks who need the knowledge, who need the understanding of how the systems work, have that and are ready to be able to handle the system as well, but also be able to have kind of an opportunity to shift and to move things around as needed. I'm sorry, you're shaking your head back here like, I don't know if it's going to be me, but we'll make a step up to the plate. But the building automation system is also one of those things that we can now start to implement a lot of schedules, night setbacks. So when no one's in the space, we don't need it to be 70 degrees. Let's make it so that it's comfortable. It's not hurting anything inside the building, but let's set that back to save money and to save energy. Part of also on the building automation side will be to commission a lot of these buildings, which Even the wall stats, you're not going to really get much of a commissioning effort. But when we think about it, when we start to do what we call tab work, which is testing, test air and balancing. So when air comes out of even one of these diffusers, we want to make sure that the right amount of air is coming out and we can close off certain spaces. So it's dispersed better. So it's more comfortable, but it's also energy efficient and that it's going to the direction of the space that needs to have that airflow. And that's true for every building that we touch with either mechanical or building automation systems that are installed. Lighting is really just converting a lot of this over to LED. You've done a good job in some buildings, and you've kind of got zero in others. I mean, it's just one of those things. Some of it was just as things failed, we were going for replacement. Other ones, it looked like you had done a little bit more of a focused effort. But this is to clean up the remaining that's out there and to be able to replace all of those lighting to LED and really capture savings within the system itself. Water, again, another example of just trying to capture and reduce, become more sustainable and be able to use less water. And then I mentioned the capital asset planning tool. It's not something we have, including the price now, but in terms of something we're working on with Phil is to really identify what that might look like and the benefits and value for his team.

If I could jump in there, I think staff inherited a hodgepodge of things that got built as projects got done and then were kind of left to figure it out on their own. And so, you know, the consistency is helpful. You might touch on the support after the fact. And if we do have a problem. Yep.

Yeah. So so part of our partnership, if you will, is the guarantee. So the guarantee of savings. And and we're not going to dive into that necessarily in great detail today as we're still kind of ironing out and finalizing scope. But in terms of the savings, China Electric is responsible for ensuring that you see the dollars that we tell you you're going to save. Part of what we're also responsible for is to make sure that you all are getting support and things are working the way they're supposed to work. Not just on the savings side of things, but that if there's an issue that comes up, a warranty problem, a challenge, you have a team that sits on the backside of our projects that solely focuses on the assurance of the savings as well as the function of the systems that were installed. Our client services group is responsible for coming out, doing additional training. They'll actually be logging into your system without anyone even knowing. They'll be pulling data down to figure out how are they operating, kind of giving you almost like a report card on a monthly basis. That'll be really useful, especially from an operations perspective. Not that they're doing anything wrong, but they can start to see where, man, this building wasn't really hitting set point by 7 o'clock in the morning. Okay, let's have a conversation for why that is. Is that because that the unit maybe isn't getting it, not being able to pump enough air? What's the cause? And our team's going to work with you all to ensure that we can come to a solution from a comfort and energy efficiency perspective. The other thing that, you know, Mike alludes to with this team is, you know, they're a 24-hour helpline. So whenever something goes down, whenever there's a challenge or a problem, if we can help to solve it over the phone, that's great. If not, we can get somebody out here and try to support you as well. Um, it's, it's a nice buffer as you're starting to go through this, since it is going to be new from a new systems and a new building automation system that will be installed. It'll be nice to have that support, you know, that they can call if there are any challenges as they get to feel more and more comfortable with it. And I think speaking with Phil and the staff and Brian. From a maintenance perspective, I think after we went through what the system looks like and the ease of the operation, you can make it as complicated or as simple as you want. But really, I think what's going to be nice is once he gets the formalized training and the staff here, it'll be something they can rely on to tell them where their problems are, be able to troubleshoot and be able to hopefully operationally fix challenges without necessarily having to go on site multiple times. So to just highlight one quick example from a mechanical system perspective. So if you're looking at the smaller image there, it's just yellow and red, that's the current setup in the basement there at City Hall. When it gets hot, yellow gets real, real hot. When it gets cold, red gets real, real cold is kind of the nicest way to say it. And there is no way for us to adjust anyone's temperature on any side, regardless of how much we would try or would like to do so. Which is good. It is what it is. It's the system that you have. And so part of what we did was we sat down and we said, hey, guys, we have a couple of options. We met with Phil and Brian and a couple others and said, OK, here's kind of what we're thinking. We've got options to look at what's called a variable air volume box, which is what you had over a police previously. Or we could look at potentially zoning it with four smaller units that we can now zone off different portions. And through that conversation, what we learned was the challenge of dealing with some of the maintenance headaches with those VAV boxes and the desire to really keep it easy so that they don't have to deal with additional mechanical points of failure, which is really what the VAV box would become. And so looking at it from this perspective, we went back and designed a four-unit system instead of two that you currently have to allow for additional zoning so that now green and red and purple and blue will each be able to have a little bit more comfort control. You're still going to have the challenges, you know, of having maybe multiple folks in a space that's controlled by one unit that's dumping air into that space. But really, it starts to kind of narrow that down because of how they started to zone it out. You'll look, we kind of tried to get the east, the west, the north, the south, kind of all the elevations and all the directions paired up as best we could with the limited amount of space and modifications that we'll be able to make down there. But I think it's really going to be something that's going to help out quite a bit down in the basement to ensure that people are comfortable and people feel like, you know, they want to be there to work instead of being hot or cold. But that's just really one of the examples. We've done similar kind of approaches with the police headquarters as well as other buildings in terms of modifications. But just wanted to highlight that one since, you know, City Hall is probably the most prevalent building. And this one's probably the biggest challenge in terms of trying to solve the comfort problem here as well.

