The meeting will come to order.

Our guest chaplain is past her, Dr.

Sarita Wright of Commission to Healed Community Outreach.

But all who are able, please stand for the invocation and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Pass.

Let us pray.

Heavenly Father, we gather here today in gratitude for the opportunity to serve the people of Kansas City.

We ask your blessing upon this council, upon our mayor, and upon all who work to guide our community with wisdom and integrity.

Grant us clarity of mind, fairness and judgment, and compassion in our decisions.

May we always seek the common good, protect the vulnerable, and strive for justice and peace in our city.

Bless the citizens of Kansas City, our families, neighborhoods, and businesses.

May this meeting be conducted with respect, unity, and purpose, reflecting the values that strengthen our community.

God, you guide us, Lord, so that every action taken here today contributes to the flourishing of Kansas City and the well-being of all who call it home.

Amen.

Amen.

Thank you, Pastor.

Clerk will call the roll.

Raya.

Here.

Bunch.

Pearls.

President.

Parkshaw.

Here.

Boo.

Here.

Duncan?

Here.

O'Neal.

Will it?

Will it?

Present.

French?

Here.

Rogers.

Here.

Patterson Hasley.

Hadison.

Lucas?

Here.

Eleven members present.

Will the clerk please call the uh special action?

Yes, sir.

251068.

Congratulating Flat County Pirates for winning the class five Missouri State Championship in football.

Coach Oots and his team are present to receive the special action.

Sir, congratulations to that.

Good to see you, sir.

Are we going to be happy?

All right, Councilman uh Rogers.

How'd you know it was me?

All right.

So today we're here to celebrate the Platte County Pirates, state champs in class five football this year.

And for some perspective on, I mean, there's a lot of state champs every year, but you know what?

These guys won 28 games in a row.

They've won two straight state titles.

They're doing one of the biggest classifications.

I read the so I'll tell you what.

So I went to Plaque County.

I played football.

I played as a stretch.

Mostly I watched guys like you play football.

And I know how hard it is to do what you did, and I will just tell you when I started reading the statistics, they sent it over saying you guys scored 52 points a game.

I knew these guys were good, but there's no way they scored 52 points, there's no way they averaged 52 points a game for an entire 14-game class five season.

So I went back and looked and they scored 52 points a game.

They went undefeated for the second year in a row.

Um we wanted to get them down here last year, and in the meantime, so they won the 24 state title.

Since then, they won a baseball state title.

And I also learned recently that they set the all-time all classes four by 100 meter dash state record there too, with four guys from this football team.

So it's just remarkable.

I mean, when it comes to athletic accomplishments, there's a lot to celebrate.

We'll probably not come back for another generation with with a group of kids who's accomplished as much as you guys have.

And I was thinking about I was talking to some of my old teammates from Platt City, uh saying you guys were going to be here today, and uh one of whom is is Brooks' dad.

And uh, and he was a great football player too, by the way.

But you know, I think about you have what you guys accomplish.

You don't do that in a year or two.

That starts when you're kids, and I remember seeing on Facebook a lot of you guys when you were little, because uh Amanda Hall would put the pictures up that you guys have won this tournament or won that tournament, or won whatever you were doing.

And so, anyway, it's it's good to get you guys down here to celebrate.

Mayor, we we stole your team for at least a day to celebrate their accomplishment, and we appreciate it.

Um, I will tell you, even at age 43, I still talk to a lot of the guys that that I played football with.

So it's great that you won.

That's not really what matters.

You learned how to work hard, you learned how to be a team.

It's gonna pay off for you guys for a long time.

And again, congratulations to you all.

Darn right.

Thank you, Councilman Rogers.

Councilman Willet.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

I had a pleasure of going to a couple of your postseason games, including the exciting comeback victory against Rockhurst.

And as Northlanders, you always love when you beat Rockers, and you guys did it.

Another fun stat this year.

Kansas City won all of the top uh 6A, uh 5A and 4A state championships.

Um no St.

Louis teams this year, which awfully feels good.

But you guys have been a powerhouse, a lot of good family connections.

Um you got a Dillingham up there and uh very excited to see what you guys all uh go out and do.

And uh you guys went back to back.

We tried going back to back as a city, but I feel like you guys are gonna go back to back to back and win it next year.

Congratulations.

Thanks so much, Councilman Willard.

Other others who wish to speak to the resolution.

I just want to say briefly that uh yeah, that 52 points a game average is uh you know unbelievable.

Uh I want to commend you all on that.

I don't even know how y'all got that done, but uh it's like greatest show on turf level type stuff.

Most of it was in the first half.

Right, right.

Um I also want to note that uh and commend the leadership uh in Platt County and Platt County schools.

When I was young, as Councilman Rogers notes, uh you guys were a powerhouse then.

Football, a number of different uh athletic competitions.

You kept it going, always been a school that we can respect around the region, not just on the playing fields or the court, certainly for those of us who uh follow other pursuits, debating forensics, all that too.

So really uh something that is great for the community.

And everybody talks about regional collaboration right now with our football teams.

Uh I'm not proud to share all of them, but I'm very proud to share the Platte County Pirates.

And so uh no border wars with us.

You're welcome here with us, Mr.

Mayor, any time.

We are excited to be with you, and we want to commend you young men on an exceptional season that hopefully you remember for a lifetime.

So if they're not just wish to speak to the resolution, the resolution is now before council.

All in favor indicate by saying aye.

Aye, aye.

Oh I think we have an announcement too.

Oh uh, Mr.

Mayor, and with the person of the council, we're gonna be turning the lights orange tonight in City Hall.

Oh wow, all right.

There we go.

So look at that.

It's not easy to do.

Outside of the building.

So now you guys need to just stay down in town for a while.

You'll see the building lit up for you.

Everybody all around can see it, so it'll be a little fun.

And if you're really looking closely on the news tonight or something, you might see it too.

So that'll be neat.

Everybody said aye, so the uh motion is adopted, a resolution is adopted.

Whoever would like to speak.

First off, thank you very much for having us and for the resolution.

Um I only brought nine of these guys.

There are uh we are still in school, so there's finals and everything like that going on.

Um, but but it's been a wonderful experience.

I appreciate all the attention.

Um we have a tremendous group, these are all you guys are all seniors, so I don't get to see them again next year.

Um, but we do have a tremendous group to your point, and uh we've been very successful and very very blessed.

Um a lot of hard work, a great community, and uh great kids and great coaches that all came together and and uh uh we're very proud of what we've accomplished the last several years, but uh especially here these last two.

So thank you very much for having us.

Thank you, sir.

Uh a little out of protocol for two things.

One, Mr.

Mayor, if you want to say anything, and then want all the players to introduce themselves too.

Go ahead.

Mayor, thank you, Alderman.

I'm sorry, councilman, I'm used to speaking to my group.

Uh it's great to uh have that partnership with Kansas City.

So Platte County is both Platte City and Kansas City schools or students, so uh it's a great win for both of our communities.

Uh the city of Platte City will be recognizing the group tonight at their school district board meeting, and we'll be giving them a resolution tonight as well from the city of Platte City on behalf of the citizens of Platte City, my board of aldermen, myself.

We would like to thank Kansas City for this event today, though.

Thanks, Mayor.

Yeah, I just want to introduce yourself and uh you can say your position if you want or anything.

Jack Oots, I'm a senior tight end.

Going to KU?

Yes, sir.

Lucas Dillingham, uh center, senior.

We could use you for the uh Quinn Lytle, left tackle, senior.

Uh Mogey walking stick uh safety.

Uh Trace Baskerville, senior wide receiver.

My name is Cole Johnson, and I'm a D-tackle.

Shocking.

My name is Braden Stevens, and I'm a senior wide receiver.

My name's Grant Fadner, and I'm also a senior wide receiver.

Second day that's exactly I'm sorry for I am Coach Oots, um, but I do want to say a couple things that I've said here.

We also had um two of these kids, Cole and Grant are also on the academic All-State team.

So we're not so they're also very smart kids on top of it.

We're blessed with with what we have up there.

Um and Mogey just recently played in an all-star game in Minnesota for um it was called the Native American All-American Bowl.

Um so he was able to participate in that um just last week.

So uh it's been a it's been a busy fall for us for sure.

Um a tremendous group from top down academics athletically and and all the way around.

Very good kids.

Thank you.

Sorry, Red Casey.

Hey, you're good.

Congratulations.

Thank you, thank you.

Thanks, congratulations, congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Thank you, thanks.

Congratulations.

Appreciate you.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Good luck.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I love talking.

Thank you very much.

Congratulations.

That's it.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks, sir.

I always forget the property.

We'll proceed with the final readings, debate document.

Yes, sir.

250993.

Castle in City Council Standing Committee meetings and business and legislative session for the weeks of January 19th, February 16th, March 16th, April 27th, May 15th, January 1st, 15th, and the 29th, August 17th and the 24th, September 7th, September 14th, October 12th, November 16th and the 23rd, December 21st, and the 28th, 2026.

Finance committee do pass.

Councilwoman Boo.

Honorable mayor, um, this ordinance is our standard um ordinance that would um that cancel standing committee meetings and um standing committee meetings and business and legislative sessions.

I have a list that I'll go through just briefly of what the corresponding dates are.

Um the first is um Martin Luther King Jr.

Day, then we have President's Day, National League of Cities, um, then there is a break on the 27th, Memorial Day on the 25th, June 1st is the um USCM summer meeting, June 15th and June 22nd are World Cup days, June 29th is Independence Day, then we have the dates in August, which are our August recess, then Labor Day, um Missouri Municipal League, um Indigenous People's Day, in November we have National League of Cities, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's, and finance governance and public committee uh public safety reviewed and recommended due pass.

Thank you, Councilwoman Boo.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

Councilman Curls.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Uh Councilwoman, did you mention June 22nd?

And it's not listed on here.

