The Columbia City Council convened on December 15, 2025, to address a range of community issues including a crisis capacity expansion, housing rezoning, public safety updates, and administrative policy changes. The meeting featured presentations on the Centerstone Missouri (formerly Burrows) crisis continuum expansion, discussions on city meeting procedures comparing Columbia to Springfield, and multiple board appointments. The session concluded with a motion to explore managed sheltering for unsheltered individuals and general public comments on local initiatives and holiday wishes.
Good evening, and now call to order the December 15th, 2025 Columbia City Council meeting to order. I invite all those who are able to please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. And to the public for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Sheila Wee, please call roll. Mr. Waterman. Here. Ms. Peters. Here. Ms. Buffalo. Here. Miss Carroll. Here. Miss Elwood. Here. Ms. Sample. Here. Mr. Foster. Here. All right. Well, good evening. The public have multiple opportunities to speak on at Columbia City Council meetings. You can speak during uh old business, new business, uh, and any public hearing if there's on that agenda. We also have opportunities at the end uh for general comments by the public. Um the rules that we have are that um uh I remind people to combine your remarks to the specific item being discussed. Uh you'll can you'll have three minutes or you can request five minutes if you are an organization affected by the legislation being voted on. Um at the end, same rules, uh, three minutes apply. I ask people to respect the time limits uh for fairness. We do that so that everybody has an opportunity to speak. Um I ask that we avoid demonstrations that might intimidate your neighbors from speaking at council meetings. Uh we will address issues, not individuals, and that and refrain from personal attacks, and that includes on city staff. Uh disruptions would be addressed with a warning and if necessary, removal and recess. Um I just want to comment too, just on the agenda, um, because we've had questions on this at the last one. Just as an overview, if this is your first time, uh so when we say you can talk during uh the public hearings that we have for this evening, we don't have any. So opportunities for public uh comment will be during the old business. So bills 308 25, 322, 25, and anything else that's added. Items that are on, if you see on the consent agenda, if they are not pulled, uh, usually there's not public comment on them. So you'd have to save that for the end at the end of the at the end of the council meeting. I say that because sometimes there's people in the audience. And new business. You can also comment on the items under new business. All right. So moving on for our uh minutes. Up first, I'll make a motion to approve the November 17, 2025 regular meeting minutes. Do I have a second? Second.