So each rooftop unit is for a zone?

Yeah, each unit will basically have its own zone. And then there'll be a controller. And we still haven't decided just number of offices if we want to. There's ways you can do it. We can put a thermostat in the office where it averages out all three or we just use one. It's something that we'll hammer out here over the next month or so. But really trying to figure out just what is needed in those spaces. And the real important thing here will be about commissioning because Regardless of where the controller goes, somebody who's, and I know it's kind of hard to see, but you can kind of see the lines that are running from the units. Somebody that's closer to that duct run is going to have a lot more CFM pumped into that space. And it's going to rob, and CFM is just airflow that's coming through. but it's going to rob the person who's at the end of that duct line. So we want to make sure that if we can, we can, I don't want to stuffy it up in the front, but I want to make it so that they're dropping the right amount of air into each space so that the person at the very end isn't squeezed and isn't starved of either hot or cold air, depending upon the season. And so that's what our team will come back in once the systems are installed and commission all of these buildings in that way so that it's comfortable, but it's also efficient in terms of what we're trying to provide. So in terms of scope and kind of where things currently sit, you'll kind of see the building automation scope, the general buildings on mechanical lighting and water conservation, and the total comes to right around $2.3 million with a few extra numbers here and there. But this is still in our estimate phase. So we haven't gone to any kind of hard bid or haven't really gotten even equipment bids outside of just asking for some floated numbers. So what we'll do over the next month, is we're going to work with those equipment providers, give them the actual specs for the size, the tonnage, if you will, of that equipment, start to figure out final pieces of, like if you look at This area here, kind of start to figure out some final adjustments that we're going to have to make in terms of the narrow hallways and getting additional ductwork put in. But that'll really kind of wash out here over the month. We think we're in about plus or minus 10%. I'm hoping we're at a plus 10 and comes down by 10, but I don't make the prices, so I apologize. But kind of the goal here is really to... be able to provide a project that, again, provides both energy efficiency, comfort, sustainability, and then also starts to look at and identify ways for making these improvements so you're not stuck with a large capital rock, if you will, in terms of needs that you have across the city. The thing you'll see there that I'll also highlight is your rebates are at zero. Don't panic. They're not going to be at zero. We will do a custom incentive. So Evergy has a custom incentive package that basically we have a document and application that we'll fill out on your behalf. And then that money comes back to you all. What that is, we just haven't calculated just because we're still kind of finalizing different pieces of scope. They no longer have a lighting incentive. I'm sorry to report. Average got rid of that on the Missouri side about two years ago. If we want to move to Kansas, which some of you probably will scream and yell at me, but they still have their lighting piece. So I'm always confused at how those decisions are made. But that just gives you kind of a sense of where the project currently sits.

What kind of number do you use for the price increases over 15 years? Are you still around 3%? We use 3% for that one.

I know we used 4% and 5% as kind of the solar process, but we just have left it at 3% and tried to be conservative here as well.

O&M is operation and maintenance? Correct. Okay. Just want to make sure I have that right.

Yeah. And O&M is typically a calculation. So like on lighting, it's getting rid of ballast. On mechanical, it's trying to identify different costs that you're not going to have to incur. But again, trying to be as conservative as we can there. Really, what this comes down to is you have a lot of capital needs wrapped into energy efficiency and savings. So trying to balance those out as well over the long term. And then the other piece I'll bring up just on this slide is we have engaged with Piper Sandler. I know I sent you a text about giving me a response. I'm not going to call you out here at the city council meeting, but we will get that figured out. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks, we'll have that conversation. You guys have worked with them in the past, I believe for some different projects. So he's going to be able to present to us some options that we have in terms of financing and what that would look like so that we can then bring that back as well at the same time with council. And we'll work with Mike and make sure he has all the information he needs in terms of of capital versus financing and what the different debt options might look like and that we can present on that as well.

Are you looking at pretty standard HVAC systems or air filtration for indoor air pollutants or something?

No, it's pretty standard stuff. You don't have a great deal of outside air coming in a lot of these spaces. Not that they're completely closed off. It's just some of the systems are so old that they're not really functioning in that capacity. So fixing that will be probably the most important. We've kind of gotten away from doing the UV cleaning stuff. We're doing that at KCMO only because it was a requirement. If you'd want us to look into it, we could look into it. I'll be kind of honest. It adds another complexity of maintenance. Those bulbs last about a year, and then you get to pay for them all over again. And it's nice, and it keeps the coils clean, and it keeps particles from flowing into space, but it also adds some significant operational expense in the long run.

I see Phil shaking his head, so we'll probably pass on that.

