City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome everybody. Good to see you. Cameras are up and running so we're ready to go here. Welcome to the Overland City Council meeting for June 22nd 2026. Melissa can we start with roll call please.

Councilwoman Ruckman. Here. Councilman Hrabowski.

Here.

Councilman Furnas.

Here.

Councilwoman Stiebel. Here. Mayor Little.

Here.

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

Here. Thank you. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing at its conclusion in remembrance of servicemen and women, please. Thank you. Please be seated. We are going to start our meeting here with three different public hearings. And for each of these properties, once they're reviewed on the PowerPoint, we'll ask if any residents have any questions, and then council members. And we'll go through that with each of the three. Jason, if you want to take that over, please.

Please take notice that the City Council of the City of Overland, Missouri will conduct a public hearing on June 22nd, 2026 at 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers of Overland City Hall located at 9119 Lackland Road, Overland, Missouri, 63114. For the purpose of reviewing and receiving comment with respect to the following matters, 1800 Woodson Road Plan Development, 2128 Woodson Road Plan Development, and, excuse me, 9074 Overland Plaza Plan Development. Any interested parties may attend and be heard at the public hearing. So the first item is 1800 Woodson Road. While this does not require a public hearing, I wanted to make sure everyone was aware that as part of this process, they will be consolidating the lots at, near the intersection of Page and Woodson. So that would be 1800, 1810, and excuse me, and excuse me, and 9395 Page. And a portion of the lot at 1800 Woodson will be transferred to St. Louis County. So if you see on the drawing where the green dashed line is, that will be the new boundary line. The space between that and the solid red line on the left will be transferred to St. Louis County. So that line, that property line will look like that once it is consolidated um so again lee's famous recipe chicken is here for preliminary development plan approval oops this is new construction in the c2 district again this is a planned unit development for a fast food restaurant with drive-through facilities Uh, the property is about 0.75 acres. The building will be about 2,669 square feet. There'll be 21 parking spaces, 20 of which are required. There'll be eight to 10 employees on the maximum shift and planning and zoning has recommended approval. So this is the site plan. Um, so the building is on the right side, if you will. Uh, parking will be on the left and then there'll be a drive through. So they are eliminating, um, the entrance onto, or there'll be one entrance onto page and then they're in eliminating two N two entrance and exits along Woodson. Um, so they, we've spoken both with MoDOT and with the county regarding, um, the change in the egress to the site, uh, as part of this project. And this is the sign package, so you can kind of see where the signage will be. So there'll be signage on the east and west and south sides of the building. And that will be kind of the color of the sign. So again, they're going to consolidate the lots and construct the new restaurant and drive-thru facilities at the location.

Any questions comments from the audience tonight. Questions comments from the board. All right. Next one please.

So the next one is 21 28 Woodson Road. The applicant is Mr. Gene Coverman. This is for a planned development approval. The building currently as it sits was sits was built in 1963. It's in the C1 commercial district. Again a planned unit development it's a multi tenant strip mall. It's a, uh, the building is about 24,600 square feet. They have 107 spaces, 96 of which are required. Uh, there is currently a prohibition of, of with respect to parking between 12 AM and 5 AM, uh, and outside storage is prohibited. And this was recommended for approval by the planning and zoning commission. Uh, so this is the location. It's again, it's an existing, uh, shopping center. And as part of this, um, The following uses, or the uses shown on the screen, I can read them if everyone likes, will be considered permitted uses within the shopping center. So some of these uses are currently there, such as like a grocery store, things like that. There's also a laundromat. Mr. Coverman, help me out. Grocery store, bar. Hair salon. Okay, hair salon. Roof company, right? Or no, in the back. So these will be essentially permitted uses. So if a tenant comes in, wants to use one of these in Mr. Coverman's building, they'll be able to go without going back through the planning and zoning process. And then we also have, this is the remainder of the list here, so We've done this in a couple other locations like at Overland Plaza, which we'll talk about here in a minute. But this is kind of a way to reduce the number of times that a property owner has to go to P&Z during the year, depending on the tenants. It makes it easier for the tenants and for the applicant, for the property owner and for the city to kind of establish these uses and then allow them to go ahead and do what they need to do in terms of leasing their space. I have a question.

