City Council - Regular Meeting

I got a we'll call the meeting to order and please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. We could just take it off. Roll call, please. Fisher here. Osborne here. Latari here. Jones here. Uler here.

Approval of city council minutes. Motion to approve regular city council meeting minutes dated January 12th, 2026. One amendment for you. We can remove the strategic the street strategic planning item for future. That's on the agenda though. Yeah, that's that'll be our next agenda item. It's on the agenda. Yep. Thanks. Motion motion to I believe I heard it from Did you Kushner? Yes. Osborne? Yes. Latari? Yes. Jones? Yes. Uer? Yes. Thank you. Adoption of agenda. Yeah, I just said

what did you say? Motion to approve agenda with 5.1 be removed from the agenda. We'll address that in the future. Minus 5.1.

Okay. Motion. Motion to approve as amended. Kushner. Yes. Osborne. Yes, Latari. Yes, Jones. Yes, yes. Thank you.

Skipping 5.1. 6.1. An ordinance accepting the sanitary sewer, street, and storm water improvements in the Copper Ridge First Plat subdivision for maintenance by the city of Warrenburg, Missouri. presented by Phil Adlich, interim public works director. Good evening, mayor, city to council. So, this is Copper Ridge out there on DD Highway. Um, we're going to be accepting it to take over the sewer streets and do the maintenance so that the developer can go ahead and start building and get that into that process. Recommend staff recommends approval. I'll stand for any questions. No questions.

Any question? No questions. Thanks, Phil. Thank you. Motion to move to second reading by title only. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Mueller, yes. An ordinance accepting the sanitary sewer street and storm water improvements in the Copper Ridge First Plat subdivision for maintenance by the city of Warrenburg, Missouri. This is for adoption or rejection. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 6.2, two, an ordinance authorizing the city of Warrensburg, Missouri to enter into an agreement lease purchase agreement and authorizing and approving certain documents in connection with the delivery of the lease presented by Michael D. Craig, city manager.

Thank you, mayor and councel. I know this sounds reminiscent of action we previously took. I'll try to tie all that together for you. So uh you may recall your previous budgets were attempting to fund purchase of a an individual fire engine with cash. Uh as part of the comprehensive financial model where we put together the strategic planning conversation that we had uh we pivoted to lease financing the vehicles over the life of the vehicles which uh created the ability to pursue two vehicles freed up kind of cash flow to do a number of other things in our capital improvement planning. And so coming out of the budget process, Keith Jennings and I as well as our bond council and financial advisors pursued lease financing of uh two fire engines. So back in December, we came to you and got your um affirmation on a letter of intent to go to Spartan, the manufacturer, and Chief Jennings will address that in a companion item that follows this one on your agenda. But we essentially indicated to the manufacturer our intent to pursue financing and purchase two fire engines from them. The and there was a number of benefits just from from that purchase in and of itself. But then the other action you took in December was authorizing pursuing lease purchase financing. So with the assistance of our financial advisor Todd Goffy and our bond counsel Sarah Granite who's here with us this evening, we then solicited proposals for lease purchase financing from a number of banks. And so in the council letter that that you've been provided lists all the banks that we reached out to. You also have a bid tabulation of the response that you received. Um and then we proceeded to enter into finalizing the terms of lease purchase financing um with essentially Commerce Bank Clayton Holdings as the low bidder in terms of

total cost for us at 4.2% uh interest rate for finance. So lease lease purchase financing is a tool and we'd be happy to answer uh questions in greater detail. If we get too detailed, I'll call Miss Granite to help me out. But it is a uh a financing scenario that is not an ongoing obligation such that it's not a general obligation that requires a vote. Um the lender is lending on the basis of the collateral being the fire engines themselves. And so it's a it's a means to do that. In the council letter, um I provided a comparison of the the debt service that we would have with the lease financing to the u strategic financial model that we put together. So the the engines themselves are less than than we initially assumed in that financial model. The interest rate is a little bit more, but you'll see there's a a considerable savings over the model that we put together. And so we're able to finance the two fire engines at a average cost over the life of that financing of 235,000 almost $236,000 a year compared to the financial model that had had 311,000. So, still within our financial projections. Um, and with this item would approve the financing. Once the financing is in place, and Chief Jennings item, the next item is the actual authorization of the purchase of those vehicles. The other thing that it does, and Chief can speak to this a little in greater detail, is gets us in able to purchase vehicles that are already in the manufacturer production cycle. So, um, get them late summer, early fall compared to 18 to 24 months out in the future. So, um, I'm rambling a little bit, but it's in keeping with

our our investment in infrastructure, our financial model. Uh, the ultimate final numbers are coming in um, at less than we projected. I don't know if Sarah cleared the throat in general or if that was a a clarification by my my description of lease purchase financing, but uh Miss Granith is here to answer any any questions if you might have. One last thing, um, you do have there were some minor revisions to the ordinance and and the documents, um, and be happy to go over those with you in detail, but the original language talked about manufactured construction and it's dialed into just purchasing of the vehicle rather than kind of more open-ended language of lease financing template language. But um defer Miss Grant that if there's anything in significance to to cover with you in terms of those changes um but we're set to lease finance um meet the timeline that Spartan has for us to make a cash payment and be able to take advantage of jumping into the manufacturing.

