Board of Aldermen - Regular Meeting

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Call the meeting. Please stand al to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Holder member Star, here it mayor Bunner here. We have a quum.

Very good. Uh, welcome all visitors. Thanks for coming out tonight. Welcome. Glad you're here. Uh, consent agenda. Make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Uh, there was a finance meeting. finance committee did meet tonight went over the financial reports. There were no anomalies found in it. Uh we also discussed the uh ECA uh progress uh the progress in closing out fiscal 2020. The audit is scheduled to begin June the 1st. After that we after that we will be beginning the internal control reviews. Um the next scheduled meeting for the audit committee we'll discuss later tonight as the next meeting will be uh memorial weekend or that Monday. So we'll discuss that set that accordingly.

With that I will make motion to approve the agenda. Got a motion and a second all in favor 6. uh consent agenda is approved. Mayor's report last um mayor reports that he is thankful if he's very thankful for the last five years uh three years on the board and 10 years mayor to serve this community have the opportunity to serve you with the community u and I've learned a lot and I grew immensely I was stretched in ways I didn't know was possible um and and you grow from that so thank you for that opportunity I'm thankful to work with the city staff that they're amazing until you get up personal and and work with them. Um, you just don't realize how dedicated these people are to doing their absolute best each and every day for the people that live in this town to make it better, to make it a good place to live. So, thank you guys very much for that. Um, like I said, I had some good times. I enjoyed doing the the Odess Insight podcast and newsletter. I enjoyed going out and talking to the folks at the nursing home. That that was good. I liked that a lot. Uh the ribbon cutings and and all that went with it. It was a it was a good experience and I'll take that with me. A lot of joy with that. Um and I want to thank my wife of 46 years. um you know she and I don't think alike on a lot of stuff and she kept me grounded and there were times when I I was at my wit's end and she'd speak words of wisdom and advice and and comfort and uh don't know how far I've gotten better. So anyway, thank you and u that's the mayor just a thankful

mayor at this report and I'm thankful and blessed. Thank you so much. All reports, all black, we had two planning and filming meetings this month. I'm not going to go into a lot of detail on them because that will come out here later. So, let me discuss that. Um, did have a gentleman call me. Um, apparently one of the cable companies put a cable in on his property. Uh, I called up Shauna and she went out with me the next day and God. I said, "All right, all woman."

Thank you for serving in Grand. I have no report but I give thanks. I actually have a lot to say. I wrote it down.

I feel that when this discrepancy was found, it was with good intention on the ECA. I think we were looking for ways to help lower the charges businesses. the way it was handled that was not so good. There were email correspondents stating a rate study that was requested would be taken place and that the new engineering firm would probably find answers. Regardless, putting city business on Facebook is never a good idea, especially when there was ample opportunity for it to be discussed. If this had been handled inhouse when the discrepancy was discovered, a plan could have been in place. A press release about the ordinance not being handled correctly made citizens aware of the state and that it would have taken care of which and still the trust back Odessa. We at the board of six aldermen try to do our best for the residents and business. Unfortunately, this issue does diminish any trust and respect the residents have of city uh Odessica, the government of city Odessa. I cannot speak for the rest of the court who were not on the board at the time, but I'm tired of being called a thief, a crook, that it's fraud, that the city is robbing the citizens of the death. I'm really tired of that. I do want this script. I'm calling this out because we as a board have to start rebuilding trust with the community. The only way to do this is that we act solidarity for the community of the lift. That's what I have to say. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Been a busy week. spent some time with Kathy and and Shauna several times discussing the um electric brakes and developing a spreadsheet that I think Shauna is going to be discussing with the board later tonight how we could uh possibly have a workshop to move forward and the board would make a decision on uh how to set those for and set the uh EC rate for the coming years. children. Uh going to be a busy two years. Thank you.

One more thank you Carl Gravity. Thank you so much for stepping up and fing I've learned a lot. Really appreciate you doing that. Thank you. All right. Uh moving on. City administrator.

Good evening, mayor and board of alderman. I'll start with the parks department. So, this is the last week for soccer. We have games scheduled for every day of the week to try to finish up the season. Um, as soon as the soccer games are over, we will get started with uh baseball games. Our crews are working on field prep for the turnover from soccer fields to baseball fields or T-ball fields um as soon as as quickly as they can. We're also working on pool prep. The pool is scheduled to open on Memorial Day that Monday. Um, so we're working on prepping and we have some repairs uh accounted for in the budget that will be accomplished this in the next few weeks. Um, one thing to keep in mind is that the combination of air and water temperature have to be at 140° for the pool to open. So if we have any cooler weather, then we won't be able to open until that temperature is reached. Uh we also have the um community cleanup day provided by district F um or funded by district F. We are seeking local volunteers. We've contacted the football team, basketball team and FFA to help with that. It will be from 8 to 2. The big difference between the count countywide well one the big difference between region FNRs is that theirs is countywide. They will take everything except for yard waste and except for hazardous waste. So um anything that really couldn't be collected in the city provided clean up day most likely can be collected with the countywide day. We will be sharing some of the responsibilities with the Lafayette County government and then ourselves as well. So uh again that's from 8 to 2 on May 9th and we'll share that on our social media as well.

for the wastewater department. The heavy rain makes an impact on u the department. So, we've been balancing that this week. Uh we did send the gator in for repairs and it has come back back with the work complete and then we have our con our uh bid for the trash bar screen out. Um so, we've had a few contractors reach out to Kenny to request some additional information and get clarification on that. So, we do have some that are interested, which is great. Uh, for the finance department, uh, it has been a difficult month, difficult month, and it's been extremely taxing on our frontline employees at city hall. So, please keep them in your thoughts. They've done a really great job of managing that uh, balance and influx of calls that they've received. So, we thank them for their service and dedication to us. um working on closing out the fiscal year 2526 fiscal year and then our auditors will be on time of June 1st. So they're anticipating a very quick turnaround for this upcoming audit um much quicker than last week and we will be able to get our audit submitted to the state on time this year. That is the plan. So uh we also have the ARPA funds um and that project associated with Ninth Street. We're still dealing with the railroad um issues that we've been facing, but at this time in April, it starts the uh annual reporting of our ARPA dollars to the federal government. So, we have to log into the um Department of Treasury's website and log what we've expended of those parts of dollars. So, this is the first year we've been able to say that we have expended all of our dollars, which will allow us to close out our account with AR for ARPA with the federal government. um and won't jeopardize our um our dollars that we received. So the deadline for that is December 31st of

this year and by closing out that project those funds will not be in jeopardy. So and then we just have some fiscal year and tasks as we've passed March 31st on the 26. So getting those things accomplished and moving on to the next f this year for the wastewater and water department or water and street department. We um had we had two street positions that were open and we were able to get those quickly filled and those new employees will be starting on May 11th. So we're very excited that that was a quick process and we had uh qualified applicants that were really fitting for our organization. So, uh we are working on asphalt prep for 2026 2026 street plan, working on some mowing depending on the weather and um some dish cleanouts given the heavy rain heavy heavy amounts of rain that we've gotten. We also plan to have dance brothers come and talk to the board at our next meeting on May 11th to discuss our alternative options beyond chip and seal. So we look forward to that conversation and it seems like uh micro skill will be something that's very viable for us this year and suggested by them. So we just wanted to put them in front of you guys so you guys were on the same page and understood how um that will impact our street plan for 2026 to the class. for communications. Uh we provided or we are providing the uh quarterly communications report. So we'll continuously provide that but just a quarterly update of how our communications on social media and things like that are going. Um, we have met with uh new the new mayor with Mayor Wit to discuss how

insight videos and communication videos will continue during the next two years. And uh that's it for communications for community development. Uh permit applications have pretty significantly picked up. We're getting a lot of fence permits and pool permits. So just that that time of the year and as you all know planning and zoning has been working on the parking code. So we'll see the single family dwelling part of that um section and code for your approval tonight but they are still working on the rest of the parking ordinance. So we wanted to get the style family dwellings brought to you guys and repaired from the air that we found in our ordinance. And then they still have a great deal of the parking section of the code to review. And Jenny and I are working on a draft after hearing what their suggestions and things that they would want to see in a in an orbit. So, we'll get that draft form and back in front of them for additional revisions if um we do have a couple of reszones on the agenda for tonight, but once those reszones have been um presented to the board, we will be submitting those to Pioneer Trails to help us um update our reszoning map. So, that hasn't been done since at least 2019. So, we're very excited to have a upto-date reszone map to provide both internally and externally. For the police department, they had National Drug Takeback Day this weekend, this past Saturday, where they collected about 80 pounds of prescription drugs, which will be delivered to the DEA this week. Uh we also have a patrol officer uh that is going to be advertised for a position this week.