If the parking is not available from midnight to 5 a.m., how do you deal with the bar location there?

Do you want to start that?

Yeah.

My name is Jim Coverman. I'm the owner of that strip center. It's not permitted, of course. But sometimes what's happened, people go to the bar, they drink, they leave the car. So I got communication with the owner of the bar, so next day they pick up the car. I mean, I better protect, leave the car.

Oh, no, I'm totally in agreeance. I just wanted to know how that works with the PUD.

It's very occasional. Very occasionally something happens.

Well, I mean, you'll have employees park there until 1.30 every single night. So how is that?

Oh, no, the bar is not open until that time.

Bar is open until 1.30?

Yeah.

So if you don't allow parking from midnight to 5 a.m.?

I mean, if they are employees, they have to be there. If the customer is over there.

So, Joe, how does that work with the PUD?

So maybe we can make an exception to the bar.

He's checking. The city attorney's looking.

You are right. As of right now, it says no vehicles shall be parked on the property.

I guess there's two ways to kind of look at this.

One is kind of a would we direct... the PD to go out and ticket those vehicles, or could we add that to, like, if they give us the VIN, they could be parked there in relation to the VIN.

Because I do agree. If somebody's going to leave their car, take an Uber home.

We did talk about that.

That should just be common sense.

I don't want to criminalize people doing the right thing.

Right. No, I don't want to run into, well, the car's not supposed to be here. Well, somebody chose to make the right decision now.

So it... I mean, if we're writing the ordinance or the PUD, shouldn't it accommodate that versus us writing, just saying, oh, well, we'll just let it go because maybe in the future we may not have a similar team sitting here?

Sure. What part is this, Firestone? Wells. Wells, yeah.

So should it be amended to say?

The vehicle shall be parked on the property between the hours of, 12 to 5 a.m. that are not related to the bar, the permitted bar facility on the site? The problem is I don't know how we tie them all. Right.

That's going to be an issue. Or do you say? Joe, was this a planning and zoning requirement or is this Mr. Coverman's requirement?

No, he's not. This was not a P&Z requirement. It's just something that's always outlined in these. I don't think we want to just say.

Sure. No, I was just asking. I just didn't know if this was something that Mr. Goverment had or previously.

Can we just count it as exempt bars?

How about this? If they're open until 1.30, I don't think, and tell me if I'm correct, I don't think the point of this is to restrict somebody from parking at 12.01 p.m. or a.m., I think the point is we just don't want a bunch of cars parked overnight. We don't want businesses using that as their parking lot for all their work trucks, et cetera. So, I mean, if we move the time from 2 to 5 a.m., that would cover the bar. I realize they might need to clean up and such, but.

I think that covers 90% of your concern.

I don't think anybody's going to be running down there. to a one right tickets. I mean, I don't know, but I think it's private property anyway.

Sure. But yes, that was my concern. It's just the consistency of, of you have a business there that potentially could have vehicles overnight. We can make that change.

Okay.

Yeah.

Secondly, uh, excuse me, um, concerning the, um, permitted uses, uh, it says, uh, liquor stores as a permitted use also. In light of what we have set to be the number of liquor stores in Overland, how does that play to this? How does that work for him as a permitted use? And stay within the. Pardon me. Go ahead.

So the way it's drafted, it's a neighborhood grocery store or a liquor store. So the way we had kind of addressed that at PNZ is this is just the zoning of it. If they were ever to get... an issue with the limited number of liquor store licenses, they just wouldn't be available. So it's separate from that, if that makes sense. It's kind of a, there's already a, what we determined is a neighborhood grocery store that qualifies as a liquor store based on square footage and the license that they have. But if they were to ever try to, this limits it to just one anyway, but let's say they decrease the amount of liquor then instead got a neighborhood grocery store license and not a liquor store license if somebody else took that liquor store license then they couldn't convert their floor back to be liquor if that makes sense so they're they're interrelated but they're nothing you do here is going to grant them any sort of extra authority yeah this doesn't change the number of liquor store licenses

that the city council can permit or can, can approve it. The number remains at five.

It just fixes the underlying.

Correct.

