Remarks by Mayor Kevin King
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Please make a note that she is present from the first roll call. Thank you. All right. Tonight, we are pleased to recognize Candy Laster, Promotions and Marketing Supervisor with the City of Independence Parks and Recreation as the October 2026 I-Star Award recipient. Since joining the Parks and Recreation Department in the fall of 2024, Candy has demonstrated an extraordinary level of dedication, creativity, and enthusiasm in promoting the programs, activities, facilities, and services available to the City of Independence community. Candy was originally tasked with increasing awareness and…
Whereas the Service Recognition Program recognizes outstanding performance and exemplary acts of service by employees of the City of Independence, and whereas an employee committee selects the I-Star Independent's service and teamwork above responsibilities, award recipient for exhibiting the qualities and ideals that best represent public service. And whereas the Service Recognition Committee has selected Candy Laster, Promotions and Marketing Supervisor in the Parks and Recreation Department, as an I-Star award recipient for October 2026. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Council of the…
Do you have enough costumes for the whole city council?
I will be there. I will commit myself, and I challenge the rest of the council to commit at least to one night to dress up and have a little bit of fun.
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All right. We'll wait to the public hearings. Thank you. This brings us to Old Business 26-072.
Okay. Do you want to read the rest of your amendments?
Okay. We have a motion to amend... 14-431-02-C. I second. Any discussion? You want to vote on each one of them separate or you want to put them all together because I've got three amendments to go along with it.
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Yes. 14, amendment to 14-431-02-C passes with six yeses, zero noes.
Thank you. I have three amendments that I want to make as well. The amendments that I propose would be to 14-430-12-A on major data centers. To add the link, I'll read the whole thing, but to add language. No Impact Assessment and Mitigation Plan, Noise Impact Assessment and Mitigation Plan, a report prepared by qualified acoustical engineer that evaluates all existing and proposed noise sources associated with the major data processing and hosting facility and demonstrates compliance with all applicable provisions of the city code. To include this language, the report shall analyze noise…
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Yes. 26-072 passes with six yeses and zero noes. This brings us to our consent agenda. I would entertain a motion.
Second. Got a motion and a second. At this time, I'm going to ask if anybody would like to pull anything off the consent agenda. Mr. Mayor? Yes.
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Yes. Consent agenda passes with six yeses and zero noes. At this, I'm going to go down in order. So I'm going to go over number four. I have a couple questions to the city manager on this one. This one is for $537,000 for Reed Environmental. I have a couple of questions because we have a procurement policy in place that says that anything above $300,000, there are certain requirements to come into play. One of them be an approved apprenticeship program. also through ERISA's health and welfare plan and a pension or retirement equivalent to ERISA. And my question is, because my understanding is…
Was this advertised in the point that everybody that was when the announcement or when the publication went out? Because with a public funded project, there has to be a public notification goes out that this bid is up or coming out for bid. And when the time frame is for that, when they're supposed to be turned in. If there are qualifications and policies in place like this, they're supposed to be advertised or have a conversation if you have a pre-bid before the bid goes out, that these things are relayed to the contractors or to the entity that is there to possibly bid on these projects. So…
So real quick, I want to make sure. Local preference is one thing, but you have requirements in there that says you will have this, this, and this. That's not a preference. That's what it says in the procurement policy. So it's not a preference, okay? To me, as a construction guy, if you don't follow the qualifications that you're supposed to have in a bid, that's a non-responsive bid. So for that reason... I'm going to vote no on this. And for the simple fact, this company, I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, they're out of Sheldon, Missouri, right? Is that correct?
Yeah, and I'm not either. And, you know... I want to see this go out for rebid. We've done that before. And I'm a no on this. So I will not make a recommendation to approve at this point in time.
And I will second that motion. Any further discussion?
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Yes. Vote is tied 3-3. So now we take the actual any discussion on the motion because now we have to go back. That was to amend it to send it back out.