City Council - Regular Meeting

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Hang on. Would you 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. Thank you. Roll call, please. Ryenower, here. Osborne here. Latari here. Jones here. Uler

here. Approval of city council minutes. Motion to approve city council work session minutes dated April 27th, 2026. And regular city council meeting minutes dated April 27th, 2026. So moved. Rydenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Lati, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you. Adoption of agenda. I so move to approve. Ridenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes.

Got to it really quick. So, here we are. Proclamations. We have a couple of proclamations, but we have one right now. Proclamation for ALS awareness month, May 2026. Tony, you can come up next. Thank you for coming here. You guys are amazing what you're doing nationally and locally. So really appreciate it. ALS awareness month May 2026. Whereas amiotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS known by many as Larage disease is a progressive fatal neurodeenerative disease that attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord making even the simplest movements of walking, speaking and gesturing difficult. And whereas approximately 5,600 people are diagnosed with ALS each year with a new diagnosis every 90 minutes. Whereas ALS strikes people regardless of race, ethnicity, social status, there's currently no known cause, means of prevention, or cure, making diagnosis difficult. Patients diagnosed with ALS survive only two to five years and a few treatments to improve quality of life. And whereas people who served in the military are twice as likely to to develop ALS, leading to the US Department of Veterans Affairs to recognize ALS as a service connected disease. And whereas Tony Vic, a 16-year Warsburg veteran, has battled ALS and defied the odds after being officially diagnosed on September 20th, 2017. Vic is around one of 5,000 veterans currently fighting ALS. Whereas Tony and his wife Karen Vic together work to raise awareness by

sharing their story through social media platforms with over 500,000 followers. And they do this on the reality of living with ALS being an ALS caregiver. The community's response to their initial video went viral and the feedback reflected to a positive impact on the lives of ALS families everywhere. This community response led the VIX to an opportunity for a smart design home renovation to meet the needs in 2024 through the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. And now therefore, I Brucey Uler, mayor, along with the city council of the city of Orangeburg, Missouri, will hereby proclaim the month of May 2026 as ALS awareness month. And we honor Tony and Karen Vic for giving a voice to the reality of living with ALS that provides farreaching awareness and support for the disease worldwide. In witness whereof I hear to set my hand seal this 11th day of May, 2026. Thank you very much.

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Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Thank you both for being here. Catching you. Thank you. seem to get the feeling it might be National Police Week. You come on up, please. It's either that or we're really in trouble. Always feel safe when you guys come here.

National Police Week May 10th through 16, 2026. Proclamation. Whereas National Police Week is the week of May 10th through 2020 10th through 16, 2026. And whereas May 15th has been declared as peace officers Memorial Day and by presidential order, flags are be flown at half staff on this day. And whereas two Lawrenburg police officers, city marshal James Ryan and officer James Basham were killed in the line of duty by being shot by a single asalent on April 19th, 1908. Whereas in 2024, 85,71 law enforcement officers were assaulted, 28,789 were injured as a result of those assaults, and 64 peace officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty in the United States. Whereas in 2025, 111 peace officers were felonious killed in line of duty in the United States. And whereas from 2024 and 20 through 2020 and 2024, a total of 236 peace officers have lost their lives in the line of duty due to accidental causes. And whereas according to preliminary data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, at least 18 peace officers were felonious killed in the line of duty in the United States during the first quarter of 2025. And whereas peace officers in Warrenburg and our surrounding community bravely serve the public unselfishly risk life and serious bodily injury. Now therefore, be it resolved, I, Christie Uler, mayor of the city of Warsburg, do hereby commend our peace officers, recognize their service to our community, and hereby proclaim the week of May 10th to the 16th, 2026, as National Police Week, and May 15th as Police Officers Memorial Day in

Warrenburg, Missouri, dated this 11th day of May, 2026. Awesome. Thanks, guys. Thank you so much. Thank you all for your goodness. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.

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Robert, you got anything you want to come up? National Public Works Week Proclamation May 17th to the 23rd, 2026. Rooted in service powered by community. Whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities, and services that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities, to the public health, high quality of life, and the well-being of the people of the city of Warrenburg. And whereas these infrastructure, facilities, and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works professionals who are engineers, managers, and employees at all levels of government and the private sector. They're responsible for rebuilding, improving, and protecting our nation's transportation, water supply, water treatment, solid waste systems, public buildings, and other structures and facilities essential for our citizens. And whereas it is in the public interest for the citizens, civic leaders, and children in the city of Warsburg to gain knowledge of and to maintain an ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of public works and public works programs in their respective communities. And whereas in the year 2026 marks the 66 66th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association. Be it now resolved, I Bruce Uler, mayor of Orangeburg, Missouri, along with the city council do hereby designate the week of May 17th through the 23rd, 2026 as National Public Works Week. I urge all citizens to join with representatives of the American Public Works Association and government agencies in activities, events, and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, managers, and

employees, and to recognize the substantial contributions they make to protect our national health, safety, and quality of life. Date of this 11th day of May, 2020. National Small Business Week May 3rd through the 9th. Yay.

Thanks, Melissa. National Small Business Week, May 3rd through the 9th, 2026. Whereas for generations, small businesses across America have shaped and embodied our nation's entrepreneurial spirit and driven our economy forward. And whereas small businesses are the foundation of the local economy, providing jobs, goods, and services and opportunities that support residents and contribute to a strong and diverse local marketplace. Whereas Warrenburg's small business community reflects the character and diversity of the city, including locallyowned shops, restaurants, service providers, manufacturers, and creative entrepreneurs whose work contributes to a vibrant and welcoming community. And whereas the city of Warsburg along with local organizations are committed to to supporting small businesses through access to information resources, streamline permitting and licensing processes, sharing recommendations, and celebrating the small business that make Warrenburg a great place to live and work. Now therefore, I, Bruce Uler, mayor of the city of Warrenburg, Missouri, along with Warnsburg City Council, do hereby recognize the week of May 3, 2026 as small business week in witness whereof I hear to set my hand seal this 11th day of May, 2026. Thank you. It's really

Hey, item 6.1 presentation by Jessica Venderlow, management analyst of Q2 fiscal 26 budget report.

Oh, that's tiny to read though, so I promise I'll walk you through it. Okay. Hi, good evening, mayor, members of the speed council. It's my pleasure to be before me tonight to present the quarter two on report. Um quarter two ended on March 31st of this year. So at the end of each quarter as you all know this is kind of you're in talk finance. Um so we talk about our actual kind of a single year compared to the prior year and then also compares how we're doing budget. My apologies that may sorry about so I'll kind of briefly go through the report um primarily focusing on our operating funds and some other things of note particularly when it comes to capital. Um so we always like to begin with our general fund. Good to have all that. Um, I like to begin with our general fund. So, that's going to be on page eight. Catch up. Um, so on the revenue side, um, our operating revenue is on track to meet or exceed budget. Um, sales tax has been strong thus far. So, we're really happy to see that. And remember last year we're kind of experiencing some flattening um, going down a bit. So, we're happy to see that that's um, compared to last year that's gone up. Um, right now our main area of concern for Q2 is franchise fee revenue. Um, so while there are a couple of sources that are up compared to last year, um, we're also kind of seeing some of those um, be down, particularly some of our larger ones. So those can be seasonal. So as we kind of enter summer and some of those things, those might go up. Um, but we're keeping a close eye on it because with only a 1% change from the last fiscal year, that's below our current um, budget of exceptions. Um, I also kind of wanted to bring up use tax. Um, so that's been also fairly flat from last year. So compared to sales tax, which is a little odd. Um, so we're going to just keep an eye on that and see how those end up coming in. um briefly call out licenses and permits as well. So our ride ofway permits were up. We had a couple years where they were really really high um and those have largely stabilized. So those might come in um ever so slightly under on there. Um you'll also see of course the large um transfer. Um I'll talk about some of the projects that we anticipate using fund balance for um in that line when I get to the expense side of it. Um so again