Yeah. And that came up at good question. That came up as well to make sure we were handling that.

This isn't outside the liquor code in terms of the number. It's if one's available, they could have it, but if not, then they can.

And my understanding is one of the, however many they already have that one. So this is. Essentially it's either the one neighborhood grocery store or the one liquor store. If they were to ever change due to floor area of liquor then this would cap it and kind of exclude it. That makes sense.

Makes sense.

Right. Any other questions comments on this one. All right. Any questions comments from the audience this evening on this proposal. Thank you.

Thank you.

We'll pick all of this up.

What's that? We change two to five. Correct.

That's going to be the recommendation when we do the ordinance a little bit later.

Yeah, I'll let them know. My keynote. I'll let them know.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

We'll have the approval still forthcoming in about five, ten minutes. So if you want to hang around. I'll just say thank you. Appreciate it. You're welcome.

All right, next. And so the last item is 9074 Overland Plaza. This is Seven Brew Coffee. This will amend the preliminary development plan. So this is new construction in the planned development commercial district. This will be a restaurant, if you will, with a drive-through. Oh, excuse me. So the property size, the overall size of Overland Plaza is approximately 19 acres. Seven Brew will be approximately, their kind of area, if you will, will be approximately 25,500 square feet. The building is 930 square feet. So there are a total of 1,095 parking spaces there at Overland Plaza. 1,040 are required, and Planning and Zoning did recommend approval of the Uh, of the proposal. So, uh, this is an, uh, an aerial of Overland Plaza where the star is, is where, um, seven brew will be located. Um, yeah. Yeah. Um, so their, their intention is kind of take up that whole kind of half a half a circle up there. Um, which is kind of where that 25,000 number comes from. They'll be able to park. Uh, kind of anywhere we're not subdividing that portion of the property for them. It's all gonna remain one parcel. Um, they're just gonna operate up in that, that area. Um, so those who haven't seen the seven brew, this is kind of what it looks like. Um, this is the signage on the front, which I be, we will be facing page. Um, and then this is the kind of the side building, the side of it. Um, that's the right side, uh, left side. Um, so they will, um, they'll be up at that location. And as part of this also, which we have done, we had previously, the city council had approved essentially a list of uses that could be used within that center. Um, so the one that is changing here obviously is the fast food restaurant with drive-through services that was not in there originally. Um, So what we've done is fast food restaurant with drive-through services limited to a coffee shop, selling coffee and limited food options, that's being added to the existing list of uses that are permitted within Overland Plaza. What was the question, about McDonald's?

Yeah, I was asking about McDonald's. I was like, wait a minute, isn't my, yeah.

McDonald's is part of the CID, but it's not actually part of the Overland Plaza property.

All right, any comments, questions from the audience on this proposal? Any additional comments, questions?

Property shops are popping up all over the place, aren't they?

Yeah. People are drinking last night.

All right, we'll close the public hearing, and we'll bring legislation forward here a little bit later on. We do have one community announcement for this evening, and that's from Representative Rachel Prouty. If you can please address the council.

