City Council - Regular Meeting

All right if you could please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance and if you're new here we do remain standing at its conclusion and remembrance of our servicemen and women and the flag is to stage left today audience right Thank you. Please be seated. All right. And before we move on with the agenda, I have a favorite ask of the council. Um, if I will seek a motion to amend the agenda to remove, uh, our 2026 56, that, uh, ratification letter to the state auditor, uh, the municipal league still working on that. Um, there's a different procedure they're looking at, so, uh, it's no longer necessary at this time. So I'll seek that motion.

Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Thank you. In terms of community announcements, we have a swearing in of our new police officer. Chief, take it away, please.

Thank you. You ready? I state your name.

I, Orel Dahan.

Do solemnly swear or affirm.

Do solemnly swear or affirm.

That I will support the Constitution of the United States. That I support the Constitution of the United States. And the state of Missouri. And the state of Missouri. And the laws of the city of Overland.

And the law of the city of Overland.

I will faithfully perform the duties as an officer of the Overland Police Department.

I will faithfully. Perform the duties as an officer of the Oregon Police Department and I will not knowingly receive directly or indirectly any money or other valuable thing for the performance or non-performance of any act or duty pertaining to my office other than the compensation allowed by law. Thank you very much.

All right, I'll let Jason get situated here. We have two public hearings this evening. We'll hold these separately. So after the first public hearing, I'll ask if anybody has any comments and then the second public hearing with the same open availability for comments.

Please take notice that the city council of the city of Overland, excuse me, Missouri. We're here. We'll hold, we'll conduct a public hearing on September 14th, 2026 at 6 PM in the council chambers of Overland city hall located at nine one one nine Lackland road over the Missouri six, three one one four for the purpose of reviewing and receiving comment with respect to the following matters, 95 Oh nine Lackland road, conditional use permit, automotive repair facility, and 2554 Woodson Road Conditional Use Permit Recreation Establishment Arcade. Any interested parties may attend and be heard at the public hearing. So 9509 Lackland Road will be Lackland Auto Boutique and Care. It is a conditional use permit in the C1 neighborhood commercial district. The proposed use is automotive repair facility. The days and hours of operation will be Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Overnight parking is prohibited, outside storage prohibited, and planning and zoning recommended approval of the CUP. According to their letter of intent, the services to be provided will include high-quality auto detailing, vehicle wrapping, paint protection film, installation and Missouri safety and emissions inspection. All work will be conducted indoors to minimize noise. They plan to. So there's the aerial. That's the building as it exists. This is the proposed. Improvement so they propose to install garage doors to convert the existing seven car wash bays into fully enclosed service bays allowing for your work year round indoor operations and improved noise control. The current office space will be upgraded to a modern, comfortable customer waiting area, and extra enhancements will be made to improve the overall appearance and curb appeal of the property. So that's the elevations they provided us for the proposed renovations to the building.

All right. Any questions from the audience this evening? Questions, comments from the board? Yeah. Glad to finally have somebody in that space that's been empty for quite some time. All right.

So the next one, the next public hearing is 2554 Woodson Road. This is, the business name is Level Up Social. Sorry. It's a CUP and the C2 General Commercial. It's a recreation establishment, an arcade. Ours will be Sunday through Thursday, 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. And then Friday and Saturday, same numbers. That doesn't seem right. Joe, do you remember if there was a change in that?

Let me take a look. That's what I'm looking for. Sorry. Why did it that way if they were all going to be the same?

Oh, I believe it should be 1.30 for Friday and Saturday. I'm sorry. It should be 1.30 on Friday and Saturday. 11 a.m. to 1.30 a.m. Cut and paste time. So Sunday through Thursday, 1 p.m. to 1 a.m., Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 1.30 a.m. They are proposing alcohol sales. That will be subject to a license issuance by the city council. That is not on the agenda this evening. Overnight parking prohibited, outdoor storage is prohibited, and planning and zoning recommendation is approval. So this is the location of the building, and this is the kind of rough layout, if you will, of the arcade.

Questions, comments from the audience on this proposal?

Sorry about that.

And from the board?

Did they change their request for liquor license during the P&Z? They said that they weren't sure. They changed their mind.

No, I drafted that in so they didn't have to go back through PNZ and we would just deal with it at the liquor licensing phase. That's what we're trying to do with those so they don't have to rezone it.

Make sure your mics are on if you're speaking here.

And I am not aware that they have applied for an actual liquor license. Okay.

Will this be for adults only then? Is this an adult only arcade if they're serving liquor?

They won't be serving liquor at this time. My understanding is they don't intend for it to be adults only. I think there's a certain time period where it might become adults only. I think like after eight or something. The applicant is here. as well.

I'll paraphrase, tell me if I'm wrong on anything here, but they also run the hookah lounge across the street. Okay. And they're treating that as the liquor establishment and they don't want to create competition with themselves. Is that accurate?

