To order, our guest chaplain is Pastor Michael Guerrero of the Center of Church.

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

Pastor Heavenly Father, I thank you for the opportunity to meet and work for the good of others.

I thank you for the leaders in this room and the responsibilities that they carry.

I ask you to bless them and to bless us.

Nurture within us a hope and joy.

Nurture within us a love for Kansas City that motivates and energizes everything we do.

Amen.

Amen.

Let's lead this to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic where we wish to stand one nation under God in the individual with liberty and the clerk of call the role.

Raya.

President Bunch.

Present.

Mark Shaw.

Here.

Duncan.

O'Neal.

Here.

Woolley.

President.

French.

President.

Roger's Patterson Hasley.

Private.

Robinson.

Here.

Lucas.

Here.

Will the clerk please call our one special action?

Yes, our 260279 recognizing National Agriculture Week 2026 in honoring the farmers and agricultural community of the Kansas City region.

Zach and others, the presidents who receives a special action.

Who are they?

Both sides work.

There you go.

Come on, kids.

Come on this time.

There you go.

Because everybody likes you guys more.

All right.

All the soup people.

All right.

Are we?

Is this everybody?

All right.

Ready?

So this gentleman's gonna talk.

Councilman Willett.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Mayor, and welcome to City Hall.

I appreciate you all for making the trip down here.

Um you guys got off from school, right?

We got uh good friend and constituent Gina Bowman from the first district.

She is a um uh co-founder of the Kansas City Ag Business Council, and she's there today with Zach uh Hedler, who is now current vice president of the organization, and then we're joined by Laura Evans and Missouri Missouri Extension and some of 4-H students from around um surrounding counties here.

Um next week is Agriculture Week, um, and honoring the farmers and agriculture community of the Kansas City region.

Um agriculture has played a viral role in sustaining the nation's economy, food supply, and rural communities and urban communities.

Agriculture remains one of the Missouri's leading industries, supporting thousands of jobs, family farms, ag businesses, food producers, and supply chains that connect rural producers with urban consumers.

Kansas City Metropolitan Metropolitan serves areas of historic hub for agriculture commerce, livestock, like the Kansas City Livestock Area, uh, food processing, and all important transportation.

Farmers and ranchers across Missouri and the surrounding region work tirelessly to provide safe, reliable, and affordable food by serving as responsible stewards of the land, water, and natural resources.

And you guys know that green and yellow are widely recognized as colors symbolizing the agriculture and farming communities across the Midwest, and we'll be lighting up uh downtown city uh hall and throughout downtown Kansas City uh green and yellow next week, not just green from St.

Patty's Day, Kevin.

And the city council wants to recognize not only uh leaders uh you know current and former leaders in agri agriculture, but the next generation uh farmers, and we're excited for you all to be here today, and uh thank you so much.

Thank you, Councilman Willet.

Councilman Bunch.

Yes, thank you.

Um I never got a chance to participate in 4 H as a as a as a kid, but my wife did.

Um, she comes from a farming family up in northwest Missouri, and she uh tells me about the amazing times that she had in in 4 H.

And we, of course, visit her family all the time, and I just wanted to say you know, thanks for everything you do, and just uh how important um agricultural community is here in Kansas City, and uh it's not just out in rural Missouri, it is here in in the city as well, and um, so just thank you, and this is uh thanks to Council Willett for bringing this to uh to us today.

And uh, it's not just out in rural Missouri, it is here in the city as well.

And um, so just thank you, and this is uh thanks to Council Willett for bringing this to uh to us today.

Thank you.

I'll defer to my elders H before Beauty, the star of Southeast Missouri, Councilwoman Boo.

Um I just want to thank uh Councilman Willett as well.

My mom had retired from the Department of Agriculture.

I come from Southeast Missouri, where we are surrounded, a small town East Bray, surrounded by farmland.

I did not live on a farm, um, but I have not always been a city girl.

Um, and uh farming um is a big part of my um my childhood.

Um, a lot of my friends uh families uh lived on a farm, grew up in the farming community, and it is a big part of um Missouri's um not only history but current, present, and it is a part a large part of the economy.

So um I told Councilman Willett I meant to wear one of her pens from her for her years of service, and I forgot to grab that today.

So thank you all for being here.

Thank you so much.

Councilman O'Neill, who did not grow up in Southeast Missouri on a South KC in some spots.

A long time ago.

Um I just want to say, you know, having grown up in this city and being able to watch the uh blue jackets, you know, come here every year with the thousands of kids walking around and just exploring the city.

It was such a great experience.

So when you go to it's are they still doing it in Louisville now?

