The word declares that righteousness exalteth a nation.

Thank you.

That prayer has been chosen by these civil leaders.

Dear Lord, people of great renown and leadership responsibility are noted in the Bible as examples.

Daniel was a very successful civil leader, and he declared that you, Lord, change the times and seasons, that you, O Lord, remove and set up.

And it's you, Lord, that giveth wisdom and knowledge unto the wise.

And you bless Daniel.

And Lord, you gave Daniel special ability.

Great God, you said that the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous person availeth much.

Elijah in the Bible was a praying man.

And that one-minute prayer of about 63 words change the very elements.

So, dear Lord, we pray out of necessity, desire, and we pray in faith.

I pray for Kansas City, Missouri.

Lord, please continue to bless this city on all levels, socially, economically, and environmentally.

Allow this city to thrive and prosper.

Gracious, kind, and merciful God, I pray for the leaders of this city and the mayor that are represent that are in representation here today.

Grant them your wisdom and knowledge, strengthen their heart and their mind in a supernational in a supernatural fashion.

And Lord, give these leaders and our mayor peace and great health.

All that will be presented to this council today.

Lord, may you grant clear and sound insight.

I pray that decisions made today be seasoned with wisdom and balance.

Dear Lord, direct this council.

God Almighty, with the Memorial Day holiday approaching, we would like to take the time to thank you for U.S.

military personnel who died in service for our freedom.

And Lord, let honor, truth, and justice continue to rule within these walls.

It's in the mighty name of Jesus we pray.

Amen.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Clerk call the role.

Girls.

Present.

Boom.

Here.

Duncan.

O'Neal.

Here.

Will it present French?

Present.

Rogers.

How do you say how is this?

I will.

Me.

Present.

Robinson.

Raya.

Bunch.

Lucas.

13 members present.

The uh clerk will read these special actions.

Okay, sir.

60488.

Recognize it exceeds expectation.

Financial literacy and wellness.

Marilyn Chapel and others are present to receive the special action.

Thank you.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Mayor.

It is my honor to rise today to celebrate and thank Exceeds Expectations for 10 years of assisting and educating people with financial literacy.

Financial literacy is a critical life skill that empowers individuals to make informed decisions, reduce financial stress, and build long-term stability.

There's a direct connection between financial health and mental well-being with financial stress being a leading contributor to anxiety, depression, and overall mental strain.

Promoting financial education helps individuals gain confidence, reduce uncertainty, and improve overall quality of life.

Workforce development initiatives such as apprenticeships and skills training provide pathways to stable careers and financial independence.

And earning while learning opportunities reduce barriers such as student debt and create stronger foundations for long-term financial success.

Exceeds expectations has a dedicated, as I stated, 10 years worth of ensuring that Kansas City families and residents can uplift their financial literacy and wellness.

And I want to thank you for your steadfast commitment to ensuring Kansas City can move forward financially and be financially sound.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Temma.

There are others who wish to speak to the resolution.

Hearing none of the resolutions now before council, all in favor indicate by saying aye.

All opposed.

The resolution is adopted.

Whomever would like to speak.

First, I would just like to thank the city council for inviting us here today.

And um, our mission is to break generational poverty by and creating generational wealth through financial education, workforce development, as well as digital financial literacy.

And as we know, it doesn't matter how much money that we make.

If we don't know how to manage it, we're not going to see it.

And so we understand that coupling financial health and mental health is crucial, and we pride ourselves in bringing in that financial psychology of it all so we can dig deep uproot is thinking thinking about financial um habits and behaviors and really change the trajectory of their mindsets so we can change the trajectory of their families' lives and their children's children.

Thank you.

Thank you for your work.

Thank you for your sake and negotiate you.

Thank you very much.

It's wonderful.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Well done.

Thanks very much.

Thank you.

Thanks for saying well done.

So for the next series, we're just gonna ask everybody after you get your award, go right back into the audience because it's kind of a public works popo parade.

Because Miss Honey cut you work there to point two, and so all about public works the next 20 minutes or so.

Next action.

260489.

Declare the week of May 17th through 2023, 2026 is National Public Works Week in Kansas City.

Director Shaw and staff are present to receive the special action.

If you work for public works, come on down.

Come on down, everybody.

So you're gonna be doing it.

It seems for it.

I'm a little nervous now, there ain't no work being done out in the city.

All right.

It has been a long competition for which council members' proclamation gets the most people up here.

That's a wish.

Pretty good, the chair of the committee.

So Councilman O'Neill.

Hey, I I have uh been here seven years now, and you know, when I first came on public works with a department, I didn't really understand what everything that was done within the department.

Having said that, I'm I'm in awe of all of you guys for the work you do in this city, how important you are to the city.

How when I would call Michael Shaw and say, Hey, I got this, and I got a problem out here on a hundred north hundred and twenty-second street, and a half later, somebody coming.

Hey, thanks for getting that done.

I'd say, Well, you're welcome.

I would steal your thunder sometimes there, but you guys were so responsive.

And I mean, it's it's been a pleasure to work with you going out on job sites, seeing some of the different variations of and scopes of work that you guys all do.

It's incredible.

And the city's lucky to have you.

And I gotta read some stuff.

So this year's National Public Works Week is rooted in service.

And boy, you guys are rooted in service.

Powered by the community, and it reminds us that public work professionals are motivated to serve the communities that they love and that power them to always do their best.

Public works professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities, and services that are a vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to the public health.

High quality of life and well-being of the people of Kansas City, Missouri, and the public work connections help keep our communities strong by providing leadership and education in programs such as transportation project and construction management, as well as street maintenance and many other things.

But I do think the one thing I've noticed in public works, as I do in a lot of our departments, with local 500 and all the other jobs within there, these are real jobs, and you guys get pensions and you get and you get to retire with dignity, I hope.

But I mean, we've set it up, I think that you guys can really benefit by your excellence and your and your experience, and we're gonna miss Michael Shaw's great experience and his immense knowledge of this city.

But luckily, we have the backdrop of all of you to keep this going, as we always have to when somebody like uh Michael leaves.

So thank you very much.

Um I just I can only say I really appreciate you guys.

Thanks so much, Councilman O'Neill, Councilman Duncan.

You know, I've said it once and I'll say it again because it bears repeating, the city runs on public works.

Um we we were making the joke, and I I Kevin made the joke at the same time I was making the joke.

If y'all are here, then then how's the city operating?

Um because it's true.

Um, and I think you know, the day-to-day operations uh go unnoticed so often.

I want to thank you all for all that you do, um, the leadership that you bring.

Um I want to also thank you for the special um things that you do.

Um I think uh not too long ago about situations like Clover Leaf.

Um, y'all are you all save lives each and every day.

Um, and your job is often dangerous.

And I know a lot of folks get told that their jobs are dangerous.

Y'all are dang that your jobs are dangerous.

My my grandfather raised six six children um on as a as a garbage truck operator, and I see y'all every day on the back of those trucks.

I know how dangerous it is.

I just want to say thank you.

Thank you for all that you do.

We appreciate it.

Thank you, Councilwoman French.

Um it was great to celebrate you all at your picnic yesterday, the public works picnic, and so I want to make some of the same remarks and and saying that just how much we really appreciate you.

As it's it's been stated, you guys are really the backbone of Kansas City.

This is that's how you get Kansas City working, Kansas City moving.

Um I'm elected to listen to my constituents to work with our communities as you know, all of my colleagues, and so day in, day out, we get phone calls as Councilman O'Neill alluded to.

We get phone calls and things that need to be fixed or worked on, our trash needs to be picked up, we have potholes, we need safe crossings, um, different traffic situations, and you guys are always there to react and in a very um quick manner, I would say.

And um, so you guys make us look good, and part of that is uh working with our communities and being a problem solver and working through larger um trying to put those larger requests from our communities, and so what those look like are like safe routes to schools, complete streets, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, um, traffic lights.

So, not only just the potholes and the trash and all of that, it's big citywide infrastructure that we're working through, and working with you guys, and so you guys definitely put that boots on the ground to make those projects happen to make those things happen to really give back to our communities and help our communities and look making us look good at the same time.

So thank you, Councilwoman French.

Councilman Rogers.

You know, I don't think I've ever called public works for something and gotten the answer no.

It's always okay, let's figure this out.

