City Council - Regular Meeting

Darcy, would you come up, please? We start with the pledge of allegiance, but I have a special friend tonight who's offered to do sign language of the pledge of allegiance. This is Darcy Alkar. I aliance 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.

Mr. Mayor, it's my high point. Roll call. Yeah. Roll call. Rydenhower here. Osborne here. Latari here. Jones here. Uler here. Approval of city council minutes.

Move to approve the April 13, 2026, April 20th, 2026, and the orientation financial overview minutes. Rydenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Motion to approve the correct minutes dated March 9th, 2026. I so move as corrected. Um I move that we approve these minutes as corrected. Yeah. Rydenower. Yes. Osborne. Yes. Latari. Yes. Jones. Yes. Uler. Yes. Thank you.

Adoption of agenda. Move to adopt agenda as presented. Rydenower. Yes. Osourne. Yes. Latari. Yes. Jones. Yes. Uler. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. We have two proclamations tonight and the first one will be Autism Awareness Month, April 2026. Is there one here to come up for this?

Yes, there is. There is. Oh, great. Everybody reach autism aware a awareness month April 2026. Whereas autism is a developmental disorder that affects communication, social interaction, behavior. And whereas autism is a lifelong condition that typically appears in early childhood and affects individuals of all races, ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds. Whereas early intervention such as therapy and educational support can greatly improve outcomes for individuals with autism. And whereas autism acceptance promotes celebrating the strengths and unique abilities of individuals with autism rather than focusing solely on challenges. And whereas Autism Awesome Stronger Together, Inc. is a Warrenburg based nonprofit corporation that provides inclusive community programs like Wiggles and Giggles for autistic individuals and families. And whereas every April, autism awareness is observed to promote understanding and acceptance of autism and begins with World Autism Awareness Day on April 2nd, 2026 as recognized by the United Nations. Now therefore, I, Bruce Uler, mayor, along with the city council in the city of Warsburg, Missouri, do hereby proclaim the month of April 2026 as autism awareness month.

for the next proclamation. I have something I'd like to read first that uh Jody and I worked on. We found this in a newspaper, the Daily Star Journal, back in April 1978. Yeah, it's been a while. And the headline on this says the Honorable D. Hudson, April 1978. It's by the editor of the Daily Star Journal, Avis Tucker. It says, "A distinctive item was entered on the pages of the city of Warrenburg historical record Tuesday night. For the first time, a woman became the mayor elected by her peers on the city council. The councilmen were making no concessions to the trend of the times which touts women's liberation. Nor can the election of D. Hudson be construed as mere window dressing. Though she is a very attractive lady. This is a case of a council woman having proved her medal during the two years she has occupied a council seat. As she has served last year as a mayor pro Tim, she has earned recognition as an extremely well-qualified individual while demonstrating her ability to carry unusually well the responsibilities of the leadership post in city government. We take special delight in her success because in her council job, she has fulfilled to the letter the profile we projected when we gave her an enthusiastic endorsement as a council candidate in 1976. We did so not because she was a woman, but due solely to her qualifications as a person. Our confidence was not misplaced. Here in part is what we said about candidate Hudson. Frequently in attendance at council

meetings, she has shown keen perception, exceptional interest and understanding as a participant in weighing the pros and cons of pending issues. She is thorough in analyzing the issue at hand and possesses a knack for seeing the practicalities involved. And on top of that, she is articulate. From these traits, she has not deviated in her performance as an office office holder to date and they will characterize her tenure as mayor. We believe other newspapers have given D. Hudson's election attention, bringing recognition to her and to Warrenburg. One headline read, "His honor won't do. We submit is now hers's honor." So to the Honorable D. Hudson, duly elected Mayor Warrenburg, we offer our congratulations and best wishes for an outstanding mayorship, the Daily Star Journal, Avis Tucker, editor. Dig if you would come up please.

You can make it past your fan club. They're all here for you. They are. Soon as this is done, you're they're all out.

I I got to say when you and Jim moved to Warrenburg years ago, it was a blessing for our city. And I mentioned that on the radio this morning, Woody. And Woody says, "You know, when we first met Jim, Woody wanted to learn how to play golf." And he's a great golfer. We all know know that nine hole in one's great golfer he didn't know how to play golf and Jim gave him a book on golf and I said did you read it goes yeah I read it was from Jack Nicholas so just pass that on to you so in recognition of community service honoring D Hudson whereas for over 50 years Dolores D Hudson

thanks so much

D Hudson has dedicated her time, talent, and unwavering commitment to the betterment of the Warrenburg community. And whereas on April 12th, 1976, he was elected and sworn in as council member for the city of Warrenburg, Missouri, breaking a historic barrier as the city's first female council member. And whereas on April 10th, 1978, D was elected as the first female mayor for the city of Warsburg and served a combined total of 12 years on city council, including six years as mayor. Whereas these serve in leadership roles on multiple county, state, and national boards, including but not limited to Johnson County, Missouri Economic Development Corporation, University Board of Regions for the University of Central Missouri, Warrenburg Chamber of Commerce, Missouri Municipal League, and the National League of Cities. And whereas in the 1980s, De continued her advocacy for the public good and helped establish the Friends of Western Missouri Medical Center, laying the foundation for the Western Missouri Medical Center Foundation. During her tenure as volunteer president, the foundation raised more than $2 million. This was to expand access to advanced medical services. And whereas DE's legacy of compassion and civic responsibility stands as an enduring example for future generations. Now therefore, be it resolved, I, Bruce D. Uler, along with members of the Warrenburg City Council, do hereby proclaim April 27th, 2026 as Dolores D. Hudson Day.

and we urge all citizens to join us in celebrating this remarkable milestone and expression of our deepest gratitude. Thank you so much. I know D wants to say a few words. You want to stand here? I'll let you go. No, I'm fine.

The reason I wanted to say something was because I wanted to tell you why this happened. It was 50 years ago when I was just a child. that it really broke ground here to have a female elected as a councilman in Warrenburg. It started in 1975 before the 76 election. There was a group of women in Warrenburg who wanted to participate in a state program called community betterment. the state had developed some criteria and you had the chance to look at that criteria and measure your community against those criteria. And so a group of women decided, you know, we should be doing that. And we did and we began to look at a variety of things in the city. We broke into committees. We did community betterment first with beautifification. We planted all those Hawthorne trees around Lion's Lake and then we cleaned up the railroad street because we thought that that didn't look very nice for people who were coming on the train. And we planted that beauty spot right down there in front of right there at the corner. Now, these women I'm going to I hope I get all of them named. I probably won't, but you're going to recognize these names. Spearheaded by Marge Stokes. Do you remember Marge?

Y. She was the one who brought us together. And it was Morin Oower and Doris Kurpatre and Jamie Uler and Vern Graves. Sue Crouch,

um, Ginger Bale, Diane Lloyd, uh, I hope I didn't leave anybody up, but we were the group that said, "We're going to do this." And so then as we divided, we started looking at the separate areas of the city. We started attending the school board meetings because we wanted to know more about this the community. We went to economic development what we had at that time. We looked at business. Well, let me tell you that Moren and I were assigned to the city council. So, we started attending the city council meetings. Now, we're in 1975. 1976 arrived and our nation was celebrating the 200th anniversary of our nation. And I want you to know that the focus that year was really on the contribution of women to our nation. So time for council. These women decided d you have to run for city council. And you know, you say, "I don't think so." But anyway,

when a group of women decide something's going to happen, you say, "Okay, okay, we're in for this." So, that group of women really and truly is celebrating the 200th anniversary of our nation decided that we should have a woman on the city council. And that's how it happened. We are at the 250th anniversary of our nation. And so it has been 50 years since I was elected as the first woman to serve on this city council. I want you to know that I think a lot of good things happened in the next 12 years when I served. It really did. But I think one of the main things and the lasting thing that happened was that Warrenburg is not afraid or hesitant to elect a woman to this city council. That's what really happened on that day and from there on. There are two of you up here right now, but we've had several women then serve on this city council. Some of them as mayor, but that's what was started 50 years ago when we celebrated the 200th anniversary of our nation and for the city of Warrenburg, the election of the first woman to this city council. It was, I think, monumental and something that we can be very proud of this. Thank you, David.

Sure. We're gonna get a picture of the city council. Hey,

thank you.

It's been a ride. You're welcome. Just walk through and just here for you. I'm not here.

I'll give it a minute or two. So, we're okay. We're in no hurry. love you to stay, but

thank you all. Gosh, of course. And I just noticed I did not have the article in the packet, so I will make sure it gets in there tomorrow. Oh, no. Oh, you can she Do you think I can Do you think she wants it or you want me to run it back?

Hi, Barbara. See you. Thanks. Byeber. Emily's going too.

Yeah, I think they all are. She's awesome. Good job.

Thank you. Thank you, Dave. Don, this is a tough act to follow. I'm saying really tough, but no pressures. Um, we have a presentation of early childhood hunger operation presented by Don Moore, executive director. Thanks, Don.

Hi, good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. I apologize. I'm having some allergy issues, so I don't have much of a voice. Uh, my name is Don Moore and I serve as the executive director of the Early Childhood Hunger Operation, also known as ECHKO. Since 2010, our mission has been to help end childhood hunger in our community by ensuring our youngest children have access to food when they need it the most. Each week we provide weekend bags of food to 180 preschool age children. Kids who may not have meals I'm sorry kids who may have meals during the school week but face hunger when they go home on Fridays. For many of these children, the food in their Echo bag is the only food that they will have from the time that they leave school on Friday until they return on Monday. A teacher once shared a story with me about a child in her classroom who was saving scraps from her classmates's tray to take home. Because of Echo, that child no longer has to do that. That's the kind of quiet behindthe-scenes impact this program has every day. In 2025 alone, we provided 22,620 meals to local preschoolers. Since we began, we have served more than 225,000 meals.

