City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, thank you for your patience, everybody. We're going to go ahead and start our normal city council meeting here. We're going to start with the roll call, please.

Councilwoman Ruckman. Here. Councilman Robleski. Here. Councilman Furness. Here. Councilwoman Steeble. Here. Mayor Little.

Here.

Councilwoman Ferguson. Here. Councilwoman Raquel. Here. Councilman Bernard. Here. And Councilman Bennett.

Here. Thank you. If we could please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. And if you're a first-time guest here, we do remain standing at its conclusion in remembrance of our servicemen and women, please. Thank you. Please be seated. We're going to start our meeting here with some good news. As part of community announcements this evening, we have the hiring of a new police officer. Chief Mack, if you want to present the badge, please.

You're going to face me with your right hand and repeat after me.

I state your name.

I'm Marissa Black. You sound to swear or affirm. Do solemnly swear or affirm.

That I will support the Constitution of the United States. Of the state of Missouri.

That I will support the Constitution of the United States of Missouri.

And faithfully perform the duties as an officer.

And faithfully perform the duties as an officer.

Of the Oberlin Police Department.

Of the Oberlin Police Department.

And that I will not knowingly receive.

And that I will not knowingly receive.

Directly or indirectly.

Directly or indirectly.

Any money or other valuable thing.

Any money or any other valuable thing.

For the performance or non-performance.

For the performance or non-performance.

Of any act or duty.

Of any act or duty.

Pertaining to my office.

Pertaining to my office.

Thank you. Thank you.

Okay, we have one public hearing tonight and that is for 9620 Midland Boulevard. Jason, if you wanna take over the PowerPoint for that applicant, please.

Please take notice that the City Council of the City of Overland, Missouri will conduct a public hearing on June 8, 2026 at 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers of Overland City Hall, located at 9119 Lackland Road, Overland, Missouri, 63114, for the purpose of reviewing and receiving comment with respect to the following matters. 9620 Midland Boulevard, amend conditional use permit site plan, or excuse me, conditional use permit site plan review. Any interested parties may attend and be heard at the public hearing. So again, this is 96 20 Midland Boulevard. It's a MACC contracting. amend the cp which is in the c two commercial general commercial district it's uh... currently an office warehouse and they continue to they proposed in using that uh... are that use the amendments are it and excuse me it's a lawn care and landscape business uh... the amendments are the instance of a ship shipping standard the rule of the property for storage and also the uh... installation of above-ground fuel tanks uh... for the lawn care equipment uh currently and will remain the hours of operation are 7 a.m to 6 p.m hours of loading and unloading are limited to 8 a.m to 6 p.m due to the proximity to the adjoining residential neighborhoods uh... they're currently allowed up to eight company vehicles to be stored behind the fence in uh... screened area uh... there's no other outdoor storage uh... allowed and planning and zoning recommended approval so this is the site or this is the aerial of the site and then this is the site plan uh... indicating the location of the proposed fuel tanks which are on the uh... right side Right side of the screen and then the location of the proposed storage containers at the rear of the property and that storage container is approximately eight by 40 according to the site plan. So that is it for the public.

Any questions comments from the audience tonight on this proposal. Questions from the board.

What is it currently. It's a lawn care. Yes, ma'am. So there's no changes to the use.

Is it new owners?

No, same owners as the current CUP. The current CUP was issued in 2025 for the lawn care business.

Any other questions from the council?

I have no questions for the applicant. I'm just curious if the applicant is present. Appreciate you being here.

All right, now we'll go ahead and close that public hearing. We'll come back to that for ordinances this evening in a couple minutes. All right, for approval of the minutes, we have two sets of minutes. First up, the council meeting minutes for May 11, 2026.

Motion to approve. Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Those are approved. And then we have the work session minutes for May 11, 2026.

Motion to approve. Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. And I seek a motion to approve the bills.

Motion to approve.

Second. All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Bills are approved. Melissa, your report, please.

The American Red Cross requested donation for the cost of use for the classrooms one and two at the Overland Community Center for two public blood drives, one on Wednesday, August 5th, and one on Tuesday, December 29th.

Motion to approve the donation to the Red Cross.

