City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome to the April 1st, 2026 city council meeting. Please rise and we will say 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. Okay. Thank you. The clerk will call the role. Council member Yuanu here. Council member Luke here. Council member Luther here. Council member Norris here. Council member Patel here. Council member Satel here. Council member Weshi

here. Council member Hood here. Only council members are present. Next item on the agenda is the agenda approval. Make a motion for approval of the agenda. Second. Motion's made by Council Member Luke, seconded by Council Member Luther for the app approval of tonight's agenda. Any changes? Council member Norris. Yes. Can we um on um discussion items? Can I add a discussion item? It's um um discuss a float idea for council. Second.

Okay. Council member Norris is recommending a discussion item, the council parade float. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Any other changes, additions, deletions? I see none. All in favor of tonight's amended agenda say I. I. I. Any opposed? I hear none. Next item on the agenda, public comments. We have two this evening. I will start with Heather Hardy. Please come forward.

And state your name and address to the city clerk.

Yeah. Oh gosh. I am Heather Hardy. Um 3508 Falcon Avenue. Hey. So, I just wanted to follow up. I was at the W one and W two meeting and talked about like storm water concerns and wanted to just publicly acknowledge that I had the pleasure of touring the creek with Don and I just want to thank you for like being there when no one else was listening. and I really appreciate that and I just want you to know. And also Bob who came on Saturday and we got to spend an hour and a half climbing through honeysuckle, mud, bugs, broken down trees, cut down trees, and trash. So, thank you, Bob. I really appreciate your help in the matter. Um, I did hear that there maybe be some movement in the um, public works department as far as helping clean up the area, which is great and I think that's a positive step forward. Um, I was just curious if there's a way possibly moving forward that we could adopt some sort of I mean something to put in our code that says new builds need to either do some type of rainscaping or a rain garden and have some sort of plan for storm water runoff. Um, not sure where that would be appropriately brought up, but I think that would be important and help us moving forward as a community. Um, I do have some fun new pictures if anyone's interested from the side of the creek that Bob and I explored. Um, shopping carts, car hoods, things like that. Can I hand

with the mayor or maybe Bridget? Maybe I have three sets. So, we can Where's the stuff coming from? Thank you. We have our dumping it down there. Well, we have our pictures. rubber gun. She should have rubber gun. Um I tried to write a brief explanation on the back of what it was. Some are tricky like the first one is a shopping part that's halfway buried. Um there's it's hard to see some of them but just wanted to share that. So that is it. Thank you.

Thank you. Next up, Jane Roth. Hey, good job. Yeah, please come forward and state your name and address to the city clerk.

Thank you. I'm Jane Rothkco and I live at 3438 Falcon Avenue. Um, I'm also here to um address the storm drainage runoff concerns. Uh we purchased our house. It'll be 10 years ago in May that we moved into our house. Um our house was built in 2007. Um and since we moved in 10 years ago, we've seen a significant amount of erosion. Our house on one side has the storm drain runoff that's more like a creek. there's there's like rip wrap rocks and and um it's kind of a designated area for the water to flow through. But on the other side of the house, what we're finding is the houses that were built behind ours in 2012 as well as another other houses that were built in the late 90s. The runoff from those houses are running in between my house and my neighbor's house. So when there's a big storm, it's like we live in a moat. Like one side has all the storm drain runoff and the other side has all the runoff from our neighbors. And I have pictures here of our house when we I found a house I found a picture on Google images from 2012. And you can see the end of our house. There's no erosion whatsoever. There's the it's flat. our house when it was built, they graded it so that the um so that it was like, you know, the the soil was even with the side of our house. When you're looking at the house, I'll send the pictures around on the right side. And then you can see in 2025 how significant the erosion has been. In 2023, we addressed it, tried to address it like issues that we've seen in our house. We had Danagger out. They had to

mudjack a sidewalk and fill a pack, you know, epoxy cracks in our basement. We had a big project where we built a retaining wall to help with erosion on one side of our house. Um, the patio that was poured when our house was built, erosion caused it to tilt into our house and cause drainage issues in our basement. We had the patio jacked up, a new patio poured. It cost about $35,000 to get all that work done to our house. And um I haven't and we still have this significant erosion issue that I'm concerned about. So I also have pictures if anyone's interested. It's it's the one um the front of our house from 2012 and then the next picture would be our house in 2025 and then some pictures of the erosion at the end of our street. I'll pass. Sure.

I guess to you both. Are these sets for us to keep? Okay.

Give them to Robert Gun. Heather has been my cheerleader in all this because I felt like there was nothing we could do and she said, "Why don't you just go to city council and tell them a couple weeks ago I did write a um storm concern um storm water concern email and I never heard back from anyone. So, I decided to come today. My question is, what if anything can the city do to help with this significant erosion that we're seeing? We've done everything that we can to our house and as I wrote in my email a couple weeks ago, the, you know, casual bids that we've gotten to put in our own drainage system in the back of our house to help with runoff from the houses behind us is just completely cost prohibitive for us. Like in the tens of thousands of dollars. So that's my Oh, I have a couple more pictures, too. This is of the This is of the side with the creek. So you guys can see like the storm the significant amount of storm water from that side.

