City Council - Regular Meeting

That's great. And redesative of the 20s, but that's okay. Okay.

Okay. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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.

Roll call, please. Kushner here. Osborne here. Latari here. Jones here. Uer here. Yes. Motion to approve city council work session minutes dated January 26, 2026 and regular city council meeting minutes dated January 26, 2026. Move to approve as it presented. Gushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you. Get this up. Yes.

Adoption of agenda. Move to adopt agenda as presented. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Huer, yes. Thank you.

Thank you. Proclamations. Proclamation for Black History Month, February 2026. Black History Month, February 2026. Whereas Black History Month is an annual celebration which commemorates Black Americans achievements, honors their contributions to the United States and the world, and recognizes their crucial role in the United States history. And whereas in 1926 this celebration was created by Harvard train historian Carter G. Woodson. And whereas during the nation's bsentennial in 1976, President Gerald R. Ford extended the celebration to a month and this year marks the 100th anniversary. And whereas each year a theme is selected by the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, the 2026 theme is a century of black history commemorations. And it honors how the concept has evolved become an annual month-long scholarly and sustained movement to study, teach, and disseminate black history. And whereas the city of Warrenburg takes pride in recognizing Black History Month and honoring the many notable contributions that people of African descent have made in our community. Now therefore, I, Bruce Duler, mayor,

along with the city council of the city of Warrenburg, Missouri, do hereby proclaim the month of February 2026 as Black History Month in witness whereof I here and to set my hand as ninth day of February, 2026. Thank you. All right. Public hearing. Public hearing on an ordinance amending chapter 27 of the Kota city ordinances of the city of Warrenburg, Missouri regarding duplexes and mixed multifamily developments. presented by Barbara Carroll, AICP, Director of Community Development.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council. Uh this is an ordinance that staff has drafted for your consideration as a result of an increased interest in certain projects over the last few years. Uh our zoning ordinance in the table in the definition section can be uh a little confusing to understand whether uh how we allow duplexes in zoning districts. whether we allow one duplex per one property, if we allow several duplexes on a single property, and if we allow duplexes as part of larger multifamily projects, uh where it might be on a one single property with say a sixplex or a forplex or a 100 plex. And so, um, we currently allow a single duplex, one structure with two units, an attached wall, uh, in a one lot. So, you one duplex in one lot. That could be in an R2, R3, or R4 district. And then we also allow them as part of multifamily projects. So you might have a duplex along with some sixplexes and uh other duplexes in one lot. So for instance, the project uh the um Magnolia Ridge Garden Walk, Magnolia Ridge, whatever. Can't remember the exact name. They're just by Walmart to the east of Walmart. That project, there's some duplexes in there with some sixlexes, I believe. And uh we allow that in an R3 and an R4 district, our low density and our high uh medium density multifamily. But nowhere in our current ordinance do we allow more than one duplex on one single lot,

not even in our three or our four districts. And so um it can be rather confusing to staff, let alone to the public. And particularly um we have had instances where they there were assumptions made that you could have multiple duplexes on a single lot because it's a one and two family. It's an R2 district. Um and so they didn't talk to staff until they were further along in the process to realize that wasn't possible. So we wanted to make it more clear. We've drafted this attached ordinance um which amends the definition of duplex to make it very clear. it's one duplex on one lot and then adds a new definition for multifamily development and says that you could would be two or more structures of any of those types of multif family including duplexes. So at the top of the table on this uh top of page two in that table it outlines what I just covered as far as what the current ordinance allows and the proposed ordinance allows. one duplex on one lot, multiple duplexes on one lot, and duplexes as part of a multifamily development. A lot of the reasons there's a couple reasons that this all these questions are coming up around duplexes because um we're seeing it with infill developments where they have a single lot and the there's a lot of square footage and maybe enough square footage that it would allow four units but it doesn't have um so if it's in an R2 it let's say it only has 100 ft of footage along the street frontage. is just 100t wide, but it goes back and then opens up and it would be large enough for four units, but the street frontage is only 100 ft. The to do a lot split to subdivide that with a minor

plaque, you would need 60 ft of street frontage for each lot. So, there's not enough street frontage to create two new lots, but there's enough lot size. So, we see it in those instances. And then the other reason it's of interest is um a duplex structure does not require a set of stamped plans. You can draw that up as the builder. You can draw that up as an owner. Doesn't require a set of stamped plans. And so they want to put a lot of duplexes on one lot to avoid getting an engineer and a set of stamped plans. From staff's standpoint, um, one duplex on a lot has a similar impact on a neighborhood as a single family house. Uh, it which also doesn't require a set of stamp plans. But having um even two duplexes or three duplexes, you start to see the size of units, the number of units that have the same amount of parking space spaces required as a forplex, as a sixplex. You see the same amount of imperous surface with driveways and parking lots, the impact on surrounding streets, the impact on storm water, and you can have that impact on a neighborhood that we believe a set of at least an engineered or a surveyor doing your site plan is necessary to get the review from staff to to to make sure there's not a negative impact on the environment or the surrounding neighborhood. So, we've proposed this ordinance um that would by by having multiple duplexes on a lot would put that in the category of the new definition of multifamily development and that that land use 1.350. It would trigger a surveyed or professionally drawn site plane. The building plan still could not be stamped, but the site plan would need to be. Um, planning and zoning commission

considered this at their ordinance at their meeting last week and recommended approval. Uh, and I didn't get their recommendation in the packet, but Jody has that. I think she's passed that out and she's added it to the packet online, I think. So, if you have any questions, I'd be happy to try to answer those. Does it require a certain number of square feet per duplex? It does. And those numbers wouldn't change. Okay. They would stay the same um standard that it currently is. Okay.

