City Council - Regular Meeting

There it is.

I pledge allegiance 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.

Breidenauer.

Here.

Osborne.

Here.

Latari. Here. Jones. Here. Euler.

Here. Approval of city council minutes. Motion to approve regular city council meeting minutes dated May 11th, 2026. So moved.

Bridenhour.

Yes.

Osborne.

Yes.

Latari. Yes. Jones.

Yes.

Euler.

Yes. Adoption of agenda.

Motion to approve agenda as presented.

If you know what you're going to do is what.

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Proclamations 5.1 it's in your packet but there'll be a proclamation for the Morris L. Collins Early Childhood Center grand opening on June 4th, 2026. Item 6.1, an ordinance authorizing the city manager and city clerk to enter into an agreement between the city of Warrensburg and Brycer Advisory Group LP for fire protection systems, inspection management, and establishing a fee for the submission and processing of fire protection system inspection reports presented by Fire Chief Ken Jennings. Good evening, Mayor and Council.

This ordinance, if approved, entered into an agreement with BRICER. It's aimed to address the inspection compliance and confirmation of fire protection systems throughout the city. So currently, the fire code requires certain occupancies to install various types of fire protection systems. It is on the owner or whoever is responsible for that system to have it inspected annually. And we kind of leave it at their at their own due diligence to have that done. We don't have a a great system to Ensure that that compliance is occurring and then every year Through liquor license inspections business license changes things like that. We tend to get eyes on them So roughly 10% of those inspections that exist each year actually get confirmed by the fire department so a brycer advisory group and their system called the compliance engine does is it is a database that companies that provide those inspection services report to. So as the local business owner, when you call your selected vendor to come in and inspect your system, they come in, they inspect your system. When they're complete their inspection, they upload their inspection results into Brycer's, the compliance engine system. We have access to that system then to see everybody that has a fire protection system and the last time it was inspected, any deficiencies or any follow-up that's needed from that. The fee structure for it, to the city, there's no cost to use the system. Where Brycer makes their operating funds from is that reporting process. So the vendors that provide the inspection service pay a fee to upload to the compliance engine. In the inspection companies that we surveyed, it was a mix. I wouldn't say 50-50. Some already incorporate that into the fee that they charge. Some would then add that to their fee based off the jurisdiction that they're serving. So it's kind of a split there. But Brycer charges that fee to the vendor. They pay it. It may be passed on or already ignored by the local business owner. As part of their options, we can add a local fee to it. The idea of the local fee then is to help recover some of the costs on the back end that we'll still have to interact with our staff hours. those systems that need follow-up because of a deficiency or that don't complete an inspection that we can send our prevention officer then to actually physically look at. So they provide that, they collect that in that fee structure and then quarterly would then return what's collected there minus their 7% that they keep off of that. As far as selecting a system or a party to manage this for us, there are a few options out there. They made it a little easier. The two most common were the compliance engine, and then they absorbed the other leading company here at the end of last year. Our current record management system also has a similar product, but it doesn't do a lot of the notifications and the mail outs beforehand and a lot of that follow up. It essentially inventories the systems for us, still requires a lot of manual input on our side. So in evaluating all those, that's how we kind of steer towards the compliance engine. Also looking in the region in the packet in Table 2, it lists all the fire departments and districts that are currently using the compliance engine in our region. The benefit there is many of those inspection service providers that work in those areas also work in the Warrensburg area. So it's a system that they're familiar with. A handful of them are already reporting to it, and some may have that fee structure already built into their system. So with that, the fee structure that we've put together includes the $27 fee for Brycer and that's per system. So if you have a hood system, that would be at one upload charge. If you have a sprinkler system, that would be an upload charge. So each type of system would require that fee. The $18 fee from the city side is determined by just the number of systems that we currently have on record and the hourly rate of our staff. And we took the staff cost, divided that by the number of systems to come up with that $18 is where we have established that fee. So most systems that exist would be a total submission with both Brycer's fee and the city fee of $45 per system. us getting that $18 minus that 7% quarterly. The benefit of the system again is just gonna, just with our staff allotment that we have now, it's gonna maximize that efficiency of that position, allow them to really hone in on those areas that need the deficiency follow-ups, the non-compliance, that kind of stuff. Overall, by improving the fire protection system inspection, making sure everything's working, we increase public safety. People visiting those sites, if there were a fire, those are all things that are there to help reduce the spread of fire. increase evacuation, decrease total property loss value, those types of things. So the systems are there. They're important. This will help ensure that they are operational. And I would be happy to answer any questions that you may have associated with it.

Do you have a list of all of the different locations that have the different, like the sprinkler systems or the different systems that need to be inspected. And is that list then shared with a listener so that they know, um, which ones need to be inspected by the third parties?

Yeah, so as we start to build that inventory, that's where we'll start is what we already have in our system. And so we have a pretty healthy chunk of that already accounted for, whether it was through just years of inspections or we've identified it during pre-plan activity or a new build. So we have that. We'll provide that to them as a starting point. And then as we... new fire protection systems come in, we'll update them with that. Also, as those vendors are here providing that service, if it's something that we don't have and they know that they're reporting, if they report something that we don't have in that system, then it'll be added for us.

And this includes also like the large manufacturing or distribution centers?

Yes. There will be some exceptions on Business organizations, the university, they conduct their own fire protection system inspections primarily. There's some that they outsource. The school district, they contract out. They don't typically then report back to us or have that obligation. So we'll kind of see how that pans out as we get going as far as what the vendors are reporting back in. But yeah, everything that is licensed in the city that is required to have this system.

Okay. Does that include the daycares that have fire protection systems inside of them? If they're the daycares that are connected to a church, are they exempt?

In most cases, no. Those will have something in place. And so they'll have requirements as a daycare center from the state level also. So most of those places at a minimum are going to have a fire extinguisher or fire extinguishers. And then the complexity of the system after that kind of depends on what they serve from there. But those systems will still be inspected or should be inspected.

Okay. Thank you.

So do I understand from your question that Childcare centers in a church don't have to meet the same standards as others?

I was told that one time that they consider themselves exempt. Kind of like the county considers themselves exempt of city ordinances. Daycare centers that are under the umbrella of a church, they told us they were exempt. They didn't have to meet city code.

Didn't have to meet city code or state code? That seems like a bad idea.

I'd have to check to the extent of where maybe that cutoff is.

There are differences from churches in general, but that's a different story. We can circle back on that.

Just curious. Yeah.

If I may, and I apologize, but I got a little bit. So I just kind of wanted to walk through from a small business owner perspective, and I do see fire extinguishers on this list. So fire extinguishers typically inspected on a once-year basis. Is that still correct with this? Correct. It'd be an annual inspection? Yes. And then looking in the fiscal impact, the program is funded through submission fees paid by third-party inspection vendors. So whenever I ask the inspector to come through, test our fire extinguishers, then they would remit the fees to Brycer, and then they would invoice their inspection fees, Brycer fees, and the city fee. Is that correct?

Correct. If it's not already included in their fee structure, and... Like I said, on our survey, it was kind of split. Some just assume that they're reporting, so it's built into their fee structure. Others do not, and it's based off their jurisdiction, whether it's required or not. So yeah, it ultimately could be passed down, yes, to those at all.