like we're going to keep a really close eye on sales tax and franchise fees because those are 70% of our general fund revenue and they could be quite volatile. Um so we'll report back on Q3 on the continuing trends that we see with those on the expense side. So that's just on the next page on page nine. Um I like to point out the um other services you can see the kind of large scary $4,000 number. Um as you all remember that is the vacancy credit um that we did. So historically we've been budgeting for full staffing. We've not had full staffing and so we've been contributing to fund balance at the end of the year. So this year we did the fund wide vacancy credit for the general fund. So essentially what that does is we just find the cost of a set number of positions. I believe we did six and we just subtract that from the total expenses that we expect to do. So it's a contra expense and so that's why that line um looks to be pretty far over budget. It's completely normal. It's what we um tended to do this year. Um savings in our maintenance category um in commodities as well primarily due to us shifting our general expenses over the CIP halfcent sales tax fund. Um and as I promised I was going to go over some of those kind of one-time large capital projects we have. One of those is of course Lion Lake um which we did an amendment for um the last quarter that I brought this to you. Um some of the other ones that we're anticipating use some of our reserves own this year. Um we budgeted $500,000 for city hall security upgrades about $400,000 for a Bearcat. Um as you remember that came in a little bit higher. I have the encumbered funds in here just because I like to show that um transparency wise. We also had $90,000 for a wayfinding sign, about $240,000ish for some concrete work ramp curbs over at our fire stations, $50,000 for a housing study, and then $100,000 to start up the VERT, which is the vehicle and equipment reser replacement fund, which is how we're paying for all the enterprise um vehicles in that replacement program there. So, um I won't brief I won't call out any of our departments here, but as you can see, there's a bunch of green. So, they're all wonderful. We have the best department heads in the world. they do wonderful at managing their budgets and their expenses throughout the year. So, fantastic work on their part. Um, I'll

skip through all the detail as well. If you have any questions about that, happy to return to that, but just kind of keeping this as an overview. Um, so water pollution control is next. So, that's our sewer fund. Um, revenue, um, charges for service, so service merch, um, primary operating revenue there coming in right on target with that rate increase we did last fall. So, 3% over where we were quarter 2 last year. Um, you'll also see about 1.5 million in miscellaneous. So, that's where we're booking those u revenue bond proceeds from the state revolving fund. So, as we experience expenses from that project, we're getting reimbured from the state. Um, and so, so far we've gotten about 1.5 million as of Q2 and those will continue to roll in as we work on that project. On the expenses, which is on page 18, we are anticipating a need to pull from fund balance to cover the total um of again some onetime projects. That's kind of a recurring theme you'll see across this budget is that we found an opportunity to use some of those reserve funds um for really impactful projects since we have carry some high balances in some of our funds. So, we're really going to make um a difference there. Um so, for the purposes of the report, um I'm assuming that we're just going to cash finance both the lift station and the solar project. That's not what we're going to do. We kind of discussed going lease financing, but just for the simplicity of this report, just include both those expenses. Um assuming full-on cash financing there. Um and then they have some savings from staff vacancies and largely all the other expenses in that fund um are on track. So now I'm going to move on to parts. So page 19 to talk about their revenue. So most of their tax revenues on target to meet or exceed budget. Um admin staff, so finance, we're still going to conservatively estimate some of those new fees and the revenue is going to come in from those. Um they've definitely impacted revenue. So, um, their memberships are about 17% higher than they were or the revenue is 17% higher than it was last year at the same time. Um, but right now it's just unclear whether this trend is going to be strong enough and we think we're going to meet or exceed budget with that trend. So, we're still kind of budgeting

really on that side, but we are also of course hoping for a strong pool season and that kind of make up some of that difference too. Um, so we've met with parks, so they've kind of gone over these rental estimates with them. Um and as I'll talk about in the next section, they've already started to make some kind of proactive changes to their expenses to try to maintain um a balanced operating budget there. So on the expense side, next page, page 20. So they do have already had a few expenses that kind of made them go over a bit maintenance. So they had a water leak and then the HVAC went out as well. So some of those unexpected things that unfortunately come up from time to time. Um, I also just want to bring up quickly again the kind of mismatch between our budget development and parks. They're a few months ahead of us and so sometimes we don't get estimates for our insuranceances quite the same time. So, we're working to tighten that up, but that's also why you see that insurance line a little bit over there. Um, they're also been making some savings by deferring some of their capital projects and they do also have a bit um from staff vacancies just because it took them a bit into the year to fill um at least one or two of their full-time positions. So, now I'm going to go ahead and skip to CIP funds. So, I'm going to kind of talk about them together at first and then I'll break out um after that after when I get to the expenses. So, revenue in both of them doing good. Um coming in largely on target. So, happy to see that. Um both funds again to anticipate the funds transferred have covered some additional projects that we wanted to undergo this year. Um so, fund 210 which is our transportation CIP fund. The ADA ramp curb and gutter program is proceeding. Um and both the asphalt and sidewalk programs will begin in the coming months. So we'll have a better idea about some more of those. So some expensive housing.

There are also significant savings from the Cedar Court project. So that offset some of the minor overages we see in some of those other lines on the halfsent which is fund 215. That's just on that next page. There are a lot of projects um within this fund, a lot of ambitious initiatives going on this year. Um as you all remember we adopted an amendment last quarter for the cost of the solar over the PD. their nice little overhang they have now over there. Um there are also a variety of other projects as I mentioned. So there's the fire engine lease payments for those two fire engines we purchased this year. UTVs, tools, alert and siren maintenance, building maintenance, tactical police equipment. Um so all of those projects are largely progressive as expected. So nothing crazy to report there. Of course, if you want a full report of the CIP, that's in the comprehensive financial model as well as we have a truncated version in the back of the budget book. Okay. I would be remiss if I didn't talk about solid waste real quick. Um, so here we're presenting again the revenue on a received rather than a build basis just to kind of better account for cash flow in this relatively new fund. Um, so right now we're sitting at about a 3% delinquency rate rather than 10% which is what we assume for budget. So that's fantastic. So we're happy to see that the revenue is performing favorably there. Um, on the flip side, as I mentioned again in Q1 and it's still the trend. Um, our contract is trending to be a bit more than we budgeted in. Um but that's only because we have a higher house count than when we assume the budget. So that of course varies directly with our revenue. Um so there's no concerns there. If we have more accounts, we get more money, but then we also have to pay more money to principal. So I'll bring forth an amendment in Q3 or towards the end of the year. Um if that trend continues and we need to do that, but other than that, happy stand for any questions you might have.

I did have a few questions. Um, so on the SIP funds, uh, spec specifically the like fire engines, are we when do lease payments start on that? Like we expect to see that in the budget? Yeah, that's one of the interests come with them. Um, but the bulk of them aren't going to start until next year. I think we have some interest to pay this year, but I believe most of it. That's correct. Partly it's a function of when we take receipt and when we get lease findings in place. But I think we actually are far behind in what we budgeted. So yeah, representative savings this year. Sure.

Um on solid waste, is there a floor on how much we would spend? So if we lose a bunch of houses all at once or something that come offline, is there still a minimum amount we pay on the contract? Okay. So it'll fluctuate with the houses no matter what or the properties we're servicing no matter what. Okay. Um and then also on parks and wreck he mentioned that we are misaligned specifically with property insurance does their budget on May June we don't finalize our budget till September and we don't get our renewal pre like estimates from the insurance company until July August and so there's a bit of a mismatch there historically um we're being more intentional about this year trying to kind of tighten it up um have more conversations about we think it's going to be 10 15% um with our insurance carriers so we can make sure gets the best information they can of even though they're 13 months ahead of us.

So, their fiscal year is still aligned with the city. But since they have to go through the parks board first, they kind of get a head start on that. And I think believe it's in our code that they have to bring the brush to the parks board before they bring it in us. Yeah. So, they they have a lot more process that's specified. And I would tell you from the insurance side, it's very it's pretty common to not know what your number's going to be till you're right up against the deadline, which is can always be frustrating if you're completing making a change but try to manage that best. So that misalignment is more just budgeting process not necessarily. Okay.