This is not something that that you should necessarily have to explain, but do you know why the code or the I don't know, is it state law, whatever, is written that way so that duplexes don't have to have a engineered plan? I think it's a state law. Why? Yeah. I don't know. And a house doesn't have to have a stamp in No. In the city doesn't have No, it does not. We get it a lot of times because people buy a set of plans. Yes. But they don't have to. They could draw that up themselves if they wanted to. Okay. That's good to know.

Thank you. No other questions. No other questions? No. Thank you, Barbara. Thank you. have any clips. Oh, can I go one at a time with public comments? Think we had anybody? You may want to ask. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we'll close the public hearing then.

Motion to close. No. No. Okay. Item 6.2, a public hearing on an ordinance enlarging an R2 one and two family residential district by reszoning land located at 622 Laurel Street from L1 or LI light industrial district to R2 one and two family residence district presented by Barbara Carroll. Um, I'm going to address 622 separate from the next item on your packet, which is 624. Some comments overlap. Um, but I will come back up separately for 624 and address some items that are specific to just 624. Um this is a ordinance well this is a resoning request that has come forward from the applicants Carl and Kayla Wilin uh for 6 to reszone 622 Laurel Street from light industrial to R2 one and two family residence district there currently it is a single family dwelling on that property and has been for a a long time many many years. Uh if you can picture Young Street and the south side of Young Street, that is a light industrial district. Excellent. Okay. So there at the you have a blueish rectangle and that is 622 Laurel and the house that's on it and north of it is 624 Laurel. So just 624 is the one on the north and then north of that is Gator Graphics. Gator Graphics 624 and 622 are allzone light industrial as is the land to the west of them. the form former uh GE Transportation Harmon

Industries property that's also all zoned light industrial and the houses south of 622 Laurel are zoned R2. The other side of the street on the east is zone uh across from 622 and 624 and Gator Graphics. All of those to the east are zoned general business. So, there's a map of that zoning in your packet and online, but uh that that's where we begin this evening is that the property to the north 624 started first with their request to reszone to R2. And staff said, "Well, you're not adjacent to R2, and so we couldn't reszone just you by yourself. That would be spot zoning. But talk to your neighbor and see what their interest is." And then a a application did come forward later from that property owner. That's the one from the Wilkins that is at 622 Laurel. And so with that request, uh currently their property is zone light industrial. If that property were to sustain damage in in excess of 75% of the fair market value, so a tornado hits it, a fire, something horrible happens, uh they would not be allowed to rebuild because a single family house is not a zoned by right or even by conditional use permit in a light industrial district. So they would that'd be the end of having a house on that property because you can't have a house in light industrial district, not a new house in a light industrial district. And so they're fine as they are now, but it's the future that is a concern for for both these houses. Um

we so they uh staff has recommended approval of their reszoning. there is an impact to adjacent properties because of a reasonzoning of that property. So when you have light industrial adjacent to residential, the light industrial property has a larger setback. It goes to a 30foot setback on the property line that's adjacent to the residential. So in the moment that 622 reszones, 624 will immediately have a new 30-foot setback on it. Um similarly if 624 reszones that would happen to Gator Graphics. Now what's there now again would be grandfathered in.

It would be down the road that that 30-foot setback would become important. Um, so in notifying the public of the two requests, uh, people within 300 feet, property owners within 300 feet were notified of the requests. And we did receive two public comments. One from Dean Willie, uh, who has Gator Graphics, which is technically 404 West Young Street and 628 Laurel Street. He has two properties there. and uh he wanted to know what the con what his concern was, what impact it would have on his properties and staff stated he would have the 30-foot setback for building parking and storage on his properties adjacent to the south property lines. Um that would be true for any future work that he wants to do. It would not be the case for what's there now. What is there now could stay and continue. You could even sell to a new owner and it wouldn't trigger anything. Um, you could bring in you could sell to another business that's the same land use category and it wouldn't trigger anything. Um, but if you abandoned it for over 365 days, that would trigger it. um if you uh just totally changed that business moves out and a retail convenience store moves in, that's a different use that something like that would trigger it. So, um and then we also had a a comment from Lee Wyrick at 610 Laurel Street and he uh wanted to he had gotten the letter for this property at 622. wanted to know why it said electric springs on it and staff explained the properties at 622 and 624 Laurel Street have houses on them. Uh but our zone light industrial and the and the owners have requested

the resoning to R2 and that Electric Springs is the subdivision they're in and that's just part of their legal description. Even though there's not a sign that says it's Electric Springs subdivision, it it's true on paper. Um and he stated that is very interesting that there are houses located in a business district. Uh planning and zoning commission considered this item at their meeting last week. There were a there was a lot of discussion around the setbacks uh between light industrial properties and residential districts and um a discussion around if they reszoned to general business instead of residential. But general business because you can have a house as a conditional use permit in a general business. Um that would require uh that's not impossible, but it would require resoning and a separate resoning process and a separate conditional use permit. And um so that would be an option potentially if this is not approved approved this evening. Um I think ultimately following discussion planning and zoning commission recommended approval of the request and you have a copy of those findings in your packet. One of the things that uh before I'm on planning and zoning, but before I attended the meeting, one of the things that I kept thinking about was um because I didn't realize you could grandfather in uh what was going on, what was going to go on in that 30foot setback. So, what I was thinking, what was the lesser of the two evils? You

know, taking 30 foot away from um Mr. Willie, or the people in 624 or 622 not being able to get a mortgage on their home and you if you didn't approve it, you basically would be taking the use of someone's home away from them. And it's mortgage companies are looking at that now because money is harder to get. So now they're looking at more stuff. And we have a lot of um light industrial general business that has residential right up against it, right on it or in residential or light industrial. And I think with the mortgage industry being the way it is, we're going to see a lot more of these requests coming in.

We have seen more requests for those reasons. Uh mortgage companies not willing to do loans on properties like this. Um, it's not all of them, but there's definitely been more instances and requests like this since the housing crisis in 2009 and and the standards they put in place following that. Yeah.