That's over a quarter of a million times that a child in our community didn't have to worry where their next meal would come from. That's fantastic.

And there are still more children who need our help. I'm here tonight because Ekko needs a new home. We have been incredibly fortunate to operate out of donated space at Abilities and we are deeply grateful for their generosity over the past several years. However, as they expand their own services, they now need to reclaim that space. We fully support their growth, but that means we must find a new location to continue our work. Echo does not receive state or federal funding. We rely entirely on donations and fundraising to sustain our program. While we are able to cover our operational costs, we simply cannot afford to take on rent. Without a space, our program comes to a halt and the children we serve will go without this support. With the right space, we can continue and even expand our impact. Ideally, we are looking for approximately 1,000 squaret of clean climate controlled space on a main or ground level with no steps to ensure accessibility for our volunteers and to accommodate the regular movement of large amounts of food in and out. We need a consistent location where we can safely store food and assemble weekend bags. I'm asking for your help in identifying possible spaces, whether that's unused city property, community facilities, or connections to local organizations, churches, or businesses that may have room to share. When we make sure children aren't hungry, we give them a better chance to learn, grow, and succeed. And that strengthens our entire community. If you have any ideas or leads, I would appreciate the opportunity to connect within the next couple of weeks.

Thank you. Thank you so much, Don. Okay. Thank you. Can I give us that right? Um, are you already attending the Johnson County inter agency meetings or someone from Echko? Do you know? So, not the inter agency meetings, but we have attended like the ARC conference that was the networking conference last week and different things like that. Yes. Yeah. A lot of overlap there, but the Johnson County Inter Agency Group meets on the second I want to make sure I say this right. Second Wednesday at noon at the Jack Moore community room

and there's always a Zoom option as well. So that would be a great place to just to share that information. Again, there'll be some overlap. Um did you were you able to share this at the ARC event? Yeah. Yeah. So hopefully some people kind of marinating on that and thinking about it. But um if you or a board member is able to attend those meetings that you're always welcome. Um Melissa Warner with Journey Home coordinates that and it's just the Journey Home email to get on that email list. But again, second Wednesdays at noon down there. That sounds great. They have to

I appreciate you coming in. We wanted you to come in so we make the newspaper. So Joe, if you'd raise your hand, he's with the newspaper back there. So you can give him your information and contact information. So get it. Does Echo receive some of its funding through Shiloh Baptist Church? No, we don't. Oh, I guess I thought you did. We do not. So, we um serve it's basically backnack program to the preschool age. Shiloh Baptist takes care of the school district K through 12. Yeah. So, we're a separate program. Yeah. And is it My apologies. Is it just Warrensburg or is it Johnson County? All of Johnson County. All of Johnson County.

And during the summer, what do you do during the summer? So for the preschool centers that are open during the summer, we continue to serve them. But for the ones that are out of school, we simply don't have a way to get the food to all those students because we deliver the food to the preschools and then the teachers send it home with the students. Okay. But if they had more volunteers or more funding, they would. So can I repeat back? Sure. you provide the services for the younger children and it's Shiloh that is doing the K through2 the um lunch program or the meal backpack program for the older kids correct okay and you both are called Echo no they are not called echo

what are they called well the food comes through harvesters I get a lot of my food from harvesters and they do as well but I don't why do they man harvest is Harvesters back snack program, but Mano Harvest. Yeah, Mana Harvest is the sort of broad nonprofit that does all of the amazing things that I can't speak to that. I'm not exactly sure how they work, but it's just we're separate. Yeah, it's I'm just kind of confused because I made it a donation to Shiloh and that Echo I thought was part of it. We do not receive funding from them. Okay, that helps. Thank you. Yeah, of course.

I had one more question. I'm sorry. uh the uh applicants, do you just receive names from the school district or do they apply through you or how does that exactly work? Correct. The teachers identify the students that they feel are at risk for food insecurity and then they um it's a very simple form. It's basically just saying that they're agreeing to receive a bag of food and the parents going to check the bag for the contents to make sure that there's no choking h uh choking hazards or allergies or anything like that. And then once they the teacher sends the form back to us, then we send a bag of food for that child. Very nice. I know you've been around for quite a while. What what year again? 2010. Wow. Very nice. Thank you for what you're doing. Thanks.

Thank you. Item 6.3, presentation of the fiscal year 2025 audit report presented by John Cummings, KPM CPAs and adviserss. I tried to convince him he filled the house, but he didn't fall for told him everybody's leaving after D. But

I'm afraid we've reached the applauseree part of the night. Maybe just happy it's over. I don't know. This stuff can be a little bit dry unfortunately. I live it and so I love it but I understand not everybody sees this as their cup of tea. So, uh, you should have a bound booklet and it's going to contain your audited financial statements for the year ended September 30, 2025. And we're going to start on page four, which is the independent auditor's report. And this is where we tell you how you did on your financial statements. And it opens with uh the opinions section. And in that you'll see that in our opinion the financial statements referred to above present fairly in all material respects the respective financial position of the governmental activities the business type activities the discreetly presented component unit each major fund and the aggregate remaining fund information of the city of Warsburg as of September 30 2025. That is a large uh fancy auditor's way of saying you received an unmodified or a clean opinion. So that's the best possible result and the same as you received last year. And uh the basis for this opinion is that we conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in government auditing standards issued by the controller general of the United States. And as far as management's responsibilities for these financial statements, uh management is responsible for preparation and and fair presentation of the financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and for the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements. So that's a big auditor's way of saying uh these have been reviewed by the city, accepted by the city, etc., etc., even though we did help prepare them. So there you go. So that's all good news so far, right? And I will try and move because the uh numbers element of this

can get a little bit dry and a little bit hard to digest, but I do think it's important to look at some of the information on the financials just to have a good idea of what's going on with the city. The general fund is obviously one of the most important things. And you can see what I'm going to be talking about on page 25 of the bound booklet. And while you're turning there, I will say thank you to uh Mike and the team across the street at city hall for all of the help during the audit. Uh for those that don't know, we ask for a mountain of information. And for whatever reason, everybody in the city doesn't quit coming in that week that we're there. All the things have to keep going. And so they're doing their normal job plus us. And then we actually probably bother people for another couple weeks electronic means after that. So, uh, we do appreciate all the cooperation and help in getting everything that we ask for. They did a great job of getting everything we asked for. So, we do appreciate that. Um, page 25, what you'll see is the statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balances. Again, this is for the year ended September 30, 2025. And your governmental funds are your general fund, your park fund, your capital improvement transportation fund, the capital improvement halfsent fund, the American rescue plan act fund, debt service fund, uh, two of those, and then a capital improvement bond fund, and then non- major funds. And non- major funds, in case you're curious, are basically just so small they get to be aggregated. So you look at them in total rather than individually like the other ones. But for most people, the general fund of the city is what matters the most and you're most concerned about because it's the most unrestricted of your dollars. And so in your general fund, you had total revenues of 12,152,962. That's down about 98,000 from last year. Um you did have a decrease in licenses of permits. was about 87,000 but interest income was up around 45,000 and

um intergovernmental revenues were up about 36,000 but overall pretty flat I would say as a percentage of budget on the expenditure side uh total expenditures were 1287,489 that's up about $39,000 from last year this gave you an excess of revenues over expenditures of $65,473 if you kind of look across to the other side of the page, you'll see the total for all of your governmental funds. And you'll see that you received $22,695,635 in total revenues in all of your governmental funds. And that does include, you know, your bond funds and debt service funds as well. Uh but those uh revenues are down about 1.3 million from last year, mostly due to a decrease in revenue within uh the capital improvement bond fund. And of course, ARPA monies are down and so your interest revenue overall is down for the year because you're spending down funds a little bit as you go through these projects. So interest rates have gone down, your balance has gone down just a little bit. All to be expected, but overall pretty good on the revenue front. On the expense front across all of those same funds, you had $25,690,625. That's up 2.1 million. And just kind of again for perspective, uh the capital improvement bond fund, you had $6.3 million in expenditures there, which is about $3.4 million more than last year. So again, the increase in expenses, something planned for projects that will benefit the city for years to come. So all good there. Overall, the U expenditures overcame the revenues because of those capital improvement projects by about 2.99 million for the year. But overall, not bad. On the next page, the finalization of these particular

funds, the general fund, you can see had other sources of funds net, which is uh transfer in of $483,580, proceeds from sale of assets of $49,800. And that gave a total net change in fund balances for your general fund of $598,853. And so your ending fund balance for the year is $1,84,668. So pretty good year in the general fund across all of your governmental funds. Again, taking into account that you decrease the capital improvement bond fund by $5.7 million. To have a overall decrease of right at $2.4 million is pretty good. You ended the year with total fund balances in all your governmental funds by 31,267,118. So again, pretty solid financial year for the city and kudos to those doing the budget and execution of the budget.

Yeah, if I could, I I'll say this and John certainly welcome to correct me, but I think one of the takeaways when you hear the ups and downs of it all, the reassurance I'd like to give you is none of that was unexpected. None of that was revenue shortfalls, budget over expenditure overruns, unanticipated. It was an intentional spendown of fund balance for uh identified.

Yeah. What what we're seeing here is the execution of the plans that have been put in place and the things that were planned on by the city. So kind of a planned decrease and planned activities. So nothing there, you know, causes me any alarm or or surprise knowing everything that you had going on. So all it actually, you know, as far as balances go for everything you're accomplishing, I would say you're doing quite well based on what I see in a lot of other cities. So good job. We appreciate staff going into it and their departments and finance department because that's where it all happens. And then those long budget meetings in the summer.