So my main concern with the proposed fee schedule is, you know, just looking at it from the perspective on what I've been spending for the last several years. I mean, this is over double what I was spending right now just for an inspection. You know, we're asking for a lot of fees here. And then if you start adding all this up, you get to some larger businesses. You look at some of our business, our restaurants downtown that have to have the fire extinguisher or fire sprinkler systems and things like that. These fees look like they can add up pretty quick. Is that?

Yeah, it's definitely been a consideration. We started exploring this option a couple of years ago. The fire departments are historically pretty terrible at generating revenue. It's not our business. So there's been a lot of consideration going to that. We understand that impact. The ultimate driving factor is the importance of those systems and that they're present and making sure that they're functional, that they've been tested and that they're gonna work at that point in time. Hopefully, business owners don't ever get to see the return on that investment by having an incident, but it is definitely something that, in the event of a fire, that you want to make sure is occurring. Adding this additional fee, we understand that impact, but overall... In the scope of things, it was something that we felt was necessary given our current structure and our ability to help guide that process along since it does come back on those owners to make sure that they're having those things done.

Chief kind of touched on this earlier, but in my experience, one of the added benefits of Compliance Engine is they're proactive in communicating and tracking the businesses that currently are not complying, that aren't getting any inspections done. Those are the ones that the follow-up is really difficult. The tracking is really difficult. And this kind of changes the approach in terms of making them aware and then also engaging the inspection industry to make loop us into that conversation. In my experience, they do add a lot of benefit to code compliance.

Absolutely. I don't disagree with any of that. I think that's a great program. Obviously, looking at Table 2 and all the other organizations that use this program, it looks like it's a great deal for us. I'm just looking from the business owner perspective. I mean, specifically on the fire extinguishers, is this fee, so the $34 total, is that per extinguisher? Or is that one through five is $34? Yeah.

Up to five would be 34, and then anything above six would be the 39. So if you had 200 of them, that all of those extinguishers have been inspected would be that submission fee, not per extinguisher. Okay.

I had a question also about the difference between portable fire extinguisher and fire extinguisher. There's a portable fire extinguisher that is...

would be a total of 45 and then down below the different numbers of fire extinguishers that's a a good thing to point out i'll i need to follow up and double check on that um yeah so then a follow-up question on the fees um brycer is mainly taking care of all of this and they just send you a report At the end of the quarter, so I understand it. So the fees that the city is assessing, what are those fees being used for? Is there staff time involved with looking over this reports or. $18, I'm just curious on.

Yeah, so they'll. They'll pay us quarterly. As far as the reports, we'll see them just as soon as they're entered by the vendor. So we'll have access as often as we want. So as those come in, if there's a deficiency or they've passed their annual inspection, that would require additional staff time. So if there's a deficiency, then our prevention office would then make contact and reach out to the property owner work through making those repairs, getting that stuff fixed. The rest of it that are on time and non-deficient, there still will be a review period. and making sure that those records are up to date going through and making sure, Hey, we, you know, there's a sprinkler system that's popped up and we don't have that in our system already and crossing that data over. So there is some time similar to some other formulas and staff hours. We've kind of tried to balance that out, understanding that some of them will take five minutes. Some of them will take two weeks and try and find a happy median. And that's kind of how we base that formula off of, that average, if you will.

And again, from what I've observed elsewhere, I think this will generate more activity, dialogue between our staff and businesses that say, I've never done this before. What are you talking about? And then we're coaching them through the codes, code compliance, inspection, inspection cycle. It'll up our game, but it'll also be more staff time.

Absolutely. Yeah. And, you know, I don't have numbers of what I've spent in the past, but I think it's like $15 an extinguisher and, you know, looking $15 on top of the 34 just for the one extinguisher. I mean, that's, That's just where my concern is, is kind of what that perception is to the business owner. We already have to pay a business license, and now we're having to do a inspection fee and so on and so forth, and it's just getting more and more expensive to try to run a small business. So that was just my concern. Once again, I think that's a good system. We should be doing inspections already. I think that having this in place will be a benefit. I'm just a little concerned about the fees of where they're at currently on it. Another question I had was, what data are you collecting during these inspections? Are you just saying, yes, it's done, it's a checkoff, or is it more and more like blueprints and like mapping out where the sprinkler heads are? Kind of what's the scope?

As far as what they're collecting, it'll be the address and the system type, locally the associated business name with it. Very limited. if any personal identifying information will be collected by Brycer. We'll definitely have much more on our end that we already have input in our system than they'll have. It'll be basic location, the system type, inspection and deficiencies, those types of data points. And then... Checked with them. They are a PCI DSS level one service provider. All the data that they have in their system is owned by us at the end of the day. They have several practices in place, testing, verification procedures. They have a 10-step protocol in place if there's a data breach. They use transport layer security version 1.3 when they can, 1.2 they can't. So quite a few things on their side to secure what is there and that connection, so.

No, I really do appreciate that. Those were all top security standards, so I'm glad to hear that those were implemented. I appreciate that on such short notice, and I was asking this morning on that. I do think that it's important that that type of stuff be included in the terms or in the contract. I understand we can't do that this time around because we want to get this implemented, but I do think that that is important moving forward. No matter whether it's the fire department or any other org, any other department, we should make sure we're taking care of cybersecurity and protecting the citizens and the business owners. That's all my questions. Thank you.

I think I understood you to say at the beginning of your presentation that when people are renewing their license now that our fire department is now doing some of the inspections, will you continue to be doing those? And when you do those, then they wouldn't be going through bracer and you wouldn't be charging or you would be charging like the $18 city fee.

Yes. Yes. No. So, as. As we go out and do inspections for business license, liquor license, things that are already triggering an inspection by the fire department, we'll continue to do those. When we go and do those inspections, our part is verifying that the system is in place and that it has been inspected. So we're not typically testing anything, checking functionality, any of those pieces. On an initial occupancy will have the vendor that's installed the system actually demo like on a hood system that it activates those types of things, but we don't get into the level of inspection that Same words here that an inspection gets into a functionality inspection so They're on that install on new stuff. That's going to be part of that installation process is going to be that it is functional and it passes that initial inspection. So that's going to be occurring. It's a good question that I need to follow up on when they report at that point. My assumption would be that when they report, they're going to pay that fee also on like a new build or something like that. Um, and then after that's established, then it would be every, every year that they would, um, be required to have that inspection that they would pay that fee.

So when, when I understand what you're saying, when they do the inspection, they're going to see if it actually works, turn it on, tip it upside down, do whatever. Um, but when you do the initial, when you're doing an inspection, you're just confirming that the, that the, that it's there. It's installed, the fire, the fire, water. The sprinklers, thank you. That they're installed. You're not turning them on or you're not taking the fire extinguisher and making sure that it works.

Correct. And we verify that they have been inspected by that third party. So they'll hang a tag on it or they'll have documents that they provide us that show that a sprinkler inspection company had been there and tested the system.

Okay. So that process has been done. Then you're going in and just confirming in order to get the license. Correct. So it's like a two-step process.

