City of Columbia, Missouri

Meeting Minutes

City Council

Council Chamber

Columbia City Hall

701 E. Broadway

Monday, December 20, 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 20, 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 BETSY PETERS, Mayor BRIAN TREECE, Council

Member ANDREA WANER, Council Member KARL SKALA, Council

Member IAN THOMAS, and Council Member MATT PITZER were present.

Council Member PAT FOWLER was absent. City Manager John Glascock,

City Counselor Nancy Thompson, City Clerk Sheela Amin, and various

Department Heads and Staff Members were also present.

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

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

November 15, and December 6 regular meetings.

Treece made a motion that Council Member Waner be allowed to abstain

from voting on R194-21. Waner noted on the Disclosure of Interest form

that she served on the Board of Directors for the Missouri Family Health

Council when they were awarded the grant for the Right Time initiative in

2019. The motion was seconded by Skala and approved unanimously by

voice vote.

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

SI21-21

Missouri Recycling Association Award for the City of Columbia Household

Hazardous Waste Program.

Mayor Treece recognized staff and volunteers for receipt of the Missouri

Recycling Association Outstanding Institutional Recycling Program Award

for the City’s Household Hazardous Waste program.

TREECE: It's my pleasure to recognize our city staff and volunteers for

special

award related to our Household Hazardous Waste Program. And if you're like me on

some Saturday of the month you get to take your leftover paint and batteries and

things and drive through

very convenient location. The Missouri Recycling

Association presented the City of Columbia Household Hazardous Waste Program

with an Outstanding Institutional Recycling Program Award at their conference held

in Branson on November 16, and tonight, we want to recognize and congratulate

our city staff and volunteers for their excellent work. The City of Columbia has

operated the Household Hazardous Waste Program for 29 years with volunteers

who support the effort during that entire time. The Household Hazardous Waste

Program is

a service of the City Solid Waste Utility. It's held at the Grissum Building

the first and third Saturdays of each month, April through November, and in recent

years, under the leadership of Jody Cook, our Volunteer Program Specialist,

volunteers have taken an even larger role in the program, particularly in

consolidating paint for reuse. In 2021, 130 volunteers helped the Household

Hazardous Waste Program collections log more than 684 hours. Many of those 130

people shared their time on multiple occasions throughout the year, and this year,

4,609 visitors used Columbia's Household

Hazardous

Waste

Collection

reuse

3,955 gallons of paint to be recycled. So, I'd like to ask Jody Cook, our Volunteer

Program Specialist with Community Development, and Nick Paul, our Recovery

Superintendent for Solid Waste, to come forward there to the podium. And, as they

make their way forward, would any other volunteers who have helped participate

in this program over the years also please rise, and could

Household Hazardous Waste to stand up? [Clapping.]

ask anyone else at

III. APPOINTMENTS TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS

BC12-21 Board and Commission Applicants

Upon receiving the majority vote of the Council, the following individuals

were appointed to the following Boards and Commissions.

COLUMBIA SPORTS COMMISSION

Calfee, Julie, 109 Port Way, Ward 3, Term to expire December 31, 2023

Fudge, Zina, 1107 Shore Acres Loop, Ward 6, Term to expire December

31, 2023

Gray, Rodney, 4501 S. Harvest Road, Ward 5, Term to expire December

31, 2023

Klarfeld, Jared, 28 N. Cedar Lake Drive East, Ward 5, Term to expire

December 31, 2023

COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ORGANIZATION BOARD

Bush-Cook, Tracey, 4410 Timber Lane, Ward 3, Term to expire December

1, 2025

FIREFIGHTERS’ RETIREMENT BOARD

Cox, George, 912 W. Ash Street, Ward 1, Term to expire December 31,

2023

HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION

Cook, Joy, 5821 Misty Springs Way, Ward 3, Term to expire December

31, 2024

Ford, Stacy, 2701 Andy Drive, Ward 2, Term to expire December 31, 2024

Thorn, Elijah, 5000 Stone Mountain Parkway, Ward 6, Term to expire

December 31, 2024

POLICE RETIREMENT BOARD

Hackmann, Michael, 1306 Morning Dove Drive, Ward 6, Term to expire

December 31, 2023

TAX INCREMENT FINANCING COMMISSION

Mendenhall, Thomas, 7300 S. Quantrill’s Pass, Boone County, Term to

expire September 1, 2022

TREECE: We also had

Broadband Planning. They have

had some discussion at that in our work session before. It's -- we had

candid discussion about the representatives on the industry may be barrier to the

RFPs that we wanted that group to kind of work on. Could suggest that -- and Mr.

Co-chair, you’re the Council’s liaison to that -- can suggest, kindly, that perhaps

that Broadband Planning Task Force needs to take current -- take look at the

meeting of the Broadband -- Mayor's Task Force on

vacancy, mostly due to lack of attendance. We

pretty

current snapshot of the landscape that we're in right now. It's much different than

where we were when we appointed it two years ago with respect to funding -- that

they try to wrap their work up, perhaps in January, submit

memo, letter to council, whatever it may be, but then use

report,

a two page

a different incarnation

of that as the resource for staff that they need with respect to consultants,

procurement, funding, scope, some of those things. Does that make sense?

THOMAS: So, would that be a new task force that we appoint to do that role?

TREECE: I'm not opposed to that.

force, if it could be more of

wonder if it needs to rise to the level of

a task

working group. almost want -- it's pretty technical in

terms of whether we're talking about fiber, or DSL, or other things. I'm wondering if

maybe staff doesn't need to come back with what they're doing and where some

community involvement would be helpful, if that makes sense.

THOMAS: But either way, it would be -- whether we call it

group, it'll be an appointment by Council.

TREECE: It’s up to you.

a task force or a working

SKALA: We had

a bit of -- I don’t want to go on into too much about this --

tentatively speaking for the next agenda, we have not set the next agenda for the

meeting, but we have been in some discussions between the Chair -- the Co-chairs

and staff. And given that we had

a council work session and there was some input, I

think we have come to the conclusion that we're going to start to focus on some

recommendations that are vital to this City Council as we move forward along the

lines of discussion that Ms. Waner and the rest of the Council have had with

retaining

broadband funding and so on and so forth. So, the idea,

this recommendation. The Mayor mentioned January, certainly, by February.

know when the work product can be finished, but finished to the extent that we

have something to guide us, and then think we need to really seriously consider

consultant to guide us through the federal bureaucracy from

believe, is to close in on

don't

lot of

the work of the consultant and so on. We're going to have to get staff input into

where we go with that -- the RFPs and so on and so forth.

TREECE: Can we wait and see what they come back with?

THOMAS: Sure, I’m fine with that.

TREECE: Maybe you even want to make recommendations on whether you think a --

SKALA: Well, you know, we've discussed this. We've had consultants in the past,

Magellan Consultants, and they were asking the City Council to come up and make

the decision in terms of what to do with our broadband assets, whether to expand

them, what to do with the ends of the broadband, and those kinds of questions,

and

think

those

would

simple

recommendations,

relatively

simple

recommendations, from the Task Force to the City Council that could guide future

decisions.

THOMAS: And

I think if we want more, you know, citizens advice, we should think

very carefully before appointing people with commercial interests to have votes on

that.

SKALA: It was well intentioned, but it did not work out.

THOMAS: I think maybe --

TREECE: We're trying to encourage.

THOMAS: -- engagement.

TREECE: -- engagement from them, and now it's -- if you're on it, you shouldn't be

bidding on it and all that. I just think this is a better, more ethical way to do this.

THOMAS: I agree.

AMIN: Based on that I will not advertise the current vacancy.

TREECE: Correct.

IV. SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENT

SPC75-21

Andrew Hutchinson and Charles Holden - Solid Waste worker concerns;

building a stronger pipeline for temp workers to become full time city

employees.

Charles Holden and Andrew Hutchinson spoke.

HOLDEN:

I'm currently temp right now. I’ve been working there for about eight months.

have partner who's been working for three years. We've been throwing for the

My name is Charles Holden. I work for Solid Waste for City of Columbia.

City through rain, snow, everything just like regular City workers. We've been, you

know, out there in the field just like everybody else has. The only thing we don't do

is drive. That’s about it.

$17. If you get two people riding on the back, it’s like $5 added.

asking for for everyone is some of the same thing the City gets basically, you know,

medical, cause, basically, cut myself few weeks ago. It was down to my muscle in

my leg. couldn’t do nothing about it. Basically,

because they would have took me off the clock and

so had to be there regardless so

can't do nothing about dental, you know.

years, you know. Can’t get that taken care of, or anything like that so

worry about it. Basically, all I'm asking is for them to open up thrower position,

So, our wages are $14 an hour.

The base pay, currently, is

The only thing I’m

didn't want to tell my boss

couldn't afford to miss money,

just didn't say nothing. Just went along worked.

have bad teeth, been in my mouth for

don't even

something like that, because people do go there. Some people don't even have

regular license, you know, as is. Some people do go there and just like to throw and

run and get their exercise in really, you know. It’s exercise and you get paid for it,

why not, at the same time? So, people do that and they love it. And we’ve been

there long enough.

got to say.

think they should open up

position for that.

And that’s all I

TREECE: Alright, thank you Charles. Andrew, anything you want to add?

HUTCHINSON: I’m just going to sum it up. So, just to be clear, Labors Local 955,

which represents solid waste workers, but not temps and CDL trainees -- we're

asking that the City Council fix this tonight, if possible, and there's

a really easy way

to do it, which is immediately offer full time benefit eligible and union eligible

employment to all current temp workers who want to come on as full time

throwers and also extend the same to the CDL trainee position so that those

positions are also union and healthcare eligible. This comes really clear for folks

who are union represented. We have bus drivers and construction workers and

workers from MU today, who are also with us, as well as members of UAW and

other allied unions because we don't think that anyone who works full time,

especially not for the City of Columbia, which so many of us love and are so proud

to live here, should go without health care or sick leave, especially working through

pandemic.

through. would love to take any council member and you tell me who the temps

and who the full times are because the temps even have timecards that they swipe

I can say, as a union rep who visits this place frequently, if you walk

in on, same shirts.

mean, I'll say, hey is this

new hire, and Jimmy says no, he's

And watching folks get quarantined

just temp who’s been here for two years.

because of COVID, which is the right thing to do, but lose two weeks of pay. The

other crucial bit is making two thirds of what city workers make is already

egregious, but when we found out that while most city workers are getting eight

hours

a day, these folks are normally cut at five hours in. So not only are they

temporary employees, they're also making less than the hourly pay and less than

the actual amount of hours take home. So, we hope that the city can rectify this.

Wouldn’t it be

insurance and access to paid leave? Thank you so much Council.