Here, hand me those. I'll I'll take those. That's my questions. Thank you very much for listening. I'm part of the storm water committee. All right. I see council members taking notes. So if you stick around towards the end of the meeting, they will be um communicating and maybe uh some of the issues will be addressed otherwise uh public works we will be able to talk with them tomorrow or next couple of days. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, Teresa. Hi everyone. Okay. Um, coming to a lot of council meetings. Um, I have a couple of maybe things that may help Um, with the quality of our fast foods and restaurants, a lot of British residents really don't eat around here. Um, but facilities has kept up with a very good quality and very good employees. So, the thing is is that can we maybe do something to encourage fast foods and restaurants to maybe be a little bit better because I talked to a lot of people and I'm sorry, they're just not even Red Lobster is just not up to par. Um, and then far as character to the area, we need more color, more shrubbery or flowers or something to brighten up this place because it kind of just looks like a corridor that you just kind of go through and that's it. um for beautifification. I did think the signs that that Luther had um I'm pretty sure it was you was a good idea, but why don't we like get the art departments from schools maybe a competition or something and something that they could build a sculpture or something which which was withstand

because we do have a lot to offer in the city and um I obviously been a longtime resident. I would like to keep our revenue high, but we have to solve issues um like the trash problem, which um can we can do do we have anything what picks up like the the cigarettes on the curves ourselves? Do we equipment? I know you guys can't answer. Um but that that would um perk things up. Um and one of these days um I'll also bring in um places which are dangerous on the roads which um is also a concern. And then the other final thing that I would like to address is that ordinances. I think that there comes a point when you own a home and you own land and it's your sanctuary. It's a place that I think that you should be able to express yourself in the way that you want to express yourself, but it looks a lot like that we're going to be ornancing everything that we're going to be all just put your little perfect little houses uh with like a one little tree in the front and not much else. I'm concerned because you guys took my farmer right away and then now you guys are making all these ordinances where I can't even do my car my hobby underneath my carport because I'm only supposed to have cars parked under there. That seems like it's actually targeting certain people because we haven't been able to have carports for a while. So that seems like the older houses um and the older residents are the ones which are being targeted with that. And I wouldn't have bought my home if I knew I was going to be so controlled. And when does it come a point where your privacy is being

taken away by ordinance officers coming by left and right? As we know, I've already had a problem with a city employee, what was supposed to be taking care of me, and he became a stalker. All right. So the problem is is that do I get my privacy in my yard or am I going to have to worry about a ordinance officer what kind of likes the way I talk look or whatever and keeps on coming up and down my road. All right. Okay. All right. Thanks. You guys need to consider it.

That's all the public comment cards we have. Next item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes from the March 18th, 2026 council meeting. Motion to approve. Second. Motions made by council member Hood, seconded by council member Norris for the approval of the minutes from the council meeting on March the 18th. I see a light. Council member Luke.

Thank you, Mayor. I just have a couple of uh quick adjustments in on lines 2223 under my statements under council communications. I would just like to clarify um that I'm not voting in favor of additional expenditures that are non-essential until council has up-to-date financial information. Second. And then second under line 278. Uh Mr. Bookout addressed Council Member Wesie's comments, not Council Member Luke's. Second line was 278.

Yes. Okay. Second that you have your name. And that's all I have. Okay. Motion's made by council member Luke. Seconded by council member Satel. Further two amendments discussed. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? I hear none. Any further changes, deletions? Okay. I see none. All right. All in favor of the minutes as amended this evening from March the 18th, 2026, say I. I.

Any opposed? The minutes are approved for March the 18th, 2026. Next item on the agenda. We do have a proclamation this evening. I will read this. This is an Arbor Day proclamation. We do this every year. Whereas in 1872, the Nebraska Board of Agriculture established a special day to be set aside for planting of trees. And whereas this holiday called Arbor Day was first observed with the planting of more than 1 million trees in Nebraska. And whereas Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world. And whereas trees are assets to a community when properly planted and maintained, improve the visual appearance of neighborhood, increase property value, reduce home cooling cost, remove air pollutants, and provide wildlife habitat as. And whereas trees are a renewable resource, giving us paper, wood for our homes, fuel for our fires, and countless other wood products. And whereas trees in our city enhance the economic vitality of business areas and beautify our community. And whereas trees wherever they are planted are a source of joy and spiritual renewal. Now therefore, I Randle behind mayor of the city of Bridton do hereby proclaim Friday, April the 10th, 2026 as Arbor Day in the city of Bridton. And I urge all citizens to celebrate Arbor Day and to support efforts to protect our trees and woodlands. And further, I urge all citizens to plant trees to gladden the heart and promote the well-being of this

and future generations. Pass this first day of April, 2026. Thank you. Move for approval. Second. Is that what you do? It's It's a mayor's proclamation, so it doesn't need a vote. Thank you. All right. Next item on the agenda, we have permits, waiverss, and appeal requests. First is a signed variance for Davidson Logistics. Council member Norris.

Thank you, Mayor. Motion to accept 260016 for Davidson Logistics, 1412 Missouri Bottom Road. Second. Motion is made by council member Norris, seconded by council member Hood for the approval of the sign variance for Davidson logistics discussion. Yes. Can I u council rules and have the landscaper come up and do a little presentation? Can you do that? Second. Second.

Motion's made by council member Nor. Seconded by council member Satel to bring up the landscaper. How you doing? All in favor say I. I oppose. I hear none. Go ahead, sir. Please, please state your name and address to the city clerk.

Hi, my name is Elar Tissson. Um, I'm representing Don Davidson for Davidson Logistics on this sign. Um, basically what we're going to be doing is, uh, creating a sign that's going to give some directions to some of the traffic there that pulls off the exit, uh, into that street. And we are trying to beautify that corner by landscaping this lighting. uh not so much lighting, but creating a freestanding wall with a new uh lettered signage right there on the corner and which I have a couple pictures. What you see up here is just what the signage is going to look like. I have some pictures here of what the wall's going to be looking like that that sign's going to be mounted on. And that is the picture of the landscaping that we're going to do in front of the signage right there with the irrigation.