Well, the plan is important and then sticking to the plan is also important. So, absolutely. Congratulations on having a good plan and sticking to it.

On page 30, you get kind of the same financial statement with the revenues expenditure changes uh relating to your proprietary funds which are more business type activities of the city. and that is your sewer fund, the solid waste fund, and then there's an internal service fund. That's kind of a carry forward relating to a health insurance thing. Um, but on the sewer fund, you had total operating revenues of 6,840,444. That is up about $729,000 from last year. Operating expenses were up about 161,000 from last year at $3,615,522. gave a operating income of 3,224,922. He had a net nonoperating expense of $19,880. Um, that probably would have been higher, I suppose, but for uh bond cost of issuance of $247,500, which won't be in there next year. So, that would look a little different next year. Um you had transfers out of 820,000 and a change in net position of a increase of 2,385,42 and had ending net position of $23,975,681. So overall very strong on the sewer fund or at least as I see it the numbers look great. on the solid waste fund. I heard some discussion of that as I came in, but the total operating revenues were $888,94 and the expenses relating to that, which was startup cost and then operational cost uh amounted to $1,66,99 which left a deficit of $178,815. And so the city input $272,61 to help kind of subsidize it, get it started. And that leaves an ending net position there of $93,246.

And then on the internal service fund, uh there was not much happening there. Obviously, it changed by $972. So the balance went from $211,611 to $212,800 or $583. So overall very good on the financials. Any questions on any of that? Hopefully I covered it in depth enough, but not too indepth. So far, so far so good. Have questions, but they are more budget questions I can ask later. So, okay, your audit makes sense. I appreciate it.

Very good. And of course, I should have mentioned this earlier. If you do have questions later, feel free to get in touch with me. I call me, email me, whatever. I'm happy to answer any questions. It's not a problem. You can send them through Caroline or Mike or just do it directly if you want to. I'm very agreeable. So anyway, whatever works for you is fine with me. On page 82 of the bound report, which gets you way back to the back, there is one item of note and I think it won't be here next year to be honest. Um kind of on the borderline a little bit. Uh but we have to report on internal control matters um relating to where you might have something to think about as you go through your daily operations. And in this case, you have a segregation of duties uh kind of shortfall. Uh there's really too few people involved in the accounting process at points during the year. And I know that you've gone through some personnel transitions and that sort of thing. And that played into all of this. And then also kind of retooling how the department works has played into it a little bit as well. But I think there's I don't want to promise but I think that for the 2026 audit this should come out. But basically what it amounts to is whenever a person has too much access to too many phases of the too many pieces of the purchasing or transaction cycle. Uh you get a risk in your internal controls because somebody could basically do something potentially and it not be caught in a timely manner. And so you have a lot of mitigating controls out there like reviewing the expenses and approving them in these meetings. Um budget process comparing budget to actual and those sorts of things that would trigger something if a number didn't come in where you would expect. But in reality it's kind of at its underpinnings tied to a lack of segregation duties. So

this is a very common thing in municipalities. This is probably in around 70 75% of the cities that we work with. Um it's not uncommon at all. But basically what we're telling you here is uh do what you can with what you have. Be cognizant of the mitigating controls. If you're involved in that process, take it very seriously because it is something that offsets the lack of segregation of duties and helps protect the city. Now, with that all said, I think the changes that have been uh carried out over the last couple of years personnel-wise and if everything sticks and a couple other things work out, I think we can clear this one and the city will be back in good shape on this front. Sometimes whenever you get a little cycle way transition, the controls can take a little bit of a hit and that's just a necessary part of getting the business of the city done because you can't wait till you have a person in place to pay a bill. You know, you collect money and receipt it and that kind of so it just is what it is. I don't know that it's anything to get too alarmed about, but we have to report on it because of the yellow book standards. And so now I'm reporting on it and I've done my my duty. So there you go.

Mike, do you want to make a comment to this? I over my career it's been very common to the administrative services department approach was intended to kind of address that. So Jessica is holding down a number of positions, but when Kristen was here, we kind of broke it out and created that that level of management to try to address this concern. And is it really just more oversight on the admin side? Is it more finance staff to what what exactly is

break up of how transactions happen? Whether money's coming in or money is going out and so who initiates AP, who actually writes the check, who signs the check, who's balances, balancing the account. And those are all different roles, different people. They all need to be different roles. Gotcha. or at least reviewed by different roles so that there's overlap. Most cities try and accomplish it not by having an individual for each step, but rather having people from other steps review back across on steps that they wouldn't involved in.

And that's kind of the case here. So think it would work out. So we'll see. Time will tell. Any questions on that? Very good. We're moving right along. So, you have two letters inside the back cover of your report. And this this will go really fast. Well, nobody here in the room works for the Gazsby, right? Okay. Very good. It's an active.

Okay. For those that don't know, the Gazsby is the governmental accounting standards board. They are the standard setters for how these financials come to be. And uh they are because they work for governments, they're just better than the Fazby folks. And that's just the way it is. Now if you know regular accounting that's fazby. Now the gazsby is governmental accounting and uh they are well they have a different set of aims than a for-profit enterprise because a lot of what a municipality or a government will do is based on uh the concept of allocation of resources. Because you have a f finite amount of resources. You can't necessarily go out and raise money. you can't increase the price on this or that other than the utilities uh to actually fund the operations of the city. So the aims of the accounting and the reporting that goes with it are different than what you would have in a business. And so they've had to kind of walk that line to keep bankers and people that buy bonds happy with what they see in financial statements when those people are used to looking at fazby financial statements which is why you get statement of net position and the statement of activities that flows in from trying to walk that line. But when I started in this many years ago, now I'm I don't have quite the tenure of the one that was up here earlier, but um 26 years of doing this does give me a little bit of gray hair. And um so you know, when I started in this profession, I think we were on Gazsby 26 maybe something like that. We're on 103. Oh god. So, a lot has happened to me in my career, I guess, thanks to the Gazby. Um, but overall, I think these financial statements are more informative for the people that are the stakeholders. And so, I I hope that's the case. I know

they've become a lot more work over the last 26 years. Uh, but this particular thing that's talked about here is a new accounting pronouncement for Gazsby Statement 103, financial reporting model improvements. And basically what it does is uh it improves everything. Not really. Um there's a section of your bound booklet if you want to look at it later. It's kind of a summary. It's un audited but it's taken directly from the audited numbers and it's prepared by management of the city. The management's discussion and analysis. and that's going to be affected by this standard quite a bit in that uh there's a lot more of the why things changed that's going to be required under this standard. So that'll be a little bit more of a time inensive endeavor to fill out and uh I'm sure that the city is ready to tackle that when that time comes. Also, uh, a big change is that right now when you look at your budget to actuals on your governmental financial statements, uh, they're kind of in the back and, uh, it shows you the original budget, the final budget, the actual, and a variance column. Well, they're going to add a variance column between the original and the final budget that goes as part of this standard. And then on the notes to the budget to act budget statements, um, basically there will be more of the why the budgets changed. So that note's going to get quite a bit more lengthy. And those are the two big parts of this that impact the city. The rest of it just falls to us as the people who actually prepare financial statements. Uh we do repair the financial statements on behalf of the city and then we submit them back for review and acceptance and it's considered a non- audit service and we move on. That's that's the process. But that's what's coming in 26 year end. you're going to see next. The next item on the list is cyber security and internal controls. This has been on here for a long time probably

and it will continue to be because well cyber criminals are practice and uh no matter how much you do uh they will be ahead of the law abiding opponents and so you're always reacting to whatever they come up with as a scheme or a scam. And uh we've noticed too that oldfashioned scams have come back like checkashing, that kind of thing. Seen several instances of that in the last year. Uh and some of them for big dollars. One person was very enterprising in that they received a check that was for a gas payment. They cleaned it up and then they copied it and used it like 15 times and they literally signed it mayor of that city and instead of their mayor's actual name. Um so that was cool. and the bank sent it through. That's the scary part.

Yeah, it is scary. You just kind of keep your head on a swivel these days, I'm afraid. But I guess what I'm saying is things happen and you know on the cyber front it's not it's on the forefront and where you can really get nailed the most. But um it's all out there still. So be careful with that. That's what I have for the evening. Any questions? Did you do any auditing of the cyber security side or is that just a recommendation? That's a recommendation from an accountant. Gotcha.

I could see a problem and say that's a problem. Um the reason why we bring it up is that we've had a lot of instances of fishing campaigns and snaring our clients. uh particularly on large construction projects and where there's a lot of electronic communication and just getting someone to change an a number it can you know it it looks so real and if you don't take the steps necessary to vet that and really be careful about changing those sorts of things wire transfers at the end of the day u millions of dollars just in my circle of what I know about and so it I do take it very seriously but I am decidedly not a tech person but I know they exist and you know there's insuranceances and things that you can do but all of that and training are a very important part of just doing business in this particular age. So

any other questions for gentlemen? Nope. Sounds good. Looks good. Thank you very much. Thank you all very much. Have a splendid rest of your night and thanks again for everything. Thank you. Thank you so much for your work.

That's first for me in my career. No, that's fantastic. I've never seen that either. So, uh, item 7.1, an ordinance amending section 11-38 of the code of ordinances of the city of Warrenburg regarding solid waste services presented by Barbara Carroll, AICP, Director of Community Development.