And whether it's a small request or big request, it's just always immediately into problem solving mode.

And I'm amazed what you guys always come up with.

So thank you for all you do.

Thank you, Councilman Rogers, Councilman Willard.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Kevin, can you please mute that, please?

There's no phones in the classroom.

Well, speaking of classroom, I always take my students to a visit on public works, and that's probably the most exciting time they have from the science shop, seeing the operations that you do for uh snow removal, seeing that big pile of salt.

Um we've you know it really inspiring to next generation of seeing all the different jobs you can do hands-on, and there's a lot of people who go around the city and fix things and make us look good as some of my colleagues have mentioned.

But when I ran for city council, when you talk to people at the door, it's about it's infrastructure, the stuff that you do is what they want, as well as good responses from the first responders.

You guys are what a lot of people requested.

Having new sidewalks put into the Nashua area so all those students can now walk to school safely like they deserve that you guys made that happen.

That neighborhood was promised 60 years ago from the city that they're gonna have the infrastructure put into place.

You guys made that happen, and there's so many people who are thankful that their kids now can be able to go to school.

You changed a neighborhood of over a thousand people like that.

What you guys do matter, or we want to continue to fund, make sure more resources are there for neighborhoods to be up kept.

But you guys are the backbone of that.

Thank you for all you do.

Thank you for your leadership.

Councilwoman Patterson has.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Um, everybody said it already, but public works, you make the city work.

Uh, the work that you do is the epitome of public service.

And for me, it's been um fun to watch my kid understand how the city works, and she thinks that I can call the mayor and tell him to fix a pothole.

And I'm like, no, she's like, mommy, you need to call the mayor and tell him to fix this.

And I'm like, no, that's the director shaw that I need to call and fix that.

Because that's public works, is so much of what we enjoy, and and a lot of people can take it for granted, you know, when things are done and they look nice or when things are fixed.

But really, um, you all are the secret sauce to to the city, and so we really appreciate the work that you do and the level of passion you have for the people.

So thank you.

Um continue to do what you do, and I'm just proud that I get to partner with people like you.

Thank you, Councilwoman Robinson.

Um, thank you, Mr.

Manager, um, and to the chair, the best chair ever, the party, I don't know, recognize public works.

But um, we really appreciate you.

This display uh really um shows teamwork and making sure that we lift others as we climb and we come together as one unit.

Um, and it it shows by you know, all of you up there, and so we not only say thank you for what you're doing, thank you for standing in the trenches with us.

There are a couple of you, and I won't I'll save my director Shao comments for a little bit later, but have been in the trenches with the third district, and I appreciate you so very much.

Um, our third district planner, who's a third district planner for three and five, you know how many conversations that we've had about 18th divine, and how many times we have talked on the weekends um late at night about issues that are happening.

Ryan McGonagall, who's the PIO, who is doing a tremendous job of keeping people together again, working on the 18th Environment project.

All of you are so very important.

Thank you for being in the trenches with us because you make us shine brighter, um, and you make the taxpayers feel worthy that their dollars are going to good use.

So we really appreciate you.

Thank you.

Others who wish to speak to the resolution.

Councilman Curls.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

I just want to rise, and I too will save a lot of comments for Director Shaw later.

But I want to say thank you to the public works team.

I mean, a lot of times nobody really actually says thank you for what you do, but know that obviously from the comments made from these council people already that they do appreciate you.

You are appreciated.

Your work is appreciated.

And I just want to say that I appreciate you.

I remember getting elected, and one of the things that uh I was on Director Shaw about was a road that was supposed to be paved on 107th Street, and it got paid like of course I bugged him to death about it, but it still got paid.

And a lot of my constituents called me and thanked me for that, but they didn't know that that was due to public works that actually made that work happen.

So I want to say thank you for your hard work.

Keep up the good work and continue to make our city be proud of you and make all of us proud of you because I know that you will, and this is only fitting uh for you to be recognized today.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman Curls.

Are there others who wish to speak to the resolution?

I'm gonna be up, Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Definitely I have to rise.

You know, my colleagues have said uh many admirable things, and so I'll try not to repeat that, but I want to share with you a story.

Uh this past Sunday I was at church, and um one of the former president of Trookswood Neighborhood Association came to me with tears in her eyes, and she said, I need you to thank the public works department because they are affecting people's lives every day.

She shared the story of one of her neighbors who um was in a motorized wheelchair and in a previous year was riding down, trying to ride down the sidewalk and fell over, and she ran out of her house to try to pick him up, and she couldn't.

And uh it was a big whole ordeal.

So uh, fast forward I did our neighborhood walking tour, the public works department was there, and uh Uday was one of the main ones there uh helping to just to help me to identify what we needed to do to fix that, and it has been fixed.

And she said just the other day he was riding along the sidewalk, and she ran out with his parents following.

She ran out and was so pleased and elated that he was able to ride down the sidewalk.

And so she wanted me to share this with you to say thank you so much because the work you do matters every single day.

People may not thank you, people may not even see what you do, because many times you all are out there five, six o'clock in the morning and out at one, two o'clock in the morning sometimes when it's needed.

But I just thank you so much for your steadfast commitment, your dedication to helping improve the quality of lives for Kansas City residents.

Thank you.

Happy Public Works Week.

Thank you so much.

Are there any others who wish to speak to the resolution?

I'll just be real brief for staff.

Uh occasionally I chop it up in the Facebook comments and all of that, and it is not just simply see some of y'all know.

Because the toughest days, not thin skin, it's because particularly after a snowstorm or something like that, everybody wants to talk about what we are not doing.

And the challenge is that I see y'all, and I know we have had how many years where y'all worked on Christmas, then New Year's, and one of those years you have to work on Thanksgiving too.

And I don't care what we paying you, it's not enough.

I'm not gonna start trouble though.

Actually, Shaw may be with you now.

Shaw's like, yeah.

But like everybody said, the reason I'm chopping it up there is because I'm like, y'all can say 10,000 things about how raggedy the council, the mayor, all of that are.

But you're not gonna talk about our workers like that.

No, no.

Because we know the work that you do, we know your commitment to this city.

We know the years you didn't get paid enough, and we know how many of y'all have been here on every tough day when we ask you.

In terrible weather, when your own family has to be protected and taken care of, you're coming out and taking care of all of us.

This is an incredibly noble profession.

And with other professions, and I love them all.

We will give proclamations and every award and do ceremonies and events.

I'm sad this is all we're doing in a way, because y'all really are how we keep this place moving.

You are the core of Kansas City, and I am so proud in any situation to represent you, whether it's somewhere real fancy, or if it's find somebody at 2 a.m.

and being like, we went over your street and the snow started ten minutes ago.

How about you sit down for a minute and we're gonna get there?

I'm sorry, I'm sounding bitter right now.

Love my public works, love y'all, and thank you, Councilman O'Neill for bringing that.

This is gonna be brief.

Oh, I can preach now.

If there are no others wish to speak to the resolution, the resolution is now before council.

All in favor indicate by saying I.

There is over 40 plus thousand public works agencies across North America, and only about a hundred and fifty of them are credited, and we are one of them multi- multi-term credited and uh have created um national standards out of this group.

If you continue to invest in us, you will make a great investment in this at this community.

So we thank you for all that you do for us and uh thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate you.

I appreciate you.

I should be sure so hard.

Right, appreciate you, sir.

Appreciate your hand.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, I was gonna get you back.

Good.

Thank you.

I appreciate you.

I appreciate you, thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Great to see you, sir.

You look good.

Hello, thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, thank you.

Thank you.

And I've never seen you in that city.

But good.

Thank you.

I appreciate you very much.

Thank you.

We appreciate you.

Thank you.

We appreciate you, sir.

Appreciate you, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate you.

I appreciate you.

Thank you so much.

So much.

Thank you.

Good to see you.

Thank you so much.

Bridge band.

Thank you, Mike.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Appreciate you.

Thank you.

I've talked to you from a long time.

All right, I'll be back.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Right now.

Thank you.

Good to see you.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Appreciate you, Director.

Okay.

I love her.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Honorable Mayor, I um, under Council Rule 66.02.

I move that the provisions contain in Council Rule 4.01 be temporarily suspended.

Second.

It's been moved and seconded that the rules be temporarily suspended.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

Or call the role.

Girls.

Park show.

Hi.

