City Council - Regular Meeting

Charles. No problem. Has it all on there. I know. I know. Okay. I will. I will. Do you know when airport meets? Okay. Go ahead and bang it now. Here we go, gang. Regular meeting of the Washington, Missouri City Council. Monday, April 20th, 2026, 7 p.m. Council Chambers at 405 Jefferson Street, Washington, Missouri. Roll call. Bear here. Briggs, here. Coulter here. Hydridge here. Holm here. Padkkey here. Pepsil here. Solent here. Pledge allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Approval of the minutes for the April 6, 2026 council meeting. Roll call if you've read the minutes. Bear, yes. Briggs, yes. Coulter, yes. Hydrrich, I. Pulper, hi. Padkkey, yes. Pepsil, yes. Solent, yes. Motion to approve. Second.

Motion by Padkkey. Second by Coulter. All those in favor say I. I. Motion passes. Approval and an adjustment of of approval and adjustment of agenda. Move to approve. Second. Any comments or questions, guys? Okay. Got a motion and a second. So, all those in favor say I. I. I. Motion passes. Thank you. Citizens comments. Okay. And I think it's time for citizens comments. If anyone in the audience would like to come up to address the council about anything that's not on the agenda tonight, now is your chance.

Thank you. Unfinished business. Certification of the April 7th, 2026 uh election results by the verification board. Need to accept into the minutes. So moved. Second. Motion by PY, second by Hydrrich. All those in favor say I. I. And that's accepted into the minutes. Council comments. No comments later. Okay. I move to adjourn. Second. Motion by PY, second by way around. Mayor Padkkey.

Mayor Padkkey. There we go. All those in favor say I. I. We are adjourned for a second. Okay, let me see. Also, pass the gavl again. Only if you really like to. Good. Here we go.

Go to it. Here we go. Let me get ready. Special meeting of the Washington Missouri City Council, Monday, April 20th, 2026. Uh let's see. That's it. We first thing we have is oath of office for the newly elected officials. So if all of you that uh recently were elected can just come down here. We'll meet in front of the uh the flag. Okay, everybody all lined up.

Yeah, no doubt. All you have to do is say I do after after I go through this lesson. Hi, James D. Heaggedorn, Marcy Pontek, Alan Bear, Mark Higard, Chad Briggs, and Michael Coulter do solemnly swear and affirm that they possess all qualifications prescribed by law for the offices of mayor, city attorney, council, ward one, council war 2, council w 3, and council ward 4. That I will support the constitution of the United States and of the state of Missouri and provisions of all laws of the state affecting cities of the third class and the ordinances of the city of Washington and faithful to me myself in office. help me God. There you go. CONGRATULATIONS.

If anybody like Do you have any pictures? Anybody want to turn sideways? Turn sideways. First one up. Mayor, please. Next is a good way to do it. Congrats to all sir. You got another couple years.

Yeah. One bear. We're going in order. breaks. Save the best for last.

Michael, are you an apple guy? Make this bigger. Yeah, just like that. I don't see that one either.

Roll call for special meeting. Al Bear here. Chad Briggs here. Mike Coulter here. Mark Hydrrich here. Joe Holtmire here. Jeff Padkkey here. Tim Pepsel here. Steve Solent Trap here. All rise for the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Approval and adjustment of agenda. I'll move to approve it. Second, sir. Motion by pair. Second by was it over here? Yes. Who? All those in favor say I. I.

Okay. Priority items. Election of mayor prom. I will nominate Jeff Pepkkey. Second. Okay. Jeff and by Coulter and second by Briggs. Okay. Do I have any other nominations? Okay. Hearing no further nominations. Nominations for the office of mayor prom are closed. All okay. We do need to vote. Vote on PKY.

Yep. Okay. For Jeff Pachy, you guys, all in favor say I, please. I opposed. You're it, Jeff. Thank you. Election of council member to planning and zoning commission. I'd like to nominate Councilman Briggs as liaison to planning and zoning. I will second that. Okay. Briggs by Pachy and Coulter.

Coulter. Okay. Any other nominations? Okay. Hearing no further nominations. Nominations to the PNZ commission are closed. All in favor of Chad Briggs to the PNZ Commission say I please. I opposed. Welcome Chad. Thank you. Okay. Election of council member to 353 redevelopment corporation. I'd like to nominate council member Bayer. I will second of 353. I will second that.

Okay. Bear nominated by Patky. Second by Coloulter. Okay. Any further nominations? Okay. Hearing no further nominations. Nominations to the 353 Corporation are closed. All in favor of Al Bear to the 353 Corporation say I opposed. Welcome back Al. Election to board of health.

I'd like to nominate newly elected members Coulter, Briggs, Bear, and Hydridge to the board of health. Second. Okay. Nominated by Py, second by Sullen Trup to the new four. Any further nominations? Okay. All those in favor or hearing? No further nominations. Nominations to the board of health are closed. All in favor of those for amendment say I. I.

Opposed. And uh so it's Al, Mark, Chad, and Mike. There you go. Great. Mayor's presentations, appointments, and reappoints. Police Department reappoint. Good evening, council. Up tonight for reappoint, we have Officer Dan Day. Um Dan has been with us, well he will have been with us in what three days for eight years. Um Dan is currently an FTO. He's one of our firearms instructor instructors and does a great job for us. So I recommend him for reappoint.

I'll make a motion. Second motion by Hydridge. Who is the second over here you guys? Joe Coulter. Okay. Coulter. Um all those in favor say I. I. Welcome back. Thank you.