The 4 H your farm.

That's that's different.

Indianapolis.

Indianapolis.

Well, when if any of you go, we still need to lobby to get them back here in Kansas.

Okay.

So thank you guys for being here, and uh we appreciate you.

Thank you, Councilman uh Rogers from Flat City.

I did participate in 4H when I was a kid, and in fact, I was just talking with my kids about 4-H the other day because when I was a kid, our dogs were very well behaved because I went through dog training class in 4-H with my dog, and and our two dogs are outside or not well behaved, and I told my nine-year-old daughter that hey, I've got a solution for you, so I need to look that up and see if we can make that happen.

And the other thing I'll say is I came from the state legislature, and I served for four years on the agriculture committee.

Everything we do in the state, every piece of our economy somehow is touched by agriculture.

So thank you guys for investing in that piece of our economy early and for everything else that you do.

Thank you.

Uh Councilman Duncan, aren't you from a town in Kansas?

You should get up too, but uh I come with a long line of form that just mess move.

Councilwoman French.

Yes, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

I just wanted to proudly support this um the special action as well.

As I was actually a member of Forage uh myself, and so my family, long-term family, uh, grew up in North Dakota, and we grew a lot of rhubarb and everything there.

So when we moved back here or moved to Kansas City, I as a young child learned to grow rhubarb here, and I have prize winning uh rhubarb bread.

So that the blue ribbon prize winning rhubarb bread.

So just wanted to thank you all guys for being here today and just uh lift up the importance of agriculture.

Thank you, Councilman French.

I may just add this, particularly to our young people.

If you get a tour of City Hall later, I know Councilman Councilman Willard and his team will give you a very good one.

If you look up here, you can see on the sides.

We have cattle, right?

Corn, we have grain, a big part of City Hall.

This building was built in 1936 and 37.

So even when we were founding our city, a lot of it was about how we were based on the agricultural economy all around us.

And so the whole history of Kansas City is a lot of the work that you all are learning now and appreciating now.

It's core to how we found it at Bored as a city.

It's really core to our economy, not just here in the Midwest, but also throughout the United States, and more than anything, it shows just how important it is for you to learn this and become leaders, not just in agricultural development, but making sure that everyone knows how important this sector of our economy and our culture is to all of America.

So thank you for coming here to learn a lot about it.

You'll see things like this all around City Hall, because even though the city was founded in 1850 for all the years since we've been sure that we're actually letting people know that this is kind of where we come from.

All right, and I thank you so much for coming here to spend time with us today as well.

If there are an others wish to speak to the resolution, the resolution is now before council.

All in favor indicate by saying aye.

Aye, aye.

The resolution is adopted.

Mr.

Helden.

Thank you, Mayor Lucas, and thank you, everyone, for your acknowledgement.

Uh my name is Zach Helder.

I'm the vice president of the agricultural business council of Kansas City.

While many regions prepare meat with sauce, only one city makes barbecue.

That's Kansas City.

Our baseball team is named after our livestock show, the American Royal.

And our pride in these institutions might be a clue that our city was built on agriculture, as so many of us have acknowledged today.

Kansas City exists because of its position at the confluence of rivers and rail lines that moved grain and cattle across the continent.

The stockyards, the one sprawled across the West Bottoms, made our city the gateway between the ranch and the American family table.

The Kansas City Board of Trade said the price of hard red winter wheat for the world.

In this region and this city, food and agriculture is our inheritance.

It's been a gift to our country, an abundant and nutritious food supply, and in sharing it with the most vulnerable and hungry people across the world.

But despite our rich history, agriculture is not only Kansas City's past, it is Kansas City's present, and it is Kansas City's future.

Within a two-hour drive of where we sit, this region produces more of the nation's food supply than virtually any metro area in the country.

The Kansas City Animal Health Corridor, stretching from Manhattan, Kansas to Columbia, Missouri represents the largest concentration of animal health companies on the planet.

When a new vaccine is developed for livestock, the odds are good it started here.

If a novel animal disease emerges, we are the first line of defense.

In 2019, the federal government moved two of USDA's premier research institutions, the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to Kansas City.

That decision recognized what the people in this room already seem to know, which is if you want to be close to American agriculture, you come here.

And it's not just the big institutions, it's grain elevators across the state line, it's equipment dealers, co-ops, extension agents from K-State and the zoo, the producer the producers who drive into town for a meeting and drive home to check on the calves.

Agriculture is woven into this region's economy so deeply that most Kansas Citians interact with it every day without realizing.

National Agriculture Week is a chance to make sure they do realize it.