TREECE: Thank you, Andrew. Anyone that is here on your behalf want to stand up

and be recognized? Now would be great time to do it. [About 15 people stood.]

have lot of questions, but

a great holiday present to give to these folks that they have health

want to respect our rule not to ask questions during

I intend to do some at the end of the meeting if

scheduled public comment, but

you want to stick around.

SPC76-21

Jim Windsor - Electric questions.

Jim Windsor spoke.

WINDSOR: Good evening.

My name is Jim Windsor. I live at 200 Manor Drive. At the

council meeting where the Energy Task Force presented their report, the Mayor

indicated that the Task Force was dissolved and subsequent questions would be

directed to staff.

have many questions that

I hope staff are allowed to answer, and

given the limited time,

will start with the following. In layman's terms, when the

Electric Utility tells MISO that emergency situations on the transmission system will

be addressed through load shedding. Does that mean blackouts? Isn't it correct that

load shedding is not

kV transmission line and the new substation had been completed in 2017 as

planned, along with the accompanying new distribution lines to relieve

a best practice for electric system design? If the Option A 161

overloading at Grindstone, Hinkson, and Perche Creek substations, wouldn't the

number of situations requiring potential load shedding have been reduced? Please

provide

related distribution work that were presented to voters prior to the 2015 electric

bond issue. Please provide an itemized list of money that was spent on Option

public accounting of funds identified for Option A, the new substation,

and the new substation that cannot be recovered, including funding of studies that

were not -- that were done but not publicly presented. Didn't Siemens find that the

Option

A transmission path is still the lowest cost option to connect Perche Creek

substation to the 161 kV system. Who determined the five aspects of the study that

Siemens listed as crucial to Columbia? Why were competitive electric rates not

identified as

written into Article XII Section 102 of the Columbia City Charter? Why was resiliency

not identified as critical aspect of the study when one of the two stated purposes

critical aspect of the study when competitive electric rates are

of the Climate Action and Adaption Plan is to prepare Columbia's natural and built

environments and people to be more resilient to the impacts of climate change? If

resiliency is an electric system design criterion, isn't it best practice to separate

transmission paths for

Climate Action and Adaptation Plan states that extreme heat and severe storms are

growing threats in Columbia due to climate change? In 2014, didn't microburst

knock down several poles supporting section of the 69 kV transmission system

and major distribution circuits? Isn't it true that the last time substation

161 kV system and

69 kV system?

Isn't it true that the

transformer failed was in 2012, which was also last time the highest hourly summer

temperature exceeded 100 degrees? Isn't it true that the 2021 system peak was one

megawatt less and the historic high system peak, but the hourly high temperature

was nine degrees less? Siemens projected

demand growth rate “under the

expectation of normal weather.” Does staff believes that critical infrastructure

should be planned based on the expectation of normal weather? What does staff

believe would happened to the 69 kV transmission system today if Columbia

experienced

summer similar to 1980, when there were 25 days in July and August

temperature of 100 degrees or greater with high temperature of 111 degrees?

want to thank the people that have volunteered to run for City Council this April.

You should know, especially those of you running for the Fourth Ward, that the

people living along Chapel Hill Road likely don't know that the recent Task Force

recommendation is to put the new 161 kV transmission lines along the same path as

the existing 69 transmission line along Chapel Hill Road. Voters were misled in

2015, but not by Water and Light Department staff. The failure was political. The

failure was leadership. Voters and ratepayers deserve full transparency and

extensive public discussion about the electric transmission system. Thank you for

your time, and I will email my comments to the City Clerk and to you. Thank you.

SPC77-21

Laura Mitchell - West Ash Improvement Plan.

Laura Mitchell spoke.

MITCHELL:

My name is Laura Mitchell. I live at 209 Ridgeway. I'm the new President

of the West Ash Neighborhood Association, which is what I'm, how -- in what

capacity I'm here tonight. So, our previous Neighborhood Association President,

Zandra De Araujo, started collecting signatures in 2019 from people who lived along

Ash Street, requesting traffic calming measures. People in our neighborhood

believe that Ash has turned into kind of

a thoroughfare because both Broadway and

Worley have traffic lights and Ash doesn't. We’re particularly concerned about the

intersection at Ash and West because people blow through the stop sign there.

And, let’s see, according to our neighbor who lives on one of those four corners --

she sees -- she's kind of home bound and she sees an average of three or four

accidents

they can. But there have been two where people were going at an estimated speed

of 50 miles an hour and actually crashed into one of the houses. They hit the little

a month. Most of those aren't reported. A lot of people just drive away if

hobbit house that everybody loves so much, and they crashed into that apartment

building there where the car was half in, half out, and miraculously nobody was

hurt.

So,

lot of the time

yeah, and one other time, somebody crashed into

while. We are

utility’s pole and then power was out in the neighborhood for

residential neighborhood, and we were built -- this is an old neighborhood, and it

wasn’t built for this kind of thing, and we’re not like Broadway.

I asked a friend to

measure the distance from her front porch to the street, and it's 44 feet so if

somebody loses control of their car, it's just not that far before they crash into

something. So, this has been our concern for

our neighbors noticed that on the Council consent agenda, there was an item

authorizing payment to group called Bartlett and West for “design services related

to non-motorized and pedestrian improvements along Ash Street between

a while. And then in October, one of

Providence Road and Clinkscales,” and this mentioned both lights and roundabouts

at the West Avenue and Clinkscales intersection. And she just told the rest of the

people

Representative, Pat, to remove that from the consent agenda just to slow it down

little bit because we wanted to have little more neighborhood input. So, we're

concerned about the idea of roundabout. We are neighborhood of pedestrians,

lot of wheelchairs, strollers, cyclists, and roundabout, in particular, seems like it

might make things more dangerous instead of less, but then lot of things in the

proposed plan sound really good, like making raised bicycle path, elevated, and it

the

neighborhood

association,

and

asked

our

City

Council

would also be kind of wide so it would narrow the car path, which automatically

slows traffic. And then it looks like we might have continuous sidewalks. Right now,

they kind of stop and start, which is goofy.

I guess it was from back in the day when

the homeowner had to pay for their own sidewalk, and sometimes and not all the

time. So, we're excited that there's funding available for the project now. So, we

just wanted to say that we thought the neighborhood should have input about the

design process and we're looking forward to working with the designers, and thank

you for your time.

V. PUBLIC HEARINGS

PH49-21

Proposed construction of sanitary sewer rehabilitation project #9 in the

Business Loop 70 and downtown areas.

PH49-21 was read by the City Clerk.

Utilities Director David Sorrell provided a staff report.

SORRELL: Good evening, David Sorrell, Director of Utilities. So this is

public

hearing for what we're calling Sewer Rehabilitation Project #9. This project

continues efforts of the Sewer Utility to rehabilitate sewer collection system.

would consist of rehabilitating approximately 75,000 feet of sewer

structures, and connections to the sewer main.

mains,

The project is focused in two

primary areas, the Business Loop and the downtown area as shown on these

exhibits. As part of the public improvement process, we had an interested parties

meeting on November 9, 2021. In addition to the members of the community that

attended those meetings, we've communicated with others that weren't able to

attend.

We’ll work with the Missouri Department of Transportation, the Business

Loop CID, Downtown CID, and all the impacted property

owners to coordinate the impacts of this project. This project’s estimated to cost

approximately $3,025,000 and will be paid for with remaining bond funds approved

in 2013 and other sewer utility funds. With that, I'd be happy to answer any

questions.

Mayor Treece opened the public hearing.

There being no comment, Mayor Treece closed the public hearing.

The Council asked questions and made comments.

SKALA: Just a question. Maybe this is for Mr. Sorrell. Is this -- this is also part of the

ongoing -- obviously it’s rehabilitation, but the ongoing project for infill and inflow

and infiltration?

SORRELL: Yeah, it will help combat inflow and infiltration by rehabilitating the

pipes.

SKALA: It’s a continuation of that ongoing project as well, right?

SORRELL: It's, you know, the Integrated Management Plan that we have for

wastewater and stormwater has identified that we would attempt to rehabilitate

about $2.5-$2.7 million worth of sewer every year to combat inflow and infiltration.

SKALA: So presumably this could have some positive benefits for rain events and so

on and so forth.

SORRELL: Yes.

Mayor Treece made a motion directing staff to proceed with the proposed

construction of Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation #9 in the Business Loop 70 and

downtown areas. The motion was seconded by Council Member Skala and

approved unanimously by voice vote.

PH50-21

Proposed design and construction of an automated debris removal system

at the Wastewater Treatment Plant - Wetlands Treatment Unit #3; providing

for construction of the proposed improvement using a design/build

contract.

PH50-21 was read by the City Clerk.

Utilities Director David Sorrell provided a staff report.

SORRELL: So this is

public hearing for proposed installation of an automated

debris removal system at the wetland treatment unit pump station. This pump

station was originally constructed with the wetlands units in the early 1990s to

provide an additional secondary treatment of the affluent from the mechanical

plant. Since that time the wetlands were constructed, staff has identified

for an automated debris removal system at this pump station. Really the system is

needed -- it's big safety impact for workers. We got an example here of how they

need

have to manually use rakes to try to pull that debris up off that static screen and get

it out of the system. And, you know, it would improve reliability of the operation of

the system if it was automated and was cleaned. You know, periodically, we have

to call people in on weekends we're plugged up and what have you. So that shows

our current method, and this shows what an example of an automated screen --

where it would pull that material up and dump it out. Then we could pick it up with

piece of equipment and dispose of it.

This project was included or is included as

part of our Integrated Management Plan for Stormwater and Wastewater. We had

public interested parties meeting on October 2, 2021. It’s estimated to cost

approximately $3 million. Would be paid for with sewer utility funds and due to the

unique nature of this project and -- we're requesting that it be constructed utilizing

design build process that's included in the Code. So, after the public hearing, if

the Council directs staff to proceed with this project, it is requested the Council

also direct the City Manager to proceed with the selection of design build

contractor. With that, I’d be happy to answer any questions.

Mayor Treece opened the public hearing.

There being no comment, Mayor Treece closed the public hearing.

Council Member Peters made a motion directing staff to proceed with the

proposed replacement of the automated debris removal system and the

design/build process and for the City Manager to select a contractor. The motion

was seconded by Mayor Treece and approved unanimously by voice vote.

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 fifth reading by the City Clerk.

Community Development Director Tim Teddy provided a staff report.

TEDDY: There's an amendment sheet in front of you that reflects

a change in the

date on this on this final plat of subdivision. So the plat since December 6 has been

revised. It does show Sugar Maple Drive is stopping short of North Waterfront Drive

so that change has been made. So all of the applicants’ documents are in order and

it's ready for approval this evening. I'll try to answer any questions if you have

them.

TREECE: So this is that plat that we've tabled 3 times.

SKALA: Correct.

PETERS: That’s finally organized.

TREECE: I think it’s a good solution.