2026 council committee leaison assignments. You guys have in front of you my uh choices for leaison assignments. That is always a very very difficult thing to do. I know you guys know that I can't please everybody but I try my best. Um, so there they are. Uh, if you have comments, uh, that's great. Afterwards, please, uh, and I ask you to please make as many meetings as you can. It's important for our community to see you guys out there. I would like to say something um, that happened almost two weeks ago, you guys. Our last meeting here of all of us was the day before the election and looking back at that happy day on Tuesday at the end it was a great sense of relief I think to all of us up here uh I personally was not surprised at the victory I was very surprised by the margin 70% on the capital improvements 68% on the transportation uh plus the fact that none of us had any competition. You guys, our citizens are sending us a message that they like what we're doing. So, I ask you guys all to keep keep that momentum going. Uh it's I don't know if anybody read the paper last week and saw what's going on in our neighbors to the south, but we have eight strong years for sure and maybe more. Uh a very predictable revenue source with our capital improvement. Transportation has been removed. We've got It's funny sitting in the department head meeting. You guys look look at those faces and every one of our department heads has something big going

on in town and that doesn't happen many places. And so I feel very very fortunate, very blessed and lucky and I hope you guys all do too because we're on the cusp of some great things. your if I may. Sorry. Can I just request one thing? Um the times of meetings for these some of these are new assignments. Is that an EENE question? Maybe we could get a list of when they meet and the time they meet. We'll provide you with that. Yes, absolutely.

I think we need a Did we get a motion and a second to approve the liaison assignments? I'll make a motion. You're just accepting amendments. Oh, just accept amendments. Sorry. So moved. Padkkey. Motion by Padkkey. Second. That's fine. Second by Hydrochart. All right. Here. All those in favor say I. I. I. Motion passes. Are you going to send them committee less on assignment times on an email? Yes. Okay. We'll get we'll get you the times for for all the meetings.

I did screwed some of the times up for I know several of you guys work. Let me know. And uh it's not set in stone. I'm more than willing to listen to any of you guys have work considerations. Public hearings, special use permit, 14 West Main Street, zero lot line.

Um yes. Good evening, council. So before you, you have a zero lot or a special use permit for uh 14 West Maine. This is uh middle of downtown at the corner of uh Maine and Jefferson here. And the applicant is requesting a special use permit to put a uh zero lot line building uh on a four-way intersection. And so um the proposed building is to have a footprint um is this on is to have um a very similar footprint to this kind of red square that you see here. And in our special uses uh for the C3 downtown district, um any proposed zero lot line on a parcel adjacent to a four-way intersection shall apply for a special use permit. Um and a bit of history about this provision about why um it's written the the way it is is um this was uh established as as a result of the main and market uh town homes. Uh there were some sight distance issues. Um and uh this this intersection used to be a two-way stop. Um as a result um this provision was added to kind of as a preventative measure to um for when you know zero lot line buildings uh get developed so that we can address um kind of some site distance issues maybe beforehand. Um so it's a kind of a preventative um thing. Just once again another image of what it what it looked like. There was a legitimate concern uh at that location. Um, something to note though is that Maine and Jefferson as of last November, I think, um, became a four-way stop. It previously was not, but, um, now it is. And the applicant is proposing um, an entertainment center um, at this location. It's also going to have bowling, uh, arcade, event space. Um, and something of note is uh, uh, all the uses in this building are permitted uses. Uh what is being asked of the council tonight is to be approve is to approve the the form of the building um itself and main Jefferson is a four-way

stop. Um this past uh planning commission unanimously um the only concerns that we heard was fire chief was uh uh at at the uh at the planning and zoning meeting. He had some consistent he had some concerns about the site distance. Um but those those will be handled um internally by staff um when they submit uh building plans. So, any questions? And the applicant is here as well if you want if you want to um address the council. Which one is Jefferson? Uh north north south the yellow. Yeah, the yellow. Yeah, with that yellow in that second graph where the yellow right there.

Okay. Hello, Kale Griy, developer here in town. After the planning and zoning meeting and uh the chief expressed his concern that we've already changed these planes a little bit to put a 45 degree angle on that corner to increase the line of sight from that intersection. So would that match what? One east main

correct type. Yep. Um it'll be a 20 foot. Well, the the angled wall be 20 foot. So, not sure what that will be. It be a brick building.

Yes, I'm I'm working with uh historical preservation on getting the exterior design. This is just um you know, a basic layout. Um the windows, exterior facade, none of this is finished on this. Um, it definitely won't be a pitched roof like that. It'll be a flat roof and there'll be quite a bit of brick work done on Main Street. Um, and the Jefferson uh side. There'll be quite a bit of brick and stone, something that fits the downtown look and feel. Is that a crosswalk? Is that a crosswalk?

Yeah. Um, uh, that's looking like it, uh, could happen. So, I'll be getting, uh, I guess that'll be a special use or something there as well. Yeah, that might just be council approval, I think, because it's would be over the right of way. But, you know, since you haven't there there's been no definitive plans, we have not Yeah, I didn't I didn't uh put in an application for that yet because because I didn't know if that was just a dream or that's something that could actually happen. It does look like that uh that could happen. And um yeah, staff is staff is working through the the the bridge that you see on the on the rendering there. Uh if that is a possibility and you know before that would would be installed that would go to go to council for for approval. So

that would obviously we want to tip our hat to the old Washington Bridge there. So my Slag Steel was pretty pumped about building that. So, but this this approval just to, you know, remind you all is is about the the form of the building at Maine and Jefferson here. So, and the setback's currently I'm sorry, it's probably here and I'm trying to catch up. Zero zero on all sides. That's what we're looking for. Correct. What is it currently? Zero on all sides. Well, I'm Well, I Let me Let me be Let me be more clear here. What are we a special use? A special use permit is required to put a building uh at uh up to up to the intersection.

