Board of Aldermen - Regular Meeting

They're live. Good evening everybody. It is Tuesday, February 17th, 2026. This is a Carne Board of Alderman meeting. Call the meeting order. Please stand alsible with liberty and justice for all. [clears throat] Sunny, have you had a chance to take role? I've taken role. Everyone is present. You have quum.

We'll move on to public hearings, personal appearances this evening. First item on the agenda this evening is a public hearing to receive public comments regarding proposed water and sewer rates based on the comprehensive water and sewer utility rate study performed by HDR presented on our January 20th, 2026 meeting. The public hearing is being held to receive public comments regarding proposed water and sewer rates based on the comprehensive water and sewer utility rate study prepared by HDR Engineering that was presented on our December 15th. And following feedback, additional information revisions were presented on January 20th. An open house was then held on February 3rd. Notice of this public posting public hearing was posted at city hall in January 16, 2026 as required by state statute. Information was also shared through the city's website, social media platforms, our city newsletter, utility bill postcards, and our local paper, the Courier Tribune. A resolution to accept the utility rate study was adopted. Excuse me. [clears throat] A resolution to accept the utility rate study and adopt the five-year rate schedule will be considered by our board of aldermen at an upcoming meeting in March. The fee schedule and budget ordinances and the budget ordinances this evening incorporate the financial year 2027 rates needed to continue providing safe and reliable water and wastewater services. give residents the option to select winter average sewer billing and continue our senior discount for volumebased sewer billing customers. Public [snorts] comments received this evening will be entered into our public record if you would wish to speak for or against the proposed uh sewer rates based on the comprehensive water and sewer utility

rate prepared by HDR. We'll have you come forward to the podium. State your name and address for the record. Floor is open for public comment and input. Seeing nobody move. Ryan, do we have anybody online? No, sir. We do not. Are are you here to speak? Sure. Yeah. If you have come forward and state your name and address for the record, please.

Hi, I'm Jill Buyers. I live at 1802 Patricia Drive. And I understand in corny that means how much I'm going to be listened to based on my address. That's pretty standard with city services. I think it's unreasonable to raise our water and sewer rates again. It's doesn't make any sense. We have it's blatant that the city does and the alderman don't actually want people's comments on this or on our information night. We would also take public comment. We intentionally don't have information here tonight and we didn't take public comment on the night where there was information. That doesn't make sense. That shows it. We don't actually care what our constituents think that we're going to raise the rates anyway. [clears throat] That's how utility rates in Missouri are standardly raised. There isn't a vote. It we only have one choice for water. So whatever our alderin tell us are going to be our rates, that's going to be our rates. We've been promised lots of things here in Carne and we don't always get those services. Repeatedly we've been told that we will have different things come to Carney that the city provides. I understand the difference and it doesn't happen. So when we ask why are our rates going up? we have we pay a company to come in and do some sort of study. Well, maybe if we take that into consideration, the cost of having that study got done yet again. I've lived in Carne for 23 years. This isn't the first time that our rates have been raised and we can't go off. There's so many more people using the water. Well, that's simple math. More people use water, they pay for the water. Unless we're not getting things for

other services we provide. Maybe if we quit having tiff areas that don't pay taxes, we wouldn't have to do things like raise our water rates and raise the money that we had pay taxes just to go to school. So we need to look at these things how it actually makes our town less affordable. We have less people of childbearing age moving into Cornney over and over. We have more people in retirement age coming in. Why is that? It's not affordable to live here. Raising our rates. When I first moved in and had more service, more water, it was half of what I'm paying now. And I understand certain things go up, but not at this rate. Not at this rate at all. This is ridiculous. We can't keep just oh well raising things here and raising things there if if there's not an actual reason. When you look at it, more people buying the water, you get more money. You don't you don't need to raise a rates. That's my public comment. Even though I know based on my address, it won't be listened to. Would anybody else like to address the board this evening uh under the public hearing?

All right, I will close the floor for public comment input. [clears throat] Next item on the agenda this evening is the engineers week proclamation. Sheila, if you would like to read the proclamation, I would be happy uh and I'd ask the board to uh join me in uh Lauren when I present the proclamation to him officially, please for a photo op.

A proclamation recognizing engineers week in Carne, Missouri. Whereas engineers provide the talents and skills necessary to analyze and solve complex problems and create the infrastructure essential for the high quality of life which citizens of Carne Missouri enjoy. And whereas the support of an understanding and informed citizenry of Carne, Missouri is vital to the efficient planning, design, construction and operation of the public infrastructure which includes water, sanitary and storm sewers, streets and highways, bridges, public buildings, communications and electricity and natural gas distribution. And whereas the health, safety, welfare, comfort, and economic vitality of this community as well as the success of various citywide construction projects and whereas engineers address the major technological challenges of our time from rebuilding towns devastated by natural disasters to designing infrastructure that will take the city of Carney through the 21st century. And whereas the Kansas City metropolitan area is one of the nation's largest collections of engineering firms known and recognized worldwide as leaders in their profession. And whereas the western chapter of the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers in partnership with the Eastern Chapter of the Kansas Society of Professional Engineers are celebrating the 75th annual Engineers Week through a ceremonious lunchon at the Marriott in downtown Kansas City on February 19th. And whereas the week of February 22nd, 2026 has been designated worldwide as the 75th annual National Engineers Week. Now therefore, I, Randy Pog mayor, do hereby proclaim the week of February 22nd, 2026 as Engineers Week in Carne, Missouri, and call upon all citizens and civic organizations to acquaint themselves with the issues involved in providing quality infrastructure, and to recognize the significant contributions which our

engineers make every day to our health, safety, comfort, and quality of life. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and cause to be affixed the seal of the city of Harding Missouri the 17th day of February 2026. Thank you Lauren. [applause] So Lauren I believe you'll be providing this with letters from your other um

that's correct all the peers that will be attending as well the lunchon with you and they'll all be presented uh one time. So, we're uh I appreciate all you and Shelley do for for the city of Carney and uh all the other engineers as as well. Um so, we're we're happy to provide this proclamation and uh hope that your your lunchon later on this week is is well attended and a great time. All right, let's get a photo op. I'll call the lady and see if they have We'll move on to the next item on the agenda, open public comments. Is there any resident of the city of Carne that would wish to address their elected board this evening? Seeing nobody move, we will close open public comments. We'll move on to the consent agenda. Does anybody on the board have any questions or items of discussion on the consent agenda this evening?