The food on every table has a story in which Kansas City plays a leading role.

On behalf of the Ag Business Council of Kansas City, thank you to the council for this declaration and for recognizing the men and women whose work feeds the world and has always been an essential part of the spirit of Kansas City.

Thank you.

May I?

Do they want to?

Yeah, they do.

On behalf of Missouri 4 H, we wanted to extend the appreciation of recognizing our culture here in the city of Kansas City.

Um as a four fourth generation farmer from a farm family myself, starting right here in the um right down here in the Kansas City roots.

I am very appreciative myself to be part of University of Missouri Extension.

Um 4-H is a as you guys are um learning today, is a youth development organization that thrives to thrives in the base of positive youth development, um, empowering our volunteers to give back to our community, get back to our youth to allow them to grow skills and um leadership, life leadership, life skills, and civic engagement.

And so today I wanted to invite just a couple of our 4-H members to kind of give their testimony today.

So who wants to go first?

Uh my name is Isaac Perkins.

I am in 4-H Welding, and I just want to say that I really appreciate all the sacrifice time that my leaders have given to me so that I can get a head start in this valuable trade and a head start on life.

Okay.

And of course, we are hello.

My name is Luke Van Akron, and I am in 4-H shotgun uh shooting sports.

And I just want to give a thank you to uh my instructors, James Peters, and just all the you know the time that he sacrifices for us.

Um he is retired, but he still comes to the range every week to help us practice.

Um, and it's you know, want everyone to know all the sacrifices that the 4-H instructors and volunteers give to us kids.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks, ma'am.

Yeah, I appreciate you coming in your convention.

Thank you for coming.

Okay, so thank you.

Your mom.

Thank you so much.

Thanks you guys.

During city hall, thanks for coming.

I hope you have to go upstairs.

Yeah, thank you.

I know they have someone.

Thank you.

Okay, okay.

Well, this should be fun.

I can't wait.

I'm so excited.

She probably will shoot you.

She's a key.

They're all excited until they get there.

Oh, I know.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good to see you.

Oh, yes, I'm going to be able to do it.

Clerk will proceed with the final readings on the debate docket.

Yes, sir.

26076.

Create a new department to be known as Department of Community Safety by amending Article 5 departments and Chapter 2 administration called awards by an act and a new division 25 entitled community to safety.

So new sections 2720.1 through 6.

Amending chapter 2, Article A, Classification Compensation Plan by Refilling Section 1079, and acting a new section of light number subject matter matter to create one new job classification, adjust the salary two classifications for this department.

Amending chapters 44 corrections by refilling section 11, authority of the clerk and municipal division report to establish prisoner assistance programs.

Finance committee reference to pass.

Councilwoman Boo.

King City's public safety efforts have historically operated across multi-departments without unified structure, limiting coordination, accountability, and consistent implementation of community safety.

Establishing the Department of Community Safety.

Some time ago.

It's been held here for a lot.

Thank you, Councilwoman Boo.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

Hi.

Girls.

Hi.

Boo.

Duncan.

Oh Neal.

Hi.

Will it?

French.

Rogers.

Hi.

Hi.

Robinson.

Hi.

Lucas.

I.

Twelve eyes.

The ordinance passes.

260249.

Directing city manager reviews certain goals in support of the homeless community and provide policy recommendations to the city council within 30 days.

Authorizing city manager engaged relevant stakeholders in carrying out the above actions.

Direct and city manager petition of 20 KC2026 and FIFA for the purpose of seeking financial contributions in alignment with the desired goals.

Councilwoman Boo.

Thank you, Councilman.

Councilwoman Boo, Councilwoman Robinson, thank you.

So the original resolution had several references to World Cup.

And me speaking personally, it sounded like that we were adopting this resolution to address homeless houselessness only with respect to the World Cup.

The um amendment would ask the city manager to um request from KC 2026 to help provide assistance with addressing houselessness during that period of time.

Understanding that I say that maybe a futile ask, but uh with understanding that during that period of time there's an opportunity for um increased um opportunity to allow them to have um uh workforce opportunities and the restaurant and um hotel industries that um also that some of the hotels may be occupied that they would normally have an opportunity to stay because of outside gas.

And so the recommendation that was actually made by my colleague, Councilman Duncan, was instead of referencing it all, you know, we're just doing this for the World Cup, is to see if that we could ask KC 2026 if because they're getting funding elsewhere, if they could help with providing funds for our houseless outreach.

Okay, um the purpose of KC26 is very narrow in scope in terms of what we're required to do, and it's been very difficult for us to be able to acquire funds to do those things.