Duncan.

May you.

Willie.

French.

Rogers.

Patterson has.

Aye.

Robinson.

Ray.

Bunch.

Lucas.

Aye.

Motion passes.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Honorable Mayor, I request the clerk receive documentary additional special action to be included on today's document.

Clerk receive the resolution, assign a number and read the title.

There it is.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

It is my honor to recognize Miss Sheree Honeycutt and her dedicated career to public service.

She really has provided leadership during some of the city's most significant moments, helping to ensure residents receive timely, transparent and accurate information during emergencies, major initiative initiatives, and community events.

Her work strengthened communications and collaboration across city departments while also elevating the Kansas City's voice through innovative storytelling, strategic public engagement, and a commitment to ethical communications practices.

And we wish you all the best, Shorey.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Councilwoman Robinson.

Thank you.

So Miss Honeycutt, she is also a third district resident, so one of my bosses, many bosses.

So in addition to your service to Kansas City, I also want to say thank you for all that you do for your neighborhood.

Uh look forward to your uh upcoming Halloween, all the things.

Uh, but thank you for showing up uh in Kansas City in so many different ways.

Yeah.

I'm gonna stand up quickly because I was gonna say something earlier, but I after Mayor Pro Tim said something, I was like, I'm not gonna touch that one that was too moving.

But Share, I want to just say thank you.

Um you have been a true inspiration here.

You've guided us as Mayor Pro Tem said and helped us with uh in in situations where I think we haven't had that inspiration and that help with situations involving the press and what to say and you know where to look and what to do and and that that has truly been a help to us or to me.

I I won't speak for everybody, so thank you.

Thank you, Councillor Curls.

Thank you, Miss Mayor.

Uh Sheree, I just want to say thank you, congratulations.

Uh hate to see you go.

Uh, but the time that I've had an opportunity to work with you, it's been a pleasure.

Uh you've always kind of helped me in things that I needed help with, and uh just want to say thank you for that.

Good luck in your future endeavors.

Thank you.

Councilwoman French.

Ms.

Honey Punkt.

I just wanted to um just rise and just thank you for again your leadership and your guidance, and for the this whole body, and also personally myself.

Like I've been in many situations where I can stand up and speak to a room full of people, I can lead meetings and do, but the media, it's another thing, right?

That's a whole nother ball game, and you give me a lot of tools um for that for more comfortability, more just um confidence and and speaking, you know, on camera.

Sometimes when you get a camera and lights in your your face, everything just kind of goes blank, right?

And so you've um really guided me uh personally in that in that journey, and then just along the way, just about a little bit of a friendship too.

So just very, very excited for your next journey and and where you're going, and please stay in touch, of course.

Are there others who wish to speak to the resolution?

I'll I'll just have a few other things to next to me.

So I'm just Mr.

Rogers, go ahead.

Mr.

Oh, yeah.

The new one, the new council.

First time I've ever heard that.

So no, so I heard this yesterday, and I was so happy to hear that you're going on to greater things, and there's no doubt in my mind that you would, but personally I was sad about it.

I told my wife this morning she was sad about it, so we do issue well, but we're gonna miss you big time.

Thank you.

Others wish to speak to the resolution.

Well, I'll just I mean I could say a bunch of things because we've spent a lot of time together over all these years.

So, first of all, I still remember when Sharay came over from uh Fox 4, and we were just kind of like, okay, you know, we're gonna get this television person.

How's she gonna work with all the different things the city throws at you being on the other side?

And you have handled it exceptionally well.

First of all, always just clearing some things, always incredibly respectfully.

And for those who don't know, a communications office, uh and an expert and professional like her, is a lot like a therapist.

They're the people when you've done something either really dumb or not so dumb, or whatever you're like, so Sharay, we gotta talk about this.

And she manages to handle it without judgment and does an exceptional job.

Over the past years that you have been here, there has been more and more probably thrown at this city, and by extension, you than I think we had had at least in a half century prior.

Ranging from pandemic to the joyous things, like you may not know, but Sharay probably never actually enjoyed a chief super bowl because she was like, I have a thousand communications things to do immediately after we score on that final play against the 49ers and win the bowl and all of that twice.

Right.

Twice, by the way.

The win against the 49ers, and so I just want to say thank you.

First of all, to the for the people of Kansas City.

I think you have done, and it's not written on much, an exceptional job of explaining the business of this city, the work that all of these good people do, you center our workforce and all that is great about Kansas City.

Thank you for that.

The other thing, and I'm not gonna tell your story because it's yours to share.

You are never shy about the fact that you have been blessed by any number of opportunities to be where you are today.

And that is something that I think when others hear it, they say, Wow, that can be me.

And I'm glad that you will continue on in sharing that, but thank you for sharing your light with us, your energy, your consistency, and I think we'll probably be lost because a week from now we'll say, wait, who's got this?

But we know that fair enough.

Uh, but we appreciate you tremendously, and we wish you nothing but the very best.

If they're not so wish to speak to the resolution, the resolution is now before council, all in favor indicate by saying aye.

Aye, all opposed, the motion passes, I um had some things I wanted to say, um, but I think I'm going to try to wing it as much as possible.

So, I guess I will.

So, Kansas City is known for our heart.

That is what is on our t-shirts.

Um, no matter where I go in the world, I'm always talking about the city.

I know wherever the mayor goes in the world, he's always talking about the city.

Everybody knows us as this city that is warm and welcoming, but there's a part of our heart that I feel like people don't talk about so much that I have really grown to understand, working at the City of Kansas City, and that is our passion.

Um, love is also about fighting for something you care about.

And I learned that from my grandmother, who is a lifelong Kansas Citian.

She was a chief season ticket holder from the first season that the Chiefs were here in Kansas City.

She was on the board of directors or um for a North Kansas City Hospital back in the 90s, helping them with their development.

And she was an employee of the Federal Reserve Bank from the Great Depression to the day she died in the 1990s.

And they would tell me that she counted pennies in the basement.

That was like her first job down at 10th and Grand.

So when I was a baby in California, she would always tell me Kansas City is the best place.

You gotta go there, you gotta see it.

And I would go back, celebrating my birthdays here.

My first plane trip was into MCI, and her passion really imprinted on me.

Um, and that's why I'm here in Kansas City, because I have been wanting to live in this city for so long.

When I became a journalist, I was like, How do I get to Kansas City?

Because that's where I want to be.

And I see that passion all around me.

I see that passion in our residents who are trying to get a speed hump in their neighborhood, trying to get affordable housing, trying to make their streets safer.

They come to City Hall, they use Facebook, whatever means, but they tell us I feel like more than other cities that I've witnessed.

For some reason, Kansas Citians use their voice in a really special and beautiful way.

And I love that.

I see that passion here in City Hall.

The mayor will never stop fighting to get illegal guns off of our street.

Councilman O'Neill, always fighting for fair wage for unions.

Councilman Willett, who's not here, is the best friend that law enforcement has ever had.

We all know that.

Councilwoman French, she is a friend to all and a champion for Kansas City's people, always recognizing some of the smallest and biggest people here in our city.

Mr.

Rogers, a champion for small business, always making sure that people get what they need to be a successful business leader.

Councilwoman Patterson Hasley will find a dollar anywhere.

Anywhere.

Under your shoes, in your pocket, out of my purse when I'm not looking.

She will find it, and she will figure out a way to redistribute it for something meaningful, especially for kids.

Councilman Robinson, I've known you a long time.

I'm so excited for your new journey as well.

Your passion is going to push the city forward.

We all know that, and toward an equitable future.

And uh Councilman Rea, you have done so much work as a prosecutor fighting for people across Kansas City in your job, and now as a city councilman, try to get all the ETVs off the street.

Thank you.

Councilman Bunch.

Making our streets safer, making the city walkable, making the city feel like somewhere where we can walk or bike or get wherever we want to go, and we don't have to worry about it.

You know, that's the that's the vision you have of Kansas City.

Councilman Curls, just like Councilwoman Patterson Hasley will find a dollar anywhere.

You will never stop fighting for the fifth district.

Never.

Why not?

I want to see that in my district, and that is commendable, and that's the only way that your district gets where it needs to be.

So thank you.

Mayor Pro Tem, Part Shaw.

Just your mission to make Kansas City a safe place that people can feel good about, trying to resolve those systemic problems, and not just creating laws, right?