Thank you. Up to the intersection, but in C3, you can there there is no setbacks that exist. So, this is this is a special use permit because the building is taking uh advantage of of all the buildable area um on the lot. C2 and C3, right? No, it's just C3. No, just C3.

It's just C3. There was the I the fire department I think was concerned about um you know as far as the sight distance triangle there at those intersections when buildings were built especially when you're deal dealing with two to three story buildings all the way up to the to the corners and I think that that was the u and and again at the time when that was uh proposed to to make this change in the code which is just a couple years ago as Aaron talked about um that uh that was prior prior to uh for that was prior to that intersection in particular, this intersection turning into a four-way stop. I think the key was at that time there was a lot of discussion about that was a three-way intersection that you go through. And I'm not saying that that the fire department uh may have still have concerns even though it's a four-way stop, but I'm saying you didn't even have a four-way stop at the time,

right? And so that was the reason why they felt that, hey, can we get this passed where if if if a building meets this, they need a special use permit to be further reviewed by PNZ and eventually you the council. So Aaron, when I read this this weekend, I'm picturing the same building set up as the police station is at third in Jefferson, right? That's fair. Yes.

Sidewalk. Now, as Mr. Graphy says, it's going to be the same as Caddy Corner across the street. take the 20 foot section off on a which I think is a good look. So what did we do when when understall built that building? We did the same thing, right? I mean we had to do a zero lot line for that on the sidewalk and we're looking for the same thing here, right? Or am I wrong about that? When Andy built one east, there wasn't a four-way stop there. So, I'm hoping something was approved and that I guess what I'm getting at is we should have just approved this less than two years ago for that building and it should be the same design for the corner.

I guess that's why I asked the question setback is are we actually doing a a change of any kind here or not? Right. Yeah. Again, I don't have a problem sidewalk back, you know, especially if we take the corner off. It's a little bit of sight distance. I I think that the bump out with the tree causes more sight distance problem than the building does. Take that bump out out of there would be that'd be great. A good thing right there at that corner. I mean really just that corner. If you're headed east on main and turn right on Jefferson, you get in the middle pretty good. That's any corner. Right. Okay. I It just was odd to me if the setback is already

zero anything. I guess I'm still struggling to understand what we're trying to improve here because I don't recall doing one for Andy on the opposite. And I guess I'm trying to answer the ask the same question in a different way. I also that's what I was trying to get at. Sure. I guess I guess I don't know, Darren. Do you recall if that build I was I wasn't here at the time, but do you recall if that building was required to obtain a special use permit for the same thing? I No, because I think it was I I I don't hold me to this, but I think it was built before that code was put in place. Yeah. Andy. Yeah. or before. I think it was it was afterwards that later on they saw the buildings up and they saw that the the concern that they had was the sight distance around them especially when they're going on call.

You're talking about one one East Main right here. This building. Yes. That one. Yeah. Exactly. And even the buildings if you go down a block down Maine at Main and Market, same thing. Mhm. Those were built up to the, you know, up to the up to the corners and but like I said, now we have stop signs there as well, which, you know, and to your point, Jeeoff, that building, the one east was the last one to be built, but it could have been in the plat for that entire block. It could have been approved. Yeah, that's true. Long time nothing was built. And he's not here anymore. He was

Again, for this purpose, I don't have a problem with it. I think I'm fine with it. And I don't want Dale to take the wrong way. I think I'm fine with it. No doubt. I'm just kind of questioning what do we what are we making him come here for if we didn't do it before and and frankly that's that's something that staff would like to address at some point in time with a variety of commercial we just we just had a board of adjustment meeting and there were a number of things brought up in our commercial zoning district that we need to address and this would be one of them you know potentially maybe looking at this requirement for example one one thing that you could do is just go ahead if it is not met with a four-way stop then it's subject to a special use permit

yeah I think the intention of the code was, you know, as as Darren is alluding to, you know, because these weren't four-way stops before, okay, maybe we should put the brakes on this. But the way this code is written is any proposed zero lot line on a parcel adjacent to a four-way intersection. It does not say four-way stop. So, just kind of changing that to four-way stop, you know, would would kind of alleviate a lot of these um potential concerns. So, that's that's planning's view on on this this issue. I don't have a problem with the zero lot line. Mhm. What I have a problem with is parking. What do you have for parking?

Yeah. Um there's we have a US Bank lot at the corner of uh Lafayette Second and we're going to change the main entrance to Second Street. So, we're going to try to pull the traffic back a street off of Main Street. Um and so we're going to get about 120 spots there at the US Bank. You know which lot I'm talking Yeah, I know what you're talking about, but correct me if I'm wrong, but you're supposed to have so many parking spots per square foot in commercial building. Correct. But you can't take it to another piece of property and use that, can you?

You you can if it's within a certain distance. So, if it's within 300 ft, you can uh it can be a certain distance offsite from the main entrance. And for this development, that would be acceptable. So, that's what you're using to create your What is it? 270. I I'm I'm not sure. I've heard two different calculations. I you it's your it's your your your building. So yeah. Well, at one point I I my architect hasn't calculated that yet as far as what the parking requirements going to be, but I know it's considered really I'm sorry, Steve, was your question about the parking requirements? Yeah. Yeah. 4 416 spaces would be the required off street parking for this project. Correct. Yeah,

but just just so the council knows that is not what is on the table for approval tonight. This is just the form of of the building. So, I think it's great what you guys are trying to do downtown, especially with the alley there and Andy, the produce. Now, this I've been down there on Saturday nights and it it's a problem and you know it's a problem. I just want to make sure that we don't have people coming back to us and complaining there's no parking down there and we must restrict you to your our ordinances that you have to do what we tell you to do.