So, I guess my point is I I like the the ex the explanation that as long as uh Mr. really continues to use that 30-foot setback for storing his I don't know what trailers and um whatever that is that he was horning there and the next person if he sells it to somebody the next person coming along could use that business for the same general purpose plus continue to use that 30-foot setback to store trailers and uh vehicles and that type of thing in that uh piece of property. Yes, they Thank you.

Any other questions for Barbara?

Yeah. Thank you. No public comments. Thank you. We will close that public hearing. Item 6.3, a public hearing on an ordinance enlarging an R2 one and two family residence district by reszoning land located at 624 Laurel Street from Light Industrial District to R2 one and two family residence district presented by Barbara Carroll. Um, we've covered a lot of it in the first 622 presentation. I on this one I would just draw your attention to um because we've talked about under adjacent properties really this the second paragraph first and second paragraphs and the impact that that would have on uh gator graphics. So we've covered that in pretty good detail. I won't talk top of the second page um where if 624 is reszoned to R2 and 622 so both of them are reszoned to R2 then the setback in between those two will go to 7 and 1/2 ft which is a standard site setback um in residential districts if 624 is not reszoned but 622 is then 624 four will have that 30 foot setback on them and that lot is only 50 feet wide. So in that instance um that property if it would ever be destroyed um

even bringing in light industrial onto it would be challenging in that 20 foot that remains. So um there is an impact to to 624 in that scenario. I um let's see the did planning and zoning have any thing for this? No, I think we've talked about Yeah, I think we've covered everything planning and zoning commission discussed that's stated there in the staff report. Um, following that discussion last week, they also voted to recommend approval of this request and that finding is in their in your packet as well. And staff has recommended approval um of the 624 resoning as well.

Thanks for walking us through that. It felt like a puzzle. It is a bit of a Yes, it is. Then it was like a bad math problem back then. Logic puzzle. Yeah.

Thank you. Any questions for Barbara? Thank you, Barbara. No public comments. We will close that public hearing. Item 6.4, 4 a public hearing on an ordinance enlarging a GB general business district by reszoning land located at 1035 South Magcguire Street from R3 lowdensity multif family Residence District to GB General Business District presented by Barbara Carroll. If this feels familiar, um, you took up a piece of this property in 2024. And so, uh, this is the property in this northeast corner of Blake Anthony Drive and Maguire Street. And it currently resides in two different zoning districts. The east side of the property, what you see there outlined in red. The east side of the property is currently zoned R3 lowdensity multifamily. The west side of the property, the hard corner on the frontage of Meguire Street is zone GB General Business District. And it's been that way for a long time. Um, the current owner, Mr. Marcato came forward a few years ago with a proposal to develop storage units on the west side on the front of the lot and on the east side to put in a a culde-sac and build duplexes around it with the entrance coming off of Blake Anthony. Um his plans have evolved and he's priced that out and he would now like to pursue the storage units across the full property and not do the duplexes on the east end. uh dup uh storage units are not an

allowed use in an R3 district. And so he is requested to have uh that remaining R3 portion reszoned to general business. And if you um there is a copy of the zone some zone the zoning areas in your packet. And that proposed general business on the east would then line up with the general business on the south side of Lake Anthony where we have Piggly used to have Piggly Wiggly and uh now the early childhood education center. So it would square off that general business corner essentially. Um there is uh let me look here the properties to no. So the the properties to the east of what he's wanting to reszone are zoned R3 low density multif family. The properties to the north are zoned R1 single family. So you have residential both to the north and to the east of this area. And uh that would like we discussed in the last one that will put an additional setback on his property of 30 ft as a setback from those residential districts. Um there have been prior resoning requests for this project property. In 1996, a request was to reszone was submitted to the city uh to reszone roughly the same area from R3 to general business. That request was denied by city council and the minutes from that planning and zoning commission meeting and the city council meeting are attached um to your packet. It doesn't give a lot of information as to why they made that decision. Um but

it seems to indicate it that it it's not consistent with other development in the area at that time. Um Piggly Wiggly was in the works. It was not built at that time. It was being discussed and so uh that area south of it was not built out and developed um at the time that other request came forward that was denied in 2024. As we discussed, he had a a sliver in the middle um reszone from R3 to general business, but not all of it. Um we did notify property owners within 300 ft and uh we did not receive any comment as of this writing of the report or this meeting. We've not received any comment from anyone. Um planning and zoning commission took this up at their meeting last week. Um they had some discussion around storm water and where the driveway entrances would be since the plans had changed. Um those discussions were part of the plat process. This now is all storage units would not require a replplat. So he would just if the resoning is approved, he would come in and apply for a building permit. Uh that plat was never recorded. So it doesn't exist yet um legally. And so he would not record it and he would have the full parcel as it exists today. If it was reszoned all into general business, then he would just come in and apply for a building permit um as as part of our regular administrative review and it wouldn't come back to planning commission or city council. Um, so we would look at storm water as a part of that review and we would look at driveways um to make sure they're consistent with our rightway access management policy. Uh, but all of that would be an administrative process.

Um, planning and zoning commission recommended approval at their meeting. You have a copy of their findings and staff has recommended approval as well. And Mr. Marcato is here if you have questions of him. And there's currently no requirement when folks remove any number of trees from a property to replant any trees. Right. In any

you have to currently you only have to plant trees based on the number of parking spaces that is required. I don't know how many will be required on this project but if say 10 are required he will need to plant one tree. If 13 were required he would plant two trees. He might take down 20, but you'd only have to put back two. Great. Gotcha. Any questions for Barbara on this? Nope. All right. Thank you, Barbara. Back and forth. I think it's the last one.