And with Josh being our or Chief Thompson being our um emergency management coordinator, he's been monitoring the recent storms that we've had and luckily those have mostly the siren worthy portions of those storms have missed us. So the last four storms we've had did not result silence going off. So, but Josh does keep a very watchful eye on those to make sure we turn those on if necessary to help protect them. Um, last week was National Telecommitters Week and National Crime Victims Week, which um Chief Thompson and uh Captain Lacy both attended events over at the county for those. So, we thank those for the their service. Um the countywide blue shield grant is still on track and coordination is being done amongst the different jurisdictions to apply for that grant. We also have another grant opportunity for safe streets for all that we could uh we are thinking of different things that we could possibly submit for which would be for their grant cycle for 2027. So there's the grant would fund things or could fund things like crosswalks for uh intersection improvements near school zones. So such as the knife and copel road are considering submitting those for we did not have court in April. So we have a little bit larger of a docket for May 12th. So that'll be coming up. And then um we are planning this week to have meetings with Mayor Witet and our directors this week and next. Uh this for everyone's knowledge, Kern will be out the next two weeks. So if you

need anything from her, feel free to reach out to me. On vacation, um we also I also plan to get an onboarding scheduled for newly elected officials and past elected officials. So, we'll get a date solidified this week and then we'll uh go ahead and get that scheduled and advertised for which consists of u just kind of an overall synopsis of uh the way we do business and then it also includes department tours in each department but new newly elected and past elected are both welcome to attend. Um the sidewalk project is going very well. They are making a lot of progress. Um overall the communication between the contractor and the businesses has been going very well. Um and same goes it for contractor to the city to navigate to our engineers. So it's a big team to make sure that everything is going well and so far it really is progressing very quickly. This week they plan to move to the norththeast quadrant of downtown. And um lastly for the ECA refunds, we have been collecting the refunds. We have a low submitt rate at this point. Uh we are going to attempt to get some of those refunds issued in the May bill, May utility bill. Hoping that that will help generate some u interest and involvement as well. So we have had low metals but um the the deadline is not until the end of June. So it's there's still some time to apply at the back. And one more thing, we did have a power outage this morning um due to the

weather that did result in quite a few um meters being damaged. So, there was an area of town around Fourth and Fifth Street that um may have had a longer power outage because we decided it was best to wait to turn each individual house on until the homeowner was present just because of just kind of precautionary to make sure there was no internal damage based on the fact that the meters were damaged. So, that went successfully. Took a lot of teamwork to contact each of those residents, but the electric department at utility mill did a great job today. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. Uh, next up we got public hearing reszoning RZ-4-206 agricultural county to I1 industrial unressed property located along West Main Street. Parcel number 23-1.0- 0- 02-0000-001.0000 00 Bruce Bellington Randph Holdings LLC is property would anybody start this public hearing 623 may like to speak on state your name and address the record you guys hi Robbie Rucker 301 R Kelly I'm the CEO of Advanced Industries So, if you guys read the paper, you know, like kind of came out the last hearing here. So, I just wanted to step up and, you know, once again, just kind of explain what we're doing business and what we're trying to accomplish with this uh this land, the uh the reszoning of it is is our growth plan. You know, we're we're exploding right now. We're bursting seams from not just a plastic standpoint but but a footprint standpoint. Uh and we have a lot of demand coming through to us to to support our end customers and our very end customer is the US military. Um and we provide very vital resources for war fighters. Uh the if you guys are paying attention to the news you can see that the request for defense budget this year was a 70% increase from last year. Uh

also in the news there's a number of articles and information out there about supply of weapons. We are a direct impact of that. Our our end customer and the products we we produce supply those weapons and those missiles. Um, so while they're trying to re-equip the US military, they're asking us to tool up, gear up, and be prepared. That's what I'm trying to do. Um, we have to have space to be able to do that. Not only just for the existing stuff that we've got with rate increases, they want to push through, but also on new programs, new new uh technologies they're trying to put into the US military that we're trying to bring that here and become a part of that supply chain. um we need this in order to be able to facilitate those growth plans and you know really you know I want to stress you know from a from a size where we're at and I said this last time it was in the paper going from 150 employees 14 months later being at 280 employees most of those employees are are coming out of the desert so we're supplying a significant amount of the job we we employ a town and We've been here for a long time and I want to stay that way. So, as you guys are looking at this and you're planning to vote on it, that's what that's what you're voting for if you you will to resone is it gives us the ability to keep growing and keep meeting those needs here. Um, that's all I've got to say. I'm happy to answer the question if you guys got questions later, say now or whatever. I don't know how else process works but allowed questions.

All right.

All right. Appreciate you guys. Anybody else wants to speak to the public hearing? Say none. We'll close it at 6:26. Next public hearing. Reszoning RZ-05-2026. AG Agricultural District, the I1 light industrial at address property located along West Main Street number 23-1.0-2-1-0000-44.010. Bruce Bington with Greenup Holdings LLC property owner. Start this public hearing at 627. Would anybody like to speak? Seeing none, we put ditto for being none. We'll close the this public hearing at 628. And the next public we got one more public hearing. It's a ordinance amendment bill number 2026-18 amending chapter 50 zoning article 2 division to section 50-58 relating to off streetet parking for all part one zones of the city of Odessa code of ordinances. We start this hearing at 689. Then we like to speak to this public hearing. We have one one other. Pick your name and address please for the record.

Good evening. My name is Thomas. Address. Sorry. Say that again. Address. Where do you live? Uh 720 East Main Street here.

Okay. Thank you. Uh this is just kind of new to me. Uh a new builder, developer, longtime family here was brought to my attention this afternoon by uh Jenny from the city that wanted to go put an application in for another building. Uh she brought some information to my attention. Uh encouraged me to come speak uh just regarding affordability with our houses. Um kind of the parking, the ordinances, uh our ideas builder. So, she made it sound like, and correct me if I'm wrong with the information, but the amount of bedrooms is going to impact the amount of parking spaces required. So, uh, right now we're already building, in my opinion, really small homes that are outrageously priced. Um, and now requiring a lot bigger parking spaces. You're not going to have any front yard. You're not going any curb appeal. Uh I'm all on board for building nice things but also making it affordable for people here in the community. So we just put in for just like a lot of the houses going around a threebedroom two bath uh the property they're 50 foot wide. It's almost I don't know if it's it's not impossible but it's expensive and um I don't know that's fiscally responsible uh for not only the builder but also the homeowner and it makes it tougher on everybody. So those are my concerns. Uh creating a good plan of making sure parking is necessary uh and responsible for a community but also um affordable as well. So those are my concerns. I definitely want consideration as far as the houses being built versus what is required for parking. Okay. Thanks for speaking. Appreciate it. Any more comments? One more. No.

Pete Bailey 8 8807 Highway 131. Uh I I just was want to speak about I've been talking to Sean and Kathy about this quite some time. Uh specifically one street like Lake Use Drive up here that goes into the hill. uh where they have the duplexes and there really not ample parking for everybody to park and they're parking on the streets and you can't you can't get in through to get to the subdivision at times. It's really tight. especially a concrete truck or a dump truck, a trash truck even in the future would have problems and and the the project's going to have 130 some lots in the future to grow. And and I just think there's maybe a solution to widening the driveways to possibly if if you have a dup a duplex that if if there's a man, a wife, and one child, you know, that's three vehicles at some point possibly. And on the other side, they'd have two children that that's four. So there could be six day vehicle that at each duplex and that that runs into putting everybody on the street. Uh I think there I think there's solutions that by just widening the driveway they just adding parking and I know the ordinance according to Sean doesn't allow for or maybe a wider driveway at this time. I think it's something to consider widening them out. Uh we we are looking in the future on that particular road. We had an approved plans to go north out to 131 and with mod I don't think we can get a straight answer out of anybody what what lies there in the future. But we are putting a plan together. We have an engineer that's working on a plan behind Lake Bonita for a a grocery store. if the site's plain big for a a grocery store and having that road come in and go behind the lake and tie in to

there, but that could be many moons away. But that's something we are looking at and I know they've been working with staff, Shauna or Kathy or somebody. So that's all I got. Do you have a request for the board, a request for the board for the no parking on both sides? Are you requesting that? Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, even if they That is a big issue when they park on both sides. But even if they park on one side,

it's still if you have a concrete truck coming in or something and a or lumber truck or even two vehicles, two two big pickups and then they have to pass basically in in one lane. It doesn't it's just too tight. So, okay. All right. Very good. Thank you. Do you have a question? Um, not exactly for Steve, but that's got me thinking on that. Wouldn't we have to also consider fire trucks and emergency vehicles? So, that might be something if it's if it's that big of an issue for a concrete truck, we're talking fire trucks, ambulance, all that stuff, too.

Good point. When I toured the area here oh a month or so ago, that was the first thing I noticed was getting in and out of there was very tight and so echo that concern as well.