Um, and so I understand the sentiment, but the likelihood in us making that request to KC-26 is outside of the scope of what they're required to do.

So I do have some concerns about a petition asking for revenue of KC-26 because it's been very challenging to raise money to fulfill our agreements and the things that we're required to provide, such as transportation, um security from our fanfest is dependent upon the amount of funding we're able to get.

Um, we've had to really kind of go back to the um we've had to be very creative in fulfilling our request our our commitments to fulfill the requirements for the World Cup.

So that does provide me with some level of concern.

Council uh appreciate that, Councilman Robinson, Councilman Duncan.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um appreciate the concern and tension.

I share it as well.

The the the four of the four be it resolves there the f the three that were bundled to petition KC 2026 uh was to expand um shelter capacity to uh well to help fund uh expansion of shelter capacity to um expand uh training for police officers and and public safety personnel in regards to dealing with the homeless um and to expand uh homeless outreach, which would all be unfunded mandates in our budget.

So the fact that the the whereas is were all related to World Cup bundled those up to petition the uh KC 2026 to help to help with those public security public safety efforts.

Yeah, um, and I totally again understand that we as a professional organization, we negotiated a contract with KC26 that clearly uh um stipulates what we require of them, and we're in a international crisis as it relates to public safety right now.

There are a lot of things that are weighted down from a KC 2026 perspective.

I would encourage us to look for other options and ways for us to fund these initiatives versus making a recommendation um to KC 2026.

I'm very curious about, I don't want to put the mayor on the spot, but I'm very curious about his thoughts uh related to this as well.

I know he's on the committee, but but um I have some major concerns about reaching out to them and asking them to fund this initiative.

I just wanted to be on the record.

Thank you, Councilman Ray.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

And I am inclined to follow our colleagues' role or lead on this because you all you two have been the two sitting in the room on these meetings and engage in these conversations and know how sensitive this whole thing could be.

I think I support the first five lines of this resolution.

And I think the reality is KC 2026 and FIFA ain't gonna give us any money, so it's our job to find it in the budget this time around, is my thought.

Yeah, I think I'll I'll just add this, and I I greatly apologize because I was not able to attend the committee discussion on that.

I heard it was robust, and I appreciate all the work that was done with that.

I also appreciate the work of Councilwoman Robinson uh and others who have been on the KC 2026 board, and I guarantee you, by the way, fighting for every dollar that can come to Kansas City small businesses, resources, transportation and security.

Um so I think that we continue to do that important work with it.

I speak separately for a slightly different reason, which is um I think long term we want to more clearly unify our efforts around addressing homelessness, preventing homelessness, and our broader housing goals.

And I'm not saying anyone isn't interested in substantively addressing them, but a menagerie of dozens of different resolutions or ordinances that speak to the same topic, looking for disparate sets of funds.

In some ways, I think it absolves us of our responsibilities.

You know, in the budget process to see what is it that we should do, the World Cup will be in the next budget year, for example.

Uh, but then it also I think keeps us from saying, all right, what is that?

What are the things we're looking to do?

And while I recognize like the acute challenges of of the summer, and I think there was this discussion in the finance committee, we do want to make sure that we're looking at long-term solutions for how we address um housing insecurity in our city more broadly.

So I understand uh the purposes of it.

I think it comes from a good place.

I'm just gonna do whatever councilwoman Robinson uh whom I was able to appoint to the KC 2026 board recommends.

So any further discussion on the uh orders may pro tip.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Uh definitely uh understand and share similar concerns.

The original draft of this ultimately uh just uh authorize or task the city manager to and staff to um investigate, evaluate, and then come back to us with a recommendation of you know, because at this point we don't know exactly what those costs may be if it's uh expand it's expanding shelter capacity or whatever their recommendation is.

Um, however, I do believe that actually was removed, that was removed from the committee sub in during the committee.

Um, but ultimately the resolution tasked them to come back with the recommendation of what potential expenses there may be for the council then to evaluate at that time.

So uh I share the concerns about FIFA uh 2026 as well.

Thank you.

And I think the and again we had a lot of discussions in section one, the the city managers directed to review the following goals and provide policy recommendations within 30 days on shelter capacity, um homeless outreach, workforce development, specialized training.

I think the the part that was taken out about coming back with the the funding um source was part of the discussion of well, this would be after the adoption of the budget.

You know, we just funded one million dollars for the um the housing gateway, and how does this all fit in?

And so um part of the addition of section three with respect to the KC 2026 was um you know we we don't really have a funding source in here.

