City of Columbia, Missouri

Meeting Minutes

City Council

Council Chamber

Columbia City Hall

701 E. Broadway

Monday, December 6, 2021

7:00 PM

Regular

I. INTRODUCTORY ITEMS

The City Council of the City of Columbia, Missouri met for a regular

meeting at approximately 7:00 p.m. on Monday, December 6, 2021, in the

Council Chamber of the City of Columbia, Missouri. The Pledge of

Allegiance was recited, and the roll was taken with the following results:

Council Member MATT PITZER, Council Member BETSY PETERS, Mayor

BRIAN TREECE, Council Member PAT FOWLER, Council Member

ANDREA WANER, Council Member KARL SKALA, and Council Member

IAN THOMAS were present. City Manager John Glascock, City Counselor

Nancy Thompson, City Clerk Sheela Amin, and various Department Heads

and Staff Members were also present.

The July 19, 2021 regular council meeting minutes were approved

unanimously on a motion by Mayor Treece and a second by Council

Member Skala.

Mayor Treece explained the minutes were not yet complete for the August

16, September 7, September 20, October 4, October 18, November 1, and

the November 15 regular meetings.

The agenda, including the consent agenda, was approved unanimously by

voice vote on a motion by Mayor Treece and a second by Council Member

Skala.

II. SPECIAL ITEMS

SI19-21

Columbia Bicentennial Presentation.

David Lineberry spoke.

LINEBERRY: Well, thank you, Mr. Mayor, and Members of the Council. It's great to

see you this evening. This is the final month of our bicentennial year, and I'd

wanted to take just

a few moments, brief moments, to try to put a little bow on this

work. First of all, I'd like to express my thanks and the thanks of the entire Task

Force to the Mayor and all the Members of the Council for the opportunity to serve

on the Task Force and to help the City observe this bicentennial. And I'd like to

thank my colleagues on the Task Force for the opportunity they gave me to serve

leadership role in that function. joined the Task Force late as member of the

history sub-workgroup and great deal of work had already been done. You had

already in fact reviewed and given tentative approval to

Councilperson Fowler had been key to the early work of the committee, and my

predecessor as leader, Brent Gardner, had also done great deal of work. And

park master plan.

Brent, though he could not maintain his position as chairman, went on to the leader

of the initiative behind the You Don’t Say project with KBIA, which has brought

regional and national recognition to the City and its progressive approach to

discussing minority experiences in Columbia's history. And

acknowledge the excellent work of Deb Shields, an early co-chair of the Task Force,

who then went on to single handedly guide the CID’s project on Gateway Plaza,

and that is wonderful asset to the community. In addition to the Task Force, we

worked hand in hand and in hand in glove with just really few of your excellent

City employees and want you to know that and to know specifically whom. We

also want to

were capably assisted in everything by Amy Schneider and Megan McConachie of

Convention and Visitors Bureau, by Mike Griggs and Mike Snider of the Parks and

Recreation Department, by the City Manager, and by Sarah Dresser and the Office

of Cultural Affairs. We touched many, many offices and they helped us, but those

were the ones who really helped us make things possible all year long. We had

three organizing principles, Inclusion, Celebration, and Legacy, and we executed in

all three of those areas. And

put on, but more importantly,

backgrounds and all abilities in all kinds of activities throughout the year. And

these things not to point out what the Task Force has done. say these things to

point out what you have made possible, and just really appreciate that and I'm

thankful for that on behalf of the Task Force and on behalf of the City. We only have

one bicentennial. And it was burdened by external issues, and you really

saw many of you enjoying some of the events that we

saw many, many Columbians of all ages, and all

say

facilitated the Task Force efforts to do everything they could within those

strictures. We are not quite finished. The park project continues. The fundraising

for the park project continues.

the excellent service the City and Task Force have received from Mr. Chris Kelly,

who joined our effort after the Task Force was full and brought his experience as

career foundations and development officer at MU and with family foundation in

I would be remiss without reminding you of our --

the region to the fundraising task. When others would provide only bids for

services, Chris came and provided his expertise for free, and he has garnered

multiple six figures worth of in-kind and cash pledges and donations toward the

park project. So that has been an extraordinary, extraordinary gift.

continues. You can see the progress in the park, but you can't see

That effort

bridge there

yet, and so that continues, and those opportunities to give continue. We also

continue until the end of the year to pursue of the 200 Trees Project and the portal

is open through Parks and Rec if you or

group of your friends would like to

public location maintained

sponsor tree or group of trees. Those are placed on a

by city staff, and though I’d like to say that a lot of the legacies we created will last a

long time, I’m not real confident there are going to be too many that last as long as

those trees will last, so

I urge people to participate in that. And finally to go to our

website, again, COMO200.com, where we still maintain the Tell Us Your Story portal

to collect the narratives of the histories of individuals, families, organizations,

churches in the town, and the town's impact on them, and

there so far from city council people. And will tell you, as

looking back at the city's 50th anniversary or 100th anniversary or 150th anniversary

-- if had handful of accounts from council persons of that day talking about

themselves -- why were they serving, what did they believe in, what had they seen

the community become or change in their time -- that would have been huge,

see

dearth of accounts

historian, if were

huge asset to myself and to other citizens studying the history of the City so

I urge

you to go do there and do that. In appreciation for all these things that you’ve done

and more for your service, we have made arrangements for some item to

acknowledge that, and we've gotten these from

a regional artist, who was at one

time an employee the CVB. Her name is Ashley Fishback and she is an artist in

stained glass. And, so we have one of these for the Mayor and also one for every

one of you looks like exactly like this. That is the emblem of Bicentennial in stained

glass for each of you to enjoy. Information about the artist is in the box. So with

that, I’ll just draw my comments to

that I would -- I’d be glad to entertain from Members of the Council. All right then.

TREECE: Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the City Council and grateful community,

want to thank you and convey my appreciation to the great work of the

Bicentennial Commission. You know, as former chair of the Historic Preservation

a close. Are there any questions or comments

I just

Commission -- you have another former chair of the Historic Preservation

Commission -- it was quite an honor to preside over the City’s Bicentennial. You

helped it come alive and tell that story.

inclusion and sharing all of our history, and making sure we had events that were

accessible to people that really told story. could not be more proud of the You

Don't Say series on KBIA, clever double entendre that reflects both things that

people don't know about Columbia, you don't say, and things that we rarely talk

about, you just don’t say. And, think the stories that were told through that series

from trusted messengers, think, is legacy of the bicentennial that think are

going to be great treasure trove, if you will, in the future. I'm grateful for your

time. tell all of our board and commission members, but, especially, think it's

am grateful for your commitment to

true of yours, I want you to look back at your year on this and be proud of what you

accomplished, and you should be very proud of everything you accomplished.

LINEBERRY: Thank you very much.

SKALA:

that we have all experienced in terms of COVID and so on.

celebration. The amount of work that you folks have done and the gratitude that

you’ve given to some of the folks by name is well worth it. will look up your

website and maybe take up your offer of to contribute. This is something that -- it

only comes around once every once in while in long time. So, very much

just want to express my appreciation, certainly in view of the difficulties

It was worthy

appreciate all of your work and the work of the group that you were with. Thank

you very much.

LINEBERRY: Thank you sir.

SI20-21

Update on the Recommendations of the Mayor's Task Force on

Community Violence.

Public Health and Human Services Director Stephanie Browning provided

a staff report, and the Council asked questions to which the staff

responded.

BROWNING: Good evening, brief update.

I thought it was kind of important to have

some discussion, as we’re thinking about the ARPA funding and how to move ahead

and using that funds for community violence, to just kind of go back and revisit

where we’ve been -- some of the challenges, successes that we’ve had, so we can

think ahead.

So, just for background, the Task Force was established in August of

2013. They -- you can see their charge was to evaluate available resources and

recommend ways that the City government and citizens themselves can cooperate

to decrease violent crime. We had two council members that co-chaired it, and the

list of Task Force members is there for you. The Task Force was established in

response to concerns about, not only violence, but particularly in our youth, and so

youth was

recommendations back to Council by November 15, 2014. Their methods included

researching evidence-based approaches to reducing violence. They had

focus of that initial group. So, they needed to provide the

presentations and public testimony at their meetings. They held three public

forms, capturing concerns of both parents, youth, and community, and as provided

in the council resolution, the Task Force disbanded when the report was

completed.

So, in thinking about their work, I’ve had people ask me -- is it still

it’s seven years old. And so, one of the things in the report

relevant? Is it timely

was they pointed out local conditions -- they had 12 consensus points -- so drugs

and alcohol, major contributing factors, negative perception of the police by the

community, lack of economic opportunity that contributes to lack of hope,

for adult basic education, they noted that almost all perpetrators had no job skills,

there was lack of early childhood education, they recognized that gangs existed in

Columbia, but were not sure how to know how much of factor they were, they

need

noted that most perpetrators are men in their twenties, they noted that most

homicides are conflicts between people who know each other, they talked about

antisocial attitudes around respect and justice as being

major factor, they also

talked about instilling in our children pro-societal attitudes and values as well as an

ability to obtain basic educational skills, and they also noted as their twelfth point

that

history. So

points still accurate today?

majority of violent offenders have

think that's one of the things as we think ahead -- are those consensus

think they probably still hold true seven years later.

previous and often extensive criminal

They found four pillars that they felt could reduce violence. The first pillar is

prevention. The second was intervention. The third was enforcement. And the

fourth was reentry. And in their report, they touched on all of those.

So for

prevention, the big thing that they talked about was that we have lot of good

programs around parenting skills, early childhood education, job training, but they

felt that there needed to be greater coordination and awareness of the programs,

and that thread continued throughout the report. Some of their recommendations

included things like approaching violence as

public health issue. They wanted to

see research on violence interruption programs, like Cure Violence, more support

for parenting in early childhood programs, more focus on job training. They wanted

to see more community connections and tools to help people connect to services.