Okay. All right. Any further uh comments for the public hearings? Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing at 6:34. Now we have one public comment. Uh, Jonathan Mils and your name and address. Fine. Thanks. All right. Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

Yeah. Jonathan Miller, 812 South Third Street. I have a small statement here. Uh, my name is Jonathan Miller. I want to begin by congratulating Mayor Wit and thank you mayor for your time and service and everybody for having me here. Uh you're inheriting let's see and our new board members on on their swearing hand. Uh you are inheriting a community that is ready for a new chapter of transparency and I wish you clarity in your role. I stand here as the chief petitioner to formally notify this new board that Missouri State audit audit is now in the verification phase. The signatures are in Jefferson City. The jurisdiction of the utility inquiry has officially shifted from this room to the state auditor's office. The lag time is over. The season of state level verification has arrived. The financial discrepancy and legal risk. One of the primary truths we expect the state to uncover is the resolution of conflicting records regarding the ECA overcharges. While the city has discussed a $919,000 figure, deeper research suggests the true liability could be as high as 1.3 million. The citizens deserve to know the binary truth of what was taken. To the new board, I urge you to perform a fiduciary audit of your own legal stewardship. Ask yourselves, is your current legal counsel serving as a sovereign shield for the taxpayers or have they become a risk liability that allowed these accounting errors and the targeted harassment of citizens to go unchecked? You deserve representation that protects the city, not just the status quo. Finally, as you lead us, please know that the standard of the work behind this audit is federal. As the owner of Drone Zones USA LLC, I'm a professional vetted by the TSA, the FBI, and the FAA.

I hold a federal certification of trust and character. Despite this, I have faced barbaric, false filmy accusations, specifically labels of thief and rapists, intended to stop this audit and render my five-star business mercially toxic. While those responsible have publicly admitted these statements were abs absolute falsehoods, the human cost is documented. I mention this so the board understands the level of resistance the truth has faced and to ensure the record reflects that this audit was initiated by a qualified vetted expert. The mumbo jumbo of the past is behind us. We are now in a season of verification. I look forward to the state's findings and to a board that values the daily bread of its citizens. We really don't know the limits of what we can accomplish by all working together towards the same goal. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Moving on. Old business. There is no new business. We start off with introduction and readings of bill number 2026-11, a proposed ordinance accepting the results of the April 7th, 2026 general municipal election as provided by the lobby county clerk. I would take a motion to approve the first reading.

Make a motion to approve first reading bill number 2026-11. First reading of general municipal election candidate results. Second car and seconds. All in favor? 6. Discussions. Didn't think so. All right. Going to go on to the second reading. Introduction and readings of bill number 2026-11. the proposed ordinance accepting the results of the April 7, 2026 general municipal election as provided by the Lafayette County Clerk. Second reading. I would take a motion to approve this as an ordinance. Make motion to approve bill number 2026-11, second reading, general municipal municipal election candidate results as an ordinance. and a second. Alman Platty second. Roll call.

Alder member Platty. Yes. Wet. Yes. Pson. Yes. Cre. Yes. Carrian. Yep. Star. Yes. Motion carried. Given ordinance number 3175. And now we have some recognitions. So we will start by recognizing Carl Crabtree.

Even though your service was short, we appreciated every minute of it. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Okay, now we will recognize Colin Harrian for his service to the board of alderman and for his service between April 2024 and April 2026. Very much for your service. Okay, you better. Okay. And then we would like to thank Mayor Brian Barner for his service to the board of alderman and as mayor. So he served as board of alderman from 2021 to 2024 and mayor of city of Odessa from 2024 to 2026. Thank you so much for your service. Thank you for everything that you did for the city. Really appreciate it. Now we will have to do anything for

I would take a motion to adjurnn sign die. Make a motion to adjurnn. I'll second. All in favor sign off. doesn't bring.

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I only learned that Friday at training.

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All right. Are you going to do the swearing in now?

Yep. All the member star.

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question Oh yeah. Stand here. I state your name. I'm Mickey Star. You strongly swear that I possess qualifications from the office of alder woman two as prescribed by law.

Ward one. Ward one. I do swear that those qualifications the office of all women by law and I will support the Constitution of the United States and of the state of Missouri. And I will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Missouri. The provisions of all laws of the state affecting cities of this class. The provisions of all laws of the state affecting cities of this class. And the ordinances of the city of Odessa and the ordinance of the city of Odessa. And faithfully deemed myself in office. And faithfully demean myself in office. So help me God. So help me God.

Thank you. Do you want me to sign this? Yeah.

No, I'm not.

Okay. Next, we will call and finish. family. Yes. I state your name. I Amy Vinch

do solemnly swear that I possess qualifications for the offices office of alderwoman war 2 as prescribed by law. do solemnly swear that I possess qualifications for the office of alderwoman war I as prescribed by law. That I support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Missouri. That I will support the Constitution of the United States and of the state of Missouri. the provisions of all laws of this this state affecting cities of this class. the provisions of all laws of this state affecting cities of this class. And the ordinances of the city of Odessa and the ordinances of the city of Odessa and faithfully demean myself in office. And faithfully deem myself in office. So help me God.

So help me God. There we go. Okay. Oh yeah.

Oh yeah. I'm sorry. A lot of people to do tonight. I do apologize for that. It's okay. Alder member boards. Alder member board.

I didn't like the story. Actually invited yourself. Okay. Your family mustache. I state your name. I do solemnly swear that I possess qualifications for the state of office of alder member alder men war three as prescribed by law. Do solemnly swear that I possess qualifications for the office of alder 3 as prescribed by law.

And that I support the constitution of the United States and the state of Missouri. that I support the constitution of the United States and the state of Missouri. the provisions of all laws of this state affecting cities of this class. the provisions of all laws of this state affecting cities of this class. And the ordinances of the city of Odessa. And ordinances of the city of Odessa. And faithfully demean myself in office. And faithfully demean myself in office. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations.

Okay. Right. And finally, we will call up Mayor Winston and Debbie. And Debbie Raise your right hand. I state your name.

I, Bruce Woodson. Do solemnly swear that I possess qualifications for the office of mayor. Do solemnly swear that I possess qualifications for the office of mayor as prescribed by law. as prescribed by law. That I will support the Constitution of the United States in the state of Missouri. that I will support the constit constitution of the United States and of the state of Missouri. The provisions of all laws of this state affecting cities of this class. the provisions of all laws of this state affecting the cities of this class. And the ordinances of the city of Odessa and the ordinances of the city of Odessa and faithfully deem myself in office. And faithfully deem myself in office. So help me God.

So help me God. Let me begin. Is there anything again? You get one of these. Okay. I didn't get it.

You said you didn't. Ready meeting to order. Roll call. Okay. Alder member Star here. Platty here. Bench here. Pollson here. Palmer here. Mayor Witson here.

We have a quorum. I will accept a motion to approve resolution number 2026-15 declaring board of alderman seat for ward 3 vacant effective April 27, 2026. I make a motion to approve resolution number 2026-16 declaring the vacancy. Have a motion and a second. All in favor? 650 5 the record. Yes.

Um then we have a motion. I will accept a motion to approve resolution under 2026-17 appointing Rachel Ren to the board of Waldman for W 3 to fill the unexpired term ending April 6, 2027 subject to the oath of office. Do I have a motion? I make a motion to approve resolution number 2026-17.

Have a motion. Do I have a second? Have a motion and a second. All in favor? 5. All right. Now join me.

I state your name. I Rachel Ren. Do you solemnly swear that I possess qualifications for the office of alderwoman war? solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications for the office of alder woman 43 as prescribed by law as prescribed by law that I will support the constitution of the United States and the state of Missouri that I will support the constitution of the United States and state of Missouri the provisions of all laws of this state affecting cities of this class the provisions of all laws of this state affecting cities of this class and the ordinances of the city of Odessa and the ordinances of the city of Odessa and faithfully demean myself in office and faithfully demean myself and to help you out. So we got

All right, we have two proclamations you can read tonight. First proclamation is very important. I want to start out by saying what a team we have here and not just here but at home also the city of Odessa team is not just those at city hall or those sitting at the table there are supervisors or the employees it is the board invol is a part of that team it's the city residents it's the children in the school we're all part of the same team when you go to St. Paul to fame your utility bill, they're the partners for the people uh that live in Odessa. Tell them thank you. Talk politely to them. If it weren't for the people that work for the city, residents wouldn't have streets to walk in. They wouldn't have safe homes to live in. We're all partners of Odessa. We're all Odessa. And I think we need to start treating each other as the partners that we are. The past several weeks through Facebook and even in other issues over the past several years, uh we've kind of let our our uh I'll call it a brother and sister attitude get the better of us. Uh brothers and sisters fight. We disagree with each other. But eventually we make up, right? We support each other. But we've kind of forgotten that makeup part and the support part. So we're all on the same team. And I think we need to start remembering that and supporting each other no matter

who we think is right. Okay. So let me read this proclamation. Whereas local governments in Missouri make important decisions that affect the lives of all Missurrians. And whereas local governments are the level of government closest to the people. And whereas local governments include city councils, county commissions, school boards among others. And whereas local governments are the ultimate expression of grassroots democracy. And whereas local governments play an essential role in the quality of life in Missouri communities. And now therefore I Bruce Witzet mayor of the city of Odessa, Missouri to hereby name May 3rd through 9th 2026 as local government week in Odessa, Missouri and urge all Missurans to join me in recognizing the local governments as they serve their communities. and witness thereof, I have here here unto set my hand and cause the seal of the city of Odessa, Missouri to be affixed this 27th day of April, the year of our Lord's 2026. And the second proclamation equally is important. Whereas the national day of prayer has been a part of our country's heritage since it was declared by the first continental congress in 1775. And whereas the 75th annual observance of the national day of prayer will be held May the 7th 27 2026 as mandated by both houses of Congress and by our president. And whereas the leaders of our nation have relied on the power of prayer throughout American history. And whereas we as a nation and a state give thanks for the freedoms we enjoy and pray that the city of Odessa and its