So you have ordinance before you to authorize that lease purchase financing. Happy to answer any questions. One question I have. Do you say it would be delivered this year? Yes. Cool.

I have a question. Um I I tried to double check to make sure I'm looking at this right. So I feel like I remember this was an issue maybe before and there is just a little very minor uh typo I think perhaps. So I looked at the numbers. So in the in the equipment lease purchase agreement document it says the total repayment is 2 million etc etc 46 and in the council letter it says 045 and then also in the equipment lease purchase agreement it says the principal is a million 923 and in the request for terms document it's a million 928 eight.

So, can you explain that to me? So, I the 046 and45 is probably just a little Yes. Right. I believe it's 046, but you know. Okay. Um,

and on the difference in the 1.928 versus 1.923. So, whenever uh the financial adviser and uh special tax council and the city kind of gets together to come up with a a term sheet, we do not always know what legal fees the bank that wins has the best response will require. We kind of typically build in about $5,000 for that because that's if they have their own legal counsel, that's typically what it would be is about $5,000. um that number if they do provide a a legal fee is included into kind of the overall comparison of bids that the financial advisor and Mike went over. Um but the winning bid, which is Commerce Bank, it's their lease division um that they call Clayton Holdings. They do not require outside legal counsel so long as Gilmore Bell is providing a legal opinion on it. And so we were able to take off that $5,000. It allows the city to borrow $5,000 less than we originally contemplated. Gotcha. Okay. Thank you very much.

Thanks, sir. Any other questions for Mike or Sarah? No. Thank you.

Motion to move to second reading by title. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. an ordinance authorizing the city of Lawrenburg, Missouri to enter into an equipment lease purchase agreement and authorizing and approving certain documents in connection with the delivery of the lease. This is for adoption or rejection. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Lati, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 6.3, an ordinance authorizing the city manager and city clerk to enter into a sales agreement with the Ed Mfeld Equipment Company, Inc. for the purchase of two Spartan pumpers presented by Kennedy. Jennings, CFO, fire chief.

Good evening. Uh, I'll be a little more brief than I was in December. Just want to recap on some of the background. Uh we started down this road in in the planning of replacement uh of engines based off of a 10-year rotation principle. Uh so we purchased uh our last engines in 2017 and 2018. Uh kind of looking at the the the market and and the delivery times, we were anticipating a a two or more year uh production time. That's why we we had scheduled things out as they are now. So, uh, as we began this fiscal year, the our truck committee started looking at what was out there, what we what we were interested in, what could meet our needs as a as an organization, and narrowed it down to, uh, Pierce Manufacturing, which is, uh, the type of trucks that we've had for a couple decades here, and and Spartan um, comprehensive process evaluating all the the ins and outs. Uh, the committee ultimately recommended Spartan. Um, as we got into more of the details on the Spartan, um, the type of truck that they manufacture, uh, or the line that we were looking at is, um, essentially a lot of pieces and parts, uh, that they were that they're seeing fire departments typically do. And and by having a an engineered design, then it allows them to speed up that production time because they're not have to retool everything uh, going down the line. Uh so looking at both delivery time and cost uh Spartan was also uh uh had a had an advantage in that process too. So a as the numbers came in and we started looking at it, we started to look at well what could since we have another one scheduled in 27, what would that look like if we pursued two with that cost savings, especially looking at uh some anticipated emission standard

changes uh that were going to increase that cost. Uh so putting those numbers together is where we got to uh uh in December when we brought that to council. Uh what we brought in in December was uh requesting to move forward with a letter of intent. What that letter did was secured our build positions. Uh so trying to get in by the end of the year. Uh that letter of intent said, "Hey, we want two trucks. Uh go ahead and hold our spots." So uh they when we submitted that letter, they held the spots. They're in line. Um bin numbers have already been issued the whole nine yards. So uh with that, we're anticipating a 10-month delivery. Uh the last we spoke uh they were scheduled to come off the line at Spartan in July 19th uh which will then go to Feld for upfitting and and kind of the the installation of the radios, headsets, things like that. So they're looking they're they anticipate right now August uh will be the delivery of those two trucks. So the letter of intent got us to where we are tonight. Financing's been secured. So, the ordinance in front of you tonight is to execute the contract with Feld, uh, which outlines everything that they have to do as far as fitting it with appliances, radios, that stuff, and then the detailed contract for the build of the trucks. So, I would be happy to answer any questions you may have

regarding radios. Do we provide the radios so that they're um compatible with uh our 911 system? We we do so uh in that whole process we accounted for additional radios in the future and then as we continue to rotate out fleet as long as the radio is still compatible which uh for what we spent on those we're we're hoping for 10 15 years at least uh we'll be to swap those out but uh the first one's going up we have radios ready for them to go perfect thank you questions. Any other questions? Any questions?