All right, we got we have some questions from council. Council member Luther. Thank you, mayor. Yes. So, I was looking at the the application for design review and it seemed to so I get the concept pretty clearly, but I wasn't really clear the wall. What is the material of the wall? I understand that the acrylic letters that wasn't clear the material you're using for the wall and the color. Um, basically what we have is a ready rack wall system which you're seeing quite a bit on uh being built all over different municipalities like St. Charles alongside you get off at Elm Street. I have a couple pictures of some of the walls that be. Yeah.

Yes. Because I wasn't clear on that. Yeah. And will they be about this colorish? This is just going to be a natural color. Oh, got it. I see what you're see. This is one of the walls that was built in the construction. That's just a picture of one that's going to be that's much higher, but we're just going with this freestanding wall and do I understand the letters will be on top of it? That will be right on the front face of on the front face of it. Okay. Thank you. This is just some more that would be all.

Council member Norris. Yes, sir. Um, you know, in your rendering here that are these going to be definitely the plants that you're going to use that you're saying? Yes. Okay. All righty. any of those Missouri native? Pretty much all these are true proven winners of Missouri here. So, we got quite a bit of boxwoods. We got some Norway, some evergreens in there just to kind of highlight the sign and just to keep the this very hearty plants that we're going to be using here that are going to be longstanding. Very little maintenance to them besides what color we're going to use in there in the front of it on a quarterly basis in the spring and in the fall.

Okay. You're not putting any honeysuckle out there, are you? No. No. All right. As you notice, we work that pretty hard on the side of the highway. Okay. We don't need any of that. All right. Thank you. I have no other any other questions for Council Member Wesy.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, I actually just had a comment on this. I know that we have citizens on a regular basis talking about how up and down the St. Charles Rock Road corridor, they want to see businesses um, stepping it up and doing stuff to make their storefronts look better, trying keeping stuff look clean. Um, I know you're not Davidson logistics, but I would just like to take a second to acknowledge that they're wanting to spend a significant amount of money. I've dealt with stuff like this before. It's not cheap. Uh, so I think it's really cool that they're wanting to spend that money to invest in the area and make their business look better. So, um, just wanted to put it out there saying thanks for that. Thank you. Back to you, Mayor. Council member Still.

Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Um, yeah, I like your design. I like the colors you kind of use. my ladies like them. I like that you also put some evergreens in there so it's going to look nice year round. Yes. Uh I have a horiculture degree so I kind of understand what I'm what I'm seeing here when you're doing different things on your signage right there. I notic so saying trucks one way, office the other way. Is there a way to also put the because there's also one of our parks down around the side past the entrance. Yes. Logistics. Is there a way to incorporate the directional? I think there's just very minimal right now. We go there quite a bit to ride bicycles from. Okay. Because it's a good starting spot. Okay. And I'm just wondering if there was a way to also say office and our our park. I don't even know what the name of the park is down there, but

I tell you, we could possibly speak with the owner and see what, you know, we want to incorporate. I know that we were kind of restricted on our size of our sign already. So, we pretty much limited what we could put on that 60oot sign. We got so much. Maybe we have a freestanding sign, I think, right there right now that just tries to be directional that doesn't really incorporate into anything else. There's plenty of room because we kept constantly moving this sign back further and farther back into his property. So, there should be plenty of room to put some as we've talked about having directional signs. Yeah. And we maybe maybe Bridon will have a directional sign to the park that's down there that we we kind of take care of on the greenway right there.

Okay. Let's stay on the sign variance here and not put any other burdens on them. Thank you. Thank you. That's all. Okay. Thank you, Council Member Norris. Back to you. Yes, I have no other questions. Thank you very much for that. Thank you. Yes, it's it's in an awkward area, so I think that's and he's going to I I think it's great. He's going to spruce up the area. Uh this came with a fair favorable from design and review. Uh so I my vote I would approve this. I'm not sure there's been a motion. Yeah, we need a motion. Motion to approve. Oh, motion to approve. Second. Second. Sorry.

Motion is made by council member Norris, seconded by council member Hood to approve the signed variance for Davidson Logistics. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? I hear none. The signed variance is approved. Thank you, sir. All right. Council member Luke. Thank you, Mayor. Did you have some appointments that you would like to make? That was back energy. Okay. And council member Norris, I I hate to interrupt, but beautifification commission Heather Hardy, can you verify her ward? I I was indicated she's ward one.

She is W one. That side of the street is W. Ward one. She's on the She's on the other side of Falcon. Correct. W one. And Council Member Luke again. I make a motion we approve all Wait a minute. What? Some of them are new appointments and some are reappointments. Let's let's do the two new appointments first. Then I make a motion that we do the two new appointments as presented. Okay. Council member L. Second. Made the motion seconded by council member Luther. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? I want to discuss something first. Okay. Council members,

is Heather Hardy's being changed on the sheet to Ward one? Because she is, right, friendly. All right. I'm in favor for it all. All right. Now, I need a motion for the reappointments. I'll make a motion for the reappoint. Second, Council Member Luke. Uh seconded by Council Member Luther for reappointments. All in favor say I. I. Council member Norris. Yes, sir. Um I just was questioning on the pension who who is leaving the pension is is there there's three now is there someone leaving to appoint or we haven't we can have up to five members. Oh okay. Thank you very much.