people will continue to be blessed and protected from those who threaten democracy. And whereas Isaiah 25:E1 which says, "Lord, you are my God. I will exalt you and praise your name. For in perfect faithfulness, you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago. And whereas this year's National Day of Prayer theme is faithfulness, and whereas it is appropriate that we acknowledge God and sovereign and call upon him in prayer. Now therefore, I, Bruce Witzet, by virtue of the authority vested in me as mayor of the city of Odessa, Missouri, do hereby proclaim May 7th, 2026 as the national day of prayer, and witness whereof I have here to set my hand and cause the seal of the city of Odessa, Missouri to be affixed this 27th day of April, the year of our Lord, 2026. Now moving on to our ordinances. Before I begin reading the ordinances, um Sean and I have discussed the um first and second readings in the same presentation as has been done uh often in the past. uh you'll see us slowly moving away from doing that on every ordinance. That will not go away. Uh but we want to be sure the administration wants to be sure that as alderman you have plenty of time to study new ordinances. Um, you can, as alderman, you can decide to go ahead and make a second reading if you want to. Um, if we put a second

reading on the agenda, you can table that uh decision to vote on Billy, you can postpone the second reading to a subsequent meeting because you're in control. The agenda is yours. It's it's not our agenda. But we want to be sure you have time to uh vet any bill that we put on the agenda and and make your decision as to what you want to do. So, our intent is that if we feel you need more time to study an agenda, we may just put a first reading on the or an item, a bill that's on the agenda. We may just put first reading on the agenda for you and the second reading may come on the next meeting on the next agenda. If we feel it's something that's important to be passed right away, the agenda may have first and second agreement. Okay? But we want to be sure that there's plenty of time for you to to study the item that's on the agenda. Does that make sense there? That's our intent. Okay. With that, I will accept the first Motion for to accept the first reading of bill number 2026-12 annexation uh to annex-02-126 underress property located along West Main Street partial number 23-1.0-2- 0-0000-001.0000 0000 Bruce Bellington Green Up Holdings LLC is the property owner. May I have a motion?

I make a motion for the first reading of bill number 2026-12 annexation partial 23-1. 02- Z-00 discussion. Yes, sir.

Okay. So this is uh discussed it planning and zoning meeting. This was the first thing that was discussed. Um the CEO was here tonight spoke. He came and spoke in favor of it. Basically what he said tonight is what he said at at the meeting. One of the things he didn't say tonight that he said at the meeting was he said like he they've hired a lot of people. They want to hire more. He said pie at the sky be 500 but that's what they're shooting. Uh

one person spoke in opposition and he was a gentleman who owns the property across the room and tracks from it uh on Golden Bell. And when he got up to speak he stated he said I'm not really here in opposition. I'm I'm here for questions. and he had questions such as, you know, this property is a farm. What what kind of chemicals going to be running on my property? Uh what what do you all basically do? What are you doing here? What how much noise is there going to be? Uh the CEO invited him to come to to tour their facility here in town so he could answer all his questions. and he he accepted uh I'm going to go with opinion this is kind of f some big part of the future of our town doing this any other comments questions Just

hearing none, I'll accept a motion to accept the second reading. We got to We have to do an all in favor for the first reading. Okay. All in favor? You need a roll call for that? Um, no. The first reading is just an all in favor. If you're in favor of the introduction of the reading, then go ahead and s say yes. And just a roll call for the second. The second one is a roll call. Yes. All in favor for first reads. Okay. Six 60. Perfect. All in favor before discussion or after discussion. Um it should be before discussion.

So that's except since we've already had discussion. I found a motion for the second. Okay, he's correct. You don't have to read the full parcel. Okay. I need to read it again. You should. You should. Yes.

I'll accept a motion for second reading of bill number 2026-12 annexation. at 02-2026 unressed property located along West Main Street Marshall number 2023-1- 02- 0-0000-001.0000 0000 owned by Bruce Bellington Green Holdings LLC property owner. I have a motion to accept second reading as

I make a motion to accept bill number 2026-12 second reading annexation annex2 2026 and approve as correct have a motion and a second roll call alder member flatty yes Ren yes pollson yes bench Yes. Palmer. Yes. Star. Yes. Motion carried. Given given ordinance number 3176.

Okay. Now we have bill number 2026-13. I will accept a motion to um accept a motion for the first to accept first reading of bill number 2026-13 reszoning RZ-04-2026 Agricultural Lafayette County 2 I1 light industrial underress property located along West Main Street part number 23-19-02-0000 00-001.0000 Bruce Bellington Green Holdings LLC property owner may have a motion to accept the first reading.

I make a motion to accept the first reading bill number 2026-13.

You could you can read the R R04 2026 that would be sufficient. Reszoning RZ-04-2026 motion. Do I have a second? A second. Have a motion and a second. All in favor? There you go. 60 discussion. Yes, sir.

So, this was the second part. Both these partials are in our agenda thing. It's if you go down Main Street going down the hill, it is the This part here especially the west side of the hill. The first one was that's that's the first one is the one above it. It goes all the way around to the power plant and the water plant. I think we're still on this one. The first one the annexation. Not the first. This one's the reason. I think it's the same person.

Okay. That person right there. But both are to be both are to be reszoned. Correct. And the outer is to be annexed, right? Yes. Yes. So we annexed that one. Now we want to resone, correct? Or we want to vote, right? There's only two. We don't have any discussion. Second.

Yeah. No further discussion. I'll accept a motion to accept uh bill number 2026-13 reszoning RZ 042026 as an ordinance. I make a motion to accept a second reading file number 2026-13 resoning RZ-04 dash 2026

as an as a motion and a second roll call. Alder member Ren, yes. Pliy, yes. Pollson, yes. Finch, yes. Palmer, yes. Star, yes. Motion carry, given ordinance number 3177.

Thank you. Now we have uh bill number 2026-14. I will accept a motion to accept the first reading of bill number 2026-14 reszoning RZ-05-2026 AG Agricultural District 2 I1 light industrial unress unressed property located along West Main Street parcel number 23-1.0-02-1.0000-044 0000-044.010 010 Bruce Pington Greenup Holdings LLC Property Holder. May I have a motion to accept the first reading? Make a motion to accept the first reading of bill number 2026-14 reszoning RZ-05-02626. Okay. Sh second. Have a motion and a second. All in favor 6. Discussion. Okay. Back to where I was. This is the parcel that's on the west west side of the hill goes all the way around. The only question that was asked at planning and zoning was a fence. And then they were told that because this is a defense study, they were required to fix it in

ID. Is that fixed along the residential or all around? I'm gonna go with all the way around it. You can ask. I can speak. So that hillside 100 foot elevation on that hillside. So it's not buildable on hillside. You're not going to be able to build the res. So it's it's going to be down on the bottom of the hill which you're going to fence on. It'll be right on the outside perimeter of buildings. So there's a natural barrier between the residential area. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. You can't get through that.

You can kind of tell where the property has been. um agriculturally farmed. So that's more the buildable acreage arguably. is basically what'sable. The the hillside there is Yeah, it's notable. I don't think that makes sense.

Thank you. Any further questions? I'll take a motion to accept the second reading of bill number 2026-14 reszoning RC052026 as an ordinance. Make a motion for the second reading of bill number 2026-14 resoning of RZ-05-2026 and acceptance. Have a motion and a second. Roll call. Alder member Pollson. Yes.

Bench, yes. Palmer, yes. Star, yes. Pliy, yes. Ren, yes. Motion carried given ordinance number 3178.

We have bill number 2026-15. I'll take a motion to accepting bill number 2026. First reading of bill number 2026-15 repealing a replant of Asher Meadows all blocks three and four of Alamos subdivision located within the city of Odessa Lafia County Mury. Make a motion to accept uh first reading of bill number 2026-16 repeating repealing reps. Second.

Have a motion and a second. All in favor?

6 discussion. This had been we had voted on this before. Uh the gentleman at that time wanted to take this property and divide it into two lots. Uh the main discussion in the plan and zoning was the second lot was going to be very small. I think it's I think it's the minimum minimum size. Uh there has been there's a garage there was a garage that was in question for coming back to coming next. They weren't allowed to do it.

One more. the the garage the garage in question. It was you know title company. Is that correct? Yeah, the applicant's here. He can speak to it as well. Yeah, we talked to him about that garage.

Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, we talked about it because it was it's actually the garage is on my my property, but the and there's actually a fence right there along the side of it. And so um but whenever this was done years ago, my parents had lived here to this house for 30 plus years. And uh so anyway, my dad passed and so I got it here recently. And so uh it used to be three lots. So we're just wanting the house is on one lot or on two lots and we're just wanting to kind of separate that that last lot. But we we but along anyway the the neighbor's property line actually came over and is goes through a little bit of my garage and then extends on back. So we discussed that discussed how it was grandfathered in. There was nothing really we could do about it. And uh so anyway, long story short, we went to get it titled and they asked if we would get it cleaned up because that they said it should have been done a long time ago. So I talked with my neighbor and he just says, "Well, let's just go with the fence line straight back, you know, just like all of us thought the property line actually did." And so um we worked out where um he's going to so he's already signed papers to to just let it go straight back on his property or on on that fence line. And so, uh, he's giving me that little bit. I'm paying a little bit of something for it. And so, we're just simply wanting to get that line, that property line on the west side straight where it doesn't, his property now doesn't come through my garage. So, that was a mess.