Yes. Thanks, Jesse. There are no public comments. We will close the public session public hearing. Item seven, an ordinance amending chapter 27 of the code of city ordinances of the city of Orangeburg, Missouri regarding duplexes and mixed multifamily developments presented by Barbara Carroll. Approval. If you have any other questions, be happy to answer them.

I did take the opportunity to do some internet research on the the question that came up and and it is true that the state of Missouri exempts single family and duplexes. The underlying rationale for that is that there's a standalone international residential code that applies to single family and duplexes. It's very prescriptive. So it it's possible to build those structures just based on the code requirements rather than needing to have a specialized engineered stamp set architectural stamp set of plans. Thank you. Thank you Mike. Good to have the search there. Appreciate it. Motion to move to second reading by title. Kushner, excuse me. Kushner, yes. Osbourne, yes. Latari,

yes. Jones, yes. Uer, yes. An ordinance amending chapter 27 of the code of city ordinances of the city of Warrenburg, Missouri regarding duplexes and mixed multifamily developments. This is for adoption or rejection. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you. Thank you.

Item 7.2, 2, an ordinance enlarging an R2 one and two family residence district by reszoning land located at 622 Laurel Street from LI Light Industrial District to R212 family residence district presented by Barbara Carroll. Okay. Motion to move to second reading by title only. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Yes.

An ordinance enlarging an R21 and two family residence district by reszoning land located at 622 Laurel Street from LI Light Industrial District to R21 and two family residence district. This is for adoption or rejection. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 7.3, an ordinance enlarging an R2, one and two family residence district by reszoning land located at 624 Laurel Street from LI Light Industrial District to R2 one and two family residence district presented by Barbara Carroll. Second motion to move to second reading by title. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes.

An ordinance enlarging an R21 and two family residence district by reszoning land located at 624 Laurel Street from LI Lightnustrial to R21 and two family residence district. This is for adoption or rejection. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you. Thank you.

Item 7.4, an ordinance enlarging a GB General Business District by reszoning land located at 135 South Maguire Street from R3 lowdensity multifamily Residence District to GB General Business District. Presented by Barbara Carroll. No questions. No questions. Thank you. Motion to move to second reading by title only. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes.

An ordinance enlarging a GB general B business B business district by reszoning land located at 1035 South Maguire Street from R3 lowdensity multifamily residence district to GB General Business District. This is for adoption or rejection. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you. Thank you.

Moving on. Item 8.1, a resolution approving a donation request by the food center, a food pantry from the Stevenson Fund in the amount of $1,000 presented by Jod Schneider, city clerk.

Thank you, Mayor Uler. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. I received a donation request from the food center of food pantry um for an amount of $1,000. They cited due to the rising cost of the government shutdown in the fall of 2025, the food center saw an increase of 10% in families and individuals requesting assistance from the end of September through November. They cited again also if approved these funds would be used to purchase meat and eggs and will be used to supplement the food that's donated from within the community. what is available to order from harvesters and food purchased with monetary donations. This invest in investment will directly provide nutritious food for hundreds of families and foster a healthier, stronger community. The um most recent request that we received last meeting as well as this meeting will um put us at $3,000 of the 33 $150 budget for this fiscal year. I wanted to point that out. I also wanted to point out that city manager U. Scragg has requested city staff to start working on a formal process for the Stevenson fund donations and that is due primarily because of the increased need in our community. So that is being worked on and will be brought to you in in hopefully the next several meetings. City staff recommends approval. Are there any questions you might have?

Just related to that last point, will the other funds that are charitable funds, Brown currently, not the fund because that's, you know, earmarked, but will the other charitable funds also be subject to that? It's a very good question. Individual processes, but we'll build one for each. I think I mentioned at a prior meeting, I had it in my head we'd build this before the next budget cycle. I didn't anticipate uh right after the first of the year. So I think this fund in particular we may need to identify a particular application deadline so we get them all in and then we can weigh that one against another before we award any. Yeah. Maybe a time frame, right?

Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. And so the but the other the other funds one of the things we talked about was sort of at the strategic planning was maybe combining them or using it as a nest egg sort of to help start something but as well as articulating some criteria that we're trying to accomplish and that we review them on. So yeah I uh had someone in mind but they're now the city administrator of Pleasant Hills. Oh that's right. That's right. That was her test. Okay. She could do it in her spare time. Any other comments? We have a resolution

to approve the resolution. Thank you. Kushner, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you. Thank you. 9.1, Mayoral Appointments. Motion to approve mayoral appointments as follows. Appoint Woods Preole as a board member business representative for the arts commission filling an unexpired term through October 2027. Motion to approve. Kushner. Yes. Osborne. Yes. Latari. Jones. Yes. Uler. Yes. Thank you.

Jessica's one more time here. Thank you. Item 10, appearances to the council not listed on the agenda. There are none. Item 11, miscellaneous matters from the mayor andor city council. I have Oh, Jan's got one.

Yeah, I have one. When I was trying to find 1035 South Magcguire Street the other day, I was looking of course at house numbers on the houses and that obviously they're in numerical order. But when I got to about 900, all of a sudden house numbers disappeared. There was house number on uh Maguire Street Terrace on that house there, but there weren't any house numbers after about 900 something on some houses. You couldn't see them from the street. I thought that all houses had to have visible numbers on them from the street. Is that true? I'm looking at our

fire chief. Fire chiefs on the residential side. Um residential. Yeah. We don't on fire department side of the we don't have an arm to enforce what they maintain there. The commercial side we do. On the commercial you do. Okay. So then you're just driving in the dark or you've got GPS and hope it's right. Uh a couple things. Um we do have mapping in our our trucks so that helps. Um, and then a lot of it is just memorizing blocks and kind of where you're at.