They wanted to establish -- they wanted to make sure that our processes for social

services funding were fair and equitable. They focused on Columbia Public Schools

and youth programming. They wanted to see support and an increase in

neighborhood watch programs, and they wanted to have an annual forum each year

that talked about crime, social issues, and discrimination in the community. So in

looking at prevention -- okay, so before

I go into this, every year -- so in 2014, the

report came out, and 2015, 17, 19 and 20, City staff, our department included, was

asked what had we done to help contribute to this issue in the community. And last

year Gina Pate, our City fellow, produced

with all of you that was probably 130-some pages long. So, I'm not going to go back

and hit every single thing that's happened since 2014, but want to hit few

document that

believe was shared

highlights. So, in prevention, we have our CARES program. We still continue to have

that. They have 100 trainees annually. That is down. We used to have 200. We also

used to have the CARE Art Gallery, and budget cuts reduced that funding, but we

still have 100 trainees each year. We have our Healthy Families America Home

Visitation Program that's new since we got that funding -- or since the community

violence report -- and that's

the community through home visiting. It's an evidence-based program. We have

our -- we just had grant for Brighter Beginnings, also home visiting collaboration.

a program that reaches families, high risk families, in

It is really working across all the local providers. So it's that coordination piece --

working with all the local providers that are doing these services to make sure

people get in at the right time at the right place to the right agency. We've seen an

increase in housing vouchers for chronically homeless. Municipal Court has made

some changes. We have

new upward -- Boone County has an Upward Mobility

Grant that is designed to reduce racial and ethnic inequities and support upward

mobility from poverty. We’re one of eight counties in the country to have this

grant, and they should have an action plan by June. Also in prevention -- so positive

youth engagement -- Columbia Police has the Explorers and they’ve created like

career path development, Boone County Community Services hosted Youth

Violence Prevention Summit, and the Children's Services Commission has put out

$750,000 RFP for youth violence prevention work, which we should hear something

soon. We also have Community Scholars in the community. We host interns in the

summer, Parks and Rec sports, you know, sports and recreational opportunities. In

terms of community engagement, we’ve had

Institute, and recently, just this last month, Source Summit was held. Dr. Lester

Woods -- haven't had chance to talk to him, but it was really to focus on social

and economic justice issues, and know that there's lot of interest in this topic

a lot of work with the Inclusive Impact

with that group -- so more to learn. In intervention, they talked about need for

youth facilities and to train people to provide safe places, trusted people to turn to,

and engaging community building programs that appeal to youth. Some of the

things that they called out -- create

youth community cultural center, family

access center, implement violence interrupters program, increase the number of

available mentors in the community, increase CPS’s work to identify and help at

risk students, they wanted school resources officers in the middle and high schools,

and they wanted CPS to focus on minimizing the impacts that happen when kids

have to transfer from school to school because of, usually, unstable housing and

other crises. So here's some of the progress since that time -- with the Children's

Services Fund, we now have the Family Access Center for Excellence. Boys and Girls

Club did

have new City sports facilities. Some of that has freed up some of the programming

at the Armory because we now have the Fieldhouse. The Police Chief, believe,

will be bringing to you new school resource officer agreement sometime this

month, think. And we now have mental health screening for all children in Boone

County schools two times year, and that's important. We have our African

a huge expansion with the teen center, a recording studio, and a gym. We

American Heritage Trail, we have success grants for higher education and

community caretaking, and again Boone County Children’s Services funding not

only covered the Family Access Center and the mental health screening, but it has

brought in millions of dollars for expanded programming for infants, early

childhood in schools, youth family support and treatment. Enforcement -- so in this

one, in this section or this pillar -- the Task Force talked

a lot about trust between

the community and local law enforcement. They thought that at the time, CPD was

headed in the right direction, but they thought that more work was needed to be

done. They wanted to not only see more community policing, but greater cultural

competency training. So in the enforcement area, you can see the City Manager,

the Chief of Police, and the NAACP consult on policing issues.

Committee has been formed to address disparities. There's

independent disparity analysis by an MU research team. We now have

Vehicle Stops

been some

CPD staff

member,

believe it's an officer, certified in inclusion and diversity. CPD officers

trip with

have been going through cultural competency training. They made

community members to the National Civil Rights Museum. Of course, they -- we've

had lots of demonstrations and so they feel like they've been focusing on

protecting people's rights to assemble. And we now have processes where there's

public participation and policy development. In the area of community policing,

we've

had

leadership

and

organizational

change.

Their

performance

and

promotions are now based on community policing goals. Officers are assigned and

accountable to beats as the resources allow. They're more engaging with residents,

businesses, and groups. We have the Boone County Stepping Up Initiative that's

new since this time, and that is

nationwide initiative that Boone County

governments have very involved in along with others from the City to reduce the

number of individuals with behavioral health challenges in the justice system. In

terms of CPD staffing, their officers -- they were at 163 in 2014. It's grown to 187 for

this year, but they also now staff airport security, park rangers, and metered

parking. They do use community policing as

factor for their promotions and

succession planning. The CPD Foundation -- one of the things in the report was that

there should be more community appreciation of our officers, so CPD Foundation

sponsors some annual employee awards. And it is

profession that's experiencing

think the

recruitment and retention challenges. Reentry -- so one of the things

group is worried about is people returning to Columbia, offenders returning to

Columbia, with violent history or at high risk for future problems, and so they

wanted

higher level of accountability for our highest risk offenders. So, they

City level reentry supervision

wanted to identify high risk offenders, create

program, require high risk offenders to attend and complete the Pathway to

Change program, and to engage City staff in the Boone County Offender Transition

Network. So, in the progress here, the City does partner -- we now have the ROC,

which we didn't have -- the Reentry Opportunity Center. We partnered with the

ROC. It's

a one-stop shop for people that have been recently released from jail or

prison and those under supervision in the criminal justice system. The group, the

Boone County Offender Transition Network, has transitioned -- is now called the

Central Missouri Recovery Coalition, and the City does partner with that. It's

coordinated network of community based services and supports. The one thing that

was called for in the report was City level reentry supervision program, and that's

something that the City does not have express authority to do. Finally, in the report

-- think this is really important -- since the Task Force recognizes that violence

reduction is not one-time fix, and that the pursuit of the recommendations given

in this report will require accountability from government leaders, educational

institutions, local nonprofits, local businesses, and citizens. And so think -- my

point -- when read that, thought, it isn't just City problem. It's community

problem, and we have to have solutions together. So when was doing -- putting

this together -- my working title was Stephanie's thoughts -- my thoughts entirely.

One of the things think that we really missed the ball on in 2014, after the report

came out -- so we did not dedicate person to coordinate across City departments

with County government, with the educational institutions and the nonprofits. We

just did not put the resources there, and so, think that that's something moving

ahead, that really needs to be considered. It has to have somebody that can really

focus on that work. believe it has to have strong equity focus in anything we do

with meaningful community engagement, continued emphasis on employment,

affordable housing, and basic needs. We have to focus on reducing poverty. We

have lot of new grassroots organizations that are coming up, and it's hard to be

new organization coming up when you're in

community that has so many

powerful nonprofits. We need capacity building for them. We need to continue to

focus on safe spaces, places, and activities for youth. Of course, policy

development is always important to address systems issues and that's an area

where you have great impact, and again, to continue to local resource coordination.

So, this is where

tonight, but sure would like to have some continuing conversations. When this

Task Force was put together, the focus was youth. Many of our recent shootings,

they're not youth. They're adults. So is our scope community violence in big way?

Do we want to consider things around it? Okay, if we talk about it as public health

issue, what that means is that we look closely at data, we say okay, what's

happening -- you diagnose problem. It's not just shootings. You look at where, you

I sort of need some input from you and I don't necessarily expect it

look at all that data, and then you figure out what are the strategies that are going

to make the greatest impact. So, do we want to include things like domestic

violence, child abuse, sexual violence, in addition, to gun violence. You have to

consider the trauma that results from violence. And it’s that trauma and those

adverse effects that affect people's physical and behavioral health, often for life,

and especially when it's trauma in children. And so, one,

what are we looking at when we do this -- what kind of violence? Community

violence prevention is an allowable expense for ARPA. need to know, are there

I think we need to define,

specific program areas you would like to work on? There were four pillars. Do you

want to work on prevention and intervention because that's really broad in that

report? We know that there's many grassroots organizations committed to doing

important work, and it's essential that we recognize that work that they want to do

and that we find meaningful ways to partner, and so one of my questions -- how do

we use this fund, this funding, to increase their capacity and meet the really strict

requirements that come with ARPA? The accountability requirements --

read the

32 page Treasury note today. It's strict. And finally, how do we leverage our

available resources to have transformational change, and how do we sustain

because this ARPA funding isn't forever? So those are thoughts and -- that

merit future discussion. It doesn't necessarily have to be tonight, but it's something

really welcome because don't know how we move forward without having some

I think

basic questions answered. So happy to take any questions.

TREECE: So, I’ll -- thank you for the recap, and

think it's very informative. I was one

of the people that were asking, well, is that 2014 report still relevant, and it's good

to see some of the priorities that were identified and the steps that we've taken

and the steps --

Stephanie's thoughts. I'll add three more to that, if you will. And with respect to

youth crime, you know, that was really part of the function on this. appreciate the

comment that you made about school resource officers. understand the Chief’s

going to bring us back proposed contract for four in the high schools, but, you

know, from parents and teachers and school resource officers talk to -- mean, it's

middle school where you choose, you know, whether you go the good way or the

bad way. And would suggest that, or would recommend that Council consider

think you're on the right track with your last two pages of

jumpstarting that contract with the School District -- that we add maybe four more

school resource officers at the middle school, maybe even floating into the

elementary school one day

week, to help identify kids that have

parent picking

I mean, all of

them up at the end of the day or do they have

winter coat or not.

those indicators of that -- this child, we just need to keep an eye on him or her as

they grow into that system. And so would suggest that. The other thing that you

didn't mention there and was direct outcome of this was Ban the Box. This

Council, not this -- the previous Council adopted

employers, you know, may have otherwise automatically disqualified

involved individual from even getting past that next stage of the interview process.