I know it has been a concern in our community recently elsewhere in the city of Radon. And I wasn't sure if that was a piece that we could, a piece of discussion that could be included in this.

Yeah, it has not approached her across my bench in terms of what we would be looking at in terms of Radon, in terms of the mechanical systems. But I can ask my team if we've considered anything or if there's any issues or challenges there. It's probably not much.

We can just do the... Machines aren't cheap. I mean, aren't very expensive to use on... There's no level requirement on that. I talked to Dr. Ritter about this, and it's kind of interesting. People are going up in arms. It's just about getting airflow and not much else you can do about it. But you do have tests or the equipment that is not very expensive.

I'll be blunt. The only thing I know about radon is a plastic tube that comes up from my basement, and there's a little bubble that it's pink. And if it ever goes flat, I'm supposed to freak out. So that's how that works.

That's the only thing my wife's ever told me about it.

And I was like, that sounds like a plan, sweetheart. But yeah, no, I can certainly ask and see if, and Mike and Phil, maybe they can kind of give me some sense of what's going on and we can, we can bring that back if it's deemed valuable or not here at the next council meeting or the August meeting.

No stress on it. I just figured I'd bring it up.

So appreciate it.

I appreciate you bringing it up. Thank you.

So kind of give you a quick highlight on Parks and Rec. So last week we had two meetings, one with the executive committee and the finance committee, the administrative committee. I think I've got all the committees. And then the building and grounds committee as well. So we had two separate meetings just to highlight some of the scopes and what we've identified there. When we first met with them, gosh, back in April, May timeframe to kind of give them an update on, hey, this is what we saw. This is where we see the challenges being within your facilities. We put together some scopes and kind of the admin and financing were like, that's great, but we really want to focus on this hub concept. So thinking about the community center and all of the surroundings as the hub for the community within the city of Warrensburg. I really liked the idea. Make it more inviting, make it more accessible, make it so that people want to come walk, play, do all the things that you can do, which if you look at that image of kind of the picture you see up on the screen, Everything is within, you know, as a golfer, a par five in terms of having to walk from one place to the other, whether that's pickleball or tennis or Grover Park and Buford Park, excuse me, in terms of the baseball field. Each one of those has an opportunity from an invitation of the community. And so what we started to look at was ways that we could incorporate lighting into these spaces. Probably the biggest priority that we heard talking with Tony and Chris was, we just don't have enough lighting at the pool. We don't have enough lighting or any lighting at the pickleball courts or at the tennis courts or at this park or at that park. So we said, OK, let's stop focusing on trying to hit every piece of the community and let's kind of spend our time and our efforts within this kind of square that you see up on the screen. And so what we've done is really focused on adding additional pole lights where it's needed. So like a NASA pool, if you've ever been there at night, it's a fairly dark experience in and around the pool. So the goal will be to lighten that up, add additional poles, add additional pole lighting in and around the space. And again, convert all those to LEDs. You've got a nice, bright, clean light. Hopefully they can see the bottom of the pool now and make sure from a safety perspective. You've got... Buford Park, Buford Field, excuse me. And, you know, my understanding is this is kind of the field that every little kid in town, that's their first experience playing baseball as a son who's playing a baseball game right now and pretty much every day of his life. I know that experience. So it's kind of a cool thing. And I think that's a great opportunity for from a community investment perspective to say, hey, this lighting is going to be energy efficient. It's going to be sustainable. But we're going to give kids an opportunity to play into the evening and have a little bit more fun. I mean, that's always the coolest experience when you're a kid is to play under the lights. And then you got a few other areas like the safety and security concerns that we've kind of heard about the darkness of the parking lot at the community center. And then you've got the pickleball as well as the tennis courts up top. We've all done photometric studies on each one of these. So we have a sense of where the lights are gonna go. We shared that with the parks and ground or the building and grounds committee as well as the executive admin committee. There's also a little bit of HVAC replacement. They'll be tying into your building automation system and also some water conversion over there at their community center building. Most of the interior LEDs have been done just at the community center itself. That's such an active facility. I wasn't really shocked. We see that quite often as an easy way that when they start to burn out, just quickly replace them. The one adder that we actually got last week, which Chris, we are working on, Tony, we've actually almost got a solution for at least one of them, is thinking about kind of a wash light on the exterior of the community center itself. Right now, you've got, I think we counted nine total can lights that kind of face up, floodlights, if you will. This is actually going to be replacing those and then adding a few more as you kind of bend around the curve. And not just replacing with regular LEDs, but the nice LEDs is that you can start to look at color changing, color tuning. It's not a, you know, a 10X price expense like it used to be. It's almost a wash, to be honest with you. But adding in some of those additional lights and then creating an opportunity for, let's say, you've got the 4th of July extravaganza, you're doing red, white, and blue all the way around. Or, you know... Breast Cancer Awareness Month, you've got pink and it shows up. And then you're tying in the Parks and Rec as a kind of a community outreach program, which really is what it is, to get people excited about the community through just the colors on the building. It'll tie into spring. It'll tie into Halloween was thrown out and some beautiful oranges. But, you know, all those things that you can do with that kind of lighting. It's not just about the efficiency and the operations. It's also about kind of creating an impact here within the city of Warrensburg as a whole. And so those were just added kind of last week to the general scopes that you see up here. And if you look at that, so your project, again, was about 2.31. Theirs currently sits around 155. And again, we're still finalizing some of this in terms of the cost and the estimates that we have. And that'll take place here over the next month or so. The other thing I'll say is that Chris and his team have been kind of adamant about trying to get involved with the Piper conversation. So we're going to all coordinate that together so the parks and recs can be involved in that conversation as well. And trying to make sure that everybody from a benefit, if you're going to take out any debt or if you're going to use debt, let's do it one time instead of multiple and pay those fees as a group instead of as an individual. But that kind of wraps up in terms of the scope. The new thing that we'll kind of talk about, and I'll kind of present on this, and Mike can help me out if I slip in terms of direction, but really kind of starting off with this preliminary design deliverables. So from a design build perspective and the energy side of things, we're always doing this in terms of general contracting, putting in walls and doors, you know, modifying duct work, replacing ceilings. And a lot of cases is a very similar effort. It just completes that next level of trying to figure out what do you guys want to do? This first phase is really, again, getting into that preliminary phase, putting drawings together, putting some cost estimates together based on what we see and based on what we really heard in terms of the needs and the spaces, and then really coming back with options for you to consider. City Hall, it's going to be a little bit more cut and dry, not going to lie. It's some walls, it's some rework of kind of how that space is functioning, both on the upper floor and the bottom floor. Over here, it's kind of like a blank canvas. where we could easily do just a modification here, which is kind of that targeted renovation you see in option one. Option two is more of a comprehensive retrofit. And so when you think about just the spaces that we're in, we are in red. That is kind of currently where we sit. One of the things that we heard during the conversation with the police chief walking around is this door right here. It's a concern, safety, anyone can see in, God forbid. Definitely wanna think about that as we're starting to think about where to put the new space. And as we were walking around, we talked about storage. There's opportunities for you to install different types of storage in different spaces, splitting it up into two or three different zones kind of on the backside. And as we came into that space, I'm going to say it was me, but it probably wasn't. It was probably Mike or Phil who came up with the idea. They said, well, what if we just kind of flipped it? Why don't we use the space, which is that other picture that you see there, close off that door, and now we can have a functioning council chambers while that gets built and finished, and then finish out this side by adding this as the, air quotes, storage facility or storage area. Now, it does a couple of things. One, you have a pretty interesting ADA compliance challenge. This would hopefully eliminate that with how you would come in off the entryway. You also have the safety security challenge as well. But the other thing is it also opens up a little bit more room over there. If you've been to that side of the building, you get a little bit more space, which, you know, a night like tonight might not be that important. But if there's ever a municipal courts or something that's going on that you have a lot of people coming in and out of the space, I think it certainly can get taxing. And then also the ladies who sit up front, trying to get court services and move that to a space that's maybe a little more functional. Yes, I know they're happy they're over here, but if we can get them into a location that's a little bit tucked away. And then there's also conversations as a part of that initial design development phase to look at creating its own kind of bathroom for staff, as well as for potentially the judge as well. So we'll come back with some of those options if you all would like us to in terms of agreeing to move forward with that process. But again, kind of looking at it as option one, the targeted renovation, which is red, keeping the same space, just kind of cleaning it up. Option two, which is really modifying and reconfiguring how the space is used, make it more functional, make it more efficient, and hopefully solve some of these ADA and other challenges that we have currently within this building.