Yeah. So they they had to budget a number before we had the hard quote from insurance and so they budgeted less than what the insurance proved out to be. Okay. And when is insurance renewal is that align with our fiscal year also or but like I said we usually get estimates July August. So, okay. And we usually kind of budget a blanket increase. So, then we kind of adjust as we go on. But, so is that misalignment something that we can rectify? You know, can we go back to parks in August and say, "Here's what the insurance came out to. Can we update your budget to reflect that or something?"

Yeah. I think I'm going to speak for parks a little bit, but I think they they're paying attention to it just soon as the number comes out and and as Jennifer Jessica said, they do a good job of just kind of monitoring all their line items, adjusting expenses according. So whether they make a budget amendment, you know, immediately or whether they're just factoring that in soon as we know that number in Oh, thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you, Jessica.

I had so I sorry I did have some No, that's okay. I I was waiting you so you have questions. Um and some of these may not be questions for you. So feel free to say that's a department person's question. Um I wonder given circumstances. If we're anticipating budgeting higher for gas, diesel, you know, fuel, especially in in um this coming fiscal year, if that's something that's kind of across the board, everyone's planning take that into account. Yes.

Yeah. Yeah. Because it seems like that's what's happening, what's coming regardless. um in the sorry in the general fund on the revenue side I just was curious this is something I don't know or understand is the fines and there seem to be if I'm reading this right a pretty big increase in fines from quarter two of FY25 to the um end of estimate. So, I'm just wondering what what that increase in fines is or

the increase from from let's see from 13691. Mhm. That was the end of fiscal year 25. Correct. Or that was the quarter two of fiscal year 25. That was what? Quarter two of fiscal year 25, right? Yes. Yeah. And then the end of year estimate. Okay. Sorry. I realize I'm comparing apples to oranges. Never mind. Apologize. We get that is estimating growth in that line. Gotcha. Okay. But it's that that 35,000 numbers that you're in as difference is estimate.

Gotcha. Okay. Thank you. And then the legislative budget. Now I can't find it. Where is that? What page is that? What page is it? 10 or 11 depending if you're looking at the detail or the summary. Okay, there we go. Okay. And so what um is that city council? Yes. Correct. Okay. All right. And so I assume that's something we're going to be talking about at some point so that we know what's in our budget. What's what's

that? There's some other um boards of commissions um primarily Historic Preservation Commission. um they're in your budget this year as well. Some other kind of miscellaneous things as well, but yeah. Okay. And I remember that was it the housing study I think was placed in our budget. It was placed in city's budget. Okay. Yeah. I provide you in detail on kind of what's in your budget. Okay. But certainly I don't know now, but maybe it's you know when we have our retreat later in the year with something we can just focus on. Um okay. The other things I think I'll ask department folks. Thank you. I appreciate it. Jessica, I have one more thing. Sorry, cuz Susie brought it up. The fines, is that just like traffic violations or is that also property fines or

So, the cases anything. Okay, sounds good. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, Jess. Thank you, Jess.

Say it every time, but she knows it is backwards and forwards. Terrific job. Item seven, second reading ordinance 7.1, 2026 FIFA World Cup Tournament, an ordinance exempting the city of Warsburg, Missouri from the provisions of section 311.2026 RS Missouri regarding hours for liquor licenses to sell, serve, and allow the consumption of alcoholic beverages during the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament. Presented by Michael D. Sprag, city manager. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Um, I'm going to take the liberty of being brief, but I'll be happy to answer any additional questions you might have. But, um, I'm sure you recall that we had a public hearing, uh, two meetings ago where there's opportunity, there's a survey conducted ahead of that. There's an opportunity to address you and then you as the council to give staff direction on how you'd like to proceed. Um, then your last meeting, we brought forth an ordinance and with a lot of different options. you ultimately amended that to opt out of the state's statute that extends liquor license uh hours of sale um essentially 23 hours a day for the entire duration FIFA World Cup. That just predates their play with the the date range of the FIFA World Cup. So, what's in your packet is the ordinance as amended on first reading at your last meeting. um knowing that there was conversation about alternatives and and trying to assist you if you wanted to pursue a different option. Uh you'll see that the options provided in the staff report are very lengthy. Um essentially they are what would need to be said as a motion if you wanted to pursue something other than if you want to make an amendment to the ordinance. So if you leave the ordinance un amended when we pass it on second reading we are opting out of um the extended hours and if you want to do

something other than that then option one um and there's exempting us option two would be extending the hours of sale on the dates the FIFA match play in Kansas City. Option three would be extending the hours of sale on the match play dates and FanFest dates. Option four would be extending it for the full range of dates which if you do nothing you you got the state adoption in place for 23 hours a day. So in the instance of option number four you would need to specify some different time frame if that's what you wanted to do. So uh recapping um we surveyed the liquor license holders. We worked with the Star Journal and ran front page article about it. conducted a public hearing that you called up at a at last uh city council meeting. The notice that before you is a action that you took on the first reading at your last meeting. So if you pass that, you're opting out extended hours entirely and then the various scenarios of options are there for you to have report. Be happy to kind of answer any questions you might have.

Did have a question on your uh fiscal impact. She mentioned $3,500 a week for two additional officers. And I guess my first question in that is, do we send officers home already at 130 when the bars close or what what are those additional officers that we would be seeing? So, our schedules are 12-hour shifts. If where you're extending these hours, I will have to look at uh extra staffing. Um signing up from basically 10 till whenever the bars close at night. We used to run uh four to six people downtown um for bar closing at all times. Um we don't have to do that anymore. Um in Celia's world, um everything's pretty well been calm down there. So, we're we would be looking at planning if all the bars are open for all the hours, then I would look at all right, if there's two bars open, I need two officers for that bar. If there's four, however many in the downtown area that's going to be open, I would have two assigned per bar being open at that time, frame. So,

so do you already we would be doing overtime for that? Do you already intend to have officers down there? Just be additional officers additional officers after 1:30 around 10:00 depending on what's what's going on whether they're open regular hours or whether they're open extended hours. You're going to have those officers um they do spot checks now. Um they're not down on foot that whole time now. But during that if we're having issues then I would Yes. If we're having issues so I have a plan for what is.

Yeah. Absolutely. And your costs $3,500 a week for the two officers. Um, and that's fully burdened with taxes and retirement, all that. Time and a half at the $21 an hour. We put it around that $30. That's on the lower end of of our officers. Say our middle middle end of officers sign up for that could be at 24 $25 an hour. So, we have to go up even more on the overtime side. Thank you.

Try to do it on the low side of it. I appreciate it. Thanks. And if we um if we opt out and keep normal liquor license hours, liquor serving hours, there wouldn't be need for additional uh the students are gone. If if we're not seeing issues, then no. But if if there are issues in a course,

then we'd have to do some sign up and sign over time. So is it can we assume that if we opt out and we just have the 6:00 in the morning to 1:30 1:30 that uh with the students being gone and then uh FIFA people here celebrating uh maybe before they go to Kansas City um and then maybe celebrating for a couple hours when they come back that there shouldn't be really a great need because they're I'm well I'm assuming they're adults and they'll act like adults and you know what happens when you assume

that's exactly right. You're I'm I'm not assuming them. I'm not just watching and kind of what's going on. If it seems like we're going to have issues then we'll set up more for it. But right now we haven't been having issues down there. So um like I said back 10 years ago we ran four to six officers during bar closing. But when we were having issues, we'd bring people in at 10:00 and you could work overtime from 10:00 till 2:30, 3:00 in the morning until bars got closed down and then people would be in the streets uh waiting waiting to go home playing their music file. So we'd usually be down there 2:30 and 3:30.

Okay. And if they need additional drinks, they could just start earlier in the day. And the the games don't start till 8 at night. They run 90 minutes. Yeah, some start earlier and some start some some start as early as 6 I think and start late night till 9. It's like some partying in Kansas City hopefully not too much before they drive back to Warren. Okay, thank you. It's a lot of unknowns. There's so many different variables unknowns given 3500 that sounds high, right? I mean that's just the unknown of it. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What do you need for us to proceed?

I'll just make one comment. I think it's pretty telling when the mayor of Kansas City is looking to opt out um making that decision. So, just something else to throw out here as we make our decision. Any other open for discussion?