On um item D, Stevie Ray, is that's the same folks that was down there last year at the pickle ball courts, I believe. So, yes, he was. And he was at our July 3rd event as well. Okay. Yeah, I was just making sure it's the same guy cuz he did a pretty good job. He kept everything all cleaned up and down there. If there are no other questions or items of discussion, if we can entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. So move. I'll second that. All in favor?

Oppose. [clears throat] Consent agenda is approved as presented. We'll move on to ordinances. The first item this evening is a motion approving bill number 52026 presented by David Pavich, our community development director. an ordinance approving the shops at Carney First Plat 2D site plan as submitted by Star Development for Chipotle. David,

yeah, just three comments. Star Development is proposed to construct a 2500 square foot Chipotle building um out in front of Price Chopper, the grassy area where there's firework stand usually where be located. Um, planning and zoning commission recommended unanimous approval. Though they did recommend that some of the parking spaces be removed from the site plan uh because it's adjacent to the overflow parking. So there's parking [clears throat] greatly exceeds what's needed out there. Site plan drawing that's in your packet includes the updated drawing that removed some uh parking spaces for the site in the site plan. Um planning zoning recommends approval. Thank you for that report from staff. Alderman Leman, do you have anything as a planning liaison? Planning and zoning liaison. Uh basically what David said, we there was lots of discussion about the number of parking stalls for the size of the restaurant and Chipotle um [clears throat] is represented by Mr. Calgary who's in the audience. Um they've agreed to remove I think it was seven or eight parking seven or eight. Yes.

Uh parking stalls would be just south of the drive-thru lane. So [clears throat] Mr. Calgary, thank you for being here this evening. Sir, do you have anything to add or I don't happy to answer any questions. All right. Thank you, sir. Any other questions from the board on the proposed ordinance? Seeing none, if we could read the proposed ordinance first reading by tit only, please. An ordinance approving the shops at Carne First Plat 2D site plan as submitted by Star Development for Chipotle. Move to approve on first reading. I'll second. All in favor? I [clears throat] oppose. Second reading by title only, please.

An ordinance approving the shops at Carney first flat lot 2D site plan as submitted by Star Development for Chipotle. Motion to approve. I'll second. Pull the board, please. Alderman Leman, I. Alderman Holtz, hi. Alderman Kaine, I. Alderwoman Spencer, I. The vote is unanimous and the ordinance is approved. Thank you. Thank you, sir. [clears throat] Next item is a motion approving bill number 6, 2026, presented by David Pavich, our community development director. An ordinance approving a final plat of innovation fifth plat, a subdivision in Carne, Missouri, and accepting dedication of rideaway and easements thereon. David.

Yeah. So, Innovation Fifth Platoses three additional lots in innovation at the northeast uh quadrant of the subdivision. This would be the last phase of the subdivision. Um final pl I'm sorry, the uh public improvement plans have been approved by the city engineer and plan recommends approval. We think we may see construction of the public improvements before too long. I know not much left to see before authorization can be get granted for that. Great. Appreciate the report. Uh, Alderman Leman, anything to add to Mr. Calber? Same. Dodo,

nothing to add. It's exciting to We've been part of the KADC and the Innovation Business Park. It's It's fun to finally see that come to finality. So, um, yes, to to David's point, I believe, um, Mr. Magcguire's ready to start construction probably next month. So, that's exciting. Barring an [clears throat] very strange weather that we've had here in the last couple weeks, um we'll probably still have some winter. So, you'll see construction soon. Beautiful. If there are no other questions from the board, if we could read the proposed ordinance. Three lots. Mhm.

There are no other questions. If we could read the proposed ordinance, first reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving a final plat of innovation fifth plat a subdivision in Carney, Missouri, and accepting dedication of rideofway and easements thereon. Motion to approve. Last second. All in favor? I oppose. Second reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving a final plat of innovation, fifth plat, a subdivision in Carne, Missouri, and accepting dedication of ride ofway and easements thereon. Make a motion to approve on second read. Second. Pull the board, please. Alderman Hall, I. Alderman King, I. Alderwoman Spencer. Hi. Alderman Leeman.

I The vote is unanimous and the ordinance is approved. Congratulations again and thank you for investing in our community. Yes. Come back. Next item is a motion approving bill number 72026 presented by Sheila Ernsen, our city administrator, an ordinance amending the code of ordinances, chapter 355, title 3, traffic codes, schedule 2 parking restrictions.

Good evening. This ordinance um before you would amend the parking code to designate the north side of Evening Star Drive as a no parking zone. This um is before you after the city received a petition signed by 76% which is 22 of the 29 property owners on the street. Um the fire marshall also supports this amendment and Mr. Bradberry who collected the signatures is here if you have any questions. Great. Um any questions from the board on the proposed ordinance?