There's program in St. Louis operated under St. Louis University called the

Ban the Box that, you know, that

justice

Workforce Academy. They now have over 150 employers that participate in this

program for justice involved individuals. They may be on probation and parole,

they may have just had an arrest, they may have, you know, had

a municipal --

whatever it may be. That helps job train those individuals, connect them with

employers, and, frankly, in today's labor market with today's labor shortages, we

should have

lot of participants from the employer side on this. But we just don't

job. We continue with some type of job coaches

stop when we connect them with

that work not just with that justice involved individual, but with the employer

about how to motivate that person, what to say, and what not to say, how do we

make sure that person has the means to get to the job on time, what do you wear to

that job, how do you act, you know, what type of shift or work place is best for you

with your skills. And then

a third issue that I think that you briefly hit on there that

we had better job of is that Offender Reentry Program. The common denominator

over the last three shootings have all been the individuals -- and you can Google

this -- have had some type of prior arrest, if not incarceration. And, what, in

addition to that job Workforce Academy, what peer counseling do we need from

people, you know, at ROC, at other offender reentry programs, that we can, you

know, keep them out of falling back into that situation or that environment or that

home life or that gang life or whatever it may be that causing them to recidivate?

So those are the three things that I would add.

SKALA:

Just a few comments. You asked for some suggestions, perhaps. I look back

on some of this and think about the Violence Task Force, which was ably

represented on this body by Laura Nauser and Mike Trapp. Man, that occurred in

2014. It was also August of 2014 that Ferguson happened, and subsequent to that

lots of -- there was

report, rightly highlighted, prevention, intervention, enforcement, and reentry,

and think recently, very recently, forwarded to you and the City Council some of

the conversation that was occurring at the National League of Cities at the last

summit that occurred very recently in November. There was report that was

a lots of introspection and looking back and so on. That that 2014

generated by -- with the cooperation of the Race, Equity and Leadership Council

and lots of other groups, primarily, the federal advocacy groups that NLC

represents. It was called reimagining public safety,

reinforced lot of the pillars that we had in this community on

you will, for some of our other -- the issues that were going on. And to address the

Mayor's point about is this outdated or not, or should we update it. think that

document, which is really pretty extensive -- it's about 40 page document --

toolkit for cities and towns. It

parochial level, if

reinforces some of those approaches, but modernizes it to some degree and

addresses some of the issues that we are dealing with or have dealt with in this

community, most recently, particularly in the downtown area, which is which is

getting all the notoriety. That report emphasizes engagement, restructuring, and

balance. That’s the whole reimagining thing, not the defund the police, but to

reimagine the whole idea. So,

guess what I'm -- the question

I wanted to ask you

was, you see this -- one of the failures that we have and

agree with you absolutely

-- one of the failures was there was no single leader to coordinate some of this

between the County and the City and the School District and so on. Do you see any

or does the office -- in the last budget we appointed

diversity, equity, and

inclusion officer and an assistant, two person office -- do you see some of that

responsibility falling to that group or is this totally separate -- that it requires

another -- a different kind of leadership, not just specifically that particular office?

BROWNING:

I mean, obviously, not knowing who's going to be in it and what their

expectations are -- I think it's a really good place for it.

SKALA: Yeah.

BROWNING: Yeah. I mean, because this - these issues are around equity.

SKALA: Of course, and this will be the responsibility of the new city manager, when

that city manager is appointed, and

think that's going to be

momentous

appointment. So was just wondering if you see that that's

reasonable home for

some of that activity.

THOMAS: Yeah, thanks Stephanie for doing

deep dive on what the Task Force

certainly agree, it was

mean, maybe we didn’t -- just didn't have resources to put somebody in

charge of implementing those recommendations and working across jurisdictions

to do that. But now we have lot of funds that we could do that with. There's the

recommended and what has happened since then. And

mistake,

equity officer that's in the budget that will be appointed sometime early next year

as well as other ARPA funds that could be used for several years for that position,

What

the Violence Interrupters Program --

think that given that this is such

recall from the presentation of the report and the kind of early discussion --

lot of people had lot of hope for that.

a critical issue that would be well warranted.

People really from the community being, you know, on the ground, in community,

in contact with -- particularly in very underserved neighborhoods where violent

situations sometimes erupt and being able to interrupt those situations. And we

did do

community leaders, very engaged.

that program. heard anecdotally it was going -- it was quite successful, but do you

have any more information about that?

BROWNING: don’t. mean, we worked -- our department worked with Glenn and

Judy, when they would have some -- identify someone with resource needs -- we

would try and connect them with some social service organizations. And don't

know how successful it was because lot of the times when we'd get those

small pilot program in about 2015-16 -- hired two part time staff who were

never saw any kind of report or summary of

referrals, when we would call people back, people would say that they were not --

that they didn't need them. So, you know, that was again -- they worked pretty

closely with the city manager so, I don't, I don't know what the results of that were.

THOMAS: Based on sort of more recent research and reports and so on, is that

program that -- a type of program that you feel has promise, still?

BROWNING:

think that there's some mixed results out there. Some things cite that there is

evidence that it is good, and then there's some other things that think are going to

need some more study about, like some mixed results based on just on the study

I think -- Geoff's here, he can also speak to this, but I think that it has --

methodology.

St. Louis has

program now -- they've got

Cure Violence Program.

met last week with

It is within an organization called Employment Connection.

the Moms Demand Action Group, and they're going to be very helpful in identifying

programs, similar kinds of programs, whether it's Cure Violence or others, that are

being implemented in communities more our size, because when you think of St.

Louis City, and its size, and then you think of Columbia -- you know, like, is it

scalable? It needs some research, but in the Employment Connections program --

it's

a huge, huge nonprofit -- and the Cure Violence is one piece. They do all these

wraparound different services and mental health and employment training, and --

so it’s -- that is one piece of a very large organization, but Geoff may have --

JONES: [Police Chief Geoff Jones] So, I'm talking about programs that do that

interruption and we've had these conversations for months, if not years, at this

point. It has been very difficult to find anything that has shown consistent success.

lot of the more recent literature that has come out on those programs shows

mixed results at best. What will say is that most of those studies occur in larger

metropolitan areas, and of course, Columbia is much smaller. So, think there's an

opportunity to work and find the thing what works for us. would caution you in

finding something that is canned and thinking that we can just implement

program based on someone else's success or failure because it could go either way.

think there needs to be more research. To that end, did reach out this past week

to our benchmark cities asking what types of programs are out there and if any of

them are participating. don't have responses back, but can forward those when

get them. So, I'd be -- I'm curious as to what we might find with other jurisdictions

that are similar in size and makeup.

THOMAS: Alright, thanks, Geoff.

PETERS:

might want to consider whether we want, like

months report, something that keeps this at the top of our of our thinking versus,

you know, sort of falling back. liked Karl's question about coordinator for this

program, and think we probably need one, and would not expect it to be one of

or two equity officers. would really think we’d need someone who -- that’s their

would say, again, thank you Stephanie for the information, and

I think we

monthly report or every two

focus, that's what they do. It's not part of their job. It's their job to see what we

need to do with the schools and are our school resource officers being as effective

as we expect them to be, and do we, you know -- where are we with our offenders

that are out of prison and getting them to jobs and getting them the support they

need so they don’t end up in problems and that kind of stuff. So, you know,

I think

the two programs that you recommended and our coordinator are the first three

things we should look at, but we also need to really keep looking at this and seeing

what else we need to do and getting reports on what we have done. So those are

my thoughts.

WANER:

So, I have a question for Stephanie. So, in a lot of the recap that you

provided, it seems like the County really understood the assignment. Like they

showed up and they were doing these things, and -- how do we be more like the

County? Is it the mental health tax, the children's stuff? Is it political fortitude? Like

what's the -- where’s the difference lie between what the County has been able to

accomplish?

BROWNING: Well, definitely, the Children's Services Tax has helped

it's brought an infusion of major resources. And it started -- it did not start till about

2015 or 2016, so -- and the Family Access Center opened. But, mean, also with lot

of justice work that the County has been receiving grant funding on -- lot of it is

lot because

Commissioner Thompson, you know, and that's an area of interest for her and --

that she feels very passionate about and so she has been able to get on the

National Association of Counties on some different committees and it's really

helped to attract some funding into Boone County.

FOWLER:

I have a couple of questions for Stephanie and perhaps the Chief. But, do

school resource officers have to be officers? Could we not put caring adults with

training into our schools who could be there as their liaison to do that work, to

identify children that might be in in danger of having

a neglect issue or they're in a

situation that needs to be remedied so they don't -- we don't start that ball rolling

with lifelong trauma.

BROWNING: That part I'd have to ask Geoff about. But one thing with the Children's

-- the mental health screening that's being done twice

year --

mean, that's

significant. Right? So that is -- so what we really need is to connect -- how do we

connect the screening results and identifying kids who are at risk, and then what?

And, you know, like

I said, this is coming up pretty quick, so, I mean, I need to do a

lot more discussion with Columbia Public Schools and all the other districts and

how they're -- what they're doing with that, and Geoff may have --

JONES:

with CPS. When

SRO in schools, we changed our MOU so that we were not being used as

tool. You'd have to see that MOU and can forward you copy of that. You really

have to define the role of the SRO and decide whether you want police officer

think it's really about defining roles. We've tried to do that with an MOU

first came, and we were having discussion when we did have

discipline

there, someone else that takes on the responsibility as you mentioned, or both. It

just -- it really depends on how the role is defined.