Correct. And that's why we're limited on what we physically see every year because it's during liquor license inspections or a change of business or something that triggers an inspection. So those are the ones that we do see and they're hit and miss. So if a business came in 30 years ago and they were good then, that may, unlikely, but may have been the last time we saw that system. we'll normally interact with them along the lines of that 30 years on false alarm or something like that. But this ensures that regular inspections occur and it's functional.

Just to be clear, and I realize you haven't asked the question this way, but this isn't a change in responsibility from the code requirement. The code expects the owner is going to engage a third party to do that level of inspection that you described. This is just a way to better track that and keep it on schedule. Okay.

And to be more proactive rather than kind of only able currently to be more reactive. Right. except for when the inspections happen regularly. But it's a way to get more information, more data about more places and to be able to be more proactive about those inspections.

And this information should be helpful. You can pull that information up. If you get an alarm for that particular location for a fire, you can pull up and see what they have available and when it was last inspected so you know whether or not the sprinkler should be working or not.

And that's where we pull a lot of that inventory that we'll give them initially is stuff that we've collected through pre-plans and identified this is here and that's there. But it should, yes, boost our confidence knowing that when we do hook up to the fire department connection, that it's not going to blow it out of the back of the building because it's been inspected recently. Thank you.

And I just want to ask one more follow-up question about the fees. So can you please remind me or restate currently businesses, locations that have some sort of fire suppression system are already paying some sort of a fee to a third party to do their inspection. I mean, if they're following ordinance, they're already paying a fee every year for something. And do we know what the average current fee is that those folks pay? Is that $27,000? kind of on par with what they're doing or the 45 on par?

I don't have exact numbers. It's going to vary depending on the system. And it's just to be clear, what they're paying for now is that service for that inspection is what they're paying. The fee or this fee to report may or may not be built into a fee structure. Okay. So that would be the change potentially.

It's like Matt's what you said, paying for the inspection.

I estimate, I think it's $15 an extinguisher. I think it's what I typically paid whenever I went to storefront. So it would be 15 plus the $34 just for one extinguisher.

Gotcha.

So what is that? $64.

Okay. Thank you.

Sorry, $49. If I can do math.

That's assuming also that your inspector is part of the Bryce system and reports into Bryce.

They'll be required to. So as this gets implemented, there may be one or two that fall between the gaps, but RICER helps with that transition and notifying vendors that provide that service in the area of that requirement. So it'll take a little bit to get everybody actually reporting, but it should be fairly smooth. And a lot of that burden's put on RICER.

I know the conversation on the fees are going to be here in a little bit with the resolution, but since we're on the topic, the city fees, there's nothing we can do about the pricer fees. I think, is that correct? If we're going to use them, we have to give them their money. Yeah. So on the city's fees, can those fees be assessed only if there's issues? Like if it's one extinguisher, we don't need to check that. You know, it's just, yep, it looks good. Check it off. It's 30 seconds worth of work. So then we can waive that fee. But if there's issues, then we can assess a fee after the fact or something. Just for those that are always compliant, you know, year over year, you know, $18 can add up.

I mean, that is that fee structure on our end is completely driven by us. So that's definitely an option that can be explored. That's the direction.

And I understand the logic. What I'm trying to process is how we would administer that because we're the inspector is collecting that fee and so somehow we've got to make the assessment of we didn't have to remind you we didn't have to tell you twice you passed um we just have to figure out how to implement that but you know it logically it's a little appealing to reward those that are doing everything right and only charge those that uh create more work just don't know how we implement that.

It may be more feasible to look at the options here in the example. Like you said, your requirement is one fire extinguisher and that's it. Adjusting that, that may be a better way to find that happy medium because it would be hard to differentiate that on the front end, on the vendor, on what they pay.

Absolutely.

Yeah, and it's not a

I understand staff time when you make sure we're able to pay our employees. I think we're all for that. It's just a, how, how are we going to make sure those business owners are going to be taken care of at the end of the day? You know, we want their sales tax money to also pay more money. So to wages and things like that, I think just, uh, continue to attack on more fees is not, not the best look. Um, you know, whenever they're going to get their bill at the end of the, uh, at the end of their inspection, they're going to see that their price went up significantly. So there's something we can do to minimize that. It's already going to go up with Pricer. It's how can we minimize that impact.

If there's some way to

make it not so expensive for a small business, especially for, I mean, we can't differentiate between sizes of business, but if there is no issue and there's no real required follow-up time by staff, then it seems fair to me that that business should not be charged for staff time that wasn't used. But it sounds like it's complicated to figure that out, but.

Well, I don't know how you differentiate two. you know, you get up to some of these other six plus extinguishers while you get to some of our larger enterprises and you know, they could have what 30, 40, 50 extinguishers and they're getting charged the same amount as the person with one on the city side, even though it's going to be a lot more staff time to look over a 50, look over 20 different things compared to the one extinguisher. I definitely see where you're going with it. Um, I appreciate the work that you put in on this. That's just my one concern with it right now.

Any other questions?

No. I think additional clarification on some of the questions that we brought up might be good before we move on.

Are we under any kind of time pressure?

No. Would this be implemented next year or is this a current fiscal year implementation?

Once approved, we would start working with Brycer to implement it. So we're going to phase in depending on the natural occurrence of things on re-inspections for those that are doing it when those may fall and then we'd start to identify those that are far behind.

So Just for the sake of continuing to move this along, now this is a first and second reading, but the fee portion of it is item 7.1. Is it possible to go ahead and approve the bracer contract so we can move forward on this, but then hold off on the fees until the next meeting to discuss questions?

The fee item is just to incorporate the established fee within

It's in Section 3 of the proposed ordinance establishing the $18 fee and then adopting. Thank you. It is in another item.

Yeah.

So if this item were to pass tonight, that fee structure that it would establish within the next item would be to tie those fees, update the city's fee schedule completely to include these fees. So

So rather than have miscellaneous ordinances, you have to go back and find fees and we've compiled them all in a fee schedule. So the second item would be amending the fee schedule to match what was adopted by ordinance.

So the fee schedule that is on the agenda today. already contains the $18?

No, the fee schedule item that's on the agenda, whatever fee is authorized by the ordinance and amend that document that is the fee schedule to add that fee in. So if you wanted, you could do first reading today, ask staff to come back with alternate fees. We can bring them back for a second reading. And if you took that approach, you'd want to postpone the fee resolution until we got these finalized.

And would that cause any hardship timing-wise related to the fee structure? Sure.

So then do a no action.

We're not moving a second reading then, right? Go to first reading.

Then, yeah, then that, what we're doing is the first reading, basically. Yeah.

And I mean, based on the discussion, you would just as easily simply vote it down and just bring it back. There's, there's not really a, it gets more complicated to do anything other than just vote it down. Great. That's the cleanest answer.

So move it to second reading and then vote it down?

You put it down on your first reading and we're done.

And then it doesn't have to be on the next meeting's agenda.

Correct. Yeah, if you don't approve, because you haven't approved the first reading, you just have the first reading. Right. So you don't approve the first reading, we don't move the second reading, and that's that.

So the motion is to approve the first reading.

No, it's already pending. This is the session waiting for the vote.

The action.

Yeah.