And second by Councilman Bennett. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries.

That concludes my report.

Thank you. Joe, if you could provide your report, please.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I have the following legislation to offer tonight. The first is Resolution 202626, amending fiscal year 2025-2026 beautification fund and authorizing contract with Fry & Associates, Inc. for the purchase of decorative trash cans for use at city parks.

Motion to approve. Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

Motion carries. The next is resolution 2026-27, authorizing a permanent transfer from the general fund to the dangerous building fund effective June 8, 2026, for costs associated with the payment of the annual banking fees charged against the dangerous building fund.

Motion to approve.

Second. All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Motion carries. The next is resolution 2026-28, adoption of general fund budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2027. Motion to approve.

Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? General fund is passed. Thank you.

Resolution 2026-29, adoption of a park fund budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027.

Motion to approve.

Second. All those in favor? Aye.

Any opposed? Motion carries. The next is resolution 2026-30, adoption of capital improvement fund budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027. Motion to approve.

Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

Motion carries. The next is resolution 202631, adoption of budgets for various funds as defined herein for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027. Motion to approve.

Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Small funds are approved.

Resolution 2026 32 a resolution establishing employee compensation plan for all employees for the fiscal year beginning July 1 2026 and repealing all resolutions in conflict therewith.

Motion to approve. Second.

All those in favor. Any opposed motion carries. Thank you all. And again, I like, uh, I like having the budgets approved at this first meeting in June. So it doesn't give us that, uh, that wall that we have to hit before July 1st. So thank you all for your cooperation and work sessions. And that's all behind us until next year.

The next is a resolution 20, 26 33 notice of records scheduled for destruction motion to approve.

Second, all those in favor. Any opposed.

Motion carries. The next is resolution 202634, amending purchase of certain items through the beautification fund for use within the city of Overland.

Motion to approve.

Second. All those in favor?

Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. The next resolution is 202635, authorizing contract for purchase of pickup trucks for use by the Department of Municipal Operations using contracts under the Missouri Cooperative Procurement Program.

Motion to approve.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Motion carries. On to the bills. This is first reading of bill number 24, 2026. An ordinance granting an amended conditional use permit to Alex Strawn to operate a light lawn and garden light commercial at 9620 Midland Boulevard in the C2 General Commercial Zoning District was provided for in section 400, 230C and Appendix A of the Municipal Code of the City of Overland.

Motion for second reading by title only.

Second. And then pull that vote, please.

All in favor?

Aye. Any opposed? Easy.

Perfect. This is the second reading of bill number 24-2026. An ordinance granting an amended conditional use permit to Alex Strong to operate a light lawn and light and garden light commercial at 9620 Midland Boulevard in the C2 General Commercial Zoning District as provided for in section 400-230C, independent state of the municipal code of the city of Overland. If passed. Bill number 24-2026 will become ordinance number 2026-23. Motion to approve. Second.

And pull that. Councilman Ruckman. Yes. Councilman Robleski. Yes. Councilman Furness. Yes. Councilwoman Steeble. Yes. Councilwoman Ferguson. Yes. Councilman Raquejo. Yes. Councilman Bernard. Yes. Councilman Bennett.

And motion carries. You're all set. Thanks for being here.

This is first reading of bill number 25, 2026, an ordinance for the purpose of establishing minimum regulations for controlling erosion and sediment from land disturbance activities at construction sites within the city of Overland, Missouri, providing for the issuance of permits, making of inspections, collection of permit and inspection fees, and providing penalties for the violation thereof through the adoption of a land disturbance code of St. Louis County, Missouri as the land disturbance code of the city of Overland, Missouri.

All right. Motion for second reading by title only. Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

Motion carries. This is second reading of bill number 25, 2026. An ordinance for the purpose of establishing minimum regulations for controlling erosion and sediment from land disturbance activities and construction sites within the city of Overland, Missouri. providing for the issuance of permits, making of inspections, collection of permit and inspection fees, and providing penalties for the violation thereof through the adoption of the Land Disturbance Code of St. Louis County, Missouri as the Land Disturbance Code of the City of Overland, Missouri. If passed, Bill Number 25-2026 will become Ordinance Number 2026-24. TODD BANDUCCI. Motion to approve.