Absolutely. So, I just wanted to say again, you know, I know my stance is clear on it, but I just wanted to mention kind of uh again where I stand on it. I I do think that need to be business friendly and leaving it up to the businesses is important. Um we're not saying that you need to stay open. We're not saying that you need to stay closed. It is a once in a-lifetime opportunity that these businesses have and they just don't know what they're going to do just yet. Um, reality is we reached out to them 3 months ahead of time. I'm continuing to talk to these business owners along with the general public and the general consensus is that I'm hearing from these business owners. Why put extra rules on us at the moment? Um, if we want to stay open, then we should have that ability to stay open for this once in a lifetime opportunity that they have. Now, yes, Kansas City is saying that, you know, we aren't sure. Um, Lee Summit has said I believe that they're going to be extending their hours. Um, you know, I whether our hotels are booked or not, I think that our businesses do have an opportunity uh across the city and we are dealing with a lot of different cultures here. Um, it's not just people that live in Warrenburg, but you know, it could be people that um are traveling through uh whether domestically or internationally um might want to stay in one of our Airbnbs. Um, I know that there are several Airbnbs around town that are booked for World Cup uh, participants. Some of them, they might not be getting home until midnight. Uh, even with the 9:00 game, once you calculate in travel time and getting out of the stadium and everything else, you know, it it might be late uh, and they might still want to go party afterwards. So, I think that it is important that these businesses have the opportunity to uh, uh, get the extra revenue if they can, and if they don't want to, they don't have to. they can stay closed as long as they follow the ordinance and give the proper timing and things like that. And at the end of the day, um hopefully our public is good. We don't have to staff the extra officers. Uh but also, you know, we can always

come back to the table if we need to and uh cancel that exemption if if we need to. So, or uh cancel the extended hours if we need to and put an exemption in place. So the ordinance also if uh if they are going to stay open uh the one of the options if they were going to allow them to stay open longer they had to give they have to give us notice in writing and failure to do that uh they can be ticketed uh for that. So we would know who is supposed to be who plans to be open uh any extended hours.

To clarify, council person, we wouldn't have uh the ability to ticket them for not notifying us just for that purpose. Um we may have there may be a business ticket that I could write on that, but it would not be for that specific thing alone. Um, also the ordinance that you have in front of you has does not have that option in it. The ordinance that you have now is the one that was amended at the last meeting which is only an opt out. Yes, it has no other options. But if we were to to Max's point, if we were to pick another one,

sure you could. Yeah, you could certainly resurrect. they could be cited for not notifying the city that they were going to be open if we were to decide to let them be open. We I at that point I would suggest that live editing in the session is probably not our best answer. Okay. to that. I guess I thought that was in I think that was in an example ordinance. An example from but it has not been built into I see. Okay. And I I wholeheartedly agree and much more amending beyond what you have here probably need to regroup and bring it back to you. Okay.

All right. Yeah. Because the one that's in front of us is opting out keeping our regular hours. So they wouldn't need to let us know one way or the other. Okay. And if we want to move forward with what's in front of us, what do we need to do? You're on your second reading. You're in standard procedure at this point on a second reading ordinance. So, which is just taking call for vote. Yeah, you're ready to call for the vote. If you're done with your discussion, you're ready for the question. Okay. No further questions. Any discussion? Okay.

Motion to move to second reading by title only. No, we're already there. Oh, there already there. Get back to where we were. Totally. Call to question. Call to question. This is for adoption or rejections. It's a second reading. Rydenhower. No. Osborne. Yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Motion carried. Thank you, Max. I appreciate you point of view. No, thank you. I appreciate you listening.

Item 8.1, an ordinance amending section 15-1 of the code of city ordinances for the city of Warsburg, Missouri, regarding park hours, presented by Chris, the real deal parks and recreation. That always takes the nerd up to uh but first uh uh good evening mayor and council members and first I would like to thank our assistant parks recreation director Tony Albertina. Uh he did quite a bit of work on this and research of other cities in comparison for the development of these ordinance changes. Uh we reviewed these changes with staff and also presented to the park board with approval. um given us to proceed on to the city council. The main purpose of these ordinances really is consistency which improves for uh our overall operations and communication with the public and all um the city staff and boards believe across uh the city. It will be a very positive thing. As stated in the memo uh in the first ordinance, the um open and closing hours um are are different um throughout our nine parks. This is confusing to the public and also internal staff. So, this ordinance changes two things. One, it makes all parks opening from 5:00 am 10 pm. And two, it allows the parks and recreation director or designate to approve any exceptions for programs or events. A good example of this would be if there is a term or sporting events, it might run past 10:00 um which could be um approved at that level. staff would always of course follow the established policies of the park board and this makes it so a request does not have to go back to the park board. Give you an example of a request is made on the 29th of uh April and the 28th. We

just had our meeting and you have to wait another whole month. You take the chance to lose program and also revenue. And again, this is consistent with what other cities do and um parks and recreation board approves. and I'll answer any questions you may have. Just a question about how that might affect uh PD if they do patrols. I I don't I don't know what if it's common to have to go actually will assist the PD because uh a lot of times they're so it was so inconsistent on closing some was uh sun down and some

11:00. So that gives us consistency for help unlock gates or any of that type of stuff. Makes sense. Okay. Thank you. Do you get common calls or do you get a lot of calls on park hours? Does people staying after staying after on park hours? Yeah.

Um that varies. It varies. uh when patrolling if the if the gates aren't locked, we can go down all evening to middle of the night and find people down in there doing things they shouldn't be doing. So, um if they get consistent and have the gates locked that they'll pass some stuff down. That was definitely seen as the most most positive thing is uh the ease um for the police chief to be able to tell the staff it's 5 to 10. Yeah. And then have to open a book and see you know when the next time is they know it. What time is sundown today? Yeah.

And I will just add one more thing. Um having uh K Hall open at mid till midnight um has been a problem. So the 10 o'clock is going to help. We've added additional lighting out there. So, it would be a big help for us. A question on the additional lighting out at Cape Hollow. Is it on a timer? So, it'll shut it up at 10. Uh, it's it is on time. On timer, so it comes on um when it's dark, it goes off the dawn. It goes off at 10 or whatever you set it to go off at. Oh, no. Uh, it uh or it says dust the dawn.

Dust it on. Okay. Thank you. That's all I needed. The question I have just on hours and kind of where the limits are, if somebody's walking through like Shepherd's Park for example, late at night, being on the sidewalk or being on the road is not breaking this ordinance, but if you were to step onto the grass, it would. Is that how I understand that? Or where's the line drawn exactly on being on private property and just being on that ement? Yeah, that that's that would be the way I would interpret it for court purposes is if no different than private property in general. The sidewalk in front of a house is not the house, not the sidewalk would be the house's property. So, okay. Yeah.

So, you'll have signage going up at each park now with the hours. Yes. This will allow us to be consistent in putting all of these same hours at every single park entrance um for everyone to kind of get used to that. Those are the hours. Any other questions? We have a first and second. Motion to move to uh second reading by title only. Rydenhower, yes. Osborne, yes. Lati, yes. Jones, yes. Uler. Yes.

An ordinance amending section 15-1 of the code of city ordinances of the city of Warrenburg, Missouri regarding park hours. This is for adoption or rejection. Rydenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you. Thank you.

Item 8.2, two, an ordinance amending section 15-2 of the code of city ordinances of the city of Warrenburg, Missouri regarding archery. Chris De uh this ordinance having to do with archery would um authorize parks and recreation director or designate um for areas to be approved archery related activities and also areas that that is being performed. Really this is no different than the the uh the current ordinance. The only change is makes so the director um ordin uh can provide approval following the ordinances versus having to go back to park board once again. And this is consistent with other cities and also park board approves this direction. And I'll answer any questions you may have.