You're talking, you're in the community trying to figure out how we can make the city better and safer in that way.

It's so beautiful.

Councilman Boo.

Thanks for trying to balance our budget.

I appreciate it.

Little different mission, but you've done a really good job, and I appreciate your work.

People don't give the budget enough attention, and I know that's something you're very passionate about among a million things, especially eating disorder awareness.

That's so important.

So thank you for that.

Councilman Duncan, you probably know what I'm gonna say.

Thank you for fighting for tenants' rights and the rights of every Kansas Citian.

Thank you for that.

You have such a great advocate.

And finally, thank you to our city manager, Maria Vasquez, who um believes in me and has been a great partner to me and believed that we could bring baseball town town.

And you did that.

So thank you so much.

Um so I see all of that, and I see all of that in the team in our communications department.

Thank you for being here.

They are wonderful.

They have had such a rough few years, but they stuck with it.

They are passionate about transparency and being um just making things simpler to understand.

I'm so proud of them, and I'm proud to see what they will do.

And um, so thank you to them.

Thank you to my husband, thank you to my dad, my mom, my family, all my friends.

Um, and finally, when my grandmother passed away, you know, I was young, and um in 2023, I met a woman that worked with my grandmother at the Federal Reserve Bank for years.

Knew her since she started working there until my grandmother passed away, and she said, you know, we dedicated a brick to your grandma when she passed away down at the river market.

And I didn't.

I said, I had no clue.

So I snuck away from City Hall one day in 2023, and I went down there, and I looked and I found it.

And what it said, well, stay with me always, and I really appreciate your words because it speaks to it as well.

And it said, in memory of Gertrude Pippen, her energy inspired us, and I hope that my energy inspires all of you into that passion for Kansas City, the city that I love so much that I fought to be in and represent.

It's been a great joy of my life, and I'm not going to be very far away.

Independence is just one call away.

But thank you.

Thank you to the city council, thank you, Pair Pro Tem, and thank you for this recognition.

I really appreciate it.

Thanks, I appreciate you.

I appreciate you.

Making me miss up my eye line.

I see you.

I just had my attention.

Thank you.

Appreciate you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I think I think that's a good question.

Councilman curl.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Uh, I record request that the clerk received document read a special action pre prayer too late to be on today's document.

The clerk will receive the item, assign a number and read the title.

Yes, sir.

That number's gonna be 260502, honoring Michael Shaw on his retirement after 28 years of service to the city of Kansas City.

Michael's presence of special action.

So you're right.

I don't know how much time you have left up.

So, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

It is my honor to uh rise today to honor Director Shaw for 28 years of dedicated service to the city of Kansas City, Missouri.

After serving six years as a police officer, Michael Shaw began his distinguished career with the city of Kansas City, Missouri, July 1998 as a legal investigator in the Department of Environmental Management.

Continuing a career in public service that has spanned more than three decades across multiple communities and reflects a deep commitment to public safety, accountability, and service to others.

Mr.

Shaw transformed city operations through technology-driven government by implementing routeware smart cities technology for trash collection and snow operations, strengthening asset management systems for roads and sidewalks.

Michael rose to the position of public works director, and under his leadership, the Kansas City Public Works Department earned national recognition, including APWA accreditation and recognition for building a culture of continuous improvement, as well as the APWA Excellence Award for Snow and Ice Control, the Smart 50 Award for Innovation and Multiple and Municipal Services, the ACE Engineering Excellence Award, the DBIA MAR Excellence Award for Civil Infrastructure, and the TSA Old Stander Award for Transit Security.

Mr.

Shaw helped advance Kansas City's environmental sustainability efforts through the city's climate protection initiatives, environmental management systems, and beautification efforts, contributing to multiple environmental excellence recognitions and a national Keep America Beautiful Award.

Mr.

Shaw prioritized employee development and workplace culture by supporting pay equity, professional advancement, and the employee recognition initiatives, while also serving as a corporate sponsor of asset, the city's first employee resource group, focused on developing emerging African American leaders in government.

Mr.

Shaw's leadership, professionalism, and commitment uh to continuous improvement have left a lasting impact on Kansas City and established him as a respected leader in the public works profession nationwide.

On a personal note, I just want to say, thank you, Director Shaw, for everything that you've done.

You've been a tremendous asset to this city and to this community.

I value your friendship, I value you as an employee.

I I hate to see you go.

I mean, because don't think you're going too far though, because I got you on speed down, right?

But uh I just want to congratulate you on everything that you've done, all of your accomplishments that you have achieved.

Uh we talk about people not getting the recognition that they deserve a lot of times while they are here.

It is an honor and a privilege for me to give you your recognition while you're here.

Uh although, like I said, it's sad to see you go, uh, but good luck in your next adventure and your new endeavors because I know next time I see you, you'll have an additional list of accolades that I can give as well.

So uh I know other colleagues have a lot to say.

I could go on uh about, but I want to say thank you again, and not to mention you're also our constituent, so I'll be looking for your vote.

I was first, oh, go ahead.

He sat down.

Oh yeah, he sat down.

Mary Poppins wins.

I just want to say that I'm gonna share a little secret.

Um, about seven years ago, I was running for office, and uh Mayor Partin and I were at an event, and I was talking about, you know, we all talk about basic services, and I was talking about some things, and Michael pulled me aside, and um I didn't know who he was.

He was Raina's husband at that time, you know.

We were both just running for office, and he's like, Well, let me tell you a few things, and he kind of whispered in my ears about some things about you know public works and roads, and like, hmm, that sounds like more intelligent than what I was saying.

So, um, so I started talking about the things that Michael tell told me about, and then when we got elected, you know, we started implementing some of those things, and then of course he gave me credit for some of the things that he told me that might be good ideas, and so it it just goes to show the type of person he is that he is always there to give other people credit for sometimes the ideas that are really his, but he also helps educate you on the things that is um that are very important to the city that um that we as council members want to talk about and need to talk about, and um to um councilwoman Patterson Hasley's daughter, she knows who's filling the potholes now.

It's the public works department, um, it's the people who are are providing services to the city.

And I I remember that day, I remember exactly what um uh event that was, and and I appreciate that that um I knew I didn't know what I was talking about, and I know Michael didn't know what I was talking about.

Director Shaw didn't know what I was talking about, he wasn't director shaw at the time, but but I just want to appreciate that the last seven years, everything that you've provided me with to help better serve the constituents of Kansas City and all that you've done for the city and the department and um for all of us.

So I just want to say thank you.

So, I guess now you'll have to be responsible for getting her elected in the last four years ago.

Um, you know, I can probably testify for my every colleague here that every time you called Michael Shaw, you never got the word no.

You never knew it, you didn't know what it meant, you never addressed any issue we threw in front of you with a no.

You said we'll figure it out and we'll do it.

Um but to me, of all the great qualities you have.

Uh when I first started, you you you turned me on to the problems at the ATA, and your information that you brought to me helped change the layout of the ATA six, seven years ago when we started the process of trying to figure out how, and we're still not there yet, but we're trying to figure out how do we make this uh a profitable entity, right?

Or just paying for itself.

So, I just always remember your honesty and your uh the information you brought me was all for the good of the city, and what we were able to do with that was I think I think extremely good for the city.

So thank you for everything you've done.

Always been a mentor and friend to me in all these different uh areas that you are you are so smart at.

So I wish you the best of luck in whatever you choose to do because I know you'll choose to do something and you'll do great at it.

So thank you.

Thank you, Honorable May Mayor.

Um, well, well.

Now we know why you're getting in shape.

You're going on vacation, you didn't tell any of us.

Well, um, Director Shaw, it's it's gonna be tough not having you in the building because you know, your reputation precedes you as a person that does know how to get things done without you know bothering me with all the details.

You know, I just show up and see that it's been taken care of, and that's a really valuable quality, you know, that you bring to the table.

When I first got elected, you absolutely helped me understand how the sausage was made, and that made me more, you know, successful in my district.

People will ask about street resurfacing, and I can send a simple email asking for the schedule, and then all of a sudden in a week, it's completely resurfaced.

So they think I'm some rock star.

And I'm like, nah, that was uh somebody special just knowing how to get stuff done, and and the fact that you pay attention to community members, what you did with the mowing program where you um hired people in the community to take care of their own community and help them get involved with some of the prosperity that happens at City Hall.