Mr. Bradberry, Mr. Thank you for being here this evening. Uh I don't believe we have any questions for you. Um and do you would you like to speak? All righty. Very well. [laughter] If there are [clears throat] no questions, if we could read the proposed ordinance first reading by title only, please. An ordinance amending the code of ordinances chapter 355 title 3 traffic code schedule 2 parking restrictions. Move to approve on the first reading. I'll second. All in favor? I oppose. Second reading by title only, please. An ordinance amending the code of ordinances, chapter 355, title 3 traffic code, schedule 2 parking restrictions. Motion to approve. A second. Pull the board, please. Alderman King,

I. Alderwoman Spencer, I. Alderman Leman. Hi. Alderman Hold. Hi. Vote is unanimous and the ordinance [clears throat] is approved. Thank you both for being here this evening. [clears throat]

Next item is a motion approving bill number 8 2026 presented by David Pavich our community development director. Well also have Eric Marsh parks director here if there any specific questions but um hall park uh hall park improvements went before planning and zoning commission for approval of a site plan at their last meeting and the planning and zoning commission recommend unanimous approval of the project to move forward with that before too long. Director Marshall, do you have anything to add to that? No. Um, and in my report, we're really close to going out for bid for a general contract. Great. Project started.

Any questions from the board to either one of our staff members? We could read the proposed ordinance first reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving the Hall Park site plan. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. All in favor? I oppose. Second reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving the Hall Park site plan. [clears throat] Make a [snorts] motion on a second reading. I'll second. Pull the board, please. Alderwoman Spencer, I. Alderman Leman, hi. Alderman Holt, hi. [clears throat] Alderman King. Hi.

The vote is unanimous and the ordinance is approved. Next item this evening is a motion approving bill number 92026 presented by Carolyn Yatsik, our economic development director. An ordinance approving the first amendment to the K353 redevelopment plan policy and residential and commercial guidelines to be consistent with the city of Carney's newly adopted fee schedule. Caroline.

Thank you, Mayor and Board. Um, as you stated, Don is before you tonight is the first amendment to the K53 plan policy and guidelines in an effort to be more user friendly to citizens and builders, as well as increase transparency. This amendment would move the hard-coded specified dollar amounts out of the policy and into an all new uh into a new all-inclusive city of Carney fee schedule which lists all fees throughout the city in one consistent and easy to find place. Currently in the policy and guidelines, there are six six references um to specific [clears throat] dollar amounts and that word which is is going to be replaced with as referenced in the city's reschedule.

That's all I have. Unless you have questions. Thank you very much. Any questions on the proposed ordinance in the report from staff? If we could read the proposed ordinance in the first reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving the first amendment to the K353 redevelopment plan policy and residential and commercial guidelines to be consistent with the city of Carney's newly adopted fee schedule. Make a [clears throat] motion to approve. I'll second. All in favor? I oppose. Second reading by tit only, please. [clears throat]

An ordinance approving the first amendment to the K353 redevelopment plan policy and residential and commercial guidelines to be consistent with the city of Carney's newly adopted fee schedule. To approve one second reading. One second. Pull the board, please. Alderman Leman. Hi. Alderman Hull. Hi. Alderman King. Hi. Alderwoman Spencer. Hi.

Vote is unanimous and the ordinance is approved. Next item is a motion approving bill number 102026 presented by Sheila Ernsen, our city administrator. An ordinance adopting and enacting a new fee schedule for the city of Carne, Missouri, amending the code of ordinances to reference such fee schedule and authorizing future amendments thereto. Sheila.

So over the years, individual fees have been adopted in many different places through ordinances, resolutions, and motions, which make it difficult for residents, businesses, and staff to easily identify what fees apply and when. This ordinance creates a single centralized fee schedule to improve transparency and consistency. It removes hard-coded dollar amounts from various code sections and policies and places them into one adopted fee schedule. The fee schedule reflects the fees incorporated in the proposed fiscical school year 27 budget and begins to move toward fees that better support the cost of providing services. This ordinance doesn't create new authority to charge fees or change how fees are set. All fees must still be approved by the board of aldermen. This change simply makes fees easier for the board to review and supports more regular intentional review by the board and transparency and clarity for everyone. Any questions from the board on the proposed ordinance in the report? If we could read the proposed ordinance on the first reading by title only, please.

An ordinance adopting and enacting a new fee schedule for the city of Carne, Missouri, amending the code of ordinances to reference such fee schedule and authorizing future amendments thereto. Motion to approve. All second. All in favor? I oppose. [clears throat] Second reading by title only, please. An ordinance adopting and enacting a new fee schedule for the city of Carne, Missouri, amending the code of ordinances to reference such fee schedule and authorizing future amendments there too. Make a motion to approve on second reading. I'll second. Pull the board, please. Alderman Hull, I. Alderman King, I. Alderwoman Spencer, I. Alderman Leman, I.

The vote is unanimous and the ordinance is approved. Next item is a motion approving bill number 11 2026, an ordinance adopting the fiscal year 2027 annual budget appropriating expenditures from the revenues of the city and fixing the compensation for officers and employees for the city of Carne, Missouri. Sheila,

this ordinance adopts the fiscal year 27 budget that was introduced on January 20th and presented in detail um at your meeting on February 2nd. Any questions from the board on the proposed budget? A lot of work, a lot of time coming to this point. So, once again, I'll share a similar message. I sincerely appreciate our city administrator, all of our department heads, supervisors, and employees, and the board of aldermen uh all of us that spent a lot of time and effort uh up to this point. Uh so, thank you everybody. And if there are no other questions or items of discussion, if we can read the proposed ordinance on the first reading by title only, please.

An ordinance adopting the fiscal year 2027 annual budget appropriating expenditures from the revenues of the city and fixing the compensation for officers and employees for the city of Carne, Missouri. Move to approve on first reading. Second. All in favor? I [clears throat] oppose. Second reading by title only, please. An ordinance adopting the fiscal year 2027 annual budget appropriating expenditures from the revenues of the city and fixing the compensation for officers and employees for the city of Carne, Missouri. Motion to approve. I'll second pull the board, please. Alderman King, I. Alderwoman Spencer, I. Alderman Leman, hi. Alderman Hull.