FOWLER: I’m -- this might be another question for Stephanie too --

you’re both going to go back and forth, but I'm sort of struck by this idea that

school that has, don't know, 1,200 kids can be appropriately resourced with

single individual. Now,

longer as many guidance counselors in

school. So, this -- I'm troubled by the idea that --

know that

know that there's guidance counselors but there's no

school as there was when was in high

mean, not only do we have

problem to address at the youth level, but we also have an adult problem with

community violence, which Stephanie identified. And when we're trying to solve,

or get to the root of problems by just putting

keep track of everything that's going on --

single person who couldn't possibly

mean, you probably hit the most

noticeable cases you can see and try and do something about. And my other

comment on that is -- when we're talking about grassroots organizations, there's

lot of people in this town and there's lot of people of color in this town that had

been working for free for years to try and improve the conditions in their

community. And the funding processes that the City currently offers denies them

funding because they have to have the resources up front to pay their staff and

then be reimbursed later. And so it's an extension of the credit problem that

communities of color are already experiencing. So what

you go through this process, and hope that you and

conversations about this, is that we find different model.

I want to stress to you as

can have subsequent

If we’re going to ask

members of the community, trusted members of the community, to help us in this

work -- that we pay them fairly, that we make sure we pay them ahead of time so

that they can do the work without having to put their own personal lives and their

family lives under stress, and that we take

a long look at how we currently fund

not-for-profit services that are trying to address gaps in our community, whether

it's between black people and brown people or regardless of who. The fact that we

are denying the very trusted people who could probably do this work effectively

and perhaps even more effectively because of the way we distribute funds.

BROWNING:

building. The City’s process for social service funding, the children's services

process, United Way -- they all use common application and form, and you know

absolutely agree. That's why

said we need to focus on capacity

that that is born out of, really, the public demand for accountability with taxpayer

funds, right? And so, these systems are set up whe

III. APPOINTMENTS TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS

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IV. SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENT

SPC69-21

Steve Callis - Environmental concerns.

Steve Callis spoke.

CALLIS: Good evening. I'm Steve Callis and

I live at 6304 West Normandy Lane. I'm

the State Coordinator for International Compost Awareness Week. There's been

great deal of discussion lately about the environment in general, and methane

emissions in particular. wanted to offer some updated information on those topics

tonight. Methane is greenhouse gas that is up to 80 times as damaging as carbon

dioxide when considered over 20 year time frame. Organic waste, primarily food

waste, generates methane as it decomposes in the landfill. The EPA has estimated

for number of years that 20 percent of the methane generated in landfills escapes

to the atmosphere. More recently, research conducted in California by NASA and

private firm utilizing advanced technology indicates that some landfills about two

to six times the EPA estimates. During the recent COP26 Conference, the Global

Alliance of Organic Recycling Associations issued

call to increase recycling of

organic waste back to the soil. Also, during that COP26, the United States signed on

to the global methane pledge, which aims to reduce the overall amount of

methane produced and released to the atmosphere. The Sierra Club and other

organizations have long recommended diverting organic waste from landfills to

prevent methane being produced in the first place. Doing that would fall in line

with global, national, and local priorities, such as the Climate Action and Adaptation

Plan. Locally, the 2019 report from the City's consultant, Burns and McDonnell,

reported that food waste makes up to -- makes up 17.8% of the total solid waste

stream. Half that food waste comes from commercial sources, and the other half

from residential sources. Ideally, each household would compost their own organic

waste at home. The City provides composting workshops to encourage this, but

annually over 15,000 tons of residential food waste still ends up in the landfill.

Columbia landfill allows food waste to be dropped off at the landfill composting

facility, but this isn't

convenient option for most. In 2019, Columbia passed an

ordinance allowing private contractors to be licensed to collect commercial food

waste to be composted. City Code still makes it illegal for anyone but the City to

collect residential food waste, but the City isn't able to offer residential curbside

food scrap collection due to ongoing staffing issues. The only remaining option is to

allow private contractors to be licensed to provide that service. No tax dollars

would be involved, but there would likely be

a fee to the customers. Now there's

been some discussion regarding the possibility that licensing private contractors to

provide this service would cost jobs within the solid waste utility, but with those

current staffing issues,

don't think that's likely to happen. Some have complained

that trucks collecting residential food waste would cause additional wear and tear

on residential streets. This type of service will be provided using smaller trucks,

smaller than garbage trucks, with less wear and tear on the streets. Still others have

suggested that these collections would require the infamous roll carts. Residential

food scrap collection would be accomplished by providing five gallon pails to the

individual customer with those being swapped out every week. Pick up an empty

pail and leave

empty pail.

clean -- I'm sorry -- pick up

full pail and leave behind

clean

There's been some concern

about the reduction in

methane

production, reducing the amount of electricity produced by burning landfill gas in

the generators. It would take several years for this to become noticeable because

there's already

time this does occur, the City should be able to make up for that shortfall, with

other less polluting forms of renewable energy. Columbia needs to take

great deal of organic waste decomposing in the landfill. By the

leadership role in reducing the global methane problem. Failure to do so will only

exacerbate an already intolerable situation. The time to act is now so strongly urge

the Council to direct the City Manager to develop an ordinance with input from

interested parties that will allow private contractors to be licensed to provide

residential curbside food scrap collection. Thank you for your time.

SPC70-21

Rose Metro - Following through with commitments made by Council on

11/15 to implement a community violence intervention program.

Rose Metro spoke.

METRO:

Action for Gun Sense in America,

reducing gun violence in all forms. On November 15, many people including Traci

Wilson-Kleekamp from Race Matters Friends, Rebecca Shaw from COMO for

Progress, and Kristin Bowen for Moms Demand Action urged the City to use ARP

funds to implement community based violence Intervention Program. Council

Rose Metro, 206 South Garth Ave., speaking on behalf of Moms Demand

nonpartisan grassroots organization dedicated to

expressed support and planned to gather stakeholder input, yet no timeline was

laid out and the leader designated. It doesn't seem to have progressed. There

absolutely should be community engagement on

seems unequipped to do so with current staffing. Moreover, as we heard, the

Mayor's Task Force on Community Violence already expressed support for

range of issues, but the City

sustained fully funded intervention program in 2014, which was not implemented.

Missouri has the highest rate of gun homicide among Black people in the entire

nation, and Columbia is part of that. It is past time to act. I'll offer some ideas on

how.

and other Moms leaders met with Public Health and Human Services staff

last week and I'll share ideas that emerged. First, there are multiple evidence

based programs with documented results, not only Cure Violence, but also

Advanced Peace, and those mixed results that Chief Jones referred to come in

when those programs are not fully funded and sustained. Nothing like them has

ever been implemented in Columbia. Councilperson Thomas noted that Glenn and

Judy did anti-violence outreach, and while acknowledging their important work,

this would be

comprehensive program with an entire team of outreach workers

and built in evaluation. Also, we have the money. Given that St. Louis spent $7

million on Cure Violence over three years and Kansas City underfunded its Aim for

Peace program at $500,000, it's clear that our investment should be in the millions

and last years. ARP funds could cover that substantial investment that would allow

us to reap long term benefits while

contribute to the false narrative that these programs don't work. It can be done in

city Columbia’s size. Nina Hampton will discuss Kalamazoo, Michigan, which is

smaller than Columbia. They just made million dollar investment with ARP funds

one time under investment would only

in gun violence prevention. These programs could be more successful in small cities

because there can be greater coverage. So, the data and supportive of Cure

Violence that Kristin shared previously is compelling, but to work as intended,

street outreach program needs to be supported by broader social safety net. Job

opportunities, access to mental health and substance abuse counseling. The City

grip toolkit that Councilperson Waner mentioned last meeting provides

complementary strategies tailored to city of our size, including tracking gun

violence, offering violence reduction fellowships, using multi-discipline homicide

and shooting incident reviews, hospital based intervention etc. In other words,

violence intervention program could be the linchpin in broader strategy of

treating gun violence as public health emergency. Instead of merely reacting to

gun violence, through policing, we should be proactively preventing it by providing

opportunities and diffusing conflicts. This could save money and reduce the burden

on police in the long term. So, what happens next, the City put’s out an RFP, an

organization such as Power House or Love Columbia or FACE or CMAC could make

professional service agreement with the City. This organization would host the

program, which would train outreach workers, our academic community, including

Mizzou’s

Peace

Studies

program

Healthcare

might

support

evaluation.

Outreach workers would come from communities most impacted by gun violence,

who understand its root causes and have the legitimacy to intervene. We have so

many people with those skills, not just community leaders already known to us, but

ordinary people whose names we may not know -- people who go to Vibez Lounge,

people who have lost loved ones to gun violence. These people may be critical of

Police or City leaders. They may have truths to share that would make people in

this room uncomfortable, but they have so much wisdom. We just need to

empower them to use that wisdom to keep us all safer. And obviously that's not

me. I'm

a white woman, not a survivor of gun violence, and my organization started

focused on mass shootings. For years, we did not respond effectively to the

intersection of racism and gun violence, and while we're gradually diversifying,

leaders like me are still learning from those most impacted and building

partnerships. After Kristin spoke last time, City Council members and other

speakers thanked Moms Demand Action. They did not thank Traci, Rebecca, Roy

Lovelady, December Harmon, or the other people who have been advocating for

similar initiatives for years.

don't think it was intentional, but it did cause pain,

national organization, do so

coalition, including the people wearing orange here tonight. So, declare

a public health emergency, commit to spending millions in ARP funds

and am sorry for that. So, although I'm speaking for

as part of

gun violence

over several years on community violence intervention, put out an RFP to

implement Cure Violence, Advance Peace, or similar program as so as the new

city manager is in office, along with identifying other initiatives required to support

it. Thanks so much.

SPC71-21

Susan Renee Carter - Action for taking responsibility and showing

accountability.

Susan Carter spoke.