Um I thought we I may have the old list.

I know I know we had some discussion, but I couldn't.

I thought we got rid of the 15th and kept the 26th.

So we'll meet on the 15th, but not on the 22nd, right?

I don't know.

That's why June 15th.

But she mentioned June 22nd.

But I didn't know if it needed to be.

Oh, you know what?

This may be the old list.

June 10.

Was that the old list?

I think this is the old list.

Because we added back the 22nd.

Right.

And the 10th.

I'm looking at the old list.

So we have the 15th and the 29th, and then the two dates in August.

That's what's on the yeah.

I'm sorry.

And then we move that to the 22nd and 29th.

So in originally, as introduced, we were taking off June 15th.

What's the what's just the committee sub?

Is it what's the committee sub is what's reflected here in the title that she's it's reflected in the title.

So it is uh it is the 15th, the two June dates are on the 15th and the 29th.

Yes.

So I assume is there an interest in switching that to the 22nd and the 29th?

Rather than no, I just she mentioned it to the first time.

I did because I was reading from the list.

Understood.

Right.

So I just wanted to make sure because June 15th, Juneteenth week, uh yes, yeah.

I'm okay.

I'm not asking for anything different.

No, it is as listed on here, the 15th and the 29th.

Listen.

Okay.

Yeah.

Good listen.

All right.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

None of the clerk called the roll.

Raya.

Aye.

Curls.

Aye.

Parkshaw.

Aye.

Boo.

Aye.

Duncan.

I o'Neal.

I.

Will it?

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

I'm Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

I.

Twelve eyes.

Ordinance passes.

25101.

Authorizing city managers.

And let me do this.

We'll hold this till we take up the other KCATA item, assuming there's a successful motion on the um on the advance motion.

Which one can't present.

We'll go to the next time.

Yes, sir.

251026.

Amending chapter two Code of Orders Administration by your bill and replacing section 89 for the purpose of clarifying authority over employees in administrative service and reauthorizing and amending the city manager's authority to enter into a severance agreement with unclassified employees.

Finance recommends your pass.

Councilwoman Boo.

Um sorry, I was reading the this um this ordinance would codifies the city's commitment to recognize the city manager's authority over administrative affairs specifically related to the employment and removal of city staff and council's communications with city staff.

Um previously this uh authority was only stated in resolutions.

Finance governance public safety reviewed and recommended due pass.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

Is it a is it appropriate to hear from the manager um this ordinance is it is it appropriate to hear from him on this?

Yeah, clarification.

Yes.

I I would think that the way you would want to do it though is ask a question for him to respond to.

Um I guess just for clarification.

Um I wasn't in committee, that was I guess on me.

I usually I but um manager, can you give kind of a brief statement of the necessity of this?

Sure.

Um the ordinance um covers three areas.

One which you know, one deals with um, you know, uh just the directives, you know, the the direct communication interaction with it with staff, uh and of course, you know, city council is encouraged and not precluded from contacting staff for the purposes of of requesting information and those kinds of things.

Uh it is just want to make sure that the directives to staff are um is something that should come through me uh just to facilitate uh communication.

Uh the second item uh pertains to the authority over um you know the hiring and hiring of of staff directors, I mean not my direct appointees or or assistant city managers again.

Um it is just to preserve uh the independence of the city manager, and the third item really is uh creating a uh a process by which um I can administratively handle some separation uh when I when it when we need to deal with that as opposed to you know entering into a contingency discussion with staff, and when we can we can have a a process for um for negotiating an uh uh separations councilman Patterson has and does it clarify how your staff should interact with our staff well I think um uh our the staff uh from my side are directed to always make me aware of any communications that they have with you.

Um I do require them to provide me a weekly report of interactions.

Um I've been very clear with staff that what I want to be aware of things that pertain to uh operations, contracts, legislation, uh potential litigation or financial matters.

Uh again, it it's it is not intended to be um sort of a uh what I would call uh a lobbying exercise that should always keep me aware uh of things that are happening.

Um there's the intention is there's to be an open uh two uh two-way communication, but you know, always keeping you as what's going on.

Councilman has yeah, and I just say that because in the past staff has communicated with my office unbeknownst to me on many occasions about many things.

Um and so um I think that that just for the record should be stated.

Um so I think that while I don't have an objection to trying to try to bring some structure to how we communicate in in in the building.

Um I think that there should be also some additional structure on your side in terms of how staff interacts with council staff.

And councilman Patterson has to say, I will note that we amended in committee, I believe the last section of his ordinance has been a few weeks to add that precise point.

Goal being to make clear that where there are still, I mean, we need to be able to get information, there are efficient ways to do that.

There will be things where it is entirely appropriate to ask a question, let's say, of who knows the communications person, if the video is not working.

And so I I believe that the ordinance is written, I'm not only believe, but we wrote this section, right?

There is space in that ordinance to continue to allow that free flow of information.

Okay.

I thank you for that clarification.

I'm I must have overlooked that.

I think you know, again, stating for the record that um, yeah, I think as as the policymakers, there needs to be, you know, some clarification of of when actions by staff are outside of policy and and how do we make corrections to such actions that seem independent of what we've decided um as a body.

So uh Mr.

Mayor, if I may, too, uh just make you aware.

I think in the last um within the last week, we just adopted a new administrative regulation that did that uh outlines um what is the proper contact from staff to have with with council and and and mayor.

Just uh I'm aware that you know, of course, if staff has a uh a ordinary citizen type issue, you know, hey, my trash is not picked up, or you know, I have a pothole that needs to get addressed completely proper, you know, for that to be communicated to you all.

Uh if somebody says, hey, you know, I am unhappy with my uh uh my paycheck this week, you know.

Well, you know, that that needs to come to me.

You know, that is not something that should come to you all, and I've I've communicated that to staff as well, directed to let them know that some things are appropriate, that's some things are not inappropriate.

Is there any further mayor pro Tim?

Thank you.

Um I just want to clarify, I I didn't see this in committee either.

So just wanting to understand, so section 2-8-9 subsection A says interaction between council members and staff, except as authorized by the charter, neither the council nor any city council members shall give orders or directives to any of the subordinates of the city manager in the departments or administrative service, either either publicly or privately.

Um, and that they should be direct the directors should be addressed to the city manager.

So I just want to clarify if does this also mean many times in our committee, we you know are requesting additional information or or directing them to bring additional information back to the committee or you know, to council members what is what is how does that play into this?

Because I don't actually know what what if this is laid out specifically in the charter.

Can somebody educate me on that?

City attorney have a reaction real quick on this one.

This is the to your point here is council's already established by rule that a city manager has to be responsive at every one of your committee meetings or your legislative session.

And so when you implicitly ask of a director to uh provide you additional information, which is the sort of thing that the mayor talked about at the end being the the type of thing that the council can always inquire as to it through members through its individual members or the body themselves, but the city manager has to be responsive per your council rule.

So when you implicitly ask the director of ex department to do something, it's implicit that that's the city manager's response ultimately from the director because you've already established that expectation when you pass the resolution that approved your council rules.

So this is just designed.

This is language is found in many city manager forms of government uh across the state of Missouri.

It's codification of council's existing policy that it was passed some 30 years ago in a resolution, not necessarily codified as we've seen in other jurisdictions, um, and separates inquiry from directive.

Mayor Protect.

Okay, thank you for that.

Uh so in either our pre-meetings that we have or um, you know, there are additional meetings, like for example, uh, in my committee, uh, if if there are issues that we are needing to debate or um gather for the committee, uh we've had we many times will have additional meetings with the director safe for example, we had issues with the water department this week.

Uh we had a couple of meetings with the water department staff, and I believe the ACM was there.

I'm not even really sure off the top of my head, but just wanted to make sure then because it it was from the committee, it occurred from the committee prior, a prior week committee discussion, uh, but in an effort to try to bring resolution for this next week's committee, which happened Tuesday, we had additional discussion, and I I'm sure there were some directives that I gave to try to make sure that we work that you know, some sort of a resolution was resolved so committee could vote on it.

So if this was in place at that time, was I would I have been in violation of doing that?

Uh I I don't think so.

I mean, I think uh well, I'd put it to the manager to think here.

I I think the point here is that what we use is the term directives is a request for information, or you're asking for performance on the part of folks who are not in your supervisory control.

They are in the supervisory control of the manager.

Yeah, those people staff your pre-meetings or other meetings because they're obligated to by council rule.

Yeah, I think I think you know, you're right.

I mean when a matter isn't in control of the of the council or a committee, and in the course of that, you know, uh managing an ordinance, for example, that's in front of the committee.

At that point, it isn't an individual council member in the directive of the staff, it is the council, or at least the committee of the council that's making that directive.

So it's the the intention here is to avoid individual council members in the count in the capacity of as council as individual council members of making directives of city staff.

That that is the we're trying to prevent that in a committee structure or even in this legislative body.

If you say, hey, director of finance, we need X or you know, director of public works we need X.

Absolutely, that that is for completely would not be in violation of this section of code.

Yeah, director X's failure to do something ultimately runs to your assessment of the city manager's performance.

Mayor Protect.

Okay, and then um, the AC the assistant city managers considered an extension of you, yeah.

And uh let's see, and under this ordinance, uh let's see, I don't know how to phrase the question.

Under the ordinance, are do they I mean they're your direct report, they're the city manager's direct report as well.

So you know, I I I guess really what I I want to I really how I'm feeling when I read this is I feel like I need to have the city manager present at all of those meetings to ensure that I'm not considered in violation of these things.

But I know given the schedule that's not realistic.

So many times the assistant city manager is there, but um that's not the city manager, and so this legislation does not dictate or does not specify the ACM, the ACM's role or their uh level of responsibility in this at all.

So I I would just like some clarity on this just to ensure that me and all of my colleagues, you know, can follow suit once we vote on this.

Councilwoman Patterson has it.

So thank you, my honorable mayor.