It's a tricky one. Yeah. So, so, and then, so the third the third lot. So, so you're still want to do the two lots, correct? It's just two lots. his lot. We changed it. Um, we just kind of came became a part of Ash Meadows. So, it's just it's his property still, right? Yes. And so, that that is just his property. We just shaved off a little bit of the back. So, his back of his property goes through my garage. Yeah.

On the survey, you can kind of see there's a larger number three, one, and two. Number three on the far left is the neighbor's property. Number two is your property, correct? And then number one is the new parcel that's being created, the new lot. Yeah. So, I mean, one and two are both my property. Just Yeah. Just But two is where your existing home is, right? We have to repeal what we agreed to. Correct.

Yes. We just name already. Yep. Will you do me a favor and state your name for the record? Oh, sure. Tom Asher. You need my address? No. That's it. Okay. Any other questions?

Okay. I'll accept a motion to accept a second reading of bill number 2026-15 repealing the repl of Asher Meadow to hold lots three and four of Alen Boss subdivision located within the city of Odessa L County. I'll make a motion to accept bill number 2026-15 second reading repealing replat of Astro Meadows and approve as an or have a motion and a second roller member Palmer. Yes. Star. Yes. Pliy. Yes. Ren, yes.

Pollson, yes. Bench, yes. Motion carried given ordinance number 3179. Thank you. Now we have the recla. I'll accept the motion for to accept the first reading of bill number 2026-16 approving the replant of Asher Metals Alls 3 and four subdivision and part of the northwest quarter section 6-T.48-R.27 located within the cities of Messapia County, Missouri. Make a motion to approve bill number 2026-16 first reading of the green plan of cash.

Awesome. I have a motion and two seconds discussion.

Yes. This might have been the answer before, but if you go back to that, the one before that. Yeah. So, the new block then would be to the left of the house, right? And then back to the shed. All the way straight. Well, the all the way back. All the way back. Okay. But the blue line that's up there that kind of cuts into the house isn't really it. Well, the the blue line there is actually the new new line.

No, that's not accurate. The the jag the dashed blue line is to indicate the original four lots. You can see the small one, small two, small three, small four. That indicates the original lots one through four. And you can see that on the survey, too. You can see they're a little bit smaller numbers 1 2 3 and four. That's all that's indicating are the original four lots. And then the new on the survey, it's the that line is scooting over ever so slightly.

I just want to make sure we didn't have the same problem with the garage and the house, right? Yeah, that's true. Okay. Any further discussion? Hearing none, I'll take a motion to accept bill number 2026, second reading for bill number 2026-16 approving the replant of Ashra Meadows all three and four val subdivision and part of the northwest quarter section 6T 48-R.27 27 located within city Odessa, Lafayette County, Missouri as an ordinance.

I make a motion to approve bill number 2026-16, second reading of the replant of pasture meadows and accept as have a motion and a second. Roll call. Alder member Pollson. Yes. Bench. Yes. Ren, yes. Blacky, yes. Palmer, yes. Star, yes. Motion carried given ordinance number 3180. Thank you.

Bill number 26-17. I will accept a motion to accept first reading of bill number 20 26-17 accepting sanitary sewer infrastructure for three separate parcels. I'll make a motion to accept bill number 2026-17 first reading acceptance of sewer infrastructure. Second have a motion and a second discussion. All in favor. All in favor. I'm sorry. 6 discussion. This this is on ninth the ninth street. Ninth street terrace.

Street terrace. Yes. So, this is our only remaining private sewer within the city of Odessa. Um, so having this within our sewer system is more efficient for city city staff. It's already connected to our system. So, we're collecting the sewer. It's just the line from uh main is it Main Street through Ninth Street Terrace is private. So, um, in order for in the future for any repairs to be made on that street, that would require consensus of those who live on the street. Um, so it's more efficient, more effective for those residents who live there that it be serviced and maintained by the city of Odessa.

Am I correct in saying that's the only remaining? There was question at planning and zoning if there was any more. I thought that was the only remaining private sewer in Odessa. It is. That's okay. Thank you. We have the necessary easements to do. Yes. Repairs that we need and

Yep. So, we've worked with the property owners. This requires three easements from three of the seven property owners on 9inth Street Terrace. So, um in the packet, you'll see that those property owners have all agreed and signed off on the easements at this time. There being no f no more discussions, I'll accept the motion to accept the second reading of bill number 2026-17 accepting sanitary sewer infrastructure for three separate parcels as an interest. Yes.

I would make a motion to accept the second reading of bill number 2026-17. Second reading acceptance of sewer infrastructure and adopting as amendments. I have a motion and a second roll. Alder member Ren. Yes. Black. Yes. Pollson, yes. Finch, yes. Palmer, yes. Star, yes. Motion carried given ordinance number 3181.

Bill number 2026-18. I will accept a motion for the first to accept the first reading of bill number 2046-18 amending chapter 50 zoning article 2 division 2 section 50-58 relating to off street parking for all R1 zones of the city Odessa code of ordinances. I make motion for the first reading of bill number 2026-18 uh code of ordinance amendment chapter 50 off street parking have a motion and a second all in favor so discussion

m I listen to two planning commission's meetings where this was discussed add material. I have a concern um the staff report indicates that we want to work towards more affordable housing. My concern is before I understand the issue I think we were trying to resolve was our code said that a single family needed two garage spaces and we had some homes built with one. Um so trying to resolve that. I'm afraid that if we include the language that excludes the internal garage space when people are either contracting to have a whole build or a builder is building one, you're going to have more concrete or even a wider or longer driveway. I drove around town today and there are areas of town where I think we all want to see infill and I think that would be challenging. There are homes on corner lots that have um garages on the side that have a little bit wider and stubbier driveway. So, no opportunity there to lengthen. You're really putting whether it's an individual or a builder in a position of choosing no garage on a new build because you're paying for more concrete for more parking outside or paying twice for the same capacity. I understand the concern about um a car in the garage and a car in the driveway. I think there are some areas of town that probably have more congestion than others. I drove maybe in my ward today a little bit around town. I think it makes more sense with respect to the planning commission to send this back down for some more discussion

and maybe analyzing what issue are we trying to solve. We have a lot more work to do on the other um parking ordinances. I'm concerned I don't know if we had burst with any of our building community or vendors or realators people that might be involved in that process. I don't know how not counting an internal garage space makes building a home worth. I think it puts people to make a choice. We don't want tiny homes with I don't want to see tiny homes with the whole front yards driveway. You could have a ranch style home with three bedrooms on the main floor and the finished um conforming bedrooms on the basement. you're going to have a lot of driveway there if there is a garage and you don't get to count those spaces. I personally am not in favor of this particular version. I would like to see it um go back down to a planning commission where they could consider it with the rest of the parking um discussion and then get more feedback and really analyze what the cost of doing that would be and what the feedback from the people that will be paying the price to be. That's close. Uh, I got a little bit about this. I've talked to a few people. I'm kind of confused by the wording, so I don't know if I who I address to get answers on it. Uh, but essentially, we're taking away the language that specifies two garage parking spaces and we're making it to where your average home has to have three outside of the garage. Am I reading correctly?

Yep. I'm kind of echoing what she's saying. What are we trying to achieve with this? The original intent was to reduce on street parking. So eliminate the need for residents to have to park on the street, especially for new construction. So it they were concerned with the fact that we had new multif family built and that new multif family immediately after construction, those residents were having to park on the street. This ordinance isn't about multif family, right?

No. So that's my concern is I'm afraid that we are the line is blurring between if it's multifamily build then address that area or that subdivision development agreement or parking whether it's no parking one side but we're blurring an issue with multifamily and it's bleeding into residential where I'm not seeing the data to back up that residential street overflow in most areas is really the issue we're trying I agree. Is this more about do areas? Um, not necessarily. No. Only reason I asked is because you said seems like most of the neighborhoods get through, you know.

Yeah,

I'm sure there's a few outliers. Uh, also, I'm not sure. I mean, this really does choose people or make people choose. Do they want a garage or do they want a huge concrete slab front yard? Um, I don't know. And it's kind it's it's the whole thing's kind of confusing because I feel like the goal of the ordinance isn't actually being achieved if if I'm understanding the goal. So that's my stance on it. at the planning and funding meeting it was brought up and I believe it's several cities were studied on their ordinances and how they how you know the number of bedrooms versus the the driveway size. So that is part of where this came from.