Move to second reading by title only. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. An ordinance authorizing the city manager and city clerk to enter into a sales contract with the Ed M. Feld Equipment Co., Inc. for the purchase of two Spartan pumpers. This is for adoption or rejection. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Lutari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you. Congratulations, Chief. That's fant.

Thank you. Finance Carolyn and Jessica for Mike for the good work to figure this out, how to get this paid for and and saving us money, too. So, fantastic work. Yep. Yep. Item 6.4, an ordinance authorizing the city manager, city clerk to enter into a professional services agreement with Burns McDonald to support development of a fiscal year 2026 build grant application presented by Michael, city manager.

Thank you. You may recall uh that there's conversation about a raise grant three in years past an application and it's it's a federal program pretty competitive raise is kind of transition into build it's a different acronym but very similar concept um there's been a notice of funding opportunity that's gone out we've had Burns McDonald has been our partner for a number of years as relates to Maguire and and grant applications and and I provided in council letter just some of those examples safe streets for all emerging contaminants and and modaf design cost share and helping us with with rethink meuire. So the build grant opportunity represents um at the federal level funding of approximately 1.5 billion and the application deadline is next month and so Burns and McDonald can assist us in terms of what they've done with rays. there's other aspects of kind of a costbenefit analysis methodology that they they're familiar with and from bridge agreements and other things. And so this is an opportunity for us to contract with them at a cost not to exceed $49,000 just depending on how many hours and how much work they need to put in to help us submit the build application by that deadline. Um it does require a congressional support is helpful. We talked about the fact that 50 highways on the strategic uh highway network and trying to take a defense back in terms of supporting Whiteman Air Force Base. Burns McDonald's been helpful in pointing out that there the height of the existing overpass is uh it really needs to be about two feet higher and so that might be an opportunity for us to kind of make a lot of case that it's a vital project to be funded. But it this the whole grant cycle is kind of

putting your application together, perfecting it, being persistent and and lobbying along the way and hoping that between now and the time that we're pursuing the project, we can secure some grant funds. in a broader context have had some conversations about, you know, what what's the strategy for the city of Warrenburg to fund that next round and and really to to be effective and to move the needle with Missouri Department of Transportation rather than just wait for them to magnanimously fund it at 100%. It's going to take local funding. It's going to take some federal funding and then and then bring MOD out to the table. As you know from our conversations in strategic planning and the financial modeling that we've done, we have some debt that will be going off that we could could redirect that for our local chair. Uh having conversations with the Missouri Department of Transportation, Bill and I are on the the transportation advisory committee with um with regional planning commission and u we've been learning more about that whole scoring process, how to position our project on their priority list. Um Dan Hegman, the person that that is our every point of contact is on the transportation commission. Greg Smith out of Clinton's on the transportation commission that's really kind of putting all trying to put all these pieces together to be strategic and Burns and Mack is is very helpful in in that regard and specifically to this this would help us kind of turn things around quickly for building application. So the ordinance that's before you authorizes entering into that agreement with them. I think technically it's within the city manager's purchasing authority, but it is part of that bigger picture and I wanted to bring it to you so you're aware of that all the inner workings and and this is just one element of kind of a broader strategy. So this would um authorize them to to get started on our behalf and would work

with them between now and the application on for so this um grant we would be asking for how much money? Well, that's part of what Burns can help us with because we don't we don't have any final design. So we need to put together a cost estimate and the rationale behind that cost estimate but probably in the $20 million meeting. Okay. Not overpass over 50.

Okay. And um this build grant would be part of the big beautiful the new big beautiful bill. So it would have been supported by our senators who did not support us when we were applying for the raise grant. So we should be able to get their support. Well, because we didn't in the past, right? Because they voted against it. Yep. And I think that I think part of it is their philosophical position on earmarks. And so part of the reason of pursuing the strategic highway network is try to characterize this in a way that you might get their support.

Okay. And do we also need to have our uh congressman's support? Does it go in front of him also or is it just Yeah, we need some federal level to be strategic and competitive. We do need some federal level. I don't know that we need all of them as much as uh an endorsement which I don't think we had in the past, but right at it. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I believe you did ask the congressman when we had lunch. Yeah. Yeah. Good point. When we met with them, we we certainly brought this up and I'm sure he Yeah, more

I'm just Barb How long have we been talking about these raise grants? some well before I was four years, right? Or all of the years that I've been on say 20 2023. Started about five years ago. We started right when I got on. Okay. And don't we already have a grant from MODOT for the that's a cost share on design

that actually there were a couple more items that are going to be forthcoming that the design purposes that is one of them. Um and then kind of on a related note some additional design of of side streets that impact that that segment. So Burns and Mac was helpful in getting that grant funding. When we run that cycle we'll have a more detailed plan more detailed cost estimate try to dovetail that the planning commission process and bring it all okay in landing.