My my consternation, I'll give you an example.

My consternation with this is uh parks.

So we have our PIAC meeting where we go through all of our parks projects that have been funded for parks improvements in the third district.

There are parks improvements on that list that have been on there before councilwoman Robinson was elected, or during her first term.

And so, how do you handle that?

I mean, should they be can I communicate that somebody's not doing their job if the parks improvements are not happening in my district?

Does the manager need to come to the PIAC meetings?

That might help.

Maybe you should come to those meetings to get the parks projects done.

We've met with parks commissioners, we've met with the director.

I've even asked for now a meeting with parks outside of the PIAC updates because we can't keep track of our parks improvements that we've paid for, and that residents of the third district expect to enjoy.

And so this to me feels like as an elected official, we are held accountable for things that do not get done in the city.

And so having to explain the manager form of government, you already putting people to sleep.

And so I feel like there needs to be a better way to have accountability amongst the many, many staff, and you know we have excellent staff, so I'm not painting a broad picture, but in the instances where accountability is necessary, and I'm at the grocery store getting cussed out, excuse my French, by somebody because a park improvement or something hasn't happened, and then I can't go and talk to staff about why XYZ hasn't happened, and that staff doesn't seem to be pushed along to make it happen.

And so it it's really um seems um not fair in terms of the level of accountability that we are held to, knowing that we are not the staff that goes and picks up the trash, and we are not the staff that lays the sidewalk, but people still expect those things to be done.

And so are we coming to the manager every single time and saying they put paint on the basketball goals instead of replacing them, and we pay for new goals.

So do you come and go get the goals yourself and with your hammer and take them off and put them right?

No, I I think you know, again, we're that the inquiries, requests of information, all those kinds of things are absolutely proper, right?

Those are not those are not being those are things you can inquire about.

When I'm the concern is about directives, you know, hey, XYZ person, we have a need to have social services at this location, and the phone call that comes in at eight o'clock at night on a Sunday.

You know, the staff is not equipped to handle that kind of request, and those do those things do happen, you know, and it is not it is not something that staff should be subjected to.

Those are the things that I have to deal the day after or two days after.

The issue with parks, issue with any project that's not making progress, absolutely bring it to me.

You know, absolutely bring it to me.

I I went to the motel closure on Blue Ridge Boulevard, you know, late last week because staff was not doing the work that needed to get done to bring about public safety in that facility.

So my staff calls me and I went, you know, and I and I do pay, I do spend the time to make myself aware.

And you know, the the roadway is not open in North Green Hills, you know, put the paint down.

It's like absolutely, you know, put the paint down and get the roadway open.

So those kinds of things are absolutely come to me all the time.

Uh, and if there's a complaint about my staff's you know work, let me know.

I am the one that's ultimately you've got to hold somebody accountable, I'm the guy.

And that's what you hire me for.

We'll go councilman Raya than Duncan, and pardon me, then uh curls, then Robinson.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um, it seems like a the main difference is how we communicate asking rather than directing.

I don't know they've ever directed staff to do anything, but I will frequently ask with the expectation that it doesn't get done, and that if it doesn't get done, then I'll escalate to supervisor at city manager, well, Odyssey will escalate to the city manager until something gets done.

So it just seems like a simple matter of asking them to go fix the basketball court rather than directing them to go fix the basketball court.

No, no, no.

Council Councilman Curls.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

And obviously, there's a lot of concern about this ordinance, and so maybe what we ought to do is refer it back to committee and have further discussions about it or have further look at the language.

Uh one of the things that I have concern about, and I know the city manager and I've had a conversation with him about it, is what he just brought up the hotel situation at uh 118th at Blue Ridge that just recently closed.

And when we talk about directing staff or anybody to do anything from our perspective, um Mayor Pro Tim and I were not informed about that situation, which to me is a real void in communication from the staff.

But then once I found out about it, I tried to talk to the staff who was involved with it.

Call Dr.

Jones, call uh director um uh Decker, uh trying to get some information, not necessarily directive, but communicating and trying to get a better understanding because I got a phone call from the press, which I was not aware of what was taking place at the hotel.

And the staff, nobody from the staff notified me, but had I known that I could have had maybe more conversation with the staff.

So if that's the case with an emergency situation like that, how does that impact getting the city manager involved, or who do I need to talk to to tell them that I need something or that I want something, or at least have some better communication in regards to what's taking place?

And that didn't happen, and that was very disappointing to me.

Councilwoman Robinson, and I'll try to respond to that moment.

Um, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

I um curious, is there administrative um if there's uh like a administrative regulation that goes with this that helps the better explain how you're directing your staff to follow this?

The administrative regulation goes the other direction, right?

I mean, it is kind of telling staff what is appropriate interaction with the city council.

Do you have one prepared for this, sir?

It is it has been prepared and adopted.

Um I can't remember which number it is, but we just listed already and I can share that.

I think we literally just signed it earlier this week after the 10 year uh after the 10-day uh review period that we afforded the council and and to the uh and to the units, which is required.

Okay, I think that that would be helpful for us to see, and perhaps we could hold this to get that information.

Um the challenge that I have with uh your response to one of the questions is when we reach out to staff, um especially and I I always formulate a form of a question.

Can you help with XYZ?

Um those are oftentimes after hours.

Um I would also um encourage you to send us some sort of memo regarding implementation of this as it relates to your expectations because if the street lights are out at 18th and vine at 1 a.m.

and there's activity going on down there, and we own property down there, I'm going to be reaching out to staff to let them know what's happening in an emergency situation.

Should I be directing those to you?

And as they're going to be expectation that you're going to respond, because we typically do get a response from have a you know, you know, the the the my KCMO app is a preactive tool.

I mean, we do have procedures to report those kinds of outages and service needs.

Um again, I mean that's you're telling you're telling the city council members when there's an emergency in their district to use 311.

Is that the reason is that uh well, I mean, or you know, you can call me too.

I mean, you know, I'm I am on 23.

So that's what I want to make sure that that is clear that we should be contacting you because I'm happy to contact whomever, but we just expect the same level of response because we know that the city, you know, is active, and I'm not gonna say it doesn't sleep, we're not new york, hopefully, but but there are things that happen after hours that need addressing, and if you don't want us to contact your staff, that's fine.

But we would just want to make sure that we have that that information.

I'll just I'll just hop in real quick, recognizing there's still robust conversation, and I'll just tell you perhaps why I'm actually fine with this one.

Was the amendment we made in committee that I described to you earlier.

Uh, and so if anything, I think hold more appropriate on the floor than um sending it back.

But uh, and maybe I've just been on the board of police commissioners too long.

I typically, if there is something remotely relating to a directive, just go to the police chief, right?

I don't tell a captain in a patrol division y'all need to do this or that.

It usually hopefully is that conveyed to the chief, if she doesn't actually respond, then I send an email to the board of police commissioners, but usually go through those steps.

That being said, I'm a hundred percent with you, and I I will co-sign with Councilman Ray's comment, which is and I think what you said too, right?

I can't tell anybody to put up the basketball goal, right?

Other than passing an ordinance that says thou shalt put up a basketball court goal on this court and all of that, which this has no impact on.

And what I would say to the mayor of Pro Tem's points earlier, you described items within the legislative process.

I would argue the council has also delegated the legislative process to PIAC to an extent as well, which suggests that while we're in the midst of building legislation, coming up with directives, doing the work on it, is fully within our purview to say anything to whomever the manager has deemed for administrative convenience to be with us.

So if it's the director of finance who's sitting with us, and we say we demand to know the fund balance, I don't think they get in a meeting, I don't think they get to say no, I have to wait for somebody.

What's more, I think if we send an email per the amendment we made at committee said, please give us the fund balance, or even give us the fund balance less kindly.

I would see that as a request for information that is fully within everything that we have every right to do.

So that's where I kind of see it as really just being an I'm with you, Councilman Patterson Hasley, as the one who gets blamed for most everything, shooting snowstorm, anything under the sun.

I very much get the unfairness at issue.

I also get the balance of what we do versus what others do and the clarity within that, at least for folks within the institution.

Um well, anyway, I'll stop that's because I don't want to talk too much about anybody.

Maybe at one point there was a council aid that used to bark out a bunch of orders to everybody, right?

And that I think is something that we need to make sure we can't do, and that's what I see this being, because for those of us, Councilman Robinson was here then, those of us who served with us, sometimes it could be interesting if there was somebody non-legislatively, not in a seeking information, but instead just saying you will all do this without even going through the manager.

And for those who need a memory, that was the entire acting city manager era uh with a wonderful acting manager that we had at the beginning of our term.

But it was Councilman Willett in fringe.

Yeah.

As I understand after well skimming through and reading some of this, does not pertain to assistant city managers.

That is correct.

I mean, the ordinance is specific to the departments, assistant city managers are an extension of them as myself.

If you request you know, uh or make a director of the city manager that will let me know they are extension of my team, but really talking about you know the the directors and and the the staff to report to the directors, Mayor Pro Tem.

So just want to uh provide uh a clear.

So one of the ordinances that we are going to hear later today, the KCATA ordinance, I uh was working on working with staff to come up with an amendment.

But I noticed what's different now, or what appears to be different is that in my process for doing that, uh staff um who, you know, because I asked them to provide information to me, began to copy the city manager on that.

And you know, in at least in my first term, because of the the way our polit the political process is, there may be multiple men multiple amendments that may that we as policymakers are working on.

And I know at least I've been told, you know, because of the um the way the process is, that many times law or the uh attorney's office works directly with the elected official to make sure that their amendment, you know, stays um quiet or you know, confidential until we're ready to distribute.

Matter of fact, they ask me, are you ready to distribute this?

But the reality is now that all of these people are now copying on it, it's really not confidential.

So I believe that it erodes our our political process when that happens, because ultimately, you know, there are multiple, I see now there are multiple um amendments that are occurring, and so it just you know, is while I I can understand and respect what you all are trying to do.