Very excited about it being a more accessible space because that's a completely not friendly accessible space. And I also get that it's also a security concern. Yeah.

And it's not very self-evident, but Municipal Court has a lot of storage needs that they have a little bit of storage, just they inherited the configuration as it sits. The storage on the other side of the wall is already being used by HR and other purposes. So it just creates an opportunity to reconfigure access where Municipal Court can have it all part of their workspace and then move the other storage around in a way that's supportive of all that.

Yeah.

And Adam may be able to speak to it better than I, but I do know we have, you know, court days that are very full. And then, you know, we've had on occasion instances where we're in a standing room only opportunity to have a little bit bigger space. In my mind, also an opportunity to have a conference room where if you have closed session, we don't have to go across the street and down the stairs somewhere for court judge prosecutor to, to take a break that they're, Have some privacy, able to get to the bathroom without having to go through the public, line up with the public, possibly.

Yeah, I think a lot of good things could come from it. And again, this initial is about $18,000 for both spaces to get kind of the preliminary design is about nine and nine total of what we were looking at. That'll take about 45 days or so. So kind of thinking in the same timeline, you know, sometime August, September, we think depending on when you all would approve that we'd be able to move forward with that process and bring back some ideas. You know, that's the ideation kind of phase for this third project that we might be looking at with you all. Um, any questions on any of it, um, before I kind of get in just the timeline and kind of the final steps here.

As far as the remodel goes, I agree for all the points that we've made so far that we do, uh, at least I'm interested in moving over to that other space. I am a little concerned though, about the, uh, from the outside, uh, what this would look like, you know, we've, potentially taking a door out or just blocking it out, and then this is just a big storage room right on a pretty important street that we have downtown. I want to think strategically about what this would look like from the public's point of view, from the outside looking in, whether that's a mural or whether this is a space that could be used publicly still, maybe storage is in a different area of the building or something like that.