Well, we continue to learn as we go on our solid waste ordinances and policies. So, I'm before you tonight to amend section 11-38, which is our solid waste, uh, billing section. And, uh, a couple items have come up in the last, I think the last time I was here was August. So, since last August, we've had a few more instances come up that we felt um, it would be appropriate to include in the policy so that everybody um, who says, "I want I want to read that. give me a copy of that that we would be able to easily do that. So, um, first being with new construction of new residential service units, and that's a fancy way of saying a a house, a duplex, a unit in a triplex, unit in a in a forplex. Um, when we're building new construction of those types of construction, they're under a building permit, and that building permit requires them to have a dumpster on site for construction waste to go into the dumpster. At some point in the construction project, um, they typically will be ready for electric service and they want to turn on electric service so that they can have power for their equipment. construction equipment. And at that point when they turn on power, that triggers occupied in our solid waste ordinances and requires them to have trash service for $31 a month. And at that point, there is no one living there. They're not allowed legally to have anyone live there because they don't have a temporary certificate of occupancy or a certificate of occupancy.

and um they're paying trash in two different ways. And so the um first piece of the ordinance you have before you this evening would add a section O to 11-38 and state that um even if power is or water or sewer is turned on and supplied to the service unit if a CO or a TCO has not been issued it will not be deemed occupied. So the dumpster will stay on site till that permit wraps. When they uh get their CO, our software will flag our solid waste staff to deliver carts and add the service to their utility bill. And at that point, they would start getting build to $31 a month. So that um had come to our attention and from one of our builders and in talking through that with them we felt that was a very reasonable u piece to clarify and and get added to our ordinances. Second item um that has come up is I don't I don't know if you live on an alley you know this but if you don't live on a lot that has alley service you might not realize this. All of our alley lots are serviced. If you have alley pickup, you are serviced on Friday. You may live in the Thursday side of town. You may live on the Wednesday part of town. You could live on the Tuesday part of town. If your service is in the rear of your lot on an alley, you are a Friday pickup. That truck comes and runs all alleys on Fridays because it's typically a smaller unit. They service the downtown area and the sidewalk receptacles at the same time. So those are Friday pickups. Um there is the potential we now have seen where a customer will put their carts on

the front side on the regular route day for that neighborhood and put it on the alley side on Friday for an alley pickup. and then they're getting picked up twice a week for the same low price of $31. So, this section is being added to clarify that you can have one service location on your lot. And we have worked through whether it would be alley or the front side with particularly in March and April of last year as we were rolling out the service. Cole had a lot of conversations individually with people. Did they want to be an alley? did they want to be the front? You know, we worked with them on those, but um this section would state you have to pick one or the other and stick with it. So, you and if you really need two locations on your lot, then you're going to pay for both. Um and we would put you in as two dwelling units and you would get a bill for $62 a month. So that is the proposed section P and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

I have one question on the once they get a certificate of occupancy whether it's temporary or just a regular if there's no one actually occupying and creating trash and recyclables.

They um at that point we would consider them because they'll have full services. They'll have their electric, they'll have their water, they'll have their sewer. Just like other, you know, we have we have lots of units that may not be rented for the month, but they still are paying all their services and are being build the $31. So, they would be treated the same as everyone else at that point. Even if somebody hasn't moved in yet, if it has all three services and it's been given a CO, then it's it's going to be build. So, if it's a I guess I'm thinking it's a new dwelling, a new home, and it hasn't sold. So, and there's no one there.

Wouldn't the contractor shut the services, some of the services off? I I mean, if they shut the services off, that that would stop trash. Uh but if they don't shut the services off then it it would and it would be it would be the owner which would be the probably the builder that would be paying that. Okay. All right. Thank you. I have a related question. Were was there were there any refunds given to the developers that paid twice for trash? Uh I did do a credit on one account for three months. Yes.

Thank you. And then I assume that con well it's a silly question. Constable has a question has a question has a map of all of the alley locations and so that has been resolved as far as people can choose to have their trash in the front or in the alley. Is that right? Yeah. I don't think this ordinance will cause a change in in the route. Yeah. Uh I I we don't have a lot of houses are in a flip from one to the other because of this. Um uh the situation that brought it forth had added a new cart in March and that cart was being placed separate from the original set of carts.

Gotcha. That's it. Thank you. So why are we not just saying everyone that has an alley is picked up on the alley just for beautifification and then also efficiency sake on constable side.

Uh there can be grade elevation changes as well. Um like I'm thinking of west uh west colton or west market. Um they're they have alleys in the rear, but a lot of them are serviced in the front. And so if we're already servicing the the neighbors in the front, we we'd rather bring that truck just down the front of the block. Um but there are some of those where uh the sidewalk may be here, but the there's a retaining wall and there's dirt. you know, the yard is four or five feet taller. You're not going to bring your cart to the front on that lot. So, even if your neighbors were getting serviced in the front because they don't have the elevation change on their end of the block, if if I'm going to haul my I'm going to haul it out the front door and then I'm going to drop five feet to the sidewalk. No, we're going to service you in the alley. So it it those are the kinds of things Cole had to go case by case and look at where does it make sense to service them both for the the truck as well as for the convenience of the the citizen.

Makes sense. Sounds like we just didn't really build up our alleyways to for that type of stuff. Yeah. I mean, not all of our alleyways. You have a lot of variety in alleys, in surface, in width, in road condition. Yeah. Condition of the surface, overhead lines, how high, how tall they are, can trucks get under them. There's a lot of variables in the alley. Okay. Thank you. Thanks, Barbara. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. All right. Appreciate it. To move to second reading by title only. Rydenhower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Joan,

yes. Buler, yes. An ordinance amending section 11-38 of the code of ordinances of the city of Warrenburg, Missouri, regarding solid waste services. This is for adoption or rejection. Rydenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler,

yes. Thank you. Thank you. Item 7.2, an ordinance authorizing the city manager and the city clerk to execute an agreement with key equipment and supply company for the purchase of a Envirro site HD Rover X system. Wow. And ProMaster van buildout in the city of Orangeburg, Missouri. Presented by Phil Adllets, director of public works.

Hey, mayor, city council members. So, come here this evening asking for you guys to approve the city manager to spend some money and get us a new sewer camera. All right. The current sewer camera, I know if you've been on the climb tours, you probably got to see the old sewer camera when it was brand new. It was neat. Worked well. But now that it's almost 20 or a little over 20 years old, it's not up to standards anymore. It fails us. We have hard time getting parts for it. Uh Terry was very proud. He found two old parts and bought them and but it's just not what we need. What will work for the maintenance, the serviceability of the lines in the ground. Uh the new camera, if we're able to go with this one, is able to be traced underground with the equipment we have. It'll help us locate things easier. service the lines, maintain them, and it'll be just a whole lot better for our operators to use and make sure that we have a good product underground. So, the cost is $176,000 or $176,167.65. Uh, in the budget that you all approved, there was $275,750. that did include a new vehicle, but since we went with the enterprise fleet management, we are leasing that vehicle, the ProMaster van,

and we just have to build it out so that the equipment will operate out of there. Gives a good spot. So, question. I had a question regarding the um I'm assuming that the camera is for the sewer mains. And it would be too big to go down the service. Yeah, it will not go down down laterals. It is going to be too large to go down laterals. Laterals are usually 4 in to 6 in uh depending on what they're coming out of. Commercial residential. Mike, you have uh storm sewer can also

it can do storm sewer, especially this one because we're requesting this one where it will elevate the head. So, a lot of your storm sewers have water sitting in them. This unit will be waterproof and elevate the head so that we can go down a larger pipe of 18, 24, 36 and help us find those rusted areas. So, okay. The other question I had and I think I answered it myself, but it'll go 1,000 ft, but it talks about uh it's hooked to something, right? Yes. And so there's a thousand foot of cable so you can if it stops you can pull it back. Yes.

But it's Wi-Fi. So what is it sending on Wi-Fi if it's on this cable? Uh that's a very good question. I did not ask the saleserson. Yeah, I'm assuming. So Phil mentioned the ability to trace it. So you can run it down the line. Then you can locate it from above ground to figure out exactly where the sewer line is in the field. Some I don't know if that's Wi-Fi, but that's a non wireless communication. I'm trying to figure out why it had Wi-Fi.

I think that's the computer component of it that sits in the vehicle so that you can, you know, attach to it with your phone with a tablet and communicate that way. So, you can transfer the files. I'm assuming or guessing because I did not ask the salesperson and that was close enough. Thank you. I uh on the van, are you all going to be building that out in house or is that getting sent back to enterprise? This will be a all-in-one service where they provide the camera, they build out the ProMaster uh van, they put the stuff in there. Oh, so Keyi is doing all this, the one that's going to do that.

And that's what's included here in the quote. included in that price build out of the van and then all the components and accessories that we will need once we get the van back with the camera. It'll be ready to go and and will it fit into the garage? Yes, this van is small compared to the jet truck. This is very small. Thank you very much. I didn't see a a limit on it, but it does say lifetime training. Are we planning on taking advantage of that? Seems like a pretty pretty good deal. That if we get, you know,

once they get trained up and as we get new operators, we will send them there to learn how to operate because this is going to be very expensive. And we will have this camera for probably I'd say at least 15 years maybe a little less but So is it for is it lifetime training as long as it's under warranty then? I didn't ask the person that either. We'll get some clarification on it but uh do you know what the warranty is? The warranty on the unit itself. Yeah.

Yeah. It's going to be well all nonwearable components. So your gears, your tires, your uh stuff like that. Some of your cables. So most of the important parts will be under warranty. We have to find out 100%. Totally. Yeah. This was a highly recommended unit. Uh we did do some searching and this is what we feel is going to be give us the best options and results. Excellent. Anything else? Thank you, Phil.

Motion moved to second reading by title only. Rydenhower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. An ordinance authorizing the city manager and the city clerk to execute an agreement with key equipment and supply company for the purchase of an Envirra site HD Rover X system and ProMaster van buildout in the city of Warrenburg, Missouri. This is for adoption or rejection. Rydenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you.