I think this is this uh does is concerning to me because I think it uh will change, you know, it's gonna change the way that we function as policymakers, and I just want to make sure that we we are not weakened in our level of authority because our our the elect the the people elected us to be able to create the policy, but if we have the potential of staff at whatever level, because the city manager reports to us at whatever level that is, that then takes away from our ability or could take away from our ability as policymakers.

So I agree with councilman Robinson to see and administrate the AR that will align with this, and I'll I for one would like more information, um more specificity about that, um, because as I said, I think that is something new that did not occur previously and could in effect erode my ability as a policymaker to work and fight for the things that my constituents want me to work on.

So thank you.

Councilman Patterson has and this is just icing on the cake uh of Mayor Lucas, because I think we've pretty much identified the pain points of this um this um action that it could potentially have, but I just want to say that there recently was a very large and expensive project that came before us, and I requested information from several people in the building, and um I really was met with a level of advocacy by staff that was surprising, and so I think it's important that you know we do maintain the um the authority that we have as a council to make objective decisions regardless of how politically popular they are outside of this building, and if we have staff that are clearly advocating in one direction or another for a project, then I feel like it impacts my decision making and my responsibility to my constituents.

And so I think having the uh manager and staff aware of things that we're trying to figure out as policymakers and trying to be as objective as possible, I think that that threatens our ability to do that.

And so I I do have a problem with that because for example, you know, people are gonna ask me why am I why am I voting for such a large appropriation, and I'm not similarly getting those appropriations in my district, you know, and I have to be able to answer for that.

And so if I think that that is something that shouldn't occur, and I start having conversations with law or whoever else to stop it from happening, but the manager's aware and probably wants it to occur, then now I feel like I have opposition amongst people that are supposed to be objective, you know, and so that that does cause me uh consternation because you know we have a lot of competing interests in this city, and I really want our staff that work for us to just be objective and have the best interest of the city at heart, not who they want to have favor or be their friends or get invited to parties, and I don't want to editorialize too much, but I want to be able to make decisions that are sound financial decisions, and I want to have evidence in front of me that supports the decision that I'm making, and if I have to divulge my you know my desire to have more information to staff, then I mean, and it's already happened to me once where staff was actively working against a policy policy decision that councilwoman Robinson and I were working on, and they were publicly working against us and and caused a fire storm that was ridiculous, and nobody was held accountable for that, and we were in the newspaper getting tomatoes thrown at us, and so now I have to talk about policy decisions and count and copy the people that are potentially stabbing me in the back.

And so I do think it's I do think it poses other problems.

I I'll just say this briefly, understanding the issues.

I hear you.

Let me just I'll just do a bit of stand up for the system because I feel like the manager and some of the direct reports of that time have since separated from the city.

But I'll give an example from my council time.

I had an ordinance when I was in your seat that came at the city manager taking his power.

I will give credit to the fact that there was an assistant city attorney who wrote that piece of legislation, did not divulge it to the I don't even know if the city attorney, but certainly not the city manager.

I drafted it, I got my votes, the city manager.

I think actually handled it somewhat well, clearly not appreciating it, but it was actually the council manager form of government working in some way.

I am not disputing because I've been here long enough to see it.

There are times it doesn't.

I've seen it more on actually my role as a police commissioner, where sometimes the chief may not have a viewpoint that agreed with mine, happens more than you might think.

However, I do think that we and we'll just have to decide, but like we hire the manager to to do all of that.

And so what I would rather have, because we can't fire the person who who diffed that individual thing, we can't even fire the basketball goal person.

What we can do is say, city manager, make sure that you plow some roads, and if nothing gets done, even if he's got 200 direct reports or reports who should have done something, we'd be like, no, that's on you.

And I do think this gets us a little closer to more direct accountability.

I also like I'm just hyping my sentence, even if the ordinance ultimately doesn't survive.

I like that we added a sentence that notes that elected officials can make direct inquiries, can request information, can do all of this stuff.

It's in the ordinance in subsection A, that basically lays out everything that everyone at their core has asked for.

Because I've heard anybody say you want to be able to make a you're not trying to you're not trying to make them fix the public works truck down the street from you, right?

You're trying to say why is it broken down and why are they always broken down when they're there?

I think we still get the chance to have that.

But I mean, I know nothing about the administrative regulation, which is a very good question and point that you raised, Councilwoman Robinson.

Um, which I think would be informative, but on the whole, that's just kind of where I would be with.

Yeah, so I I just wanted to make a motion to hold this until we come back so that we can get more implementation.

You can just request hold unless there's an objection.

Yeah, and just to be clear for the manager if you could provide the AR and any implementation information for us is um thank you.

Any objections?

All right, bearing up, we'll go to the next item.

251036.

Is that presenting the city of Kansas City's major priorities and positions on matters of regional importance to the Kansas City Metropolitan Area for the 2026 session of the Kansas Legislature?

Finance committee was to pass.

Honorable mayor, uh, the Kansas legislature will convene on January 12th, 2026.

Um in the past, Kansas has partnered with federal, state, and local representatives and governmental entities across the state line to address many of the issues impacting our region.

The city recognizes that the lives of Kansas Citians are impacted by the regulatory uh environmental environment across the state line and wishes to support coordinated regional approaches to priority issues.

Finance governance public safety reviewed and recommended due pass.

Councilwoman Boo, is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

There are no clerk call the roll.

Remember, Bunch.

Pearls, I arcshaw, who I Duncan, O'Neal, Willet, no French Rogers, all right, Patterson Hansley.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Eleven eyes one nay.

Ordinance passes.

251037.

They may come before the remainder of the 20.

Nope.

119 United States Congress 2026.

Finance committees do pass.

Councilman Boo.

Um, I and I should have um mentioned with the last one.

These um three resolutions both are our annual legislative priorities uh for Kansas, um, the federal government and the state of Missouri.

This one um applies to the 119th United States Congress, and the city desires to publish general statements of its major priorities and positions on matters that may become the subject of or be affected by proposed federal legislation during the remainder of the 119th United States Congress in 2026.

Finance governance and public safety review them recommended due pass.

Thank you, Councilwoman Boo.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Raya.

Aye Bunch, aye, aye.

Parkshaw, aye.

Boo?

Aye.

Duncan?

Aye.

O'Neill?

Aye.

Will it?

No.

French.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Eleven eyes, one nay.

Ordinance passes.

251038.

The stopping of the city of Kansas City's major legislative priorities on positions on matters before the 2026 session of Missouri General Assembly.

Finance Committee do pass.

Councilwoman Boo.

Honorable Mayor, the Missouri General Assembly will convene on January 8th, 2026.

The city seeks to elevate local positions and statewide policy debates, which deeply impact the lives of Kansas Citians.

Yep, Mayor Pro Tim.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Mayor thank you, Honorable Mayor.

I'll move the resolution number two five one zero three eight be amended so that it reads as in the documented title resolution number two five one zero three eight as amended, which has been distributed to all council members.

Second.

Been moved and seconded.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Or do the change.

I'm sorry.

I didn't see that.

Yeah.

Well, I guess it's a chance to talk about the motion.

Apologies.

Mayor.

Yes, okay.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Uh, this amendment, uh, which I've done in collaboration with Councilman Raya, uh, adds uh supports and advocates for legislation that eliminates the Medicaid benefits cliff for individuals with developmental disabilities by increasing income eligibility and protecting access to essential long-term services, and also requires DUI ignition interlock requirements for persons convicted of UI traffic uh offense.

And Councilman Ray, I think must add there.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

And I will add uh on the second item in regards to DUI ignition airlock requirements currently state law um only allows those to be uh required after two DUIs over 40 states uh in the country allowed after one DUI and so this would support a bill that I already believe has been pre-filed in Jeff City uh and this was uh there was testimony provided to this item in finance committee.

Thank you, Councilman Ray, Councilman Rogers, just to speak briefly in support and also just a reminder in general when we pass this this ignition nearlock thing.

We heard committee testimony on that every single year in the legislature from 2019 to 2022, it's passed out.

I think at least three or four times is just a reminder no matter what we ask them for in Jefferson City, and I see a couple of lobbyists in the out there that would agree with me on this.

It may or may not pass, so it's good that we're trying, it's good that we're speaking up for ourselves, but just know it's a long and arduous journey to becoming law.

Understood.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Raya, aye.

Aye, Pearls, aye, Parkshaw, aye.

Boo, aye, Duncan O'Neill, aye.

Will it Franch?

Aye.

Rogers?

Aye.

Patterson Hasley?

Aye.

Robinson?

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Eleven ayes to abstentions.

Motion passes.

Is there any further discussion on the and I'd be a tinge technical?

I don't know if there's a difference.

Duncan was not here.

That's not quite an abstention.

But I don't know if it's technically the same.

An ext abstention will just be somewhat affirmatively says so.

All right.

Uh the ordinance is amended as before council.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Raya.

Aye.

Bunt.

Aye.

Pearls.

Aye.

Parkshaw.

Aye.

Aye.

Duncan.

O'Neal.

Aye.

Will it?

No.

French?

Aye.

Rogers?

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson?

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Eleven eyes in one nay.

No one knows what.

Okay.

All right.

Yeah.

And then the person not there just isn't counting.

Now we are back.

All right.

The ordinance passes.

5100.

I mean in KCI area plan by amending proposed land use mapping plan.

Approximately 107 acres of land.

Generally is located at the southwest corner of Northwest 100 Street and North Platte Purchase Drive.

By changing the recommended land use designate from commercial residential low density open space buffer and mixed use community due residential medium density.

Maybe committees do pass.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Ashler Homes, LLC and Capstone Communities LLC applied to amend the KCI area plan for a 107-acre tract at the southwest corner of North West 100th Street and North Platch Purchase Drive.