Hi. Vote is unanimous and the ordinance is approved. Next item is a motion approving bill number 122026 presented by Mark Thomas, our police chief. An ordinance approving the Klay County Detention Center detaine housing between Klay County, Missouri and the city of Carne, Missouri. Chief,

hi Mayor and and board. Uh this [clears throat] is a kind of a simpleou that we have to have in place. Uh it's been upgraded from Klay County uh sheriff's department for our to be able to house detainees at the sheriff's office in Liberty. Um we have very small percentage of a chance that we're going to utilize them. They're too expensive and I think it's a waste of resources from the city of Carney to house people there. We have other alternatives. We go to Cwell County uh where it's much more reasonable and we also go to Ray County if we need to. This is more a chance a chance to uh set up the MOU so that we have that ability when and if we absolutely need to.

Great. Any questions on the report from the chief? It's always nice to have a backup plan. Yes, ma'am. If we could read the proposed ordinance on the first reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving the Klay County detention center detainee housing between Klay County, Missouri and city of Carne, Missouri. Make a motion on the first read. I'll second that. All in favor? I oppose. Second reading by title only. An ordinance approving the Klay County Detention Center detainee housing between Klay County, Missouri and the city and city of Carne, Missouri. to approve on second reading. [clears throat] Second,

pull the board, please. Alderman Spencer, hi. Alderman Leman, hi. Alderman Hull, hi. Alderman King, hi. Vote is unanimous and the ordinance is approved. Last resolution this evening is a motion, excuse me, last ordinance rather this evening is a motion approving bill number 13, 2022 presented by Sheila Erns, our city administrator. An ordinance approving three Missouri Department of Public Safety, Office of Homeland Security financial year 2024 state and local cyber security grant program subawward agreements for the Carne, Missouri police department. Sheila,

this ordinance um would approve three cyber security grant awards. Uh probably the most important thing, we had planned for this in the budget um and the award just was delayed a little bit. Um, but the most important thing that I want everyone to know about this is that if when we accept these grants, it requires the city to transition to a.gov domain, which is a federal cyber security standard. It actually provides a higher baseline level of security, authentication, and trust to do that. Um, it reduces fishing risk and strengthens email and system security. But sometimes it can cause confusion because we are going to be changing our domain and people are used to going the the old way. And so it's just something that we're going to have to do a really good job of communicating when we get to that point.

For sure. Yeah. When we look at our annual insurance renewal every year, we continually see that our biggest increase to no surprise is typically on this cyber security coverage. And so I for one I mean I'm [clears throat] excited to to give the the security updates and and what a better time than when we have some some grant dollars to help us cover cover that expense. Any questions on the proposed ordinance? When will this be in effect?

Um it goes from we we have two years to complete it I think. Sorry it's in here page. Yeah, I believe it says through August 31st, 2028. Yes. So, we have until August 31st, 2028 to do it. And the the budget that we just approved this evening already had some of these items, I think, identified as a need. So, yes.

Great. If there's no other questions, if we could read the proposed ordinance, uh, first reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving three Missouri Department of Public Safety, Office of Homeland Security fiscal year 2024 state and local cyber security grant program SL CGP subawward agreements for the Carney Police Department. Motion to approve. Second. All in favor? [clears throat] I

oppose. Second reading by title only, please. An ordinance approving three Missouri Department of Public Safety, Office of Homeland Security fiscal year 2024 state and local cyber security grant program SLCGP subawward agreements for the Carne Police Department. Make a motion to approve on second read. [clears throat] I'll second. Pull the board, please. Alderman Leman, I. Alderman Hull, I. Alderman King, I. Alderwoman Spencer,

I. The vote is unanimous and the ordinance is approved. Uh we'll move on to resolutions. The first item is a motion approving resolution 10 2022. A resolution approving the reappropriation revision of the city of Carne, Missouri fiscal year 2026 adopted city budget. Sheila,

so [clears throat] this uh resolution is the second of two routine administrative budget amendments that we do every year. It doesn't authorize new projects or policy decisions. Um, it aligns the fiscical year 26 budget with actions the board has already approved and prepares the fiscal year to be closed by ensuring funds are in the correct accounts. Specifically, this amendment reflects previously approved actions, including the purchase of 108 East Washington, setting aside funds for legal fees in the potential judgment in the Davis stormwater case, adjustments related to the shops at Carne Tiff, consistent with the developer agreement, and the annual true up of shared administrative costs and in lie of tax payments that we complete annually following the annual audit each year and also internal transfers to cash flow budgeted architect fees. Uh the adjusted line items that are shown in exhibit A, you might notice they're slightly different in a slightly different presentation this year. And that revised final budget amount for each year. Each line item is shown um rather than only the change that we were previously doing. And this format change was intentional to try to improve um transparency and clearly show the final budget amount.

Great. Thank you for that report. Any questions from the board? If we could read the proposed motion. A resolution approving the reappropriation and revision of the city of Carne, Missouri fiscal year 2026 adopted city budget. Make a motion to approve. I'll second that. All in favor? I oppose. Resolution is approved. Next item is a motion approving resolution 112026, a resolution amending the vacation policy in the city of Carney employee handbook. Sheila,

this resolution um will amend the city's vacation policy to allow all full-time employees to acrew 160 hours of vacation time annually. And this um we hope will strengthen employee recruitment and retention efforts and will also support employee work life balance. Any questions on the proposed resolution? Read the uh resolution, please. A resolution approving Oh, I'm sorry. A resolution amending the vacation policy in the city of Carney employee handbook. Move to approve. I'll second that. All in favor?

I oppose. Motion is approved unanimously. Next item is a motion approving resolution 1226. a resolution approving the 2026 cleats and beats vendor [clears throat] agreement. Carolyn, I'm sorry I didn't introduce you. I apologize, but you have the floor. Thank you. So, before you is a resolution approving the 2026 Cleats and Beats vendor agreement. Uh Cle and Beats is the name of the watch party that's going to be on June 19th. And the vendor agreement establishes standardized requirements, responsibilities, and legal protections for the city which would will be required for all June 19th watch party vendors.