Thank you. ready. Y uh item 7.3, an ordinance partially exempting the city of Warsburg, Missouri from the provisions of section 311.2026 2026 revised statute to Missouri regarding hours for liquor licenses to sell, serve, and allow the consumption of alcoholic beverages during the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament presented by Michael D. Craig, city manager.

Can I ask one question before we start? Does this one relates to the next one? Um, and it has to do with staffing. So, my question would be to Chief Merman. Uh if we approve both of these, the first one where you have two additional employ uh officers working each day because of the extended uh liquor sale uh hours. The second one that we'll be looking at is um the mutual aid agreement where you have nine officers that are interested in uh going and working the uh World Cup. Do you reasonably think that if we approve both of these that it would be reasonable for you to be able to uh staff not only the two additional ones for local, but also the other ones that want to have that opportunity to go to the World Cup uh and work it. So to answer your question, the two officers would be say you only have two bars open, take advantage of it. Back when we used to have bar closing, um we used to have four to six officers down there. This gives you an idea of if you have two bars that take advantage of this and stay open for uh 23 out of the 24 hours of the day. Then I'm projecting because it's not really known, right? If they stay open 23, then minimum we're going to be there from probably 11 at night till whenever they close. So I gave you a projection

of eight hours with u Mr. Greg. in regarding to what that would cost. So for the two it was around it's around 3,53584 if at their time and a half rate. That's at our lowest officers rate. Okay, that would be for two officers at a time. 1767 uh for one officer. So with that being said, if you approved this and then approved the other, I am looking I took it to our officers before I even brought it to you to see if they were even interested in doing this. Nine of them said they were interested. It is voluntary. It would be on their days off. It is growth and uh working with other agencies interoperational learning how to operate with them and it's good growth and experience for them. They're interested in that. Uh would they be interested in this? I'm going to have to pull that back and I will probably not be allowing them to go if we have many bars uh say opt in and want to do this right because the city of Warsburg's first. So

I'll just I'll have to evaluate it all as we go through it because it's all unknown at this point, right? But that helps as we go through these at least we kind of have an idea of Right. Great. Boiling it down covering our shifts would take priority and then the ability to for the officers to sign up and do mutual aid in Kansas City would be dependent on our schedule getting filled and then them doing that on their off time. Okay. Thank you.

Yep. So, with respect to the the first item and the ordinance that's before you, this this picks up where you left off at at your last meeting uh in your conversation, and I can go into the background of all that in greater detail if you'd like, but on the 13th, um the intention, it was intentional that that was just public uh comment, public hearing, opportunity for you to get public feedback and then provide city staff with uh an input on what you'd like to be brought to you today for your consideration. There wasn't a lot of consensus at that point. So, what we said was we'll bring you a draft and try to work with you to allow you to deliberate, provide, uh, feedback, and then amend that draft as needed to end up with the final product that you'd like. So, uh, city legal council Adam Summer was very helpful in in drafting this. uh we started with Lee Summit as an as a readily available example of an ordinance that they had uh opted into uh modified hours. So if you go to the second page of the ordinance uh that begins with kind of your menu of choices, one section entitled for Kansas City match days during June and July 2026 just provides extended hours for the days of the actual matches in Kansas City. And so it lists each one of those days. Um, and then it identifies a time and you you could amend those times as well. So it it lists uh 6 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. in all of the instances across the ordinance. If you as a count as a group choose a different set of hours, we need to amend those accordingly. Um, the next set is for match days and FanFest days during the months of June and July. And

so there are and and I may have to call in Marcy Barnhart to help me here, but in addition to the match days in Kansas City, there will be FanFest days. I believe those correspond to match days in other locations, but FanFest will not be going on in Kansas City every single day of of that duration of uh June and July. It'll just be on select dates. So that second set is a combination of the match days in Kansas City and the FanFest days in Kansas City. The third set is for the entire date range for FIFA World Cup in the in in the United States in 2026. So it's commencing June 11th and ending July 19th and as it's worded currently and it authorizes operation from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. all of those dates. Um, and then the other option, which isn't exactly uh modified extended hours, but if you want to retain what we currently have on the books, it says for the retention of existing hours of sale, opting out of the statutory extension, and that just returns it to 6:00 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. um each of the days of that event. And it really just kind of ratifies your intent if that's what you ultimately decide, your intent to leave the operating hours as they currently exist. So, um, as a reminder, um, the state statute authorizes operation from 6:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. I'm sorry, authorizes 24-hour operation and 23-hour sales. So 6:00 a.m. 1 day to 5:00 a.m. the next day. 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. being the only downtime. The time frames in this ordinance currently are 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. mirroring what Lee Summit

chose to do, but that is certainly up to you as a council to decide. Just wanted to clarify real quick. You're saying that the current hours are 6:00 a.m. to 1:30. Thought last meeting we said closer to 10 or 11:00 though. So it is 6 am is what the current time is. Yes. By in in my review of our ordinance that that's the current language. Okay. Just want to make sure I understood correctly. And as I was reporting to you, I do see that first section um has a typo in it. So it says for June 16th and it says from June 12th when that should be June 16th. But

uh if you can if you want to I'd be happy to answer any questions if you as a council want to deliberate at the point that you feel like you're reaching. and some consensus, staff can help you identify what the final wording the ordinance needs to be. And I guess one last thing to add, I've had no additional feedback um since the uh meeting on the 13th from operators nor the public that I'm aware of. And our hotels are still not full.

Call you. Correct. Yes, I did speak to our hotels and that is absolutely correct. I did have an opportunity to speak to a short-term rental owner and they have a family member. They have u five properties and they said that they had raised their rates um hearing the demand supply um and they did not have any takers um so they lowered their rates and they were able to secure um reservations for the game dates weddings. So, they do not have anyone staying with them for the event, nor do their family member who both they both have short-term rentals. That is the perspective from two property owners. What's to come closer to time? I don't know

if it's if we were to choose to uh um option where we open at 6:00 a.m. but we close at 3 a.m. That gives them extra time. uh for being businessfriendly uh for all the days whether the whole period of time June 11th through July 19th. If we found after we put that in place that no one is um partaking of these additional hours, everybody's still going home at 1 or 1:30 or 2:00. Can we change our mind and do away with it so we don't have to staff uh additional uh officers to cover something that's not happening

so because we don't know what's going to happen. I'm I'm going to hazard my guess and then Adam can can correct me. I think technically you could with sufficient notice, sufficient action, public notice, all of that. So from from a technical standpoint, staff could assist you in amending that ordinance. From a practical standpoint, I think you always run the risk of businesses ma having made preparations or made some plans that you're kind of catching by surprise. But but I definitely want to

Yeah, certainly we could do that. My my concern is actually even simpler than that, which is just the literal time frame that this is all happening within. By the time that conversation would happen and it would come back and we would have a meeting outside of calling a special meeting, the odds that it would be timely and useful are pretty low. This this is kind of one of those, you know, there's a little bit of run for appeal here. Kind of a set it and forget it. Make your decision and and and let it ride because it's only going to be about a month that's happening. And right in the middle of that is the fourth July. So your ability to get a meeting together might be difficult as well. So that would that would be my just basic practical fact. We absolutely could change it. It's not a permanent ordinance. It's part of the wording is that it's not permanent. So

right question that kind of feeds into that. Uh last time we kind of talked about notice and things like that. I see here in section three we would require some sort of notice of the uh bar bar owners. Is that enforceable? I mean, is that something that we can do? Yeah. So, I went that direction. The lease summit version I uh I won't I'm not going to use the word that's in my head, but they were I think it was $500 for a temporary license or something like that.

Um I don't I I heard a lot of businessfriendly approach. That didn't sound very business friendly. Um, so I went with this written notice to the city manager and the chief of police so that we have this written intent so that we can identify where we need, you know, sort please you can, you know, staff broke. Um, it's it's definitely something that we can enforce because it is an ordinance. If they don't meet that requirement, we can actually ticket them for a violation.

So, and they could be shut down if they haven't provided the written notice and it's 1:31 a.m. They could be shut down at that point in time. But on the flip side, they if they want to cover their bets and on June 5th say my intent is to do all the days and then change, we may have staffed up and find out they've chosen to contract what they're doing. Yeah, that's kind of a better safe than sorry. But

I did hear from another bar owner. Andrea Cook is a neighbor of mine and I happened to see her when she was out taking care of her dogs and I was taking care of mine and she did say that she felt like generally, you know, she they might they might stay open later, but personally she felt like it wasn't a great idea to extend the hours later as a bar owner. So, there's that piece of information. And I still just want to repeat that we've we heard from two of 31 bar owners. The business community who I care deeply about is not asking for this. There's data about increasing alcohol sale hours, increasing harms to people. The most recent and applicable study was actually during COVID in Boston and there was a significant decrease in harms especially violent crime um when the bars closed earlier because of COVID. Um there's a good deal of research that says you make alcohol more available later night, later hours in the night, people's executive functioning, which is already impaired, becomes more and more impaired and you will see more harms. You will see more drunk driving, which is one of the things that in the safety action plan, which we'll talk about later, was very important to people that we address drunk driving in this community. And so to me, it's a solution looking for a problem. You know, there's no real strong evidence that the community is calling for us to do something about this.

And to be clear, the state has laid this out by passing a statute that says that they get to be open. We have to decide if we if they don't get to be open. So, uh, from that standpoint, the city certainly has the option. I mean, we could we could bring back a different ordinance that says that we're not doing it at all, that that we're going to honor the the hours that they are standard and we're not going to opt in at all. We're completely opt out. Um, if you do nothing, then it's just up to the businesses at that point if they're going to be open or not. And we have no mechanism of control and we have no way to have something in place that gives us something to enforce. and we put, you know, PD in a really tight spot trying to figure out, you know, what what there is to deal with. So

So, and it would be one thing if the hotels were full. Yeah. You know, if there if we had the, you know, potential clients, we Yeah. If we were really going to be welcoming folks from across the country, which across the globe, which would be wonderful, but it doesn't look like it. So I please add any no I hope so. We still hope so. We hope we we hope we from all over the world. Love to have come come July 20th. I still hope we're still people from all over the world.