Yeah. No, it's a good point. And, you know, nothing's been finalized. So, you know, one of the things over the next 30 to 45 days is, you know, we'll come back and say, hey, tell us, Mike, Phil, anybody who'd like to be involved. Like, this is just kind of what we're thinking. This is the layout. This is what we heard from staff and the administration of being the most functional use of space. What are the concerns? And, you know, to your point, if it's aesthetics, it's okay. How can we soften this? Like, I agree. I would hate to have a giant wall of brick right along main street here, kind of the main door corridor to kind of people walk by that doesn't have anything that's inviting. We did a project up in St. Joe. It was on the backside of, of there. It's a, old historic high school that the Parks and Rec department has taken over, and now there's a daycare inside of it. And so the plan is, well, we don't want to replace the bottom level windows because it's storage. It's Parks and Rec storage. Why are we replacing windows when we have absolutely nothing down there but a couple of space heaters So the idea is to actually do a mural with the kids and have them do a mural across the whole back. So it's a great idea, you know, and I think it can be done. It's just a matter of working out function first, and then we can kind of work in the core of making it appeasing or appealing to folks who want to see it. Mike even brought up actually one of the options. when you come in on the far side, if we were to kind of flip the building, trying to match it up to the city hall side of how that entryway looks up. So it looks kind of uniform, like it's always been there. Maybe we don't have as tall of a spire, but maybe we have something that kind of gives the same architectural feel so that people say, okay, that is city hall. That's the entrance to many courts. We know where we're going. We know, you know, kind of the uniformity and it's been planned out, which is obviously the big portion of all that. But yeah, any input, I'd love to hear it. So thank you. So to kind of give you the quick timeline and then I will get out of your hair. And just so you know, it is my 42nd birthday today. I can get out of here by eight o'clock. My kids might be awake and maybe they did buy me a gift, but if they're watching, I have my serious.

No place you'd rather be than here.

I told Phil I'd rather be here than anywhere else. So it's all good. If it was my 40th, you probably wouldn't see me here, but it's 42. And honestly, my family doesn't even probably remember, but no, they love me. So kind of give you a sense today, we kind of went through the review of the scopes. We've got several additional follow-up meetings that we'll be having with Parks and Rec, that should say July technically, but Parks and Rec here over the next few weeks, as well as the city, both encompassing scope and funding and financing options. And then we'll be working to kind of get towards the end of July and be able to present back to administration and staff, make sure that they've got their blessing before we would come back to you all at one of the two August meetings for approval on the construction. And again, that's about a 30, 45 day window. We have a holiday in there. I'm hoping that it doesn't move into September, but if it does, you know, we'll do the best that we can to try to play catch up. Outside of that, any questions or anything else that I can answer?

I'm all ears. Probably not tonight, but there'll be more. Thank you. Happy birthday. Appreciate it. Thank you.

What I would tell you is this, the things that are on my radar as the next budget challenges to factor into this comprehensive model are this, the pay plan, and then bridges. We've identified some existing bridges that we need to figure out the life cycle and try to anticipate those, Vermont Railroad and College and then Main Street. technically isn't a bridge, but as an example of, you know, some maintenance that popped up. Um, so I guess my question for you as it relates to this, does this have enough merit to you that you want me to try to factor it into the rest of the budget planning as we then go into strategic planning and budget conversation, try to see if we can find a way to get all this to dovetail together. Or you can tell me, um, We need to defer maintenance and start with this item.

I think we should look into it. It's going to have to happen, so maybe we start now and see how it works out.

Will it be in sections, though, or not all? worked in where it could be this part, this part, and this part where it's pieces over multiple years, multiple years, because it's because the dollar figure is huge. And if we do that dollar figure and put it over the 25 years or however many years, there's other things that have been that aren't even that we've talked about that we wanted on our capital improvement plan that are like a wish list, they're not even on there yet. And for this to jump ahead of the things that we've been waiting for, I'm not real comfortable with that.

Understood. That's trying to counter all of that. So one of the slides that Peter had, the ones that are pre-2001, And then it has a number of them in those out years. This then helps me start slotting all that into that schedule to see whether we can move things around, keep things balanced, and build this into the plan, if that makes sense.

I think it's really important for us not to be kicking the can down the road. It seems like that's happened over the, well, I think it happens in every municipality.

somewhat by necessity. And so the more we can put our arms around the big picture and plan for it and not you know, give something else priority, not realizing that we forced ourselves into deferring the maintenance item, the better. So if it's acceptable to you, this is all tracking, trying to sync it up with budget. And between now and strategic planning sessions with you, I'll try to work with staff to see how we can get this incorporated.

Are there other specific things you were thinking of in the plan? Because I admit I haven't looked at that probably in a few months. So were there other budget priorities that you're thinking that should take priority over this?

I found this, but I couldn't find the wish list.

Hmm.

And what I have at the house. I could find a list of things that didn't make it into the budget. But I know there are things we had a list about, like so, that didn't make it into the budget.