And I was just under the the impression that you you couldn't use another Porsche lot, but then now you say you can as long as he owns it. Well, it's not if it's Well, I mean, he he wouldn't even have to own it per se. It's the more important thing is that it's within proximity to the entrance. So 30 300 feet. If it's within 300 feet, then you can use the the lot. You would just have to like if you didn't own it, you would have to enter into an agreement with that property owner and so on and so forth. So Ally, you live down there. You have people parking in front of your house on weekends. Always. Yes. I've got people parking in front of my house. Yeah. That's great. And that's a great problem to have.

I don't have a problem with mine. I get people complaining people from my house. Sometimes on Saturdays, Mr. Py, Mr. Briggs parking from the house. Yeah, there there will be a larger parking conversation sometime because that I still won't meet my parking requirement even with just limited space for me to find parking without just pushing down an 1860 building. You know, I could clear that lot. Nobody wants that. You know, you don't want to do that. That wouldn't popular to the public either. So, um, you know, it is going to be an issue parking that's going to make have to address it at some point.

Dale, you're right. I I don't know you guys. I think we ought to figure out this issue right now because that's what's in front of you. Parking is is a big issue and it's something we're going to have to address one year, two years, three years, whatever. But if you talk about a parking garage, this what $20,000 of space. I don't even think you could touch it for that. More than that. I I know. And and that's what is your timeline on building the building? I'm just curious.

A lot of it depends on how this goes. I I could break ground this year. a lot of it just getting all, you know, all this stuff approved on the lot lines and the parking. That's going to be the the next one that'll determine what what we can build here. Um, so no, we're ready to go. So, we we'd love to get started on that on this this year. meeting ready for the public. Okay, unless you have something else, I need to open this up to the public.

Okay. Thank you. Again, this is a public hearing, so uh anyone in the audience would like to come up and comment on this. Uh now is the time. Thank you. All right. Do you guys have any more comments, questions? I'll make a motion accept into the minutes. Second. Motion by Patky, second by Briggs to accept. Further discussion. Let's move. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Good. Okay, it's into the minutes. Me, please, D. Yes.

I do need more room. Need a big table like she has. An ordinance granting a special use permit for a zero lot line building at 14 West Main Street in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. Briggs. Introduced by Briggs. Further discussion or questions, guys. Second reading. Derek, an ordinance granting a special use permit for a zero lot line building at 14 West Main Street in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. Bear, yes. Solent, yes. Hydrrich. Hi. Pepsi. Yes. Briggs, yes. Padkkey, yes. Coulter, yes. Holm, hi.

By your vote, ordinance 3B pass. Good. Nice. Citizens comments.

Okay. Again, it's the time of the meeting when uh anyone from the audience would like to come up and talk about anything that's not on the agenda. Okay. Thank you. reported department heads 2025 annual comprehensive financial report. Tammy, the floor is yours. We have uh Tammy's going to pull up a team's meeting. We have the presentation of the annual comprehensive financial report uh will be given to us by um Bergen KDV. And I don't know who the individual is, but Tammy's going to pull that up. And so just give her a second, please.

Good evening, council. Um yes, this is uh Andy Grace from um Bergen KDV and he will do a audit presentation for you. Go ahead Andy. Right. Thank you very much for having me here tonight to present the audit results for the year ended September 30th, 2025. Uh just want to highlight our independent auditor's report that's included in the city's financial statements and it highlights what our role is as the city's auditor as well as the role of management. Uh the financial statements are management's responsibility and it's our role as your auditor to provide assurance through our audit opinion as to whether we believe those financial statements p uh to present fairly and in all material respects and happy to report that we are providing a clean unmodified opinion which is the best that we can give as your auditor. Also wanted to highlight a couple other components of our reporting. One being our government auditing standards report. This report talks about our consideration of internal control over financial reporting. Uh we just had one finding to report this year uh related to to an error correction and that was the only uh uh reportable finding for this year. Uh we also had um um a single audit or a federal uh program audit uh related to the highway planning and construction grant. So we uh took a look at internal controls over compliance with that program. Uh also um took a look at the applicable compliance requirements and we had no findings to report there for this year. The last piece of communication that we have is our communications letter. Uh that letter includes all required communication in accordance with audit standards but also has uh a financial analysis to provide some trend data information. Uh the first chart in there uh in that financial analysis provides the general fund fund balance over the last five years. Uh overall the fund balance of the general fund decreased

about 3% uh with expenditures and other financing uses exceeding revenues at another financing sources by about $1.2 million. Uh the majority of the uh overall decline occurred in that committed category uh with some offsetting um increases u in the um uh non-spendable and the unassigned fund balance. The next chart highlights the makeup of general fund revenues by source. Uh not there weren't any significant changes uh in this uh between 2024 and 2025 with the majority of general fund revenues coming from taxes at about 77%. Uh the next chart highlights uh the details of those general fund revenues over the last five years. Uh and there was about a 5% increase in general fund revenues. Um the majority of that increase occurred in taxes which increased by $764,000. Uh also the other categories as well with an offset in the intergovernmental category which decreased $333,000 uh dollars with um communications and airport grant funding that was um that occurred in 2024. The next chart uh highlights the allocation of general fund expenditures by function. Uh the majority of general fund expenditures uh occur in the public safety category at about 35% followed by culture and recreation at 17% and highways and streets at 16% again consistent allocation between the two years. Uh also going into the detail of general fund expenditures. Uh overall there was an increase of about $2.1 million. Uh did see about a $785,000 increase in public safety. uh also increases in culture and recreation as well as how and streets uh mainly related to the uh salary study and related increases in salaries and benefits.