Just one clarification. No.

Okay. So then you would need the motion still. I would still, it's easier to just make an affirmative motion, motion to approve. That way a yes is a yes and a no is a no. If you vote to disapprove, then a yes is a no and a no is a yes.

I'm just trying to figure out what we're approving. Because it was just a first reading, so we're not approving or denying anything.

We're not approving anything. You're You're approving the ordinance by first reading, which you have to do to get to the second. So if you say, I move to approve this ordinance, you then would vote. If it fails, then the ordinance is dead.

And they can bring it back later. Because I would be curious what some of the other businesses might be paying now, larger businesses. paying now to have inspections done and how this might impact the larger businesses as well as some of the smaller businesses.

You're not actually, you don't really want to take action on this exact ordinance later. You're looking for something different from what the discussion has been. So it doesn't really behoove you to table it and leave it for later. Just vote it down in the book.

Just one clarification. We don't get tripped up by reconsideration longer, do we? No. Okay.

The other thing I'm curious is if it'll be a different if somebody is always always gets their inspection done, always passes their inspection, doesn't have any problem with it. Can we credit them for the next inspection, the next year's inspection? Give them a credit. If that would be some sort of credit.

It would be something that I'd have to talk with Brycer and what they might have available. I would say it would be challenging on their end to communicate because they don't know who's going to be doing the inspection. So to be able to communicate that and say, hey, you don't need to charge them. They've got a credit from last year. So I think that level of challenge is probably a business that they're not in because it's going to eat into their time. But it's a question that I'll ask them.

Okay.

So I will make a motion to approve the ordinance as presented.

Okay.

So we're not going to second reading, which is...

Assuming the outcome of the vote that's about to happen is negative, not going to second reading. so out of speculation what if it does pass then what happens because let's find out it would naturally go to second reading at that point and okay you also could not move it to second reading and then let it sit well i'm sorry but i guess it's just cleaner to just vote it vote it down it sounds like what is being asked is going to change The body of the ordinance. So it's going to be a lot easier to change that and bring back a clean document that it is going to be to try to Frankenstein all the differences in and keep it also Basically the opposite of what we did with the World Cup.

So, So he may have said bill as presented.

Second, Right.

I don't think we need it. Don't need it for that.

Don't need it for that. I'm sorry. I'm trying to be helpful.

There's no more discussion.

So now we just vote.

Okay.

Breidenauer?

No.

Osborne?

No.

Latari? No. Jones? No. Euler?

Yes.

Motion to approve failed.

Thank you. Thank you for all your work.

Yes, thank you.

And answering all those questions.

Chief, I don't mind you leaving us either. Item 6.2, an ordinance authorizing the city manager and city clerk to enter into an agreement with Cloetta for the development of a crisis communication plan for the city of Warrensburg. Chief Jenkins.

Good evening. I thought the best way to walk through this ordinance was to have a little guided presentation to go along with it. As we went through the budget development process last year, we had mentioned the crisis communication plan, the benefit of putting that in place, and then it ultimately ended up in our plan over the next three years to pursue this. So I'll be honest with you, as we got started, wasn't really sure exactly what we were asking for in whole. So it has been a long and detailed process that we put together the request for proposal and the scope that we were looking for and everything that came after. So from an emergency management perspective, communication is often one of the leading causes of things that go wrong in a crisis or disaster situation. So this was something that we had been looking at working towards for a little while. As it came up in budget discussion, Jessica actually kind of cued in on the words and had been looking at that same thing from her perspective and communications side. So it came together quite well as far as the timing on putting something together. PB, Harmon Zuckerman, Because, as I said, we included this year's but it was put it as a general fund reserve project. So this year and the two fiscal years after PB, Harmon Zuckerman, Providing that that continues as planned. So kind of the overall vision was to create a comprehensive and actionable plan that can be used at all organizational levels, so top to bottom, to improve communication during crisis and provide accurate and timely information to the public so that we're reducing the loss of life, damage to property, and the impacts to the environment so that we're resilient as a community, survive the disaster, and then recover quickly. It's kind of the vision, the goal that we were set out to achieve. So we sent the initial RFP out in February of 2026. We asked in it that the plan be developed over a three-year period and broke that down into year one being internal communications, year two being external communications, and then year three being a comprehensive crisis communication plan, tying everything together going forward. We asked that they provide a very detailed project approach. We asked for their experience, previous experience working on this, the qualifications of their team members, all of that. In total, we had eight firms submit proposals, which was more than I initially anticipated. And they were healthy 40 to 50 pages each. So as we assembled the five person team to review them, there was quite a bit to read through and absorb. So that review team was Jessica Benverlo, Jody Schneider, Emma Miller from the police department, also doubles as their PIO, Jeremy Banway from FIRE, doubles as our PIO, and then myself. So as we started reviewing, we did that individually right through each proposal. We had established questions beforehand. Our grading criteria. So as we went through it, we graded against those criteria. We each came up with our overall score. So those were based off of a lot of those things that we asked for, their experience, what the detail of their plan, how they were going to communicate with us, what their fee structure looked like, what deliverables were going to come. All of that was put together. So each evaluator scored those. And then we combine those all weighted based off the importance of those questions. And so you can see there that breakdown, Shaletta came in top as far as the combined score from that group and then working our way down through that. After that review, we met as a group and discussed some pros and cons, things that we saw and kind of laid out what we wanted to do next. So the logical thing to do would be then to compare scores and then what we had budgeted and what was proposed. So breaking it down that way, we ended up selecting three firms to do interviews with over the internet that fell within that budgeted range over that three year period. So Shaletta, the Real Resiliency Initiative and Raftelis were all interviewed by our team. Following that and those discussions and what was presented there, we ultimately reaffirmed essentially our scoring that Shaletta provided the most comprehensive package in what they were going to be delivering. So they did, Shaletta did receive the fourth award. or they had the fourth lowest proposed cost high score. The lowest bid or proposed cost was jumped at 59,000. They also had the lowest score. Presented a good package, just didn't meet all of the things that we needed. Didn't really get down to the scope of what we were looking for. So Shaletta is based out of Oklahoma City, been in the business for 17 years. Their project profile is impressive. They've had a lot of involvement throughout the country. One of the things I think that the team liked the most about it and looking at what we were doing is they have subject matter experts for everything that we do as a city. So fire, police, administrative side, public works, the whole gamut. So as those SMEs, as they call them, are needed throughout this development process, they're people that are experienced both in that field and communications, which I think was a big driving factor in that selection. And then their extensive experience with stakeholder collaboration, which is a big part. So internal communication is gonna be huge, but that's only as good as us being able to then get it out to the public and the folks that we serve. And their experience there was very impressive also. So what are we getting? What is a crisis communication plan? So say we broke it down over three years. First year will be the internal communications. So we'll start by doing an internal communication audit, kind of looking at what exists, what policies, procedures we have, what roles are, how we communicate as it is today. Start mapping out how that communication workflow goes. So start identifying what we need to correct and can streamline. what communication platforms exist or what might be beneficial. A big piece of it will be templates, the toolboxes that we're going to need in those times of crisis where we can grab the box or the folder, the files, and we have a press release template and all of those available. Review policies, making sure that those are meshed up. Department-specific notification flowcharts. So if this, then that, call this, if they're gone or they're absent, those types of things. Even getting down into meeting types, what type of action requires or needs this type of meeting or collaboration and who's involved in those. And then start developing some training modules then to implement that internal communication workflow. Moving into year two, a lot of similar pieces as far as the audit and working through what exists and what we need to have. But then it's going to expand out to the communication platform guide and what works best to hit what stakeholder, how we engage the media, communication system guide, the escalation matrix. So we started here, we did, but now we've progressed to this, so we need to do these things and map a lot of that out. Work on our PIO policy and clean that up across all departments of the city. That playbook, so building that basic structure so that we know where we're starting and know what audibles we're allowed to call within those plays. Looking at the website from a crisis comm perspective, not so much anything else, but what's available, what's there, what can be accessed. An interesting thing on the external communication piece was the listening strategy. So how do we receive that feedback? How are we hearing our stakeholders? How are we engaged in picking up maybe those gaps that we're currently missing? The trusted messengers. So who are those people in the community that we need to be able to pick up and call to get a message out? Social media policy and then that external messaging template. Year three, which is the bulk of the cost, is going to be tying all of this together, putting all that whole system together. A lot of that is going to be tying not only those pieces together, but then starting to build the exercises. So as we get these things all put together, we'll bring in all the stakeholders and start running those exercises, be able to test the communications plan, make modifications that they see are needed as that comes together and get it refined so that it is exactly what we need, and then give us the tools to continue to maintain that. And it'll be a very living document, like all plans in emergency management should be. Things change pretty quickly. So they'll give us the tools to be able to do that. They'll end up on site, running those training exercises with our staff. As I mentioned at the beginning, that top to bottom ability. So it's just as important for the newest employee to understand where they fit into this communication framework in crisis as it is with a mayor. So over that three-year period, you know, it's going to allow us a lot of staff time, one-on-one interaction, get deep down into it. I'm going to give them a lot of time to develop that as we move through this process. The agreement that's attached to the ordinance tonight to enter into some key things that it does for us. It sets the price for us so that annual price and then the max price over a three year period. The payments are tied to key deliverables. So we receive a product and then we'll pay. So that's mapped out in there and which tasks are accomplished and then when they'll invoice us. If for some reason we need to get out of the agreement, if we need to change the future budget, we can with notice. The final product, it will be tested here on site with us, refined until we're happy, and then they'll be back here to present their final findings of that plan to counsel with us. So leads us to some offerings tonight for your consideration to pass ordinance, enter the agreement, move forward with the plan for year one. So what's been approved in the budget just for this year, we'll move forward with. postpone any other consideration, direct staff to seek some additional firms, direct us to reject all the proposals and start over with some different criteria or refined requirements if you so desire. Choose not to move forward with Shaletta or choose not to do a crisis communication plan. So those are some options. I believe, I don't know if Troy with Shaletta ended up joining or not. If you had any specific questions for our project manager or would-be project manager, he was going to join tonight. I'm sure we could get him in here, but I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Yeah, in the organizational chart, who's at the top of this that would fall under?