This is coming back with recommendations on um these four kind of policy goals um and possibly a funding source, but you know, how do we continue to um to uh further these goals that we you know started in zero KC and we're continuing, and these are very important.

Um I think also in section two when it talks about engaging with other city departments and other organizations, ensuring that that continues because that was a big part of the discussion, and one of the things that was discussed was the fact that the hotel um or the restaurant association had mentioned that there's like 6,000 jobs that are currently open, and that there's gonna be more during the World Cup, and so they there we could partner doing a um you know workforce development to put people to work like we have within the city.

So making sure we have that in section two to say if the city's not already you know working or convening the necessary groups to do that.

I think it part of the deletion of the section that uh councilwoman or mayor Patem was talking about is to just not bind us in some way to say the city manager has to come back with a way to fund this program when it's after the budget, and we're already doing some of these things, and how do we fit it within the housing gateway and other things?

So I I think we're kind of and I admitted even you know to Sam Miller who did a wonderful job.

I don't know if he's here, um taking down the discussion that we had, but realizing that you know there are some you know complications with the fact that you know we're trying to continue the work that the housing department is doing, but you know, we're also in the midst of our budget and trying to fund the housing gateway and our budget and our housing department, housing and community development department.

So that's saying a lot without saying much.

May I just hop in briefly and maybe there's a similar point.

There does come a time.

Why pray tell do we need legislation here?

So what I might suggest is if we are doing the budget in two weeks, and by the way, amendments, while due today still have time.

Um, and that's really where the funding comes from.

And if the restaurant association and others are working on things, and there's absolutely nothing that limits their ongoing collaboration, and I need to probably a statutory dictate from us previously to always tell the manager staff and the uh uh Office of Unhouse Solutions and others to work with these folks.

I I perhaps am I missing in some way the glaring need, not saying the issue isn't important, but it's kind of the issue's important, let's fight about it in two weeks and get funding further into it, that sort of thing, or build the collaborations as necessary, um, perhaps rather than a 30-day direction to staff who I believe the same staff we've already directed to do a lot of things in the homelessness space.

And I so I guess this adds a new concern.

If we told them a few weeks ago, build a housing gateway program, let us know how much that costs, do your zero KC work, do all of these steps but wait, then in 30 days come up with a new homelessness program as it relates to the World Cup that maybe looks to fund but maybe doesn't.

I I would just say let's let's use the the process we already have laid out.

And maybe that's my question, but uh Mayor Pro Tim, then perhaps uh so the uh component of this that uh kind of had a an uh time element and something different is really the uh workforce pipeline strategy to work in collaboration with the hotel and lodging and restaurant association in helping them to address their gap because our outreach teams, our outreach workers, you know, have access to all of these individuals uh who need access to these jobs and and the opportunity and this is something that was not covered in any of the other legislation that we have, and so this ultimately really creates the opportunity or directs them or gives them the authority to be able to do that.

There is a an effort to coordinate a um citywide hotel and lodging work um job fair, employment fair, and so some of the opportunities that the city has to help engage in that is you know, in those processes, they many times they've got to present IDs, so uh, you know, to to get their background checks, and so the area that um what the hotel and lodging association it where they felt the city could be beneficial is helping with some of those processes, which may not really be an additional cost to us, but may direct maybe maybe our health department staff, obviously our housing department staff to really engage more in more with them than what they have.

Well, they've never engaged with them in this way.

So that is the really the component of that.

In addition to knowing that because many of these hotels are going to be um that many of these unhouse folks stay in hotels and the hotels are going to be full, uh some of them are being told that they're gonna have to find other places to stay during this time of World Cup.

And so that was the why the direction was to look at other potential options, whether it's creating extending the shelter capacity like we do in the cold weather area or whatever other recommendation the housing department staff have because inherent from these nonprofit organizations, many of the unhoused um are concerned about where they're gonna stay during this time because they are being displaced during the time because we know we're gonna have so many visitors.

So ultimately I just wanted to make sure that we you all understood kind of the basis behind it.

Um and you know, ultimately I'm I'm okay with however we handle this, but I I do think that this creates an opportunity for us to really launch um a workforce pipeline for individuals as well as even help our struggling service industry who needs workers.

Yeah, thank you.

I uh Councilwoman Robinson.

Again, let me just say this a little bit more clearly.

Especially FIFA.

Because again, KC26 is the our organization that is tasked with working with FIFA to get this done.

If this is something that we wanted them to provide some financial contributions for, it would have been better suited when we were in contract negotiations with them.

So I understand that this is very important and there's an impact.

One of the things that KC26 does very well is to be a convener.