This is basically to take care of um the annual deer hunt. Oh yes, good question. Um actually um this makes it so doing the annual deer hunt is it's ongoing. It's something that we can approve and do. Yes. Perfect. Motion to move to second reading by title. Rydenower. Yes. Osborne. Yes. Latari. Yes. Jones. Yes. Muler. Yes. An ordinance amending section 15-2 of the code of city ordinances of the city of Lawrenburg, Missouri regarding archery. This is for adoption or rejection. Rhydenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari,

yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 8.3, an ordinance amending section 15-3 of a city of the code of city ordinances of the city or written 30 regarding posting signs. Chris Steel. Uh section 15 uh3 currently restricts the posting of signage uh within the parks to duly authorized personnel in the performance of their duty and does not provide a mechanism for temporary signage related to events, programs or community activities. And so this restriction does protect park infrastructure and and aesthetics, but it also limits the ability to effectively communicate with park users at times. So the proposed amendment was made that the director designate um make an exception if need deemed necessary and the park board reviewed this and once again approved this ordinance change. In reading this, um, I understand it to allow the park, uh, the park department to place advertising signage for events, upcoming events or a new class or whatever to place it on park uh, property, uh, whether it's inside the, uh, rightway or not. uh and by only allowing uh park department to have signage uh in the easement or inside the the what the inside of the sidewalk. Uh it makes it easier for uh whoever's enforcing signage on the other city property or or anywhere in the city

uh to keep it uh from becoming confusing during we have a lot of signs going up uh inside the easement and other places where people are advertising their business or they're advertising some other thing. We have elections coming up in a year. We're going to have signs all over the place by having this uh in force. The park department should be the only ones that would be allowed to put a sign in their um right away. Anybody else would not and it would only be on park department uh property. Is that what I'm understanding?

I understand where you're headed with that. I have to be honest. We need to be consistent. I I'd have to know what our prior interpretations were about placement of signage and rights of way and easements and but whatever whatever we would authorize here I would want to make sure we're applying consistently as it relates to election signings or uh primarily election signs but your your current ordinance prohibits all posting of signs even if they're not

it shall be unlawful for any person to post a fix place or inscribe Any hand to build poster card, sign device or inscription to or upon or against any fence, structure, tree doesn't say anything about rideway. Is that just parks and wreck? Uh that's for the city. That's all. Yeah. Well, it's it's under parks and recreation. Yeah. Okay. But fence structure tree

for the city. I think we need to be really careful and consistent that the we're allowing through this ordinance the park department to put signs up pretty much wherever they want on park department property. But when it comes to other signs that are not related to the park department,

any place else within the city, they have to be outside of the rightway. What we we had problems uh two years ago where people were putting them in the easement, then we got word out everybody moved them from the easement into inside the sidewalk. But we had a lot of signage and we just need to be consistent and and so much so that you if we don't allow that in right of way elsewhere I wouldn't interpret this is giving the parks department.

Okay. So then they need to make sure their signs are inside of the on the inside part of the sidewalk or at least 7 foot from the edge of the street. I apologize, but I don't know off the top of my head what our code says. The state I used to work in specifically allowed election signed in right away because of a dispute with one particular legislator. So, it was a very odd I think it's at least 10 feet from the street and at least five feet from another property. What I would say whatever we whatever standards we call any other sign we can imply it's sign.

Yes. All we're doing is giving the parks director the authority to allow an event to put up directional signage, concessions, stand, right, hang banners on up to fences property. Yeah. Um, so I guess this ordinance is the 153 is in the parks ordinance. Your sign regulations is in article 9. It's section 27. It's a totally different section. Yeah. And the answer to what can you do is like any good legal question, it depends on design or dependation, right? There are several different

categories here. So it's not signs, it's sizes. Do they have lights? Do they not have lights? Are they affixed? Are they temporary? Are they So there's a lot of different for those kind of temporary yard signs though, I think it's right pretty close to that. So that could be a conversation at a different time where we clarify what can happen uh in the city when we I wouldn't recommend that we treat ourselves any differently that we so that we're consistent they're consistent with what we do but right now we're not sure if it's 7 foot 10 foot it's it's clear in the ordinance we just you know yeah we just don't I can't find what you're

talking about Chris mostly like a yard write a temporary like hey there's a lot of sides right yeah just outside the rightway right generally the rightway is in general a no go this could be an example um to answer your question like um a city partner that the hospital or something has something at that particular park and they will put up signs you know like that say something like this pavilion it's right here you know whatever nothing out the street or anything it's within the park So that would be um an example, but I just certainly am uh in total agreeance to doing exactly what's right within the city.

Um we just wanted to bring this forward to be consistent with

approval from the director. What we have right now is we have a set of regulations for signs in the city at large. We then have for the parks specifically, we have a rule that says, "Thou shalt not post signs that are let me let me get this. Shall not post, affix, place, or inscribe to, or upon a fence, structure, or tree. So you can't put your sign on something in a park. Under this regulation, you absolutely could have a a standalone sign, right, that says 40th birthday party here, and that would be just fine because it would be temporary. If it was left, you could be that could be an ordinance violation at that point. This would then amend 1513 specifically to allow for the parks department to aix signs to things because they could put out temporary signs. Now, this will allow them to put up a permanent type sign or a more permanent type sign.

But whenever you say I apologize, but the temporary sign would not be allowed here because they cannot post. Well, that depends on what the definition of is is

posting would typically be some way that it is that you you post a bill. posting is actually I mean truly a posted sign would be probably painted on the post or tacked onto a post. So it's it's old timey language. So posting of a sign it would be some type of semi-permanent or permanent fixture unto something not just placing generally speaking. So now if it said place I would agree with you. So do we feel like this ordinance is actually going to do what we are trying to do here? Yeah, it's post to fix place or inscribe a handle.

Yeah, it does say place, right? It has that word on the end of it. So, I think anyone that wants to put up signage in the parks department means the park I think that's right. I missed the word place. Good catch. So, nice. they can give um another organization permission to place their sign within the park area because that organization is doing a event that's going to happen at the community center or it's going to happen at the pavilion. It's going to have happen with something to do with the park, but they they're not going to be able to give permission to um yeah,

some electrician or plumber or somebody else to put his or her sign up in the park department because that has nothing to do with park activities. And that the way that this is worded, the new wording of it absolutely allows for all of that to happen. Yes. allows for them to let the the electrician or the plumber parks and recreation director and authorized representative may grant written approval for exceptions. So it would come as a written approval to grant an exception to it.

I think it it's dependent on how they apply themselves. I mean, if I understand your scenario correctly, if you're having a softball tournament and one of your sponsors is electrical company and they want to put up a banner on the outfield fence as a sponsor, they could probably do that. If they want to permanently place an electrical an advertising sign for their business, I would hope that we all apply ourselves in such a way that we say

completely. And I think the wording here, and that was an important part of the wording, um, when I did my review, is it's uh, approved events, programs, or community activities. So, it's not a blanket signage. It's it has to be for the thing that it's for. Okay. access. I could see like uh if following the softball example, if it was a seasonl long, you know, team sponsor or something like that that was or somebody local company wanted to pay for all of the dues for the T-ball program or something like that and asked if they could put a sign out for the season. That would be that might I don't I don't know. I'm not the parker, but that might be okay. Something like that.

Yeah. And it's it's customary to have uh sponsors posters on fences. Y the subtle part of this is this authorizes park staff to remove those signs after over Yeah. Okay. extended conversation about taking it down. Right. And most businesses those signs are not cheap. I mean they're not crazy expensive anymore, but they're not free. So, you know, there's an incentive to go get your sign. Well, sorry to keep on No, good question.

But also, so John Doe wants to have his 50th birthday says birthday this way sign. Is that going to have to be separate from his application for the event? He's going to have to submit also another thing that says I want to place a sign. He would not be allowed to just place a sign there. Same birthday this way. Perhaps that could be put into the application for the Okay, it's a great point. But any kind of sign even that type of stuff would be included in this technically. Okay. So, make sure I'm the on the same page and we're doing what you're what you're needing for your department. So,

yes. And um I mean if there's a revision that we need to make on the application, it would certainly be consistent. I don't think there is a revision to be made. I I don't know, Council Member Jones, if that's correct or not, but I I just want to make sure it's doing what you intended to do. And we're also going to align with our other ordinances we already have in place. This definitely does not impact the other ordinances that we have because it is very very much specific to parks. So, it doesn't do anything to the other side.