Perfect. Number questions. This is just a minor couple minor very minor things. Um the city council letter it says city of Warrenburg fire department underneath it. So just might want to take that off. That's I mean that's we delete or

as a former council person said sometimes we we need the speed is stupid because we are moving so fast moving that is not an insult that is like too many things going on at once to actually keep track of all the minor details. Um, and then in the services agreement, I just had a question about under task two kind of in the the more graphic looking like colorful uh two p like one pager that they did

under task two strategic funding plan update which is the it's the first page of that one pager of theirs. It says something about let's see where am I in the very last bullet or arrow um the last sentence of that says the information included shall include win themes identification of stakeholders etc etc I can guess what that means win themes does that mean a theme that we that they think is going to be memorable and a winner so again it's under the title task two strategic funding plan update and there are three bullet points with arrows and it's the last bullet point at the very it's the very last sentence of that last bullet point. The information included shall include win themes.

Yeah, I I do think it's kind of strategies to be successful to help us. Okay. um how we this project the the strategic plan update that they did I want to say it was 23 if I remember right it was a very comprehensive list of a number of grand opportunities and then the requirements and how we might be competitive in applying so I think I think that's their way of saying that's their jargon for our strategy to be successful

that's sort of what I thought but I Just want to check that. That's it. Those are all my questions. Thank you. Any other questions? Thanks. Move to re move to I forgot what I was going to say. I'm sorry. To move to second. I have heart condition. Don't you know? I know. Kushner. Yes. Osborne. Yes. Latari. Yes. Jones. Yes. Muler. Yes.

An ordinance authorizing the city manager and city clerk to enter into a professional services agreement with Burns and McDonald to support development of an FY2026 build grant application. This is for adoption or rejection. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Muler, yes. Thank you. Thank you. Item 7.1, other business, a resolution approving a donation request by Johnson County Adult Literacy Program from the Stevenson Fund in the amount of $1,000, presented by Jodie Schneider, city clerk.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council. This evening, we um I've brought before you a resolution to approve a donation request made by the Johnson County Adult Literacy Program from the Stevenson Fund. The request is eligible as the Stevenson Fund has laid out certain guidelines. Um the will provides the funds should be used for charitable, educational, or library purposes. This would be an eligible request. We've provided I I worked with Carolyn um Tui,

our finance. I don't know if I've ever said your last name. I'm so sorry. Um our finance director. And we um just to confirm the finances of the fund for the FY2026 budget year. And Carolyn did uh confirm that we have um that what the funds averaged, the amount that was attributable to administration expenses, and the current balance available for appropriations. We have budgeted $3,350 for the FY26 budget year. This falls with the $1,000 falls within that budget amount. Um the the program uses these funds for learning supplies for adult learners and tutoring supplies and materials for their tutors to improve the literacy and lives of the people of Johnson County, Missouri. Um city staff recommends approval. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. If I could add one thing, I do want to acknowledge that we had a conversation as part of our budget process about building a more formal process. Um, staff is aware of that, but we haven't tackled that yet. And I have to admit it. I thought we could do this in anticipation of next budget. I didn't see a January one request.

To their credit, they're on top of it, but we're still kind of in that evolution between where we were and where we want to be. Yeah. But this is very informative. uh what they've put together uh is excellent. Yes. Thank you. Any questions? We have a resolution. Move to approve the resolution as presented. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Mueller, yes. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 7.2, a resolution approving a donation request by the Warrensburg R six school district 2026 high school project graduation committee from the Stevenson Fund in the amount of $1,000 presented by Jody Schneider.

Thank you again, mayor and city council. This um as we just discussed, the Stevenson fund allows for charitable, educational, or library purposes. You will note on the bar graph that um last year the 2025 project graduation committee also had applied uh for $1,000 for a safe um cost-free environment for the seniors graduating from this year's um high school. This year they actually have 243 students. Last year it was a little under um it was about 226. So, they've got a larger graduating class this year. They have reached out to to um ask for this donation. Um and staff would recommend approval.

Motion made to approve. I had a question. You have a question. Sure. So, no no concern or question about the request. It's no awesome thing. Um, however, the form itself on the web page, um, doesn't actually So, sorry, let me back up. I apologize. The the request, the kind of copy of the request that you showed us doesn't say anything about the the dollar amount, the dollar amount.

