The Columbia City Council convened on January 20, 2026, to approve regular meeting minutes, adjust the agenda to pull specific items for deeper deliberation, approve board and commission appointments, and address policy resolutions and ordinances regarding utilities, historic preservation, and development. The meeting featured extensive debate on infrastructure readiness versus development needs, resulting in the rejection of a major planned development proposal while passing several funding and administrative measures.
I'm gonna call to order our Tuesday, January 20th, 2025, Columbia City Council meeting to order. Appreciate the patience as we deal with the technical difficulties with the timer. Just so you know, I will be using my phone so I can see what the timer says. We'll see if it works. All right. Would all those who are able to please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? All right. She Louis, please call roll. Um, yes, uh, Miss Buffalo. Here. Miss Carroll? Here. Miss Elwood? Here. Miss Sample? Here. Mr. Foster. Here. Mr. Waterman. Here. Miss Peters. Here. All right. So welcome to our second meeting of 2026. I'm going to give a quick overview of our council agenda, especially for those of this is your first time coming. So items and our rules for public speaking. So items for I so first for items currently listed under the consent agenda. Those will be kind of like page four. Look onto that. I will say we will have one adjustment to the consent agenda here shortly when we we change the agenda. For items that are listed under introduction and first reading with an asterisk, they will be placed on the consent agenda at our next item unless a request to put them on to old business is requested. Items under intro and first read that do not have an asterisk, those would automatically be under old business at the next council meeting. And that means they would typically have a presentation and an opportunity for public comment. Now the public have multiple opportunities to speak at city council meetings and on items on tonight's agenda. So there's opportunities during the public hearing that we have, old business items, new business item portions of the agenda. I do remind people to combine their remarks to the specific item that's being discussed, and I'll remind you if the comments start to veer into other conversations. General comments on other topics are allowed at the end of the council meeting, and then you can talk about whatever you want to talk about. Individuals are allotted three minutes with representatives of organizations requesting five minutes. We do limit one speaker per group, but multiple speakers can talk for the three minutes. I mean for the five-minute rule. Respect time limits for fairness. We do these rules so that many people, as many people as want to speak, can speak at a city council meeting. And that I'm not keeping you here until Tuesday or Wednesday. Sorry, today is Tuesday, until Wednesday. And that includes on city staff. So disruptions will be addressed with a warning and if necessary, removal and recess. So moving on for our agenda, the first item we have is I'll make a motion to approve our January 5th, 2026 regular meeting minutes. Do I have a second?