Absolutely. Yeah, I I did try to put in the the council letter my understanding of the rationale because my first reaction just individually was we were trying to accommodate game times, but the the game times are during normal operating hours. So the the best explanation I've heard is it's c trying to accommodate cultures

um that are visiting and then that becomes the question of who how many people are visiting and But typically when you travel, one of the first things you do is you acclimate yourself to the time where you've landed quickly and then so you're now you're so and again Marc I'm hearing this from Marcy who heard it from others but my understanding is even acclimating there are certain cultures that their night life is just getting started when our bars are closed. closing.

The cultural norm is when our normal bedtime, that's when they're a after a game, they go to a pub, they have a beverage uh or two. Um, and that's what the state of Missouri the when you put your application in for events such as this, you have to attend events and that you it's on the application that you've attended events. So when the lieutenant governor at the time, Governor Kho and visit KC and the KC sports commission and all the and and St. Louis as well, um when they went together and they went for eight years ago and they saw the different events, they went to the different countries and they saw they saw individuals going to the establishments and that's what they were doing at two three those and so they saw it as that's the cultural norms for some of these countries. Also, it's a revenue generator.

And I'll add though that's looking at big cities where the venues were and not outline areas like us. Um, we're not there. I I think for the cost potential cost of the city and disruption of trying to figure out do we do this, do that, I would say we opt out of the state. The risk of sounding completely cynical. Uh I do note that the only thing that's included in this is liquor sales is the one and only liquor sales. Liquor sales.

Um it's well known that since legalization of marijuana products in the state of Missouri that liquor sales are general are lower. Uh most alcohol sales are lower in states that legalize. um this is not there there's nothing else that's been included in this special time frame other than alcohol sales and that it's just you know again at the risk of sounding incredibly cent um there's there's I can't help but notice those kinds of things sorry I didn't mean to cut your

no you're totally fine and I I did want to that's a great point to make and the fact that these businesses are struggling right now just across the board um I did talk with Jay Meltdrome over at Heroes. Uh he did not I know that he didn't put in a survey, but uh he was not sure on whether he would be open or not. Uh he was going to make that call a little closer to time. Uh his Airbnb above here as though is booked the entire time during the World Cup uh from people outside the state. So he does know that there are going to be people he's just deciding whether or not he's going to staff during that time. I also had a chance to talk with Leo Costa Sof at Players, the owner over there, and he same sentiment, you know, not sure if I'm going to be open, but if my customers want me to be open, I'll figure out a way to make it happen. Um, yes, there could be some cost to the city in terms of PD, but there's also opportunity for sales tax revenue to be coming in. Um, I'd be more in favor of a modified. don't think we need to be open 24 hours, but a modified to 3:00 a.m. I think would be beneficial and would be welcoming to other cultures uh coming to this area uh whenever there are communities that are uh taking this up right now and saying that they're going to close regular times. We can stand out from the rest of the metro and uh say no, we are going to welcome uh everyone here no matter where you're coming from and you're welcome to spend your dollars here and increase our sales tax revenue. So they would they would be selling alcohol, but probably food and other other things to get people to come there. Um are the now the Netherlands, aren't they playing in Kansas City? They're big party people. Don't aren't they the ones that are all dressed in orange?

Oh, I apologize. I don't I don't know that. But they do play on Jul June 25th. The Netherlands plays on June 25th. They could possibly be paying playing later on on July 3rd or July 11th. I don't know. I just have misgivings about both. And I'd rather wait until the very last minute and know that the hotels are full and we've got really and truly have people in the area. How how cold? What is What is today? The last of April. Oh jeez. It's 27.

That's what So we have a month and a half at the most. Yeah. I went through the World Cup in Orlando. I've lived down there, you know, 25 years. And if the rooms aren't booked up now, they're just going to be for local visitors. I again, I'd prefer we just opt out. We know what the rules are. Um I don't see we're going to make the sales tax revenue off of a handful of sales at 3:00 in the morning. I just don't see it in Warrenburg in the summer. College kids are gone. If they're going to be out on the streets, they're going to go up to Lee Summit or they go to, you know, Power and Light District or something like that. I just don't see it's anything for Warrenburg. I hope if they are partnering up there, they stay up there and don't drive.

We'd love for him to come down here during the day and visit Warrenburg, see the sites, but I don't see us being open in the middle of the night here for, you know, his dad always said nothing good happens after midnight anyway, right? We all said the same thing. Yeah, my dad said the same thing. World special. There are good things that happen after midnight sometimes. Not with alcohol. Yeah, I concur with Bruce. I'm uh I don't see the benefit that we the the amount of sales that would take to generate the tax revenue. U I just don't think it's there

to pay for extra officers. Yeah, I tend to agree with you, Eddie. Oops. Is that one of our options? It is. So, which option is that? If you look at section two, the leading languages, the city here hereby adopts the following operating and sales hours for sale of alcoholic beverages. So, and operating hour for authorized holders of a liquor license for on premises sale by the drink during the FIFA World Cup tournament as follows. Then you would skip all the way to the bottom and it would say 6:00 am each day to 1:30 a.m. the following day.

So it's not um italicized and under line like the other two sections, but it is the very last option for the retention of existing hours of sale. Yeah, we you can literally amend by deleting the language until that portion. It's it will be an ordinance to us. So Oh, where's our So wait a minute. So we don't want to move for sex. We don't want to move second readings up this order.

This this has a four different scenarios in it. So you could pick one. So as as Adam was saying, I think we would want to make a motion to amend the ordinance by striking everything after the colon in section two to the state that says 6:00 a.m. each day to 1:30 a.m. the following day. after that after section two down to the word the following day. Okay. Or move to second for the retention of existing hours. Everything from the colon to the word.

Okay. Go ahead. Make a motion to move to second reading. You need to amend first. Oh, I have amend. Sorry. I move to amend the ordinance uh to remove everything to remove everything following uh the colon in section two through through that word

following day period so that we are approving for the retention of existing hours of sale. Opting out of the statutory extension of hours 6A opting out of the and maintaining the 6 a.m. each day to 1:30 a.m. the following day. Did that make sense? Okay, Adam, did we get it? So that's to I second. As long as the Well, we don't need it.

Okay. So, let's move to second reading. Okay. To amend to amend. Okay. So, this is Do you want me to read that again or No, just go ahead and call the vote to go to second reading and then I'll read it. We need you to vote on the amendment. We need to vote on the amendment. Then we do the move for recycling. Yes. As amended. Did you second amendment? That long motion. Move to amend. Okay. Go ahead and call.

Have more discussion on that if you want or you can call us straight to the question. I'm still in favor of doing modified hours over saying we're opted out completely. I just from a business perspective, I I we need to be business friendly. So that's saving the money for the city to and putting us at risk having people 3:00 in the morning downtown when we haven't had any demand. I mean, we haven't had anybody really interested to just kind of well, we'll see that kind of thing. But and we we each will vote our conscience. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Any other discussion on that? No. Okay, this is motion to amend. Bridenower, no. Osborne,

yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Motion carried 4 to one. So now you have an amended ordinance for your consideration. Motion to move the amended ordinance to second reading. Wait a minute. Mhm. Motion to move the amended ordinance to second reading by title only. Okay. Rydenower, no. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler,

yes. This is for adoption or rejection. An ordinance partially exempting the city of Warrenburg, Missouri from the provisions of section 311 2026 RISMO revised standards of Missouri regarding hours for liquor lenses to sell, serve, and allow the consumption of alcoholic beverages during the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament. Striking. I apologize. That last motion would have failed. Correct. Since there was one no vote on the move to second reading by title. Oh,

that would be to the next meeting. That is true. It would because Yeah, that's right. I'm so sorry. That's the That is true. So, it's automatically tabled till next meeting. Thank you. Thank you, Max. But the I'm not so men. Well, right. But this the actual title sounds as if we're Yeah. Well, that was a function of having to try to give you every option in in one draft. That was going to be my suggestion is if is that we maybe bring competing versions that are clean to

one that adopts extended hours, one that completely ops out. that may be the cleanest way to do it. Um because this was as Mike and I were talking about, this is more about here's all of what it could look like. So I think I think the majority of you have indicated what you would like to act on. So I I think trying to follow that lead, what we could do is bring you an ordinance that reflects that for action. Although if we're on second reading, are we is that an acceptable change to the title or uh I would do nothing with this ordinance. I would just pro provide new ordinances.

Two new ordinances. one uh where we opt out of the state and the second one that um but presumably then on the calendar uh on May 11th that would come forward and you if if everything holds you'd have you wouldn't have a major uh it would not be unanimous to go to second reading. So then you're looking at May 26th for that second reading.

You can alternatively simply keep the heading the way it is here. I I agree that it could convey some type of intent. I also think it the intent is what are the hours that we are maintaining and or we could amend the title tonight. I I think the title the way it is I think it means nothing. I think it's wildly ambiguous. it it's extremely confusing and I think if we we have two competing opinions. So if we have one that's a clean title for one way and another clean and consumption. That's right.

Yeah. Then we then we know what we're doing and there's no ambiguity when someone reads the minutes later out. Right. So that can be in an effort to fi facilitate you being able to take final action at your next meeting rather than two meetings from now. I think you you could maybe it's too late but you could make a motion a second motion to amend that ordinance to amend the title to say an ordinance exempting strike partially an ordinance exempting the city of Warrenburg from the provisions and now you have a clean ordinance reflecting what the majority of you want. You just can't take it to second reading tonight.

