City of Columbia, Missouri
Meeting Minutes
City Council
City Hall
Monday, September 29, 2025
4:00 PM
Special
Conference Room 1C
701 E. Broadway
Columbia, MO
I. CALL TO ORDER
The City Council met on September 29, 2025 at approximately 4:00 p.m. in Conference
Room 1C of City Hall, 701 E. Broadway, Columbia, Missouri.
Council Member Betsy Peters, Mayor Barbara Buffaloe, Council Member Valerie Carroll,
Council Member Vera Elwood, Council Member Jacque Sample, Council Member Nick
Foster, and Council Member Don Waterman were present.
This item is open to the public: Motion for the City Council to go into
closed session in Conference Room 1C to discuss:
- Hiring, firing, disciplining or promoting of particular employees by a
public governmental body when personal information about the employee
is discussed or recorded pursuant to Section 610.021(3) RSMo.
- Individually identifiable personnel records, performance ratings or
records pertaining to employees or applicants for employment pursuant to
Section 610.021(13) RSMo.
At approximately 4:00 p.m., Mayor Buffaloe made a motion for the City Council of the
City of Columbia, Missouri, to immediately go into a closed meeting in Conference Room
1A/1B of City Hall to discuss the hiring, firing, disciplining or promoting of particular
employees by a public governmental body when personal information about the employee
is discussed or recorded pursuant to Section 610.021(3)of the Revised Statutes of
Missouri and individually identifiable personnel records, performance ratings or records
pertaining to employees or applicants for employment pursuant to Section 610.021(13) of
the Revised Statutes of Missouri. The motion was seconded by Council Member
Waterman.
The vote was recorded as follows: VOTING YES: PETERS, BUFFALOE, CARROLL,
ELWOOD, SAMPLE, FOSTER, WATERMAN. VOTING NO: NO ONE.
This item is closed to the public: Closed Meeting in Conference Room
1C
At approximately 4:01 p.m., the City Council went into closed session in Conference
Room 1A/1B pursuant to RSMo Sections 610.021(3) and (13).
The closed meeting minutes have further details regarding the closed meeting.
II. ADJOURNMENT
The closed meeting adjourned at approximately 6:09 p.m.