Okay. Thank you. Okay. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? I hear none. The appointments are approved. Congratulations. Next item on the agenda is perfection of bills. Bill number 6538 and that is council member Luke. Thank you mayor. I make a motion for second reading of bill 6538. Second motion is made by council member Luke. Seconded by council member Luther for second reading of bill number 6538. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? I hear none. Continue.

Thank you. An ordinance of the city council of the city of Bridton, Missouri, authorizing the mayor and city clerk to execute an agreement substantially in the form attached here too with Bluegrass Lawn Care of St. Louis LLC for the mowing of I270 and St. Charles Rock Road area 1 and North Lindberg Boulevard and St. Charles Rock Road area 2 in an amount of $43,170 and zero change. The project budget includes a contingency in the amount of $5,120 and zero change. I move that bill 6538 become ordinance number 26-17. Second.

Motion's made by council member Luke, seconded by council member Luther that bill number 6538 become ordinance 26-17. Discussion. I don't see any lights. The clerk will call a role. Council member Norris. I. Council member Patel. Hi. Council member Satel. Hi. Council member Wesi. I. Council member Hood. I. Council member Ywanu. I. Council member Luke. Nay. Council member Luther. I.

By a vote of 7 to1. Bill number 6538 becomes ordinance 26-17. Next item on the agenda. Second reading of bill number 6539. Council member Luke. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion for second reading of bill 6539. Second. Motion's made by Council Member Luke, seconded by Council Member Luther for second reading of bill number 6539. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? I hear none. Please continue.

Thank you. An ordinance of the city council of the city of Bridgton, Missouri, authorizing the mayor and city clerk to execute an agreement substantially in the form attached here too with Bluegrass Lawn Care of St. Louis LLC for the mowing of I7 and St. Charles Rock Road area 3 and North Lindberg Boulevard and Whiteall Manor Drive area 4 in an amount of $46,590 and zero change. The project budget includes a contingency in the amount of $5,120. Um, I move that bill 6539 become ordinance number 26-18. Second.

Motion's made by council member Luke, seconded by council member Luther that bill number 6539 become ordinance 26-18. Discussion. I see none. The clerk will call the role. Council member Patel. Hi. Council member Satel. Hi. Council member Weshi. Hi. Council member Hood. I. Council member Yawanu. I. Council member Luke. Nay. Council member Luther. I. Council member Norris. I.

By a vote of 7 to1. Bill number 6539 becomes ordinance 26-18. Next item on the agenda, bill number 6540. Council member Hood. And this is for second reading. Move for second reading of bill 6540. Second. Motion's made by council member Hood, seconded by council member Norris for second reading of bill number 6540. All in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? I see none. Please continue. An ordinance of the city council of the city of Bridton, Missouri, authorizing the mayor and city clerk to execute an agreement substantially in the farm attached here to with TNT golf car for lease. The lease purchase of new golf carts for the Berry Hill golf course in the amount of $28,000 $8,623.85. Move that bill 6540 become ordinance 26-9. Second.

Motion's made by council member Hood, seconded by council member Norris, that bill number 6540 become ordinance 26-9. Discussion. Council member Wesy. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, quick question. Uh, if I wanted to ask uh, Brendan something, would I have to suspend council rules for that or could I ask him a question? No, you don't have to suspend council rules. Okay, cool. Uh, just a quick question. Uh I noticed on here that this is going to be a lease to own. Um do we expect to keep these uh carts for more than the 5 years? And also how many carts are we going to end up uh be uh buying or leasing to own?

Yeah. So the the um typical life on the golf carts for our for our golf course and the usage we have is 6 to 8 years. So we're at about seven with our with our current carts and that'll be a total of 40 carts. And we try the the timing of this is right in that 6 to8 year mark because uh we're getting right around the point where you need new tires, batteries, and brakes on all the carts. So, we're trying to get out in front of that expense. Sure. Yes, I fully understand and I think that makes a lot of sense. That way, we're able to keep the inventory newer and everything. Thank you for your time. Appreciate it. Any further questions? I see none. The clerk will call the role. Council member Satel, I. Council member Wesy. I council member Hood.

I council member Yawanu. I council member Luke. Nay. Council member Luther. I. Council member Norris. I. Council member Patel. I. By a vote of 7 to one. Bill number 6540 becomes ordinance 26-9. Next item. First reading. Second reading of bill number 6541. Council member Luke. Thank you, mayor. I move for second reading of bill 6541. Second. Motion's made by council member Luke, seconded by council member Luther for second reading of bill number 6541. All in favor say I. Any oppose? I hear none. Please continue.

Thank you. An ordinance of the city council of the city of Bridton, Missouri amending chapter 110 court and criminal procedure section 1110.060 060 fines and costs where paid deposited subsection B in the city's code of ordinances. Move that bill 6541 become ordinance 26-20. Second. Motion is made by council member Luke, second by council member Luther that bill number 6541 become ordinance 26-20. Discussion. I see no lights. The clerk will call the role. Council member Wesi. I. Council member Hood. Hi. Council member Yawanu.

I. Council member Luke. Hi. Council member Luther. I. Council member Norris. I. Council member Patel. I. Council member Satel. I. By a vote of 8 to nothing. Bill number 6541 becomes ordinance 26-20. Next item on the agenda, consideration of new bills. First bill number 6542. Council member Hood. Move for first reading of bill 6542. Second. Motion's made by council member Hood, seconded by council member Norris for first reading of bill number 6542. All in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? I see none. Please continue. An ordinance of the city council of the city of Bridton, Missouri, substantially in the form attached here to amending and restating chapter 510 of the Bridgton code of ordinances entitled existing structure codes. Move to table. Second. Motion's made by council member Hood, seconded by council member Norris to table bill number 6542. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? I hear none. Bill number 6542 is tabled. Next item, first consideration of bill number 6543. All is there a motion?