As far as managing the project? Yeah. Unfortunately, I believe... A lot of that will be on me to help guide this process through. But as they start working, it's going to involve engagement across all departments, department heads, down to the folks that each one of those departments feels is important in that process of that plan development.

Does this also help with the certifications that we do to have this in the plan or in place?

Certifications, no, not specifically. It will contribute to, so as we move forward, the next revision of the local emergency operations plan communications section of it will be added there. It will definitely supplement all of those things that we're doing now.

Yeah, I think it can also be helpful in a disaster declaration, that whole process of the county designation, state designation, federal designation. Not to say that you have to have a crisis communication plan to do that, but I expect that'll be part of this process in terms of what you need to be doing when and who needs to be thinking about it.

that. We have a bare-bones structure right now, obviously, to move forward over the next three years, and then this just builds on that to

Yes, this gets much deeper in the weeds and will build out a very structured framework. I mean, we have the mindset succession and we have general understanding of chains of command and communication. What this will really do is map that out so that there's absolutely zero question and who's responsible for what in the absence of them, who does this, this type of event or this type of scenario. These are the things that we do. Here's how we unify our social media platforms. uh here are existing communication platforms with the school district or the university how do we access those um it puts all those on paper so that in moments of crisis and you you can go to the chemical release and you go there and here's here's our steps here's our actions here's the news media here's how we get those stakeholders in the community and lays that out for us and then how often doing does it need to be updated I would expect that that recommendation will come from this process on how often that we need to do it. Currents, the closest thing, if you will, is the local emergency operations plan and it's every couple years that it's revisited. I'd say there will definitely be components in the plan that require more frequent attention for specific

people uh that may be in there but um i think the idea is to to at least get a lot of that framework into who and we can kind of plug in the who exactly yeah what positions in other words do do what but yeah as social media and other things change you know there'll there'll be other things that need to be updated along the way but

Just wanted to say thank you for putting this together, especially going through the whole selection process and all that. It was a lot of great information to read through. So thank you a lot.

Appreciate it.

Move to second reading by title only.

Breidenhower?

Yes.

Osborne?

Yes.

Latari? Yes. Jones? Yes. Euler?

Yes.

An ordinance authorizing the city manager and city clerk to, ooh, sorry, to enter into an agreement with Shlowetta for the development of a crisis communication plan for the city of Warrensburg, Missouri. This is for adoption or rejection. Ridenour?

Yes.

Osborne?

Yes.

Latari? Yes. Jones? Yes. Dueler?

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Chief. Item 6.3, an ordinance authorizing the city manager and city clerk to execute a contract agreement with J.C. Myers Construction Company, Inc. for the 2026 site walk improvement program in the city of Warrensburg, presented by Phil Adlitz, director of public works.

Good evening, Mayor, council members. Hopefully you enjoyed the book that we provided, the history about it and all the other sidewalk stuff that was in the packet. This is coming for you to get approved for a contract with JC Myers Construction to perform sidewalk improvement, connectivity, accessibility, and walkability through Warrensburg. We've used JC Myers many times previously. They're a great contractor. They were the lowest and the most responsible bidder for this project. This project will start after the carbon ADA portion that is currently happening. They're starting over on college here this week to finish up that project. Once they get that done, they'll get approved. We'll jump into, we've got multiple areas, Deerfield, Deerfield, Northfield, and other, there's some C-Click fix spots that were posed or requested. So we'll be joking throughout the city of Williamsburg to do work. We recommend Google. If you have any questions, I know there was a lot.

In the past, so we've measured this, is it by linear feed? So this was bid out to where it is a linear feed. About how many feet does this get us, roughly? What do you think?

I don't have that number in front of me. In years past, it was like 2,500 to 3,000 feet. Do a little quick math.

We're glad that it's going on. I know the last couple of years, the city's really been trying to catch up on it.

PB, Harmon Zuckerman, Last couple years we've tried to focus on a whole street concept, but we got behind on some of the areas where there's trip hazards in areas that PB, Harmon Zuckerman, Really need more attention at this time. So that's why we're sort of jumping on the

I would say that this approach of bidding it by unit price rather than a scope of project allows staff to maximize the budget while staying on budget. If you did a scope, you'd either end up over budget, under budget, you wouldn't hit the number right on. This allows us to, in the field, figure out how much curb work is needed and just continue to progress until the budget's fully expended.