Good evening and thank you, Mayor, Council, City Administrator, Mr. Police Chief and community. I am State Representative Rachel Prouty. I represent District 73. We're right outside of my district, but very close, about two or three blocks west. And I have come to give a very brief legislative update. I have the privilege of having served in the Missouri State House for eight years, and it has been an absolute privilege to be able to carry the burdens of our neighbors to the halls of power and influence. to advocate on their behalf. Currently I serve as the only person of any party on the committee on budget for the entire Missouri House. So for all one million of us in St. Louis County, I happen to serve as your budget person, your budget representative. So very quickly, just to update on budget, the legislature sent $50.8 billion to the governor's desk. And before anybody panics, it won't be $50.8 billion by the time the governor gets a hold to it. I'm sure he'll veto quite a bit of things. I'm hearing about $1.5 to $2 billion of that will likely be vetoed. vetoed, about $16 billion of that comes with revenue from receipts. When people think of budget, that $50 billion number, they think that's how much money we take in. A lot of that money, most of that money comes from the federal government. The state serves as a pass-through. Another bill that's of particular interest and I'm especially proud of because it took me seven years to get it passed is the LLC Transparency Bill. On that bill, it's language on House Bill 2805 and that legislation essentially says, so one of the biggest issues I've been told about since I've been in the legislature is, about properties that are owned by LLCs, municipalities, and others have issues getting in contact with those folks, particularly if they live out of state. It's hard to hold them accountable for things like blighted buildings and getting their things together, other issues. So this bill would require them to have an actual living person in the state of Missouri that is filed with St. Louis County and public after the third infraction from any political subdivision, which includes fire districts, school districts, municipalities so they didn't cut their grass once you couldn't get a hold of them the second time you know they had a water issue you couldn't get a hold of them on that third time we go ahead and send that information to court the court compels them to go ahead and file an actual living person in the state of Missouri that we can get a hold to to come and remedy their property and if not there are other things in House Bill 2508 pardon me to go through the process of subsequently and eventually dissolving that LLC, preventing them to do business in the state of Missouri. So that was hard fought. And so shout out to the realtors for coming together with me to help craft this in a way that wasn't going to be problematic. And lastly, one of the biggest things that we did this year was House, or not House, Constitution Amendment 4 and 5, and pardon the lisp, I have retainers in, I just got my braces out. So Amendment 4, is a big one because it changes the initiative petition process. So currently if the people want to change something that the legislature did, we would go and get the signatures like we did for Medicaid expansion, 50 plus one. If Amendment 4 passes, it is a one district veto, which means all the congressional districts in the state can agree to a bill or to pass something. And if one congressional district says no, then it's no. So it puts that threshold extraordinarily high. And I do want people to keep in mind that some congressional districts have less voting people because there are multiple prisons there and they're counted in the census where they are at that time. And so for a place like St. Louis County, that first and second congressional district where we're a bit compact, that really kind of diminishes our voice when it comes to the initiative petition process. And more pertinent to you all's job would probably be constitutional amendment five, which would phase out the income tax. I know a lot of people get excited when they consider that we'll be phasing out the income tax, but what that would then do would require municipalities and other political subdivisions to find a way to backfill that revenue, typically by sales tax. So it would suspend the Hancock Amendment, which puts a ceiling on how much you can charge sales tax, it would suspend that for five years and allow the legislature that turns over every other year to sort of figure out what it's going to do to try to help municipalities and other political subdivisions backfill that money. Here's the thing. No matter how many stores or new businesses that pop up or how much sales tax that you put on anything, The amendment would require municipalities to reduce things elsewhere, particularly property taxes. So we would have to find a place to reduce elsewhere, and for those municipalities with things like fire districts, that becomes extraordinarily cumbersome. It's also like writing the state legislature a blank check to sort of figure things out, what that looks like phasing out without much impact from municipalities because it was a constitutional amendment. And that kind of lends itself to Amendment 4 again, where in which it's going to be extraordinarily difficult to pass a constitutional amendment. It must also be said that in the state legislature, things pass 50 plus one. So the threshold and the requirement for citizens, everyday citizens, would be extraordinarily higher than it would be for just the legislature to put something on the ballot or to get something to pass. And so it definitely takes power from the people. And just personally, as a state rep since 1973 in Missouri, when we ratified the Human Rights Act, we didn't do much for women. And after multiple years of trying, I'm proud to say that my bill was first on the governor's desk, which would allow pregnant individuals to get a divorce and finalize their divorce in Missouri. And people were like, is that a thing? It is a thing. It will no longer be a thing come August 28th. The governor signed it on April 7th. And so, if anyone here is interested in running for the legislature, don't think because you're one party or the other that you cannot get things done. You absolutely can, and with that, council, thank you for your time. I am happy to take any questions.

Representative, thank you so much for all your hard work. What you've done has impacted us here. Thank you. So, hope to see you somewhere else.

Amen. Additional questions?

All right, thanks for joining. Thank you.

Appreciate the update. Yes, thank you.

All right, on to approval of the minutes from the city council meeting from June 8th, 2026. I seek a motion for approval. I'll make the motion. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. And approval of the bills?

Motion to approve. Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. And Melissa, your report, please.

It's pretty simple, tonight you included in your packet was a agenda summary for the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting which takes place next Tuesday, a week from tomorrow.