I make a motion for first reading of bill 6543. Second. Motion's made by council member Luke, seconded by council member Luther for first reading of bill number 6543. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? I hear none. Please continue. Thank you. An ordinance exempting the city of Bridgton, Missouri from temporary extended liquor hours authorized under section 311. 2026 RMMO during the 2026 FIFA World Cup and establishing an effective date. Move to table bill 6543. Second.

Motion's made by Council Member Luke, seconded by Council Member Luther to table bill number 6543. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? I hear none. We're down to discussion items. Council member Norris.

Yes, sir. This is just a little item. There was something suggested uh about the council and we can just think about it. We got time. Um that we would get a float and have all city council be on the float. Uh and um I thought that would be nice since this is the 250th year. We could do something special. we could show the city we're a team. I said this would be a cost savings. We wouldn't have to do the golf carts and probably a time savings and uh at the end of the parade um I guess they wouldn't have to chase us all down. We'd be in one contained area. So just think about it. I just thought that would be a great idea. Mrs. Luke had brought it up. Uh she does have a picture of of a float that I thought we could all decorate. would save time. And uh so just if you have any comments now or just think about it because they're going to wait. We're going to have some different council people first juror. So um you know I want them to have some input too.

There's some lights camera. Council member Iwanu. Yes. I just wanted to say I think that is a great idea and I support going forward.

Thank you. Council member Wesy was next. Thanks. Um, I mean, we can definitely talk about this. Um, I know personally, uh, I get a lot of joy out of driving that golf cart around in the parade, so I'm not going to support it. I would be okay with having if council members wanted to be on a float that they could, or if they wanted to drive themselves around, they could. But, um, I know I was just talking to my co-consel too about that as well. And I I'm not a big fan of it. I kind of like being able to go and interacting with the people at the sidelines and stuff. So, thanks, Council Member Luke.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh, so yes, I did bring this up. I was in my hometown last year. My granddaughters were in a parade and I was kind of surprised when I saw a big float go by pulled by the company truck of a local business and it said it was all the city council members for the city. And I took a couple pictures of it. do have uh if you want to see I was a five-year member of the special events commission followed by two more years as exeicio. So I'm very intimately aware of what goes on during the parade. Um one of the things is timing. Timing is always an issue. It starts off really really well and then it takes time for people to get through for all the parade participants to get through and there's large gaps. So, my thought was that this would help with some of that gapping. Um, really during the parade, we're not supposed to be stopping off and taking time to talk with our constituents. With all due respect, I understand that. Um, for the parade flow, it makes the most sense that we're all together and helping with everything. I mean, 80 participants behind council that still have to get through the parade rate parade route. So, I won't be here, so I won't be able to weigh in on it, but I do think it's a really good idea, and I hope um that it'll just become a city policy that the city decides that this is what we're going to do.

Council member Satell.

Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Well, as most of you know, I probably won't like this and I will save the city money because I will you be using my own. Uh I however I do like the idea of doing one and I think in a previous year we did and when we had our ex council members on it including like Fred Fetch and so you uh Gretchen may still be in the parade on the ex official you ex counsel members you know float and so I think having one be great. I think the other advantage you have to have is if you're going to create one it needs to have a roof over it for the shade or rain if it happens to be rain. So you know whether it's for counselor or are their spouses along the same thing. I mean, a lot of us do this jointly because we get to take our spouse with us and and enjoy that day, you know, totally together. Um, but I think, you know, those two things are are are two things to consider, you know, for for seniors and our, you know, of our e ex officials and we need to promote that. We still have a lot of ex- councsil members that don't even, you know, come and participate in functions of our city anymore, uh, or they've passed away, you know, like coach Ben did recently. But I think it's something we we could consider, but it shouldn't be required or mandatory. Um, And I think the rate of the speed is it's not determined by his council members. It's it's determined by however speed the fast our mayor goes because he's the lead. And so we pretty well go whatever mayor even the previous mayor. It was always determined by the speed that they went. So we just follow the the direction of what the mayor's pace is at. So I I think that's not really going to be a difference right there. Just just sticking up for my my wishy co-consel here. Thank you,

Council Member Norris.

There's no sticking up. I just thought it would be a great idea to have us all together and the float is not for spouses. It is just for the city council and you know you do have your ward meetings that you can see your constituents. So I just thought and I also was a coordinator of the special events and I said the year that we did the world's fair we rented a a trolley and all the council was on that one. So you know we survived that and everybody had a great time. we were all together. So, um I just thought it would be a nice opportunity. Uh again, this is a special year. It is our 250th national um holiday. So, I thought that would be something that we could do something special. And you can still if you want to have your family in a car or something behind in the in an area, you can still do that. But I just thought the council should be in one float. I thought that would be a great idea. Thank you. and we can I'm that's it mayor from me. We'll think about it.

Thank you. Any further discussion? I see none. Attorney's report. I have nothing, mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Council communications. I'll start with Council Member Wesy.