Great. Thank you. Any questions from the board? You read the proposed resolution, please. A resolution approving the 2026 cleats and beats fender agreement. I'll second. All in favor? I opposed. Resolution is approved. Next item is a motion approving resolution 132026, a resolution authorizing execution of a contract with AM Inc. for musical services at the Cleats and Beats 2026 watch party. Carolyn,

this resolution authorizes Inc. for musical services at the June 19th Beats and Beats watch party featuring Bangers, a tribute band performing hits from the 90s, 2000s, and beyond. Any questions from the board? The proposed resolution, please. A resolution authorizing execution of a contract with AM, Inc. for musical services at the Cleats and Beats 2026 watch party. [clears throat] Motion to approve. Second. All in favor? I

oppose. Resolution is approved. We'll move on to items for review and presentation. The first item this evening is a January monthly financial report presented by our finance director, Stephanie Harris. Stephanie,

thank you. Good evening, Mayor Alderman. This is our financial statement for the 10 months ended January 31st which is 83% of the fiscal year um that we have completed. So um we are nearing the end of our fiscal year. So this is a pretty good indicator of how things are going to end up. The most significant thing in this report is that if you look at revenue taxes, we are at 92.61% finally. So, a huge jump from um where we were. I've been saying all year long that we're waiting on property taxes and clearly they're showing up. So, um that's a good indicator um that we are at 92.61%. Um, that's probably the only most significant thing that I saw. Our sales taxes are still trending a little bit down. Um, again, probably 2 to 3% is what it looks like it's going to end up at the end of the year. Um, but didn't if you guys have any questions or any additional information. Anybody on the board have any questions on our financial report and update? Thank you for that report. [clears throat] Next item is the Carne Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System MS4 permit renewal. Um, presented by Lauren Snyder. Mr. Lauren,

thank you board. Um, Lauren Snider, CF Carne, city engineer. I also serve as the city of Carne, Missouri uh municipal separate storm sewer system manager or MS4 manager. Uh tonight I want to give you a brief update on the city of Carney's MS4 program. Next slide, please. So the city of Carney MS4 permit requires the city to develop a a storm water management plan. Development of this plan began in 2023. The plan includes goals and interim milestones that must be met to comply with Missouri DNR in 2026. This year is a permit renewal year for the city's MS4 permit. This permit authorizes public entities like the city of Carney to discharge storm water collected by its storm sewer systems to the waters of the United States. This permit renewal requires the city to facilitate a 30-day public review and comment period. Public notice was provided on Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 to begin the 30-day comment period. In the following slides, I will provide an overview of the city's storm water management plan and where the city of Carney currently is in that plan's development. Next slide. So, the city's storm water management plan is developed to address six minimum control measures or MCMs. They include public education and outreach, public participation, elicit discharge detection and elimination, construction site runoff control, post construction site runoff control, and pollution prevention and good housekeeping. Next slide, please. So, the first MCM is public education and outreach. And to address this [clears throat] MCM, the city identifies target audiences, pollutants, and follows up with outreach such as flyers, website postings, and social media

posts. The city also posts our annual MS report that's due every February on the city website so that our progress is transparent to the public. Public involvement includes offering public education sessions and coordinating stream cleanup events. The city is required to track its participation level in these programs uh to measure their effectiveness. Next slide, please. MCM number two is public participation and it's addressed through gathering comments during this MS4 permit review providing an annual board of alderman update which we're doing right now and responding to comments on city communications. The public may always submit comments to the city MS4 manager, myself, or through the report a problem feature on the city website. Here again, we track and report comments as part of our compliance with our MS4 permit. Next slide. MCM3. Um, this year, the city will be hitting a planned milestone in in its storm water plan development. This milestone is an adop is adopting an elicit discharge ordinance that will require monitoring, investigation, tracing, cleanup, and enforcement. City staff is already monitoring outfalls. Um, you may see these little discs below if I can grab it. Showing up on your storm water inlets around town. That's just a reminder the public that of where their storm water goes when it goes down. uh the drain. So, city staff's already doing those outfall inspections. Um we also monitor public and private development projects. Um any concerns regarding elicit discharges should be reported through the city's report of problems feature. Next slide. MCM number four. Again, this year, the city's hitting a second planned milestone in its storm water plan

development. This milestone is adopting an erosion control and construction site runoff ordinance that will require monitoring, investigation, tracing, cleanup, and enforcement. The city already requires land disturbance permits for most construction activities, and this ordinance will authorize staff to enforce storm water pollution prevention [clears throat] requirements on behalf of the Missouri DNR. Concerns regarding active construction sites should be reported through the city's report aer problem feature on the website. Next slide. MCM number five. In 2028, the city will hit a third planned milestone in its storm water plan development. This milestone will be to adopt a post construction water quality design criteria ordinance. The ordinance will require a maintenance and inspection program of water quality facilities for owners, private owners and the city maintenance agreements and enforcement. Our city code currently does not require water quality design criteria for development. This new ordinance will likely adopt u mark and APWA best management practices for storm water quality. This ordinance will also require the city to maintain an inventory of private storm water facilities. Next slide. Um to address the last MCM MCM number six, yearly training is being developed for city staff regarding preventative measures. One of those measures actively being developed is the city's response to Missouri DNR audit findings at the city's composting area where I designed a containment BM that will that was accepted by DNR in December. These operating plans are part of improving city staff awareness for storm water maintenance and mitigating illicit discharges. So with that, that concludes this annual

overview of the status of our city MS4. Uh the public comment period for our permit renewal will be open until March 12th, 2026. A public hearing will be held at the next board meeting and comments related to the MS4 permit renewal can be sent to my email lerimo. us. Does anyone have questions on the city's MS4? Didn't we just start this when we were above 10,000? Isn't that the That's correct. The threshold. Yeah. in in 2023. So, every every so often we have to do a renewal. This renewal will go from 2026 through 2031.