That type of forward thinking and community inclusion.

You know, I hope that others will pick up from you, you know, and carry forward.

It's not lost on me that you use the um positions available in public works to help other folks get employed that are doing the work anyway, that are complaining or that are trying to pay attention to hard problems in in their neighborhood, and you found a way to include them, you know, in the process, and that's special.

So, whomever you go and help next, I mean, congratulations to them, but we're definitely gonna miss you here at City Hall, and you have done a fantastic job.

You should be proud of yourself.

I'm very thankful that I got to know you and learn from you, and I will be contacting you when I need to figure something out.

Council Roberts.

Um, thank you.

First, I want to say thank you to my favorite Mayor Pro Tim, uh, because we've been elected for seven years, but you've been doing this for decades, and you've shared your husband with the city of Kansas City.

Um, thank you so very much because we know that his tireless work um has made a tremendous difference.

So I don't want to not acknowledge that, and so thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Um, in addition, uh, Director Shaw, um, we are definitely going to miss you.

Um, your accountability and ownership for what goes right and what goes wrong in the city is unmatched.

Um, as my colleagues said, you get things done and you make no excuses, and we will not live in a revisionist history.

I've been talking about this for a little while today about truth and transparency.

Let's just tell the truth.

It don't need a amen or a hand clap.

But the truth is is that this city will forever be changed because of your leadership.

When we think about 18th and Vine, there would be no pedestrian plaza if it weren't for Director Shaw.

Um, and so when we're up there tomorrow, shining and grinning and talking, you know, smiling and all of that.

Let's just make sure that we know when we let history reflect that it's that man, Director Shaw, who made that happen for our community.

So I thank you for that.

There's been so many times, and you know, if you all have been down to 18th and Vine, I know this is a rough, tough, you know, challenging crowd, but it's Director Shaw who has, you know, when we talk about knock on wood and you know, praise be to God, that we haven't had a um uh homicide in 18th and vine since you implemented certain safety protocols and plans for 18th and vine.

Um, and as my grandma said, trash does not belong on the ground.

And you brought that home for us in a real way.

We would not have trash receptacles.

Um, we would not be thinking, I I think about recycling and director Shaw every day uh in my household, changing that culture around recycling and how we're uh using our solid waste.

And so thank you, Mr.

Trashman.

You own that, and only not only that, but so much more.

And so thank you for your service to Kansas City.

Uh, we will be greatly missed, and there's some huge shoes to fill.

I just want to stand and thank you for your your leadership and your just work ethic.

There's been a lot said by my colleagues already, um, just knowing that you were really only a phone call away, and that that's that's very true.

Uh, we have a lot of things that go on in our our districts, and and your phone call away, and those things just you know magically happen, right?

And they magically happen, but they don't magically happen, they magically happen because of your leadership and your direction towards your staff and um and how you train your staff, and how I mean, almost like a father figure to your staff you really care you really put in that extra effort that extra that extra step that you're not just directing but you're really shaping.

And that was very apparent in the last three years that that I've gotten to know you and and it's also been told that or been said that um you never said no and that's something that that that really stands strong because again you figured out you're a problem solver and I think that's why we work really well together too I'm a problem solver so I think big everybody knows I think big and so we get one of these big projects and sometimes staff is like I don't know let's slow down I don't know I don't know but you came into my office and you were like I don't think the council called us into your office for you to say no or this isn't gonna happen.

We're gonna figure it out and you did and you worked with me in a very respectful way obviously and we're getting a project that probably would not have been done for the next five six years we got it set up and got it done with and I mean I think it'll be done this summer.

And that's something that is also personal to me because it's a neighborhood that I grew up in a neighborhood that didn't have basic infrastructure that have large digits we didn't have sidewalks didn't have curbs didn't have gutters it wasn't a safe route to school there's a school right there.

And so it was um something that I really advocated for um and my run for city council and something that I really wanted to stand for and something that I didn't want to take five six seven ten years down the road and you really worked with me and staff and everyone to get that to get that work.

So I really appreciate that and just all of your leadership and you're just you're gonna be highly missed.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilman Bunch thank you Mr.

Mayor Director Shaw thank you for your service here and your very long service in the city but over the last three years of getting to know you and and your role as public works director I think that we could talk a lot about the you know the transformation of the of the policy directives that we've given you all like vision zero complete streets um more investment in public transit we could talk about the the uh the unprecedented investment in in public transit for example opening two streetcar extensions we've talked a lot about those things but I think the what sums up your time in public works is something very small but something so impactful I think the first time I ever saw a sidewalk cleared of snow that we owned on a bridge was was at your at your insistence um I got on a tractor and and worked on one of those myself myself.

We started to see just a different approach to to maintenance of our of our infrastructure when you joined um at the home and I think that that is vitally important to the operations of the city.

I think it speaks volumes about about trying to do things in a different way and attacking things that are are important to people because something as simple as clearing a sidewalk of snow is it's not a ton of people that it always affects and this is something that I try to live by myself but it affects people those people so greatly who can't access the city as a result of piled up snow or or whatever and recognizing that shows shows empathy and I think that that's vital in today's world so I just want to thank you for that and thank you for your time here and congratulations on your on your retirement and hope you get to to rest a little bit without me yelling and uh in your ear all the time about getting getting all this stuff done thank you so much.

Council Rogers when my dad was alive he was a pretty good salesman you would go out and sell things and then our office manager had to figure out how to deliver on the promises so I would you we used to joke that my dad would make the promises and then the office manager would keep them.

And what I think about you is you got 13 people out there making promises and you keep every single one of them for all of us every single time.

So I can't tell you how much I've appreciated always calling you and knowing that you're gonna figure something out, no matter how, like I said earlier, no matter how big or so small.

So thank you for everything you've done for all of us.

Thank you.

Are there others who wish to speak to the resolution?

Mayor pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Uh, you know, I sat here trying to figure out: do I stand up there or do I stand here is the mayor pro Tim?

But I wanted to actually say some words uh because I I sat here as my colleagues were you know sharing their own personal thoughts, and I thought back to the ice storm that you worked every single day for weeks, months.

I think about in um the last term, Dan Fowler talking about how all of the complaints he received up north about the trash, and uh how you say Tim is what he said.

I think about uh Councilwoman Hall and her stacks of paper and all the work that she said you did for her.

I think about Councilwoman Robinson calling on late Friday nights and Saturday nights saying, Hey, can you please go down to 18th and Vine?

And and work on XYZ and you getting up and going.

I think about our Sunday afternoons after church on the one day we should be resting, and how we ride through the city, we're checking on what the first or second district said, council members are saying.

We're in the sixth district, we're in the fourth district, trying to work to make the city better on the one day that you should have off.

I think about all of the work that you have done over your last 28 years serving the residents of Kansas City without a complaint.

You have just stepped in and did it.

I think about you actually being on the back of the trash truck because y'all were short staffed.

I think about the time that you called me.

You were in the Northland, you you were in your suit.

You called me at one 1:30 in the morning saying, Hey, I'm up north because we don't have anybody to plow this, and I gotta make sure that we get this done.

I think you're in the second district at the time.

I think about the commitment that you have made to the residents of Kansas City, and I'm so excited and happy for you to be able to go into your next chapter and leave, knowing that you have left this place with the integrity that you started with, with the dedication and commitment that you have given to the residents of Kansas City.

And I know that there have been issues that have tried to cloud that for you in recent months, but you have stood tall, you've been continue to be a man with integrity, and I'm so proud to stand here today to acknowledge you and wish you well on your retirement.

Now I know the city gets you until May 30th or 30th to the end of May, but on June 1st, I need you to clean the garage.

All right, y'all, we we almost done.

I was about to just finish with the mayor pro tem.

I thought the mayor had to say a few words about somebody who's been so monumental to the city.

The first thing, if you can tell something special about this man, all of us who are married men are sitting here saying I don't know if my wife would say that much nice stuff about him.

Wow.

I don't know if I'd give it a mic, God.

So well done, and I do want to acknowledge your family uh who are with us.

One of your sons, this is all he knew, is Michael Shaw at the city.

And I hope y'all recognize how much he has meant to so many people in this room and far beyond it to his mother.