I think we could do a social media push just help us help you. Um, while it's not required, it's advisable. Yeah, some of them might have mailboxes out at the street um because the house back too far to really see anything. um that would be helpful for anybody traveling but al in particular in emergency situations. Thank you. A long time ago there used to be some groups that would go out and paint the curve. Yes, the Boy Scouts. Boy Scouts or something. Maybe you can do that. Okay. Thanks, Chief.

Any other matters? City Council. Yep. Oh, thank you. Community partner updates. Uh, Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Johnson County, third quarter report. We're still doing that. Yeah. Okay. She was providing the report. She hadn't planned to present to be here. Okay. Oh, so we we have that. Great organization, by the way. Yes, it is. Uh, item 13, city staff update. City staff update. City manager.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. I do have a handful of things that might be of interest to you. I'm sure you're aware of it by now, but Phil Ablich is our public works director with a little more acting now.

I will I will publicly thank him for his service as interim and his patience. Um I I shared with him that I just historically have have chosen to run a process more often than not. It gives credibility to the to the process. It gives credibility to the candidate that's selected. And so he certainly stood out above the other candidates and he he earned it. So looking forward to working with him in his full-time capacity. Um, Phil and I met with representatives of Schneider Electric recently and there, you may recall they were doing the they called it an investment grade audit, which is kind of an odd title for it, but they review our facilities and equipment and opportunities for improvements and and cost savings. Um, a lot of good information there. They have a little bit more work to do, but in the near future, they'll be reporting that out to you as a group. And you know, one of the big things uh that I see value in is they've looked at all of our equipment and identified the useful life and it'll help us schedule all that. Then they have a number of recommendations and some things they can provide us assistance on. So I I think you'll find it of interest and uh they should have it for us here pretty soon. Um the mayor and I attended community project funding work workshops put on by Congressman Alford staff in different locations across his district. uh it was very helpful. Um it's kind of for lack of a better term earmarks or the process by which uh direct appropriations can be sought by um congressman. And so they explained that process, explain the timeline. It was a good opportunity to talk to to his staff about uh Meuire overpass in particular um and learn about the threshold population in particular is 20,000 20,000 and below that are eligible. So, we are just nominally eligible for that process. But also had a conversation with them about the fact that we were preparing an application for the build grant. Um, which that is underway. Earnsmax working

on that. We we've sent out two dozen requests for letters of support from uh various agencies all the way from Congressman Alford who has provided that letter already uh to our own fire and police departments and WCBB. um getting very positive feedback especially in light of the short timeline. So I feel good that we'll have a representative sample of of letters of support really trying to leverage the fact that the highway is on the strategic highway network and it's too it's an inch a foot and one inch uh too low uh by standard. So don't know that that directly impacts Whiteman Air Force Base, but it could. Uh you may already be aware that a representative and every representative of MDOT meets with the county and and I attend that meeting monthly. So kind of have an ongoing rapport with Marcela Ward and some of the thing so I keep a running list of things to talk to her about and one of those is a community sign at business 50. uh getting positive feedback there about the the possibility of putting it in MODOT right away. Provided them the information that they requested and still waiting for kind of an official response, but all indications are are promising. Um been working with them on the Mag Meuire design cost share allocation that we have and uh the cost allocation getting their approval so we then can enter into an agreement with Burns and Mack. I've been pressing them to clean the the the ditch along Copper Ridge on DD Highway. That whole conversation about what was contributing to water on the roadway kind of heightened the focus on on the condition of that ditch. Um so I kind of drive by there and keep an eye on it, see if they've cleaned it. Um there's one particular area, the Spirit Trail, that has some drainage challenges that I shared with her quite some time ago and continue to follow up on. Uh we've had conversations about the possibility of regional detention kind of in the

northeast. a quadrant and that likely uh would impact flow under uh 50 highway. So, reached out to MODOT to find out more about their expectations on on anything like that. Um this one's kind of a small maybe even a pet peeve, but there is a commuter parking lot that MDOT maintains on business on the 13 bypass at Veterans Road and it needs new surfacing. It's just all grease. That comes up about every four years,

does it? Well, I had personally had reason to use it and just got stuck in the muck. So, I took it upon myself to suggest it needed some treatment. Uh, and then you may recall that we put together a design for uh the Spirit Trail Gap in anticipation of the transportation assistance program uh funding which we didn't apply for last year, but I'll be back. In terms of the cost of that, that'll take a budget amendment, but trying to track that timeline and that process and be ready for that. Um, you I sent you quite a few emails in the last week or so, so should you should have seen some historical background information about the community center and how how that all transpired in the 1990s. I hope that was helpful to add some context for you. Um, you should have seen a draft homeless uh services survey and I'm working on that. Um, Councilwoman Latari suggested that uh maybe it would be best to distribute it in Google Docs. I have to admit I know I started with word perfect if you remember what that was forms Google forms. So I'm more of an outlook person but we'll we'll see there is some value in the Google forms approach. So Jessica is going to try to help me with that. Um you should have also had an email about the state uh legislation the law that was passed expanding the hours of liquor sales during the FIFA World Cup time frame. and and I started with an under understanding or I thought it was communities needed to opt into that. It turns out the presumption is those hours are expanded and communities need to opt out. So that kind of changes the communication dynamic uh with our businesses. But my intention is to go ahead and put that on a future agenda for you to consider and get the word out that you will be taking that up. So whether they're uh liquor license holders that are, you know, for it or whether it's uh others that that have concerns about it, create an opportunity for that conversation and that would kind of put you on the hot seat to

deliberate about whether you wish to opt out of that or leave it in place. Have we received feedback from community? Not a lot. Um there was just some initial feedback about those expanded hours and and I initially made the commitment that we'll get a survey out to see what um uh liquor license holders want to do. That was kind of mistakenly on the premise that we would need to opt in. In the opt out scenario, the message changes a little bit, but we'll get get the word out and create an opportunity for you them to address you if they had concerns on either side. 247. That's a lot. Yeah, I think it's 23 hours 23 24 hours a day. Yeah.