Uh the next several charts highlight the city's enterprise funds. These present a bit differently in that these are business type activities. So these uh provide uh total revenues, total expenses as well as the income or loss for the period. Uh the water fund did experience a loss uh in the in 2025, the first time in the five years presented of about $168,000. Uh also wanted uh also provide uh that same um metric there but without depreciation since depreciation is a non-cash operating expense. This gives a bit better idea in terms of cash flow for the year. And that was positive by $472,000. Uh overall the unrestricted net position in this fund decreased from about 46,000 to negative $132,000 at the end of the year. So this fund does have a a negative cash position as well and should um continue to be monitored to ensure that fees and charges are sufficient to cover those operating expenses. Um next is the sewer fund. The sewer fund did experience a surplus for the year with an increase in rates and an increase in revenues. As a result, uh that um income increased from $1.1 million to about $ 1.5 million at the end of the year and excluding deprec uh excluding depreciation saw a surplus of about $2.9 million. As a result, the unrestricted net position in this fund increased from 335,000 uh to about $1.4 4 million uh for 2025. Uh the last one to cover cover here is the solid waste fund. This fund has experiences experienced some challenges here over the years. Uh there is uh a component in the financial statements in this fund related to a land care uh landfill care liability which represents about 7 uh is at about $7.7 million. Um the operating results

for 2025 was an operating loss of about $1.1 million. Uh and excluding depreciation still had a loss of about $754,000. So again, continuing to uh recommend um evaluation of this fund uh to ensure that um fees can cover the cost of operations. Uh that's the last chart that we have. I wanted to thank the city, Tammy, the finance team for all their help during the audit process this year. And next, we just like to open it up for any questions. Any questions? Well done. Same same report as last year. Seems like very close.

Thank you, Andy. Appreciate your time. Thank you.

There's nothing else. move on to the next. Delinquent real estate and personal property taxes as of March 31st, 2026. Within your packet, you should have uh the update. We had we were a little bit late because of the county didn't get it to us till your last meeting. So therefore, you got it within this packet. That is most of them. Any questions? It is my yearly comment about lots of pages of A121 and $36. I know we have to do it, but man, I'm glad we don't print it, right? It's a lot of paper.

Yeah, we do need to approve it, you guys. So, make a motion. I'll second. Motion by Hope Me, second by Bear to approve the delinquent report. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. It passes. Ordinances and resolutions. An ordinance amending the code of the city of Washington by adding there to a new section 140.50 adopting a grant management policy.

Carries by any other comments or is this self-explanatory? This is a policy. You got it. You got it. Tammy Tammy can give you a rundown, but from the finance committee. It's stuff we already do, but we have to document and say we do. Exactly. Right. This is because of the single audit um because we receive federal money and we have all the grants and everything. They want this policy in writing. Even though we're doing what we're supposed to be doing and we have the procedures in place, they would like this policy in writing. So, that's what this is. This is just putting our policy in writing. That's all this is

questions you guys for Tammy. Pretty straightforward motion. Lot of Do we get No, it's going to be It's already introduced. Oh, who introduced it? I'm sorry. I missed that. Thank you. Okay. Okay. If there are no further questions for Tammy, second reading. Darren, an ordinance amending the city or amending the code of the city of Washington, Missouri by adding there to a new section 140.50 500 adopting a grant management policy. Bear yes. Solent. Hydrrich. Hi. Pepsel. Yes. Briggs. Yes. Padkkey. Yes. Coulter. Yes. Holmer. I. By your vote. Ordinance 7A passes. Thank you guys.

An ordinance amending schedule for no parking at any time of the code of the city of Washington, Missouri. Solid drop. Introduced by Sol.

Good evening council. Um there's multiple locations on here to add no parking. Uh these were reviewed at the last traffic committee meeting and recommended for approval. Two of them are by fire stations. The one um top right there is on uh East A Street. Um they asked fire department asked for this for getting in and out of the fire station. Um the one uh is for the new fire station there by the park entrance Phoenix Park Drive on the north side again to get the vehicles out of the fire station. And then the one on West 10th um it's actually a 30 foot wide. It's a narrower street should have no parking on one side. um it wasn't really an issue until the developer that's uh rehabbing the building at the end of the street started building and they're realizing there's a lot more bigger truck semi traffic that's going through there and it's kind of tight with parking on that north side. Questions for Charles, you guys, while he's up there. Discussion.

Pretty straightforward. Okay. Second read. An ordinance amending schedule four no parking at any time of the code of the city of Washington, Missouri. Bear, yes. Solent. Hydrrich, hi. Pepsel, yes. Briggs, yes. Padkkey. Coulter, yes. Hi. By your vote, ordinance 7B passes. See, please.

An ordinance authorizing the city of Washington, Missouri to issue its taxable industrial revenue bonds, WG Transformers USA LLC project series 2026 in a principal amount not to exceed 77 million for the purpose of providing funds to pay the costs of acquiring, constructing, and equipping a facility for an industrial development project in the city. Approving a plan for the project. Approving an omnibus amendment related to the city's taxable industrial revenue bonds. WG Transformers USA LLC project series 2021 and authorizing the city to enter into certain agreements and take certain other actions in connection with the issuance of the bonds. Introduced by Hopemar.