Easy enough, thank you. And Joe, resolutions and ordinances, please.

Sure. I have the following resolutions to offer tonight. The first is resolution 2026-33, notice of records scheduled for destruction.

Motion to approve. Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Records are destroyed. Thank you. The next is resolution 202634, authorizing issuance of a liquor license.

Motion to approve.

Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

Abstain.

And pull that vote, please.

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

Yes.

Motion carries.

Okay. We have old business ordinances, which is a motion to reconsider bill number 17-2026.

I will make a motion to reconsider. Second.

And all those in favor of the reconsideration? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. And now we seek a motion to approve.

So if passed, bill number 17-2026 will become ordinance number 2026-26.

Motion to approve.

Second. All those in favor? Aye.

Motion second. And poll that vote, please.

Councilwoman Ruckman. Yes.

Councilman Robleski? Yes. Councilman Furness? Yes. Councilwoman Steeble?

Yes.

Councilwoman Ferguson? Yes. Councilwoman Raquejo? Yes. Councilman Bernard? Yes. Councilman Bennett?

Yes. Motion carries.

This is, uh, onto the new business ordinances is, uh, first reading of bill number, uh, 27, 20, 26, an ordinance of the city of Overland, Missouri, approving the consolidation plat titled LFRC Overland subdivision located in the city of Overland, St. Louis County, Missouri, and directing that the same be recorded with the St. Louis County recorder of deeds.

Motion for second reading by title only please.

Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Second reading, please.

This is second reading of Bill number 27-2026, an ordinance of the City of Overland, Missouri, approving the consolidation plot titled LFRC Overland Subdivision, located in the City of Overland, St. Louis County, Missouri, and directing that the same be recorded with the St. Louis County Recorder of Deeds. If passed, Bill number 27-2026 will become ordinance number 2026-27. Motion to approve. Second. Second.

And pull that vote, please. Councilman Ruckman. Yes. Councilman Robleski. Yes. Councilman Furness. Yes. Councilwoman Steeble. Yes. Councilwoman Ferguson. Yes. Councilwoman Raquel. Yes. Councilman Bernard. Yes. Councilman Bennett.

Yes.

Motion carries.

This is first reading of Bill number 28 2026 an ordinance rezoning one parcel consisting of 0.75 acres at 1800 Woodson Road as more fully described herein and approving a preliminary development plan as submitted by 1800 Woodson Road LLC to plan development commercial and approving a site development plan per application PPP 260001.

Motion for second reading by title only.

Second.

All those in favor? Aye.

Any opposed? On to the second reading.

It's the second reading of bill number 28-2026 an ordinance rezoning one parcel consisting of 0.75 acres at 1800 Woodson Road as more fully described herein and approving a preliminary development plan as submitted by 1800 Woodson Road to plan development commercial and approving a site development plan for application PPP 260001. If passed, bill number 282026, we have ordinance number 202628.

Motion to approve. Second.

And poll that vote, please. Councilman Ruckman?

Yes.

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

Yes. Motion carries.

As we discussed during the public hearing, we are seeking to amend this bill to have no parking be from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. I would entertain a motion to amend bill number 29-2026 to make that change.

I'll make that motion.

Second.

And poll? Mm-hmm. Poll that vote, please.

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

Yes.

Great.

Uh, this is the first reading of bill number a 29, 20, 26, an ordinance rezoning one parcel consisting of 1.4, 6, 6, 7 acres at 21, 28 Woodson road is more fully described here in and approving a preliminary development plan as submitted by jeans properties, LLC owner to plan development commercial and approving a site development plan for application PPP 26, 0 0 0 3. Motion for second reading by title only?

Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Second reading, please.

This is the second reading of Bill number A-29-2026, an ordinance rezoning one parcel consisting of 1.4667 acres at 2128 Woodson Road, as more fully described herein, and approving a preliminary development plan as submitted by Jeans Properties LLC owner to plan development commercial and approving a site development plan for application PPP 26-0003. If passed, bill number A-29-2026 will become ordinance number 2026-29.

Motion to approve.

Second.

And pull that vote, please. Councilman Ruckman.