God bless you, ma'am, for raising a courteous, exceptional young man who is a model for so many in our community, and for his in-laws, thank y'all for not giving him too much trouble.

He's a good man and he's done good work.

When I think about Michael Shaw, and and thank you, Mayor Pro Tim, for mentioning it.

I'm gonna be nice to all the colleagues I've had the blessing of serving with.

But Michael Shaw could get a call in the same hour from Brandon Ellington and Heather Hall with both of their issues and get it done and be back to work and be here for the city council meeting and do exactly what he needed to do.

And I also appreciate you mentioning kind of, you know.

When I when I judge and think about Michael Shaw, I think about did he did what he did he do what he promised and did he do right by his people.

In terms of what he promised, I challenge all of you, and I've been here for a minute now, to find an area in public works that is worse today than it was before.

When I came to City Council, and I'm gonna let all of you administrative folks in on a secret of how I think about things sometimes.

Basically, there are some departments that are in crisis, and some issues where you're like, uh-oh, what are we gonna do?

What's this, that, or the other?

And there are others where you're like, I ain't gotta worry about y'all.

He took public works from a spot, and I say this with love to everybody who was there and that we've worked with, where we'd be dealing with things.

I remember in a business session, there was almost a shouting match between a leader in the department and a council member about did you respond to the snow?

And an excuse Michael Shaw never used was well, we have 6,000 lane miles, and you know, it's a big storm, and so you know it's just gonna be it's gonna be this way.

Never, never once did he use an excuse of the size of the city, the number of the people, anything like that.

He'd be, we need to find more trucks, we need to find more people.

I need to go out, I'm gonna make sure we do all that.

That is an exceptional public servant when that is how you respond to things, and I am proud of you for doing that.

When we were dealing with a trash crisis, every day at City Council for about four years.

We were showing up and listening to complaints about how things weren't getting picked up in the Northland, how we would have poor service in another part of the city, and Michael said, you know what, I'm gonna come up with a plan, and he did it.

And that plan wasn't just a it wasn't a document that sat on a shelf.

That implementation is vastly better now, and all of us who served then and serve now know the very clear difference.

The complaints back then were y'all just ain't doing nothing, and my recycling's blown everywhere.

Now it's stuff that surprises me sometimes.

Like, I put too much into my bin.

Can I do this or that?

The dumpsters weren't around long enough.

I'm like, yeah, we're there.

So did he do what he promised?

Absolutely right.

And then there's this other thing.

Did he take care of his people?

And you know, the thing I love about Michael Shaw is that it wasn't not about him, it wasn't about a show, it was about all of you.

A few years back, we lost three workers, sanitation workers.

And I remember seeing Michael during that moment, and Michael did right by their families and speaking to them, doing the notifications.

You mentioned treating them like a almost like he was a father.

He was trying to contact families and find them and going through everything to make sure these people knew that they were as loved and appreciated as anybody who has ever worked for this city.

So to me, Michael Shaw is an exceptional man and person, and he has been a wonderful leader for Kansas City.

It is our loss that you won't be working with us anymore.

We hope we still get to talk to you, but I hope you take a moment to recognize the difference you made.

Sometimes the entities and the issues make that difference, but frankly, you have touched millions who navigate this city.

And I thank you for it.

There are no others wish to speak for the resolution.

The resolution is now before council.

All in favor indicate by saying aye.

All opposed.

Resolution is adopted.

Well, um, well, thank you.

I appreciate it.

And um, you know, this is not a ending, it is actually a beginning, you know, as I transition to the next part of my life.

At the core, I am a father and a husband.

At the core of who I am.

And so I get to go home and be that father and husband.

For 28 years, I have got an extended family, and shout out to Dub Nation out there, you know.

And it has been an absolute honor for me to serve the citizens of Kansas City.

I did not take this opportunity lightly.

I know I'm entrusted with a lot of things.

I do care about the outcomes, and I tell the team all the time we only get paid for our solutions.

We do not get paid for our problems.

And so from this day forward, although I will not be here, you are equipped to do everything because all the accolades that was just bestowed upon me is you, it's because of you that they give me these accolades.

Jason Waldron has been with me the entire time.

There has not been a decision or a challenge that I came across without Jason picking up his phone or being there by my side the entire time.

I I humbly accept those gracious things, but the truth of the matter is the team that is setting here before you today is truly the reason why you see the success you have here in Kansas City.

Completely them.

And although I'm I'm blessed to have been your manager or your director or whatever, um, but most importantly, I'm I am thankful to have been your friend through this.

Uh everyone there matters.

You know, your knowledge is your power.

Your knowledge is your power.

You have exceptional knowledge in your craft.

You do it and use it every single day.

Don't let nobody tell you any differently, and accept nothing less than giving your best, because this community deserves our best.

They absolutely deserve our best.

So if anything that we would leave here out, I would say Jason Waldron needs to be the next director of public works to continue to lead us forward.

Full stop.

Um, and to my solid ways family, 901 is 1024.

Great to see you.

Good to see you too.

You have a wonderful day.

Great to see you again, sir.

Thank you.

Congratulations in your family.

Yes, ma'am.

Yes, he looks just like right now.

Nice to meet you.

Thank you.

Yeah, we're mad.

Thank you for hearing us.

Okay, sure.

We've been only a bit of a man.

Thank you, thank you.

Thanks very much for sharing with us.

Good to see you again.

That's why I'm going to work.

All right.

So with that, we'll stand adjourned.

No, I'm playing.

Uh we done now.

Uh well, the clerk proceed on the final readings, debate docket.

Yes, sir.

260363.

Approving the recommendations of the TIFF Commission of Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri for the 435 and soccer drive tax reference and plan and approving the 435 soccer drive tip plan.

Approving the city's contribution to additional east generated within the redevelopment era, the redevelopment plan.

Authorizing city manager to enter into a tax contribution and disbursement agreement with the Kansas City TIFF Commission and Land Reserve.

Oh yeah.

Councilwoman Boo.

This is a proposed redevelopment area.

Excuse me, the proposed redevelopment area is generally described as follows.

An area that is generally bounded by Northeast Shoal Creek Parkway on the east, I 35 on the I-435 on the west, the intersection of I-435 in Northeast Shoal Creek Parkway on the south, the highway 152 on the north, and an area that is generally bounded by Northeast Shoal Creek Parkway on the east, I 435 on the west, highway 152 on the south, and North Berry Road on the north, all in Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri.

The redevelopment plan provides for infrastructure improvements to support the redevelopment plan, which proposes the redevelopment of a redevelopment area and multiple redevelopment projects.

The plan anticipates a development of mix of a mix of single-family homes, townhomes, and multifamily residential units, retail and residential space, a hotel, and potential conference facilities, office buildings, entertainment, andor sports facilities and other compatible uses.

Thank you, Councilwoman Boo.

Is there any further discussion?

Councilman O'Neill.

I just want to say thanks to everybody for seeing this.

This is I think one of the great uh greatest projects uh in the Northland right now for the last five six years.

We've been working on this.

Uh right now the developers are in uh uh Las Vegas dealing with a lot of the different uh um big box stores and others to try and uh get some uh uh people interested in this, and I think it's gonna be a uh the interest is great.

Um but I I do want to thank that with the plaza and this project in the northland.

We open up the door to the north from the north down to the south, and I think this is a project that's gonna go on for the next 10 15 years based on all the phases that are included in it.

So thank you very much for your consideration on that.

Thank you, Councilman O'Neill.

Is there any further discussion?

Aaron, I'm clerk called the roll.

Girls, Park Show, Boo.

Aye Duncan, O'Neill, Willie French, Rogers.

All right, Patterson has it.

Aye Robinson.

All right.

Okay, bunch.

Lucas, tonight.

Ordinance passes.

And identifying expansion and retention plans for businesses in the future.

Neighborhood committees do pass.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Um, this is uh a uh oh, brought to us by uh Councilman Rogers, and it is to uh conduct a survey of Kansas City businesses for the fiscal year 2026 through 27 for the purpose of identifying uh any uh the importance of various issues and businesses for uh expansion and retention plans of businesses in the future.

I don't know if Councilman Rogers has anything else to add, but the neighborhood plan and development committee reviewed and recommended do pass.

Councilman Rogers, you said this is something we did for years.

We quit doing it a few years ago.

I think it's a very good way to uh just start doing this consistently, listen to what the small businesses are saying.