Council Member Skala made a motion to amend B284-21 per the amendment

sheet. The motion was seconded by Council Member Pitzer and approved

unanimously by voice vote.

B284-21, as amended, was given sixth reading by the City Clerk with the vote

recorded as follows: VOTING YES: PETERS, TREECE, WANER, SKALA, THOMAS,

PITZER. VOTING NO: NO ONE. ABSENT: FOWLER. Bill declared enacted, reading

as follows:

B388-21

B389-21

Granting a waiver and design adjustment relating to the proposed Final

Plat of Hardy Plat 1 for sidewalk construction on the north side of Highway

KK (5971 S. Highway KK); setting forth a condition for payment in lieu of

sidewalk construction (Case No. 318-2021).

Discussion shown with B389-21.

Approving the Final Plat of “Hardy Plat 1” located on the north side of

Highway KK and approximately 3,200 feet west of Scott Boulevard (5971

S. Highway KK) (Case No. 318-2021).

The bills were given second reading by the City Clerk.

Community Development Director Tim Teddy provided a staff report.

TEDDY: 5971 South Highway KK, here. It's

proposing two-lot subdivision. They’re reconfiguring two existing parcels, and

with that, they’re requesting design adjustment that would waive installation of

sidewalk. When they went to the Planning and Zoning Commission with this

request, at that time, they were requesting what we call full waiver, meaning

there would be no sidewalk built as result of this subdivision, nor would they

a little over five acres. And this applicant is

have to pay any cash in lieu of construction. We did receive communication today in

our office indicating that they're in agreement with the ordinance that has been

prepared

recommendation to waive construction conditioned upon payment of

of $18,216. So

hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission, the statements indicated that

which

reflects

the

Planning

and

Zoning

Commission’s

majority

fee in lieu

want to make Council aware of that, but at the time we had the

they would wish to have

the site and overview, it’s

full waiver and have no obligation for sidewalk. That's

little bit of dated aerial there, but you can see

couple of phases of Thornbrook Subdivision, the abutting cul-de-sacs on the east

and also on the west side of this location, and you can see the almost 90 degree

bend in State Route KK, just turning away, west of the site. Again, it’s two lots.

There was three feet of additional right-a-way taken per our ordinance and the

classification standards for KK as part of that platting. The design adjustment is from

particular section of the Unified Development Code. They cited topographic

challenges as the primary reason for waiving construction. And again, at the

Commission date, which was November 4, at that time, they weren’t proposing any

kind of fee in lieu arrangement. These are the criteria that we and the Planning and

Zoning

basically means

sewers, and it basically runs as

development or value the

Commission

examined.

rural type cross section where there's no curbs and gutters, storm

country road. So we look at the cost relative to the

development, terrain considerations meaning

When

it's

so-called

unimproved

road,

which

topography, but also natural resources that might be on the site, especially in the

path of this sidewalk, surrounding development, and the road and street type. Here

we have

a collector classification, but low actual traffic I would say on Route KK. The

traffic counts aren't high. And then you look at nearby pedestrian generators, and

staff and Planning and Zoning Commission noted with Beulah Ralph School directly

east along KK that there is

pedestrian generator to the east of this. It could

benefit from sidewalk. And then if sidewalks are found to be warranted, they can

either be constructed or in cases where it's agreed that conditions for building the

sidewalks are difficult, we’ll accept or Council has the option of accepting cash in

lieu. We use

figure that's based on the City's cost to build sidewalk in the last two

rolling average. So currently, $69 per linear foot, and that's

years so that's kind of

arbitrary as it’s applied to any given property. Because,

I think we would agree and

the Planning and Zoning Commission members agreed, it’s probably one of the

more expensive sidewalks to build in this location. And then here's some

additional criteria that are in the Unified Development Code itself that are weighed

by staff and the Planning Commission when formulating recommendations on

sidewalk waivers. Several photos of the area, so we'll see in

a second that it’s really

split frontage here. This would be the west portion and the larger portion of the

frontage, but you can see how Route KK -- you’re looking east here, you can see

how it's curving and it's descending in topographic elevation. And then the house

you see there is not involved in this request, but it's in the middle -- it's surrounded

by the land to be subdivided. Then this portion on the lower right hand photo is just

that small bit of eastern frontage that’s part of this same tract. The double headed

arrows there give

a rough indication of where the frontage of the subject property

is, and that’s what would be subject to the sidewalk, so if built, it would be too

disconnected sidewalk segments -- disconnected from one another and also from

the nearest sidewalk, which is almost 200 feet to the east,

believe. And this is just,

land analysis map.

this is from their own exhibit -- they provide now what’s called

It shows sensitive features, and by code they're required to identify where there

are significant trees, which are defined as 20 inch diameter and greater, so you can

see some of those are actually close to the right-a-way. And then staff gave an

indication of what the grade is of that descending slope on Route KK -- it measures

about 17 percent on this west portion of frontage here. There's generally not

a lot

of development in the vicinity, but of course to the east you have Thornbrook

Subdivision and Beulah Ralph as mentioned. So this is where we arrived --

Commission recommended by

6-3 vote to approve the design adjustment but

only on the condition that applicant pay

fee in lieu of construction, and then they

So, I’ll try and answer any questions you

also recommended the plat by

may have.

a 7-2 vote.

PITZER: So the plat here -- they’re combining two lots or what's going on?

TEDDY: There's two distinct lots that are -- it’s plat of two lots. So, there's parcels

that exist that have to be platted cause they haven’t been. They don't show up as

legal lots, so to speak so there -- our understanding is it's the owners desire to

convey a portion but not all the property to another individual.

PITZER: And there was some discussion in the Planning and Zoning meeting about

being impractical to build anything on the lot?

TEDDY: Yeah, there's some access challenges, particularly on the east lot.

PITZER: That's the narrow sliver?

TEDDY: Yeah. There is

a driveway that serves that.

a driveway that serves the second lot, the west lot. So there’s

PITZER: And there's a sewer easement right through the middle of it?

TEDDY: Yeah, there's whole easement exhibit. think it's the second page of your

plat. It shows variety of the easements that crisscross the lot. So, yeah, there's

some constraints on it.

PITZER: So they're prohibited from building within

easement or what?

certain distance from that

TEDDY: Yeah, you wouldn’t build something over an easement.

PITZER: And so the lot directly to the east of the eastern part of this plot, kind of to

the lower right there in the part that's not shaded in blue -- there's no sidewalk on

that lot, either. Correct?

TEDDY: There's no sidewalk here, and there's no sidewalk on --

PITZER: -- there. Do we know why? Why is there no sidewalk on that second lot?

TEDDY: That is Thornbrook Plat 8. All the other lots on that particular street do have

sidewalk on Route KK. It is puzzling why the one that faces the cul-de-sac does not

have it.

done, that had been set up as

area of tree growth there, and you can see it very distinctly in 2002 aerial. So, it

would be my belief that that was set aside as preservation area in that plat. And

can tell you that examining an aerial from 2002 when grading work was

landscape preservation area. You'll notice small

that would have been indicated differently than we do today through Code, but

there would have been an exhibit, part of their land disturbance plan, that was

reviewed and approved. We did not find, however, that there was

a formal request

to waive that sidewalk so it's little bit irregular, but think the belief was -- there

was that conflict between trees and running the sidewalk all the way to the end of

the property.

PITZER: Okay. Because, yeah, that would have provided connection to that little

sliver at least. And then on the western side, there's

city limits. Is that right? To the west, yeah, kind of around that turn.

TEDDY: Yeah, you’re going to see - where you see the [Inaudible].

PITZER: So that thick black dashed line.

a couple more lots within the

TEDDY: Yeah, so there’s an R-1 there in the City. Yeah.

PITZER: Have you looked at whether, you know, if those are developed, if those

would be suitable for sidewalks there?

TEDDY: We didn't really do the, what you might call

feasibility of sidewalk. mean, the conditions probably are somewhat difficult

good portion of it. They managed to it as part of Thornbrook 8 -- those other

corridor analysis of the

along

lots.

PITZER: Yeah, it’s an odd case all around.

SKALA: Can just ask question and that is -- can you remind me about the

disposition and the rules regarding the payment in lieu, and, you know, what that

can be used for -- that funding -- and is there time limits, those kinds of things?

TEDDY: As written by the Law Department, anywhere within

location. So think the thought is that it could be used for an area where there’s

more urgent need. I'd recognize need here in the sense that it would be ideal to

have sidewalks radiating out from the elementary school in all directions, but in

mile radius of this

terms of residential density and vehicular traffic, there's just not

might be an area that's more better suited to this expenditure.

SKALA: Is there a time limit in terms of the disposition?

lot. So there

TEDDY: Well,

I don't know if Ms. Thompson would like to comment on that, but I’m

thinking 7-8 years is kind of

the money as if you’ve paid

project.

limitation on it. It's principle that you don't just collect

fee. mean, it's meant to be used toward sidewalk

Caleb Colbert spoke.

COLBERT: Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Caleb Colbert, attorney at 827 East Broadway.

I'm here tonight on behalf of the applicant. And just to kind of reiterate what Mr.

Teddy indicated, we are agreeable to paying the fee in lieu, so we’re not making

the request for

a full waiver. The site is encumbered by a stream buffer so that

really limits the development potential of this particular site. And ultimately, if we

built the sidewalk now and KK is ever expanded, the sidewalk gets torn out. So in

our view, the fee in lieu makes more sense right now than trying to build the

sidewalk, particularly given the constraints of the sites. But I'd be happy to answer

any questions.

TREECE: Can you comment on what the intended or projected use of it is?

COLBERT:

I can't. So I represent -- Mr. Hardy is the contract buyer of Lot 2 and he is

going to locate an accessory structure kind of in the northwest corner, so the site is

not intended for any type of residential development.

TREECE: He have adjoining property?

COLBERT: Pardon?

TREECE: Does he own adjoining property?

COLBERT: He does. He owns the lot in Thornbrook.

TREECE: Very good. Thank you for clarifying that.

The Council made comments.

PITZER: Yeah,

I mean like I said, it's kind of a strange case. It’s a strange piece of

land, but, you know, it's probably reasonable to waive the requirement there just

given the lack of connection, the lack of density, and the lack of use.

PETERS: And Planning and Zoning looked at this, and they seem to think it was

reasonable.

so.

I sort of trust them, and they're pretty meticulous about a lot of this,

PITZER: Yeah, I agree.

B388-21 was given third reading by the City Clerk with the vote recorded as

follows: VOTING YES: PETERS, TREECE, WANER, SKALA, THOMAS, PITZER.

VOTING NO: NO ONE. ABSENT: FOWLER. Bill declared enacted, reading as

follows:

B389-21 was given third reading by the City Clerk with the vote recorded as

follows: VOTING YES: PETERS, TREECE, WANER, SKALA, THOMAS, PITZER.