Okay, thank you. Any other questions?

All right, and we have legislation for that that we'll get to in about 10 minutes. Alright Thank You Jason close the public hearing For our agenda here I seek approval of the minutes for our August 10th 2026 council meeting motion to approve second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries on to approval of the bills

Motion to approve. Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. No report of the city clerk this evening as Melissa is out, but Jason, is there any notes or any additional items on your?

No, sir.

All right. Joe, take it away, please.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I have the following legislation to offer for the night. The first is resolution 2026-52, resolution authorizing contract with Volatus Drones for the purchase of an unmanned and remotely operated vehicle system for use by the Overland Police Department. Motion to approve.

Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries.

The next is resolution 2026 53 authorizing contracts with axon enterprises, Inc. For the purchase of tasers for use by the Overland police department.

Second. All those in favor. Aye. Any opposed motion carries.

The next is resolution 2026 54 notice of records scheduled for destruction. Motion to approve. Second.

All those in favor. Aye.

Any opposed motion carries. The next is resolution 202655, authorizing contract for purchase of vehicles for use by the Overland Police Department using contracts under the Missouri Cooperative Procurement Program and authorizing contract for outfitting of said vehicles. Motion to approve.

Second. All those in favor. Aye. Any opposed motion carries on to the ordinances, please.

This is first reading of bill number 37, 20, 26, an ordinance granting a conditional use permit to Gates to bull, to operate an automotive repair facility at 95 Oh nine Lackland road in the C one neighborhood commercial zoning district has provided for in section 400 to 20 C and appendix a of the municipal code of the city of Overland motion for second reading by title only second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? On to the second reading, please.

This is the second reading of Bill number 37-2026, an ordinance granting a conditional use permit to Gaith DeBool to operate an automotive repair facility at 9509 Lackland Road in the C1 Neighborhood Commercial Zoning District as provided for in section 400-220C in Appendix A of the Municipal Code of the City of Overland. If passed, Bill number 37-2026 will become ordinance number 2026-37. Motion to approve.

Second. And pull that vote, please.

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

Yes.

Motion carries.

This is the first reading of bill number 38 2026 an ordinance granting a conditional use permit to Maurice and Tanika Jackson to operate a recreation establishment arcade at 2554 Woodson Road in the C2 General Commercial Zoning District as provided for in section 400 230 C and appendix A of the municipal code of the city of Overland. Motion for second reading by Ty Dolling.

Second. All those in favor. Aye.

Any opposed. Abstain.

Abstain.

Second reading please.

This is second reading of bill number 38 2026. An ordinance granting a conditional use permit to Maurice and Tanika Jackson to operate a recreation establishment arcade at 2554 Woodson Road in the C2 General Commercial Zoning District as provided for in section 400 230 C and appendix A of the municipal code of the city of Overland. If passed bill number 38 2026 will become ordinance number 2026 38. And. Motion to approve.

Second.

And pull that vote, please.

Councilwoman Ruckman? Yes. Councilman Robleski? Abstain. Councilman Furness? Yes. Councilwoman Steeble? Yes. Councilwoman Ferguson? Yes. Councilwoman Raquejo? Yes. Councilman Bernard? No. Councilman Bennett? Abstain.

And motion carries.

This is the first reading of bill 39, 20, 26, an ordinance authorizing the city to enter into an agreement with the drew read displays, Inc DBA DDI media for the lease of property located at 83 Oh seven Kemplen place in the city of Overland and stating the terms and compensation to be paid. Therefore motion for second reading by title only second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries.

This is second reading of bill number 39-2026, an ordinance authorizing the city to enter into an agreement with Drury Displays Inc., DBA, DDI Media for the lease of property located at 8307 Kemplin Place in the city of Overland and stating the terms and compensation to be paid therefor. If passed, bill number 39-2026 will become ordinance number 2026-39. Motion to approve.

And pull that vote please.

Councilman Ruckman. Yes. Councilman Robleski. Yes. Councilman Furnas. Yes. Councilwoman Steeble. Yes. Councilwoman Ferguson. Yes. Councilwoman McHale. Yes. Councilman Bernard. Yes. Councilman Bennett.

Yes. Motion carries.

This is the first reading of bill number 40, 2026. An ordinance readapting ordinance number 93 39 sections one, uh, 17. Oh one Oh, through one 17 Oh five Oh of the Overland city. of the Overland Code of Ordinances related to financial disclosure.

Motion for second reading by title only.

Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? On to the second reading, please.

This is the second reading of Bill Number 40-2026, an ordinance readopting Ordinance Number 9339, Sections 117-010 through 1 17 0 5 0 of the Overland code of ordinances related to financial disclosure if passed bill number 40 20 26 will become ordinance number 20 26 40 Second and pull that vote, please Councilman Ruckman.