I imagine it will allow us to create some good paying jobs down the road and look forward to getting it going again.

Thank you, Councilman Rogers.

Councilman Willard.

All right, you can councilman will it?

Yeah, yeah, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um, in terms of businesses as well, um, there's a good amount of expansion of uh private schools up in the northland, and I just want to make sure that their needs are also assessed um with this as well.

Thank you, Councilman Willard.

Come now.

Stop sign though, all right.

All right, is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

There, no, the clerk call the role.

Hi, park Shaw.

Aye, Duncan, you, Willard.

Aye, French, Rogers, aye, Patterson Hasley.

Aye, Robinson, Raya.

Aye, aye, Lucas, 12 eyes.

Resolution is adopted.

260408.

Directing city manager engage and partner with the local discount prescription drug and wellness programs to provide Kansas City residents with discount to health and wellness care, including but not limited to the discounted pharmacy, nutrition, fitness, and preventive care offerings.

Director City Manager explore the feasibility of offering various discount programs to residents at the city's community centers and report back to the council within 60 days.

Neighborhood committees to pass.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

This resolution um tasks the city manager to uh work with uh local prescription drug and wellness programs to provide Kansas City residents with discounted uh drug medications and health and wellness care.

Unfortunately, we have uh seniors on fixed incomes who are uh struggling.

I've read several emails lately who are struggling to buy their food and pay for their medications, uh, and so this ordinance uh will task the team, the staff to establish uh and compile a list of those discounted pharmaceutical companies to to hopefully ease the burden for that some of our residents are having.

The neighborhood planning development committee reviewed and recommended to pass.

There's a further discussion on the resolution.

I just I appreciate in your description because uh that you suggested the ask is that the city ascertain, learn, and then share all the discount uh providers.

Not necessarily to the city solve it itself, right?

It's more of a yep, got it.

Is there any further discussion on resolution?

Clerk call the role curls, Park Shaw, who okay?

O'Neill, Willie, French, Rogers, Patterson Hasley, aye, Robinson, Raya, Punch, Lucas, aye, ayes.

Resolution is adopted.

260437, approving an amendment to the swap area plan on about 2.6 acres.

Joining located at 6655 Truth Avenue by changing recommended land use from commercial and open space buffer to commercial commercial for the mean well power solution expansion.

Neighborhood committees will pass.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Um this is move forward.

The screen is not yeah, okay.

I wanted to make sure it's I wasn't messing up here.

Uh, this ordinary or this it is a resolution that approves a area plan amendment, which is a companion to rezoning and development plan for an ordinance for 30,000 feet, a square foot expansion of mean well-powered solutions.

The subject site is split zone.

Uh there are corresponding split area plan, future land use recommendations.

The amendment will take will make the future land use recommendation entirely commercial for this particular site.

The neighborhood planning development committee review recommended do pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

There are another clerk, call the room.

Curls.

Aye, Park Shaw, Boo.

Hi.

Duncan, O'Neal.

Aye, Willard, French.

Aye.

French.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Raya.

Aye.

Bunch.

Lucas.

13 eyes.

Ordinance passes.

260439.

Director City Manager submit projects identified in this resolution as an application for the fiscal year 27 planning sustainable places program.

Funding in the middle of the regional council.

Neighborhood communities, recommends to pass.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Uh the Mid-America Regional Council in its role as the Metropolitan Planning Organization for Greater Kansas City is soliciting project proposals for fiscal year 2027 PSP, the planning sustainable places.

The program is eligible to fund planning projects that help advance sustainable transportation focused plans that include integrating intermodal transportation options, redevelopment, and sustainable land use patterns, social equity, and environmental stewardship.

Mark's connected KC 2050, the region's long range transportation plan supports the regional vision by envisioning and setting goals for safe, balanced regional multimodal transportation system that is coordinated with land use planning supports equitable access to opportunities and protects the environment.

Mark anticipates funding targets for the Missouri side of the region in the fiscal year 2027 to be at 500,000 with the project applications that do by June 22nd.

The neighborhood planning development committee review recommended to pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Girls.

I Duncan.

O'Neal.

Would it cost?

No.

French.

I Rogers.

Alright.

Patterson has.

Robinson.

Raya.

Bunch.

Lucas.

I have 12 eyes, one night.

The ordinance passes.

26044.

Directing city managers display commemorative 60 foot America 250, Betsy Ross flags from the Kansas City from City Hall in honor of the 25th anniversary of the United States of America.

So the general fund for the purchase installation and maintenance of such flags and recognize the ordinance is having solely effective date.

Now, I understand from the sponsor that there's a request to refer the item back to committee.

I'm not sure if the fact finding is is necessary, but nonetheless, that's a request.

Is there a second on the request to refer the item back to committee?

I don't want to vote for my second.

It's been moved and seconded.

Is there any discussion on the motion?

What's the what's the mo point of order?

Yes.

What's the motion?

To refer the item.

I guess in fairness, he has to.

Well, Councilman Willett, will you move the?

I guess you have to move.

I'm just saying you moved.

You do you move to send the item back to the neighborhood planning and development committee?

You can withdraw your second.

Different than what currently listed.

So I can't understand.

So moved.

Yes or no?

He said so.

He said so moved.

So moved.

Is there a second?

Can you take it?

Finance?

Yes.

Yes.

What are we doing?

I'm lost.

Do y'all want this back in neighborhoods committee?

Do you want to keep it on the floor?

What's the yeah?

That's kind of what the pleasure of the debate is.

The motion, if successful would send the item back to the neighborhood planning and development committee.

Does anybody know the rationale?

Yeah.

I guess the question would be here.

Let me stand up.

I'm happy to explain.

What uh is the the reason to send it back to committee?

What would the reason be?

And Councilman Willett, if you can um if your sound kind of works too, but yeah, if you could explain.

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Yes.

All right.

The reasoning is originally it said it cost fifteen thousand dollars, was your estimate, and now it says 300,000.

So we want to send it, we're gonna probably do completely different way of displaying 250.

So you just want to send it back to neighborhoods committee.

And we'll adjust it there, so it's gonna be substantially different.

Well, how much is it?

Okay, councilwoman who okay.

What I think he said is this is gonna cost $300,000.

Um, and you're gonna send it back to committee to revise the ordinance.

Um, I think we could address that right now.

300,000?

No, can you hear me?

Excuse me.

We're gonna let somebody else talk real quick.

Councilwoman Robinson, you were.

Oh, yeah, no, I was just asking for clarification.

Are you saying that um this is a yes or no question?

Are you saying that this is going to cost $300,000?

Ms.

Um Councilman Willie, are you saying it's gonna cost $300,000?

What's the cost of the flag?

Councilman Willett?

Yeah, thank you.

Now the cost of the flag's not that the way that they're having it displayed on the side is more expensive than was originally uh talked about in committee, the original estimate from talking with uh general services, and we're obviously not gonna spend three hundred thousand dollars.

We're sending it back to committee, and then we're probably gonna change the way that we display a flag.

It's not gonna be done like the way that was originally proposed.

So it's gonna be substantially different.

Just want to send it back to the committee and address it then.

Okay.

Um, I guess there's a motion before council.

I will note I do have a motion to amend that would fly the America 250 flag consistent with how we do every other flag, Pride month, perfect.

Okay.

Which means a regular size.

Okay, great.

So um point of despite all yes, ma'am.

This means we're going back.

No, no.

We would do this means a regular flag.

Just regular.

Yeah, regular flag, like I'm for regular size flags.

Got it.

So there's a motion and a second.

Are you withdrawing the motion, Councilman?

Will it?

Okay.

I hear yes.

Okay.

Yes.

All right.

So now look, I will if not a motion to amend would be in order at this point in time.

Exactly.

Can somebody else deliver that motion to amend haven't have uh councilman Tomkin.

I moved um, use the microphone.

Thank you.

I move ordinance number two six zero four four four, be amended so that it reads as the in the document entitled ordinance number two six zero four four four as amended, which has been distributed to all council members.

I'm really this puts a normal flag on the normal flag.

Councilman Woman Robins.

Um, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um, who is Betsy Ross?

Betsy Ross.

Uh she designed the flag.

Right?

Oh, that's the person who designed the.

Okay, I'm just American history, I'm just making sure.

Okay, thank you.