VOTING NO: NO ONE. ABSENT: FOWLER. Bill declared enacted, reading as

follows:

VII. CONSENT AGENDA

The following bills were given second reading and the resolutions were

read by the City Clerk.

B390-21

B391-21

Authorizing reconstruction of the pavement, curb, gutter, sidewalk and

driveway approaches along Walnut Street between College Avenue and

Old Highway 63 North; calling for bids through the Purchasing Division.

Authorizing a right of use license permit with Missouri Alpha Chapter of Pi

Beta Phi House Corporation for the installation, maintenance and

operation of parking spaces and landscaping within a portion of the

rights-of-way on the north side of Rollins Street and the alleyway behind

511 Rollins Street.

B392-21

Authorizing application to the United States Department of Transportation

Federal Aviation Administration and the Missouri Department of

Transportation for airport capital assistance grants in 2022.

B393-21

B394-21

Authorizing a program services contract with the Missouri Department of

Health and Senior Services for maternal child health services.

Authorizing a program services contract with the Missouri Department of

Health and Senior Services for epidemiology and laboratory capacity

enhancing detection expansion services for the provision or

implementation of COVID-19 response activities; amending the FY 2022

Annual Budget by appropriating funds.

B395-21

Amending the FY 2022 Annual Budget by appropriating funds for expenses

associated with the overdose data to action program services contract with

the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.

B396-21

B397-21

Amending the FY 2022 Annual Budget by appropriating funds for the Fire

Department’s bay heater maintenance and replacement project.

Authorizing an agreement with Boone County, Missouri, on behalf of its

Office of Emergency Management, for the installation of an emergency

siren and supporting infrastructure in Louisville Park.

B398-21

Approving the Final Plat of “Concorde Office & Industrial Plaza Plat 12-A”

located on the east side of Maguire Boulevard and approximately 0.7 miles

south of Stadium Boulevard; authorizing performance contracts (Case No.

302-2021).

R191-21

R192-21

Setting a public hearing: proposed removal and construction of a

replacement bridge on Ridgemont Road over the County House Branch.

Setting a public hearing: proposed construction of the Hinkson Creek

stream bank stabilization project adjacent to the Clear Creek sewer force

main and gravity sewer main located east of Boulder Drive and west of

Rock Quarry Road.

R193-21

Setting a public hearing: voluntary annexation of property located on the

west side of Scott Boulevard, approximately 900 feet south of Sawgrass

Drive (5025 Scott Boulevard) (Case No. 47-2022).

R194-21

R195-21

Authorizing Amendment 2 to The Right Time Initiative Participation contract

with the Missouri Family Health Council, Inc. for family planning services.

Authorizing the use of a design/build process for the design and

construction of an additional electrical generation unit at the Landfill Gas

Electric Generation Plant.

R196-21

R197-21

R198-21

Authorizing Amendment No. 2 to the software service agreement with

ReCollect Systems Inc. to add a module to allow City utility customers to

schedule the special collection of bulky items and major appliances.

Authorizing an enterprise software license agreement with ArchiveSocial,

Inc. to capture and archive City of Columbia online social media

communication and internet website records.

Authorizing FY 2022 social services provider agreements; authorizing the

form and content of a business associate agreement for applicable social

service providers.

The bills were given third reading and the resolutions read by the City Clerk with

the vote recorded as follows: VOTING YES: PETERS, TREECE, WANER (except for

R194-21 on which she abstained), SKALA, THOMAS, PITZER. VOTING NO: NO

ONE. ABSENT: FOWLER. Bills declared enacted and resolutions declared

adopted, reading as follows:

VIII. NEW BUSINESS

None.

IX. INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING

The following bills were introduced by the Mayor unless otherwise

indicated, and all were given first reading.

B399-21

B400-21

Calling a special election, to be held on April 5, 2022, on the question

whether to impose a local use tax.

Authorizing an annexation agreement with James F. Harasha and Rita F.

Harasha for property located south of the intersection of Richland Road

and Trade Winds Parkway (8100 E. Richland Road); directing the City

Clerk to have the agreement recorded (Case No. 284-2021).

B401-21

B402-21

Approving the PD Planned Development of “Lot 2 of Providence South

Plaza, Plat 2” located on the north side of Green Meadows Road and west

of Carter Lane (511 E. Green Meadows Road); approving a statement of

intent (Case No. 03-2022).

Approving the PD Planned Development of “The Kitchen & Discovery

Offices” located on the southwest corner of Discovery Parkway and

Endeavor Avenue; approving a revised statement of intent (Case No.

06-2022).

B403-21

B404-21

Approving the Final Plat of “Woodrail - Plat No. 6A” located on the east

side of Westcreek Circle (3300 Westcreek Circle) (Case No. 300-2021).

Authorizing a second amendment to the consultant services agreement

with Center for Transportation and the Environment, Inc. to extend the term

of service for reporting on key performance indicators on all transit fixed

route buses to include diesel, compressed natural gas and electric

vehicles.

B405-21

Authorizing a right of use permit with Boone County, Missouri, on behalf of

its Office of Emergency Management, for the construction, improvement,

operation and maintenance of a warning siren and supporting infrastructure

within a portion of the St. Charles right-of-way.

B406-21

B407-21

Accepting conveyances for street purposes.

Authorizing a first amendment to the power purchase agreement with

Boone Stephens Solar I, LLC.

B408-21

B409-21

Authorizing Amendment No. 2 to the Software as a Service (SaaS)

agreement with N. Harris Computer Corporation to remove the Energy Star

Portfolio Manager module.

Accepting conveyances for temporary construction and sewer purposes;

accepting Stormwater Management/BMP Facilities Covenants.

B410-21

B411-21

Accepting conveyances for underground electric utility purposes.

Authorizing an agreement with The Curators of the University of Missouri,

on behalf of the University of Missouri Fire and Rescue Training Institute, to

provide live fire instructor training at the City of Columbia Fire Training

Academy.

B412-21

B413-21

Authorizing an intergovernmental cooperative agreement with The Curators

of the University of Missouri, on behalf of the MU Institute for Public Policy,

for social and economic data collection, analysis and representation

services relating to the Boone Indicators Dashboard program.

Amending the FY 2022 Annual Budget by appropriating funds for a

property evaluation of City-owned buildings.

B414-21

B415-21

Authorizing an amendment to the administrative services agreement with

The Columbia Community Land Trust, Inc.

Amending Chapter 29 of the City Code to revise the definitions for gas

station or fueling station and light vehicle service and repair (Case No.

24-2022).

B416-21

B417-21

Amending Chapter 29 of the City Code to add “gas station or fueling

center” to the permitted use table and revising the associated use-specific

standards (Case No. 24-2022).

Amending Chapter 29 of the City Code relating to parking requirements for

gas station or fueling center and light vehicle service or repair uses (Case

No. 24-2022).

X. REPORTS

REP99-21

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 Funding for Columbia’s Recovery

and Economic Stimulus Plan.

Economic Development Director Stacey Button provided a staff report.

Steve Smith, Jeff Lashley, Susan Hart, and James Gruender spoke, and

the Council asked questions and discussed the report.

BUTTON:

Good evening, Mayor and Council, Stacey Button Director of Economic

Development. So at the pre-council meeting on October 4, Council identified

American Rescue Plan Act or ARPA dollars as an opportunity to make catalytic

investments in Columbia to transform the local economy and make us even

stronger in the future by addressing disparities exposed by the pandemic. So

specific to workforce development, ARPA funds are intended to support those

individuals who may have been laid off, experienced reduced hours, or whose job

may have changed, and that is done by preparing future workers, retraining

dislocated workers, and encouraging entrepreneurship, especially in industries that

are impacted by the pandemic. So tonight, we have three programs that are

requesting ARPA funding under the Workforce Development Initiative, which will

stimulate economic activity. These three programs, MACC, Job Point, and the

COMO

Cooks

Kitchen,

are

currently

providing

these

services

and

training

opportunities to the community. Additional ARPA funds will allow them to expand

their offerings and ability to reach and train more citizens, especially those who are

traditionally underrepresented

post-secondary

education

and/or

are

impacted

by racial, social, and economic inequalities. The MACC proposal includes the

expansion of the mechatronics and makerspace programs, as well as customized

training in early college career and technical education scholarships. The Job Point

proposal is for the purchase and renovation of

of software and commercial driver's license simulator. The COMO Cooks proposal

is actually revised proposal, which believe you received via email from both the

REDI and Loop CID executive boards over the weekend. Their proposal allows for

the purchase of additional equipment and renovation of space and new

permanent location, as well as increased program offerings, including business

coaching, workshops, and trainings. And representatives from each of the

a new training facility and purchase

organizations are present this evening to answer any questions that you all have.

Jeff Lashley is here MACC, Steve Smith is here from Job Point, and Susan Hart and

James Gruender from the REDI and Loop CID are here respectively. So, with that, I’ll

turn that over to you for discussion.

TREECE: Council, what's your pleasure here? Do you want to hear

a quick thumbnail

from each of the applicants? Do you want to discuss this and direct staff to come

back with contracts that we then put on the agenda and have that dialogue there?

Do you have any feedback that you want to give them before that? What's your

pleasure?

SKALA:

think

thumbnail would be useful, just in terms of conveying some

information to the public as well the Council here, and then

through the process with contracts and so on and so forth.

I think we will work

THOMAS: Brian, I’d like to ask just

may? So, at the pre-council work session that’s been referred to, there were four

areas of investment that Council asked to move forward on, homeless services,

mental health services, violence prevention, and workforce development. believe

a context setting question to the City Manager, if

I've seen an RFP for homeless services. Is that still open or have you received bids,

and what's the status of community violence and mental health services?

GLASCOCK: I’d have to get with Stephanie Browning who’s been on vacation last

week. I haven't gotten an update to where we're at.

THOMAS: Okay, and it looks as if different process is being proposed here that

doesn't involve issuing an RFP. What's the rationale for that?

GLASCOCK: Well, we didn't -- we went out to the people that we knew about that

did these types of services and didn't feel like we needed an RFP at this time

because they already have programs that we could sponsor.

TREECE: One thing I'll point out on that is that the ARPA funds for workforce

development are for the expansion of existing workforce development programs --

is my understanding. Is that right? These are really -- the workforce development

infrastructure of our community that -- it's who REDI and Route

manufacturers

rely on with respect to Moberly Area Community College and the mechatronics

program, and there may be others out there. I’m not aware of that.

PITZER: So there were no other programs that you considered and didn't include

other than these three?

GLASCOCK: I’ll let Stacy answer that.

BUTTON: This is not an exhaustive list, but at this time, based on the input from

October 4, and then staff also had further discussions with City Management,

Deputy City Manager, Finance Director as well as procurement to look at, again, as

the Mayor referenced, existing programs for trainings that already exist in our

community that can be enhanced. So at that point in time we identified these

three.