Um, it says they would appreciate kind of whatever we can provide. I'm sorry. I'm just realizing I thought I had that pulled up. Um, and the form itself doesn't actually provide any space to say what folks are requesting. So, I know that Jakeel just chose to do a letter and not use the form, but the form doesn't say doesn't ask for a dollar amount or anything. So, is do we have evidence of them specifically asking for $1,000? Because here all they say is, you know, money, basket, donation, table sponsorship, And actually to answer your question, I did note that as well that the form needs to be updated for a dollar amount um specifically. So I did reach out to this year's committee to confirm the dollar amount that they were requesting. So I do have evidence in an email form.

Okay, gotcha. That's all I want. When I have that paper check is what they submitted, they didn't actually say. So that is true. Thank you. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's great. Motion to move to second reading by title. Oh, actually um motion still stand member Jones. Gotcha. Okay, it is a resolution and it's a resolution. So Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. And Uler, yes.

Thank you. Item 7.3, a resolution of the city of Warrenburg, Missouri, in support of legislative efforts to curb the promotion, sale, and use of intoxicating hemp products presented by Andy Mutzerman, police chief. Evening, mayor, council. Uh for you, uh we have a resolution um in support of legislative e efforts to curb the promotion, sale, and use of intoxicating hemp products. Last week, uh it's been brought to our attention about the candies being sold u at gas stations and all over town at uh certain shops. Um and there's a lot of concern with that. So last week we attended that meeting over in Sidelia and without some state legislation going going forward it really hinders the police department and enforcing some of this. With this resolution moving forward, it's showing that we are supporting the House Bill 593, House Bill 1327, and Senate Bill 1026 um that they're presenting at the state level, and then we can move forward if they pass that to uh get a city ordinance regarding some of that stuff regarding the H. I want to thank uh the uh prosecutor, our city attorney, and uh city manager, Mike Greg. Uh we put this together last minute um last week after that meeting uh trying to get this forward to you this week and then uh with that being last minute it also got updated at the end of the day today. So you might see that in the packet as well. But do you have any questions for me?

I did research the uh House Bill 59328 and Missouri state senate bill 1026 on chat GBT. I was not able to dive deep dive into those uh bills and the Senate bill, but um it did have some very interesting things in it. Um we even updated some of those because there's some there's four of them. There's actually like eight that are on point, but there's four that made it into the final version of the resolution. That's why I didn't bring that forward to you as well. so changing and uh so much changing but I did want to at least wrap my head around what they're presenting before we just jumped on board. So

and so a number of you were able to attend the MML session in Sidelia and I hesitate to try to offer an explanation but I'm not sure I have my head wrapped around it but we did try to incorporate into the wherees of the resolution kind of an explanation that hemp is is defined differently is subject to a farm bill exception at the federal level. It's not very clearly regulated at the state level and basically that loophole is being exploited at the moment. The bills are trying to admit that with some standards. The difficulty for us is without a standard without having some type of licensing or some oversight. We're unable at the local level to tell what the content is, test it, figure out exactly where it stands. And then we're intentionally taking advantage of that until it's addressed. I think so.

It's kind of probably going to be a little bit of a revolving door. We're going to be dealing with some of this since the uh 2018 farm bill because they'll be replacing with once we address this, they'll replace with another I've seen that with bass salts and they came with Delta 8 and uh that type of stuff. So, and we got to stay on top of it, keep trying to keep our kids safe and keep everybody informed through the uh through this stuff. So, the resolution was suggested at the session by me. That's a good start.

It's great that they offered that of template and yeah, thanks again for making it happen so quickly. Did you? Yeah. Yeah, this Yeah, I did do. Okay, cool. I appreciate you working with me on that. I had I called Adam on our way back and I was like, "Hey, this got brought to our attention." He's like, "Yeah, I can work on that." So, yeah, I think I sent it the next day or something like that. But no, yeah, and the updates adding the the specific language on the percentages and stuff. I'm sure one of you guys did that.

Very nice detail. Yeah. And then Chief and I talked about this three months ago, something like that. that we sat in had a conversation and when we finished that presentation with God, boy, it's nice to hear your conversations repeated back. Um, you know that that from the local enforcement standpoint, we really are our hands are literally tied at this point on what we can do. And you know, if we want to be pioneers, we can do whatever we want and then find out if it works. Um, but the price tag on that is usually substantially higher than the usefulness of such an endeavor. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions? Have a resolution.

Motion to approve resolution. Commissioner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Muler, yes. Thank you. And I want to thank there were seven of us from the city that attended down there. Adam, Chief, Mike, Council Person, Jones, Lalia, and myself. Um, it was eyeopening and and quite scary to see what's happening. I understand there's about eight locations within the city limits that possibly are selling these type of intoxicating hemp things that are packaged to look like traditional kinds of candies like Skittles. Skittles that are actually laced and we don't know how much.