CHRISTIE WOOD.

Second.

TODD BANDUCCI. And pull that vote, please. Councilman Ruckman. Yes. Councilman Robileski. Yes. Councilman Furnas. Yes. Councilwoman Steeble. Yes. Councilwoman Ferguson. Yes. Councilwoman Marcao.

Yes. Councilman Bernard. Councilman Bennett. Motion carries. This is first reading of bill number 26, 2026, an ordinance authorizing an amendment to the contract with the St. Louis County, Missouri for the housing of municipal inmates at the St. Louis County Justice Center.

Motion for a second reading by title only.

And all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries.

This is the second reading of Bill number 26-2026, an ordinance authorizing an amendment for the contract, amendment of the contract with St. Louis County, Missouri for the housing of municipal inmates at the St. Louis County Justice Center. If passed, Bill number 2026-26 will become ordinance number 2026-25. Motion for second reading.

Oh, sorry. Motion to approve.

Second.

And pull that vote, please.

Councilwoman Ruckman. Yes. Councilman Robleski. Yes. Councilman Furness. Yes. Councilwoman Steeble. Yes. Councilwoman Ferguson. Yes. Councilwoman Raquel. Yes. Councilman Bernard. Yes. Councilman Bennett.

Yes. Motion carries. All right. Thank you, Joe. All right. On to staff reports for the evening. We'll start with the concert master, Rick.

That's an appointed role, huh?

Thank you for letting me talk. Our bingo, Lee, you kicked it and you killed it. Everybody's still talking about that guy that was screaming bingo. Unbelievable. We had a great time. It was a record, first sellout of this season. So we're going to keep it up. We've got bingo coming up. Next Wednesday is our first concert of this season with the Raised on Radio Band. Please be there. You will be impressed. This is Wednesday. Yes. So come on down and have some fun. This Wednesday. Two days, two days.

Yes, Wednesday.

So come on down and have fun with us. You know, we got a lot of things going on. We take input. If you got a better idea, give it to us. We'll play with it. Okay, thank you.

Perfect, thank you. Carla, farmer's market report, please.

How are you this evening? Report for the market. We've now been open for four weeks. A little disappointing on the last two weeks. Not so much rain or anything, but vendors not showing up after they've told us they were going to be there. We had put in place last year, you don't show up. When you come back, you'll have to pay for the day that you weren't there. I had one person that actually paid for it. Only received in the last two weeks three calls of vendors that were not coming. So we were kind of in the same position this last week. Hopefully this weekend it's going to be a little bit better, because again, I'm on the phone calling every single vendor. And there is good news about that. We've gone from four vendors when this market started when we went to the pavilion. We now have 48 vendors wanting to come into Overland. So those vendors that are not coming, if they don't call, it's not giving me enough time to call someone and say, hey, I've got two open booths, or hey, I've got five open booths. Come on in. everything so if anybody has any suggestions how I can support them and tell them this is what we need to do is you know it's like either that or just don't come at all we'll find another vendor we have other vendors that would like to come in but we can't seem to get it through their heads it's been three years now we've told them the same thing

Carla have you considered letting people do vendor spaces with like 10 by 10 pop ups behind.

We have.

We have.

Yeah. But when last few weeks you know it's kind of rained on most Saturdays and everything one way or another. So a lot of them do not want to be out in the rain depending on what they are product they are bringing. But it is getting better and everything. But we don't want to put the tents up if we don't have to.

Usually other craft fairs, they're responsible for bringing their own 10 by 10. We actually have some. Sure. But if you open up and you take more vendors, they're responsible for bringing their own 10 by 10, their own tables. You can do craft fairs like that. That's what I've been to. Most of them, you provide your own tables and tents.

One thing we don't want to do is become nothing more than a craft show. We want it still to be a farmer's market. And on that note, we now have four people that are bringing produce. one that has actually stepped into Clyde's spot. And he's been with us for several years. He's a little overwhelmed, but he's working well. He's done it for the last two weeks now. It's getting much better. And the tomatoes this last week were wonderful. So I mean, come on down, have breakfast with us, have lunch with us. The other thing is that we have coming up on July the 4th, we will be dedicating a plaque in honor of Clyde for his spot and everything. We have invited his family and people from Perryville to actually come for this dedication. We will have live music. We would love it if you would all come. I know it's the 4th of July and it's a holiday, but it's over in four hours. You don't have to stay for the whole day. But come on down and see us.