Good evening, gentlemen. My name is Nick Weaver. I'm an associate attorney with Gilmore and Bell. I work very closely with Mark Grim, who many of you know. This ordinance before you is approval of a chapter 100 project. As most of you know, a chapter 100 project is merely a paper transaction that looks like a bond for the purpose of facilitating in this case real and personal property abatement for a developer. In this case, you have a project by WEG. Stacy is here with the company of any questions specifically about the project. This bond transaction would facilitate 10 years of abatement, 50% on the personal property associated with this project and then 50% real property abatement above the current base AV that the project is currently at. So no abatement on current real property taxes only on taxes above the current rate. I am happy to answer any questions about this project or about this ordinance if y'all have any

questions. is a project a long time in the making or whatever. We're really happy that WG is doing continues to go ahead and do expansion uh within Washington. They're probably one of the pillars of our industrial development out there. I have a question. How soon can you start? Stacy Stacy, can you ask answer that? Uh we should come up. Well, you're gonna have to come up to the thing. Sorry, buddy. I just want to see you pull the mic down. I'm not going to do it.

Yeah, we were we actually were hoping that we would be started uh a couple weeks ago. Of course, it always takes a little longer to get started than what you'd hope, but uh we hope by the start of May we should be starting some grading and uh moving forward. It should go faster than what it's going to take, but uh some of the lead time on some of the equipment is almost two years. So, goodness, we'll have the building done much quicker than we can actually start operations just because we're waiting on equipment to show up. It's exciting. Goodness. Thanks, Stacy.

Any other comments or questions, guys? Second reading. an ordinance authorizing the city of Washington, Missouri to issue its taxable industrial revenue bonds, WG Transformers USA LLC project series 2026, and a principal amount not to exceed 77 million for the purpose of providing funds to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing, and equipping a facility for an industrial development project in the city, approving a plan for the project, approving an omnibus amendment related to the city's taxable industrial revenue bonds, WG Transformers USA LLC project, series 2021 and authorizing the city to enter into certain agreements and take certain other actions in connection with the issuance of the bonds. Bearer, yes.

Solen Trump, yes. Hydrrich, I. Pepsel, yes. Briggs, yes. Padkkey, yes. Coulter, yes. Holm, I. By your unanimous vote, ordinance 7C passes. Yay. Darren, can I just stand here and say W would like to thank the city and the community for contining to support us as we grow. Thank you. Thanks, Dy. Goodness. 7D, please. An ordinance imposing a capital improvement sales tax on all retail sales made in the city of Washington, Missouri for purpose of funding capital improvements for the city of Washington, Missouri. Coulter. Introduced by Coulter.

Might be the best thing you've ever introduced, sir. Of course. Okay. Questions or comments about this, guys? Hallelujah. What's that? Hallelujah. Yay. Yay. Second reading there. An ordinance imposing a capital improvement sales tax on all retail sales made in the city of Washington, Missouri for the purpose of funding capital improvements for the city of Washington, Missouri. Bear, yes. Solent. Hydrrich. Hi. Pepsil. Yes. Briggs, yes. Padkkey, yes. Coulter, yes. Holmar, hi. By your vote, ordinance 7D passes. E, please.

An ordinance imposing a transportation sales tax on all retail sales made in the city of Washington, Missouri to provide funds for the city of Washington, Missouri for transportation purposes. Petki, introduced by P, questions, comments? Great. Second reading here. An ordinance imposing a transportation sales tax on all retail sales made in the city of Washington, Missouri to provide funds for the city of Washington, Missouri for transportation purposes. Bayer, yes. Yes. Solenrop Hydrrich, I. Pepsel, yes. Briggs, yes. Padkkey, yes. Coulter,

I. By your vote, Ordinance 7E passes. F, please. A resolution convening the tax increment financing commission of the city of Washington, Missouri, authorizing the distribution of requests for proposals and authorizing certain actions connected therewith. Pepsil introduced by Pepsil.

This resolution is a lot more straightforward than the ordinance y'all just passed. This resolution basically just reconvenes the tiff commission that was established a few years ago and authorizes the request for proposals to get new proposals for development of this proposed redevelopment area and allows the tiff commission to appoint the appropriate representatives and get the whole process started. But this process, this resolution does not approve anything tonight. It just gets the process started for y'all. Any questions? Okay. Thank you again. It's a resolution. So, we need a motion. Second. Yeah, we do need a motion, guys. Please for the resolution. Pepsel made a motion. I'll make a second.

Did he? That's right. You did, Tim. Thank you. Second by Patky. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Okay, that is passed. Commission, committee, and board reports. Preliminary plat approval. Washington Square Center Plat 3.

Yes. Good evening, council. Um, this is a one lot subdivision just off Highway 47 here in the Washington Square uh shopping center. The applicant is requesting uh well a one lot subdivision in the uh commercial to zoning district to separate from kind of the greater um Washington Square shopping center. The county JIS maps are a little let's see is this hold on the county JIS maps are a little deceiving. It kind of has this this parcel highlighted as, you know, its own thing, but it is currently part of the greater Washington Square Shopping Center. And so they're requesting to uh to separate from the greater shopping center as they've uh come under come under new ownership. Chicken,

huh? It is. Yes. Correct. It's correct. It's the current uh KFC. Well, it's not in operation, but it's the former KFC building. Um and they're they're uh the the they're looking at putting in a Chipotle here. And so the uh site plan is um on screen on your left. And earlier this evening, the board of adjustment approved a variance um for this plat to have a 14 ft rear setback. Um so the blue line is what we would normally impose 25 foot rear setback but due to the narrowness of the lot. Our own um fire fire uh fire lane requirements and our parking stall required parking stall depth they requested variance for 14t rear setback that was granted and so the uh the plan can um the plat can proceed as as is. Um you got the applicant here tonight if you want to um address the council. So,

good evening. My name is John Shea. I'm a civil engineer with BFA. Uh, this is kind of our last step to move forward with the process. We already got our variance. Um, the plat will allow the owner to sell the property and we'll we're planning on being in for permits next week hopefully. Most importantly, what's going to occupy this lot? Chipotle. There you go. How much is the property going to be off of the variance? Do you know? 14 ft. 14. Yes. And the 25. That was what the board of adjustment granted earlier tonight.