But I could find that. We set aside in the general fund reserve category that didn't get calendared. So, yeah, we can go over some of those. We did fund in this year's budget, but others are just kind of hanging out there. So. That can be part of it. Well, quite a bit of it actually concrete work with the stations, but. Yeah, possibility of additional buildings, things like that.

So, like, a potential, a new fire station at some point down the road.

So if you could go ahead, I think, and work this into discussions next month, we go through the budget, then we can start to look at it to see when it could fit in, whether it slides back a year or something. But it'd be a good idea to get going on it.

And between staff and our financial advisors, we'll see how we can try to fit it in.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Peter, go on home, buddy.

Yeah, happy birthday.

Anything else on that? No. Item six, mayoral appointments. Motion to approve mayoral appointments as follows. Reappoint Jody Jolliffe as a member for the Warrensburg Convention and Visitors Bureau for a first three-year term through June, 2029. And appoint Brandy Wormsley as a member for the Warrensburg Convention and Visitors Bureau for the first three-year term through June, 2029.

Move to approve the mayoral appointments as presented. Sorry.

That's okay. Bridenhower?

Yes.

Osborne?

Yes.

Latari? Yes. Jones? Yes. Euler?

Yes.

Thank you.

Appearances to the council not listed on the agenda? There are none. Miscellaneous matters from the mayor and or city council.

Just a quick clarification about the Freedom Festival. The city as a sponsor, that's not direct funds, correct? That's all staff time, which we could consider funds, certainly. But is the city providing funds? A check. A check to anyone? Or we're saying all of the time that the department and others are putting in?

I indicated to Mike Malloy that within my authority, I thought we could contribute $1,000. And Chris and I have had some text messages, but I'm not sure where parks landed maybe. But our thinking was thankful that the city is not being asked to do it all and trying to do something supportive but nominal so that it's mostly the community's effort.

That makes perfect sense. I just wanted to make it really clear what that dollar amount was.

There still will be staff involved as far as permitting and street walking and some of that.

But maybe not to the same extent that they're involved with the Christmas parade and Bergfest.

Not yet. We'll see what that turns into, but at the moment, no.

Because that's a lot of income.

Right. Yeah. I don't think this is a great event, but it is.

And I hope that maybe they could follow up. Maybe this group could follow up and make last year. There were a lot of complaints that we didn't have enough holiday decorations. Maybe we could do more holiday decorations downtown or, you know, people were very unhappy about that. It could be the holiday committee. Yeah.

Yeah.

great thank you mike and chris appreciate that and i'll just add to that um as a part of the park foundation michael boy i know made a donation one of the designated towards um the freedom festival so that was at least a thousand it may have been more but just to let you know that that was spoken up yeah great that's great um i have one thing

Don asked me a month or so ago, I forgot to say it at the last meeting, but he wanted to thank the council for putting in Barb for getting a solid waste program in place. He said when he was on the council years ago, he tried to do that unsuccessfully and he was just very pleased that it's there and that it's working very well. So it's kind of like a big high five.

Yep, it is going great. We'd like to offer our condolences, of course, to Charlie Cavanaugh's family, wife Sharon, Western County Commissioner, passed away suddenly. His service or celebration of life will be Saturday at 10 o'clock, if we're able to get there. There's a Morris Collins picnic at 10 o'clock fundraiser on Saturday out of the Jesus Saves Pentecostal Church. And, Parks, you may mention this, but, again, appreciate the sign. You can talk about that maybe in your report. And sorry we're losing Kristen Dyer. She did a fantastic job here over the years, and she's got a great job. She's leaving us.

Wednesday is her last day. And she's accepted a position in Lexington, Kentucky with the Historic Society Executive Director. Good for her.

That would be great.

Yeah, that's great for her. You will miss her.

Yep. Anything else from the council you'd like to know? City staff update, city manager.

Yeah, I'll try to keep it short. As I mentioned earlier, some of the equipment that's come in, we had out front and we'll try to continue to do that. Not every patrol vehicle necessarily, but things of note we'll try to bring to upcoming meetings. It really is the culmination of the financial planning we did last year to, A lot of effort going into fleet management and planning and speccing and ordering, and now we're reaping the benefits. A handful of calendar items. I will be out Friday of this week. Friday after that is the 3rd of July, which we'll observe, so we'll be closed. July 7th, we're having diversity and inclusion strategic planning session. So trying to help that committee, bringing in Kim Hall as an outside facilitator to try to help have a conversation about goal setting and organization type preparations. Then July 9th is our first retreat for budget and strategic planning. July 14th is our second retreat. July 22nd is the Warrensburg Historic Preservation Commission meeting. and i meant to get the tiff commission meeting date in there but i didn't but it's right in that same time frame um i want to say july 14th but i could be wrong and then just uh forewarning you that the july 13th agenda is stacking up it looks like that'll be a heavy agenda with quite a few items on so with that i'd be happy to answer any questions you might have maybe a public works item but if we heard anything back on build grant yeah

I haven't heard a thing.

I haven't practically gone out and tried to search it, but I haven't seen any announcements for others and certainly haven't heard anything in terms of our application. I didn't hear what he said.

The bill grant for the 50 highway exchange.