I think that's good to continue on with what's been going so great. Do you have a project map?

I know you kind of listed a few areas, but... We don't have a project map at this time. We were waiting to see as we go along because as we get to the certain areas, Deerfield, and we're going to talk to the contractor and they're going to get the slope, make sure that we can hit everything so it might extend by a fourth of a panel or Cut off by four but panel. And as we go along and spend the money will do a section, get the bill right this much money spent and move forward that way. So we'll try and get the most that we can get done for the amount of money we have Perfect.

Questions. Motion to move to second reading by title.

I show Right now are Yes, of 4, yes, the party, yes, John, yes, ruler, yes. An ordinance authorizing the city manager and city clerk to execute a contract agreement with J. C. Myers construction Co Inc. For the 2026 sidewalk improvement program in the city of Warrensburg Missouri. This is for adoption or rejection right now. Yes. Osborne.

Yes.

Latari. Yes. Jones. Yes. Euler.

Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Item 7.1, a resolution of the Council of the City of Warrensburg adopting a schedule of fees and setting fees charged by the City, presented by Jessica Benverlo, Management Analyst.

So this would have incorporated that... Admin fee for the fire program into the schedule fees. So I would recommend either tabling it or voting it down, depending on what Adam recommends. Thank you.

Thank you, Jess. Thank you. Motion to approve the resolution as presented.

Ridenour?

No.

Osborne?

No.

Latari? No. Jones? No. Euler?

No.

Thank you. That's been failed.

Item 8.1, mayoral appointments. Motion to approve mayoral appointments as follows. Reappoint Michael Malloy as a director of the Parks and Recreation Board for the first term through June, 2029. Reappoint Travis Hume as a director of the Parks and Recreation Board for a second term through June, 2029. Reappoint Linda Baker as a director of the Parks and Recreation Board for a first term through June, 2029. Reappoint Daniel Brickman as a member of the Historic Preservation Commission for a first term through May 2029. Appoint James Curtis as a member of the Tax Increment Financing TIF Commission for a first term through May 2030.

Move to approve the appointments as presented.

Ridenour?

Yes.

Osborne? Yes. Latari? Yes. Jones? Yes. Euler?

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. So appearances to the council not listed on the agenda. We have two people. Monda Reynolds, you just come up, state your name and address, please. You have three minutes. Thanks.

Monda Reynolds, 407 East Agay, here in Warrensburg, Missouri. First of all, I want to thank you guys for what you do, because I know it can be thankless. And it's not an easy job. So thank you, and thank you for letting me speak to you tonight. I come here as a concerned citizen, a concerned parent and educator, and a proud member of people over politics. I've owned a home here for over 35 years, and I've voted for over 45 years. I guess I was blessed at the time period I was born because it came after women were allowed to vote, own property on their own, participate in sports, and after Dee Hudson. It was when those coming to the U.S. were afforded the same rights, such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If you work hard, you could achieve the American dream. But recently, that has changed. Not only are we not welcoming as many people into our country, but we're often deporting our own citizens, judging them by the color of their skin. Basically, anyone that isn't white. Women's rights are also being taken away. People are being arrested for verbalizing their thoughts and opinions, and this isn't progress. It isn't the law. We're going backward. Even in our own state, we the people vote for or against an issue, and our governor ignores the people's vote and does what he wants, breaking the law. As I've participated in peaceful rallies here, I've always felt safe because of our law enforcement officials. Everyone that is a U.S. citizen should be allowed to vote, and that's being challenged, challenged by different boundaries being drawn, by trying to convince people that casting your vote and voting by mail can be rigged somehow. I'm confident that we have secure voting in our county and in our country, and it's naive to think anything differently. I've heard Diane Norcross-Thompson speak enough and explain all the safety measures that occur during an election. However, there are those that try to intimidate some to keep them from voting by voter suppression, changing the rules and boundaries to keep certain people from voting. We at People Over Politics want to ensure that our city, county, and law enforcement officials will continue to do everything they can to ensure that the right to vote safely will continue today and to the November midterms and beyond for all. Thank you.

Thank you, Monda. Thank you, Monda. Sarah Smith, is that correct? Yeah. Just state your name and your address, please.

My name is Sarah Smith, and my address is 302 Lawson in Mordsburg, Missouri. Good evening. I appreciate you taking the time to hear my concerns tonight. In the past year, we've seen ICE mobilized in major operations by the federal government. Their operations have targeted not only immigrants who have failed to go through proper channels to obtain visas or citizenship, but also United States citizens and naturalized citizens. Shocking photos and news stories about wrongful detainment, unjustified search and seizure, excessive use of force, and racial profiling have dominated news cycles. As we prepare for midterm elections in our communities, it is important to ensure that we preserve election integrity and safety and do not allow interference. Recently, there have been conflicting statements from federal officials regarding the potential use of ICE at polling locations. While some have said ICE will not be deployed, others have declined to rule it out and often cite voter fraud as justification. Data compiled by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative organization, shows only a very small number of verified cases of voter fraud over several decades, including 30 confirmed cases in Missouri since 1982. Voter fraud is not a widespread issue in our elections and certainly not significant enough to justify ICE presence at the polls. Our country unfortunately has a long history of targeting marginalized voters through intimidation and interference in the voting process. I think this paired with recent events has created concerns surrounding upcoming elections. And it's important that we not allow history to repeat itself. And the only way to do that is to have very clear and open lines of communication in our communities. As United States citizens, voting with confidence in free and fair elections is a right that we should all cherish and protect. We owe it to our community to ensure that every eligible voter can cast their ballot safely, confidently, and without fear of harassment or intimidation. Voting should not feel like a risk. It should feel routine, secure, and protected. In the months leading up to our midterms, I encourage all of our elected officials and law enforcement agencies to have clear conversations about what the plan will be if there is a federal law enforcement presence near polling locations in our communities and how we will ensure the safety and protection of every individual as they cast their ballots. Protecting our election process is about so much more than a vote. It is about preserving and restoring trust and upholding the constitutional rights we enjoy as citizens. I will end by saying that I'm so glad to live in a community that I feel safe to voice my concerns and create meaningful dialogue with elected officials, law enforcement, and community leaders. I will do my best to continue to use my voice and my privilege to advocate for my friends that don't feel the confidence and the same safety that I enjoy to speak out. Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you.

Thank you, Sarah.

We always appreciate citizens, residents to come in and speak their minds and come here. So we're always look forward to it. We don't get a lot of company some nights, so we appreciate you coming in here. Thank you. Thanks for taking the time. Miscellaneous matters from the mayor and or city council.

Is that something that we have talked about that law enforcement has talked about related to I know there's been a conversation in the past, but. Concern about whether or not. The Homeland Security might show up at our August or November 11th meeting.

I'll certainly let the Chief speak if he wants to. The conversations I'm aware of were more about ICE enforcement and concern about whether that was happening in our community. And I sense that we don't really have much in the way of communication on our end to know until it plays itself out. But Chief?