Mike Sington for example different challenges than the city of Odessa residential neighborhoods. I think they have I did some as quick research as I could today. Um narrower streets, more historic old build neighborhoods than we have. I don't think we should try and apply a solution to the solved Lexington problem for Odessa if we can't back up that it is an Odessa problem. That's the only issue I had. We had some data that said the majority of our residential neighborhoods have so much overflow parking that that a trash truck or a fire truck can't get down. That's not what I have experienced driving through town. I think we are trying to solve a multifamily issue, but we're putting it on a single family. I I think we miss the mark here.

So in that instance where we would have parking that would create a hazard or whatever. We have the option to consider that to say no parking, right? So we I mean in that specific area, we don't have to make an ordinance that determines the size of a person's house if it's an issue with just parking. That's my position is that you if there is an area whether it's new or old, maybe it's an older area and there's several new homes that go in. I think if street overflow and congestion and traffic becomes the issue and deal with that issue instead of trying to apply a blanket solution that another community used without being able to tell the story of what's what is it solving here and what data do we have to have better? you have this is just throwing out there. So let's say you got a threebedroom house. So then according to if we accept this it would be three spot three spaces years ago if you had you know threebedroom house you could have eight kids and they would fit three bedrooms. Uh so at some point in time your eight kids are going to all have a car which you can say will only be for a time period they'll all be parking on the street. Sooner or later they'll leave you have to leave the house. But that's me that's everybody. If you have if you have kids you're going to have a multitude of cars.

Agree. I don't think families are trending children these days, but I have a three-bedroom house. I have a twocar garage. I'm I'm in a position where my driveway is very long and at the top end I have I don't know what three lanes. I drove around town today. the size of the lots and the number of homes that have a one lane or a little bit bigger uh driveway don't have the space other than going wider which I yeah I would I want to I would want to have more discussions about what does the city of Odessa want our town to look like and it's is it a majority concrete front yard I'm not in favor of that Um, but not every I have a really far set back drive uh garage farther back than the house, but that's not typical. Our infill lots are not going to increase in size because we're increasing the imperous paved area that they need to park. There's still oddly shaped lots in some of our open districts. And I'm not sure that this solution has taken all of the uniqueness of our neighborhoods and available lots and areas to build into account.

Hey, I got to say something else to this. Um, some of these houses they're building nowadays take up most of the lot anyway. We do have another ordinance that you have to have so much green space. So I don't know if that will affect this or not. We can probably look into that. But if you concrete that, they're not going to follow the other. Yeah. And put a thought is it talked about the speed for affordable housing. So concrete's expensive. How is that house going to be affordable? You have this massive concrete that you have to put there. kind of defeats the purpose in life. It's also weird to me that there's cleaned garage. Yeah.

Yeah. So that's that's an odd decision. I lived in in a which was also historical. There were there were areas of town that didn't even have off streetet parking. I could see in a scenario where your streets are narrower and you have much more limited off- streetet parking that you might want to push as much as you can especially on new builds off the street. I don't think we're meeting that threshold here right now to do that. Let me ask, is this an item that you would like to postpone to the next meeting so you have time to think about it further?

My personal preference, just out of respect to the planning commission who did the work on it. Um, in my prior experience, you send that back down to the planning commission with the board's feedback, maybe work on that a little bit, but I will be open to others as well

if we send it back to planning and zoning. In previous issues that we've had, they requested if it's sent back in each state what it is we're asking, not not just send it back saying fix it. I mean, I would make I would be willing to make recommendation that if if the object was to address the opponent's build that leads into garage spaces, determine the number of spaces that's appropriate, remove the exclusion of the interior spaces for an immediate uh remedy, and then if there's additional changes as any commission works through the rest of parking or that can be brought forward, there may be a need to go ahead and make a decision. I'm not in favor of the excluding the garage spaces, but perhaps there's a reasonable number of spaces that could agree upon and either amend or

or And with that, Amy, I would also like to echo what Darren said because taking it back, make sure the pling zoning is aware of that percentage. And I can't I don't remember it right. I don't know what it is. I just It's based off of a formal calculation. It's not just one number, right? So your lot size, your house size and anything left can't be more than to so when you build a shop, when you build a whatever

I think we have two we have kind of two different ones. One's related to storm water and the amount of green that you have to have on your lot. The other is that I believe it's that your accessory building cannot take up more than 20% of your backyard. Does that include the drive? Does that include concrete with that? Yes. I I'm not certain exactly. So that's So currently, if I understand right, the most recent home being built, one garage and one stall in driveway on Johnson Drive, I think, no, Pine Creek specifically is what spurred the conversation,

the town homes. If there are is there outside of that specific area with the congestion, there are probably culde-sac areas and places that are impacted, but is there has the two parking spaces outside of that been a citywide issue?

The only other place I can think about it because we've we've just been recently talking about it is Lake View Drive. when you come into the Hill subdivision, we have that same problem where the each each um duplex counts the lot behind it and that's causing those second cars to park on the street as opposed to but it's still a I get what you're saying. It's still a greater than single family issue that doesn't necessarily need these stringent of requirements in the single family ordinance.

Does it does it make sense for something immediate to say leave the two two parking spaces but remove what current code says that it has to be a garage stall. Does that help anyone? Does that like take out the um garage stall requirement and just have it be two spaces per dwelling exclusive of the garage or no to include? So instead now I think our code says yes requires two garage stalls. Go back, Leslie. Right there.

Would it make more sense right now instead of saying um two garage parking spaces for each building unit to say two parking spaces, two off street parking spaces? That's an immediate action that solves the discrepancy in our development some of our new fields and still allowing maybe a more well-rounded robust discussion around parking ordinances as a whole where then the multifamily issue might be saw parking ordinances or one way parking something like that

but still still clears up kind of that issue we were having with the most recent Yes. So, we we originally started with two parking spaces for each dwelling and then the commission kind of as they progressed through conversations. Well, it I let me correct myself. They started with two garage parking spaces for each dwelling unit exclusive of garage interior space. And then as their conversation evolved, they started to leaning more heavily on the need for um freeing up the street parking requirements or

was that on multifamily issue? Because I listened to it and I felt like the issues that were trying to be solved were not single family. I agree with that. But if we have an issue with what we've been approving, it's say too rushed. We do. Would it be helpful to remove the garage parking parking spaces? Maybe that's not an issue.

Yeah, arguably I would say it would be helpful just from an administrative perspective if the board could come up with a solution to help right now with the fact that we have developers with readily available plans that have less than two garage spaces because if we go back to the planning and zoning for this, they're they meet once a month. So their May meeting will be further discussion and then we'll have to do a public hearing and that'll be June before this comes back to you all and then we still have the same problem of these developers with plan. I mean we received

correct. We I mean we we received two today alone that had single car garages. I would personally be in favor of just saying family parking spaces reach home neither. So is I mean is is this trying to help the developers? Is that what this is about? Because these developers have not necessarily. I I wouldn't go as far as saying that. But the developers the development that's being done on these infill lots is the more affordable housing. Now, if you look at because these are those one those one car garage homes, right? That are slab homes that are threebedroom and these are going for like $300,000.

But that is the most affordable that can be built in today's climate. Unfortunately, I think that's a concern. It's requiring probably they're going to have at least one garage stall, but if they can't use that towards the requirement, more concrete is going to be Right. So that's not I mean I do if we have pending applications I think some decision whether it's leave it alone or I would be fine with just saying two parking spaces

and we can still have planning and zoning go back and re rediscuss it but I am concerned about the pending development that we have in in city hall right now. So, it sounds like we're trying to solve two problems at the same time, even though we're really only addressing one. So, there's multif family that we that we're trying to address, but also at the same time, we have builders who are building currently one garage homes. Correct. They're technically out of code. Correct. We didn't realize that until Correct. Okay.

Correct. and the the planning and zoning is reviewing all of the parking code, but we wanted to get this in front of you guys because of these backlogged um uh buildings that are or building permits that are waiting for approval. Real quick, subdivisions when they come in, just because I don't know how it works, subdivisions when they come in, we can we can require separate standards for them than just what's on ordinance. Or can we not? No, it would be what's in our ordinance. Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day, I don't want people to uh

I mean, I don't think anybody in Odessa, they can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think anybody in town would want more concrete instead of grass and nature.

Yeah. And we did discuss in detail whether or not we needed a maximum, and we discussed a lot of a lot in detail. So, our our parking stall size requirement is 9 by 20. So if you were to do three deep it would be 27 by 20 and then two deep with two more four would be 18 by 40. So we did go into pretty extreme detail about what that meant and if it was feasible and we've talked to developers on both sides that feel it's still feasible. You just have to be more thoughtful about how you lay out your parking lot or parking driveway. and then others who are concerned with it. So, we've seen internally that we did not get any anyone to speak at the planning and zoning. So, the commission has not heard from both sides, but staff have heard from both sides on the developer side.

We need to encourage comments though. We do. Okay. So, really uh these these houses that are ci the ones that are currently already being planned for one car. Correct. I mean, I don't know what decision we can make. people are voting for just this or what, but can we amend it to where three three bedrooms or less has the two spots and then we adjust from there so that way they can get to work then at the same time we can address this?

Yeah, I agree that we could just say um single family dwelling two parking spaces for each dwelling unit and that will be temporary until planning and zoning proposes a revised version. I would even be okay with the four and five bedroomedroom ones having a I don't think anybody's going to build a fivebedroom home with one car garage. I assume not. Um I guess you never know. Yeah. You know, uh so I'd be be okay with that. And then I also like revising the like the language.