I Yes. And I think I think we've explained it enough that the ordinances that pertain to other signs throughout the city we have the how many feet where it can be. Oh, that's very Yeah. Very clear. Incredibly specific. And it spells out different types of signs and sizes. Yeah.

So, we just need to make sure that we're enforcing that. And if park is um aware of some of those things, they can kind of try to prevent uh anything that's obviously gonna upset somebody's apple cart. Um, is it possible, this is not having to do anything to do with this ordinance, but since we talked about signs so much, can we get a small just little overview on what sign ordinance looks like in the city at large, I sections 27-500 through 27-506.

Yes. And I'm and I'm in there and I will continue to research. We talk about rightways and things like that, too. And I haven't seen that yet in this section, but I will do some more research outside of our meeting on that. But I was just curious if we get a quick make sure that we are kind of aligning with our thoughts. What we have currently produced, but we trust that. Thank you.

To Max Max's point, um, if we had I hate to drag this on. If we had uh like postcard that just showed that you know your sign can be here or it can look like this but you can't do this. It's not too I think the the level of details can be such too much. Okay, never mind. Any other questions for Chris on this? Move to second rating by title only. Ridenower. Yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler,

yes. An ordinance amending section 15-3 of the code of city ordinances of the city of Warrenburg, Missouri, regarding posting signs. This is for adoption or rejection. Rydenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Mueller, yes. Thank you. Thank you. Don't leave yet. Item 824, ordinance amending section 15-4 of the code of city ordinances of the city of Orangeburg, Missouri regarding animals. Chris,

this ordinance has to do with care of animals. Uh the ordinance remains really the same um that is existing no harming, mistreating animals. A new addition that prohibits the feeding of animal periods uh for reasons of health to the animals as well as park users regarding potential aggressiveness and health reasons. This is consistent with Missouri conservation in regards to feeding wild animals. Um this ordinance does allow u though for fishing and also the annual deer hemp uh as approved by the director and that's an example that is also approved by the park board and kind of to city council or final approvement. This basically is an ordinance that stays pretty much the same with the exception of adding the prohibiting feeding animals. So we could post that sign.

Any questions for Chris on this? Move to second reading by title only. Thank you. Renau, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Uler, yes. And the ordinance amending section 15-4 of the code of city ordinances of the city of Warrenburg, Missouri regarding animals. This is for adoption or rejection. Rydenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Latari, yes. Jones, yes. Mueller, yes. Thank you. Thank you. Chris, would you like to do this one more time? Yeah.

An ordinance amending section 15-5 of the Cody City ordinances of the city of Warrenburg, Missouri regarding swimming presented by Chris. Again, this uh this ordinance has to do with uh the swimming and um is it the same? It's the same that there are no no swimming uh as posted. U the proposed amendment allows parks and recreation dire excuse me director or designate uh to make an exception to this as necessary but it would be for only safe and effective operations. Um I can think of one example is on this and um regarding uh cardboard boat races that have been requested with us before out of Lion's Leg uh from different groups, mostly college groups. Uh but we have used the indoor pool at NASA in these events because of our current uh but I've been in other cities that have used legs and they absolutely love it. So I'm not saying that's something that we would do depending on the circumstances in regards to liability insurance guidance and all of that kind of stuff, but this just really keeps it consistent with the director has the opportunity to make this decision. So once again, that's the only change in this particular ordinance, but it remains to go swimming and I'll answer any questions.

Any questions? No questions. N. So, nobody should be swimming, waiting, or bathing. Pardon? No one should be swimming, waiting, or bathing in any pond or pool or stream. All of those. All of those. Yes. And just to be clear, that's just on parks and wreck land. So, if they had a pond in their backyard, nobody's stopping anybody from jumping in at Lakeidge Not in your jurisdiction. Okay. Move to separating by title only. Ridenower. Yes. Osborne. Yes. Latari. Yes. Jones. Yes. Muler.

Yes. An ordinance amending section 15-5 of the code of city ordinances of the city of Warrenburg, Missouri regarding swimming. This is for adoption or rejection. Rydenower. Yes. Osborne. Yes. Latari. Yes. Jones. Yes. Uler. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Chris. Tony, thank you also for your work on this. Thank you. Item 9.1, a resolution authorizing the disposable this the disposal of city-owned property presented by Mike Scrag. Change of

presenter here present this on keepings. If you throw in curve balls, I'm going to have to ask you to postpone another meeting. But I think it's fairly straightforward. As we change out equipment and uh do routine maintenance, we end up with surplus equipment, things that are kind of run their useful life for us. Um and the state of Missouri has made provision that we can donate those or sell those to other agencies without any liability. That's a big concern in terms of any assurance that you might be making if you transfer that equipment. So, uh rest assured that there's no liability that goes with it. We have 20 sections of one and 3/4 inch fire hose, eight fire nozzles, and a utility rope and bag that are surplus for us. The Montro Missouri Fire Department's expressed interest in it in the resolution before you would authorize donating it to the Montro Fire Department.

I move to approve the resolution. Rydenower, yes. Osborne, yes. Lati, yes. Jones, yes. Uler. Yes.

Item 10, appearances to the council not listed on the agenda. There's no one wanting to appear. No one. All right. Item 11, miscellaneous matters from the mayor andor city council. Yay. City staff update. City staff update. city manager.

I don't have a lot. Uh, as I think you know, I traveled last week um to city manager conference and then got back and then turned around and traveled to strategic deterrence coalition symposium in Alexandria, Virginia. That was very informative for me. I traveled with four other members of the way area leadership council. I ended up with a nationwide um symposium. There were a lot of fourstar and three star generals there speaking about the nuclear deterrent. um and represent I don't I can't say with confidence on every base but it seemed as if they're representative of every base and installation related to nuclear missiles, airplanes or submarines. So uh gave you a lot of context um and nothing top secret nothing uh that a civilian like myself couldn't hear but it gave me a lot more context in terms of the mission and how life fix it. Thank you for represent out there.

Yeah, just happy to go along and learn quite a bit as much from the other attendees as presentations. Great. Thank you. Administrative services department. So quick. Um so the legend came out a couple weeks ago. Hope you all enjoyed that. I love getting about so thank you for that opportunity, Chris. Um our popular annual financial report um is on our website. It's simply kind of a user friendly summary of the part of the audit report that you guys all heard at your last date. Just wanted to plug that. And then um as the HR person, we had an open enrollment last week for all of our employees. Those meetings are well attended. Is there a chance to learn about all the benefits that we offer? Absolutely. Those are passing up. That's it for me.

Thank you. Thank you. Uh city clerk. Uh nothing for me tonight. Community development. Barbara. Well, it took me a minute to find this ordinance, so not to belabor the point, but but way is section 14- I signs on private property 27-500. Chapter 14 for reference is offenses. Yes. Thank you. Thank you for that information. Um,

I was going to say sign questions should all and then just as you know we'll have the Memorial Day holiday coming up and that will delay our service routes for trash collection, recycling, all of our solid waste services by one day. Monday will be picked up on Tuesday, Tuesday and Wednesday and so forth. Um, we have had a significant increase in the number of people signing up for our texting emailing service since the legend came out. So, we have 199 people signed up right now. We'll get a notice about that the day before their trash is nice. That's probably about 24 36 hour notice that. So, thanks for doing that.

Yeah, that's great. Quick question about the housing count. Is that something that that maybe the city had at some point long ago and it's just very hard to keep on top of as far as how many actual housing units are within city limits because it seems like that's something that we don't that's not a kind of a known number related to solid waste or related to just

really I really just in general I mean it's the question came to my mind because of solid waste because that the number of households serves serve changes. I know that obviously with new units and units going offline, but do we have like a a running tally of how many housing units are in the city?

We do. No, we don't have an official list. We had um we had the census estimates and which is what we originally based our solid waste RFP and proposed contract off of. And then you have um probably a fairly accurate list based on your sewer accounts which is actually based off of our water accounts that we get from Missouri American water who does not make it easy for us to say this is our number.