TREECE: I’ll just go in order of the agenda, if Steve Smith is available with Job Point,

we could just start there. Maybe take 2-3, 3-5 minutes.

SMITH: Steven A. Smith, 1603 Canton Drive, President and CEO of Job Point. The

items we've requested are to purchase an adjoining house at 410 Wilkes. It's

adjacent to our property, same ownership as the building that you all assisted us in

purchasing at 400 Wilkes. Same ownership so we know the folks there. It would

allow us to -- we are currently overcapacity as far as not having an office for

additional people that we need to hire. This would allow us, after review with the

City, appropriate City staff -- we would need to replat, rezone, and possibly talk

about vacating an alleyway, but we'd need to definitely replat and rezone so it

would take some time. The seller is willing to sign

a contract subject to that. We

don't know exactly total renovation costs until we talk with City staff. So, trying to

do things in appropriate order here, but the bulk of the repairs -- our instructors

feel that we and our students could do, and we could actually include this in our

youth build program construction projects. We would plan to move our noisy power

saws and so forth from the education building where it can disrupt classes fairly

routinely and put those next door so it'd be less disruptive and open up for other

programming that we are working on, including working with the SCWIB Central

Workforce

Investment

Board.

They

have

applied

with

three

other

workforce

investment boards in the State for

warehousing program, which

I think would fit

in very well with particularly some of the newer employers coming to town. And

they’ve asked us, Job Point, to be the primary instructor for that course. The

commercial driver's license simulator -- there's huge demand, of course, for CDL’s,

including with the City, among other employers. We would open that up, and by

having the property next door, that would free up space in our existing building to

have that there.

I did put an asterisk. In the middle of a pandemic, the rules are

being changed and it's going to be harder for people to get their permits and

commercial driver's licenses. Those rules take effect in February and we do not

know all the details to that yet. We would certainly not buy

a simulator until we

know what the new rules are. It's our -- we're pretty confident that we'll be able to

contribute to folks education of obtaining permits, but until we know the exact

rules, we would not use those funds. And we would wait, get the rules, see how we

fit in that, and then request those funds.

LASHLEY: Good evening, my name is Jeff Lashley, and

I serve as President for MACC.

My address is 1191 County Road 2328 in Moberly. So what we are proposing is

expansion of some existing programs that we have. I’ll start with our mechatronics

program. Our mechatronics program is designed to prepare our students for

advanced manufacturing jobs, but along the way we have certificates that are

shorter term. And this program has been extremely successful, and business and

industry is calling for us to open up more seats. So, with

a part of this proposal, we

intend to open up an evening cohort of our mechatronics program. The second

program is related to an expansion of our early college. Our early college program is

program we have with Columbia Public Schools, where juniors and seniors attend

full time at MACC. We’re in the second year of that program. Right now these

students are taking traditional transfer degrees. So, we’ll have students graduating,

sometimes with their full Associate of Arts degree earned at the same time that

they're earning their high school diploma. Some earn less. Currently we do not

have students in our career and technical programs, which would be, for example,

the mechatronics program, our programs related to cybersecurity, related to

infrastructure of technology, and several others. We’re in conversations with CPS.

We want to expand the early college programs to the CTE programs. And so these

programs are much more expensive. At this point, we have our dual credit rate with

CPS which is greatly reduced. It would be difficult for us to do that with the current

technical programs. So we're proposing we would be able to scholarship the

remaining amount of the tuition and fees for the career technical programs so early

college students would continue to be able to take it, it would continue to be 100

percent free for them, would be no extra cost for CPS. And then we are looking at

providing an expanding customized training. Customized training is something --

it's

a program with the State of Missouri. We do a lot of customized training in our

service region, including Columbia, but it's limited dollars. And so, one of the things

-- handouts you just got talked about the different kinds of programs that we could

do with the customized training. So again, these funds would be used to pay for

those services so the businesses and industries would be able to get that training at

no cost. And then the other expansion is of our makerspace, and

gave you

brochure related to the makerspace as well. This is brand new space that we've

just opened, and it's built to help entrepreneurs come in, develop ideas, take

prototypes, and potentially, ideally, create new businesses. They'll be able to use

the space, actually, continue to produce whatever their ideas are, as well. They'll

just have to continue to have a membership and come up with the consumables.

PETERS: Can you give me an idea of how many students you think you would be

able to -- you could increase --

mean, how many students come through your

program? What do you think you'll be able to do with this?

LASHLEY: Okay, in each program? Well, the mechatronics program, right now, we

have essentially

and we start

start at least an evening cohort right away, possibly,

cohort of about fourteen students that goes through together

second cohort so we have two at any given time. We would want to

second cohort. mean, we

want to hit the level where we don’t have students who can’t get into the program

because there aren't spots for them. With the early college, we're at about 150

students right now.

I think we would continue to have that number in the Associate

of Arts degree, and then we would look to expand that number into the career and

technical programs.

HART: Good evening. I'm Susan Hart. I'm at 3719 Bray Court, and I'm here tonight in

my capacity as the REDI Chair of the Board. CoMo Cooks Shared Kitchen is

partnership between REDI and the Loop CID. It is located currently in Mizzou North.

We've been operating since March, and we have been very successful since then,

serving -- currently, we have fourteen clients and percentage of those -- large

percent of those are women and minority owned businesses. This is startup. It is

an entrepreneurship-based program to encourage entrepreneurship startup

food-based industries. We would utilize the ARPA funds to purchase additional

equipment, and we would also use it to build out permanent space. Mizzou North

is slated to be taken offline by the University in early spring, and we have

identified permanent location and we need to expand that and put the

a joint

permanent funds in there. We would also increase our program offerings that

include business coaching, which is instrumental in this. You know, it's not just start

a business and you’re on your own. Business coaching is very important for the

success for making these businesses sustainable and continue on. We’d also

provide additional workshops and training. We specifically feel these ARPA

workforce funds are applicable to the kitchen. We’re

unique program in

Columbia, and we are -- the ARPA funds say for the workforce development “to

encourage entrepreneurship.” That's what we're doing. That's what we are asking --

that these individuals can start their food-based industries and the pandemic hit

this industry hard. Our food-based hospitality [Inaudible] difficult so this provides

some sustainability and some reliability for future training and getting these

businesses up and going. So, we are encouraged by the possibility of receiving

these ARRA funds to enhance this existing program and make it even stronger, and

serve more citizens quicker by what we're doing over there.

TREECE: Susan, give me a sense of how many current clients the kitchen has?

HART: So we've been operating since March, so we haven't been operating that

long, but we are right now at 14 and we have more capacity. But it's been great. We

have over, like three-fourths of our clients are women or minority owned startups

in there.

PETERS: Can

I just ask if we're -- when you're having to move your kitchen, are you

going to be able to take the appliances that you have?

HART: Yes, great question. We -- when we knew -- when we signed the lease with

Mizzou North, with Mizzou, that they were planning on -- it wasn’t

a long term. We

were figuring it would be 18 to 24 months, but the pandemic slowed us because we

signed the lease and one month later everything's shut down. So, we were able

then to get back in there and get -- do our build out, and when we did that, we

were very thoughtful about the purchase of equipment because we wanted to

make sure we could plug and play, like the grills, the griddles, the things. Now,

what was good about Mizzou North was the existing infrastructure. The two most

expensive things in the kitchen are the walk in freezer cooler, and the type one

hood with the ansul system. Those were existing at Mizzou North, which made it

great way to launch quickly this program. Of course, the permanent location will

need to have that infrastructure put in there. We can't take that with us necessarily.

But the other things that we purchased during the -- when we were starting it, we

did -- probably $75,000 worth of equipment that we can take with us.

PITZER: Did you talk to MACC about their makerspace?

HART: Yes, we've worked --

was personally on

committee that was an advisory

kitchen

committee for the makerspace. So it is -- the makerspace is not

necessarily, which has the infrastructure, but it's the same basis of startups with

that maker community. We are just the food maker community and the CoMo

Cooks.

PITZER: But it would be in

makerspace.

a separate location then what they’re doing with their

HART: Right because their space is -- they are right in the middle in the basement of

Parkade and they’re kind of landlocked where they are right there.

PITZER: And then with the costs associated with standing up

REDI or the Loop participating and sharing those costs.

new location, are

HART: We both are, it is a shared -- it will be a shared endeavor together.

PITZER: And how much have they committed to or pledged?

HART: At this point it's -- we haven’t worked out the exact details on that, but it is

shared endeavor.

GRUENDER: [James Gruender] The Loop has already identified $50,000 to help with

buildout if needed, and we will do the staffing and the management of the

program, and that will be Loop CID funds.

PITZER: So your request was for $250K and then that $50K would be on top of that.

GRUENDER: If needed, or we would use that for temporary -- or we would use the

$50K for

a temporary location because it will take time to build the kitchen out. We

need to be out of Mizzou North by February 29. So we're going to have to have

some overlap of funds to utilize to be able to operate the kitchen in the meantime

because we can't have our fourteen clients not

a place to cook for any period of

time or else, you know -- their businesses, they have to run, and we have that

location identified as well.

TREECE: Thanks James. James Gruender is the Chair of the Loop CID committee.

GRUENDER: James Gruender, 1108 Business Loop 70 East.

TREECE: So what's Council's pleasure on this.

SKALA: Are we being asked to give

contract? What is -- what's the next step?

recommendation or develop some of the

TREECE: So I would say the next step would be -- if we want to do this that we direct

staff to come back with contracts for each of those organizations. And then those

will be placed on the council agenda, just like we approve other contracts for

public hearing.

PETERS: I think that would be a good idea.

SKALA: That would be appropriate.

PITZER: And I'd like to -- I mean, as part of that, I’d like to get a little better sense for

the potential impact, numbers of people who would be able to participate, kind of

goals or metrics that you’re looking for in terms of success. You know, with the

kitchen proposal, maybe getting little -- being little bit more firm about how

that’s coming together and things like that.

WANER: think these are all really great and exciting opportunities for us to invest.

do have little bit of an issue with how we're doing this because we had talked

initially about request for an RFP put out and getting those responses, and even

Ms. Button just said this isn’t an exhaustive list. There are other people that are

doing this work in the community I’m sure, so just want to put that out there --

that I'm not entirely comfortable with how we're moving forward with this because

it feels antithetical to what we’ve discussed. But do think the projects are

worthwhile so holding space for both of those sentiments at the same time.

THOMAS: And share your views almost exactly, Andrea.

I think these are excellent

projects.

building

love the shared space opportunity for capacity building, training, and

business, and they’re all important projects. But our process has been

not close to what

one public hearing about how the ARPA funds should be spent on June 21.

back at my notes, and there were about half dozen comments supportive of job

training as sort of general bucket area. There were lot more than that --

would have preferred. It's been very top down. We've only had

looked

comments about things like housing and homelessness and mental health services

and violence reduction. And really, it seems to me there's been just an inability to

communicate across some kind of chasm.