That's exactly right. Yeah. reached out saying that they're working in this area or and they don't technically have to right um but we have good working relationships with most and all agencies so hopefully uh that communication will be open if they're thinking about coming and do some something like that I haven't heard of that at all from the law enforcement perspective

If a citizen was concerned, though, at either upcoming election, they felt like they were being harassed unjustifiably by someone from ICE, what should they do?

They could make a report with us, and then I could reach out and see what's going on with that agency and clarify what's actually happened. Absolutely.

Thank you. And Anna, we met with the group, the sheriff, police chief and myself met. Has that been a year plus?

It's been a year ago. Been a year ago. We appreciate being invited to that. So thank you.

I'd just like to make a comment too about Adam Sommer here, our city attorney, but he's also a fantastic musician. And he plays down at the city market or the farmer's market. And he's got a tip jar out there. Now, the tips weren't for him. So I was really glad to see. He does get enough money, I guess. But the tips go for...

They go back to the farmer's market so they can hire actual musicians. Since when it's for him. So if you tip enough, I will shut up.

You sounded great, though. Thank you for playing.

But normally, you donate to... 100%, yeah. And I'm doing it monthly this year. Yeah, so.

Anyway, we appreciate you doing that. Like hearing it. All right. City staff updates, city manager.

I don't have a whole lot to report. Forewarning that you will be reaching out shortly to try to schedule strategic planning, budget follow-up, and just openly declaring I'm the bottleneck at this point. Staff's working hard on it, and we'll get together and try to get some dates set and get preparations in place to be ready to meet with you. The only other thing I found somewhat noteworthy, you might have seen it in the MML wrap-up report of legislative action yesterday, But there were 3,110 bills introduced and 100 passed. So about 3% passed. Now, if I can figure out which 3% to concentrate on, that would be great. But I just found that noteworthy.

That's a summer project.

Administrative services, city clerk.

Thank you, Mayor and city council members. Put a report in the packet I just wanted to give you an update I heard from muni code our codification company, they are currently in the middle of working on our project, which is to reference our state law. linking within our code to make it obviously easier for anyone that wants to jump on the code and and see where the law. points back to. They're in the middle of that. They have finished our state law reference table, which is in the back of the code and the appendices. And you're welcome to review that. They're now moving into each code section and making sure that those are up to date. Another item that they've changed is they're changing our online code to a quarterly supplement as opposed to weighting for an annual supplement. Our physical code books are still on an annual basis, but the online code apparently has gotten more efficient and better, which is great because as you know, and you may not know, after each meeting and we adopt ordinances, they're giving the next day or within that week's time to Munichode to place on online. Those are normally found in the beginning of the code under new legislation adopted. Well, luckily now, it will be improved and will be added codified into the code on a quarterly basis. So that, again, is better for our citizens and for us as we're looking for code. The last thing that I wanted to point out was that we have set our biannual shredding event. So we've already completed one shredding event this year, and the second one will be in November for all departments in the city. So just want to point out those items. Thank you, Jamie. Thank you.

Thank you. Quick question on the, I apologize. Are they, there has been a change at the states that will conflict with one of our ordinances. Will they notify you of that? Or is that more of our response?

At the end of their process, then there will be a larger review that usually will involve the city attorney where, and they'll go, here's all the areas where action, attorney action, attorney action. So we'll get to that point.

And Municode is the one that initiates that.

Yeah, they do the initial review and then we have, it gets reviewed by them. We review it and get all of their flags as well before anything gets finalized.

Nice.

Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Community development, Barbara.

I have nothing additional.

Bar department. Chief, you want to come back up again? Yeah. All right.

I included in the packet a brief update that we received news that the fire trucks were going to be a little delayed. I had some more exact dates come in this evening that I was going to share with you. Chassis production is scheduled to start now August 11th. be completed September 10th, body September 3rd. Final inspection is scheduled for October 6th. From there, they expect it in Carroll, Iowa for the upfit piece about the middle of October. So looking probably mid-November before both of them are actually here in Warrensburg. So work out in our favor a little bit because it'll exceed that 220-day contract period. So we'll earn around a few thousand back uh, credit on, you know, that large of a purchase. So I'm sure we can, uh, spend that in the upfit before it gets here too. So our own mug flasher.

are those engines ready to go into service as soon as we receive or is there still other things you have to do before they're in service?

There'll be a brief period where, um, we install equipment and get it mounted exactly how it needs to be. And then the training process that will go just driving it, learning how to pump it, getting all those nuances worked out before they go right into service. So, uh, given that time of the year, uh, maybe a month, uh,

So we'll kind of see how it goes. So aim for after the New Year's, what you're saying, for in-service?

It'll be closer, yeah, to that point. We'll plan out a push-in ceremony for them when we get them close.

But even with the delay, we're well ahead of kind of the prior process by... A couple months, four years.

Thank you.

Thanks, Chief. Parks Department. Tony? I have to tell you, the projector worked perfect for Rotary.

Yay!

Thanks.

Mayor, City Council, everybody, thank you for having us. Chris had a personal matter he could not attend. He wanted to know what... Sorry. Busy weekend with Memorial Day. I don't know if you guys heard about it. We were closed Saturday for the cold weather and we have a leak in our kiddie pool right between the wall and the influent valve where it controls the intake of the going through the filtration system. We found a three inch crack. So right before the wall and it's before the lint in the skimmer basket. So we're waiting on a company to come out hopefully tomorrow or Thursday to to fix it we don't know exactly the scope of how big big the repair is going to be um so for uh saturday and sunday we were i'm sorry sunday we are allowing people to go to the community center and use the pool for the the younger kids but the other attractions so the diving well the slide and the lap pool were both open so uh an update on that uh today was the first day of day camp so that was really good and then we're uh returning with our school lunch program so Not just our day camp kids, but anybody in the community that wants breakfast or lunch. We have a grant with the state of Missouri Senior and Human Services to provide free lunches for the students in Johnson County. So if anybody has any questions about anything that's going on, I can answer those.

If I remember correctly, the indoor pool has backup pumps installed. which happens after the whole renovation and everything, but we don't have backup pumps for the outdoor pool. Is that correct?

We have, they're all on their own system. So like we had, we had a couple, we had several weeks during the off season in the winter that we propane tested, but we tested only one system because they're all their own system. And it'd be like astronomical, the pressure test, all of them. So like when we started getting the water put in and start running them, this one didn't have any pressure. So we couldn't maintain the, the lines in it and stuff. But so if you have any specific questions, like the whole diagram, it's kind of interesting going into the pump room and all that stuff, but just trying to memorize all that myself, Gabe or one of the Gabe or Kayla would be the best to answer that. But I mean, we do have some redundant systems for just like cleaning and stuff like that. But as far as actual backups for every single system that I don't know, but yeah.

I'd love to look at those diagrams. Yeah, yeah.

No, they're pretty intricate and stuff. Just all the switches and the valves and all that stuff to turn off and drain and enter chemicals.

So are you expecting just repair of this pump then or is that a replacement?

We don't, we're, they're going to try to patch it, but hopefully they're not having to like dig into the concrete because then the price like skyrockets or if they have to do anything with the wall or they have to completely cut out a piece and replace it. So.