Public Works did reach out to the bill grant and they have not made decisions yet that should be said beginning in July, but They're a little late. We'll state things a little bit.

June or July? First they said June. Now they're saying July. They're saying July. Okay. All right.

Fingers crossed. And TIF commission is the 14th. They meet once a year. We like those meetings.

Anything else, Mike, for me? Okay. Community development. Oh, city clerk. No, actually, administrative services department. I jumped to the wrong page. Sorry, Jessica. Oh, all right. See? Okay. City clerk.

I have no report tonight. Thank you.

I don't have a slight report. A couple projects that were in your budget that are moving forward. We have had... The kickoff meeting with our consultant H3 Studio from St. Louis. They will be doing the Historic Conservation Commission design, the Voluntary Design Guidelines for Commercial Structures. That is a grant-funded project. And that kickoff meeting was staffed with today. And so you will start hearing about that. They will be Having their public meetings in conjunction with this for Preservation Commission meetings and so those will be going through the fall winter in hope to wrap that up for the grant we have to wrap that at the end of next April and April 27 so that project is moving along. And then you also had in the budget, the parking. analysis of our parking requirements and the design requirements for the parking on private property private projects and so we are nearing we're in the selection process so that rfp was issued we received proposals a few weeks ago and we are narrowing that down to our preferred firms so we do not have our preferred firm yet i'd say we're about 70 through the process and so that is is coming along as well. And though it is not grant funded, we tentatively identified in the RFP that we'd like to wrap that project around April of 2027 also. So it is moving along as well.

With Kristin leaving, do you have an interim or somebody going to help? Me. I know where it's falling.

So yeah, there are a few of the things that she's been working. Roll sheet fills, I'll shift to other employees while we move through the hiring process for that. Hopefully we can get someone in here fairly quickly. We'll see. But I do think we'll post that within the next week or two.

Anything else? Thanks, Barb. Fire department? Parks department?

Good evening, Mayor and City Council members. Well, first of all, thank you, Mayor Euler, for your attendance at the unveiling of the new sign at Blamboon Park, the Bruce Reed Memorial. Most of you know, former wrestler, also known as the natural hot sob, Butch Reed. And the Bruce Reed Foundation did a fundraiser at this event to help those in need for food. And also the memorial sign is at the base of the Blind Boone sign. It looks really nice. And this was also a nice event to celebrate on Juneteenth last Friday. So thank you very much for your support on that. The council has heard some of the details on the NASA pool. I want to thank Tony Albertino, our assistant director, for his report. But as an update, just a couple of things. Fixing this leak was a step-by-step process using cameras and pressure testing and following process of elimination. It really is common for older pools like this with so many different variables that it could be. The kiddie pool is now fully functional and running well. A bit more detail showed a break in a six-inch pipe that goes right through the wall of the pump house, so that had to be concrete cut out and replacing that. In addition to that, we also had to replace propeller as well as pump motor and also had to replace hydrostatic valve in the pool. In addition, what is called the quarter valves for the kiddie pool area needed work as well. And this has actually been completed for this season, but it's going to need more wood coming this fall to make some more improvements there. Really proud of our staff and for the adjustments to move the little kiddos in indoor swimming during this time when the facility is being worked on. And I wanted to add that each year, we do overall pressure testing, maintenance of the pool at the close of each year, at the start of each year. I would just tell you the honest truth, the big problem is the age of this pool. In facilities that I've been in that has pools of this age, it's a yearly thing. And so that's something that we really work closely with. I'm very happy with the company, Lexington Plumbing, as well as Commercial Aquatics. They're known as one of the best in the Kansas City area, this area as well, Midwest. So they do the best they can. So it's kind of hard to get through, but glad we're through it now. And I just want to give you that additional information on the work that we did on that. On Lyons Lake, this Wednesday will be the third water chemistry application to the lake since we reopened it, working with Missouri Conservation on this process. It has reduced the growth of the curly leaf algae and the moss. And although you can't stop all of this growth, has been decreased substantially from what I had seen in the past. And this is gonna continue with our work with the MDC on future maintenance issues. At this time, we are scheduled for late fall for a fish stocking of a small fish of the lake and then moving into in next spring. It's been another busy summer so far with the opening of NASA summer day camp and sports camps. And we appreciate working with, uh, Marcy and the WCB, uh, be on, uh, the world cup soccer events. And we look forward to assisting with the July 4th celebrations. Um, and Tony, you want to give a update on the, uh, I guess, patriotic and business event.

Uh, yeah, we're, we're also, uh, on the freedom of us. We're having a patriotic, uh, business and house decorating contests we're doing with the chamber. So, uh, that kicks off this week. We're going to start marketing it to get like, um, the community involved with, um, being patriotic is the return of the freedom class. So.

And you get the road race. Yes. And you have four dollars for the swimming pool that day, I think.

We started off as a customer. Sorry, I must have called you by your first name. But yes, we will have a bigger ball tournament on Friday. On Saturday, we start with the early morning race, which is our tradition. And then we also have four dollars for swimming. that day for the NASA pool, as well as obviously our staff's going to be helping with different things around that area throughout the day.

Appreciate it. Thanks.