I feel like Andrea, Pat, and I have a vision

for really grassroots focused community engagement process -- to really hear

what people who are struggling with inequality are experiencing and need most in

terms of investment of these funds, which is specifically to address economic

inequality. And we haven't been able to do that, and other cities have. But

I feel

like we've asked and asked, and most recently at that work session, these four

areas were identified for earliest processes -- for earlier kind of decision making,

and so that's good. I'm going to support this process for sure. But we also -- there

was going to be the design of that more community focused engagement process,

and Stephanie was going to meet with us and this was months ago.

I know she's

busy. Can we not hire more capacity so we can manage the, you know, the Health

and Human Services management and get this important community engagement

process going, John?

GLASCOCK: You know, as

Services to do it, and so Stephanie runs that department. She's, you know, she feels

like she’s one person person trying to do all this because that's what you all

requested. And told you at the time, it's going to take for her to get all this done,

I state -- as you stated, you all asked Health and Human

and you have to be patient. The RFP, one of them's out -- should be done in

January, but, you know, she's going to struggle to get through what you want to get

done as quickly as you want it. And, you just can't go out and hire people to do

some of this stuff because, you know, there's

follow.

process for which we have to

THOMAS: Yeah, well,

I guess, I just want to say from the point of view of people in

the community, this looks very top down, and that's not the way I want us to look.

SKALA: My recollection of the conversation that at least at the City Council had

here, separate from the work session, but the conversation that we had here was

that certainly for the first tranche of this $12.5 million dollars that was the bank,

there were going to be some staff limitations in terms of what we could develop.

We were going to have to get

a consultant on board essentially and/or assign some

of this to Stephanie Browning for RFP development, and all of that's true. And that

certainly is true of the second tranche of this money that's coming through. And it

was in the context of that discussion that all of that old stuff about the potential for

three underserved areas and community development and emergent leadership

and all of those kinds -- the kinds of things that you're talking about, that you've

been trying to press for, which

are coming. On the other hand, we do have these limits, staff limitations

and some of the RFPs are out. And guess would have been

having broader net to see what these requests were going to be like. These are

substantive -- at least it addresses the argument -- think it addresses the

arguments, my own opinion, -- of this controversy that we were talking about with

the people versus projects because really do think that these are people projects,

think, are absolutely think are necessary and

think

guess,

a little bit happier in

if you will, and do affect some of the folks that were adversely affected by COVID,

which is what the ARPA funding was all about. We haven’t even -- we didn't even

get to the priority in terms of broadband and all of that kind of thing that was kind

of left probably for the second tranche, but. Although I’m

with just having -- suggesting the image that people are just making applications for

this and we're just satisfying some of these applications. think, given the planning

that we're talking about, about what to do with the bulk of this funding, this is

really talking -- guess it's $1.6 million were talking out of the $12.5 million our first

tranche. So do also concur that these are good projects. think they deserve

funding. We can sort some of this out believe in the contracting, but think we

a little bit uncomfortable

need to move ahead with this because we've been sitting on this $12.5 million

dollars for some period of time.

PETERS:

three projects does not mean that we aren't going to look at any other workforce

projects or we're not going to ask people in the community what else they want.

feel like we need to start moving forward with some of this. You know, if it’s $1.6

million, then that's not that much of that $25 million. feel like we have heard what

people have said, but we can get paralyzed by having public hearing after public

hearing after public hearing. We're not moving forward and this takes time and

people need help. So, think, we can do both. don’t see this meaning that we

hear what you're saying and would hope that we can

I would sort of second what Karl’s saying. To me, going ahead with these

can’t do anything else. So,

do both.

THOMAS: So, there’s two separate issues. There’s the deep community focused

engagement, which we have agreed we're going to try to accomplish for the second

half, so put that aside. The second issue, which concerns me, is the lack of an RFP

process, and, you know, how much would it delay us to do

as you did for homeless services. All of these worthy projects could apply. We just

have to have set of rules, and it’s open to other good ideas around workforce

a standard RFP the same

development and job training.

GLASCOCK: It can be as fast as you want.

I mean you got to write things that -- I

mean, how would you write everything that they’re doing in an RFP of these three

processes. Stacy and struggled with how you write workforce development RFP,

other than just say propose something.

THOMAS: Well, think that would be

other great ideas out there.

GLASCOCK: She has expertise in all the workforce development, and that's why

assigned it to her -- to go out and find the ones that are ready to go. We could get in

here fast and do it. And she did that, and she's done great job with that. And so,

a start, and because, I mean, there may be

you know, there’s other things out there. As all of you’ve said, there’s other things

out there, but these are the ones that are easy to do, go forward, and they meet

what we're trying to get accomplished with the money.

THOMAS: Well, I'll be interested to hear public comment about this proposal.

REP100-21

Business Loop Community Improvement District (CID) Board of Directors -

Membership Change Due to a Resignation.

Mayor Treece appointed Jay Rader to the Business Loop CID Board with

the consent of the Council.

TREECE: Business Loop has

speak to the applicant, Jay Rader, and had

priorities for the Loop, and would like to appoint Mr. Jay Rader to the Loop CID

vacancy. They’ve had one applicant after looking.

I did

good conversation today about his

Board. I don’t know if that’s consent of Council or if it’s just my appointment.

AMIN: It takes consent of the Council.

TREECE: May I have consent of Council? No Objection? Thank you.

REP101-21

REP102-21

Downtown Community Improvement District - End of Year Fiscal Report.

Discussion shown with REP102-21.

North 763 Community Improvement District - End of Year Fiscal Report.

Mayor Treece made a comment.

TREECE: Also attached -- tis the season -- is the end of the year fiscal report for the

Downtown CID and the North 763 CID, and again, these are important documents

because this is really their only accountability to taxpayers on the tax money they

collect and how it's spent.

REP103-21

Budget Billing Program Changes.

The Council discussed the report.

TREECE: The budget billing program -- we received

council memo on that --

changes. Anybody want to add anything to that? Are there any questions? Andrea’s

giving me a thumbs up. Anybody else?

PITZER: Nope, glad to see it’s happening.

TREECE: Right, good changes.

REP104-21

Annual Report of Volunteer Service to the City.

Leigh Kottwitz, the Manager of the Office of Neighborhood Services

provided a staff report.

KOTTWITZ: Hello, I’m Leigh Kottwitz. I’m the Neighborhood Services Manager, and

it's the most wonderful night of the year. It’s when we get to talk about the great

work of volunteers. Thanks Tim --

let you take look at these while

have some photos to share with you. We’ll just

I tell you about the report. The report on tonight's

agenda is one opportunity for us to recognize and appreciate the work of the more

than 5,500 volunteers who serve the City of Columbia. In fiscal year 2021,

volunteers shared more than 29,800 hours of service with 10 City departments. We

continue to see the impact of COVID-19 on the level of service from volunteers. Our

2021 service hours increased by 18 percent over 2020, but are still at only 75 percent

of what volunteers gave us in 2019. We believe volunteer service to the City

continues to be strong in many areas because we offer residents opportunities to

serve outside and work safely apart from others or independently. In the FY22

budget, there was

volunteer program specialist position added back, which will

allow us to add additional staff support to the City's adopt-a-spot beautification

program, Parks and Recreation events and programs, and overall program support.

That staff person will start with us in couple of weeks. Please know this report

does not reflect the many hours that you put as City Council Members or the hours

that are given by board and commission members. And also want to point out that

we have many staff across the City that support volunteer activities, and they really

make those opportunities happen for volunteers to serve the City. So, as we share

the photos tonight, this is

a reminder that the real value of volunteer service is far

beyond the number of hours or the dollar value of that time. Volunteering allows

volunteers to have hands on involvement in their local government and to build

relationships with other volunteers and with staff. Volunteers tell us they value the

opportunity for public service, to work outdoors, and to make social connections

along the way. Thank you for your support of the City’s volunteer program, and also

thank you for the volunteer service that you provide above and beyond what you

do on City Council.

TREECE: Thank you.

appreciate your summary of the report.

I didn't get a chance to

come out and thank the volunteers this year.

think Mr. Skala did. And we

appreciate everything you do to motivate them, keep them organized, keep them

on task, and keep them coming back because we all benefit from their hours of

service. So, thank you.

REP105-21

Monthly Finance Report.

The Council asked questions and discussed the report.

PITZER: Yeah,

you know, kind of where we stand at the end of the year, you know, kind of

financially, and know you're still putting that together, but went to the last page

I do have question for Mr. Lue just because we've been talking about,

of your financial report where you had the fiscal year comparison. And so it looked

- am I ready this right? Revenue over expenses, almost $10 million dollars last year?

LUE: Yes, that's correct.

PITZER: And that looks like it came from a variety of sources, right?

LUE: Yes it is. A lot of a these funds though are CARES fund related as you can see in

that revenue from other governmental units. But then again, we are up in sales tax

as well. And so staff has been sort of researching that, and we feel that

a lot of that

sales tax money is due to increased funding in the economy, but also some is due

to inflation.

PITZER: Okay, so just when we talk about like, you know, the excess reserves in

general fund -- so it’s safe to assume that we added roughly $10 million to that last

year -- is that right?

LUE: The way it looks right now, that is correct.

PITZER: And this does not include the $12.5 million from the ARPA right? That’s

separate.

LUE: Right.

PITZER: Okay, thanks.

REP106-21

Amendment to the FY22 Annual Budget - Intra-Departmental Transfer of

Funds.

Mayor Treece asked if there were any questions, and there were none.

XI. GENERAL COMMENTS BY PUBLIC, COUNCIL AND STAFF

Rebecca Shaw, Traci Wilson-Kleekamp, Susan Renee Carter, Jeanne

Mihail, and Karen Sicheneder spoke, and the Council discussed various

topics.

SHAW:

month.

Rebecca Shaw, 2615 Vail Drive.

come here many times during every

sit and listen, and am really angry tonight at the direction our City is

taking. For you to sit on $15-20 million, and then not pay those gentleman that are

out there slinging our trash the extra $3-$4 an hour that they deserve is ridiculous.

For Dave Sorrell to stand up here for the last year and tell us that Solid Waste is just

great, everything is just fine -- oh, but we can’t get workers -- and then to have

those men out there for three years on temporary pay. What in the heck is wrong

with us? People deserve to make

care, people deserve to have dental insurance, and by God, you are holding them

back from bettering themselves and bettering the City because you’re not putting

job out online for them to apply for? We have you been for the last six months?

And Mr. Glascock I know you have a foot out the door, but --

living, period. People deserve to have health

TREECE: Please do not make your comments personal and don’t assume that we

don’t disagree with you.

SHAW: I'm very angry.