Thank you, Mayor. Um as always, thank you all for coming out. Uh and the people watching online, thanks for uh watching. Hopefully, you're not supposed to be working or something like that and you're just on YouTube wasting time or anything because I would never do that. Um, last week we ended up having the W one and W two town hall meeting. We had a really good turnout for that. Uh, a lot of Ward one, W two residents. We also had some people from outside W one and W two uh come out. So, um, thank you. Thank you for everybody that came out for that and we had a really good time. Um, also wanted to uh thank public works. I know uh the um bill or all the different ordinance changes that you ended up putting through is there's a couple in there that I've talked to you about a bit over the last couple years, especially the um what I'm going to deem the uh front yard toilet ordinance and I was glad to see that in there because I don't want to see toilets in the front yard. So, thank you. Um and with that, back to you, Mayor. And uh thanks.

Okay, I'm going to go back and forth across the aisle. Council member Hood. Yes, we had uh we had our cove meeting at 6 and we we dove into uh that particular ordinance that he was talking about. It's 80 88 pages something like that and there are some new additions and there's a lot of the existing bill still in there. So, I would encourage um read it, council to take a good look at it, especially the new highlighted areas and we'll see what kind of discussion we need to have at the next meeting. Thank you, Council Member Satell.

Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Um, since we had citizens here tonight about talking about storm water, I'm on the commission, you know, the storm water committee and we will be continuing some of those into the future, I hope. Um, but I know we recently uh received an email that came from Brian Peterson uh addressing some of the storm water problems that these individuals had and we all saw the email that came from from them and it's like I'm glad this moving forward and we've forwarded some information I think can be helpful uh that they've had along with some recommendations of way to kind of try try to start solving some of those problems as well. So that's all. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Nars. Thank you, mayor. Good evening, everyone. Um, I just want to remind attended the retirement of our chief MSAD on Friday, March 27th. It was a great honor and a privilege to share in the celebrating of over 40 years of police service with his family, friends, staff, and many awards were presented. We knew he had a lot of contacts, but uh awards came from the DEA, the FBI, and local police agencies. Uh we're wishing him the best in his new adventure. Uh and I want to thank Bryce, Major Bryce Levelvel, for doing the interim chief. Thank you. And I want to thank I've got another hat on. Thanks for the Kan from the Kuanas of Bridgden. Our pancake breakfast was very successful. So many of you appreciate your support. Our club provides scholarships to Patville students, host a fishing derby for the children, and we have a senior picnic. I want to thank you all again for helping us. Uh, and I want to say good luck to all on Tuesday, the April 7th election, and also I want to wish you all a happy Easter. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Yuano.

Thank you, mayor. I'd like to I'm going to echo and share the same sentiments as my fellow council members, uh, Wesi, Hood, Norris, and I would like to welcome Major Leval to the seat. Good to see you here. Um, I also like to thank everyone for being here this evening and those who are watching online. And I wanted to extend my appreciation to Miss Hardy, Miss Romov, and Miss Fischer for sharing your concerns with us. And I also would like to wish everyone a very happy and healthy Easter. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Luke.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh, first, congratulations to Council Member Wesy and Mrs. Wesy on the birth of your second child. That's exciting. Um, I wish you um good nights of sleep more than anything. Also, welcome, Major Love. Thank you for stepping up as interimm chief. We appreciate you being here. And, uh, good luck to all the candidates who are applying for the chief's position. Um, and also, as Mrs. Norris said, uh, good luck to all the candidates on next week's municipal election ballot. Um, when we picked up our papers on Monday, you all should have seen that we also had the July financial report from the finance officer. So, thank you to her for getting that together and providing it to us. It's a start to getting us back on track. Um, council members are stewards of the financial expenditures and we've been in a position before where council didn't have all of the info needed to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. We know better now, so we must do better. As a reminder, I'm not opposed to fireworks, mowing, mods property. I am really, but I'm not. And golf cart rental. I did vote in favor of the overall budget. However, I don't believe I'm being a good steward of taxpayer dollars if I make informed financial decisions. And right now, or sorry, I believe I'm being a good steward of taxpayer dollars if I make informed financial decisions. Right now, I'm not informed, not for a lack of trying to get up-to-date financial information. I'd like to see and hear what the plan is for fully getting the finance office back on track and to a point of stability and sustainability. I've talked numerous times over the past few months with the finance officer, the

mayor, and the city administrator, and a plan forward is needed so that we can all work efficiently and effectively. A plan is what I'm seeing is missing. I don't know if you all got to see um just before I came for the Cove meeting, the Artemis 2 rocket took off. That launch I waited

and anything like it is proof that if we work together as a team, great things can happen. Our $32 million budget here in the city of Bridgton is small potatoes compared to the billions of dollars and hundreds if not thousands of people needed to pull off something like that. A rocket launch also requires hundreds of systems working seamlessly together. If that can be pulled off, then certainly the city of Bridgton staff, council, residents, anyone involved can pull off being a cohesive unit and having all of our docs in a row. Thanks, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Patel.

Thank you, Mayor. Pretty much everybody said everything I thought, so I won't bore you. So that's I have nothing to add to that. Are you sure? Happy Easter. That's all I'll add. There you go. Thank you, Council Member Luther.