So, uh we'll we've got some time, but want to forewarn you that we're going forward with uh getting the word out and creating some community conversation about that.

Um and then there's also a bill working its way through the legislature or at least being taken up to exempt food from sales tax. And so admittedly, you know, there's obviously opinions on both sides of that issue. And some would say that that sales tax on food is regressive and and punitive. Um, unless you tell me otherwise, unless you have concerns, my intention is to share uh with that committee a written uh comment just purely factual estimating the value of sales tax loss that Warren B experienced. That's a little hard to calculate, but there is some guidance out there about for say a Walmart super center, what percentage of their sales are food related? And then same way with grocery stores. So between our sales tax generators, I think I could calculate or estimate uh revenue loss and then also equate that to if the community wanted the service levels to stay the same, what a mill rate increase would be needed to offset that sales tax loss and just leave it at that. Not lobby uh either way on on beyond providing the factual information. And are they talking about the state sales tax or just the municipalities?

Well, my understanding is it's state and local. So, yes, in Kansas, while I was there, the state did away with the state sales tax and they left the local sales tax in place. So, that was one of the first things I looked at was is it just state, but it is state and local. Um, and then Wednesday this week will be my one-y year anniversary with the city of Lawrenburg. Uh so that time flew by.

Lastly wanted to give you a heads up that uh I am planning on taking vacation to correspond with spring break week of school. So uh Friday, March 6 through Sunday, March 15th, Barb's agreed to be the acting city manager while I'm away. There is a city council meeting in there on Monday, March 9th. I'll zoom into that, but we'll try to be strategic and keep that agenda light. Um and but I will uh be attending virtually. So that's all that I have unless you have questions for me. Is somebody gonna mention about tomorrow's sacred Phil? All right. I keep stealing Phil's report and Barbara will do the next one. All right. Okay.

Yeah, sounds good. Uh city staff updates, administrative services department. Have we started a process to replace Kristen or uh we're focusing on salary and benefits survey first to try to get that dialed in and then uh we have both the HR position and the assistant position. So the city staff updates city clerk

there is a um report in your packet. We've set the date for the next uh shredding day for destruction of records um pursuant to our policy. Other than that, I've handed out a physical um registration hotel for the MML legislative conference that's coming up next week. For those who are attending, if you have any questions, let me know. It's also on your Outlook calendar. So, thank you. Appreciate you going through all the files for parks and recreation, too. You're welcome. Very interesting. That was really interesting. Very interesting. You're welcome. Thank you.

Thank you. City staff update uh community development

highlight and the information is all in the packets and the newspaper, start seeing it in emails, etc. But we are having the Mavar Street corridor overlay public meet district meeting on February 19th at community center rooms A and B. That's from 5:30 to 7:30. And uh it will be a presentation. So it's not a drop in. It's not a come and go. You come watch the presentation and then we'll do questions and breakout stations afterwards. There will be a handout for people who uh attend and um you know so they have something to take with them to think about or if they can't stay the whole time they can take that with them and then um we will post that information on our website when the meeting is over.

Would it be possible for that to be recorded and put on YouTube? Yeah, that like we do our meetings or would you not want to do that? What was the meeting? Uh, it's our public meeting over at the multi A and B in the community center. You would have to go with parks to see if they can do that. Well, would we even want to do that? It may not be a good idea the more I think of it. I don't I don't know if there's a No,

going into it. I don't know. Um I I think if we have the presentation we're going to put the slide deck on the website and the handout on the website and so I and I know we've had three phone calls as of 3:00 today already on it. So the word is getting out there. So are the slides already out? No. So once the slides are out there uh those that can't attend would be able to see that and then that should generate some more. Yeah. And so after the meeting is over, we'll put this we'll put that all on the website and we'll have an online form where they can submit any comments as well and they can call us, but if they want to do it online, they can do it online. That's perfect. Thank you.

Would you mind giving like a one or two minute what the overlay what that is? We've got some visitors here tonight. So

Okay. Um, so we're looking at an overlay district for the Maguire corridor. Um, for the part that's re recently undergone construction, it would be properties the front on the corridor. And this would be a uh an overlay district is uh regulations that supplement or modify the underlying zoning district regulations, which in this case is general business. And so, um, they would be additional or modified regulations, um, in the future as properties redevelop that they would have to adhere to to redevelop along the corridor with the idea that we're trying to support a cohesive visual identity, encourage high quality site design, and strengthen the long-term character of the corridor and improve that visitor resident experience along the property.

Thanks. Thank you. Uh comm uh city staff updates fire department. You changed the format. I like it. Got a whole 3D thing. City staff updates parks department. Chris,

thank you. Uh good evening, mayor and city council. Um after the city council meeting on January 12th, staff has been discussing u issues presented at that meeting in the parkboard with the parkboard administrative committee and in addition at the park board meeting on January 28th. Uh the open forum part of the meeting we had five speakers. Uh some spoke in opposition to the entry fee and also some spoke in favor. uh staff was reported on the has a report of the current membership community center um which is show the last three years for January or a total of those last three January were 30 members per month at the end of this January we had 382 members and um four cancellations only 50% of those 382 were seniors plus 50% Um Steph also mentioned further benchmarking study um that from comments spade we moved to 50 community centers from going out in the Warrensburg area or Warrenburg proper going out and um of of that um still only three centers offered free track and gym and uh 47 centers charge an entrance fee. as u further update. Um year-to date, our membership line item through the month of January, we've collected $85,000 in memberships um as compared to last year, $65,000 year to date, $20,000 increase. One of the things our parks and recreation board um has said that felt we need to do is to increase our revenue in areas that we can control. And that is one of those areas uh with membership.