CARTER:

Susan Renee Carter.

live at 2105 Hillsborough Drive. Comment

would

like to start out with -- it doesn't really have to do with what

was going to speak

about, although it does -- is that in the past, I've spoken to you about the research

surrounding use of resource officers in schools, and if you read the research, you

will find that there's no evidence supporting the fact that it helps situations. Some

of the things that were suggested by Pat have

a lot more clout when it comes to

helping young people in the school system. If you put police officers in the school,

all you do is end up with more children being incarcerated, and ending up in prison

as adults. So, I'll start with that. And then, I'd also like to mention when you were

going over how money had been spent for youth and jobs --

I want to point out the

CARE program has been around for long time. That program targets youth that are

at risk. That's the primary concern of that program. Over the course of time, the

dealings I've had with CARE is that 30 percent of those youth that were going

through the CARE program to do

a work experience ended up being hired by the

employer that supported that person in that job. And if that doesn't affect your

thoughts about how outcomes happen and that you should be fully funding that --

my understanding is that you now pay those youth’s sub-minimum wage. Is that

true? Is -- was that change that you made because of your budget? That's my

understanding. If you read the research about what happens to children at risk that

are paid below minimum wage and what that does to their self-esteem and their

view of themselves and their worth as workers, you will see that the outcomes are

not good. So those are two things I'd like to advise you about on the discussion

about where you're going with some of your programs because they’re not going to

reduce crime in your City if you don't do them right. And so, it brings me back to

why

November 14 downtown officer involved shooting,

press briefing went to and the council meeting

disappointed me in how the City is handling these situations. At the briefing, it

ended up -- felt like lot of blame was placed on the Vibez owner and I've since

seen that in the media. It continues to come up that the shootings occurred at the

Vibez when in fact it didn't. There are lot of other businesses around there, and

want to help you focus on the fact that if something like that happened at Walmart,

and someone was in the parking lot and there was shooting. Even though you can

came up here to talk -- is about responsibility and accountability. After the

was very concerned at the

went to. Both of those instances

go in Walmart and you can get liquor any time of the day or night, you can go back

out into the parking lot and you can drink it, and then you can re-enter the building

a shooting occurs in the parking lot. I don't think we would be saying we were

going to be laser focused on them. So, we need careful not to be involved in what’s

known as dog whistle politics, where we create instances and views of certain

people or certain races of people around incidents that happen in our community.

I've felt like at the council meeting last time it was business as usual. We talked

about sewers, we talked about traffic calming, we talked about land acquisition,

but we didn't talk about the events that had occurred in the City even though we're

saying we're

City in crisis until the members of the Council, you know -- the

conversation. So

participants came to the podium and engaged the Council in

would like to see our Council be more accountable. I'd like to see them to be more

engaged when there's really a problem with our City. Thank you.

SPC72-21

Karen Sicheneder - Community input for Broadband Taskforce and

future-proofing infrastructure.

Karen Sicheneder spoke.

SICHENEDER: Hi, so, I'm here to piggyback on the discussion that we had in the work

session today on broadband and the existing Task Force that is in place around this

issue, and

discovering in the quest for this information. Now

the Missouri Democratic Party State Committee, and part of our platform is internet

access as public utility, and there's reason for that. We had lot of discussions

wanted to bring up some of the things that

I have been uncovering and

represent Senate District 19 on

today around gaining access to the maps that are held by the privately owned

internet service providers in order to figure out where the City can lay

infrastructure.

What we need is for the City to invest in

can then lease out to private internet service providers, or further down the line,

we can have city owned ISP, and there's couple of different reasons for this. We

would challenge and

would argue we don't need those maps.

citywide fiber infrastructure that the City

have several different equity points when it comes to this infrastructure. We have

an equity point of neighborhoods that don't have internet access at all. There is no

infrastructure

getting

out

into

those

neighborhoods.

also

have

neighborhoods that simply have aging infrastructure. These infrastructures in place

are most often privately owned, and there's little to no incentive for these

privately owned companies to go in and replace that infrastructure where we end

up having situations like what Susan Maze has, where she has internet access but

it's terrible because the infrastructure needs to be replaced. And then we also have

the additional equity issue of the cost of internet, and quite frankly, there's not

whole heck of lot that the City would be able to do about the cost if the City

doesn’t own the infrastructure. If the City owns the infrastructure and then they

can actually put forward City-owned internet service provider, the City would

have the opportunity to be able to provide those services at cost that would be

much more equitable to communities that need that. Because of all of these issues,

trying to figure out what these privately held internet service providers already

have doesn't matter.

I don't care that they already have the infrastructure in place.

They can sell that at whatever cost they need. We would still have the opportunity

as the City to be able to have this for lease to new or existing internet service

providers, thus creating some actual free market competition. Up until recently,

lot of the issues that people were seeing across the board were the internet service

providers were working together to divvy up the city so that there wasn't really any

competition and then they could fix rates at whatever they wanted them to be at.

And this became an issue, as neighborhoods like mine, only had access to one

internet service provider. We didn’t have an option. Even though there's multiple

companies in town,

infrastructure is there, but it's privately owned, and

that option. I want the option to be able to shop around. I want to be able to go to a

different internet service provider if what they're giving me isn't working. want to

be able to get rates that are actually competitive. really can't afford my internet

access -- really can’t afford it. It’s too much for what actually use. And in addition

to that, don't really have the option of rolling back my services because they don’t

build that into the plan because they don't have to -- because there's no

competition. So, want us to seriously consider looking at what the other cities

around Missouri have done, and gave you some packets today that goes over what

has happened in Springfield, Missouri. They have actually taken out loan for the

$120 million that was necessary for them to lay their own infrastructure, and then,

in addition, they created contract with CenturyLink where they are recouping

those costs at about $17 million year, which means it will take them about 10

years to pay it off. So even if we can't get access to grants that are out there, which

we would need consultant in place in order to gain access to those grants, we

only have access to one internet service provider. The

can't shop around. don't have

could still pay for this on

utilities. We could get

loan and we could pay for this on

a loan from our own

lower interest loan from power and light to lay the

infrastructure and then repay ourselves for what would essentially end up being

cash cow for the City that also creates equity in internet service. Thank you.

SPC73-21

Nina Hampton - Community gun violence, a public health issue.

Nina Hampton spoke.

HAMPTON:

Pointe Lane in Columbia, Missouri. I’m delivering this comment written by my

friend, Ruth Friar, who also lives in Columbia. It's titled Gun Violence Public

Good evening, Council. My name is Nina Hampton.

live at 202 Bay

Health Issue. My friend Ruth lived in Columbia from 1975 to 1990. She move to

Kalamazoo, Michigan, and returned to Columbia in 2018. She describes Kalamazoo

downtown as

pedestrian mall much like Broadway. It stretches the entire length

of downtown. Public safety officers patrol the downtown area on foot and bicycle

and horseback. On the end, the mall is anchored by the bus train station and the

Kalamazoo Gospel Mission, temporary shelter that includes resources for the

unhoused. block from the Mission is community health center. Across the

street, converted multi- story hotel that provides permanent subsidized housing.

The mall itself is about six blocks long. At the opposite end is an accessible rapid

mental health substance abuse treatment center. Around the corner from the

treatment center,

parole office --

bakery and chocolatier called Confections with Convictions, the

block further Michigan employment and rehabilitation services.

Individuals in need can literally access all the services by walking in one end of the

mall to another. The paper gave you has data comparing Columbia and Kalamazoo

that might be of interest. Kalamazoo is little over half the size of Columbia, and

funds more for public health than Columbia. On the surface, the City recognizes

improving public health welfare is part of community public health strategy. The

other appears to fund police at the expense of public health. few weeks ago, we

had another traumatizing event in our community. Four people were injured and

man was killed. It was characterized as mass casualty incident to accurately --

inaccurately characterize it as such caused additional trauma. To blame R’velle Fair

for the violence that visited his club’s door is completely unacceptable.

Paraphrasing, Ibram X. Kendi, “to be Black is to be constantly rendered the

problem. The problem is not black people. It is much more accurate to identify our

unresponsive

community's current and collective mass casualties.” Kalamazoo has acknowledged

that decreasing community violence requires focus on inequity. They have

embraced creating vibrant community deeply invested in public health equity to

ameliorate the root causes of violence to intentionally make services visible and

accessible. For Kalamazoo, race is not proxy for poverty, disadvantage, or

systems

government

the

problematic

perpetrators

our

disparity. Instead there are identifiable public health issues. All forms of violence

are more frequent when access to health care and trauma informed public health

resources are limited. When citizens see opportunity as limited, government

unresponsive, police not as guardians -- when they live in areas for danger is

concentrated, if the environment is routinely hostile, when owning and obtaining

weapon is seen as logical way to stay safe, acting violently becomes violent

presentation strategy. These acts of violence represent response to trauma,

poverty, disadvantage, and disparity -- all public health issues. We are serious

about community -- if we are serious about community violence, then it starts with

conversations about public health, period. Local government systems must operate

in openness and transparency, trust, and use the data available to make decisions

to assign resources were they are most needed. This is why our City needs to work

in collaboration with County to direct our public health department to provide the

resources and to take action that coordinates expanded efforts to access

community violence at its source.

Our community has individuals and groups ready

to step up and help. In 2014, the Mayor's Task Force on Violence set aside funds and

made

specific

immediate

recommendations

interpret

have

community

not been

interrupt

community

violence.

These

recommendations

implemented.

Rodney March of Rock the Community requested CARES funding to continue and

expand known successful violence interruption strategies already being used

within our community. The request was not funded until the second round.

Shaunda Hamilton, mother of victim of gun violence, started her own organization

to interrupt community violence. Why aren't these two programs and others like

them being elevated and fully funding as functional interrupters of community

violence that they are? We're serious about -- if we are serious about addressing

gun violence in our community, we must name it as

it is -- as if our lives depend on it because they do. Thank you.

a public health emergency that

SPC74-21

Adam Saunders - Requesting surplus funds for community food security.

Adam Saunders spoke.