A few things. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate the movement on the more timely financials and encourage accelerating the timeliness of future reports. We need them even if they're on a quarterly basis, which may be more reasonable for us, but we do we do need to uh we need we don't need to settle. We need to set a standard and stick with it. Uh with regard to the Cove meeting, I want to thank Don Hood for chairing the code ordinance violation enforcement committee. Done a great job. We had a terrific meeting tonight. Robert Gun walk through the bill number 6542 that he's been working on for months. And this has to do with a lot of resident concerns that we've heard and just where the city is in terms of maintaining property values which I think is very important and ensuring a thriving and successful city that we can all enjoy. So a lot of work went into that and I think that a lot of the pieces that were added to that are important and will serve us well going forward. So thank you very much for that was time very well spent. Congratulations to the Wesi family on their new son. Happy Easter. And I I too attended the retirement of Chief Misadi. I've never seen so many people in this room, which is a testament to people. It's It's not It's It's amazing when people show up to thank you. You know, you've done a good job. You don't have to give people awards, although he got a few awards, but that says a lot. And that says a lot about the city that he was here for so 40 years. That's amazing. An amazing person. And I think a tribute to the city as well. So the I would like to if possible any updates on any new businesses opening. We have a lot coming up. So I would ask for that from others. Please come out to vote next week and good luck to all the candidates. Let's hope for good weather if you're standing outside. I am real curious to see he's no longer here. What the signage looks like for Davidson and looking and

continuing conversations about signage for the city that we've talked about before. So, I'm curious to see how that looks. Then, this is um I'm going to end on a a note of a reminder. Actually, it's a stern reminder, and I'm looking at my fellow council members when I say this, we approve guidelines for a council code of conduct, and we advise in that, and I want to remind all of us that council members are to follow procedures for speaking or making comments. There's a procedure for that. This is not a discussion. We're not at sports cafe. We're not chatting with each other. This is a public meeting. We're recorded. We're sitting on a deis. We have a preciding member here. And our remarks and our comments need to be recognized. We don't just speak out. And I know every once in a while you get excited about something or see something, but that's not the way we run these meetings. And I would like to ask that we ensure that it's that we are complying with those. It's unfair to the rest of us. I believe it's disruptive. And for those who are repeatedly not in compliance, I want I suggest that they be counseledled and reprimanded if necessary. Thank you. Next item on the agenda, we have staff reports. Mr. Kaine, parks and recck director.

I just wanted to uh mention the Arbor Day proclamation that was passed tonight as one of the requirements for the city's distinction as uh a member of Tree City USA. So, thank you for uh passing that. And our Arbor Day event, as a reminder, is 11:00 a.m. on Friday, April 10th at Bridgeway Park. We'll have the Bridgeway Elementary fourth grade students there again this year. So, looking forward to that event. And also just want to mention the summer activity guides are online and we've got a stack in the lobby out front if anybody needs one. Um they should be arriving in residents mailboxes any day now if they haven't already. So thank you. Thank you. I'll stay on that side of the room. Major Bryce Level. Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor. The only thing I have I just want to make sure council knew we've got two cadets graduating the academy tomorrow. Uh their swearing in will be I I know that the day is not the perfect but it will be Tuesday at 9:00 am here in the council chambers. That's all I have. Mayor,

anybody have any questions of Major Level? I see none. Other side of the room, public works director Robert Gum. All right. We spent about 4550 minutes today going through the new ordinances for property maintenance. Um, if anybody has any questions, you can call me over the next two weeks. It might help expediate the process for the second reading. I hate to spend another hour on it if we don't have to. So, if anybody has any direct questions as to why we did certain things or why we wrote things a certain way, feel free to call me over the next two weeks. That's all I have. Any questions of Mr. Gun?

I see none. City Administrator Kevin Bookout.

Thank you, Mayor. Um uh the the uh HR coordinator, the mayor and I had a really good meeting this week with the uh consultant that's doing the compensation study for us. Um as part of that, we would like to schedule uh a meeting with the council prior to a council meeting to go through that with the with the council prior to bringing that uh before the council uh for a vote. Um the date that we're looking at is May 20th prior to the council meeting. We wanted to push it out far enough so that we had the swearing in and it was after that. So we'd like to do it at 6:00 p.m. on May 20th and that means we would be pushing out the Granicus training as well. So we're looking at June 3rd for that so that we can get those taken care of. That's all I have, Mayor. Thank you.

Any questions of Mr. Bookout? Council member Norris. May 20th. Oh, I'm sorry. May 20th is uh for the pension compensation. Is that what you're talking? Not pension. It's the compensation study that CBiz has been working on that that the council approved. Oh, okay. And that's 6 p.m. on May 20th. That is correct. And June 30th. June 3 is for the training. Correct. It's at 6 p.m. Okay. Thank you. Any further questions? I see none. Motion for adjournment. So moved.

Second. Second. That was April Fools. A that was my April Fools. April fools. Done. Hey, we're all in favor. I want we didn't vote.

I want to let you know that I I showed the city attorney my notes here and he took them and hit him on the other side of them, but I'll try and talk fast here. Uh thank you to all in attendance and thank you Major Laval for taking on the police uh duties uh police chief duties and responsibilities in the interim as we search for and interview for the next leader of the Bridton Police Department. Thank you to all that participated in the planning, execution, and attendance of, and in Chief MSAD's retirement party. A huge statement was made by the presence of various and numerous individuals. Chief MSAD was asked after his retirement celebration