Thank you. Thank you. All right, Mr. Crowder.

Beth, I believe we're going to reschedule this parade, right?

It is rescheduled, sir.

Well, I'm going to tell you an interesting story. It's going to sound funny. I can't help it, okay? Emma Canerva, longtime orchestra band leader at Rittner, at the end of the year ended her contract and has taken a position at Parkway, okay? Now, that's not bad enough, but as Dr. Kilbride would call it, The end of June in the school business, he calls it dead time. Not much is going on 27th of June at Rettner High School except summer school, okay? So Emma Conerva gave me the telephone, no, take it back. I said, Emma, have the new orchestra band leader call me, see what we can work out. His name is Matt Casper. He's working, right now has a job in Reno, Nevada at their high school. So he called me today. And I said, we had pleasantries and welcome to all that standard stuff. I said, hey, we got a rescheduled parade, Matt, the 27th of June. We need some kind of orange and black making music because that's the way hometown parades are supposed to be, OK? I said, it's the 27th of June. Can you help me, Matt? He paused. He said, I get in St. Louis the 25th. I've never met the kids. A little tough, OK? He's going to try and get some, the jazz band or somebody out there representing Rittner. But to reschedule the parade using high school, we do have the ROTC. Did I tell you that? You did. They canceled something, and we owe them big time. A lot of pizza going there. So anyway, we're going to have a parade, 27th of June, line up at 9, roll at 10, Overland Christian Church, 2200 Lackland. All right, I've got the homes of the month here, and there's one here that needs special attention. First of all, Ward 1, June, home of the month, 9741 Flora. You've seen the sign, right, Pat? Yes. Ward 2, 9034 Olden. Ward 3, 9507 Echo Lane. Now this is rental property. And in order to get the contact information, we had to go through the rental company. Now imagine this, because rental property has a bad connotation. So we're on the phone to this manager trying to sell him on the idea that his property is the home of the month. Well, it is, and they are over, they're really excited about it, and he said, let me call her. Well, we both called this young lady, and she's at 9507 Echo Lane, tickled to death with her yard sign. Rental property doesn't have to be negative, okay? Ward 4, 103, 13 driver, and that's June, and these commissioners that work with me, not for me, with me, They've already got the July homes in the oven. And we're very lucky to have these volunteers, because I sure couldn't do this, Patrick, without them. Thank you for your time this evening.

Mr. Crowder, I want you to know that your Ward 1 Home of the Month sign scared the crap out of me. I went into their yard at 2 a.m. taking out trash. I thought they were selling their home. So thanks for the mini heart attack. Do you know the people? Yes. They're across the street from my house.

I gingerly and tenderly have to tell them, because these pictures go in the calendar, Jessica. And once in a while, they need to cut the grass before Rick comes with the camera. So... I do that very tenderly, you know. So I had this, and they're Hispanic. So that right there is an issue. But I said, now we're coming, you know, if you need a bush trimmed or, I said, this is going in the calendar. So we was gonna go over there and five o'clock and four o'clock that evening, that whole family's in the yard, cutting the grass, trimming the bushes. They are lovely people. They had the dogs and everybody in the picture. You're right, they're close, right? They're right across the street. Yes.

I literally was in their yard at 2 o'clock in the morning because I thought they were selling their home, and I needed to know what that sign was. So thanks for the mini heart attack. Okay.

Well, and you know, Jessica, the one next door was too. Okay. Thank you, folks.

Thank you. And chief, your report for the evening.

Uh, yet safety town is in progress right now. I'm told it's a really good group of kids, so they're all having a good time and that will conclude, uh, this Friday. Also coming up September 25th is the, uh, annual community services golf tournament at bear Creek. It's 1 25 to person, uh, 500 for a foursome. And we're always looking for donations to give us prizes.

All right. Thank you. All right. Residents comments this evening I do have one. Andrea Sly coming from the written section over there. And there is a three minute time limit as soon as you start speaking I'll hit the marker. Time is yours.