Steph also announced the uh reactiv at the park board meeting uh reactivation of the parks foundation for the 21st century which is going to be led by former mayor Scott Holberg and um there was going to be two or three park board members as well as uh three or four community members and uh that of course will be following the bylaws that are listed within that. and so um they will serve on this committee. One of the things Scott Hullberg and I have already discussed is the opportunity to use foundation funds for scholarship services for those in need. And this has been done in the past for our programs, but we are looking at the opportunity to expand this to membership scholarships. And um this would be income for those that uh income qualify. Um but there are a few examples um of other centers that do that. And so this is going to be reviewed by the park foundation and also by the park board. Also, uh the parkboard administrative committee um coming up this February is going to dis um the discussion will take place that will include setting up a special committee uh to look at questions brought up at about the entry fee and report back to the administrative committee and ultimately the park board on those discussions. Some of the questions that were asked by council, park board or citizens uh will be re reviewed by this special committee and our plan is to move quickly on on that process. And um an u one issue that was brought up in regard at the park board meeting was a punch pass not being um counted correctly or specifically um was specifically mentioned at the parkboard meeting and visiting with our

front desk administrative staff. This is not a common occurrence. However, front desk administration staff is retraining staff to ensure proper punch pass tracking. Um there has been an issue with software not being user friendly and this has to do with the date of the software. So I will tell you that staff is already has budgeted um the process of starting for new software half of it is going to be done this year and moving into the summer and fall and then we'll complete the rest of it with the October budget. And um I w I will say that um re review of the new software is something that the special committee also can be engaged in. Uh but the lead person that's going to be working on this is our new assistant director Tony Albertina. He has years of experience with the software and he's already started gathering information on this. As a matter of fact, we have some demos set for this next week. So um also as mentioned before currently the entry fee policy already provides 50% off of uh the monthly memberships for those uh youth who are on school lunch program. Also, silver sneakers and renew active for seniors has seen an increase um for those making applications for the programs and um which pays for monthly through annual membership. But as stated um we're going to even look at more opportunities. Um, I did want to specifically acknowledge um, council member Latar's questions um, raised to prior council meeting that uh, staff identified as homework uh, to follow up on. Uh, number of these questions related to the

specific impacts on populations that use the community center for free. Um, I will say that we don't itemize costs uh, costs to that level in our operations. um we haven't tracked and we don't usually have a current method to break out costs for specific things whether it be elevator or electricity use equipment usage that um that those are really looking at indirect costs. I will tell you that we certainly have line item budget for every bit single revenue that we follow and also all of our expenses that we follow. But I did go back and look at the presentation made at the joint meeting of the park board of the city council on the July 14th. Uh there wasn't anything specific on a slide about the fees, but under the slide of operations and finance staff made a point that the parks department would and this is in quote maximize the financial um sustainability of Orangeburg Parks and Recreation through sound financial proc uh planning process and with the minimum wage increase You look at the starting of the community center, $5.15 an hour to $15 an hour now. And also our debt service increasing every year and by 2033 going up to over $430,000. Um that increase as well as the school lunch uh excuse me, the school summer program. Those are all something that we looked at as needing to increase in revenue where we could um for our own budget stability uh which would be done through fees and this is the goal of the park board. I specifically also stated on September um at the city council meeting on presentation.

Um these are also an exact quote. Under processed fees, an entrance fee will be charged to all who enter the community center, but there will be no increase in the amount of the daily entrance fee, which is $5 for youth and $7 for adults. and we will not increase the fee of the monthly and the annual pass. In addition, youth who are on the reduced free and lunch program. Uh there's 50% off for the monthly and annual pass. The presentation also mentioned the 11 centers that we used at that time, but once again we expand that now to over 50 centers. So, uh, very positively, I feel all of these items are going to be reviewed by this special committee and then brought brought back before the park board ultimately city council um reporter report rep report only. So, there's there's there's more news to come on that. I I I think some of the highlights right there are um our park foundation. We're excited about expanding and looking at scholarship opportunities for membership as well as the special committee taking further review on those things. Um so on to just another subject. Front desk project is coming along nicely and the anticipated uh finished date um is still the first part of April. And I have a very positive report on our annual deer hunt, which this year doubled the number of deer harvested, total of 35.

Wow. I will say that the last couple of years it was 17. And as I reported at the park board meeting, I would like to thank council member Jan Jones for her suggestion of a policy that each hunter must report their hunting outcomes at the end of the year, whether they harvested a deer or not. As I also said at the meeting, it's funny how that works. They want to return and so they reported and and uh we had some a really nice idea

uh number to give to the uh conservation department and closing our park board meeting is going to be on uh Wednesday. uh moved it up in February because uh some of our staff will be attending state conference in Colombia u which is one of them and I will answer any questions that you may have at this time.

I have one question. I don't know if the administrative committee that's looking at the fees is thinking about a maximum family fee if you have a very large family. Maybe I think a standard family or the average family is 2.1 children. I don't know how you get 0.1 but anyways 2.1 children. If you have a family of maybe six children that could get pretty expensive. Maybe if there was a maximum family fee. I don't know what that would be, but I I would like the administrative um committee to kind of look at that and think if that's a possibility.

Uh I will certainly mention that. And and I I don't see there's a reason why we can't, but I will just I want to give you a little bit of background on that. And this has kind of evolved over the last I would say 10 years that I've been in the industry. Um you'll have an example such as uh what we do here and what many other community centers um have done uh Leaf Summit many others they have said for an adult it's $300 and that's what it is and for an annual pass $25 a month and it it goes through um that for the whether the family unit or not. Why? because some family members will come in and say they are all living under the same roof regardless of what the family is and so you therefore get um some of that that that is a little bit of of a challenge. So, but it is something that we can certainly um look at and and review. I will tell you that a lot of the uh media centers have just gone to the ind individual instead of membership but there still are family memberships out there.