But correct me if I'm wrong, it's more of a plumbing leak.

Yeah, it's a plumbing leak. We're hoping it's not a major one that they have to dig up the ground, but they can actually see it. It's close to the wall, but they were hoping we can still repair it. Thank you. All right. Thanks, guys. Thanks, Tony. Chief.

Excuse me, Mayor, Council.

Starting to have some vehicles show up down at Enterprise. They're getting ready to start delivering some of the command vehicles. I've read you on some of this. We went back and forth on email with Enterprise and Enroute in regard to the upfitting this last week. Got them nailed down on some more clarification on when things are actually gonna happen. But we should start seeing a lot of that start occurring here next month, hopefully. Start seeing some of the newer vehicles. Um, our tasers, uh, with Axon, we have our officers trained up on training the officers. Um, and we started rolling out that training this last week. So some of them are starting to hit the streets, uh, new equipment. That's exciting for them. I know they'll be able to rely on that piece of equipment compared to our old ones. And then the rifles all have come in. We're finishing putting lights on them. We've scheduled up some qualification and training with them. So we're getting that scheduled. Unfortunately, it's going to be June, July time when we're doing that training. It's going to be kind of hot. So they were one eight hours and we've given them four hours for that training. So that's kind of where we're at. I'm starting to see the new equipment come in and implemented. So.

So as a clarification, and Chief can correct me if I'm wrong, but the order of vehicles is really a function of what Enterprise can get and how long it takes to upfit them. It's not command staff first and line staff later. Command staff vehicles don't take as much upfitting.

No, that's correct. And they're the first vehicles that came in. Those and Traverse's from the detective side, they hit the ground running down at the en route first. through Enterprise, and they have some Durangos that are right behind them that have been delivered for the patrol as well. If it was my preference, we would hit the patrol level and plow through that as fast as we could. But that's the car that we're built, and we'll get through it. Any other questions?

What's the light on the rifle?

Flashlight.

A flashlight on the rifle? Yeah.

So, I can tell you a story. I was on the SWAT team for many years, and we bought our own AR-15s for entry, and in order to have a flashlight to enter into a home at nighttime to do search warrants or anything like that, I took electrical tape for years, and I electrical taped my flashlight to my rifle, so I had something besides just holding it, so... We've upgraded since then and are mounting flashlights to the rifles and to the pistols as well. So now it's actually part of your equipment.

How does that fit in your holster? It's a big holster.

And your new pistols will be able to hold the flashlight.

These are the new ones.

I don't think they do it that way on TV.

We're trying to do it both ways. They do it the other way, but this is definitely a nice upgrade. Other questions?

Thank you.

Blue Shield grant, I always forget the timeline, but it's in the summers when we share in dry time when they release how much money is going to be allocated per agency through the whole state because other departments uh we got put in we put in for it right away and got accepted right so other departments are other cities and counties are trickling in doing a short reporting and and they're still being accepted so it's june july time when we know the amount and we'll wrap our head around what we're going to be putting in for on it so

Do you have any of the electronic ticket writing equipment in use?

So we had one of the Durango's or a few of the Durango's that we are keeping. We had them taken down to Clinton and had some of the equipment taken out. We had to buy a new console to fit those printers. So those consoles were on back order. They were being implemented. I believe we might've got one back, but I haven't seen the ticker being wrote yet. And Adam, you haven't seen any electronic yet.

We're not yet moved to actual electronic editing. So it takes some time to get it all.

So the console to fit that, it's special order. It's a piece of metal. It's a square metal box that sits in the middle that fits all your radios plus that printer. So some of those were on back order.

So I'm going to say UCM started their process. Gosh, it's been a while ago and they just attempted to go online and still didn't fully go online yet. So, and they've, they've been working on it for a while. That's a lot less cars.

Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's, we don't just flip the switch. It's yeah. Okay. Taking, taking apart the vehicles and getting them re-upfitting and that's it. We could have done some of the older vehicles that we're keeping earlier. But it didn't really benefit. I couldn't take them offline when we have other vehicles that were trying to be commissioned and get down to the other upfitting companies. So we got to still operate day to day.

Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Thanks, Chief.

And whenever you say it's been a while, like six months, or it's been several years, have it worked? I would say it's a solid year that they've been working.

Yeah, I have much more confidence in our process overall, but it does take some time. I know... Nob Noster just went to e-ticketing and it was about an eight month flip. Now they, what they did not do is they did not also simultaneously start replacing fleet as well. So we've got a combination of fleet replacement plus equipment replacement all happening at the exact same time. And scale is significant in what you're obviously.

And- Celebration of when that first-

Hope it works.

So we are still doing curb and ADA, starting on college here this week. We'll move into sidewalk. The street department is actually doing some base repair on the roads that are going to be fill and overlaid. They're at Hillman. They were at Hillman today. Hopefully they got a good portion of that done. At the plants for the plant expansion, The SBR number four at East Plant did pass. So it's not looking good. They are doing the reed bed. They put liner in a couple of beds and then they'll start adding the sand rocks. Eventually the plants will go in there. So that's going well. The solar project, it is on hold until Evergy gives us the go ahead. And that is probably going to be mid-June. Before that, Evergy says, yes, go ahead. Mill and overlay is coming in the second week of June. So you'll start to see that. Missouri American Water has started their line replacement again on Mitchell. We're hoping that they do a better job with their traffic control. Today was so-so. We're in communication with them. So that's going on. The camera truck or van has been taken and it's getting fitted. we'll be very happy to see that come back. And so we can start using it a lot. Lots of other minor projects, if there's any when you're- Any resolution on South Main Street? Oh, South Main Street, I've went out to engineers to get some help because as manager suggested, we will probably look into not only repairing the culvert underneath it, but preparing for that widening of that street at a future date. So it'd be wise for us to spend the money now to get it looked at by engineers, get the plan together. And so it's going to be shut down for a while.

On the mill and overlay, have we usually published the streets?

That was provided whenever we did the change order, but I can re-provide that.

You already did that?

Yeah. You already gave it to us? I gave it to you back in January or HAB-Jacques Juilland, December when it was the chain, but I can we provide that you gave it to it.

I'll look for it.

HAB-Jacques Juilland, And we'll, we'll definitely want to communicate, you know, locally or or identify the areas as a friend. So we'll get them a word out in advance.

HAB-Jacques Juilland, Yes, we will be posting social media post and make sure that the community knows where we're at million and then coming back and overlay HAB-Charlotte Pitts, Um, how's the stormwater emerging the ec grant yes so uh joe was in communication with the state last week uh they responded back and forth they got some information and then we haven't heard from the state yet they were talking that it would have to go out for public um comment thank you communication comment and uh It'll be on there for a few days. And then once that closes, but we haven't heard when it's going to open yet. So hopefully the beginning of this next month, next week, it'll go out on public comment. Okay. We're hoping.

Yeah, hopefully.

Thank you.

It's good to see Enrico the other day. And the parks department, fantastic. The bridge is fantastic. The building was a very nice event.

Yeah, it was. It was well attended. Thank you guys for being here. That's a no. We're adjourned.