if he would consider being this year's parade marshal, and he accepted. Cool. I attended the funeral mass to retired Councilman Bob Coach Benbin on Saturday, March 21st at Holy Spirit Parish. Later that evening, I also attended the 17th annual Valley Industries Mayor Shamrock Charity Ball which was held at the JFK Center in Florescent. Eight municipalities participate every year. They are Florescent, Hazlewood, Blackjack, Ferguson, Bell Fountain Neighbors, Delwood, Maryland Heights, and Bridton. It is the city clerks that contribute to the planning and execution. So, thank you to city clerk Bridget Waters for your hard work and also being in attendance. The city hosted an EPA Westlake Landfillformational meeting last week in the multi-purpose room. The meeting covered the news release that day about the completion of the pre-exavation confirmation sampling. This is an important step in expedite expediting the cleanup process by decreasing the time in which excavated areas are open. Also reducing health and safety risks. This sampling enables potentially responsible parties to finalize excavation plans for the remedial design that meet West Lake Landfill's remedy requirements. The final 100% remedial design package will need to be reviewed by the EPA before being certified by a professional engineer before receiving the state of Missouri required engineer reviewed seal. Excavation is still on track to begin in 2027. I'm in the process of putting together a proclamation to present to one of our residents for his 100th birthday. I'm tracking Bridton businesses that are in court for ordinance violations. I want to make sure that all are brought into

compliance. While on the subject, the city has heard a verbal estimate of 75,000 to $100,000 each for demolition of the two buildings owned by Mr. Landau on Lindberg, depending on the location of the utility disconnects. her place. The cigar bar that occupied the former Pizza Hut structure on McKelby did not renew their merchant license for 2026 and has closed. Nuisance codes. Um the Municipal League of Metropolitan St. Louis had a uh online training uh seminar last week which I was on. It was very good. I did find out that uh the city can actually use a drone to fly over people's uh backyards to get uh video footage of any kind of complaints that we might be uh informed about. However, they cannot cause any disturbance. So, they have to be high enough in the air like dogs won't see it and start barking and things like that.

All right. Oakill Manor residents are being mailed a letter regarding a town hall meeting concerning their detention pond. That will be held here at city hall on April the 20th. It looks like so far at 6 p.m. I believe. I think that's right. Okay.

Besides the front page of the banner article listing commonly violated ordinances, we are also sending 102 letters to Spanish village residents restating the information printed in the banner. Um, Mr. Gun and I met with State Representative Stephanie Boyin. Uh, she's the 70th district representative on March 20th, and we discussed ways that she can help us on the state level. I asked her to speak to the right people to make sure MDOT addresses the trash and grass issues at the entrances to our city. I also asked her to keep us in the loop concerning any businesses and developers wanting to build and or locate to the area. This was a productive meeting. I thought Mr. Gun, Mr. Kaine, and myself participated in a career blitz last Friday aimed at the sophomore class of over 200 students at CBC. 11 alum were asked to speak regarding their line of work and career opportunities. Mr. gun spoke about his military experience and ways for students to attend college through one of the ROC college pro programs and then continuing in the reserves after mandatory time served in order to supplement another full-time career such as an engineer and hopefully with a government entity. I introduced myself and encouraged community involvement through a municipal elected official capacity. I also suggested that municipal government careers be considered in the areas of public administration, city engineer and public works director, parks and recck director or law enforcement leading to chief of police alum and leoo police officer Alex Fleger was in attendance and spoke. He was a familiar face since I had met him at the polar plunge. Small world that we were both CBC alum. I offered to uh him to

let anybody he hears of because Leoo does not have an Explorers program to let him know that we do still have an explorers program here in the city of Bridton. All three of us met with students individually to continue discussions and to also let them know that there are summer and part-time positions available now with the city of Bridton. I think this was a great benefit to all involved. As you can see, Robert is uh uh going through some pics there pictures there. By by the way, the the blonde uh with the long blonde hair. She's not an alum of CBC. So, she's probably married to one though.

All right. Senior dining out was held last Wednesday and we went next door to El Mariachi local cantina. 32 attended. They all seem to enjoy the food and the service. The confluence trash bash is coming up Saturday 11th. meet up here at the government center at 8:30 a.m. The trash bash uh begins at 9:00 am. Please call to register in advance if you would. Uh Brian Peterson, um my museum, if you haven't heard already, has withdrawn their application open in Bridton due to financial constraints. Is there anybody in the room um that has any physical talents like singing, dancing, playing an instrument, comedy? I'm just trying to generate some interest in a resident talent show or a play or a musical. Something to think about. All right, continuing on. Um, do you have a warrant? If anybody has a warrant or knows if anybody has a warrant today and only today, due to overwhelming demand, the Bridton Police Department will be clearing all outstanding Bridton warrants. No questions asked. Again, remember today is April Fool's Day, but All right.

Don't forget to vote next Tuesday. Um the Bridton polls are at the rec center and also the library. Early congratulations to Mark Bazada and Jamie Shear. Good luck to both Bakula Patel and Josenta Connors. Um, as uh, Major Love said, the swearing in is Tuesday, April 7th at 9:00 am. Cong congratulations, Council Member um, Wesie to you and your wife on your new addition to the family. And if anybody wants to take a look at a 2010 city calendar afterwards, there's um, some pictures of Ferd Fetch in here that are pretty interesting.

Um, the spring activity guide is out. Don't forget about that. Um, next, this picture here that shows progress on my house. Is there a violation for that? That's the That's the roofing material. So, as soon as it quits raining, it's going on the roof. Anyway, happy Easter. Thanks for everybody being here. Um, Officer Polling, thanks for being with us tonight. Appreciate it. Motion for a German. Oh, so moved. Council member Wesley has a

real quick. Mayoro uh you talked about the talent show. Um the late Mayor Briggs ended up starting something uh Fourth July a few years ago where he sang the national anthem. Um I really think that that would be something that you could continue that tradition uh to show your talent. So um all in favor of saying I think I think Brendan has somebody already for this year. Don't Okay. Motion for German. So moved. So moved. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Do I hear none? We're ajourned.