Right. That's true. We're still inside of the ordinance right now. We're still in the ordinance. And so then on May 11th when we come back, we would have an I can still provide the second one for review and gives you all something to talk about. Okay. All right. So we need to motion to amend the title. Show me the title. So there was the Are you trying to make a motion to amend the title to the wordally,

right? An ordinance exempting the city of Warsburg, Missouri from the provisions of section 311.2026 RSMO regarding hours for license liquor licenses to sell, serve, and allow the consumption of alcoholic beverages during the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament. Yeah. You'd like to amend the title to what you just read, correct? Can I Yes, I I motion to I've just amended that motion to amend to remove the word partially. Yes. Motion to amend the word partially and then this will be brought

and and then everything else stays the same. Brought back for a second. First you need to vote on that amendment first. We vote on the amendment.

So I apologize. I just want to make sure I understand what we're voting on here. So, we're we're voting where where we are at right this second is we had a first reading of as is and we said that we're going to take we're not we're saying that we are going to go straight back to regular hours to 1:30. What we are doing right now is we are amending this title of what has already been read for our next meeting and then we will have a first and second reading of a separate ordinance for a partial exemption. Is that correct? You will have a partial exemption that can be done as a first and second depending on votes obviously as dealt with tonight.

Okay. So we are amending what has already been read the first time. So it'll be ready for a second reading next meeting. Thank you. Yeah. That'll be on for second reading. Yes, this will be on for second reading because this is Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. N your amendments would always come in between this set. Yeah. So I made the motion to amend. So it needs a second. All right. a motion to ad second. Thank you very much.

Okay. So, no more discussion. So, that's all we're doing is amending amending the title. Not approving anything other than amending this title. Okay. I have a first and a second. Rydenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latarin, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Okay, thank you.

Next.

Okay, you ready? Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Adam. Thank you very much. Mike. Item 7.4, an ordinance authorizing the city of Warrenburg, Missouri to approve this mutual aid agreement with the Kansas City Police Department during the 2026 FIFA World Cup matches. My French is not that good. Federation uh World Cup matches scheduled to occur in Kansas City, Missouri from June through July of 2026. Presented by Andy Muntzman, police chief.

Good evening, Mayor, City Council. um reading I'm bringing you this board is uh chief of police uh Stacy Graves with Kansas City Missouri sent out letters for mutual aid agreement approximately two months ago maybe longer than that um I took it to our staff seeing if anyone was even interested um this was for surrounding agencies because uh FIFA World Cup's coming to their area causing this issue and they're wanting to make sure they're staffed up for it and you don't staff for an event like that without asking surrounding agencies. So, with that being said, I brought this forward to you um to see if we can get this approved so we will at least have the mutual aid agreement in place with them and then if our staffing allows it gives our officers the opportunity to go assist them. I stand for any questions if you have any. Um that's where I'm at.

I have some questions. um reading through the documents, the Warren who uh whoever goes up there, the officers that go up there would keep track of their hours, uh their hours would be reported to Warrenburg, paid by Warrenburg, and then reimbursed uh after Warrenburg uh completes uh an online specific form that goes to uh Missouri goes to Mark, Missouri. Let me Mark is managing the reimbursement for personnel. Uh mileage, well, not mileage. Yes, mileage. They're providing one meal and lodging

if if needed on if needed. So, if they are being paid uh by Warrenburg and it's just straight time pay because they're not actually on working for Warrenburg, they're mutually aiding Kansas City. I'm trying to figure out how are you going to avoid overtime pay.

So, that's a good question. Um, more than likely it will be overtime pay and officers are also interested on it. Depends on their shifts that week. Did they take vacation? How's how's that all working? And they're still working for the city of Warsburg for the Warsburg Police Department assisting that agency just like we do at all given times. Whenever other agencies, Johnson County Sheriff's Office asks us for our assistance, we go assist them, but they're still working for Warsburg Police Department and may follow our policies and procedures.

Okay. All right, that helps. Um, oh, I just lost my thought. Going to somebody else that'll come. Oh, so they'll reimburse for all benefits that are all the total cost of wages also includes benefits. So the total whatever what we submit to them they should reimburse for they they have a reimbursement rate to us that's higher than just the hourly rate and it is to offset benefit includ FICA and health insurance and all of that. Yes.

Thank you. Oh, the other reassurance that I want personally is that when our officers go up there to work uh for for to help out for the World Cup that they're doing crowd, you know, they're doing things that are uh World Cup related and that they don't they're not patrolling Kansas City streets. I don't want our people patrolling Kansas cities.

So, the meetings have been starting. Um, we have been attending some of those. Um, I'm not given the green light for them to go patrol KC Mo. They're supposed to be helping for that event. And that's what the mutual aids for only for helping for that event. That event. Now, if something comes comes out and they need our assistance, hey, we're police officers. That's what our job is. were to assist and help. So, but it it would have to be something unusual mutual under the mutual aid. Yes, it's an emergency. Any there any type of emergencies can happen at any given time. If you recall the Super Bowl uh event where there's a

that may redirect Kansas City officers, which may then cause everything to have to ship. Okay. All right. It's very fluid, right? It's So, I just don't want to I understand what what you're saying. I totally understand and I'm I care for the officers as well. Um but that's the agreement they're asking for. They're asking for assistance. It's it's a large thing to take on. So, thank you. Do we have any current agreements with KCPD? Um we don't have any on on file except for this one that I'm bringing.

I didn't hear what he what did you ask? Were there any other agreements on uh that we with KCPD? So, they have assisted us uh just under state mutual aid with our homicides that we've had in the past and uh oh, we've had a couple drive by shootings within the last oh three, four years that they've assisted us with in the investigation. So, they've always been more than eager to help. Um but no, it's not priority. Then as far as they're just trying to stay ahead of making the request. You know, state mutual aid, if an agency requests, we're covered under state mutual aid. This is just putting in right. Gotcha.

This is way better. Yes. This is getting ahead of the game. That's why I'm bringing it to you now. I understand you got all this other on your plate in regard to FIFA, but I'm trying to stay ahead of it as well in case we do get called. Well, we appreciate that, too. Yes, we do. I apologize for maybe getting down in the weeds on this, but looking over the agreement itself, we'd be entering an agreement with KC 2026 for you to provide mutual aid to KCPD. Is that how I'm reading it? There's actually two. There's the mutual aid agreement with the KCPD. There's the reimbursement agreement with KC 2026. Gotcha. So, that's the payment side of it will come directly from them. Okay.

And he brought that to my attention. We were kind of going back and forth last week. I was out of town at training and uh so we included that in on this ordinance. That way we get it covered all in one and that payment side of it. I mean like I said they never charged us for assisting us uh during those uh investigations but we have that option here. So it's good that we have that option for the payment. So So we are going to ask for reimbursement, aren't we? We're try. They're offering it. Okay. And that was part of the when I read it. Well, they got they it's usually when they they have basically FEMA money basically federal money and right basically you turn it in and they reimburse. So

they have federal money so they should have plenty of extra just for this. They wouldn't wrote it if they didn't don't I don't think shouldn't say that. So

yeah that was allocated. It was actually part of the one big beautiful bill. Sounds like from what I read there that money specifically for safety specifically for FIFA. So, absolutely. And so I'm I'm hopeful that this is something that your officers are able to do because like you said, it's great professional development especially for some of our younger officers. Um there's always a risk and that but that's part of what uh officers sign up for and I appreciate that. Um the couple of questions I noted and just want to make sure I understood is that um if if our officers do go up, you'll be using obviously they'll be using their own service weapons, but and also ammunition should they need to use it. That's something that

all supplied by a warrant for police department. Yeah. And if um that we would also be liable if there were any kind of claims or damages or losses related to that. So we would be covering that if any of our officers were, goodness forbid, hurt or if there was damage to a car, that kind of thing. It be just like they're working in the city of Warrenburg. Whatever happens there, we're still liable and they're going to have their body cameras and that type of stuff on

and that makes that's very logical. I just want to make sure I understood that. But it does it does seem like it's a good opportunity to continue that regional collaboration with really for a lot of folks a once in a-lifetime event. So it'll be a good experience for the officers uh with all different kinds of uh people around. So and learning from other professional agencies will be a good experience for them. I was surprised I had nine actually interested um because I think they're a lot of them are tired anyway from the staffing. But

we had nine. So I'm like, "All right, I better at least see if we can do it. Don't let them take any of our officers away though. That's my other concern. Need to make them sign. Hopefully they come back appreciating what they have." That's right. On the other side. Thanks, Chief. Thank you. Move to second reading by title only. Bradenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler,

yes. an ordinance authorizing the city of Warrenburg, Missouri to approve this mutual aid agreement with the Kansas City Police Department during the 2026 Federation International Football Day Football Association World Cup matches scheduled to occur in Kansas City, Missouri from June through July of 2026. This is for adoption or rejection. Rydenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Huer. Yes. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 8.1. We're just going right through this so fast, so hang on. 8.1, a resolution adopting the city of Warrenburg safety action plan and authorizing its submission and use for federal transportation safety grant eligibility. Presented by Phil, director of public works. Even mayor, city council members. Again, same time, I'm not going to do the whole presentation like they did last time. We brought this before you April 13th. Uh unfortunately we forgot to attach the safety plan but this time it is attached. Hopefully you have had an opportunity to read it. I will stand for any questions.

I sent in my comments. I do appreciate you comments were all reviewed and resolved. I saw that. Thank you. I do appreciate the wait for Susie returns. Oh yeah. Yeah. Do we need wait for Susie to return? Try to make it fast.

Anything you want to mention in there? Uh we didn't have the counter measures and things like the risk factors last time either if you wanted to. Uh so you know it's the safety plan that uh was viewed the what the spots haven't been chosen on where we're going to actually do the yeah demonstration project. I always struggle with that time too. But demonstration projects we haven't chose that spot.