SAUNDERS:

bit about the history, the last six years of this public-private partnership, and

of what was vacant Clary-Shy Community Park.

looking at this and getting the team together of what could be and how can we

address food security, and we’ve created big onion, lot of layers to it that touch

on food security, but well beyond that, think, relevant to our discussion earlier

today in the big picture. So quick background, this is public private partnership --

started back in 2015. It’s come long way. Columbia Parks and Rec has been the key

interface that we've had with the City, been great to work with, to put together this

open 10 acres into something very unique. It’s more than park. It has deep roots in

Good evening.

appreciate the opportunity to share with you all

little

view

remember with Mike Griggs

service to the community. And we've been able to work through this timeline over

the last few quick years. Looking at the numbers, to date, we've raised over $5.9

million dollars. If you look at the numbers, about three-quarters of that is from

private sources so big thank you to all the donors who’ve leaned into this and

supported it, and thank you to the City and the federal and state and the County.

Note that the City, to date, has made up about 14 percent of the investment in this

park beyond the land itself and some staff time, and this is kind of the crux of the

issue that we're proposing -- is there is surplus funds in the current fiscal year and

request for help to lean into this and help balance the load as we look forward at

the last step of this project. Here’s quick view of what we have today -- the big

MU Healthcare pavilion, the wings are funded, those are slated to be built next

winter as well as big urban farm, teaching facilities, schoolhouse facility, barn

and greenhouse, stormwater -- lot has come together in the last few quick years.

And what's miss -- the last piece that we're looking at -- the last big piece is the

Welcome Center, right there on main plaza. It has three main functions, and the key

anchor of it is the teaching kitchen, right there in the middle that'll really elevate

the capacity to teach nutrition and farm literacy and food literacy and everybody

eats, and so that's something that all people can relate to. Within this space -- also

resource center to help people engage in gardening and cooking in flexible

programming space that can function year round, no matter the weather -- so this

building really adds significantly to the capacity of the organizations that use that,

Columbia Center for Agriculture, Columbia’s Farmers Market, but also creates

capacity for broader collaborations that are in the works. So I'm going to dive

through the layers of the onion real quick. Columbia Farmers market -- voted best

market in the nation this year. It has

a rural tie -- the 50 mile radius that reaches out

to 80 vendors throughout mid-Missouri, so not just -- it provides access to food, but

livelihoods to the region. We broke records this year -- the Farmers Market did at

attendance and matching for SNAP and WIC resources -- it adds -- it improves the

access and affordability of food. There's been

lot of innovation -- there's

produce prescription pilot program with Compass Health, just up the road. It’s an

interface between food and health care. Families with diarrheal related diseases

can get prescribed fresh produce at the market. All the food that we grow at the

site is donated to the Food Bank. We're on track to donate over 35,000 pounds this

year. That number will increase as our gardens mature and expand. This site also is

launching pad of programming throughout the community.

Opportunity Gardens

home

gardening

mentoring

program

where

into

low

income

neighborhoods and garden with participants -- we start with what do you like to

eat, let's grow that -- and we got about 100 families in that program any given year

for the last many, many years. We also take care of orchards and gardens around

town, like the Kilgore’s garden with Nora Stewart as

main beneficiary of that

food. We had over 20,000 interactions with CPS schools for our Farm to School

program, and are anticipated to expand now that we're in our new space and

further -- the capacity there is grown. We’ve gotten more into therapy gardens,

with the VA Hospital, Phoenix Rehab Center, Welcome Home Patriot Place --

gardening ties into therapy. And then finally -- last program is the Henry Kirkland

Black Farmers Scholarship we started last year, which provides startup funding for

black farmers to start

a business or expand their business. So it's a lot there. I don’t

mean to dumptruck you with too much information, but all that, very modestly, is

being programmed out of this one schoolhouse trailer that’s temporary, capital T,

temporary office on our site, and ultimately, we would like to expand that to -- the

office space in this Welcome Center to provide

a much better, more inviting public

face to provide an on ramp for participates to get involved. As our capacity

increases with this building that we'll be able -- we’ll be able to serve more people

in this big onion will continue to grow. So,

update and appreciate your help to get us this far.

I appreciate the opportunity to share an

V. PUBLIC HEARINGS

PH48-21

Proposed construction of Fire Station #10 to be located north of and west

of St. Charles Road, at the bend with the intersection of E. Richland Road.

PH48-21 was read by the City Clerk.

Acting Public Works Director Shane Creech and Fire Chief Andy Woody

provided a staff report.

CREECH: Shane Creech, Interim Director of Public Works. The Fire Chief is with me

tonight and will discuss in greater detail the need for an additional fire station in

this area.

itself. It is common for Public Works to assist the Fire Department with property

acquisition, plan development, and the construction processes due to staff

I will concentrate my portion of the staff report specifically to this site

expertise in those areas. This site consists of two tracts, totaling 10.76 acres, at the

intersection of St. Charles Road and Richland Road. Due to the topography of the

site, both tracts are necessary to balance grading and construct the fire station. This

additional area will have the added bonus of assisting with intersection

improvements when traffic impacts require that. The fire station will be designed

in such

a way to ensure that it meets the needs of the Columbia Fire Department at

the time of construction and into the future following intersection improvements.

Please note that currently there is not an intersection improvement project

funded. However, due to recent development proposal history in this area, it's

anticipated to be under consideration with the next capital improvement sales tax

set for renewal in 2025. An interested parties meeting was held on October 27. Five

property owners in the area attended. One property owner was opposed to the fire

station being located so close to their residence. While one of the property owners

needed for acquisition was amenable to the acquisition, however, her contract

deed purchasers were not. The ordinance to acquire the property is also on the

agenda tonight which is not typical. Staff will obviously only move forward with

that based on the results of this public hearing. This was done by request of the

contract deed purchasers to accelerate the process where possible should council

decide to move forward. will now turn it over to the Fire Chief to discuss the need

for fire station in this area of town and provide to some background on the

property search.

WOODY: Thank you, and thank you for having me tonight. This is apparently going

to be pretty difficult to see -- basically the area in east central Columbia falls

outside of our benchmark response times. Some fall out of the radius of the fire

station as well. As you know, the search for land began before

was here, in

earnest years ago -- three or more, and there are very few places in the east side of

the city of Columbia that we’ve not explored. We have to be careful, however, that

the fire station is placed in

location that enhances the effectiveness of our

department now and not only to help us in the future -- that it's not something that

we are waiting to grow into. The fire crews that cover this area of the City now are

among some of the busiest in the City including the downtown crews and the Fire

Station 5 on Ballanger Lane. The first response area of

square miles. Some of ours are little bit bigger than that. You all have addressed

that, and we appreciate it. We're working through some of that now. But obviously,

as we locate that station, that 5 or 6 miles -- you'll see on the map in just minute --

a fire station is roughly 5, 6, 7

it moves with the building so getting the -- finding the right piece of ground is

important. So placing that facility in the proper location is critical because these are

fifty year infrastructure pieces for the City. So what we did was we altered our land

search -- rather than just driving and looking and -- to really include some good --

the use of technology. So, by placing essentially

different locations that we have been looking, we were able to then objectively

look and review the information to help us find location that’s the most impactful

a mock firehouse in some of the

for the community. We're able to be visible, available, and present in the locations

that were needed. We want to make sure that our limited resources that you bless

us with are properly placed and that delayed response times aren’t limited by

ensuring first the fire apparatus approximate to the customers. So you can see in

some of this mapping --

some of the places where we've looked for -- at fire stations -- this is Stadium and

63 - again, these are these are going to be difficult to see. apologize for that. What

we’re -- the areas that we’re looking at are the area of west of 63, south of the 70,

north or Broadway. That kind of gives you corridor there, so east of 63, south of 70,

I say you can -- we’ll see if I can change the slides -- so

north of Broadway. We need that fire station to cover south of Interstate -- of I-70,

and ideally, it comes even all the -- across the highway to cover Conley/Trimble

corridor there as well, again to relieve those downtown crews. So, as we look at

land, you can kind of see again --

I don’t know what handouts you have there -- this

is Stadium and 63. This doesn’t cover to 70 and it doesn’t cover east of the city

limits. Although there is property there, again, this is something that just wasn't

going to work

I don’t think for the City. We also looked at Elk Park Drive. We made

some progress down Elk Park Drive, and that's actually how this ended up being fire

station 10 and the other one that's already being built is Fire Station 11 is because

of Elk Park Drive. This ended up falling through -- it ends up though that it, you

know -- it is

a little far south and east to cover what we really need this fire station

cover to anyway. There was some land at Rolling Hills Road and WW Highway,

Broadway. Again, too far south and east -- you can see we don’t hit 70. We don't

cover some of the subdivisions that out there now that are too far from the fire

station now, whick really led us again, technology-wise, back to the East St. Charles

Road location, which is where we have found this property now, and that’s really

what lead us to this -- was the information from joint communications to allow us

to place these facilities in different areas in the east side of town. So really, it

meets the needs of the City best now and moving into the future. fire station in

this location is estimated to respond to approximately 1,500 calls annually. It’s

needed now and will be needed later.

Mayor Treece opened the public hearing.

Roy Myers and Natalie Kerkmann spoke.

MYERS: Roy Myers, I’m the owner of the land that you’re wanting to acquire. Really

didn’t want to sell it.

locations that would be better suited, preferably Rolling Hills and Richland --

there’s corner piece there that’d be perfect. The trees there are very old and tey'll

be really hard to replace. Yeah, know you guys plant back new ones, but it’s kind

of hard to get trees that are already mature and already 200-400 years old. haven’t

haven’t been offered anything, and

think there’s other

been offered anything for my land and would like to know what’s, you know --

seems like a pretty violent act to eminent domain.

TREECE:

price?

’m not going to negotiate with you up here. Are you willing to sell it at a

MYERS: Yes.

TREECE: Yeah, Okay. Of course, yeah, I’m sorry you got this point without being

asked. Anything you’d like to add?