I usually stand up here and I'm very polite, and I talk to you

and try to gently persuade things, but tonight -- this really angers me because this

gets at the heart of what all of us have been coming here for the last year to say. For

us to have had this discussion about ARPA funds for the last nine months, and then

for three companies to come up here and get

contract with no input from anyone

sat in that chair, Love

else -- why do we not have an RFP out? In the time that

Coffee, Safi Sana, The ROC -- there are places in the City that are doing job

development and training that you guys are skipping over, and guess what -- those

companies help the least empowered in this City.

the way out.

I -- don’t let the door hit you on

WILSON-KLEEKAMP:

Yes, we have been coming here religiously, and we have only had one public input

meeting, only one. think it's unfair for the Mayor to get to pick and choose who

gets money, because that’s what's happening, and don't think it's fair that we're

doing this in piecemeal way, in dysfunctional confusion way that the public can’t

Good

evening,

Tracy

Wilson-Kleekamp,

Race

Matters,

Friends.

even follow. At the last meeting you were at, you were confused about if you

decided this in the work session or regular session, making it really hard for the

community to follow. You're also not putting together data in

for making decision. We don’t know how many people you’re serving, we don’t

know who’s benefitting -- there’s no metrics tied to anything. don't know how you

a way that's helpful

can be giving out contracts, or even saying you're going to give out contracts.

There's not even any metrics in the backup data. What are we doing? Also, your

employees who are picking up your trash are having to buy their own equipment

because we’re not taking care of them that way either. It’s almost like you enjoy

having

like. Why can you not accept that people in this community want to spend money

on people who really need it? All the people that came up here were white. don't

know if you invited anybody else. don't know. This seems more like the -- Mayor,

this seems like this is your money and you’ve made it about what you wanted. And

don't think it's your money and don’t think it’s your piggy bank. went back and

looked at the minutes all the way back in May, and back in May Mr. Glascock said

you should have public process. What happened? Not our fault. We did our part.

We showed up. So he said you should have public process. He had some ideas

a sharecropping plantation in the 21st century. That's what it looks and feels

about some things he wanted. You all had some ideas. But, the other thing that's

just crazy is we’re in pandemic, and people have been coming here talking about

the homeless, and what do we do? We work on business first. And I'm not even

sure that this is really truly workforce development because don't see our career

center involved and don't see an overall thrust to get people to work together as

collaborative effort. So, if you're going to put out together an RFP, maybe that’s one

of the things you say is -- we want you to maximize working together for this

money. If you want to do this other stuff because Mr. Mayor thinks it's his money,

why don't you use this out of your surplus money that you have, but quit fooling

around with the ARPA money. Quit fooling around with the ARPA money. It’s not

our fault. Now, one thing that was said at the end of the last Council Meeting -- is

Stephanie Browning came up here, and you guys didn't give her any instructions.

She gave you some information, she told you what you needed, but you didn't give

her any instructions. That's your fault. It's not our fault. It's your fault. So, if you

want to keep us from getting angry, get your [expletive] together, and give

Stephanie directions. Make some decisions.

CARTER: Susan Renee Carter, 2105 Hillsboro Drive. One thing

happen, to add to all the other comments, is -- spoke the last time about the CARE

program and how it's shifting to paying youth at-risk subminimum wage. discussed

last time, and talked about my concerns about what that does to someone when

you take what their work they’re doing and devalue it. If we have $10 million

excess, would really like to see that you think about helping these youth see what

they’re worth is and taking that back up to at least minimum wage. know it sounds

very expensive because calculated -- if you did the full 200 because you've

would like to see

reduced it to 150, it isn't inexpensive, but you have $10 million excess, and we

really need to start when people are young so that we can help ward off some of

the issues that we are running into later on. Thirty percent of the people that were

doing CARE ended up with jobs at the places that they did as an internship there or

as, you know,

job training program. It also provides them, you know, with other

work program in terms of

kinds of training in order to keep their jobs. It's not just

they just work. They also learn skills. And I'm really committed to this and I'm going

to keep coming up here saying this because it's very important. Our youth need you

to invest in them. Our at-risk youth need you, so please do that, okay. Thank you.

MIHAIL: Jeanne Mihail, 3101 Crawford Street.

with Council Person Thomas and Waner, and their comments about the process for

approving these applications. And when read it over the weekend when this was

posted and printed out the applications, will have to admit was stunned. spent

30 years writing grants to support research at the University and to apply for even

$50,000 or $100,000 grant, was looking at 10 or 20 pages of application work just

explaining what was going to do, exactly how much it was going to cost, and

providing pages and pages of budget. And while have no quarrel at all with the

worth of the value to community of projects, notwithstanding the comments of

these Council People, the notion that you can get $1.37 million -- two and

pages with no detail was just stunning to me. And feel like if we want, as

wanted to start by saying

agreed

half

government, to have our citizen’s trust that we are taking the best possible care of

the resources we have, we need to show applications that actually have evaluation

metrics and have enough detail to be convincing. And maybe it doesn’t have to be

an NSF proposal, but it seems like it really needs to be

Thank you.

a whole lot more than this.

SICHENEDER: Karen Sicheneder, 1817 Timber Creek.

support in favor of what REDI and Susan Hart spoke about when it comes to funding

for their project. As small business owner, one of the things that saw that kind of

I wanted to get up and give my

made me really angry was specifically women and minority owned businesses that

were excluded from any sort of pandemic relief because they were too small,

because we largely don’t have W-2 employees because we can’t get the financial

backing because of inherent racism and sexism built into the system. So, being able

to actually put funds forward toward something like this that largely supports

women and minority owned businesses in order to help kind of band-aid what we

were excluded from -- even in the microloans that the City was giving out, many of

us were largely excluded from those because of how that process was done and it

unfairly impacted people like myself -- so being able to rectify some of that is

something that

only that, but helping these sorts of businesses is the thing that helps get

these people up out of poverty, out of relying on jobs that don’t pay enough for

living wage. These are the ways that we’re going to help rectify some of these

income issues and inequalities that we see across the City. So, while do agree that

the process could probably be better, think that you should strongly, strongly,

think the City should seriously put

lot of weight into. And not

lot of

strongly consider these proposals from REDI and from the CID.

TREECE: Any comments by Council? Let me go first. And that is on the issue of the

refuse collectors.

leading up to the scheduled public comment this morning, and there’s at least two

issues here. First of all, this council has said repeatedly that we want $15

minimum hour wage for all City employees, not $14.50, not $13.50 with $1.50 add

I was shocked to hear what I heard and the conversations I had

pay. These people are providing real work and real value, and they deserve to be

compensated, they deserve to have health care, they deserve to have access to

union representation. For the last two years, this Council has been told that we do

not have enough staff to pick up recycling every week. It seems like there are

plenty of temporary staff people there that if we changed the business model, if

we change the management model, we might be able to get better value out of it.

And I’m --

now than I was.

WANER: would have to say that

waste is being subsidized on the backs of people who aren’t even being paid

livable wages. also met with folks, and if we’ve got somebody who is temp

employee who gets cut on the job, down to his muscle, doesn’t have health

insurance and is still dealing with that months later, that’s problem. We have

people who are being exposed to COVID on the job. They’re being expected to take

their quarantine, rightfully so as Mr. Hutchinson said, 10-14 days, no pay. get it if

I don’t know whether Council agrees with me or not, but I’m more upset

I do agree with you. I mean, currently, our solid

temporary employees are three months, six months, whatever, but we've got

temporary employees who are training our new employees because they've been

there longer. That's

problem. So

I would like to see, you know -- how do we get

this fixed? Do we do

hiring day where we're just doing throwing positions? Not

everybody wants a CDL or capable of getting a CDL right now. What is the solution?

TREECE: I agree.

THOMAS: Yeah,

I guess I have questions. I mean, it was my understanding that we

have lots of vacancies in solid waste collections, positions advertised and open, and

nobody applying. Is that true? And let me ask another question -- temporary

workers -- are these provided through the employment agency that we kind of

have an arrangement with?

GLASCOCK: think they’re provided both ways.

and we have temps through employment agencies.

THOMAS: And is there prohibition, any kind of barrier preventing the temporary

workers applying for the permanent jobs?

GLASCOCK: No, but think our requirements are -- they have to get their CDL first,

and the reason you have to get your CDL was first -- if you hire all temps that don’t

have CDL, then you have not drivers, and therefore -- that’s why the process is

I think we have temps that we hire

there. So we can keep that.

THOMAS: I thought we provided training to get the CDL.

GLASCOCK: We do, but some people don’t want to get a CDL.

WANER: Or cannot get a CDL.

GLASCOCK: Yeah.

WANER: Let’s be clear.

THOMAS: Because of a criminal record or something?

WANER: Yes.

TREECE: But if you’ve had someone slinging trash for three years as

temporary

employee, why wouldn’t we hire them permanently and give the benefits to keep

them.

THOMAS: Right. Well,

agree.

don’t really think we should require them to have

CDL to come or to necessarily get

CDL if they’re satisfied to do the work of

throwing the trash, I would think we should add them for that.

GLASCOCK: What if they were all satisfied with not having

CDL? Then you have no

drivers. You have no way to pick up the trash. You have to have rules in how we do

it.

THOMAS: Well, we only have the right number of openings for people that don’t

have CDLs.

I mean we have plenty of people working there right now that don’t

have CDLs, so we obviously, you know --

GLASCOCK: And that’s our problem. We can’t get enough drivers.

I mean, that’s our

problem. That’s why we went to every other week recycling. We don’t have the

drivers to drive the trucks.

THOMAS: So, every issue that Andrew Hutchinson is referring to here is somebody

who is not able to apply because either they don’t have

get one even if they were hired.

a CDL or they’re not able to

GLASCOCK: Or don’t want one.

THOMAS: Or don’t want one. We just don’t have any positions that don’t require --

open positions that don’t require CDL.

GLASCOCK: I’m not saying we don’t. I’m telling you, not -- the reason we have rules

is so we can have enough drivers to drive the trucks.

TREECE: But obviously we have

wouldn’t be temporary employees.

THOMAS: Right.

need for non-CDL drivers or else these people

TREECE: And maybe we need to change the model because maybe the add pay is

creating reverse incentive that the driver wants to rotate out on the back so he

gets the extra $1.50, and they can’t do that as long as there’s someone who can’t

rotate into the cab. And maybe we need to change the whole thing. Maybe we

need

change of management because what we’re doing now isn’t working at solid

pandemic, when these are essential

waste. The workers are not happy, and in

workers that are hard to keep, it means we have to do things differently to keep

them happy.