But Adam, thank you very much for attending and for the resolution or to start. Is there any way we could um encourage news release or social media information where there's like a warning parents beware page on the front page we had a reporter here we didn't we have some slides we could probably get pictures of rice what was like rice krispies so they were rice they were crispy treats

treats and Skittles and the packages look identical. And so you could be at the counter and the kids going crazy wanting candy. You just get it for them, you know, shut them up and you get them home and they eat the whole box. Now they're come to um because it looks like a regular package of Skittles or Rice Krispie treats or do were were you given photos at MML? Because they posted some on their Facebook page. I I noted that. you might be able to find that. The one thing I gonna say is I think I'm going to try to put media in contact with a source rather than source for lack of

sure subject matter expertise. So we'll we'll try to link the because they had some great photos and and examples of what they were talking about um so that parents could look for the little leaf thing. and some information came from our previous representative Dan Hawks. We had a meeting a few weeks ago and um he's been working with that. So anyway, thanks for everybody attending and moving forward with the resolution. We hope something passes in the state legislature that give us some teeth. But was just pointed out to me Dan is on Zoom.

Thank you. Hi Dan. Hi, Dan. All right.

Mayoral appointments. Motion to approve mayoral appointments as follows. Appoint Cole Dunin as solid waste coordinator as a board member representing cities of Johnson County on the West Central Missouri Solid Waste Management District F Executive Board of Directors. Wow. for a two-year term through April 2028 and appoint Michael Drag, city manager as alternate board member representing cities of Warren of Johnson County on West Central Missouri solid waste management district F executive board of directors for a two-year term through April 2028. Move to approve appointments. Thank you. Kushner, yes. Osborne,

yes. Latari, yes. Jones. Yes. Uler. Yes. Thank you. I would like to uh say something about that if I may. Um we can do that now actually. Okay. Thank you. Bear with me just one moment. I'm looking up the um Yeah. Well, it's come to my attention that there is a House bill uh being heard on Thursday to eliminate the solid waste districts and turn that over to the department of uh the DNR. So, uh I have talked with Representative Phelps regarding that. Oh,

it was brought to my attention by someone who's works for Mark by Miss Bryant. You eliminate the Department of Natural Resources. Is that eliminate those solid waste districts in Missouri? I'm with you. And turn that money over to Department of Natural Resources. Gotcha. Okay. And I don't have that bill right number right in front of me. That's not good. Yeah. But if you'll give me like a half hour to figure it out, I'll find it. Yeah. I will also track it down. Yeah. That takes the service too far away from the people. Yeah.

Well, it would it would eliminate things in our community like hazardous waste collection. That was first thing I thought. Yeah. Um Okay. I didn't think so. Thanks. I just wanted to say I also I attended that meeting. I also attended out of our area, but I attended a meeting in uh Lee Summit about the potential impact of eliminating the income tax and got some really interesting information from the Missouri Budget Office about that and I shared just a few of the slides with Mike. So, thank you for doing that.

They are available to come speak just so you know. um or lots of information on their website and their social media about the potential for having to raise perhaps some other uh tax in order to make up for the lack of income for services. So, just another interesting presentation thanks to the Missouri Municipal League. Was it eliminating the income tax but also um adding a tax on services, right? Is that the same the same same concept or separate

that? Well, it's it's the same as I understand the same conversation happening at the governor's level and others who are more tied in may have more information about that. But the it's early days and so they don't know for sure what's going to be happening. But one of the potential impacts would be that the governor apparently said he would not want any um in increase in the overall the basic sales tax rate. So of course our sales tax in Warrenburg, Missouri is 1.875 for city. So if income taxes were reduced uh we might have to increase some other tax to make up for that. But the overall tax amount couldn't change. I'm not sure I'm explaining it correctly. So, it's it's complicated and it's early days apparently. You know, there's still a lot to be debated.

So, they're discussing more than just Okay, I'm thinking sales tax and you're saying income tax. Income taxes on your what you pay at the end of the year is what what you pay at the end of the year. What comes out of your wages? Income tax. Yeah. sales tax that you pay at point of sale, right?

Okay. I watched a video on that from Jeff City and like Susie said, they're experimenting a whole lot of different ways to do it and it's complicated is an understatement, but they're looking at probably half a dozen different ways to replace fat money and they don't have a good what I got out of it. They don't have a good feel for which direction they're going yet and they're trying to bump up against Hancock and not not undermine it.

Right. And the state auditor said in the last month or so that if they continue to spend at the rate that they have spent spending, they're going to run out of money because they're running out. No one has the cushion of co money anymore. CO money is gone. Sounds like they spent some onetime money on things that were onetime expenses and kind of drained the savings. So anyway, interesting stuff.