We have had this question multiple times and we can't get a clear this is our number. And then when you throw multif family units in whether they're up and available for rents and for sure. Yeah. I I think if

if this community and communities that have a very accurate solid number would be communities that have occupancy permits uh and require an annual or every fiveyear inspection or something like that. occupancy of all units, not just like we have a certificate of occupancy we issue at the end of a permit, but there are cities that require all resolution of an annual occupancy license. Gotcha. And you'd have to have a system like that, I think. Yeah. and very very good compliance and strong enforcement extra staff

in order to keep a very accurate number. Yeah, the number it while you see that number move on our house count that truly can be a factor of just move in move out. Yeah. I I mean that's not if we saw swings of a thousand I would really worry but when we're seeing a swing of it's it's not worrisome to staff or to our contracts. Okay. Thank you for explaining that. I appreciate it. That uh being said on the housing, would a housing study solve that issue?

It'll do an inventory housing as a as you see it from the street, but it still wouldn't necessarily know how many units are in it and how many they they have access to some census data and they'll look at utility, but they're still going to kind of be interpolating the number. So the census is kind of the the best number to go off of. Yeah, but it's a little dated CS is question. Understood. Thank you. Fire department. Mike, how you doing? All right. Again, parks. Parks department. Yeah.

Oh, we've seen enough of them.

Gonna make it real quick. Uh first of all our last couple Rhythm Cutings Community Center and also out of Hun Park for 21st century. Thank you for all those who attend uh very nice to have those events. Uh the coming this coming Thursday uh noon ribbon cutting at the Marian Hancock tennis courts uh renovation and also six new pickle ball courts donated by the Blaine uh Witworth Foundation. Then the following Thursday will be the ribbon cutting for the Lions Lake project on Thursday at 12:00 noon on the 21st. Also, um a special appointment committee was set up by the park board to review various policies and programs offerings that uh um came up with a couple items and things that were approved by the park board. One is uh there's going to be higher education for the fact all seniors that have Medicaid and Medicare to let them know they qualify for Silver Speakers or Renew Active and uh some know this but not all. So we're going to really make an effort to do that. This will help with those in financial need. So those insurance companies pay for those. The other also is uh a show of gratitude our War Mornsburg area seniors for all um that they contribute to the community and um as community membership promotion actually the park board has approved for each Thursday to be declared senior day at the community center and the facility is going to be free of use. They can use any area in the community center. Um this is a pilot program that's going to start May 21st. pilot means not forever but it will continue until further notice. Um the idea is that the seniors enjoy coming and walking the track of that particular day. Also there's a certain Thursday that's fried chicken day that's very popular ought to be pretty filled and hopefully one spouse will hit the other one and say we need

to join all the time so they're not coming one time therefore we expand our membership. That's our selfish side but the giving side is what the park would want to do. Um also um Parkport uh included they would like to have uh a new position in our programming. Uh my first words if we can afford it and that would be u a programmer that would be working closer with senior programming uh the differently aabled and community uh special events specifically at the community center. So that idea is in works. Um and the last update I want to give is Lance Lake. Well, we have had an issue with the fountain at uh at at the uh at the lake and it needs a part that's on backward. Right now, it's running and uh but as soon as that burns out, the fountain's got to stop. So, I hope that a piece of equipment comes in quickly. It's like a fuse. Um, we're looking at uh possibly replacing that fountain at some point in the near future, but right now I just want you to know if it goes out, we're doing the best we can to have that come in. Um, also you may have noticed already that the plant life and algae is already starting to blossom. I mean, quickly. Uh, it's earlier than I have seen it. I called and talked to Missouri conservation and also uh, Blue Belly Laboratories who we work with. Uh they let me know that it's this way across um Missouri and other areas. Uh very cool season, a lot of heavy rain. Now comes the sunshine and comes the bloom. We also have a double whammy from that dredging actually provides very fertile soil for rapid growing plant life.

So you see it out there quickly. Um

Friday when I was out there it was like, "Oh, this looks so beautiful." Monday morning early I drove. I said, "Oh my gosh." And so it goes very quickly and it's coming in very fast. Um as a solution um working with both Missouri conservation and laboratories of an approved process. We've done copper sulfate before and that is approved. There's also a uh product called Gallian SC and this goes directly to the areas where the algae grows and and both Missouri conservation and of course this company of the laboratories. Uh it is safe for the fish and wildlife. So we're going to try to I've asked for those applications to be made as soon as possible. We've done it for the last few years. We've usually done it u in June and July, but now this has come quicker than it ever has. But I just want you to know that we're on as quickly as we can to try to keep that so it doesn't uh stop kids from fishing, you know. So, I'll answer any questions you need about that.

Any timeline on stocking the lake?

Oh, yes. Um, yes and no. Yes. I calling Missouri Conservation Weekly and they were telling me, "You're on the schedule. You're on the schedule." They of course were going around to all these different lakes because the process, the time and the rain, different things that stop them. They can't tell me the exact time, but we are on their schedule. I put in a very early request, as in right as soon as we started draining the lake last year, and so hopefully it'll be coming soon. I will tell you that there are fish there um with the overflow from Ple. Um I've seen little fish in there and I saw one jumping. So, but stocking it's going to be much better, but it's coming soon and I will definitely inform everyone as soon as that truck comes.

Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thanks. Public works department. No, please. Oh, please.

Uh just wanted to address uh let you know all the rain that we had. Windows still sealed up and stairway. Now, the door, the lash downstairs, we're working on that. The door kind of lets a little water in, but that's we're working on that. But anyway, pretty pleased on them windows. So, then just so you're aware, we've deployed the new speed trailer out. Um it's up in Cahill right now. Um, we were looking at getting rid of the old one, but once we actually got it working, uh, while we were order ordering the new one, we've deployed it out as well. It's down off of old Ridge View Drive um, in the school school area um, where the bridge cross down there. So, right now we have two of them. We'll monitor the older one because we've had a lot of issues with that over the years, but it's working pretty decent amount. the new UTV side by side that we were officers made an arrest out of it last night. They're actually training training on it. Uh figuring out how to operate it, pulled out of the PD and uh they end up taking a guy who been identified

with some pretty hard criminals and got a gun off street with us. So he was seemed surprised uh that we were into something like that. He took off running from them. So pleased on that. and our vehicles are getting ready to start being delivered, the command staff vehicles. Can't thank you enough for that. Uh on the vehicle deal with the city manager and your guys' support, we have having vehicles drive like flies with motors starting to go out. Um decommission another one this week because another motor issue. So that was much needed. Appreciate that. Also appreciate the support on the rifles. They're supposed to be being delivered this week as well. Um, can't thank you all enough for all the equipment that we're able to put in place. And the solar, I believe, is almost completed. Uh, they the build's complete and the wiring's done, but they got

it's all connected, but we're waiting on Ever to give us the PTO permission to operate, which they say takes about 30 days. So, we've had a lot going on. So, yes. Anyway, thank you. Quick question, Keith. I'm sorry. Um, Blue Shield grants. Yes. Any updates on that? The Blue Shield grant last year was what uh bought us side by side. We put in for the Blue Shield grant. This year we don't know what the money is going to be allocated for. We don't know how much they're going to allocate or any of that stuff yet. So, do you recall when we learned last year? Was that late summer? Usually around I think June. Okay.

Like late June, July time because we were looking at the clock and then had to really put our heads together and figure out what we're going to spend that on. So, but it's very specific of what you can actually spend the money on. Okay. So, any Thanks. the um has has any any of the units, your vehicles been equipped with the um the electronic tickets?

Oh, so we're having them built right now. The vehicles are down at LA upfitters. And when they are being delivered, the command's going to be having them delivered first, but the patrol units, we're having a few of the newer ones uh having the ones that we're being keeping down in Clinton, they're putting new consoles in to support the credit ticket writers. So, we're working on it. It just it takes a lot of time. Okay, good. Questions? No, but I say Keith, our former police chief, Jean Burton, is having some real um he's he's back to Warrenburg uh at the country club. Yes. Y

So, didn't really want to go into a lot of specifics last uh last time, but uh keep them in your curse. Yep. Thank you. Thanks, Chief.

