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The Columbia City Council met on Monday, October 5, 2026, at 7:00 PM in the Council Chamber. The meeting covered a range of topics including presentations, public hearings, old business, consent agenda items, and reports. Key decisions included the denial of a proposed student housing development, approval of improvements to the Rainbow Softball Center, and the postponement of a vote on purchasing a property for a municipal animal shelter. The meeting adjourned at 10:35 PM.
Good evening. I'm gonna go ahead and call us uh to order. This is the Monday, October 5th, 2026 regular city council meeting. Um I'd like all those who are able to please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Sheila, will you please call roll? Miss Samble here. Miss Galloway Jones. Here. Miss Hartman. Here. Miss Peters. Ms. Buffalo, here. Miss Carroll. Here. Miss Elwood. Here. All right. Well, good evening. Uh I'll I'll point out for those who haven't been in council chambers for the last couple of months. We do have a new podium. So if you're doing public comment and you need to adjust, the microphone will always be on, but if you need to adjust, there's an up and down arrow. Uh it has like a five second delay, so just keep holding it down and it will work, I promise. Um so and as a quick note for um those who maybe this is your first agenda meeting. If there's an item under the consent agenda, uh there's not normally a staff presentation, and there's not normally then public comment. Um and then if you look at the introduction and first read items, anything with an asterisk would be proposed to be on the uh consent agenda at the next meeting. Um items that are under oh sorry, and our rules for public speaking, the public have multiple opportunities to speak at Columbia City Council meetings. Um you can do scheduled public comment. Um there's opportunities during the public hearing. There's opportunities during public hearing, old business and new business portions of the agenda. I do ask people to keep their remarks to the legislation being discussed. Uh individuals can request three minutes. If you're an entity um impacted by it, you can request five minutes. One five minutes per entity is is what's a request, but other people from the organization can speak, but they would do the three minutes. Uh and then keep again to the legislation being discussed. Other items, you can speak at the end of a city council meeting on anything you want to, uh, within polite reason, hopefully, uh, for three minutes at the end there. Um I do ask for people to respect their time limits for fairness so that everybody has an opportunity to speak. Uh, and then we do these rules so that everyone has that opportunity to speak, and that hopefully we're not here until Tuesday. Um please avoid demonstrations that might intimidate your neighbors from speaking at council meetings. We can address issues and not individuals, so no personal attacks and and that includes on city staff. Um we will also address disruptions with a warning if necessary, removal and recess. All right, that's enough about how to talk at a council meeting. All right, moving on. Um so the August 3rd, 4th, 2026, 17th, and eight eighth and twenty-first council meeting minutes are not yet complete, so we will be adopting those at a future council meeting. Um are there any other changes? Are there any changes to the agenda?