The only other thing I'd comment is your little disc. Yep. Um if if it saves the city funds and manpower, um we can we can figure out a way to get those installed as long as you've got a template to be able to spray it or the method to attach those. So

y so part of what we're required to do along with putting these discs down is we're taking an inventory of every inlet and recording that on GIS. So we have all of our inlets mapped and that's part of our requirements for our MS4 reporting. So that while we're there, you know, taking the shot and recording the location, we're just adding those. But yes, that would be something that would be very cost effective. Yeah,

Lauren, I appreciate all your This is a I don't know if people understand the massive undertaking and the work involved uh with with the MS4 uh requirements. So, I I know that you you've got you and your team got a lot more work to do and we've got a lot of things to do here at the the city, but appreciate all your time and efforts and making sure that we're compliant and putting together a good plan here.

Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next item is our third quarter operation uh results presented by our department head. So uh David, if you want to get that rolling and then um we can present as it's your turn. You know, I keep looking up seeing who's come in, but it's the wind opening. Yeah. Just keeps the flag poles were bending this evening on the way in. Yeah. Go ahead.

Thank you, Stephanie. No problem. I just I wanted to break.

Okay. Looks like I am starting out. So, this is the um well, first of all, good evening again, and I'm happy to share the city city hall Q3 update for fiscal year 2026. City Hall includes legal, administrative services, human resources, communications, economic development, finance, and IT. And together, these teams support every department keeping city operations running smoothly. Before diving into initiatives, there's a few key metrics from this quarter that are on the slide. Um, finance onboarded three new employees, processed [laughter] 510 payroll checks and 985 accounts payable checks, issued more than 11,500 utility bills, representing just under 68 million gallons of water sold, issued 11 business licenses, renewed four, and processed seven delinquent water shut offs. Across city hall, staff completed just over 39 hours of professional training and logged just over 15 hours of overtime. when we closed the quarter with budget to actual operating expenses at 72.5%. This quarter, city hall advanced a wide range of operational, organizational, and community focused initiatives. We developed the proposed fiscal year 27 budget and created a consolidated schedule of fees to improve transparency and accessibility. Staff finalized and presented the fiscal year 25 audit and completed a comprehensive utility rate study. Operational improvements included refining the business licensing process with a new online application op option, completing all W2s and 1099s and enrolling employees in 2026 health benefits. We also continued building a formal onboarding process through staff input and cross departmental collaboration. Preparations for the World Cup remain underway, including coordination and communication efforts

for Carne watch party again on June 19th. Our ordinances were updated to allow short-term rentals in anticipation of increased visitors to Carney throughout that time period. Community focused efforts included launching the new citizen newsletter, the Carne Current, initiating a public information campaign on our wastewater treatment capacity and plant expansion, welcoming [clears throat] construction of Hoffman Custom Homes and Innovation Business Park, and advancing a new K353 redevelopment project at 303 South Jefferson. As we enter into the fourth quarter, departments will continue advancing fiscal year 26 priorities while planning strategies to support the board's fiscal year 27 priorities. Finance will focus on year-end closeout and audit preparation alongside continued technology upgrades, including implementation of the new phone system. and we will launch targeted outreach to K353 property owners to sustain investment momentum in original carney staff will also dedicate significant efforts to the information campaign regarding financing of the wastewater treatment plan expansion on the April ballot. Thank you. And this concludes the city hall portion of our report.

Thank you. I am reporting for Shannon Smith, um our one full-time employee for the municipal court. Um we also get assistance from Jeremiah Gartney. Um he assists Shannon on court nights as well as taking payments whenever she is away from her office due to sick or whatever reason. um they had no overtime in the third quarter and their budget to actual spending was at 66%. Um again this is through December 31st. Um in the third quarter they had 367 new cases filed. They held six court sessions with a total of 1,361 cases on the docket for those sessions. And of those, 71 were dismissed and 379 um were pled guilty. Revenue, they collected $37,5 in fines and $3,940 in clerk fees with $11,890 in bonds and $1,100 of that forfeited to the city. They issued 160 warrants and recalled 87. and they issued 137 summons. Um, an other highlight for the porter, um, with the help of their party school district intern Natalie, they started cataloging closed cases for record retention and instruction. Um, those include all cases closed over the past 20 plus years. So this is going to be a large time-consuming project, but they are hoping that it will be completed by the end of calendar year 26

and they are working on just making steady progress towards closing those,50 open cases. That's all. Thank you. No problem.

Community development David Pavich community development director speak on behalf of that department. Um, this past quarter we issued 51 building permits at $2.5 million investment compared to 36 permits with over $6 million of investment last year. So, our permits went up, the investment went down. Reason for that is we saw a lot of permits for fences and decks and re-roofs, especially this past uh quarter and this year. Um, we did however perform 412 inspections, which is up 7% over the same time period last year. In code compliance, we investigated 99 code compliance issues, almost 50% more than we did the same time last year. Reason for that was uh Kathy, our code compliance officer, was part-time for the city until December of last year. So now she's full-time all the time. So we expect an increase [clears throat] as a result of that. On animal control, we issued 82 dog licenses last quarter, which is almost three times as many as we did the previous year, and we responded to 58 dog calls, about three times as many as we did the same time last year. 90% of the dogs that we pick up are returned home within 24 hours. So, we don't hold dogs very long because we have an idea who they are and where they belong. And so, we get them home as quickly as possible. And we processed seven planning and zoning submitts during the quarter which included the AutoZone site plan, cell tower along Jesse James Farm Road and code amendments related to short-term rentals and the use of sidewalks downtown for outdoor merchandise display and what we're going to see in the coming months. Uh we're going to see a lot of construction. I think that's what we'll see. So auto we expect to issue permits for Autozone Chipotle Hoffman Custom Homes building and innovation Mr. Bell's expansion, the new cell tower along Jesse James Farm Road, um probably

the apartment building at the columns, we'll see uh by March and then uh construction of innovation for plat public improvements. So we'll see a lot of activity in that uh later this year. So soon, you know, in the next quarter fact, I think Mr. Dells, we issued we were able to issue that permit today. Thank you. [clears throat] Thank you for that report, David. [cough]