Yes, that's when Robleski. Yes, that's when furnace. Yes, that's woman Stiebel. Yes, that's woman Ferguson Yes, that's rumor Cahill. Yes, that's when Bernard. That's been it. Yes. I

All right, thank you, Joe. On to staff reports for this evening. Rick, you want to take it away?

Thank you for letting me talk. Whoa, this thing's working great.

I'm hearing voices.

Yes, tear into a song here. OK, we're going to have a concert on Wednesday. Weather took us out last Wednesday, so we got a concert this Wednesday night. It's going to also be hot, but we got too much, depending on it. We got a food truck coming. We got a band that we've never had before. So a lot of things are coming to place for Wednesday night. So come on down. Bring a little fan with you, some ice if you want. It'll be OK. We're going to have fun. I know that. And then. Patrick, he's doing our calling the following Wednesday for the bingo.

Looking forward to it all year, Rick.

There you go. That's what we want. And they look forward to you. So come on down, have fun. That's what we do. Last I heard, we had just a few tickets left for the bingo, so I'm pretty sure it's going to be sold out again. If you ain't got a ticket, sorry. I tried to buy a whole bunch of them, and they won't let me. So, all right, thank you.

Thanks to you and your troop for making us all the way to the end of the season here.

Mr. Crowder.

Mayor Little, members of the council, September wraps up our 16th home of the month, home of the year season. You know, we do this June, July, August, September. That yields 16 homes in competition for home of the year. And that is done by secret ballot at our November meeting. We make a big deal of it, Mayor Little. That phone right in front of you, we call them, and we surprise them, and then we take the sign to the yard that same evening. They're invited to the Christmas party. We pick them up in a limousine, and it is a big deal, okay? Here's the September homes. Ward 12205, Wallace. Ward 2, number 1, Longbow Court. Ward 3, 9554 Flora. Ward 4, 2423 Chaucer. So we're coming up on Autumn in the Park. You know, Councilwoman Ruckman, if we would be having this in the 4-H Park in Owensville, it wouldn't be more family-centered than what we're going to do. I'm throwing you a hot potato. Tell us the lineup. What are we going to have?

The movie for Autumn in the Park this year is Toy Story 5. It will have just come out, so we're very happy about that. We've got the Rick Spear Band is going to play. We're going to have a cakewalk. We've got a petting zoo. We've got pony rides. We've got face painters. We've got a little bubble booth. We've got kids crafts. The Rec Academy is going to be there, and they're bringing a gaga pit and a little archery game. We also have a sensory booth for some of the littler kids. And all these events, all of those things are absolutely free. between the businesses of the OBA, local residents, and the city. This event is totally free for people to attend. We do have vendors, a few vendors. We're also not charging them for this event. Again, it's a community-based event. So as much as can be free is free. We do also have food vendors. You will have to buy your own food, but Gracie's supposed to be there with her shish kabobs and crab rangoons. And it's just a good, it's just an easy community event and everyone is welcome. So please put this out on your social media. And if anybody wants to volunteer to man, any bubble boosts or kid games, let me know. We've got punk and chunking, um, um, the times it's Saturday, September 26th. It's from 3 PM to about 9 PM to the conclusion of the movie. The movie usually starts about 7.30. We also have a little demonstration from New Era Dance. So the girls will be there performing for us too. So look forward to seeing everyone. Thank you so much. That's family. That's family. Yes, ma'am.

Thank you, folks.

Thank you, Mr. Crowder. If you need a golden retriever for the petting zoo, call Mark or Patrick or myself. We'll gladly let somebody watch them for a day. Deal.

I've got a little one that bites. Oh, another. If you want to have Mike, we'll have to give him up, too.

We'll pass on that one.

Thank you.

Start drafting the liability waivers.

So just a quick reminder, National Night Out, October 6th to Tuesday from 5 to 8. Last year it got a little chilly once the sun went down, so you might want to bring a jacket. We'll have food, soft drinks, live music, and just a great opportunity to get to mingle with everyone, and everyone's welcome. Also, I want to thank the council for approving the drone. It really is a valuable tool for us. We are, you know, we're not just going to use it willy nilly. It's we use it for, you know, legitimate purposes like searches for missing people, children, subjects that flee from us. It's great for evidence gathering at crime scenes and accident scenes. We have 10 10 licensed pilots already drawn pilots they're already trained ready to go. It's. something that is really gonna help us. The data is stored directly on a SIM card and then what we get is stored securely in our evidence files. So we do everything within the Fourth Amendment. We're not just gonna put it up and start looking into people's backyards. There's always a legitimate reason why we're doing it. I appreciate it, thank you. What is the golf tournament? Is that this Saturday? Golf tournament is the 25th, is a Friday. And I think all the teams are sold. Oh yeah? Yes.