The current land use designation is commercial residential low distance low density and the proposed change moves it to residential medium density.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Harry now the clerk call the row.

Raya Bunch.

Aye.

Pearls.

Aye.

Aye.

Boo.

Aye.

Duncan.

Aye.

O'Neill?

Aye.

Willet.

Aye.

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Well, I've ordinance passes.

250979.

Authorizing $15 million design bill contract with Gupman Brothers Construction Company for the wastewater backup generated project.

Authorizing maximum expenditure of $16 million five hundred thousand dollars and recognize this one is the timing acceleratory effecty date.

Transportation committee do pass.

Councilman O'Neill.

This was actually held in uh neighborhoods.

Neighborhoods.

Neighborhood?

It's pretty simple.

It's a it's a design build project that's gonna be happening for a wastewater backup facility.

Um it is a uh it is not something we want to see happen is uh our wastewater running runeth over.

So this is uh in their capital plan and uh ready to go.

Thank you, Councilman O'Neill.

Is there any further discussion Aaron Uncle call the room?

Raya Bunch Pearls Parkshaw Duncan O'Neill Willett French Aye Rogers Patterson Hasley Aye Robinson I'm Lucas Aye Ordinance passes motions mayor pro tim.

Mayor move that the charter requirement for reading of ordinances on three separate days be weighed for the ordinances on today's document listed as committee advances and that these ordinances are advanced for final reading and consideration at this time second is there any further discussion?

Hearing none, clerk will call the room.

Raya Bunch Pearls Aye Parkshaw Aye Boo Aye Duncan Aye O'Neill Aye Willett No French Aye Rogers Aye Patterson Hasley Aye Robinson Lucas Aye 12 eyes one nay motions passed.

Will the clerk please call the items on the advanced consent docket?

Yes, sir.

251045 approved authorizing settlement lawsuit and titled Deborah Wolf versus the City of Kansas, Missouri, case number 2416 CB2702 and related claims and the amount of 596,008 dollars.

Finance committees will pass 251049, approving the plot of Tilden Station in addition, Jackson County, Missouri on approximately 28 acres located on the southeast corner of East 135th Street and Warner Road, creating three live street track control for residential commercial developments, accepting race easements, separate grace on public ways, authorizing director for city plan development and the director of water service to execute the substance agreements directing city clerk to facilitate the recordation of the ordinance and attached documents 251054, vacating 41st Street condominium platform five, generally located at the northwest corner of East 41st Street and Locus Street, directing city clerk to send uh to record certain documents 251055 vacated a nice bridge business center condominium plat, generally located at 5300 Long V Road, directing city clerks record certain documents 251064 accepting and approving a 40,000 dollar grant from the Health Forward Foundation to support the city's connecting Kansas City program supporting equitable digital connectivity for all residents authorizing contract within the scope of such grant and eliminate estimating at appropriating four thousand forty thousand dollars in general grants fund designated requisition authority and recognizing this ordinance is having so effective date neighbor can hear committees do pass clerk call the road Raya Pearlshaw aye boo aye Duncan O'Neill O'Neill Aye Willet No French Aye Rogers Patterson Hasley Aye Robinson Aye Lucas Aye one name the ordin the ordinances passed with the clerk proceed with the items on the advanced debate docket.

Appropriating four thousand forty thousand dollars in general grants fund designated requisition authority and recognizing this ordinance having cellary effective date neighbor can hear committees do pass clerk call the road Raya Pearls Aye Shaw Aye Who Aye Duncan O'Neill O'Neill Aye Willet No Franch Aye Rogers Patterson Hasley Aye Robinson Aye Lucas Aye 12 eyes one name the ordin the ordinances passed with the clerk proceed with the items on the advanced debate docket yes sir 251033 Raven of limitation established by fund balance of the reserve policy in section two-1954 of the code of ordinances appropriating two million thirty-one thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars for or seventy-five dollars for an unappropriate fund balance of park recreation fund for the maintenance projects at Greg Kleiss Community Center Pool Penguin Park and Parks and Recreation Administration Building Designate Requisition Authority and recognizes when it says having cellary effective date.

Honorable mayor councilman boo thank you this um ordinance would appropriate two million thirty-one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars from the unappropriated fund balance for the of the parks and recreation fund to authorize and support the following maintenance investments repairing multiple systems that have shut down the Greg Kleist Community Center poll repairing part of the HVAC systems at the parks and recreation administration building and replacing the safety surface at Penguin Park.

Um the board uh parks and recreation commissioners passed resolution number 32990 on October 21st, 2025, approving the use of these funds from the park sales tax fund to fund the improvements, finance governance and public safety review and recommended advance and do pass.

Councilman Patterson has it.

Thank you, honorable mayor.

This is actually a pleasant um comment, but notice that I'm a co-sponsor on this because apparently um that was necessary in order to get this to the floor, and so again, um as the policy makers, we should be deciding uh which improvements happen when on what schedule as opposed to staff making those decisions.

As you know, uh Greg Center is the only indoor zero entry pool in the third district, senior citizens as well as infants and everybody in in between used that pool, and it was important that it be um reopened, and so um apparently it was necessary for me to be a co-sponsor in order for that to have in order for that to happen.

Um and so I just want to build upon the previous conversation that we had about staff and policy decisions fair point.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

Raya Blanchard Pearls Park Shaw aye aye Duncan O'Neill Willet Branch aye Rogers Patterson Hasman Aye Robinson aye Lucas 13 ayes ordinance passes yes okay 251053 authorizing city manager to enter into amendment number one with the 2025-26 transit service agreement with the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, any amount of $15 million,918,65 dollars, appropriating five million dollars for the street surface of the unappropriate fund balance of the capital improvement sales tax fund, reducing that amount to street free surfacing expenditures in the public mass transpensation fund, increasing that amount of the street surfacing, resurfacing the expenditures of the captain approved sales tax fund, reducing that amount and appropriation and appropriating five million dollars from unappropriate fund balance of the public mass transportation fund, appropriating two million five hundred eighty-six thousand nine hundred eighty three dollars from the unappropriate fund balance of the finance of prevention and intervention fund, reducing contingent appropriation and amount of six million two hundred three thousand seven hundred twenty-nine dollars in the journal fund, waiver limitation of stab established by fundamental fund balance and reserve policy in section two-1954 of the code of ordinances, directing city manager to include certain conditions in amendment number one, transit services agreement appropriating seven million five hundred and one thousand three hundred and sixty one dollars for an unappropriate fund balance of the general fund, recognizes ordinance as having cellular effective date.

Councilman Duncan, thank you, Honorable Mayor.

I move the body move to go into closed session session pursuant to section six one and dot zero two one subsections one and two of the revised sessions of the service it's been moved and second.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

None of the clerk is called the roll.

Raya, aye bunch, pearls, aye parkshaw, aye.

Who aye?

Duncan?

Aye, O'Neal, aye.

Will it?

No.

Aye.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Twelve eyes, one nay.

Staying in closed session.

All right.

We are back before council.

Councilwoman Boo to speak to item 251053.

Um Honorable Mayor, the fiscal year 2526 budget appropriated 77 million eight hundred and ninety-two thousand five hundred and nineteen for the KCATA.

Ordinance number two five zero six seven nine directed the city manager to prepare a plan to fund KCAATA and a total of ninety-three point four million.

The KCATA reports a revised funding need of 89,892,519 and increase of 12 an increase of 12 million dollars over the fiscal year 2526 appropriation.

Ordinance number 25069 does not include cost of on-demand IRIS services service, which is estimated to uh to total approximately 3.9 million.

The city manager has recommended a combination of funding from a variety of sources, including moving $5 million in street resurfacing express expenses to the capital improvement funds from the public mass transportation fund to allow for five million in funding for an additional KCATA contract amendment.

The city manager has further recommended the use of available fund balance in the violence prevention fund in the amount of $2.6 million to cover security costs related to provisions of bus service by the KCATA.

And finally, uh the city manager recommends either the use of KCAT reserves or the use of the remaining balance of the contingent appropriate appropriation in the general fund in the amount of 2.2 million combined with 2.2 million from the unappropriated fund balance of the general fund to round out the funding sources for the KCATA contract amendment.

Um additionally, the committee substitute that we discussed at committee added a provision that directed the following additional amendments uh to ensure that an 800,311 credit owed to the city from KCATA is utilized to offset the IRIS Transit Service and to uh require the KCATA to utilize its reserve fund balance above the required by section two-1954 um subsection F9F of the code of ordinances to refund the city for payment of transit service costs in the 2526 contract uh finance governance and public safety reviewed and recommended advance and due pass.

Thank you, Councilwoman Boo.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

Councilman Bunch.

I just wanted to make sure I it got lost that it was red, correct?

I believe it was, yes.

Okay, great.

All right, and then the there was the one that was held earlier.

It would come up.

Okay, I just wanted to make sure we were further discussion on the ordinance.

Councilman Duncan.

Uh thank you, Honorable Mayor.

I know there are a couple amendments.

Um I have one uh in conjunction, and I move that the committee substitute for ordinance number two five one zero five three be amended so that it reads in the document titled committee substitute for ordinance number two five one zero five three is amended, uh which has been distributed to all council members.

Second.

So moved and seconded.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

Councilman Duncan.

Thank you.

This amendment uh is in uh subsect is in section eleven um and uh this is in coordination with the mayor.

This is related to the benches, um in particular the the benches that have been removed and replaced with lean benches.

Um this would uh prohibit KCAATA from removing sitting benches at bus stops or replacing sitting benches with leaning benches without city council approval, and it would require KCAATA to replace existing leaning benches with sitting benches at all KCAATA bus stops, at which there are only two bus stops that might be affected.

Thank you, Councilman Duncan.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

Councilman Bunch.

Yeah, I just um and I've I've mentioned this to Councilman Duncan, um uh but uh worth noting that I've been working discussing with KCATA staff on a bus stop amenities policy as well as a removal or addition of benches so that it is consistent and not just sort of at the whim of uh city staff or or uh private property owner.