Good evening again, Mayor and Board of Alderman. Um, some of the metrics that I'd like to point out, um, up on our board up here, uh, comparing the same quarter last year to this quarter, we had a couple of, uh, uh, metrics that went down and, and I have an explanation for that. Our citations went from 495 to 383. Our traffic stops went from 1,52 to 939. These correlate with the our calls for service which were about a 500 more this quarter than they were uh in the previous quarter last year, same quarter last year, I'm sorry. Um and then um anytime you have that that big of a increase in calls for service, we also have a big increase in reports. Uh 311 to 252 arrests, 102 arrests versus 67 uh this time last third quarter, uh we had 41 crashes compared to 29. And then our detectives investigated 61 cases this quarter as opposed to 41. So, it's kind of a trade-off when you have uh guys that are out on calls and and making um proactive cases and everything. You're uh not going to have as much time to write tickets, I guess. So, and we also uh when we talk about traffic stops um that's going to be down a little bit as well. It's just what we only have so many people to do this and we're busy. We're busy. So, um some of the topics I wanted to bring up real quick. Uh we had five pursuits with uh c custody felony charges filed. We had five impaired drivers that were arrested and removed from the streets. Uh we uh completed our shop with a cop which was a huge uh effort on a lot of people's parts. Uh not to mention the fundraising

efforts that we do prior to that. We brought 37 kids to shop this year. Um and uh made a really good great Christmas for them. It's a a lot of fun and a lot of folks from uh city hall staff also helped us out on that day. It was great great community effort. Um we participated in the donkey basketball game. I don't think anybody got hurt um that I heard about uh um we increased our social media traffic getting our name and positive image out there even more. Um, one of the posts that we posted about the fundraising efforts that our officers did for our Shop of the Cop involved a Nerf gun war at one of the local u uh martial arts places. It got over a million hits, which is crazy. We got phone calls from Connecticut, Montana, all over the country from police departments saying, "How did you guys do that?" and and we were able to kind of brag a little bit that we you know we went out in the community and we kind of partnered with these guys and went out and had some fun and and with the kids and and parents liked it too. So they they're all in and I think we should have named it after Carney I think somehow but we we just shared what we had so it was pretty cool. Um uh we have uh we're also looking forward uh we've been teaming up with Carney High School with some interns uh that have been coming in and helping us out a little bit. Uh we have two officers that we're proud that were awarded the culture champion awards for saving the driver of a tractor trailer on the interstate that had, believe it or not, been bitten by a spider and had gone septic. Is that I'm saying that word correct? Sepsis. I [clears throat] always mess it up. um and he was about to die. Um we were able to recognize that he was not intoxicated even though he was driving as if he were intoxicated. We were able to catch him, get him stopped and get him some medical

help really quick, fast thinking uh on our guy's part and probably saved that guy's life. And not to mention the people he might have hit driving that truck down the road as he's about to pass out. [clears throat] Um we're preparing our our safety measures for our World Cup. Uh we had our Christmas kids Christmas party which was a lot of fun. Um and then some things that we're looking forward to our promotion process. Uh this week we have three sergeants in our FBI leadup class uh which is part of a trilogy of of classes which is all about FBI um uh protocol for uh increasing our leadership abilities. Um and uh we have our blue shield program approvals coming up. Um, and I'll get be sending some more stuff to you guys on that uh very soon.

Great. Thank you, Chief. Yes, sir.

Eric Marshall, parks director. Um, we have three full-time staff, Ryan Ray, and myself. One part-time employee, Jeffrey Anderson, who is allotted a thousand hours um per fiscal year. Jeff did not have any hours during the third quarter. um our three seasonal employees. They share uh also a th000 hours during the fiscal year and they also uh did not have any hours this quarter and those hours are complete for this fiscal year. We had no overtime in the third quarter and we stand at 75.8% um at the end of the third quarter. We had 42 hours of mowing during the months of October and November. Um, we still collected 276 trash bags in the parks and along the trail at the pet way stations. Uh, we removed eight trees um by park staff along the trail and out at the amphitheater. Uh, we had six playground inspections during uh this time and we had a couple of incidents of vandalism. We don't like those, but uh we did have two of them resulting in 12 hours of cleanup and repair. Um had a great fall season regarding sporting activities. 700 participants um were were there. Uh most of those were being pickle ball, but we um also offered a new T-ball league. shelter reservations naturally gone one uh way down during the cold months, but we still had a few. Um we had one community event that we helped out with um the October Fest event in Lions Park and we continue to offer training hours to staff and those were at 20. Looking ahead, uh we're selecting our fitness um equipment vendor for the Hall Park

pending LWCF approval. Uh, speaking of Hall Park, we anticipate going out to bid in late March for our general contractor. That's been a long drawn out process and uh, we're really looking forward to turning some ground this year. Uh, we're soliciting quotes on some capital outlay items such as our soccer goals and replacing our 25year-old Gator with another Gator or a Polaris. Um, we're going to be getting with Black Clay Electric. Uh, scheduling time. Uh budget has been approved installing the electrical upgrades in Jesse James Park and we're doing signups right now for our spring sports and shelters as we gear up for the influx of the people to the parks as the weather u becomes nicer. Field preparations, mowing and chemical spring start the first week of March. Um our final round of trout will be stocked uh in Jesse [clears throat] James Pond later this week. So, um, we'll have a another big influx of fishermen out there. Uh, Ryan and I will be attending the Missouri Park and Red Conference in Colombia this upcoming week. So, that's my report. Take care. Thank you. Um, I'm speaking on behalf of Marcos Barbosa, our part-time cemetery Sexton. Um the hours spent in cemetery cleanup were 67. Um we did have some tree trimming and plant removal and Marcos is getting getting a lot of those graves uh cleaned and uh the old plants removed. Um 8 hours were spent on resetting some graves. Um eight graves were sold uh and I should say marked and then uh sold.