Thanks for attending that very much. And as we may know, if if you switch to a sales tax from an income tax, it's it's become a regressive tax. So it really affects the lower income people the most because they're paying the tax and the higher earners now won't pay as much tax. So it's something to really keep keep an eye on. Yeah, there's some really great charts about that about kind of the percentage of folks who are low-inccome, percentage of the taxes that they pay and how that like as you just said, it would benefit the folks who are not paying as much in sales tax and folks who are would be paying more in sales tax.

You'd like I can download the slide you sent me and share it with the group. Sure. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, miscellaneous matters. Oh, appearances of the council not listed on the agenda. There are none. Miscellaneous matters from the mayor andor city council.

I'd just like to say thank you to Adam Summer, Susie, myself. We have a homeless shelter that's been open three nights. It's tonight's the fourth night. So, it's a it's a warming center u for the homeless to sleep overnight over at the Presbyterian Church. And that only operates because of Journey Home, Melissa Warner, Mary McCord, and and Heather Jeepson over there at the church. But it it can only happen if you have monitors there uh with the people there. And that's what happens that uh if we don't have volunteers, we don't have anybody. They're not able to stay. So yeah, thanks for doing that. Now,

I've done a few hours, but mayor's done several late night overnight hours, which are just impossible for me to do. So, thank you for staying awake in the wee hours of the night. Oh, you have to stay awake. Okay, it's kind of the point. No, I get it caught. I get a pillow. But, you know, it we we couldn't do it without volunteers and it has been bitterly cold. Um, and they've been they've been good the the people there. Hadn't had as many this year as Great. Yes. in the past. Seven. Seven or eight. Had 11 last night. Um, I don't know. Tonight we're doing it again, which is great because we had to. It's so cold. But anyway, it's so nice that

the church journey home and then everybody who donates food. Yes. Blankets, clothing, um, casserles, and I saw Angela bringing a casserole the other day. Yeah, there was French toast casserole this morning.

Yep. But anyway, thank you so much for doing that. City staff updates. City manager know that I have a whole lot. what we've been working on was on your agenda tonight. We continue to to work on maybe the comprehensive financial model and the budget items. Um if you don't I assume you already have it on your calendar, but around the corner is the MML conference. Um 16th and 17th, so it'll be the day after President's Day. Um and then while I have the floor, um Chris Deal is out of pocket today as well as the assistant parks director. So we'll have a parks department.

Okay, that's it. Thank you. Happy to answer any question. Just not city staff update. Administrative services department. Yes. City staff update. City clerk. nothing additional uh community development I want to give you a couple things

we did have um notice from constable annotation today that due to uh the weather and um the conditions they are not doing yard waste pickup this week so they can focus exclusively on trash and recycling. So that went out on our social media pages early um probably around 10:00 a.m. or so. Um and uh that's true in all their communities but as in Lawrenburg as well. So that is a news flash there. And then also along those lines, um you included in the budget for us this year the ability to um stand up a text or email notification system for service information like this um for solid waste. And so we have um started that process and we'll be ready to send out some um test texts and emails to a sample group here in the next few weeks. and then we'll be ready to push that out and and publicize how to get signed up for that. So, we are proceeding with that so that we can let people know uh by their route day um who sign up. They will need to sign up for it. Uh even if we already have your email and we already have your phone number in the system, we cannot use it for this purpose because it wasn't collected for this purpose. So, people will have to proactively sign up for it and we'll publicize that. But this will be coming so that we'll have a better way of letting people know about weather or holiday service delay type type items. And then uh this is um the month uh this month in February to be signing up and getting your liquor licenses scheduled, your liquor license inspection scheduled and short-term rental inspection scheduled. So, people are doing that, but always want to remind people they're free in January and February, and we only have a certain

number of inspectors. So, get signed up. I was just checking and we've done uh 25 liquor license inspections so far and six short-term rental inspections. So, people are doing it um getting used to that system for the short-term rentals. It's been the system for liquor license for a long time. and Jeremy and Dustin had that down and they stay very busy in January and February on those inspections, but this is the time to get them get them scheduled. All I have. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Our department in your packet is the uh 2025 annual report. I just wanted to uh go over a couple things and give you an opportunity for any questions if you have them. uh finished the year with 1,94 calls for service, which is again an increase over last year, 6%. Uh saw in years past, we've talked about the potential fire loss and then the actual estimated fire loss still a good uh number there with 11 millions uh and some change subjected to fire loss with keeping that estimated fire loss under a million. uh response time increased uh a little bit this year uh by a few seconds. So not uh a big enough change to raise any alarms and figure out the why just within that range of fluctuation a lot of different factors uh on our people side. Some uh things to celebrate there. We added the two uh full-time positions uh this year uh to two of the two two of the three shifts. Uh over uh well over half of the year we remain the full staff. 27 to 27 are full-time staff. Part-time has rode steady. It is about half of what we're allotted. That that dynamic has changed. Uh but who we have uh has they've stayed pretty consistent. Uh the other piece of that is again our longevity is fairly has stayed pretty stable and we're starting to see it go up ever so slightly. So those are all good things. Uh seeing that change in our in our folks. Uh the fire incident breakdown uh cooking area were second as far as location of fire origin and then outside other uh was the leading cause which is uh kind of different uh for the rest of the country. Not for us. It seems to be kind of our go-to of fires on the back side of buildings that run up the