So when you talk about like workforce development and pipelining and working with the industries to train folks, perhaps they could serve as a convener to make those connections happen.

But I would strongly encourage us not to ask our city manager to negotiate with KC26 or FIFA to ask for a financial contribution to help with this initiative.

And I and the chair of the finance committee is always standing up for compromises too.

But maybe I I think of this, and I don't know what you all think.

I mean, if the story is that we want to support perhaps job fare initiatives and a recognition that those who sometimes rely on temporary lodging or experiencing homelessness may be pushed out because of capacity issues.

Maybe through a business session process, where I mean, first, there is no prohibition on our staff and others continuing to work with the restaurant association, lodging association, and others to put something together generally.

So they can they can and probably should continue to do that.

But I would think that if we were to set a probably a mid to late April business session, that kind of allows us to both look at what will be the city's efforts to address the issues of uh those who are facing homelessness as well as what other industry actors are.

I would actually find that in some ways more helpful than an and I love your memoranda by the way uh but rather than receiving a four-page memo from staff that kind of says we did this in 30 days, which with the greatest respect to them and to anyone may not be as much as we would want them to do anyway, because they'll have 30 days to do it.

But if instead we said, all right, yeah, let's work on these, let's then come to a business session later where we have a discussion on all of it.

We're still on the track of having our own um budget discussion two weeks from now.

I think that kind of gets us to the same place without necessarily the same types of steps.

At its core, I feel like here, and Councilwoman Robinson's right.

Um FIFA won't do the work.

KC 2026 shouldn't have to do the work.

Maybe the restaurant association will or will not, but I feel like it actually will take us all kind of convening together, and I'm not necessarily sure if even just having two people or whoever's desk this gets to in the housing department is the way that we actually resolve it long term.

So my discussion, my recommendation might be we just hold this off docket.

We plan to schedule a business session to actually talk about that issue, which will be an important one, homelessness coming up before the world cup and how we're looking to address those issues, and then we kind of keep things moving.

Ms.

Mind, but I don't know if you're not sure.

I was just only gonna say to the extent that we think that you know the city manager needs to be directed to do something right as the staff is just to leave section two and take everything else out.

But your point may be better is so they can come and just tell us.

And today if they're not doing it at that time, then we can take it up, I guess.

Is there any objection to that approach if we just held and then scheduled a business session for probably April 16th or 23 okay Mayor Pro Tim?

I don't object.

However, I would really like to see the city uh engage on in the um the uh employment fair that is supposed to happen on April 25th.

So I don't object to holding it off.

Just want to ensure that that the city can convene and participate in that.

City manager.

Yeah, um, Mr.

Mayor, thank you.

I think you know, today's a special day.

And April 16th is 34 days from today, effectively what you're gonna get if we do a business session on April uh 16th on these matters.

You're basically gonna get the kind of response that we can provide to you in the in the 30 days provided.

Whether you take up the resolution or not today, um, you know, I don't I don't think you get the same result if you would if you're requesting a business session on these matters uh on that date and to Mayor Pro Temp's point if she wants uh uh if the body as a whole wants to have you know as an examination of our involvement and business employment fares and you know some some ideas as to how to address homelessness during the World Cup, we will prepare to do that.

Um whether to take this up or not, it doesn't matter.

We're still 30 inside of 30 days more or less, so okay.

All right, hearing no objection, we'll hold the item off docket.

I do I do hear that there's a desire to make sure the city is first cognizant of this uh fair and um finds a way to participate in support to the extent possible.

All right, next item.

Yes, sir, 260254, directing city manager to assess the feasibility of creating a centralized one-stop shop with city fee and tax collection to report back to the council with recommendation, including costs and staffing considerations, finance committees do pass.

Mayor, uh Councilman Boo.

Honorable mayor, uh this uh the can of Kansas City administers uh multiple regulatory processes that require the collection and fees and taxes.

These fees and taxes are currently collected through several different points of entry, creating a fragmented and cumbersome process for residents and businesses.

Um this would allow for uh the city manager to study the uh ability to create a centralized uh one-stop shop and finance governance public safety reviewed them recommended advanced and do pass any further discussion.

Harry, now the clerk will call the role Rhea Aye, aye curls, aye park shaw.

Aye, boo Duncan, Neil, aye Willard, aye French, aye Rogers, aye, Patterson Hasley, aye, Robinson, aye, Lucas, aye, thirteen ayes.

The resolution is adopted, 260263, expressing the city council support for the city's grant application with the Mid-American Regional Council for 2026, reallocated call for projects and directing city manager director of public works to submit the grant application to mark transportation committees to pass councilman O'Neill uh thank you, Mayor, Mr.