Um and so in the future that will there will be standards by which those are determined.

I'm I'm comfortable with uh I'm comfortable.

Uh hopefully that's not a uh emergency um but uh uh distract um uh where was I um I'm comfortable with that now, but in the next contract uh you know when we get to that point, I think then we'll be have a discussion about what is that standard and and so maybe not make it as onerous as city council approval, but for right now I'm supportive.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Ray?

Aye Bunch Aye Earls?

Aye Parkshaw, aye?

Aye Duncan?

Aye O'Neill Willet Branch?

Aye Rogers, aye Patterson Hasley, aye Robinson, aye Lucas.

Aye.

The motion passes.

The ordinances amended is before council.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

Mayor Pro Tem.

I don't know.

May I move that the committee substitute and actually I guess it's the ordinance as amended uh for ordinance 251053 be amended so that it reads in the document entitled ordinance as amended amended.

Okay.

Uh as amended, which has been distributed to all council members.

It's been moved in second.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

This amendment will reduce the total contract amount appropriated for amendment number one of the transit services agreement by removing the city appropriation from the violence prevention fund of 2.5 uh and a few uh million dollars, and instead requiring KCATA to use its fund balance reserves to cover the operational costs.

Right.

And uh ultimately the reason for this is um you know definitely I know public transit is important, but violence prevention is as well, and we have seen significant improvement over the in since we've implemented this violence prevention fund over the last couple of years.

I'll speak specifically to the uh chief's press press release that went out last month that talked about double digit reductions in crime.

Uh also I know um significant improvement has been seen in Santa Fe in the third district, uh where they have have targeted and received funds from the blue blueprint for violence prevention to implement and uh one of the things that they did that had much success is the Black Captain Program, where they were able to utilize funds from the violence prevention fund to see about 700 neighbors every month.

And uh prior to receiving funds and and all of this additional support in the neighborhood, they will they had seen we're seeing nine up to nine homicides annually, and I will I'm happy to say that this year they're at two, and so the violence prevention fund is reaping general generous benefits in our community.

Uh if we by taking this to almost 2.6 million dollars from the violence prevention fund, it will shorten the amount of the program almost by a half a year, and we only have about two years left of the fund.

And so I strongly advocate for making sure that we do not pull from the violence prevention fund uh because there's no community that I've talked to.

There's nobody in our city that doesn't write public safety as a high priority.

Everybody wants to feel safe in their neighborhoods, they want to work in a safe environment, and the violence prevention fund along with the other other violence prevention efforts that we are doing are reaping benefits, and I I believe that it would have a detrimental impact on the improvement there that we are seeing in the safety of our of our city.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Raya.

No.

Bunch?

No.

Aye.

Aye.

Boo.

Aye.

Duncan?

Aye.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Will it?

Aye.

Franch?

Aye.

Rogers?

Aye.

Patterson Has.

Aye.

Robinson?

Aye.

Lucas?

Aye.

The motion passes the ordinance as amended, which is the ordinance is further amended, is now before council.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinances further amended?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the rule.

Uh Councilman Bunch.

Yeah, I think that the um this may change the calculus and how much cut has to happen.

Um just uh so I the that I think we this as we've just amended it will reduce the amount by an additional three million dollars.

Um that means that the cuts will be greater.

So I just wanted to swear by that all right.

The ordinances Councilman Duncan.

Uh thank you, Ronald Mayor.

Did we we haven't actually accepted my amendment, correct?

This is presiding officer's call.

Like this is a motion to his motion.

So the question is is the mayor Pro Tem's motion uh did it overwrite the two bullet points that Mr.

Stand reports.

Mr.

Duncan just said, and I to your point I will make the call that they're read in concert together.

And so therefore your amendment has now been added to her amendment.

It is not that her amendment expunged.

Right.

Your amendment.

So what that would do is I would move the additional bullet points for Mr.

Duncan's amendment to section 10.

Right.

So there would be six bullet points under new section 10.

Right.

In essence, right, actually, she amended the ordinance as amended.

Yeah, yes.

If that's the motion as opposed to sex.

Right, correct.

Councilman O'Neill.

Yeah, just confusion on my understanding of the nine million dollar uh 9.7 million dollar reserve fund at the ATA.

Uh I don't I don't I don't understand how by utilizing I mean, we dip into our reserve funds, it doesn't change any cost.

How does this change costs?

It just reduces their reserve fund, basically.

And so please explain how that affects what what costs will occur over cost or why they would have to do more cutting.

So they have uh the ATA has a policy of a two-month reserve, like we have one for a three-month reserve.

Ums is two months, and two months reserve is about 20 million dollars, and they're sitting at under 10 million.

So as a result, um it they would be dipping in to even deeper, and they're only into that at this point because we haven't been able to make them whole.

Um so it yeah, the the it's just one, it's against their fiscal policy.

Um, but like for right now, we're we're above three months reserve at the city.

They're below their two month policy, and so that's the main difference.

So uh sure they can break they can they can go into that reserve, but that is um you know that's that's incredibly risky, and I am serious and very much advising against that.

Um can I address that?

Yes, please.

So my my concern or my question is uh we've done a lot of things in here for the last six years, so I don't remember everything, but I do know that we at one point added that outside agencies that that we fund don't have major reserve funds.

In other words, we are the reserve fund, that's why we have three months of operating expenses in our reserve fund, and I thought we had passed legislation that asked our uh second tier agencies or outside agencies to am I wrong in that?

Did we not do that?

Do you I go ahead, Councilman Booth?

So we did we did that, and that is in um we we set for different agencies uh kind of the threshold amount.

In committee we discussed that I believe for ATA it's two months, and I think the what uh councilman bunch is saying is this would dip it below two months.

I and if in fact I think that's what the testimony was in the committee.

Uh this ordinance, however, waives that fund balance and reserve policy.

So we set a limit.

This would take it below the limit.

This ordinance would waive that ability or that policy to saying you have these thresholds, and they allows them to go below the limit.

Um so I think this ordinance allows the waiver of our policy.

Now whether the KCAATA has their own policy, I can't speak to that.

All right, Mayor Pro Tim.

The Honorable Mayor, I I uh neglected to also say that uh the amendment which we have approved also requires the KCA to explore alternative budgeting solutions such as priority-based budgeting to identify further efficiencies and improve financial transparency, and of course, uh, as we've heard in this uh chamber that from our uh consultant that assisted the city with poverty-based budgeting, that many times they're able to realize 10 to 20 percent uh savings or improvement.

Um and so this will also require them to get involved with the prior or engage in priority-based budgeting to realize other uh potential savings.

Understood.

Is Councilwoman Robinson?

Um I just wanted to be on the record that I'm gonna be a null amendment for the following reasons.

One, um, I don't think that we should be further destabilizing our bus system.

Um and a lot of the people that ride the bus are going to work, uh work uh in school, and we're bringing back fares.

Um there is a direct correlation between employment and violence reduction.

Um the other reason is his body voted to give the police department three million dollars for daycare out of our general fund balance.

Um, the other reason is this body voted to give the police department three million dollars for daycare out of our general fund balance, and so we could have used the general fund balance to cover this 2.5 million dollars, but we're asking them to go into our fund balance, uh their reserve balance, in which we don't have any guarantee that they will do that.

So for those reasons, um, I believe we should move forward on what the committee have voted on on Tuesday.

Councilman Ray of and Councilwoman Boo.

Thank you, Ms.

Mayor.

I just want to clarify.

So uh back to the conversation of the order of of these amendments.

So is this vote on both of those amendments, both councilman Duncan and Mayor Pro Temes?

Yes, I would move per rule 6.01 and our standard rules that we divide the question and take those up separately.

Councilman.

So we did.

So councilman Duncan introduced his amendment.

We voted on it because I actually waited and so that they wouldn't they would be taken up separately, and then I introduced my minute amendment and we voted on it and accepted it.

Yeah, I think the the ruling that I would make was actually that her motion to amend was a motion to amend the ordinance as amended, and so therefore we had completed step one.

So there is a there was a single question before council, which was the motion of further amend.

That motion was successful.

Now we have the ordinance as further amended before council.

So the appropriate method by which to strip out either of the amendments is now a motion to amend to basically remove such a section.

So to be clear, we already voted and approved on councilman Duncan's amendment.

That's correct.

We are taking up Mayor Pro Tem's amendments separately and only voting for uh uh the approval or not of that item.

No, we have voted on her amendment.

Okay, this is now the ordinance.

This is the entire ordinance of the entire ordinances before us, as a councilwoman boo.

Um I just want to say for the record, as the chair of the finance committee, uh, when we talk about you know this if not amended, this would deplete the um contingent reserves and when we talk about you know where the re who's spending whose reserves, um, I think it's worth having a conversation.

I mean, at some point if this would not be amended, if we would take it all out of our um contingency, then everything else that comes between now and the end of April will come out of our general fund and it will start dropping, and we could be below.

And it's not just KCATA that comes to us for money, it is other departments, and that we will run the risk of dropping below our three-month reserve.

Well, Councilwoman Robinson.

Well, I'm reminded of what my grandfather told me is that you buy what you want and then you beg for what you need.

And we need bus service um specifically for the third and the fifth districts, and in addition to that, when we think about the PMT tax where people have voted on an additional tax, we're not giving all of that money to the ATA.

We're using it on other things.

Again, buying what we want and begging for what we need.

We had three million dollars in our reserve.

We decided that child care for additional benefits for our KCPD officers was something that was more important.

In addition to that, when people pay for things online, that money sales tax is going to the general fund, it's not going to the PMT through the special use tax that the voters voted on.

So again, we continue to layer and layer and layer, and then we're coming and saying, Oh, we're running out of funds.

We'll go figure.

