The Crestwood Board of Aldermen met on Tuesday, February 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM in the Aldermanic Chambers at Crestwood Government Center. The meeting included presentations, public comment, board reports, approval of a lengthy consent agenda, and new business regarding executive recruiting services. The board unanimously approved all consent items and the new business ordinance, and discussed future agenda items.
The consent agenda contained the following items, all approved unanimously (8-0) after two readings:
Note: Although the agenda listed the meeting date as February 24, 2026, the instruction provided for this summary states the meeting took place on February 25, 2026. The transcript confirms the meeting occurred on February 24, 2026. This discrepancy is noted.
Alright, it looks like it's seven o'clock. Uh call is February 24th, 2026 Board of Alderman meeting to order. If you'd please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I 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. City Clerk, can you please take roll? Alderman Zavas. Alderman Morrison. Alderman Ballis. Alder Person now. Here. Alderman Hall. Here. Alderman Maybe. Here. Alderman Seven. Here. And Alderman Jadala. All eight are here. You have a quorum, Your Honor. Very good. Under presentations, communications, and appointments. We have a few items this evening. And the first is uh a proud moment that we celebrate here in Crestwood uh once a year. It ours our Frank Arnaldi Outstanding Service Award. And I'll let uh Chief take that over from here. Chief Arnold, if you come up, please. Uh so each year in the police department, we have the honor of recognizing an officer for the Frank Arnold Lee Outstanding Service Award with after Chief Frank Arnoldley, who spent over 40 years uh serving the Crestwood community divided on standard module service, so this is where this is an honor of him. This year uh is a little different. Um we've actually honoring uh two individuals. So these two officers on September 13th of 2025 responded to an alarm call at uh sorry I go on. Uh early in the morning, about six o'clock in the morning. Uh when they got there, um I've been on albums with alarm calls and they've never would have been in earlier. Uh and this time they're doing their external check like they normally would and came across the words are in the back. Immediately took action, went inside, uh, and very technically sound ended up surprising the burglar who's inside the building with multiple items in. Um they were able to take him in without incident. Um really the best part, I think all of it was that further investigation actually linked into some crimes with Crestwood and also within the region. So um their quick response, their tech was sound response. Um was perfect in the situation. This is actually his second burglary scholar building. So uh which is very rare for any position. So uh it's very worthy of this honor. Um who they are as individuals and police officers within our community, so I'm happy to have coin, us and uh officer control and officer poll. Thank you very much. Thank you. Congratulations, and thank you, gentlemen. All right, uh next up is uh just a quick item of an appointment of Alderman Zavist, Alder Person now, and Alderman Hall to serve on a police bargaining unit uh petition review committee. Um so our uh police officers uh have submitted a uh a signed petition with the majority of uh the members um asking to uh exit their their current union, and so our city code has a process for that, and that process is that the mayor shall appoint uh such a committee, and that committee then has 30 days to um just validate that these signatures are in fact uh valid and that more than half of the uh members have signed it and then present that back to the board of alderman so that we can then uh accept that. So uh this is that that step of appointing the that committee.