Okay. Um so that's certainly something that we can look at and that won't be a problem. I will mention that to administrative committee is meeting tomorrow night. So yes they are. Thank you. Anything else? Anything else? Thank you director. really appreciate all that information and your effort and you know taking everyone's concerns seriously. Well, thank you. Much

appreciate and I'd like to give a special thank you to uh our city manager for putting together that information. Um although I didn't like it at first. Uh I'm going to work and he's listen to me. But uh I I thought it was really um um very quality in showing a timeline and showing the actual uh statistic from that and providing an opportunity for us to have a little bit more information to provide um to the public. So thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you. City staff updates. Chief Monsterman Police Department. Evening, mayor, council. Um, just have a few things here. Uh, everybody's been, uh, involved with the Axon. Um, all that equipment started coming in. We had two days of training regarding that equipment last week. Um, starting to look at implementing it. It'll probably be rolling out. Some of it will be rolling out in around March. Um, we're full steam ahead on, uh, vehicle decommissions. We've done two vehicles that have been causing some problems. um went ahead and got all the equipment out of them, getting them to Enterprise. Uh they're going to be looking at selling them for us, but we're moving forward with vehicles that uh we're able to uh do that with. That way, we're not doing it all at once. Um last Friday, we've been we've been busy through the police department. Last Friday, we had approximately 50 calls on dayshift. Um that averages 12 and a half calls an officer. Um, that's a busy day and that's not even including the night shift wise. Met with Phil and uh the contractors for the solar panels today and we got a plan together on uh how they're going to come into the police department building with the conduit and the wire to get into our electrical panels. Um that work should be starting fairly soon. We might have more on that.

Um we've had had six applicants that they applied. Uh none of them made it through our first interview process. Um and then Dale Bernard is leaving us in March. He's moving back to Alaska. His uh wife works at uh out on base and she they moved out here to be closer to her family. Um some things didn't work like they thought and they miss Alaska. They were from Alaska. So that's all I have. Stand for any questions. Have any any questions? What are your feelings on the 247 or 237 alcohol? Me and the city manager have had that discussion and we'll continue having that discussion when we're ready to move forward with it. So, all right.

Thank you. Thank you. City staff update public works department build. Evening mayor, city council members. Um, as things have been mentioned, safe streets for all. We do have an a come and go meeting tomorrow 5 to 7 at the library. So hopefully everybody can make it. Um yeah,

safe streets for all was just a hopefully figuring out what the citizens want us to really focus on and we can get our projects aligned and done. Um we did meet with the solar company. I don't have an exact date of when they are going to start, but it's going to be, you know, end of April is when Schneider has to have the project pretty much done. So, they are moving ahead uh full steam and we'll start to see some construction stuff going on soon. Um, Enterprise Fleet Management, as Andy mentioned, we actually have two vehicles out that are with Enterprise and they're going to be sold at auction, probably this week. I think Wednesday is when they said there are seven of the vehicles in production out of the ones that we have ordered. So we get updates on that and once they get through production then they will be sent to the outfitters to get up fitted and uh then we'll get those. So don't have an exact date on when they are going to be here. Most of them are the police vehicles. So they're going to be the ones that get the first wave of vehicles coming in. It's moving forward again at a good pace. Some of the other projects that we're working on the emergency contaminants for McGuire we did get all the letters back from all the state required contacts conservation department tribal all those things. We got all those back. So now we're moving on to the next step. We're working with the state to get that going. The walkway decks, they are done at Lion's Lake. I don't know if you all have had a chance to get out there and

see those, walk on those. They did get complete Friday, I believe it was. Or I was on them yesterday. I didn't walk on them today, but I was on them yesterday.

They're complete and hopefully satisfactory. Uh there's still some other work that has to be done, the bridge, asphalt, and stuff, but it's moving along well. The wastewater treatment plant expansion is going well with the warmer weather. More stuff's happening. So, it's looking good. We have pavement condition index is going to be opened up. The bid will meet as the 12th. So, we'll hopefully have something in front of the council to approve a couple weeks for that project. The fire department and police department were putting together a packet to send out for request for proposal for concrete work. So, we'll have that. And then our normal ADA curb gutter and sidewalk projects that are all being worked on. So, there's a lot of stuff going on. We'll keep going. Just curious what manufacturer does enterprise use? What

Enterprise will use? Any manufactale value. So it can change from year to year. Now, police vehicles, number one, we don't flip them as often, and they kind of have specialized vehicles, but beyond that, the part of Enterprises's expertise is helping us not only pick the making and model, but the features so that it has maximum resale value. Y any other questions for Phil? Nope. Nope. Thanks. Thank you, director. And congratulations again.

City staff updates, Lordsburg Convention, Visitors Bureau. Barbara, don't go real quick. If I can catch you real quick, can you mention about lifelong learning this week real quick? Oh, yes. Nothing additional. Nothing additional. Sorry. But I thought you'd mention lifelong learning real quick. Okay. If you don't mind,

Chris is the shy one. I know, right? We know that. So yes, um the lifelong learning program um will be offering a presentation on Morris Collins, our father that we will be presenting to everyone on the 19th, I believe, at 6:00 p.m. I was going to text you. Um so we welcome you all to come and join us on that. We are looking to possibly offer digital options because I know that there are some who are unable to attend in person. So, we hope to have a digital option. Yeah. So, thank you.

And on the church uh Jesus saves Pentecostal, you're doing black history at Yes. We have some flyers. Okay. Tonight. Oh, thank you. That's on the 22nd at 3:30 p.m. And um I got it on my calendar already. I'm good. It's up for me. Yeah. Okay. He will be our speaker that day. He grew up in north of town, the Mount Hall area. He's gonna come and talk about some history in the local area growing up north of town and community. Great. Thank you very much. Sorry about that. Thank you. I would love

and the Warnsburg Convention Visitors Bureau. Marcy said she had nothing. Okay. What would you do like don't