So I feel like it is important for us to advance KCSA, their funds is still short of the amount that the voters voted on, and we cannot afford to see reductions of service.

They have to decide whether they're gonna go into their general fund, their reserve balance.

They have to make that decision.

And if they decide that you know they're gonna cut further, and then on top of that, we said, Oh, we're gonna expand service for the northland for Iris, which I was completely for.

We're gonna see cuts regardless.

And these are further cuts that we can't afford to make is there any further discussion on the ordinance as amended?

Hearing none.

Councilman O'Neill.

Just uh could you could I get just one more uh clarity of what we're actually voting up?

This is the ordinance that came out of committee with two changes.

Change one relates to um benches being at the bus stops rather seated benches rather than leaning benches.

Change two relates to the reduction uh from the put the violence prevention fund of roughly 2.7 or a little under 3 million dollars um and taking that out of this ordinance if we vote no, then we go back to the original ordinance if you vote no, the ordinance fails.

Okay.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinances amended?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Raya, aye, bunch, aye, curls, aye parkshaw, aye.

Boo, aye, Duncan, aye, O'Neill, aye, Willett, aye, French, aye, Rogers, aye, Patterson Hasley, aye, Robinson, nine, Lucas, aye.

The ordinance has amended one passes.

I'm sorry, ordinance is amended, still passes.

Next item.

25094.

There's only about one person.

And let me just do this.

I'm sorry.

Yes, sir.

Uh bringing back up ordinance two.

Um the one that we held earlier.

1001.

25101.

There's a request to hold that item off the docket.

Rationale being that the iris item was approved in the prior ordinance.

Is there any objection to holding the item off docket?

Hearing none, we'll hold the item off docket.

We'll proceed to the next item on the advanced debate document.

Yes, sir.

25094.

There's only area about 2.5 acres, journey located in 1100 East 63rd Street from District UR and B4-5 to District B45.

Improvement and development plan is also serves as a point of flat to allow for commercial development neighborhood.

Committers who pass.

Mayor Pro Tim, I'm sorry.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Uh, this uh ordinance rezones the uh former Wild Greens building, which is at uh the corner of 63rd and Truce.

It uh is one and a half acres.

Uh it zone rezones from district UR to uh to B4-commercial and the uh approval of the associated development plan to allow for a laundromat.

The applicant is bringing landscaping into conformance and adding additional windows uh to the east to the west elevation, the neighborhood plan and development committee review recommended do pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

What is this?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

All right, Councilman Duncan.

Are you speaking on this item?

Yes, honorable mayor.

Thank you.

Uh question for Councilman Curls.

Are we are we good moving this forward?

Uh yes.

Uh I uh was in um conversation with the applicant and uh the attorneys, and we were able to come to some agreement in regards to some specific specifications that I had requested in regards to making sure that there are certain things that can and cannot be permitted as in the extra space that is left there, as well as some other concessions that they agreed to as well.

So we reached the compromise, and I'll leave it like that.

All right.

Is there and the compromise is still not to inquire too much, and I could have come to committee, it would be a laundromat, still it's still the same use of for the property.

Yeah, yes, the the well, the portion that they are utilizing would be the laundromat, but we they will be looking at putting some other things in there as well, and I gave them some specific guidelines or some specific items that I would prefer for them to see, and they assured me that they will aggressively look to see about that, and one of which is uh some things that would be very beneficial to the community, other than just the laundromat.

Councilman Duncan.

Thank you, Allumair, and sorry I'm I'm pinging Councilman Curls directly.

Would that would would it preclude uh building multifamily housing on that site?

Okay, charger would it preclude that?

Prevent preclude prohibiting it no, it shouldn't.

All right, charger.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

Hearing now the clerk will call the room.

Raya, aye bunch pearls, aye, arkshaw, aye, aye, Duncan, O'Neill, aye, French, Rogers, aye, Adams and Hasley, aye.

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Addison Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson?

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

11 eyes one night.

Ordinance passes.

251018.

Approvement of petition to establish the Hill Crest Committee Imperial District.

Located northwest of intersection of 3rd Street and Hill Crest Road in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.

Determine the district to be flighted area.

Determine that certain actions are reasonably anticipated to remediate blighting conditions and will serve public purpose requiring the submission of certain records.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

This ordinance would approve the petition to establish the Hill Crest CID for a 27-year term unless it's extended.

The CID would not overlap with any other CID.

The proposed district is composed of five parcels of land containing approximately 155 acres.

The district will have uh authority to impose a 1% sales tax, which according to the petition will be used for roof exterior repairs, irrigation remediation, and landscaping, exterior construction, among other projects.

The uh neighborhood planning development committee review recommended due pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Any further discussion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Aye.

Parkshaw.

Aye.

Wu?

Aye.

Duncan?

Aye.

Neil?

Aye.

Will it?

Aye.

French?

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

12 eyes.

Ordinance passes.

250 251019.

We're zombiing every about 107 acres, generally located at the southeast corner or southwest corner of Northwest 100th Street and North Platte Purchase Drive from District R 7.5 B33 and MPD to MPD and a permanent development plan that also serves the Plummer Platte to allow for residential development.

Neighborhood community pass.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

This proposed rezoning uh to MPD to allow a mixed residential building type development containing 676 units, uh mix of four rents and for sale units developed over five phases.

Uh there is uh we were able to um resolve some of the uh concern with water services, and so I want to take a moment to just acknowledge the water department and uh assistant city managers uh and city manager staff uh for working with the developer on this and the neighborhood planning development committee review recommended due pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Councilman Willett, Mr.

Mayor, just want to be reflected as a co-sponsor.

Thank you, Councilman Willett.

So any further discussion.

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Raya, aye bunch pearls, aye, aye, aye, Duncan, aye, aye, Willett, aye, French, aye, Rogers, aye, Adams and Hasley, aye, Robinson, aye.

Lucas 12 eyes.

Ordinance passes.

251041.

Authorizing city manager execute a fourth amendment to the community investment agreement with community builders of Kansas City, authorizing city manager to execute a second amendment to the escort agreement with community builders and preferred title of St.

Joseph LLC to modify the requirements in code section 7412 as it applies to the fourth amendment of community investment agreement and the second amendment to the escrow agreement.

Neighborhood committee please do pass.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Uh, a prior ordinance 230977 authorized the city manager to enter into the community investment agreement for the offices at overlook redevelopment project, the community builders of Kansas City, and the documents necessary for the city to provide an amount of uh 1.6 million to be held in escrow and used if necessary to prevent any shortfalls of the project.

The city and community builders entered into the community investment agreement on March 26, 2024, and subsequent escrow agreement with the community builders and preferred title of St.

Joseph, dated in uh January 31 of 2025.

The community investment agreement has since amended three times, and the escrow agreement has been amended once.

Community builders has been working to secure final financing for the project, the process for which has been delayed due to due to the particular challenges associated with development on the east side during that delay.

Community builders has continued pursuing completion of projects of the project, which is now large and complete, excluding sewer relocation work on the site.

Staff is recommending that the city council approve this to this to modify certain terms in the community investment agreement in light of the significant progress made towards completion and the desire to encourage the overall development to proceed.

The neighborhood planning neighborhood planning development reviewed and recommended do pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Raya.

Aye Bunch Pearls, aye.

Parkshaw.

Aye.

Hi.

Duncan?

Aye.

O'Neill?

Aye.

Willard?

Aye.

France?

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson?

Aye.

Lucas?

Aye.

Twelve eyes.

Ordinance passes.

251046.

Commander of Kimmer Service execute a Central City Economic Development Funding Agreement with Palestinian Economic Development Corporation for the construction of a 39-bed assistant living facility located at 35th Street and Prospect Avenue in Kansas City.

Authorizing director of housing community development departments expend up to 1 million thousand 318 dollars for previously appropriated central city economic development funds.

Neighborhood committees passed.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you.

This ordinance advises that the council that the KCATA has completed the pre-construction activities for phase one of the project of this project and has conveyed the properties to Palestine Economic Development for construction and is no longer a part of the team.

So ultimately, this really just provides information and updates to remove KCATA from the agreement.

The neighborhood plan and development committee review recommended to pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Airing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Ray M.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Pearls.

Aye.

Parkshaw.

Aye.

Aye.

Duncan?

Aye.

O'Neal.

Aye.

Will it?

Aye.

French?

Aye.

Rogers?

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson?

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Ordinance passes.

251048.

Authorizing Director of Water Services Department to execute a 23 million eight hundred thousand dollar design bill contract with Goodman Brothers Construction for the West Side Wastewater Treatment Plan.

Facility plan project slow screening project.

Authorized a maximum expenditure of $26 million,000.

I recognize this one is having self-effective date.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

This is a 23.8 million dollar design bill contract with Goodwin Brothers.

The uh it was they were selected by the Citywide Architecture and Engineering Committee and in which uh Councilman Bunch uh is serving as the mayor's designee, has served as a mayor's designee.

The uh CUP submitted at 16 percent MBE and 14 percent WBE.

Uh the location is the West West Side Wastewater Treatment Plant in the West Bottoms just north of I-70.

The neighborhood planning development committee reviewed, recommended do pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Any further discussion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Raya.

Aye.

Blanch.

Aye.

Pearls.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Will it?

Aye.

French?

Aye.

Rogers?

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson?

Aye.

Aye.

13 eyes.

Ordinance passes.

251056, a permanent development plan on about 43 acres, joining located at 9600 Northeast Rankin Road and District R10 for the construction of religious assembly development.

Neighborhood committees do pass.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

This plan proposes a 22,000 square foot church with 222 parking spaces.

The building will be located on the west side of the property and outside of the stream buffer area.

And the neighborhood planning and development committee review recommended due pass.

Councilman Willett.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

I would like to be out as a co-sponsor.

Very exciting development of a church journey church locating right across from Hodge Park up in the Northland.

There's a lot of land up here yet to be developed.