Public works bill. as chief mentioned uh the solar so all three solars are completed up to the point for that we're waiting on Everg to give us commission outbreak so takes about 30 days for that not sure what happens in that time but we'll wait the time and then we'll have the go-ahhead hopefully to connect and get it done but all three so thank you guys for getting that done it's 90% there Um, the plant expansion's going quite well. Nothing major is going on. They're installing the SPR and they're working on the re beds. So, going well. Uh, street department is out doing some storm water drain improvements. Uh, so you'll see them throughout. And then on Wednesday, they plan on being on Meguire to repair those areas that people are not happy about. I have had to comment on some forms that, you know, this is just a temporary fix. It is planned on being the builds. So, had lots of issues with that. The sidewalk program opened last Thursday, no, Friday, and uh we're happy with the number that's coming in there. So we'll be presenting that to you probably next council meeting so that you okay us using the contractor that was the low bid.

The sidewalk program is tell me what that is. So our sidewalk program is when we were doing zone one, two, three. Yes. That that's our sidewalk program. What we're doing with the curb and ADA, which is where we did railroad, we did market and stuff like that. Again, it's all concrete work. Um, but this year the sidewalk program, we're touching areas where we've had some major upheavalss in a lot of our sidewalks. So we're not going to concentrate so much on the zone, it's going to be hitting some major needed. So, okay.

You might touch on Main Street. Uh Main Street, we had a sinkhole up here at the between Lynn and Jones. Jones.

Jones. Thank you. In the Jones sub just west of the Jones subc is what I was looking for. But um we had a major sinkhole. We got down, inspected it. We got down in the cover. The floor of the covert pretty much washed out and allowed the area around the culbert to be, you know, so we've got some good size sink holes possible. Uh we're contacting the engineering firm, contacted the you know person who could do the work. Uh, it's coming back a little high. So, we're going to be doing our due diligence to see if we go ahead and just repair it or if we go ahead and rip it out and make it much better.

So, you might have be actually be putting in maybe a bridge. Not a bridge. It'll still go back to a Gold type issue, but since Maine is so narrow, it might give us the opportunity to go ahead and prepare for a widening of that area in the future. So, we go back and we build it up the proper way and then possibly widen the street after that portion. We're still working on numbers and kind of ultimate solution, but don't want to be shortsighted and just do a cheap quick to fix and then read it later. Right. That looks like our thoughts.

So, that is in the process. Um, collections crew, the van is being picked up this week to be have the camera installed. They're looking at return towards the end of June hopefully. So, it's moving along well. The lots of other projects throughout the city that project management working on. And quick question about the Meguire patch. Um

when all of that I mean because we think the sinking is happening because so much earth was moved around to take all of the utilities out and move them and all of that. So, I'm wondering why didn't the engineers plan for that sinking and build something that wouldn't have sunk as much as it did? And I I'm not asking you to, you know, make excuses, but I'm curious why. Also, why I don't know how well it was tested when it was going back in in that area.

So, everything south of uh North Street and everything basically little bit north of Emerson was up to compaction rating. I don't know if they skipped that area or I think we thought that timing would be a little bit better. I I can say the the designer and the contractor very deliberate in saying, you know, we're not building back this base as it was. Yeah. It started out hoping that one project could flow into another and Okay. So it was more

more time away there. They did go ahead and put asphalt down to make a smooth surface and it was kind of the hope that everything would hold together uh onto the next project before it it was noticeably failing and okay the timing just I knew they obviously didn't rebuild it the way I mean on purpose for sure but I thought but it was because the timing just took longer than they were hoping it was going to hold up longer. When is the emerging? When is the

So, we're still working through paperwork with state. Uh Joe had a question or the state contacted Joe last week and Joe provided those requested information to the state last week. We're waiting to hear back from the state whether you know where we're at in the process. We're working with one engineer in the state to get this done and seems like he has questions. We respond that next day and it takes a week to get back to us. So, slow process.

So, it very likely could be fall. Uh, no. We're still looking to hopefully get the request for proposal out, you know, within the next month. And then after that, it's going to be 30 days. There's going to be almost 30 days. We get all that and the contractor will have to figure out when he's got time. So, it could be August, it could be September. I'm hoping August, but it's a process. Um I first we got to get the state approval. Then we have to solicit the bids and then we account the contractor's schedule as well as material supplies

and we don't know whether or not that's going to be capital coming back. We'll put it out for a bid. So see we get a respondent. I think capital's interested. Capital's very aware of it and familiar with it. So we've had some other uh bigger contractors reach out and they're aware of it too. Sure. Not to uh keep the meeting going, but I do have two questions if I may. Uh going back to the Main Street project, do we have funds set aside for failing infrastructure like that or is that unbudgeted expense?

Yeah, we we have reserve balance that we draw upon, but we don't have a budgeted line item for something that large. Okay. So part of that 25 year plan is to anticipate kind of a recurring street maintenance not I don't know we would have well we might have anticipated that but one thing that we really need to add are bridges and and fox we've been working on identifying those and try to come up with some cost

uh second question would be milland overlay project I know we were holding off due to oil prices those have kind of flattened out a little bit but still kind of high. Are we gonna continue waiting or what do you think it'll last?

We reached out to Advanced Asphalt and said that we wanted we were sort of pushing off until we got some projects done so that whenever they come in it's just a straight shop for them mainly railroad uh Holton Holton Market and some areas like that. Um so we got those projects down now and we said okay at the end of school season it's going to be better for you guys to come in. Uh they came back with the price compared to the you know asphalt price index. Uh they went up from I think it was 83 don't quote me this somewhere around $83 last year and it's only $87 this year. So not as bad. We still probably have to cut back on some area but Dave's mechan's looking at that and we're going to go as soon as school's basically out. So that'll just be all summer. We'll be seeing most of that.

Well, I I mean they're fast. I bet you it's going to be two weeks. They'll be in and out. Nice. But we're going to be watching them and making sure they're doing a job that we prove this year. Yes. And follow up on that, uh I was driving down Hawthorne and quite bumpy. One of those that they're going to come back in. They're going to do what they stated in the letter, which was first let it warm up, roll it, see if the rollers will help. If that doesn't work, was that the number one option? That was number one option.

Then the second option was something. And then the third, they'll just replace it if it in those two options, it doesn't work. Okay. So, that'll all be happening here next month or so. Yeah. Okay. Good deal. time frame we get busy. I like it. Thank you. Good question. Thanks, Phil. I'm in the box.

Good. Mayor, council members, I just really quickly want to announce tomorrow at 10 o'clock, um, the summer of soccer committee will be hosting a business performance meeting. Um, it is for local businesses. We are providing an opportunity to attend in person or by Zoom. You can find the information for the meeting um in the Zoom link. If you go to visit warnsburg.com, it's on our calendar. You can also find the box. We have a little fancy little box now with summer of soccer. If you click on that, you can find the information about the business meeting on that. We will be discussing just a little bit about the event overview about what's happening right down the road. We'll be talking about the local initiative which is summer of soccer. We'll be doing like a little checklist, things to think about, um what an international visitor might expect, their experience, and just a visitor in general. We know that we've we've mentioned it several times, the whatifs, what a domestic traveler coming through. Um and again, I have to give a shout out to our um tourism industry partners. They make it happen year round. Um, and and last summer we were completely booked. I have no doubt this summer we will be completely booked. What's happening right down the road? Um, but we're going to make it a great summer. Um, absolutely no doubt. We're going to be talking about operational things to think about staffing and inventory and marketing. Um just today I had a convers two conversations with two different um individuals about the importance of thinking through the intellectual property with FIFA and World Cup and how um we just can't use what we want to use. Um and so we're going to talk about that and being very conscious of of of those and then the business resources that are available for them. Um we there are a lot of different resources that visit KC and um score KC have put forth visitor um

international visitor profile studies their gain plan that explains all about the intellectual property what can and cannot be used. So there's a lot of great resources that are available. We have a lot of great local resources available. We have an incredible chamber, credible Main Street, Johnson County Economic Development. So we're going to be doing shoutouts for them as well. So tomorrow we'll be providing all that information. It will be recorded and we will be making that link available following. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anything else?

Pick a pen. Any deployed.