Mayor.

Uh Public Works has identified priority transportation projects.

These projects are eligible for the programmatic federal transportation funds managed through MARC, including congestion mitigation, air quality, uh surface transportation block grant, transportation alternatives program, and carbon reduction programs.

These grants fund projects at 80% federal and require a 20% local match.

Each uh each district has two uh location or two projects that they are including in this request.

Um and then an additional uh citywide uh one for vision zero higher and during network road safety audit improvements.

Umfrastructure operations committee recommends advanced and do pass as a committee sub.

Thank you, Councilman O'Neill.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Raya.

Aye, bunch, aye, girls, uh Duncan, Neil.

Aye, Willie.

Aye, French.

Aye, Rogers, aye, Patterson Hasley.

Aye, Robinson, aye, Lucas.

Aye.

13 ayes.

The resolution is adopted.

Mayor Pro Tem.

I believe for the Honorable Mayor.

Thank you.

I move that the charter requirement for reading of ordinances on three separate days be way 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.

It's been moved and seconded.

Any discussion.

Hearing none, the clerk will call the role.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Girls.

Aye.

Park Show.

Aye.

Who?

Aye.

Duncan.

Aye.

O'Neal.

Aye.

Willie.

Aye.

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

13 ayes.

The motion passes.

Will the clerk proceed with the items on the advanced consent docket?

Yes, sir.

260255.

It's obviously that there's 23 years statutory periods for the capture of tax incremental allocation financing within projects 2 to 13.

And of the Hickley Mills tax increasing financing plan has expired.

Terminating and designating each of the such redevelopment project areas therein, terminating the Hickory Mills tax increment financing plan.

Clerk will call the row.

Raya.

Oh, I didn't read the second one.

I'm sorry, I got too excited.

260258.

Authorizing Director of Jones Service to execute a one-year lease agreement with two options to renew for one year east with pathway financial education for the purpose of an office space located at 1520 East 18th Street, Kansas City, Missouri, 61108.

Finance committee to pass.

Call that role.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Girls.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Aye.

Boo.

Aye.

Duncan.

O'Neal.

Aye.

Will it?

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Lucas.

I'm 13 ayes.

The ordinance says pass.

Clerk will see the items on the advanced debate docket.

The item.

Yes, sir.

260247.

Expressing supports for exploring the sister city relationship between Kansas City and Occupana.

Recommending the sister city association to Kansas City to work with the Ghaninians.

Greater Kansas City to develop a form of proposal consistent with section 2-12 of Code of Warners.

It's authorizing the mayor to execute an agreement with Mayor of Accra.

Contingent upon the Mayor of Acura's consent to enter into sister city relationship with Kansas City after successful collision of the proposal finance process.

Finance community passed.

Councilwoman Boo.

And this ordinance would express the city council's support for an exploration of a sister-city relationship and recommends the sister cities association of Kansas City work collaboratively with the city, Kansas City, Gaunan community to develop a formal proposal.

Finance governance public safety recommended advance in due task.

Thank you, Councilwoman Boo.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Rhea.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Curls.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Aye.

Who?

Aye.

Duncan.

O'Neal.

Aye.

Will it?

No.

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

The ordinance passes.

Mayor Pro Tim on the second and first readings.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

I move that the charter requirement for the reading of ordinances on three separate days be way for the ordinances on today's document listed as second readings and that these items be placed on the document next week for final reading.

Second.

It's been moved in second.

Any further discussion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Rhea.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Girls.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Aye.

Who?

Aye.

Duncan.

Aye.

Willie.

Aye.

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Paterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

13 ayes.

Motion passes.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Honorable Mayor, I move that the charter requirement for ordinances, reading of ordinances on three sub days be way for the ordinances on today's docket listed as first readings and that these ordinances be introduced as listed to the committee still designated.

Second.

Rhea.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Curls.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Aye.

Who?

Aye.

Duncan.

O'Neal.

Aye.

Willie.

French.

Rogers.

I.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

13 ayes.

Motion passes.

We'll do the floor introductions.

Councilman Rhea.

May I request that the clerk receive document reading ordinance prepared too late to be on today's docket?

Clerk will receive the ordinance.

Receive the receive the ordinance to sign a number and read the title.

Yes, sir.

Then our summer is going to be 260285.

Declaring certain real property, generally located between East 25th Street, East 20, East 26th Street, between Gillam Road and Sherry Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.

Surplus to the city's needs.

Authorizing director parts and recreation to offer for sale in-city entrance in real property in accordance with city regulations and execute the related documents to complete the transfer of real property.