I think we could simply just not implement ABC on both of those and re implement new language that just says two parking spaces for each dwelling unit. I support that. I think then it can become part of the larger discussion that all at one time. Yeah, we're planning there may be other solutions that come up. Um deeper dive on the multifamily or other solutions or maybe areas where we want to see parking movements might also help address some of the single family. But I would be in support of that amendment. I like that.

I like that too. Uh my one word that I want to voice because I actually heard one person bring it up too. I talked to Kathy a little bit about it earlier. Uh our most desirable lots coming in from the new subdivisions. I would hate for them to suddenly get decreasing quality because we decreased the requirement on our ordinances especially especially any any sort of lot that you know you're seeing from the highway because people that I deal with that work when I deal with in the city when I bring up Odessa the first thing they say is oh the ghost outlet mall. It's like well we're a lot more than that but if suddenly we start decreasing the requirement. So that's the only worry that I have but I definitely don't want to handcuff people the government arbitrarily handcuff

I'm just adding this out there. You know we have all these one-bedroom houses now in town that are going up a lot that all look the same. Is this just going to encourage more of those? And not that there's anything wrong with those, but do we want like every block in town to have the same houses, you know, that just like these all these little cookie cutter houses? I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just throwing it out there.

I think until prices go down or there's a more affordable way to build, that's probably not unless it's in a development, maybe design a subdivision with larger lots. I agree. I'm less concerned of the the one-offs than I am entire. Oh, I get it. I appreciate it. Okay. So, what do what do we want to try to do with the words? So, you need you need us to make a decision so we can move so the builders could move forward. Preferably amend the ordinance that's on the agenda.

So, that's what I'm hearing is you want to amend the wording to just two parking spots. Does that include a garage or can they just have two parking spots with no garage? I I don't look that. No, they need a garage. Yeah, I don't parking spots plus a garage. Yeah, then they can make the garage just two. Well, I think our point was to just reel it back to something simple for a temporary fix and have planning and zoning deep dive into whether or not we need garages or not need garages or how many spaces include the garage, don't include the garage, etc.

How fast could we get that long-term fix though? Because if just rewarding this was going to go to planning zoning, be a few months off. If we do a temporary fix now, does that temporary fix become a two-year ordinance and we got subdivisions going up? Would that rule right now? My intent is that this will go back to PNZ at at their May meeting and they'll vote on their June meeting. That's the intent. I mean, the sky could fall, but hopefully not. All of the property to look at.

Yes, they're looking they have already started conversations about all talk all all of the parking language that's in our code today. that includes single family, duplexes, multifamily parking materials, parking space size, uh driveway width requirements, um commercial parking requirements, it's it's everything related to parking we have brought to TNC to discuss. if we made a a temporary decision today and they decided to incorporate additional changes that could be presented with the public hearing with the rest of the parking zoning changes and then yes

you're willing to do the second reading and accept the ordinance as submitted or you want a perfected ordinance brought back at the next I would be in favor of accepting the amendment especially because we have some applications that are pending and the resolution.

We got a motion. We'll accept a Yeah, we I'll accept a motion to accept the second reading of bill under 2026-18 amending chapter 50 zoning article 2 division 2 section 5058 relating to off streetet parking for all R1 zones of the city of Odessa code ordinances as amended as an ordinance. Do we have to specify exact words or something like that? Say that again. We have to specify the exact words on the amendment before we vote. Okay. You just did two parking spaces for each dwelling unit. Yeah, that's what I

for both one for both items number one and two. So, single family dwellings and garage apartments. Do I have a motion? I so move that we accept bill number 2026-18 second reading code of ordinance amendment chapter 50 off streetet parking as amended and approved as an ordinance yes have a motion and a second roll call member Pollson yes Bench yes Palmer yes star yes Ren yes yes motion carried given Ordinance number 3182.

One more ordinance and then a resolution. Um make motion to accept the first reading of bill number 2026-9 accepting the public works improvements within and for the hill subdivision phase one contingent on receipt of as built. I so move we accept door number 2026-9 first routine acceptance of public works infrastructure have a motion to have a second motion to have a second. All in favor zero way extension

discussion. John, can you just give us a brief so this is rather complicated. The the hill subdivision has a a long history in Odessa. So, I provided some of the dates in the board action report, but the preliminary plot was approved in 200 um six, I think. Yeah. Yeah.

2006. And the final plat was approved in 2007. And the construction plans were approved in 2007. The we're kind of working with the hand that were dealt to an extent, but the construction plans were approved at that time. The construction plans were for greater than what the final plat was. So the intention was that in 2007 that they they split half of the parcel, final platted it, and then would come back and final plat the other half. and then time and and history occurred. The f the construction plans were approved and the final plaque for the other half was never completed. So when construction came back around in 2025, um the city quite frankly had to allow for the construction of those approved plans. Um and there was no other authority to say otherwise. So um the constru there was there was already some sewer infrastructure that had gone into the ground well before 2025 but um in 2025 the remaining sewer infrastructure was installed. The streets, storm water, water and primary electric were installed. So this infrastructure has been built into the city's infrastructure system. It's connected to our system and it legally and we are obligated to um um accept that said infrastructure. There still are plans to come back and final plat and preliminary plat the other half. Until that happens, no construction or new build um will happen on that west side. But right now they have the final plat approved from 2007 for the east side of the parcel and how homes

may be built on that side. So four lots have been sold and two of those homes are under construction as we speak. Is there an estimated timeline of when you think the as should be?

Yes, they're working on them now and they said within the next week they'll have the asbuilts sent to us. Thank you. So, there's just a little bit of history there, but we're working through and trying to get the project finalized as as quickly as we can. These are just little things that um and I I will admit that we should have accepted the infrastructure quite some time ago. So, it was pending uh final final plat on the other side and pending a few other agreements. We entered into an upsize agreement and um an agreement regarding the electrical installation. So there were things that were kind of still out there that didn't trigger say to say okay we need to accept this infrastructure and now with the new builds that are happening we have to accept the infrastructure in order for us to allow for those individual builds to be connected to our system on the f on the single family home level as opposed to the entire development level. Any further discussion? Being none, I will accept a motion to ex to accept the second reading of bill number 2026-9 accepting the public works improvements within for the hill subdivision phase one contingent on receipt code as bills. Uh motion to approve the second reading of bill number 2026-19 as

as an ordinance acceptance of public works infrastructure. Do you have a second? I'll second. Have a motion and two seconds. Alder member Bench. Yes. Palmer. Yes. Star. Yes. Pliy. Ren. Yes. Pollson. Yes. Motion carried given ordinance number 3183. Thank you.

Resolution proposed resolution number 2026-18 authorizing a chief of police to execute a regional aid agreement with city of K city police department for agency assistance in supporting public safety operation for the 2026 FIFA men's world cup. Have a motion to approve. I'll make a motion to approve resolution number 2026-18 men's World Cup future agreement. Second motion and second discussion. We talked about

um

I I presented to uh the previous board uh at last meeting um the information I think within the mutual aid agreement speak for itself. I'll be happy to answer any questions. I will say that um by entering into the mutual aid agreement, it opens up state statute to allow us authority to operate in our capacity but in another jurisdiction. So, uh it is a legal requirement that once approved will allow us to take the next step to assist Kansas City Police Department for the security surgeons. Any discussion? 6 to get up and walk around. Does anybody else want to stretch while I do that?

Okay. Um, should be on.

It's on. Okay. So history for the you that are new faces on the board. Back before CO had all of our customers pay a credit card processing fee. When we had the COVID shutdown and we really had to encourage everyone to pay remotely, the board at that time decided to wave that fee. Um, fast forward to this past f this school year and the cost of those fees are astronomical. And so the board back in the fall said, "Figure it out. Let's figure out how to get the the fees passed along to the customers so that not every taxpayer is paying for John Doe to swipe his credits." And so effective April 1st with the new budget, we switched from global payments who is our prior processor to Tyler which is our incode processing our our software processor.

That agreement was for a 4 and a half% processing fee.

It's been difficult because last time put it very nicely. The processing has not been happening as we were promised it would happen. Uh we are having problems balancing daily. We are having problems. There's delays in the system. It's it's not going well. So what I would like to propose and get your approval for is to switch back to global payments. The credit card processing would be a maximum of three and a half%. I would like to be able to negotiate that. See what kind of rate I can give for that. Continue to pass those rates or that um fee on to the customers and then also set a fee for the echek um ecommerce bills to negotiate that price with them as well. So very very high level at this point. Um we've given it a month. It's been probably the most me miserable month of my staff's life and I'd like for them to stay on board. So if I could get your all's input on making the switch back to global payments and reassessing how we're doing that, I would appreciate it.

I have a question. Absolutely. So why did you change it to?

