The City Council of Columbia, Missouri met on Monday, June 15, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber. The meeting included appointments, scheduled public comments, old business, a consent agenda, new business, reports, and general comments. Key outcomes included the defeat of a short‑term rental conditional use permit, passage of amendments to accessory dwelling unit regulations, and direction for future work sessions on vehicle stops data and the Water and Light Integrated Resource Plan.
All right. Well, good evening. I'll go ahead and call the June 15th, 2026 Columbia City Council meeting to order. I'll ask all those who are able to please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right. Sheila, will you please call roll? Miss Sample here. Ms. Hartman. Here. Ms. Peters. Here. Miss Buffalo. Here. Miss Carroll. Here. Miss Elwood. Here. All right. So quick overview for those. This is your first council meeting. Items that are listed under our consent agenda do not normally have a presentation on those items, and there's not normally opportunity for public comment unless they are pulled during the adjustment of the agenda. For items that are listed under introduction and first read, those with an asterisk would be on consent agenda at our next to me meeting. And again, items that are under intro and first read would not be talked about this evening. Those who do not have an asterisk would be a public hearing or an old business at our next meeting. Rules for public speaking at Columbia City Council meetings. I do ask people to keep their comments to the legislation being discussed. General comments at the end can be on anything else you want to talk about. We ask people to state their name and their ward or address when speaking so that the clerk can make sure to identify you in the minutes. Individuals are allotted three minutes with representatives or organizations requesting five minutes limited to one speaker per group on the legislation being discussed. I do ask people to respect the time limits for fairness. We do these rules so that as many people that want to speak at a council meeting can speak at a council meeting, and that we're not all here until Tuesday. Disruptions would be addressed with a warning and if necessary, removal and a slight recess. So before we get into uh the meet of the agenda, I just would like to really quick recognize we have from our MU Asian Affairs Center uh University of Nagano students uh visiting with us and they've had a formal partnership uh in and since December of 2018. Um we have 31 participants here, 29 students from the university and two faculty members, and since 2019, there have been over uh 301 participants uh in the exchange program. So I acknowledge them, they're mostly at the back. So we got to visit with a lot of them, and they've been kind of going around for a couple weeks in Columbia. So thank you for joining. You don't have to stay until the end if you don't want to. Um, moving on to a regular part of our agenda. Uh I'll make a motion uh to approve the May 18th, 2026 regular meeting minutes. Do we have a second? Second. Second from Bureau. All those in favor of approval of the minute say aye. Aye.