I just want to keep in mind that we are complementing one of our best parks with this development going across from it.

And as we do not have an area plan being updated here anytime soon, I just want to be on record whether I'm on council or not, what other things may pop up that we be respectful and be mindful what should be developed near our parkland, and we should complement that area.

So just want to be on record for saying that in case uh we see anything come about with the hundreds or thousands of acres near this area.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman Willett.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

Honorable mayor.

Councilman Duncan, thank you.

Uh Mayor Pro Tim, there was some discussion during committee about this and the and some infrastructure improvements that aren't going to be included with this.

Can you expand upon that?

Uh let's see.

Maybe the um, so at the city plan commission hearing, the commission voted to remove a correction from the water department requiring all perimeter water mains be constructed uh in on Northeast Rhymeking Road and Northeast Shell Creek Parkway.

Uh staff was not in support of that correction being removed.

Uh however, that's how the it came forward.

Uh the plans associated with the ordinance show that the proposed water main to be extended from the north in on North Ranking Road only to the northeast corner of the sub subject property.

Uh see the CPC recommended approval with those conditions.

No.

Okay.

Councilman Bond.

Yeah, and I just I this is nothing against the sponsors, just to be clear.

Um, but I just want to point out that there's been several uh ordinances lately.

Uh maybe not more than normal, but more than I feel comfortable with of ordinances coming in with CPC's recommendation to remove a requirement that's typically included by say the water department too recently, uh in fact, related to that.

And so you know, we we have these policies and and ordinances in place for a reason, and we're requiring developers to do certain things.

I know that this is a religious institution, so it it you know it maybe is a bit different, however, it's still a requirement that's applied across the board, and um we've seen several of these CPC recommendations of having those those requirements taken out.

In this case, it was some water infrastructure that would typically be required of a developer to be included, and then um and then some street improvements that's you know per our you know complete streets ordinance and our um and the uh parts of chapter 88 that also require that or chapter 18.

Um and so I just uh I voted no for this for that reason, just to be clear.

It's um uh yeah, I just have some growing concern about what are what's the aggregate effect of all of these when of all these developments that we're allowing to move forward without applying our with get basically giving exemptions to things that we've agreed upon related to mandatory infrastructure to be included instead development.

So um just wanted to clarify that.

I appreciate that.

And and my um this is the second issue I've had with this type of water development, and my my consternation with this policy is that the water department charges you to put your water onto the land uh uh but that you abut to so that the new the new developers of that land will have water access.

The problem is is that a lot of these people are having to build this water infrastructure on like to land that isn't going to be developed in the next 20, 30 years.

So my you know, the when we talk about policy, my feeling is that the the policy should change so that when you develop a project, you pay for your own water infrastructure, right?

Not to build on someone else's hookups over in their part of the their parcel of land.

That's their job.

And I think you just I'm just trying to I I want to see it reversed so that they're paying for what they're doing actually on their land and not the land that the next developer will have.

Councilman Bonch.

Yeah, it's sort of like the you know, the the the thing when you pay for the person in in line behind you at the you know in the drive-thru line or at the coffee shop or something, it's sort of that situation where you know then suddenly everyone's still paying the same amount, but they're just not paying for theirs or paying for the so I I I see your your point there.

Um but I asked the question in committee well, how did the water line that they're the water main that they're connecting to, how did it get there?

Well, it was the previous developer who built it to their property.

And so unfortunately, what we have is that we're relying on the person in line in front of us to to build that infrastructure to pay for it and well pay for our coffee.

Um and so they're benefit this this particular uh development as well as some of the others that we've seen come through are benefiting from that policy themselves, and now we're allowing them to get out of it.

I think if I think that we do if I'm perfectly comfortable with changing that, but I think that we need to change it wholesale and not just provide exemptions when we feel it necessary.

Um I'm just uh I'm not gonna fight this particular project, but I just wanted to note that that they're benefiting from the water being up to their property because the previous developer did it, and that's then that was the information that was given to us in committee.

Any further discussion?

Are you now the clerk call the room?

Yeah, uh pearls aye, Parkshaw.

Boo?

Aye, Duncan, no.

O'Neal.

Aye.

Will it?

Aye.

French?

Aye.

Rogers?

Aye.

Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson?

Aye.

Lucas?

Aye.

Eleven eyes and two days.

251057.

Permanent amendments to a previously approved development plan on about 13.18 acres in District B 32.

Generally located at 8601 North Madison Avenue to allow for commercial retail office medical drive-through and additional use is allowed in B32 zone.

Neighborhood committees recommends you pass.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

This applicant is seeking an amendment to change the allowed uses on the previously approved plan.

The development plan is acting as a special use permit for the modal vehicle repair general on lot six.

The applicant would like to allow all uses as allowed in the B3 zoning district, and the applicant also provide a list of prohibited uses on the plan.

The neighborhood planning development committee uh reviewed and recommended due pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Raya.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Pearls.

Aye.

Barkshaw.

Aye.

Boo?

Aye.

Duncan.

Aye.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Willet?

Aye.

French?

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Addison Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Nice.

Ordinance passes.

There's a request to hold the item on the docket for one legislative week.

The next item.

Is there any objections?

Hearing none.

Arrowhead stadium parking.

Hearing none.

No.

We'll go to the next item.

Yes, sir.

251063.

Authorizing chief procurement officer to execute a 400,000 dollar contract with Hickman Mills Prevention Coalition to for previously appropriated funds to establish a neighborhood outreach team to engage high risk individuals and prevent violent conflicts.

Authorizing total expenditure of that amount to satisfy the cost of the contract and recognize this orders as having some effective date.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

You all may recall last week we approved several contracts as part of the violence prevention work.

That is excellent work that's been happening.

Councilman Curls and I uh requested to hold this particular item off because we had some additional questions uh in which we debated reviewed those over this last week and now ready to move forward with uh this 400,000 dollar uh contract for the Hickamills Prevention Coalition, which will do neighborhood uh outreach, uh work with um to do violence prevention efforts in Southeast Kansas City.

The neighborhood planning development committee reviewed and recommended do pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Raya Blanch?

Aye, Pearls, aye, Parkshaw, aye, Wu?

Aye, aye.

O'Neill, aye Willet, aye, Brench, aye, aye, Patison Hasley, aye.

Aye, Lucas?

Aye.

13 hours.

Ordinance passes.

Uh Mayor Pro Tim.

That the charter requirement for reading of ordinances on three separate days be waited for the ordinances on today's cycle listed as first readings, and that these ordinances be introduced as listed to the committee so designated.

Second.

We've moved and second.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

Mr.

Mayor, I do have an ordinance that I would want to pull off first.

I didn't know.

Oh, okay.

I was wondering if it was a okay.

You're taking it off the first reads rather than introducing the same day.

Yes.

Understood.

We'll do that motion practice then.

Okay.

Um I request the council now consider ordinance number two five one zero seven four, which is on the document for first readings.

If there's no objection, the clerk will read the ordinance title.

Yes, sir.

251074.

Except an approving first prize $50,000 grant from the National League of Cities Institute awarded to the city for the submission to the home resource network.

There's no wrong term.

No one stop, a one-stop solution for residents to access housing rehabilitation services, estimated appropriating that amount in the general grants fund, designated requisition authority recognizes 27 so it affected.

I move that the charter requirement for the reading of ordinance number 251074 on three separate days be waived and that the ordinance be advanced for final reading and consideration at this time.

Second.

So moved and seconded.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

Hearing on the clerk will call the roll.

Raya?

Aye.

Blanch?

Aye.

Pearls.

Aye.

Parkshaw.

Aye.

Boo.

Aye.

Duncan?

Aye.

O'Neal.

Aye.

Will it?

Will it?

Keep going.

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Hasley?

Aye.

Robinson?

Aye.

13.

I mean, sorry.

Lucas.

Aye.

13.

Oh, good.

Motion passes.

The item is now before council.

Right.

Any further discussion on the ordinance.

Just real quick.

I definitely wanted to uh recognize our staff that participated in this year-long process with NLC and brought home the first place prize for our fine help home resource network.

Um, it was designed to develop innovative solutions to approve service delivery for local healthy housing programs, advancing health and equity through a cross-sector approach.

Um Blaine Proctor, Nasser Jahari, Samantha Dutzman, Tracy Rowland, Denise Kareem, and Samantha Brayfield all participated to develop the home resource network where there's no wrong turn.

So imagine if someone is in our uh participating in our um minor home repair program, someone goes in and and looks at the house, they're not only able to provide services through the minor home repair program, but they're able to provide additional resources and services to ensure that all of the um the the residents' needs are met.

We also had Kate Barsati, a resident to participate, and Trakeesha Smith that represented bridging the gap to participate.

Um also Sharay Honeycutt and April Leonard prepared us to go to uh DC and compete and bring home the first prize.

So we'd like to thank everyone for their participation and I encourage us to vote this out so that they can get us the check before the end of the year.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilwoman Robinson.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Raya Bunch?

Aye, Earls, aye, Parkshaw, aye.

Aye, aye, O'Neill, aye, will it?

Aye, French, aye.

Rogers?

Aye.

Patterson Hanslin?

Aye.

Robinson?

Aye.

Lucas?

Aye.

Thirteen ayes.

The uh motion passes.

Are we still doing that?

We're all good.

All right, all done.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Honorable Mayor, I move the charter requirement for reading of ordinance on three separate days.

We wait for the ordinances on today's second list.

It's first reading that says we introduced it.

Hearing none, clerk will call the roll.

Raya.

Aye.

Blanch.

Aye.

Aye.

Parkshaw.

Aye.

Boo.

Aye.

Duncan?

Aye.

Will it?

Aye.

French?

Aye.

Rogers?

Aye.

Patterson Hasley?

Aye.

Robinson?

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Thirteen ayes.

The motion passes.

Any further business come before council?

Harry Nine.

Have a happy holiday season.