While reserving evil easements as necessary for any existing city owned sewer, storm water and waterline infrastructure on said property.

Do you want to do more motion practice on it today?

Or just referral to committee.

Consider to commit referred to the finance governance and public safety committee.

Councilwoman Boone.

Honorable mayor, I request that the clerk receive docket and read an ordinance prepared too late to be on today's docket.

The clerk will receive the ordinance to sign a number and read the title.

That number is going to be 260286.

Amending chapter three code of ordinances by repealing section three twenty six twenty-two prevailing wage applications to incentive plans and enacting Lou Gira of new section 622 for the purpose of enlarging the establishing applicable prevailing wage policy for certain types and categories and incentives projects.

Amending chapter three code of warnings by appealing section 437, waiver of MWB goals for the purpose of greater alignment and efficiency among the economic development agencies created by the city.

Amending chapter 74 code of ordinances by appealing section 11 Affordable Housing Set aside and enacting move there of new section eleven for the purpose of right sizing the payment in lieu of fee to better reflect the amount of subsidies provided per unit of affordable housing.

Refer to the finance governance and public safety committee.

Uh council woman boo.

Or I'm just looking.

I requested the clerk receive docket and read an ordinance prepared too late to be on today's docket.

Clerk will receive the ordinance, sign a number and read the title.

Yes, sir.

That number is going to be 260287.

Waiving the limitations established by fund balance and reserve policy in section 1954, chapter 2.

Code of ordinances for the use of the unappropriated fund balance.

Appropriating $2 million for an unappropriate fund balance in the general fund to transfer the general fund and transfer insane police department overtime and patrol and investigation directing city manager include requests for appropriation fiscal year 27.

First quarter ordinance from public safety sales tax fund any amount of two million dollars to transfer the general fund if not allocated from public safety sales tax fund fiscal year 2627 budget recognizes one hundred and seven sell the effective date referred to the finance governance and public safety committee.

Let me do this.

Actually, the two ordinances introduced from the floor that came from May 1 related to discussions we've had recently on uh police funding within the current year that will also be a part of our budget conversation a Tuesday from now in connection with that funding.

So really the budget conversation in many ways should precede the ordinance over the ordinance is necessary to effectuate it long term.

The other is relates to prevailing wage is relating to discussions that you may be aware of uh that came from AFL CIO building trades and others.

We have convened several meetings and recent weeks with uh the leadership of that organization, other labor unions, Port Authority, the Economic Development Corporation, Kansas City Public Schools was present for one about a compromise that creates equity among different agencies is the idea and then a number of other policy aims.

If you're wondering what that was all about.

All right, uh Councilman Duncan.

Point of clarification, the numbers of the ordinance again on the that one?

No.

Oh, the ones that they're looking to six zero two one three and two six zero two two zero.

260213 and 26020.

Are they in today's docket?

Are they on today's no they're not?

They're in committee.

Well out of seven votes harder because they have to have been in committee long enough.

Well, this was this was not because they weren't heard, this is because we ran out of time.

Understood.

Okay.

I but however, I think the procedure to pull an item out of committee, it needs to have been in committee for 21 days.

The body can vote to pull it out with less than 30 days, but it would go on second readings.

Yeah, it goes the next week.

It wouldn't be on the docket tonight.

So here's what we probably have, which will be a bit of a pain for everybody, but you can accomplish the same objective by the same day adoption floor introduction.

There's a request from staff for a business a closed session anyway.

Try to work that out.

So I think the ask would be same-day adoption ordinances, text in substantial form of 260213 and 26020.

We'll try to do that after we come out of the closed session, seeing how fun the closed session is.

Closed session topic would relate to contract issues, most likely, and maybe employment issues.

We'll entertain a motion as to the close.

Yes.

I have a quick question.

Did do we need did you read them both in the case?

I got them both.

You got a both.

Never mind.

Closed session.

Uh thank you, Honorable Mayor.

I just will say that both of those ordinances uh were in committee since February 3rd, so they meet the 21-day requirement.

Just want to make sure you were aware of that.

Uh with that, I move.

And they only issue you're correct.

Great.

And then, but the only challenge is then it goes on the docket and it's heard next week.

We'll be we'll be debating new things.

Right.

So if it's if today is needed, then it's yeah, we'll do the new things.

Go ahead.

Sorry.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

I move uh that we go into closed session pursuant to section 610.021, subsection one and nine of the revised statutes of Missouri.

Second.

Moved and second, is there any further discussion hearing none?

The clerk will call the roll.

Raya.