outside and get through the attic. It's pretty common. Uh normally some type of discarded smoky material. Uh so definitely uh our our numbers reflect uh what what we're experiencing and will kind of help direct our community risk reduction efforts. um um provided some additional numbers this year that we hadn't in the past uh on on kind of breaking down some time and unit resource allocation. Uh another thing that we've talked about in the past and just kind of having that out there is our our role in emergency medical responses. So, uh we our our dispatch center when they take a 911 call that's a medical they ask a series of questions that gives a code. Uh that code is based off of life threat priority. Uh so we've uh determined those types of life threats that are are higher level that extra hands-on scene provide assistance to our already stellar ambulance district. Um so we broke that down. Uh these are the some rough numbers based off of uh the information that we have because it wasn't really a a number that we were collecting. Uh but uh the the fire department responds to approximately 41% of the total medical calls in the city. So just kind of wanted to provide that perspective. Um and then of that we arrive 37 of what we go to 37% of the time we're arriving before the ambulance and initiating care 47% after the ambulance or with the ambulance. So just kind of demonstrating what that service provides. We've talked fire alarms in the past. Uh we were actually down a little bit this year, but system malfunction uh was higher than it was last year and still an issue that can uh continue to find a better solution uh moving forward as we see more of those systems in the community. Other than that, uh some good stories and summary of the the fire department in the year. Uh so encourage you to take a look at it.

You have any questions, be happy to answer them. Well, you guys did great response to the moon lit petricorn the other day. Two minutes I think you were there pretty quick. Yeah. And he was out there in uniform like it's got say thank you in person. Thank you. And great work on that. As far as outcomes in in a situation like that, I think it turned out as best as it could. Absolutely. And yeah, just a great report. That's I think Susie you helped organize a GoFundMe for them sort of I helped promote it. Someone else actually put it together but um yeah just some close friends of Darby's worked on that. We asked her permission first but it was not her idea it was our idea but

yeah so folks have been really great and supportive. So yeah and I just really love the stories from each division. That's really that was I really enjoyed that that being able to hear directly from those leaders um about their areas too. So this it's a great report. Thank you. Thanks, Chief. Parks department, not police department. Um just that we interviewed those six and we got zero out of six. So move through the pass the first process.

That's right. We'll keep track. That's all I have. Okay. Public works. Um, so this white stuff, nobody wants, we can get rid of it.

We did have a snow event this weekend. Uh, crews were out and of course we started prepping the roads on Wednesday with Brian. We're happy with the result of that. It helped. Then of course on Saturday there was more snow than the Brian could handle. So, uh, it did build up a little bit, but we've, you know, done our best to clear the roads and think we had about four four and a half inches of snow in this area. Um, so that's been keing or keeping the crews busy with the street department. Uh, the plant expansion is going along. They do have the SPR or sequential batch reactor basin number four at the west or east plant is done. Um, they were going to start filling the basins to check for leaking, but due to the inclement weather, that's sort of slowed down. Uh, they're working on UV equipment and other stuff at this time. Um, oh, Cedar Court is done. I mentioned the other day that we were going to tighten up the culac circle up there with the concrete, but uh discussing it with some of the residents there. They wanted to keep it a little bit bigger than they wanted to basically keep it the same so that they have a place to slide into with this type of weather.

I drove it twice. It's nice. I've been over there. Yeah, it's nice. They even have those two new houses on the Yeah, they're sold. Are they Are they single family or duplexes? Single family. Both houses are sold. So, new street, new houses, new street does look good. Um, lots of other smaller projects I want to bore you with. So, there's lots of stuff going on. Yeah, while we're in the this meeting, school announced no school tomorrow due to road condition. Oh, is this county but yeah, Phil and I've been texting to our knowledge. I don't think it's city streets assume that. Yeah, city's been around. Yeah, I'm sure the county is just really awesome.

Yeah. Tell your staff great job this weekend because I know it's long hours and it's always at night. Doesn't happen during the day. Yeah, very true. Never will. Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks. Thank you, Marcy. Warrensburg Convention Visitors Bureau. Nothing additional. Okay. Close session. Motion to close part of this meeting pursuant to section 610-021 of the revised statute of Missouri relating to to leasing, purchase or sale of real estate by a public governmental body. I move. Do we have to move? Okay, that's what you're looking for. Yeah. Commissioner, yes. Osborne, yes.

Lari, yes. Jones, yes. Uer, yes. Thank you. 40 off listing.