KERKMANN: Yes. My name is Natalie Kerkmann. I, just -- it was just

bad day when you wake up and you've made plans, you know -- we were going to

build on the land and have tiny houses and possibly duplexes. mean, we can build

a shock. That's a

duplexes, or rent it out, you know, to people that come down for Mizzou games,

that have people going to the hospitals right there on Keene Street -- it’s, you

know, five minutes away from downtown.

of us have, in Columbia, and we looked

We've lived here for over 20 years, both

long time to try and find, you know, the

perfect land, and this just seemed like, you know, we finally had the whole plan

coming into place, and it’s like now, we don't have

even know that this was something that was possible.

a backup plan and we didn't

MYERS: And when

they couldn't have told me then, you know, it's been

building permit or electric or light pole. And it just seems like it was kind of

stonewalled, you know, and denied my, you know, the use for which I’d brought

was trying to get electric on the property,

I didn't know why

year that I've been denied

the property, to be able to use it.

going to do now, so.

I haven't been able to go and figure out what I'm

TREECE: Alright, okay. Well thank you for coming tonight and visiting with us.

There being no further comment, Mayor Treece closed the public hearing.

The Council asked questions and made comments.

PETERS: What is the plan for this land? Have we -- we’ve not negotiated

him? Are we looking into that?

a price with

GLASCOCK: The process is the public hearing first, and then you, as

tell us whether to proceed with plans and specifications, and then we will do

there’s an ordinance to acquire, believe, on this agenda as well, at which time we

Council, will

would then do an appraisal of the property and start negotiating with the property

owner about the price.

PETERS: Okay, so.

GLASCOCK: It comes after the public hearing.

PETERS: Okay, so public hearing, and then

a discuss -- and then to see how much

this land is worth and discuss selling, perhaps, buying it from the --

GLASCOCK: Yes.

PETERS: Okay, thank you.

SKALA: Yeah, the majority of this service area falls in the Third Ward. St. Charles

Road -- there is

years ago, about 10 or 12 years ago -- being improved and so on, This search for

fire station location has been going on for good long period of time too. There

was more or less prime location at Keene Street and St. Charles Road, or near St.

Charles Road, but probably wasn’t adequate, and the owner was not interested in

selling it either, and we've heard little bit about the history of the search for some

of these areas that seem to fit the public safety nature of this fire station. This

seems to be -- I mean, -- lot of this hinges on the negotiation for the sale of the

property for someone who is -- has just been told that the City has found viable

sight for fire station that serves the public interest, and I'll be interested to follow

a bit of a history for St. Charles being on the CIP plan, many, many

what that negotiation is. My inclination, because of the location and because of the

long standing need, and the kind of the torturous search for this piece of property,

is to support the City Council moving ahead with plans and specifications, but you

know, the devil is always in the details, and I'm very sympathetic to the property

owner as well, and

think they need to get their value out of this property,

certainly. But seems to fit the bill for what is required for not only the

developments that’s happened at Old Hawthorne, but also this area -- the St.

Charles and that Richland Road area in terms of the traffic flow, and the potential

for

traffic circle here,

think, could straighten out some of the danger -- the

don't know when we're ever going to

dangerous traffic issues that exist right now.

get to the point where we can deal with some of the improvement issues in St.

Charles Road. Some of those monies were taken many years ago to create the

bridges that happened at the -- over the creek actually for the commercial area that

happened

little bit south of there.

At any rate, I'm prepared to support this, but

I’ll be closely following negotiations with regard to whether

for the property.

fair price is offered

FOWLER: So,

be out in the hallway.

explanation as to how they come to

were notified that the City was interested in acquiring their property.

comfort in anything that they said -- that they were now in position where having

would like an explanation.

hope that they're still here.

public meeting and when it was that they

did not find

don't see that the property -- they must

can't see them, but I'd like an

tried to develop their own land, they now have the city wanting to purchase it.

you help me understand that, somebody?

Can

CREECH: Sure, they are the contract deed purchasers of the piece of property, so

they don't -- the owner of record, and somebody, hopefully, Nancy or somebody

could better explain contract deed purchaser -- but we reached out to the property

owner. And,

I believe, she reached out to the contract deed purchasers and invited

them to the public hearing.

FOWLER: So, how long have they been the contract deed purchasers? They’ve had

this as an option to purchase this land for some time?

THOMPSON: So,

would tell you that we have looked in the land records, and there

contract for deed. So, we're not entirely sure. This is kind of

is no record of

anecdotal coming from the property owner. That’s something that will have to be

sorted out as we go forward. At this point in time, we don't have clarity because we

have not seen any paperwork on that particular issue. The actual property owner --

don’t have it in front of me -- but the property owner that’s listed in the land

records is different.

FOWLER: And you've had conversation with the property owner?

CREECH: Yes.

FOWLER: So,

I see that -- I'm sorry I don’t remember your name. Can you help us

understand what the context is of this?

KERKMANN:

paperwork.

actually have copies of the contract for deed and all of the

don't know why it didn’t get filed. I've -- notified them as was

supposed to -- it’s in the contract that we were going to purchase the land and it

was lease to own. We’ve been making the payments on the land to Melissa Furlow,

that’s who the owner is, and we're in close contact with her all the time. We've paid

on it for an entire year. We also have paid the property taxes for the past two years

-- it will be two years -- we just paid for this full year. So,

I don't know why these

copies didn’t actually get put on file. guess it's because once we make the balloon

payment, the entire amount, then they would -- it would be in our name

completely, if that makes sense.

FOWLER: It does. So, you have an expectation of purchasing this land, and then this

transaction with the property owner of records is interfering with that. Where --

guess now there's an even more complex issue there about how you're

compensated for the fact that you’ve been putting money into paying for this land

only to find out that there's an offer to sell it to somebody else.

KERKMANN: Correct.

FOWLER: Oh dear, I’m so sorry.

KERKMANN: Thank you. That’s nice to hear

FOWLER: That sounds like a terrible set of circumstances.

KERKMANN: Yeah, it is.

best interest and they need

wasn’t quite right. mean, we really didn't know anything about it that -- and so,

mean, we understand that it's for the City's, you know,

fire station. It’s just the way that it all went about --

then we got -- actually, Melissa got the letter and she texted it to me -- about the

meeting, the informational meeting for the parties. So that was really kind of like,

you know, wow, like we don’t matter, they don’t care. Like who knew about this,

why didn’t anybody say anything? And we even asked, do they want all of it or

could we keep part of it at least, and they said they had phase one and two for all of

it, and showed us the pictures and stuff, and it’s just really hard. We’ve worked on

that land for two years -- just me and my fiancé. Homeless people were living

there. You could even see past the road.

we've spent thousands of dollars on renting equipment, like skid loaders and stuff

to clean the whole area -- it looks like park now. mean, it's like -- it was

completely overgrown with trees, there was mattresses, there was hypodermic

needles. mean, we had to pick up all that, and take loads of trash -- just as two by

I mean, we've cut down the dead trees,

ourselves -- and everybody that lived around the area was so happy to see that, and

we've met them all and they all wanted to know our plans and they were all excited

about it and they were so happy developments weren’t going to be built there. And

so we even kind of made friends with everybody in the neighborhood and they

always stopped by to see how things were going. So it's just

a lot of attachment,

sentimental attachment, you know, our plans. And yeah, we want to help out, so

we just to be compensated so that we can go purchase land somewhere else,

guess, and start over there.

THOMAS: Yeah, thanks. So,

another pitch for public infrastructure expansion fees for these types of projects.

This is going to cost just over $3 million. assume that's the land acquisition and the

I want to just talk about another aspect of this and make

building construction combined there, and it's clearly needed. Columbia is

growing city. This is fire station #10. We have about 50,000 households. So, it seems

that serve about 5,000 households with each fire station, and we're going to have

5,000 households in

decade or two, and we're going to need to keep doing this.

public infrastructure

So, it would seem very logical and fair if we simply required

expansion fee from every new home that we permit construction of -- of about --

$600 would do it -- because that would build up with the 5,000 households to create

the funds for the next fire station. And then, we should also,

believe, apply that

one-time

same principle to all of our other services and utilities that have

infrastructure component as well as an ongoing an operations and service process.

Thanks that’s all.

Council Member Peters made a motion to proceed with the plans and

specifications for proposed Fire Station #10. The motion was seconded by

Council Member Skala.

SKALA:

I just want to comment that -- once again, I just want to make sure that

some of us will be following this closely in terms of compensation as this moves

forward.

TREECE: This is inelegant at best, and I’m surprised it got to this level. And if we do

move forward on it, I'm inclined to pull B378-21 off until there's some more fact

finding.

I don't feel -- there's clearly an issue between the lessor and the property

owner. I don't know what it is. I'm not sure the City needs to be in the middle of it.

don't want to authorize eminent domain and interrupt that relationship.

FOWLER: I’m going to vote no on this for that same reason. I’m --

I don't -- I'm trying

to sort out in my head all the circumstances here, and understanding that it’s

between the parties and it doesn't directly involve the City, but I'm really

uncomfortable with this under these circumstances.

PETERS: Well,

delineate this and sort it out. I mean, rather than just --

year. Why hasn’t this paperwork been put in place? What compensation does the

current property owner need to pay these folks if they need -- mean, I'm not sure

how to sort it out, but don't know that want to say let’s abandon this piece of

property, and I'm not how we can ask the City to go forward without having

motion -- you know, without some direction from the Council saying we need to

guess

would have

question as to how we can move forward to

mean they've had this for

move forward and look at how we acquire this property. So,

suggestions but I --

I mean, I'm open to

TREECE: My -- the only way -- look

I can -- I’ll support the motion to proceed with

the proposed construction at the location, but I'm not inclined to vote -- you know

B378-21 is the actual authorizing the acquisition of property either by negotiation or

eminent domain, and I'm not inclined to give staff the authority to do that at this

point because I this was a surprise to me and I don’t like surprises.

SKALA: That’s not required, is it?

I mean, that you're authorizing eminent domain to

-- you are authorizing the plans to proceed with the negotiation.

TREECE: The lady’s motion is to proceed with plans and construction. Inherent in

that there’s

separate agenda item and the Acting Director made

comment that

it's unusual to have that authorization on the same agenda.