Setback was 25 ft. The new setback is 14. So an 11 foot relief. Sorry, 9 foot relief. The building's going to stay the same. 11's right. 11. Yeah. the the former KFC will be demolished. Uh you can kind of see the former KFC underneath the uh proposed drive aisle.

Yeah, this is the outline of the existing building. Um and here's where the new building is is. And something of note that uh John pointed out the board of adjustment meeting is the uh the the current KFC does not meet our current front setback um requirements. So this this lot has kind of always faced this this issue. So,

thank you. Other discussion. Okay. Make a motion to accept. Second. Motion by Bear, second by PKY to accept. Second by Briggs. Briggs. I'm sorry. Pardon me, you guys. My hearing's going bad. My hearing came. All those in favor say I. I. opposed. Motion passes. Is accepted. Please an ordinance approving the final plat of Washington Square Shopping Center Plat 3 in the city of Washington Franklin County, Missouri. Briggs. Introduced by Briggs. Further discussion. You guys

second reading. An ordinance approving the final plat of the Washington Square Shopping Center Plat 3 in the city of Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. Bear, yes. Solent. Hydrri, I. Pepsi, yes. Briggs, yes. Padkkey, yes. Coulter, yes. Holm, hi. By your vote, Ordinance AB passes. Mayor's report.

Gosh, it's been a good couple weeks, you guys. So, thanks everybody. I think I think it's appropriate that we thank the committee work so hard getting those taxes passed. Uh, and I've thanked our department heads this morning for the jobs they do with their employees that make our citizens happy. The way our employees get the job done out in the field, that's pretty darn impressive. And last of all, I think we need to thank our citizens for doing the right thing. Very good. Hey, Doug. Yes.

Don't we have an appointment to planning zone you were going to do tonight? I'm trying to get in touch with him. Can you see me afterwards? Right out there in the back room. Gosh dang it, Matt. Shoot. We do. It is on there, but it's not. No, no, it's not on the agenda. So, I don't You got an email. Yeah, we just got an email about it be approved, but yeah, it's not on the agenda. Sherry's not here. She's our normal clerk, Matt. And I'm just a deputy city clerk.

Yeah, there you go. There you go. Well, I tell you what, here's the deal. You will be able to go ahead and get on at the next meeting in May, and you won't miss a planning and zoning meeting because you'll be there in time for the May meeting. So, Matt, that's my fault. I I should have checked. Sherry and I have been so busy her getting us up to snuff to run this meeting. No, no problem at all. Thanks for agreeing to do it, Matt. Thank you. It's like a false alarm fire.

Oh, goodness. See, city administrators report, no report. Council comments. I do have a comment. I get a question um in regards to the additional insurance needed for organizations in the city. So, the Lions Club, they use a pavilion. It now costs them, I'm told, $860 a year more in insurance to rent the pavilions that they help pay for. Is that right?

That is correct. If you choose to go ahead and occupy those, that is the increase when we went to a $4 million aggregate policy. And I think what you're seeing is a reflection of at least the main insurance company in town that provides those policies in order to get that additional million. That's the increased cost. And part of it came up when they wanted to go ahead and occupy, you know, or or accept money up there at the at Fifth and Jefferson. And um you know, the comment was made, you know, hey, maybe the city ought to just do away with that. I was like, you're probably right. And so we all had that discussion before but that is the new. So what we've done if there are if there are I'm going to give you an example of one where we've tried to go ahead and take care of this very issue. So for example um you have um the American Legion. They have approached us over the years to try to have more involvement or at least help with the fireworks for example that they shoot off at the 4th of July. So when they came to the city and I'm just giving you an example of how we can come up with a solution so that if those companies don't have to go get that certificate of insurance. So in this case what we did was we looked at could the city go ahead and and actually take over the fireworks uh you know and have some partnership with them if they wanted to like if they still wanted to raise money as a result of it or send kids in the stands that's fine whatever. um and that we would continue this year because they have one they have this guy that's going to shoot fireworks this year. It's his last one that he's going to do and then after that the city would go ahead and take o take that over. I don't think there's really any other types of facilities or anything where they would have to uh provide a certificate of insurance with us anymore that would cover that that cost. So for example, that's how we kind of took care of that. Other solutions that they can

do is they can also go ahead and talk to uh the ones that use our facilities the most, which is the chamber downtown Washington, and possibly piggyback onto their policies if those if those entities want to cover them under their, you know, under under that certificate of insurance. So that's what we tried to do to come up with solutions. But yes, since we and and Mark can explain why we have to go up to that policy. I think it's based on I I forgot what's I understand why we have to go up. I get it. It's $4 million policy. The umbrella is higher. I I get that part. Okay. But capital improvement sales tax passes. We got a million dollar set aside for Lion's Lake.

There's no doubt in my mind we're going to ask Lions Club to donate to help with that retrofitting the lake. Mhm. And yet we increase their cost to use the pavilion at Lions Lake each year just to use the pavilion. Well, they do have I guess I just it's a conflict to me that we're trying to we're cutting off our own hand.