Would that come before council or is that a staff decision later? I anticipate it will come before council in part. It's kind of a policy decision and then there are is expense associated with it. It's grant funds but there's still expense associated with it.

But there's an opportunity to not just do three. It says that we're going to do three, but if we have an opportunity with price, we might be able to do more than three. So, it's something that we will bring back in front of you to get your opinion. And if we have extra where we could do more than three, um I would really like those to be uh sidewalk kinds of things where uh we're protecting pedestrians as well as cyclist.

And part of the difficulty is when we submitted the original application, we identified demonstration projects associated with Maguire. they are they aren't necessarily needed anymore, but the Federal Highway Administration has said that we need to come back with demonstration projects in the same categories as we originally proposed. And that's that's been part of our struggle of identifying uh projects that still fit those categories. So that is true through this grant cycle, right?

The next grant cycle, can we focus on the next grant cycle? Can we focus down the recommendations that they made that included uh sidewalks, pedestrian, and cyclists?

Yeah, we certainly can as part of our own programming as well as we I mean we've got an extensive laundry list now of locations, suggested improvements, modifications. The other difficulty is um some of the things that we might do aren't temporary. They would be this is supposed the demonstration projects are supposed to be you try it, you measure it, you see if it's effective, you make a decision about implementation. Some of these things are pretty straightforward recommendations we could just go ahead and implement.

Timeline again there's deadline of end of May. We hear back by end of summer. Yes, more than likely. So we have to have it all done by February of 2027 demonstration project that's the research and then result back to you. Yeah. But then there's another round that I think she mentioned in her presentation that we can make application and I want to say it's May 26. Yeah. We have to for us to get into that round. We need to have this approved so that we can get all this started so that it can go into the next round of the SS4A.

And what we've identified for that grant application is more significant in terms of scope and cost than than sidewalk projects. It is the Cooper and Maguire intersection, the Russell and Maguire Young and Maguire. Um, we expect that we don't expect that we'd be awarded all of that, but the thinking was make application for all three of those and then the the agency might say, "Well, we won't do three, but we'll do one or two." And that's a next year item or through this one, the data shows that those are our dangerous intersections. Yeah. So, that application will come back as an action item between now and May 26th. Oh, so that'll be this year's submission. It's

the Maguire Street. Yes. Three intersections. Okay. You'll hear SS48 for the next year and a half or longer. Move to approve the resolution. Susie, did you have anything?

Sorry. Quickly, quickly. Um, this is probably a silly question, but crash data is data reported to PD, right? It wouldn't include crashes that were not reported to PD, but were reported to someone's insurance. I mean, there's no way to have that data, right? Yeah. Okay. Um the um just and it may just be uh my laptop, my pad here, but I was trying to click on some of the links under the plans and ordinances section and I the links weren't live. I so I don't know if anyone else had that issue. Did anyone else have that issue? Yeah, but that but yeah, I did.

Okay. So, you could not link. They were not live. Okay. Just just uh you know if it's possible to let's see that's page 26. Burns and McDonald's can do that. Page 26. Just it would be nice to be able to link to those. I think they were supposed to be able to link um and vision zero. I I looked that up because I hadn't I know you may have talked about that while I was out. Yes, it's a it's a great great concept. I'm glad we're looking at that the concept that we should work towards having zero fatalities. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. And I just wanted to say how much I appreciate the all the work and the policies suggestions all make a lot of sense to me. Those on page 31 and probably 32. So I appreciate that. But that's all I want to say. Thank you. Okay. So, I have a resolution here. Motion to approve resolution is presented. Sorry. Oh, actually it was already it was already there. Okay, good. I'm still learning discussion. Okay, we're done with discussion. Correct. Yes. Rydenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes.

Thank you. Thank you.

Oh my gosh. Item nine, mayoral appointments. Motion to approve mayoral appointments as follows. Reappoint Eddie Osborne as city council representative for the Warrensburg Property Rehabilitation Corporation. Reappoint Eddie Osborne as a mayor representative for the planning and zoning commission. Reappoint Jan Jones as city council representative for planning and zoning commission. Appoint Bruce D. Uler as city council representative for diversity and inclusion commission. Reappoint Susie Latari as city council representative for the energy sustainability task force. Appoint Max Ridenower as city council representative for parks and recreation board. Reappoint Eddie Osborne as city council representative for arts commission. Appoint Jane Jones as city council representative for Warrenburg Convention and visitors bureau. Appoint Max right now as city council representative for traffic commission. Reappoint Bruce Uler, city council representative for tax incremental financing commission and appoint Susie Latari as city council representing for the Johnson County Economic Development Corporation.

Move to approve the slate as presented. Rydenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you. Thank you. I'm thinking there were names on there. another scratched them out, right? That's what I thought. Thank you. Thank you. Appearances, the council not listed on the agenda. There are none. Miscellaneous matters from the mayor andor city council. Anything. Community partner updates. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Johnson County. It's report only.

Yep. City staff updates. City manager. Thank you, mayor and council. As you well know, uh last week we conducted orientation training for the city council that included an orientation session, a financial review, and then um Councilman Rydenower and Latari and uh city clerk Jody Schneider attended uh newly elected official training put on by Midwest Public Risk on Friday of last week. Um, as far as the one thing to share with you, Wednesday of this week through Friday of this week, I'll be attending the Missouri City Managers Association conference. And then Sunday of this week through Wednesday of next week, I'll be attending the uh strategic deterrent coalition symposium in Alexandria, Virginia. So, I'll be uh staying in touch by email, but I will be out of office essentially uh for a week with those two back-to-back sessions. I do know staff has some uh some good news to report by way of updates and I'll won't steal their thunder, but be happy to answer any questions you might have.

Condolences to the family. Yeah, thank you. Absolutely. Father-in-law is uh passing um last week and we're kind of working our way through that, but um it was very peaceful and it went about as well as it you could hope. Administrative Services Department. Jessica, I just want to give a huge kudos to Caroline here for all her help with the audit. It wouldn't be possible. As well as Tony and Carrie in the finance department. They do a lot of the leg work and make us all look good. Um, and for those of you who like the pather, the smaller pretty version of the act for that'll be out soon as well. I've been working on that. So, thank you.

Thank you, Jessica. City clerk. Uh, nothing this evening. Mayor and city council. Thank you. Community development. Nothing additional. Fire department. Parks department. I guess I wasn't going to steal thunder cutting soon. Walkway. Uh, your today. Correct. You're having a ribbon cutting, right?

This is big news. Yes. Uh good evening, mayor and council members. Uh it is good news that the equipment to start the floating bridge has been delivered and it's going to go to Lions Lake as you know. So very excited about that. Uh we have two of the bobbers. The third one's still missing. Um but we um uh city manager sent me some really good information from the arts council. Also came from Marcy. Thank you very much. in regards to um the bobber itself as well as uh some contacts and also maintenance of the bobber in regards to proper paints, things such as that. So, I appreciated that very much. We'll be working on that. Um also, just to let you know, a reminder, this Wednesday is um the ribbon cutting for the front desk of the community center. We're excited about that. Hope you can attend. That's at 5:00. Um, also we'll have another ribbon cutting on May 9th, which is uh a Saturday morning at 10 a.m. for the uh I guess I would say the restarting of the park foundation for the 21st century. Um, and it's at Hawthorne Park because uh the committee has already decided that donations would go their first project would be um assisting with the Sensory Garden Trail. I think I mentioned that before, but um and that's all I have this evening unless you have any questions.

Are you for sure that event on the 9th is at 10:00? The chamber sent an email setting saying it was at 9:00. So just they might have it wrong. So you might need to Well, I'll check with our chairman because uh Scott, he's the one that set that up. So you told me 10, but if it's nine, it's pro posted as nine, we'll say it's nine, and I'll just check back. But thank you for pointing that out. I have to be late, but I'll be back. Oh, that's okay. All right. Thank you. Thanks. Great, great news all around.

And I want to say thanks to Citizens for Environmental Action, uh, Lions Club, Parks Department. I represent the rotary club, but we cut out a bunch of invasive honeysuckle there Friday afternoon on southwest hill of Lion's Lake. Got a lot of brush out. Yeah, a lot. Really appreciate the parks picking that stuff up because that's that it was a big job. Keep after it.

It's very exciting because last year when we started, that was the first time the Energy Sustainability Task Force kind of took that on. We didn't see them, but this year there are lots and lots of may apples, which is this beautiful little native um flower that were not able to get enough sun last year and now they're coming up. So, it's pretty cool. Police department.

So, if you know uh retired Chief Jean Burden from the police department, um please keep him and your thoughts and prayers for his family. uh is going through some uh medical stuff and Donna I know is uh staying on top of it but just so everyone's aware with that and then um we Major Mike Filler went up to FBI headquarters in Kansas City today and completed his uh physical agility to be accepted into the FBI uh command school at Quantico. He passed it. So I know he's been uh training pretty hard for the last year for it. So, I've been trying to keep him motivated and he's done a great job. So, that's exciting news for him. Y

and we have three more final interviews this week for applicants and we'll see where that goes. Great. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Public works. Crystal uh when it was pouring down rain this morning, I drove down Magguire Street just to see and it's the best it's ever looked of drainage. That was a lot of rain coming down. I drove by Pepper Park. I'm sure you drove around and I was out during that torrential rain. Stupidly it was not a good idea, but I went past that section of Magguire. It was a lake like, okay, this is really great evidence for why we need that that retention.

I think it it was great today. I mean, it really it's doing better. Much better. Much better. Yeah. Still a lot water. All right. Lots of water, Marcy. So much so. We're different DJs.