Well, because Tyler could do it all. They could pass the fees on for everything. And so that took us completely out of the equation and said, "Okay, we're hands off. We're no longer collecting a part of it, writing a check for that." So that was the the good promise. and they've improved their system and it was going to work well seamlessly and it sounded amazing. It's not that amazing. Um, global payments can only pass on the fee for the credit card processing. The echeks the e-commerce payments we would still be build for those. So, we would have to add a fee for that, collect that portion of the fee ourselves, and then pay that to Global Payments. So, it's it's going to be a little different than how we've been doing it, but it's with a company that we know processes our payments every day, and we know when we pull a report the next morning that it's going to match what it's supposed to instead of waiting three days to pay. So, if a customer does the e check, how does that change back? How does that look different? Like,

it's it's going to say $1.50 or whatever that fee amount is going to be. I still need to negotiate that with mobile payments to see what they're going to charge us. Still, the goal is we're not going to be out any money. We're not going to be making any money on that. It's going to be just a pass through. But if you play with your e checkek and it's I'm just going to use $150 as as talking point. That's the fee that's added to it. So if you have a $100 bill you're paying me you're you're going to pay meund 10150. I'm going to take that 150 and I'm going to the city is going to then pass that back to

look any different to like if I go pay my bill it doesn't look any different than it did this month this time. Right. Right. It's just going to be a different rate than what it was and it's going to be different on the back side. So that our process even better on the when you said a max of three and a half% do they charge a different amount like credit versus debit cards? This is all credit cards. Okay. They do not charge for debit cards. Okay.

Now keep that in mind when I put my banker's half app on. Debit cards can be run as credit. Yes. So, um I wish I could say, okay, 100% of our debit cards are going to be debit purchases or credit purchases. I can't. That's a user end. Pay fee. Yeah. Exactly.

I just want to make a quick comment mainly for Odessa here. Uh I deal with bad card processors all the time and quite literally the amount of money that my company spends switching companies and then also chasing down uh for essentially administration by car processor no matter what the process is. It even costs money and I think at the end of the day it's a lot of cares about so yeah I mean that require I feel for you already just from hearing you talk to be honest. Yeah it's it's not been an easy couple of months but we're it's going to get better. There is going to be a light at the end of the tunnel. That's not a trade coming my way. Anytime we can spend money chasing money,

yeah, money made it offense to me. Common sense is not so. And just for clarification, my understanding, we already we still have our contract with global payments. So the switch back would not require a new contract, just a renegotiation of rates. This would be cheaper. Yes. So people would be happier a little bit maybe. is and I think the message that we still have got to spin is my mother is 85 years old. She's going to write a check every day of her life and she's okay with that. My daughter is 35 years old and she's going to pay with a car every day of her life.

My mom should not pay my daughter's credit card fees. We should not as facility be incurring my daughter's convenience fee and charging it to my mom. I mean, that's the common sense piece of it. I don't even know. I don't even know. You know, I wasn't gonna say it, but Kelsey, you aged Kelsey there a little 32. I will tell you.

Sounds like we have consensious. Okay. Thank you. Electrical rates. It's a great topic. We're going to look at a spreadsheet.

My eyes crossed up here. We are not looking at spreadsheets tonight. Uh Bruce and Kathy and I have looked at a lot of spreadsheets. Bush has created a forecasting model spreadsheet which is huge huge huge for us. Uh but there's a lot of factors and things and decisions and just conversations that the board needs to have even before deciding we want the rate to be $2123 or whatever it is. We have a lot of work to do and what I would propose to the board um based on your agreement I guess would be that we do a utility rate work session as opposed to trying to discuss these like kind of nitty-gritty details in a regular scheduled meeting. So, uh, that would be the best we can like if even pull up the spreadsheet on, you know,

but I I almost feel like it's we like we need to have conversations about what where we want our reserves to be, what's reasonable for our reserves. Those are discussions that are for the entire board but all need to be kind of sorted before we even decide on this is what our rates need to be in this year and next year so on and so forth. Um, our next item on the agenda, it the one thing I will say, so it cannot be May 11th, but I probably should have said said this in our uh in my old uh city report, but May 11th at 5:30, we're going to need to move forward with the liquor license hearing for Bar Grill. I know this is the wrong place to mention that the agenda and I apologize, but um We do need to move forward with another public hearing which we we've done for a public hearing liquor license hearing on May 11th uh to discuss the continuation of RERS girls license.

Yes, 5:30. We will send more information out about that.

I will send more information out about that. I meant to mention it in my admin report so I apologize. K's gone. So that information will come from me WCD click. Um so then that leaves the next meeting to discuss utility release um in a workshop session. We can either obviously your next item on your agenda is to determine if we should cancel or continue the memorial day meeting to Tuesday. Um so we do have Tuesday as an option. Right now we have no ending critical agenda items for the 26th. We could do a workshop on Tuesday the 26th. We could cancel our regular meeting and have the workshop at 6:00 would be my suggestion.

So we would we just would we only have one meeting? No, we meet May 11th and then May 26, but we would have Yes. one regular meeting. Yes, that's true. And then a workshop. So regular meeting on May 11th and a workshop on the streets. I'm definitely blending to agenda, next agenda,

but they go hand in hand. The spreadsheets that Bruce came up with, do they have anything to do with what David told us? Bruce, do you want to speak to that or do you want me to speak to that?

Anything to do with in in what regard? It's what the spreadsheet does. It starts with David's recommendations current rates. David's recommendations with the the first year of his three-year rates and then there was a four-year option. Uh there was one that had uh the split business rates. So, it has that. Then there's three columns where you can just play with the rates and see what it does. You could raise residential 5%, drop business 5%, or keep residential the same and drop business 10% for example. And then you it's got the current budget plugged in and the capital improvements numbers plugged in and and you could uh increase for the next four years after the this current fiscal year. You could increase the cost 5% each year. You could increase it by a dollar amount. You could do both. You could add a flat dollar amount if you knew, for example, you wanted to to hire someone and add a position, plus you wanted to increase salaries by 5%. And it would would compound that and add it out for the next five years. So, you could project all of your cost and your your needs for the next five years. Um, I'm going to go back and add the ability for the electric department of increasing the rates for each of our classifications in each of those five years if you wanted to. So, you could you could increase your your uh business rates by 3% each year. You could decrease it in in one year if your reserves were were high for whatever reason. You could decrease your rates. So you can you can just do a what if for each of the next five years.

Okay. So yeah, it's kind Yeah, it's it's kind of based on some of David's stuff that he did. We do we do have the option to we haven't talked about this but we could also invite David to the conversation and then we can you know get his professional opinion on things like reserves and things like that that she'll use the forecasting model that Bruce created. Thank you.

That's all I have for utility rates. So if you Any other questions on that? We can go to the actual next item agenda. Okay. Okay. So, we have we covered the tax committee. Are we okay with 26? I think we'll need to vote on We need to vote. We'll need to vote on it. We need to vote. We would for the 26 in workshop. Yeah. for the 26 to be the workshop. Yeah. Everyone okay with that? At what time? 6 o'clock. Yeah. All in favor?

5. Do we have to vote the count cancel the regular meeting? Well, we're we we we're amending the March 25th meeting, too. But it's not a regular meeting for workshop. Okay. Maybe just to be safe. Yeah. Let's let's cancel the March 25th meeting. Let's go ahead and have a motion for that first. I mean May. Sorry. Motion to cancel the March 25th board of all meeting. Sorry. I'll make a motion to cancel the May 25th board meeting. Motion and a second. Okay.

All in favor? 5. 60. 60. Okay. Now I'll take a motion to have a meeting. We have a workshops on May the 26. Yes. At 6 PM. Yes. I make a motion to have a lecture discussion workshop May 26. I have a second. Have a motion and a second. All in favor? I'm not opposed. I just can't be. Okay. Just keep on voting.

All right. Next scheduled meeting is Monday, May the 11th at 6 PM. All members of the board of alder have the opportunity to propose items for consideration to be added to the agenda. Is there anything you think would like to have added? Hearing none. Um, mayor,

um, if the boards would be interested, I could take direction to put the parking on Lake View Drive, an ordinance for that at the next meeting if that's the direction the board would like to go or we can do discussion either or from uh, Mr. Bailey's comment at the beginning of the meeting to discuss no parking on both sides of the street on Lake View Drive. We can either do discussion or I can bring an ordinance and then you could approve or deny the ordinance either way. Discussion on it. Discussion. Okay.

And actually we were gonna said that about Oh, we can do that too. Neighborhood advanced advanced advanced industries private drive. We had a concern. Oh. So, two items, two parking items. Okay. So, we need a motion. We do need a motion. I move that we put two parking subjects next to that close enough.

Yeah, I got it. Lake Drive and Advance Industries. have a motion and a second to uh put an alderman star item. All in favor? So, and I will have to say, mayor, I'm sorry. Um, we are actually the next meeting is is will be May 11th at 5:30 for the liquor hearing. Yeah, for the 5:30 for the liquor license hearing. We need a motion to adjourn. Yes.

You got say yes to hearing 41 legal actions followational confidential attorney client communication. Yes. I have a second that one. Um, roll call. Thank you. I missed that. All member star. Yes. Here. Yes. Pliy. Yes. Bench. Yes. Holson. Yes. Ren. Yes. Palmer. Yes. Okay. We are jer to close session. What was morning?