Thank you, good evening. My husband and I are here, we've lived in Overland for about five years now and we've got two soon to be three small kids and we've noticed in recent months an increase in speeding down our residential streets to the point where it's causing a lot of issues. We live on a quiet street between Flora and Trescot, but we have cars going probably 40 to 50 miles an hour down our street. We have video footage of it. And a lot of times our kids are in the front yard playing. We have an almost three-year-old and a one-year-old. So things can happen very quickly. And I just know that those kind of cars going that fast, they're not going to be able to stop if something were to happen. Obviously, also a lot of people walking their pets. People crossing the street, kids riding bikes in the summertime. So we were compelled to come here to advocate for speed bumps in our residential areas. Just doing like a quick research on it, seeing that The average cost to install a speed bump is roughly $3,000 to $3,500. We've noticed some of those flock cameras going up, which are great. I'm all for safety implementations, things that might prevent crime. But I think as far as our tax dollars going, if we could maybe put something that would prevent and I do have some statistics as well that I think are important to talk about that speed bumps can be responsible for up to 60% reduced injuries and accidents. That also they reduce annual crash rates by up to 39%. And then in the event of an accident, they actually reduced the severity of injury by 46%. So we hope that with all of this, you guys would consider maybe budgeting for some speed bumps, especially in our through streets. Like Flora and Trescot, we see cars all the time that get hit from seemingly just being parked on the side of the road. I say that because one day it'll be a normal car and the next day the side mirrors hanging off of it or the rear end of it is crunched. So that's where we walk. You know we walk around the block and walking across the street is terrifying just knowing that any second you could be squished by a car going too fast. So thank you for your time.

Thank you. all right reports of city council members this evening I know what you're saying it's

You're saying the county did this or we did it or? I don't know. I'd have to find out. And they did it along Ashby at Wild Acres as well.

Same thing. I can find out and let you know. I don't I don't know. Yeah I think they did it last year.

Yeah we'll check on it because it did extend pretty far in there for curb treatment.

Comments questions.

Anybody else? Okay. A couple notes here. For those of you that use the city calendar, we do have the fishing Derby labeled for this Saturday. We don't have enough water yet. So every morning when I wake up to rain, we get closer and closer to opening up wild acres Lake. Just not there yet. We're still going to work with St. Ann this year. So the fishing Derby is not this Saturday. We'll be with St. Ann in a Saturday in October. And then by next year, we'll certainly be ready to go to host it here and potentially repay the favor of the city and have them join us for that.

Next comment here.

You know, it's good to see why we started late this evening is we were working on some new hires for the police department, and we've done a lot working on sponsoring them for the academy and worked on salary increases, et cetera. We made it here, and now we have two people in the same class going to county. So they start in July or late June, and by December they'll be back here with us, and they'll be sworn in just like the officer we had tonight. So we're excited. putting seats in those empty spots we have over there, and hopefully we'll be fully staffed here any day. And just one comment on the resident comment this evening. To put up speed bumps, it requires the approval of the community fire district. community fire district does not allow speed bumps currently so if it were we could have a conversation here is the best location we've had that this conversation before so if you wanted to I don't say be productive because it's your own time but a comment to them would be helpful if you wish to move forward with something like that And lastly here, I'm just going to talk about myself for 20 seconds here. I did receive an honor last week. I found out that I was elected to the Rittner Hall of Fame. So not entirely about me here, but my mother was as well. So first parent, child, together.

Didn't expect to lose my composure there, but thank you for that.

So with that said, we still have some work we have to do in this room. So I'll seek a motion to go into executive session for legal and contract purposes in accordance with RSMO 610-021, subsections 1 and 12.

Second.

And pull that vote, please.

Councilwoman Ruckman? Yes. Councilman Robleski? Yes. Councilman Furness? Yes. Councilwoman Steeble? Yes. Councilwoman Ferguson? Yes. Councilwoman Raquejo? Councilman Bernard. Councilman Bennett.

Okay. And we're going to host that in here. So if we can ask all of you to go enjoy the rest of your evening. So we're going to handle a couple more matters here.