Um, we have uh our budget actual is at 61.5%. I will say what we're uh getting ready to do as we uh finish up this quarter is um install our new cemetery rules and regulation sign that you guys approved the new rules and regulations. Those just came in this last week. Um and um we will be getting um quotes. Uh Marcos has u sent out for quotes. There's a really big monument out there and even with our equipment, we can't move and reset that. So, we're getting um some quotes to have that um big stone uh reset uh and leveled. So, it's really bad. So, that's all I have. I think I know which one you're talking about. Yeah. So, all right.

Do you know what percentage of Pardon me. Do you know what [clears throat] percentage of that is filled up? I mean, is there a lot of vacant space out there? I can't tell you that. Yeah, I didn't know if you I can get it to you tomorrow. I'll I'll send it to you because we have that on it's all on computer now. Be really nice. Uh we can look and see where we are, how many grades we have uh remaining. Okay. Thank you. That make a note of that and I'll send it to you.

Um Lauren Snider, I'm going to cover the public works report for Sher Daniel. Um the city hall public works team has five full-time employees. We ended the third quarter with our budget to actual at 75.2% had no overtime hours and logged 142 training hours. We delivered 70 solid waste containers and we had no additional grant awards this quarter. We did map 19,779 data points and had 12,272 views our GIS database. We currently manage 24 active projects and issued four right-of-way permits. Those 24 active projects are in various stages ranging from planning, design, and construction to project closeout. Uh during the third quarter, we successfully bid the water treatment plant filter media project and completed the basin 5 infiltration project. The new water tower along I35 was placed into service with just the lighting and demolition to be completed in the in the next quarter. Next, um in the third quarter, we had six employees in our streets department. We completed 19,300 lineal feet of crack sealing with 2.27 tons of asphalt patching, no overlay operations, and had a pavement condition index of 58.9. Staff completed 16 hours of street sweeping, 276 hours of roadway beautifification, 30 lineal feet of ditch repair, and 74 hours of mowing. Staff completed 91 square ft of sidewalks and 40 lineal feet of curb replacement. We responded to two weather events. Um, no storm pipe cleaning was done, but we did replace 80 lineal feet of storm piping. Street department budget to actual is at 56.6% 6% with 41 overtime hours and 35 hours of training. In the next quarter, as weather improves, crews will be begin mowing operations, sidewalk replacements will

ramp up, and we'll also continue patching pavement. [clears throat] For the water department, we had eight employees in the third quarter. There were no there were no water breaks and we performed seven water shut offs and completed six water taps. The department treated 64 million gallons of raw water, sold 67 million gallons of water, and purchased 19 million gallons of water. The plant operated 1340 hours, uh performed 8,290 treatment tests, 66 distribution tests, and flushed 51 hydrants. Staff investigated 456 locate tickets to replace 13 meters, no mains, and operated 28 valves. The water park department had a budget to actual 66.7% um with 26.5 overtime hours and 35 training hours. In the next quarter, the plant will have two filter basins out of service while we replace that filter media. Um and then we will also be bidding the water main replacements along [clears throat] Clark Street. That going out here in the next quarter. Next slide. the wastewater department in the third quarter, the sewer department was having issues with our um measuring equipment. So, our metrics reflect the fact that we know that our total flow was not accurate. The flow meter at the plant was measuring a higher amount than our pumps were running, but we knew that we were running at our normal amounts. Um, we fixed this issue by recalibrating the system. Um, and then we UV treated 37 million gallons of water and processed 186 dry tons of sludge. Staff performed 70 lid inspections, 1,038 tests, 60 lift station inspections with with no lift station clogs. Budget to

actual for the sewer department is at 58.5% with 33.75 hours of overtime and 20.5 training hours. In in the next quarter, we plan on two public tours. The first of which was last Wednesday and the last of which is scheduled for this Thursday. And then we also plan to have our UV light system bulb replacement completed and ready for operation by April 1st. Great. Thank you. [clears throat]

It's apparent it was another extremely busy quarter for our our team. Uh it I don't think people Lauren understand the h how big having 24 contracts projects going on is [clears throat] quite impressive. Uh so we continue to have a lot going on uh and appreciate uh you guys sharing everything uh with the board and our constituents what's been going on. We'll move on to mayor's communications. Um I don't have anything this evening. We'll move on to city administrators report. The only thing I have is just a reminder that our next meeting will be on Monday, March 2nd.

We'll move on to alderman discussion. Alderman King, I do not have any. Alderman Spencer, I just want to say that I will not be here. I will be on my annual cruise next meeting. So, I'll be with you in spirit, but not physically. Well, safe travels and hopefully you all have a nice trip. Alderman Holt, um I was a little disconcerned about uh the young lady that was here earlier making reference to uh Green City Park is not being heard from. Yeah.

Um we I've been on this board a long time and and I've never had a section of town where we don't listen to to those people. So, um not [clears throat] sure where that came from, but um it also was indicative to me that um we have more education still to do because we've been talking about these water rates for a long time and if you've been coming to meetings or watching online or something um um it would have been answers to some of her her questions of why we have to do what we do. So, uh, they just let me know that I don't know how we need to do it, but we still got some education that that we need to do somehow, uh, to let people know, um, especially with the upcoming ballot coming on there. So, that's all I got.

Thank you. and Alderman Leman. Um I too was a little taken back by the comment about not being heard. um just was a strange comment and um but um the only other thing I'll say is it's always great to hear the quarterly metrics and and um the MS4 report was great. Um so lots of things happening in Carney. So that's all I have.

Great. Uh that concludes alderman discussion. Could we entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting? I make a motion to adjourn. Second. All in favor? I We are adjourned. Everybody have a nice evening. Thank you for being here.