All right, nice. Okay, that concludes staff reports. We have two residents' comments this evening. First up, Mr. Peter Hanson. Happy Monday. Nice to be back.

I'm so new to this I didn't realize there were two meetings a month. So I've been missing sharing my love and joy with you half of the time. So. I wanted to talk a little more about FLOC and maybe share some details that people aren't aware with. I'm going to start with this. This is only the index of a report. The full report was 91 pages, specifying security gaps and vulnerabilities that was filed with the National Institute of Safety and Technology. This happens all the time in tech. Most of the time, companies will document CVEs and respond to them over time. It's been crickets from FLOC. There's 72 that have been filed with the NIST so far, and FLOC has commented on none of them and not published publicly the fixes for any of them. It's very unusual in the technology space. What there hasn't been crickets on is Flock has caught some increasingly bad press. So what they've decided to do is spend $3 million to get lobbyists in front of politicians and buy social media time. So we have a lot of social media influencers parroting the same messages. And they've chosen to obfuscate some of their data, making it harder to figure out when the system is being abused. I don't think that's the direction we want to see a technology company move in. What is the system that they've obfuscated? There's 130,000 users that have access to our cameras. That's the danger of Flock, is the security is only as good as the least trustworthy of any of those 130,000 users. I haven't seen an audit from Overland, but I did see audits from two municipalities that recently canceled Flock contracts. One of them was Elk Grove, Illinois, And they found that 3,600 organizations had searched the data captured by their cameras, resulting in over 8 million searches. That's not their officers. That's outside. officers and companies that are searching their data. The other one was Cocachino City. They found that over three million searches were done on their cameras and only 3,500 were from their officers. So you can do the math and figure out the vast majority of this data is being exposed to people who aren't in Overland, who aren't part of the police department. But things that are hitting the Overland, the second most entertaining one that hit Overland cameras was Bolo MILF. This hit every camera nationwide. The most entertaining one I actually can't say here because the reason violates the terms that I agreed to to speak tonight. 74% of St. Louisans in the last poll I saw are against automated AI-driven persistent surveillance. but 100% of this council voted for it. I feel like there's a disconnect with the people that are being represented and the city council, and hopefully the more we realize about it, the more we can get in line with the public. That's your time. I had a great quote from the St. Charles.

Well, I do appreciate you abiding by the rules. Respect you for that.

All right, second comment, Mr. Jeffrey Jacks.

Well, all right.

Would you have any liability if I just vote my eye out?

Okay.

So, thank you for allowing me to speak.

And ma'am, if you could take a seat. Thank you.

No, from behind, babe. Sorry. Mayor and members of the Oval League. City Council, my name is Jeffrey Jacks. I'm asking you to discontinue overland use of the flock safety cameras and remove them from our community. In March of 2023, your council unanimously approved funding for these cameras. At the time, they were presented as a useful law enforcement tool. Since then, we have learned much more about this nationwide surveillance network. These cameras do not record only suspected criminals. They record ordinary citizens going to work, attending church, visiting a doctor, or simply traveling through their neighborhoods. That information creates a searchable history where people have traveled. Opposition to this technology is bipartisan. Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis called it called its expansion out of control and ordered license plate readers removed from state highways, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott, halted the funding for flock cameras. Democrat Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has said flock cameras are not a tool he supports. Missouri Senator Josh Hawley has opened a federal investigation. Republican Congressman Eric Berthelsen joined Republican Thomas Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna in sponsoring the Flock Off Act to cut off federal funding for these systems. Closer to the home, St. Charles County Police Department discontinued after an alleged personal misuse by a civilian employee. This demonstrates why the internal safeguards are not enough. I support our police as a former police commissioner and approved tools for investigation. approved tools for investigating actual crimes but investigating a suspect is different from recording the movements of thousands of people suspected of nothing i recently asked the council to expand suspend excuse me i respectfully asked the council to suspend overland's flock camp program conduct a public audit of its use and data sharing to terminate the contract remove the cameras the council acted unanimously based on the information available in 2023 you now have a new information a good reason to reconsider public safety matters but so does privacy due process and constitutional liberty please remove the flock cameras from overland thank you very much thank you all right that concludes residents comments uh now any reports from city council members

All right. My report is relatively brief tonight. And to Mr. Hansen, typically there are two meetings a month, July and August, are our break months where there's just one. So I don't think you missed anything. You may have missed one. All right. We'll get you a calendar with all the dates on there. You can know when we're meeting here. Missed you guys. Again, that July and August kind of sets me out of pace because I'm used to being here a couple times a month getting legislation. Those months are a little bit harder on staff because we have to schedule around these off dates to approve everything. So thanks to the staff for getting us through those two months, and we're back on our normal calendar. We'll see you guys in two weeks. With that, I seek a motion to adjourn.

We'll adjourn. Second.

All those in favor. Aye. Any opposed? We're adjourned. Thank you.