Yes. Councilman Robileski. Yes. Councilman Furness. Yes. Councilwoman Stiebel. Yes. Councilwoman Ferguson. Yes. Councilwoman Raquel. Yes. Councilman Bernard. Yes. Councilman Bennett.

Yes. Motion carries.

Uh, the next is first reading of bill number 30, 20, 26, an ordinance amending a site development plan and rezoning of one parcel consisting of 0.59 acres at over the Plaza. It's more fully described here and is submitted by seven brew owner to plan development commercial and amending a site development plan per application. PPP 26, 0 0 0 2. Motion for second reading by title only second.

Uh, all those in favor and hit post motion carries.

This is second reading of Bill number 30, 2026, an ordinance amending a site development plan and rezoning of one parcel consisting of 0.59 acres at Overland Plaza, as more fully described herein, as submitted by Seven Brute owner to plan development commercial and amending a site development plan per application PPP 260002. If passed, Bill number 30, 2026 will become ordinance number 202630. Motion to approve.

Second. And pull that vote, please. Councilman Ruckman.

Yes. Councilman Robleski. Yes. Councilman Furness. Yes. Councilwoman Steeble. Yes. Councilwoman Ferguson. Yes. Councilwoman Cahill. Yes. Councilman Bernard. Yes. Councilman Bennett.

Yes.

Motion carries. This first reading of bill number 31, 2026, an ordinance authorizing an amendment of the contract with St. Louis County, Missouri to provide coordinated communications and computer-assisted report entry services for the Overland Police Department.

Motion for second reading by title only. Second.

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

It's the second reading of bill number 31-2026, an ordinance authorizing an amendment of the contract with St. Louis County, Missouri to provide coordinated communications and computer-assisted report entry services for the Overland Police Department. If passed, bill number 31-2026 will become ordinance number 2026-31. Motion to approve.

And pull that vote, please. Councilman Ruckman.

Yes.

Councilman Robleski. Yes. Councilman Furness. Yes. Councilwoman Steeble. Yes. Councilwoman Ferguson. Yes. Councilwoman McHale. Yes. Councilman Bernard. Yes. Councilman Bennett. Yes.

Motion carries. All right. So 9560 Page Avenue, 1800 Woodson Road, 2128 Woodson Road, 9074 Overland Plaza. You're all approved. Thanks for joining us.

9560 Page Avenue.

Nope. Nope, thank you. Staff reports this evening. We'll start with the Rick report.

Thank you for letting me talk. The concert we had. Unbelievable. Oh my gosh. It was great. If you didn't make it, you missed it. That was it. We had a blast. The kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves. And they're working on trying to find some way they can come back next year, depending on their colleges. So that's what they're telling us.

I thought they were all going separate ways.

Yes, but they're going to be off sometime. And they want to make sure they can come back, because they had that much fun. And we got Bingo Wednesday. Leslie's our caller. So make sure you get down there. She's going to have a good time. I just checked. We have 10 tickets left. So we're going to sell out again. Our next concert's the 8th of July. It's going to be a big party. We're going to be celebrating some 250 years something or other. So come on down and party with us. Wild Horse Creek Band. We're going to have a presentation of the colors and it's going to be good. So come on down and party with us. Thank you. Barbecue.

Mr. Crowder.

Members of council has a meeting time tonight. We have a home of the mouth nominated in each of our four words. This morning, the extraordinarily competent Nicole Sanders that works right downstairs, within an hour, researched all the contact information, phone numbers, et cetera. During that review, we also checked to make sure we're not awarding a house that has an outstanding code violation. That'd be kind of bad. We check into that. I can't tell you the addresses because the commissioners are making the phone calls this evening and tomorrow. Let's talk parade. Beth, we have a nice parade planned. I'm gonna take your advice. You're the one that told me, don't look at the weather app. Isn't that your advice?

That's my advice.

But I did sneak a peek, and every time I look, it's getting better. Started out crazy, and it's coming down reasonable. So we got a nice parade, cars coming from all over, historic cars as far away as Catawissa, Missouri. Where in the world is that? Catawissa. But he's coming. All right. So thank you very much. And Thursday evening, Mayor Little and I are going to the homes from June. He's going to shake their hand, and we're going to present to them a souvenir picture of us in their front yard Thursday evening at 5.30. Right, Mayor?