SKALA: Well,

I just -- I concur with a lot of my colleagues here. I think it’s pretty

outrageous. The whole idea was to pay all of the employees that work for the City

$15 an hour. That was the bottom line initially, and then we increased some of the

wages to try and encourage people, encourage staffing, or to resolve some of the

staffing issues -- that didn’t seem to help. But, this CDL business is getting in the

way of people working very hard. It’s kind of outrageous that there are temps who

are, for whatever reason, are having to do that, and not be compensated the same

way any full time employee would be compensated when we need full time

employees to help with this situation. We need to fix this. This is -- and

I don’t --

I’m not presuming to know what the solution is, but it doesn’t appear to be even as

complicated as the work session that we just went through with all of the solid

waste and sewer issues and all the rest of it. It seems like it’s just

a matter of

making sure that temp workers who are working hard ought to be offered

position. They ought to be able to get some gloves, they ought to have some health

care, and they ought to make the same kind of wages that every -- it’s hard work.

[Inaudible from the audience.]

TREECE: Stop, please.

SKALA: We need to fix this.

PETERS: Well, I’m sorry to be the one to recommend this then, but could we get

report back explaining exactly what we’re doing and exactly how we change it? Do

you think we could that in the next month?

GLASCOCK: Sure.

PETERS:

I realize that doesn’t fix this tonight, but we need to fix it, and I don’t think

we can do that on the dais tonight because we need more information, or we need

the expertise of the management with, as the Mayor points out, proper

management to address this issue, which I don’t think any of us knew about.

TREECE: Does that exercise help management solve this problem?

PETERS: I don’t know.

TREECE:

the department’s excuse.

audience.] Please, would you step outside, please?

PETERS: mean, just don’t think that we -- we can’t fix it tonight because I don’t

mean, I’d rather not wait. I’d like to see

a report. I’d like to see, frankly,

want to hear. want it fixed. [Inaudible from the

think we know enough about this.

TREECE: No we can’t.

PETERS: However, we need to not just like ask for

report and do it in three months

think we’re

or something. We need to really fix this and it’s over the holidays, so

going to have to say we need to fix this sooner rather than later, but we need more

information or at least -- and the expertise.

GLASCOCK:

I think you at least need to talk to the staff management about what’s

going on. I think taking it at the microphone and taking it for gospel is a mistake.

TREECE: I believe what I heard. I believe the workers I have spoken with.

GLASCOCK: I believe they believe that, yes. I don’t believe that all that is going on.

PETERS: Can we get information back like for the next meeting?

I mean would staff

have time?

GLASCOCK: I can try.

PETERS: -- to tell us what’s actually going on and then what they can do about it?

What our options are?

GLASCOCK: I will talk to staff. I’ll try to get something.

PETERS: That would be helpful. As you’ve heard, we need to do

obviously we’ve been doing.

a better job than

TREECE: At this point,

I believe them more than I believe staff that tells me they

can’t hire enough people to pick up the trash. That’s where I am. That’s where I am.

WANER: If we can’t make those decisions from here, what can we do except talk in

circles?

PETERS:

I think we can get more information so we that can maybe not talk in

circles, but we can speak with information not just from one side, but from both

sides. And try and figure out, as Mr. Skala said, do we, by giving them extra money

if they’re CDL drivers, is that

a mistake? You know, like, what is it that we’ve either

created or has been happening in solid waste that we need to fix. But

enough information to do that tonight.

I don’t have

SKALA: Somehow, we need to fix this scheme. That is hiring temps when we need

full time staff, and these temps ought to have the opportunity, at least to share in

the same kinds of benefits and healthcare and the wages and so on that everybody

else does. That’s what we need to fix. And if it’s going to take

conversation with

couple of weeks ago with

was -- my first reaction was

the staff because --

conversation with some of the folks that were -- and

outrage.

working on the back of trucks and somehow it almost seems like

than management decision. I’m willing to listen to what -- that there may be

mean,

was introduced to this

mean why are there -- why are we short of staffing when temps are

scheme rather

differences beyond whoever comes to the dais, but I’m not willing to wait for

long time because I think the whole situation is pretty outrageous.

WANER: How do we get them health insurance in the meantime? Can we do that?

mean, we do have -- there is precedence that temp workers can have health

insurance, not in every setting, but that exists. Can we get them health insurance?

Can we say we’re going to bring you up to $15 per hour so that Charles is making

more than $80 a day. That’s not -- who lives on $80 a day?

GLASCOCK: Are we going to bring all temps up to $15?

WANER: would argue we should. That’s our policy.

GLASCOCK: Does that include the CARE people in Parks and Rec?

TREECE: I think that’s a little different, but at least with trash --

GLASCOCK: I’m just saying, when you start saying just temps, that means across all

lines. I’m sorry. I mean it does for us

WANER: That’s fair.

TREECE: You have temps --

GLASCOCK: Cause that’s what you’re going to get the next time is the next temps

coming up saying we deserve it too.

WANER: They do.

TREECE: But you have

a temporary worker working side by side on a trash truck and

with unequal pay and unequal benefits.

GLASCOCK: Most all temps work side by side with people that work full time doing

the same job.

SKALA: Why are they temps? If we need staffing, I don’t understand.

WANER: We need to change the model.

TREECE: I agree.

PETERS: That just sounds like a mistake in the way the management is set up.

THOMAS:

needs to be changed, and

proposal for changing it so that people who are throwing the bags are full time

employees. think that’s authority that we have as the Council to direct that if

think it’s an internal policy that the staff are following, and

I agree that it

think we should task the staff to come up with

that’s what we believe. And if you disagree John, then you can make the case in the

report.

GLASCOCK:

think we can hire them as full time.

I will tell you, you know, that

won’t solve all your problems.

mean there are bigger problems than just was

heard here today, but we can hire them full time, no doubt. Our issue will come --

who’s driving? How do we get the truck driven if you make that change?

THOMAS: And the reason that we only have recycling pickup every two weeks is

because there’s not enough CDL drivers.

GLASCOCK: Correct. There’s not enough drivers to drive all the trucks.

PETERS: And I’m not even trying to fix the every other week recycling. That seems

to be working, but what we’re trying to address is the temporary employees that

we’ve had for two years that have been throwing trash or throwing recycling. So to

me that’s apples and oranges. Again, let’s stick with the apples.

GLASCOCK: So this week,

I had to cut roll-off drivers because I didn’t have enough

drivers and had to force them over to recycling so we could continue recycling. We

are cutting drivers this week because we don’t have enough drivers. We’re cutting

things that we normally do because we don’t have enough drivers.

TREECE: But part of that is on the commercial recycling side -- they never have to

get out of the truck, and you’re short of commercial drivers on the residential

pickup, so you pull the commercial guys off.

GLASCOCK: I’m pulling the roll-off guys now, which are doing construction. It’s the

roll-off stuff that they don’t pick up. That’s what I’m not doing. I’m going out of that

business saying we’re not going to do it. We’re not doing new ones. We’re forcing

them over to recycling.

TREECE: It just seem like there could be

non-CDL drivers where appropriate, and guess that’s what I’d like to explore, but

you know, how someone can work for the City for more than three or four months

and not be considered permanent employee don’t know. Whatever that waiting

period is for temporary employee -- don‘t know how we define that. think

that’s the next step, but.

better management model that uses

SKALA: I'm willing to listen to what some of the rest of the arguments are and some

of the complexities here, but I’m also willing to -- part of that recommendation that

comes in that report should, if we get

a report, should be -- one of the alternatives

should be to pay all temp workers $15 an hour. That was the whole point of the $15

wage for workers in this City anyway.

GLASCOCK: I’ll go back to the CARE thing. It’s fewer CARE people that we’re doing if

we’re doing $15.

hour. We’re doing more people, so --

TREECE: That’s an inelastic revenue. This is an enterprise fund.

GLASCOCK: understand and they talked about the $10 million that you have. That’s

general fund and they want to use it to pay, and so we got --

TREECE: Solid waste is asking for rate increase and

I know it’s a different animal, but that’s why we don’t pay $15 an

will not support

rate

increase when they do this. If they want to come back and say they need more

money to pay their temp workers $15 an hour, tell me what that number is. I’m not

SKALA:

I think you know where we want to go. I just need some information as to

how to get there and as quickly as possible because it just seems pretty outrageous

to me.

TREECE: I agree.

PETERS: So, do we want to bring this back on Jan 3 with more information and --

GLASCOCK: I will try and have something on the next meeting.

PETERS: At the next City Council meeting?

TREECE:

I think the City Manager can make a decision anytime he wants. I’d like to

know more on Jan 3 -- what he did or what changes were made or what it will cost

us, but he can make the changes any time.

PETERS: And the temporary employees we’re talking about right now are sold

waste, right? mean, we can -- we don’t need to confuse it with the CARE folks

today. We can do that --

TREECE: And know the City Manager cares because he went out there and met

with the drivers without management and he learned

you to go do that again.

a lot, and I would encourage

SKALA:

was going to say something very different, and that is Merry Christmas and

wanted to get that in before we adjoin because

Happy Holidays and stay safe, and

we won’t be with the rest of these folks, but that’s

what we’ve just been discussing.

a very different message than

THOMAS:

just have one item. John,

understand it has been the practice this

winter and previous winters on Saturday mornings that the Room at the Inn

program drops some of the homeless guests at the ARC where they wait inside the

building until

Saturday, they were asked to leave.

GLASCOCK: don’t know that they were asked to leave. They did leave.

Mike Griggs about it. Yes, they are still allowed to sit in the lobby. They just can’t go

in the paid area. One gentleman, believe, asked to go in the paid area, paid his $6

and went in. And so, don’t know if that was misunderstanding on the rests’ part or

a little later and then make their way to other places, and that last

I talked to

whatever, but yes, they are allowed to do that.

THOMAS: Thanks for clarifying that.

TREECE:

and the Clerk's office is understaffed. Candidate filing, sunshine requests, all take

priority over this. Could ask for one time dispensation to have verbatim minutes

I had quick year end thing. So we’re a few meetings behind on minutes,

for the meetings that we hadn’t had, just so we can get caught up. I'm afraid the

City Clerk is -- if we don’t clean out the end of 2021 and do the verbatim minutes,

which can be just done by transcription. We can contract it out just like Planning

and Zoning minutes are done. That brings us ahead of schedule, and it’s our fault

meetings. We have eight hour council meetings and 8 hour budget meetings, and

she needs

have.

a day for every hour of meeting to do those minutes, which she doesn’t

THOMAS: We all talk too much.

TREECE: Right, and know we don't prefer the verbatim minutes, but

think it’s one

little window.

of those things we may have to do even if they're inconsistent for

Does anybody object to that?

THOMAS: No objection.

SKALA: That’s a good idea.

THOMAS: At some point in the future, maybe when there’s more capacity in the

Clerk's Office or really great intern or something, somebody could go back and

redo these verbatim minutes to the proper style.

TREECE: That’s a great idea.

PETERS: Before they’re approved. I’m not sure we can them after they’re approved,

but either we need to get this done.

THOMAS: Ah, that’s a good point.

TREECE: Alright, thank you.

XII. ADJOURNMENT

Mayor Treece adjourned the meeting without objection at 9:04 p.m.