GLASCOCK: It is, but we were requested by the property owner to do that.

that’s why it's there.

mean,

PITZER: The same property owner? There are two property owners listed.

GLASCOCK: The original property owner, the one that’s of record.

PETERS: The one that has leased this property out it sounds to someone else and

has some other -- yeah, I can see that.

SKALA: Just

a clarification -- point of order -- and that is what we're talking about

right now -- the motion that was on the table and the second has to do with the

proceed with plans and specifications, and there is

a separate issue with respect to

TREECE:

On the consent agenda is B378-21, which authorizes the acquisition of

property, and the ordinance is crafted by negotiation or eminent domain.

PETERS: You guys have any suggestions?

TREECE: -- and eminent domain is not

It's just forced negotiation.

a taking -- it still -- we still have to pay for it.

SKALA: Usually a last resort.

PETERS: And,

I mean, I'm not in favor of that, but I think we -- I mean, I don't know

really what to do I guess even though it's my motion.

PITZER: No, I agree. I mean something unusual is going on.

SKALA: That's the predicament I'm in as well.

TREECE: I’m happy to have staff take the next step on this, but I'm not inclined to --

you all vote how you want on B378-21, but I'm going to object to it on the consent

agenda.

SKALA: I agree with you.

THOMAS: Yeah,

I was just going to say, it seems like a lack of transparency at the

very least by the property owner to have been negotiating with the City and

allowing it to get to this stage, but not informing their --

the question of what a lease contract is -- go ahead John.

PETERS: Yeah, we could use some clarification.

I don't even understand

GLASCOCK: Well,

record.

can't negotiate with anybody except the property owner of

THOMAS: I realize that.

GLASCOCK: So there's no way for me to negotiate with the people that spoke

tonights

PITZER: And if we're being --

I mean, the City is rarely the low bidder here right. So,

once the property owner -- I’m totally speculating here -- once they knew the City

was interested, you know, they knew there's -- maybe there's an opportunity for

larger check.

THOMAS: Right, but, they may have reneged on an agreement with the other

people, which isn’t necessarily our business, but --

TREECE: Not our business.

THOMAS: I’m trying to figure out what happened.

PETERS: Yeah, except from an ethics standpoint or morality standpoint it seems

like.

SKALA: But

I think your position is probably the -- at least the temporary solution to

this issue is that is -- we are interested in the property and there is some

negotiation that can occur, but for anything serious happens in terms of any kind of

eminent domain, then we need to take a deep breath.

PETERS: Yeah, so maybe we need to pull that the bill about the eminent domain off

the consent agenda even though -- I don’t know if that’s --

TREECE: You can’t do that, but when she calls the roll, Mr. Pitzer who votes first can

say yes on all bills and resolutions except for B378-21, for which

his -- I'm just saying -- if he's going to set the tone.

I vote no, if that’s

The motion made by Council Member Peters and seconded by Council Member

Skala to proceed with the plans and specifications for proposed Fire Station #10

was approved by voice vote with only Council Member Fowler voting no.

VI. OLD BUSINESS

B284-21

Approving the Final Plat of “Forest Hills, Plat No. 2” located on the south

side of Geyser Boulevard and west of Lake of the Woods Road;

authorizing a performance contract (Case No. 125-2021).

The bill was given fourth reading by the City Clerk.

Community Development Director Tim Teddy provided a staff report.

TEDDY: This item has been tabled twice. It is going to have to be tabled again

because you don't have

a finished revised plat as yet. The reason for that is -- it was

tabled November 1. If you recall, the applicants were not present on that date.

We’ve since met with them and talked with them, and they lost their surveyor so

that individual will need to be replaced so they need

a little more time to redraw

the plat but, I'll show you what is being done. And in terms of the construction

plans, it was Council's direction that these two streets, Sugar Maple and North

Waterford Drive, which is within the Edgewood Waters Edge communities -- that

those not join. So the area that is encircled there -- you can see

a line -- that's

something I've put in there just to indicate that what they intended to do is take

lot known as Lot 179 -- that’s common area that’s used for drainage infrastructure

purposes -- they will extend that across what is now shown as right-of-way. So

they'll make approximately 60 feet or so of that street into

the street will dead end at that point. And this was shown last time -- these blocks.

Those still exist. There's been couple of what are called Type 3 barriers that have

been added. Those are the construction fence sections that have the diagonal

orange and white stripes so those are present now. So as indicated here, the

developer will change the plat to eliminate the right-of-away connection and the

street connection, so Sugar Maple will be dead end street within this subdivision.

It won't be long dead end so it'll still meet emergency turnaround standards in

conjunction with the intersecting street called Royale Plum. And this is just

sketch plan that their design professional put together that shows the expansion of

that Lot 179 so there'll be drainage way across there. And then this shows in

a green space lot, and

little more detail how they intend to grade that. You can see where the street dead

ends. And, just to indicate with the cursor, it will dead end here. This is the

property boundary down here, and then this would be

Formerly, there was going to be street and there was going to be underground

piping, so drainage, you know -- pipe drainage replaced with overland drainage

there within swale. There will be little bit of berm also so there will be

physical barrier to movement, even if someone was of mind to cross the grassed

area. That's all have to offer for you tonight. We put in our memo table to

a drainage way here acroos.

February. In talking to the applicant, they think they could have the plat prepared

earlier. They are here tonight.

Christina Luebbert and Karen Turner spoke.

LUEBBERT: My name is Christina Luebbert with Luebbert Engineering. I’m also -- we

didn’t-- Gene Basinger passed away

a few weeks ago so he is not going to be able to

sign the revision of this plat. Another surveyor in our office, Ron Lueck, has agreed

to review all of Gene’s work and help me make these changes to the plat so that we

can go ahead and proceed with having it revised. Our plan would be to actually do

that revision in the next couple of days. Ron goes south for the winter so I’m

beating

time deadline with him. And we would want to see this put on the

consent agenda assuming that you like this proposed compromise -- this -- we got

guidance from Mr. Glascock on this. This was kind of the direction he suggested that

we go -- it’s the least amount of change to the plat. It's the least amount of change

to the infrastructure plans and the least amount of effect to how this development

would go forward while still compromising what the neighbors are looking for,

which is no direct connection between the subdivisions. It does also allow, if we

need to -- for instance, if the water department wants to make

back feed

connection into the water system, you know, this allows the utility connection so

that, you know, we're not preventing that from going through there if needed, and

we’ll have to -- we haven't had water plans drawn up because they won’t draw

them up until

I have a -- at least an idea that this is how the plat’s going to look

when it’s done. So, we've been moving ahead with construction -- west of the

creek is nearly complete. So we are really trying to get this put to bed and know

that we have taken everything that you've given us under advisement and made

sincere effort to appease everybody. So we would want to see this move forward

as soon as possible. We would -- of course I'm sure the staff would need to go back

through and recheck it when we do

resubmittal, but it should be pretty

straightforward with this just one minor change. You have any additional questions

about what we’re proposing?

TREECE: I’m not sure it can be placed on the consent agenda if you are amending

the plat. It may have to go back on old business so I’m not prepared to make that

representation to you.

LUEBBERT: We would just want it as soon as possible on the next available agenda

then.

TREECE: Very good.

SKALA: Yeah, that's the question

recommendation that if there were

had.

just --

wondered -- there was

tabling motion to be considered it would be

sometime in February, and you're suggesting --

LUEBBERT: We would be prefer it not be that late because we're going to try to get

our revisions to staff this week, and we would like to see in on

because we want to keep this moving forward.

TREECE: I would too. I’d to get rid of this.

a sooner agenda

LUEBBERT: So would we.

LUEBBERT: And the owners are here and Ron Lueck is here if you have

question for either of them.

a specific

TREECE: Sounds good. Thank you for being here. It makes it easier.

TREECE: Are you good with this?

TURNER: [Karen Turner] I’m --

think we’re good with this, and we appreciate

everybody’s help, the engineers, the developers --

AMIN: Can you state your name, just for the record for the public.

TREECE: Karen Turner.

TREECE:

I think this is a good solution. I know it’s not ideal, but I think it's a great

compromise.

Mayor Treece made a motion to table B284-21 to the December 20, 2021 Council

Meeting. The motion was seconded by Council Member Skala and approved

unanimously by voice vote.

VII. CONSENT AGENDA

The following bills were given second reading and the resolutions were

read by the City Clerk.

B373-21

B374-21

Reimposing a sales tax of one-eighth of one percent for the purpose of

providing funding for local parks.

Voluntary annexation of property located on the east side of Bearfield Road

and north of Woodhaven Road (4000 S. Bearfield Road); establishing

permanent M-OF (Mixed-use Office) zoning (Case No. 304-2021).

B375-21

B376-21

Approving the PD Plan Major Revision for “Sonic of Columbia, Hyde Park”

located on the east side of Buttonwood Drive and south of Nifong

Boulevard (3700 Buttonwood Drive); approving a statement of intent (Case

No. 214-2021).

Vacating a utility easement on Lot 1A within the Alpha Phi Subdivision

Replat located on the east side of Providence Road (900 Providence

Road) (Case No. 79-2021).

B377-21

B378-21

Vacating a utility easement on Lots 3 and 4 within Woodrail - Plat No. 6

located on the east side of Westcreek Circle (Case No. 297-2021).

Authorizing the acquisition of property for the proposed construction of Fire

Station #10 to be located north of and west of St. Charles Road, at the

bend with the intersection of E. Richland Road.

B379-21

B380-21

Authorizing a program services contract with the Missouri Department of

Health and Senior Services for the overdose data to action program.

Authorizing an equitable sharing agreement and certification with the U.S.

Department of Justice and U.S. Department of the Treasury detailing FY

2021 receipts and expenditures of shared funds by the Police Department.

B381-21

Authorizing a memorandum of understanding with The Curators of the

University of Missouri, on behalf of University of Missouri Healthcare, for

medical support of law enforcement operations through the development of

a Tactical EMS Program.

B382-21

B383-21

B384-21

B385-21

B386-21

B387-21