5 o'clock.

5 o'clock. That's better yet. Is it 5?

I believe it is 5. Okay. See you at Art News. All right. Bye-bye. All right. Chief? Chief?

It's a little early. Just to save the date for National Night Out is October 6th from about 5 p.m. till 730 ish usually once it starts getting dark people tend to leave. But just to save the date.

Nice. Thank you. There we go, now we're set. All right, for residents' comments, we do have a card submitted here, Mr. Peter Hanson. And as with residents' comments, there is a three-minute time limit, so I'll just hit go. If you hear the alarm, that means the three minutes is up.

Thanks for hearing me. My name is Peter, a longtime Overland resident and cybersecurity professional. I was inspired after 30 years of living here to come to the meeting for the first time because I saw a flock surveillance device go up in Wild Acres Park. Overland doesn't deserve Flock surveillance devices, especially not in parks. Flock as a company and the data they capture has a history of abuse ending up on the dark web and costing the municipalities that implement them lots of money and lots of legal hassle. In addition to license plates, Flock through API integrations with software enhancements offer phone tracking through IMEI addresses, and Bluetooth tracking as well, even though the contract that Overland currently has doesn't cover software that covers facial recognition, flock cameras have patented facial recognition, biometric, and identity-based correlations. So that obviously raises Fourth Amendment issues. You have privacy and, you know, warrantless searches. Often as we find flock, Implementation often does not adhere to security standards and best practices of least privilege and on-demand checkout of credentials with an audit log, which leads to abuse by municipalities and by flock employees. Flock systems are the cause of scores of lawsuits against municipalities and departments, and they're used scores of times It's not a very old technology, but we have a bunch of court cases already how data from Fox systems was used to commit crimes, specifically crimes of domestic violence and child abduction. I don't think that's what we want to facilitate in the community that I live in and the community that you guys live in. And lastly, Flock has a history of unpatched vulnerabilities, may not mean something unless you're a software person, and leaking data to the dark web, where that data is then used to compromise personal information of the people who is captured, and that is, right now, everybody who drives down Midland, everybody who takes their kid to the park. It's especially despicable that we're putting a surveillance camera in a park to capture biometric data on children. So I strongly urge the council to reconsider permitting the use of flock surveillance systems in Overland, especially in Overland parks. Thank you. If you have any questions about the technology, I'm happy to answer them now or after the meeting. Thanks for your time.

Thank you. Eight seconds to spare. All right. Reports from the city council. Any council members with announcements this evening? I thought so.

Just a little more update on the parade. Council, weather permitting, it's a go, so anybody that's here, if you'd like to be on the wagon or walk with the wagon, just let me know. You just need to be on premises like by 9.30. If you're available to help just organize traffic and get cars into that lot, show up before nine. Everybody else, put this out on your social media. Let's get some people on the street watching the parade. We've got people coming. So let's have some people that we can throw candy to. Okay. So thank you very much. We'll see you guys on Saturday.

And dog bones. We have dog bones this year. Yay, Leslie. Thank you.

Anybody else? All right. A couple announcements tonight. One, just an invite for council members and for everybody out in the audience. I do quite often get complaints about, you know, speeding or traffic devices, that kind of thing. And just a reminder, we do have a whole committee that focuses on that exact issue, and we typically meet before council meetings here, 5 o'clock, not every meeting night. But if you want to check with me, I can tell you when – Those will be held and we actually have a lot of productivity coming out of that group to kind of fix these issues that Are important but not quite stuff that makes it up to here all that often so if you guys have any issues from residents feel free to let me know or I think most of you know kit Baker at this point pass those to him and he'll Arrange for that discussion when we meet for those items. Next item is kind of fun little tidbit that Melissa found today. Today's Overland's 87th birthday. So 1939, made it all the way to 2026. We're still doing all right here. So we have a lot more work to do in executive session. So with that said, I'll seek a motion to go into executive session for legal and personnel purposes in accordance with RS MO 610-021 subsections one and three.

I'll make that motion.

And pull that vote, please.

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

Yes.

Perfect.

Thank you. I'm going to host that in here at this time. You don't need to stay.