Here's here's Well, here's two things if you want to do one one of the things that the previous council did was they went ahead that if any entity uh made a donation within a calendar year of 5,000 or more, they only had to pay half of the cost of the rental for the facility. If you as an entity want to go ahead and recognize certain groups and say that they don't have to pay any rental for that, that's up to you as a council to go ahead and we can provide that to you in audits. I think you just need to be careful with who you give it to for free and who you charge because I guarantee you there's always somebody that nobody wants to pay. That's that's that's always the case. But I think the insurance insurance is different. The insurance is going to be that no matter what. Correct. if it's open to the public,

your your code requires you to follow the insurance requirements or recommendations of your insurance company and that's where those numbers come from. But Darren, you alluded to the fact that they could piggy back off of downtown Washington chamber possibly and therefore the work with those organizations. They have insurance for the entire year if they have one event or they have 10. That's exactly right.

Yeah. Okay. and and and if and if there was something that that the city could go ahead and do, I mean like I'll give you an extreme example and and we don't. We took over East Central would would sit there and rent the main stage. U they started doing that years ago for their free concert that they'd hold in the public. We just went ahead and said, "No, we're going to make it a parks event and then that way you don't have to go ahead. They don't have to provide us with a certificate of insurance if we go ahead and and take it over as ours." And as a matter of fact, that example that I gave you with American Legion, you know, I think that's going to evolve into something more possibly the next year because and and I'll go ahead and announce we've got a committee that's been working on utilizing the stage uh out there at uh the um um out there at the fairgrounds. And so, uh we're going to have we've got two free concerts set up in June on Wednesday nights. And um Tim's working a little bit on sound. We I got a couple bands, but we also had the um park foundation step up and they're paying for the cost to to get the bands as well as the uh the PA system in order to go ahead and do it. The following year, what we look at doing is making that the possibility was thrown out is to go ahead and make that uh July 4th the last of that summer concert series. And that would be a third night where we would have it. Everybody could go ahead watch the free concert out at the park. And again, we're not talking about uh you know, it's free. They can bring in their own drinks. They can bring in their own food. And then on uh we'd still go ahead and have uh the ability for uh service organizations to go ahead and set up and sell burgers, whatever they want to do. Uh and then at the end of the night on the fourth is set the fireworks off up there at the top of the hill. So, and that got that was the plan that we came up with, like I said, for American Legion. I think, you know, we just got to think a little bit more outside the box to help some of these groups or whatever. And I I I agree. If you're only doing it one or two times, that's a lot of insurance to go ahead and do,

right? Okay. Thank you.

I brought up uh last meeting about the um start and quit times of construction. Um like to bring this bring this up again. Uh I would really like to see us go to a make an ordinance out of this and change the time especially on Sundays. Sundays is 7:00 in the morning. got people complaining about hearing breakers at 7 o'clock in the morning on a Sunday. I don't know what the other council thinks, but I think we should put that to at least 9:00 on a Sunday and 8:00 in the evening instead of 9:00 stop time. So, what do we need to do to make an ordinance to change those times? Well, first off, the only thing I would say, and I I'm not aware of any situations where that would have a conflict, but if we do have to take a look at that and see if that would affect u affect all construction projects that that may be going on um seven days a week, um I don't know that we have that many right now, but uh what I would propose to do is we would um give you an ordinance at your workshop on the first meeting in May and you can discuss it in more detail and see if you want to pass it on to the rest of the council. It's just a matter of amending those hours if I understand you on Sundays.

Yes. Okay. Especially Sundays. And then the the instead of 9:00 in the evening, Monday through Sunday, Sunday through Monday, I'm sorry, whatever. 8:00 instead of 9:00 at night. I know when I do work in the city of Clayton and other areas, we cannot start work till 8:00. Monday through Friday. I mean, I don't think anybody's asking for that Monday through Friday. I think they're just talking about Sundays and stop times. If council chooses, we'll go we can go ahead and prepare uh an ordinance that addresses it. Change those times. Correct me if I'm wrong, Mark. The the times now are it's 6 or 7 a.m. depending on the time of the year.

It's 7 a.m. October 1st through May 31st is 7:00 a.m. to 900 p.m. Right. June 1st through September 30th is 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. So, you're looking for the 8:00 p.m. every day or weekends? I mean, I'm just 8:00 p.m. every day, bump it an hour earlier, and just on Saturdays and even just Sundays, make at least 8:00, you know? 7.

My only thought is that that it's during the summertime it's still light at 9 or you know 8:30 9 o' you know in the summertime hour the May 1st or June you know that time of year that's why I when I first got a hold of it I thought it was dawn to dusk but I don't know that's easier to police or not I don't know but well I mean we we still want to look after our citizens. I mean, if these newer subdivisions, they got breakers going on and somebody's trying to put their ch their children down 8:00 at night. No, I I don't disagree with you. I got the phone calls for it. Um, I mean, you got some of the same phone calls I got. So,

I'm done. Well, my comment would be I sat through my first board of adjustment meeting tonight and thanks to those folks that serve on that board because there's a lot of things that come up there and I think they've met a little more this year than in past years. Correct. Standing. I think uh Aaron came away with homework for PNZ that lots of homework to uh we need to be trying to act on as quick as we can because there's a couple

local business owners that could use some help and we're getting in our own way with a few things. So, I'd like to see what we can do with that as quick as we can too. So, okay. City attorneys report public vote on whether or not to hold a closed meeting to discuss personnel, legal, and real estate matters pursuant to section 610.021 RSM 2000. Bear, yes. Solent, yes. Hydrrich, hi. Peps, yes. Briggs, yes. Padkkey, yes. Coulter, yes. Volt, hi. In

close session. Your vote. We are in close session.