And that's similar to what we've had before. You've probably seen this with Parks and Recreation having, at Christmas time, the decorations of houses. So I was really happy to hear Tony bring up that idea. I think it's going to be a nice thing for the community, for not only businesses, but also those who want to participate. As always, this time of year, staff is working with the Park Board and City Administration on the development of our budget. And as you know, this includes the consideration of the energy safety items that were mentioned. And that's all I have right now. And I answer any questions you may have. A question I did have.

On Lion's Lake, I just want to make sure I'm on the same page. There has been no fish stocking to date. Is that correct?

That is correct. Not by NBC. But I will tell you there are fish there.

Mm-hmm.

And they are there. And with all this rain and especially the heavy rains, they have found their way through Pearl Springs. Fish can also find their way through many different ways. It's interesting. But anyway, yeah, there are fish out there. But they wanted to hold off until the stocking until they could really get the balance of the lake. They feel like in a really good situation, ready for the young fish they'll put in this one.

Are we still anticipating three stockings through the end of next year, I guess now?

Yes, it would be exactly that in that order, which would be the first would be the younger fish. And then in the spring, it would be moving to the catfish and some of those. And then later on would be the larger fish, the bass, to give the little guys a chance to grow faster. before they get eaten. That's the plan right now. Thank you.

Chris, you're mentioning about the age of the swimming pool. Are you preparing us for the potential of that being replaced at some point in the not too distant future as a concept of a plan?

Honestly, it has absolutely been discussed in our billing and grounds committee meetings. It's one of the many things that we look at at capital improvements. Honestly, just like this conversation we had in regards to the energy and the things that we're looking at, there's all sorts of things that I think the word was used, kick the can down the road, and we realize that's not something that we can do. The good thing is, is that we have taken incremental steps and the things that we've replaced, we're keeping track of that because we know last year we had to improve a major line to the main pool. And now we've got another line going to the kiddie pool. I don't want another one to the wave pool. I mean, not the wave, the- The river. Circular.

Yeah.

Yeah. And so, but- yeah it is something that we're limited on our capital improvements each year because of what we have coming out of operations but one of the things that we look at is our fund balance our debt service and overall plan for the future and and just to let you know it has been a point of discussion knowing that at some point that will have to be addressed but right now it's not in terrible condition but it is definitely in our minds how old is how old is nasa i tony

Tony and I were looking. Around 1979, the notes I found, it was originally built in 79 and then they made it a water park later on with the other sales tax.

And I think that that was actually probably the building and the base of the large pool and also the bathhouse. But then in future years, there was another Land Water Conservation Fund. And 3SS LSACS was also a part of the expansion of the pool. So anywhere from 30 to 50 years old. Wow.

That is old for a pool. Yeah. Thank you.

All right, thank you. Thanks, Chris. Appreciate it. Police Department public works.

So, SS4A modification, basically extension of time was approved. So we'll start hearing more about SS4A projects again. EC grant is on the intended use. So that one's hot and heavy. We're again working with Burns and McDonald's to get that RF approved. be proposed so that we get a contractor in here and get it started so hopefully in the near future i'm not sure when mcguire will be for what project was that sorry that's the secret the emergency emerging emerging contaminants gotcha gotcha thank you mcguire um sidewalk pro There's still going on. You'll see lots of work over there. Really, that's still the curb project going over college and then sidewalks going to be starting hopefully soon. With all this rain, it keeps getting delayed. Just like the mill and overlay is getting delayed. We are working in the cul-de-sacs and that area still, getting the base replaced so that whenever we come in, mill and overlay We'll get that done. We have a storm line or storm water line on Fox Run that we're going to be, the contractors will be replacing. It's the bottom of the pipes rotted out. We gotta get that fixed. The painting crew's been out painting areas around town. So we'll see them. Enterprise lift station should be starting with contractors working in that area, getting that prep so that we can get that to remain. Main street, the engineers have been selected. So we'll get that started. It's going to be months until there's any actual digging there, but we got to get the engineering design and going there. So.

And that's a culvert, not a bridge.

Very good. Thank you. And the solar project, like Peter said, we're still waiting on the participation or mission to operate from Evergy. And there's some paperwork that's being bounced back and forth once we get that all signed and hopefully next week, but it might be the following week. So any questions?

Do you know when the restriping of the downtown crosswalks might be in the schedule? I do not. I have not looked at the schedule.

I will mention it to the street department and see if I can prod them along.

A couple of people have asked me, and since I've been asked, I've noticed more that, wow, they really are.

Last year, due to some employment opportunities, Someone that does change.

Yes.

That area was missed. So I'll make sure that it gets done this year. That'd be great.

Thank you. Warrensburg Convention and Visitors Bureau. Okay. Close sessions in point one motion to close part of this meeting pursuant to section 610.021 of the revised statute of Missouri relating to one legal actions, causes of action or litigation involving a public governmental body and any confidential or privileged communications between a public governmental body or its representatives and its attorneys. And two, Leasing, purchase, or sale of real estate by a public governmental body or public knowledge of the transaction might adversely affect the legal consideration, therefore.

I so move. Bridenhour?

Yes.

Osborne? Yes. Latari? Yes. Jones? Yes. Mueller?

Yes.