All right, there's one other small knit, and we don't really need to spend more time on it.

Let me see if on our 250th anniversary.

I won't.

There's gonna be a question of what we fly in.

The anniversary though is on July the fourth.

Just a whole June issue, but I'll leave that to the staff to figure out what we fly in June later.

Alright, so uh if there's no further discussion on the motion, the clerk will call the roll.

Girls.

Hey, yeah, could we repeat the motion, please?

Uh no, it's to put a normal flag on the poll atop the building like we've done previously.

And this is the amendment.

It's the amendment.

Is this an annul the fifteen thousand dollars?

I don't even know, not seeing the ordinance in front of me.

Does it still have an appropriation?

It removes I'm sorry.

Actually, yeah, it removes the appropriation.

It removes the appropriation, it's just a normal flag, which costs, but is within the spending authority of whatever staffer.

What's the cost of it would be the cost of a flag that of the type of which we have on our building now?

Regular flag, regular flag, yes.

And will this be flown, I guess, for the whole month of July, or is it just flown for July 4th?

Or we have time, can we just put a time frame based on whatever we have?

Yeah, that's what I was alluding.

Section two provides the time frame.

Okay, great.

Section 2 says what, city attorney?

Uh May, and shall remain in place through July 31st.

So from now until July 31st.

So we've got three flags flying on Juneteenth, got Juneteenth flag, that's Ross flag, American flag.

So if I'm being pure with the law, I will note that there is no legislation right now on any of the other flags.

Currently, there are zero extra flags flying other than the American flag.

I'm just stating the law as it exists.

Perhaps there will be other pieces of legislation that bring other flags during the month of June.

Always amend to have this fly legitimately on the fourth of July and some reasonable time.

Yes.

Further ordinances can direct the city manager to fly additional flags.

Except this is an ordinance.

And the others come to us typically as resolutions.

I would suggest to you this is directory, and and at the end of the day, you it you're free to amend it again.

Okay.

Councilman O'Neill.

I'm just curious, do we really need do we need a resolution or decide if we fly a flag?

That is yes, yes.

That's been debate.

It's a First Amendment, so because anybody could fly the any flag if we don't have some sort of way we define flag flying.

Councilman Willow, come on home.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

That's why I kind of wanted to go back to committee just to address it because it's gonna be completely different type than what we originally talking about.

Plus, it will change the date on it.

The intention was to fly it from Truman's birthday all the way past um 4th of July to World Cup, and we're gonna do it a different type of way of displaying it, hanging it off the side.

Um and the original um amount was going to be fifteen thousand dollars.

Obviously, we heard that it was gonna raise up quite a bit.

I was just wanting to send us back to committee and we can do it more timely.

Um, or we can send it back to committee and then completely do a different type of resolution in regards to this.

Wow, yeah, heard heard.

Why don't we just do this?

Are people comfortable with two weeks around the fourth of July?

One week after, one week before we just have the flag.

So I'll need you to make a motion that both waives the requirement of the writing in the motion and also notes that it will be a period of two weeks with the fourth of July in the middle of that.

So seven days prior and seven days after will be when we fly the Betsy Ross America 250 flag with the American flag atop the flagpole atop City Hall.

So moved.

Is there a second?

Second, it's been moved and seconded that the motion be further amended.

So what we will be voting on a yes says that we will amend the ordinance such that we have a flag consistent with the types of flags that have flown on the poll above City Hall to recognize other types of designations, that that will that flag will be flown starting on the seventh day prior to the fourth of July and will fly seven days after the fourth of July.

The clerk will call the roll.

Duncan.

O'Neill, aye.

Willie.

French, Rogers, Patterson Hasley.

Robinson.

I am.

Ray.

Aye.

Bunch.

I Lucas.

Twelve eyes.

Ordinances amended is now before council.

Is there any further discussion?

Here.

Yes?

I'm just saying I would seek that the the prior motion.

This you had a motion to amend and a motion to amend.

The underlying motion was the motion to re-refer.

To the extent that that's been settled.

Yes.

Yes.

I just want to make sure that everyone's body agrees that it's been settled.

I will rule.

You've taught me that before that the motion to re-refer is uh moot.

And we will proceed with the ordinance to vote on the ordinance as amended.

If there's no further discussion on the ordinances amended, the clerk will call the roll.

Burrows.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Boo.

Aye.

Okay.

Aye.

You.

Aye.

Woolley.

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Hasley.

Aye.

Aye.

Ray.

Bunch.

Lucas.

Aye.

Twelve eyes, one night.

The ordinances amended passes.

We can always reconsider if there's a question.

No.

No.

Okay.

All right.

Alright, we'll just keep going.

Sorry.

I just like you all so much.

What is the statement?

Next time.

260454.

Directed city manager evaluate the city's housing programs and policies to ensure that they don't intentionally exacerbate uh the concentration of the property and recommend strategies to promote diverse housing access, neighborhood stability, and balanced economic development investments throughout the city.

And report back to the council within 90 days.

Neighborhood committees do pass.

The mayor pro Tim probably so councilman Patterson has it.

Can you just explain it?

So Councilman Bond.

Oh, yes.

Excuse me.

You said you had the two of them.

Sorry, I've got it was so distracted by the riveting conversation about flags.

But this is uh this came to us from uh councilwoman Patterson Hasley.

Um essentially the the the and she may have uh additions to this, but essentially this is uh a resolution to directing the city manager to look at our all of our housing policies, including those uh utilizing federal funding to put new housing into the market.

Uh the point is to try to evaluate whether or not those are contributing to the concentration of poverty, uh, much in the same way, but they perhaps the inverse of our uh anti-deplacement plan, anti-displacement plan that we uh adopted uh a couple years ago.

And uh I think a great thing for us to start with is that data collection that we discussed quite a bit in in committee, neighborhood planning development committee recommended advanced that you pass.

All right, is there any further discussion on the resolution?

Harry, non-clerk call the roll.

Girls.

Aye, park shaw.

Boo.

Aye Duncan.

O'Neill Willie.

Now French.

Aye, Rogers, Patterson.

Hasley, Robinson.

All right, Raya.

Bunch.

Aye, Lucas.

I'm Levin Eyes, one night.

Uh the resolution is adopted.

260475, approving the prospect Keeping Mills Vision Plan.

Generally bounded by Setting Fest Street to the North, Bruce Arwaking Drive to the east, 87th Street and Blue River Road to the south, and the Pascel to the west.

Neighbor from Miss Dupass.

Councilman Bunch.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Uh, this is uh kind of a we call it a micro scale plan, sort of a sub-plan to the to the area plan, uh, that really looks at investments necessary in this particular uh uh part of the fifth district and looks at things like green infrastructure um uh park improvements, streetscape improvements, uh, and it was really a community-driven process and the neighborhood planning development committee recommended advanced to be passed.

Thank you, Councilman Bunch.

Is there any further discussion?

Harry, non the clerk, call the roll.

Girls.

Aye, park show, boo.

Aye, okay, O'Neill.

All right, Willie, uh, French, Rogers.

Right.

Hasley.

I Robinson.

Raya, Bunch, I guess.

Twelve hours.

Ordinance passes.

The clerk, please.

Oh, I'm sorry, uh Councilwoman Boo.

I move the charter requirement for reading of ordinances on three separate days to be weigh for the ordinances on today's document list of this committee advances, and if these ordinances are advanced for final reading and consideration at this time.

Uh it's been moved in second.

Is there any further discussion?

Harry, non the clerk will call the roll.

Girls.

Park Shaw.

Who?

I Duncan.

Oh, Neil.

Willie.

French.

Aye, Rogers.

Robinson.

Raya.

Lunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Aye, sir.

Helmet, what's your number again?

What's the number, Howard?

Uh, 10.

Okay.

Uh motion passes.

Will clerk please proceed with the items on the advanced consent agenda.

Yes, sir.

260459.

Accept an approvement of one year, 125,944 grant amendment with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to provide funding for a comprehensive HIV surveillance program.

Estimated appropriating that sum in the health grant fund.

It recognizes forness as having solar effective date.

260471, approved on the platform of Country shire, third flat in addition, Jackson County, Missouri, on approximately two acres, generally located on the south side of Countryshire Lane, approximately 200 feet east of Bruce Avenue, creating seven lots of one track for the purpose of legally establishing an existing residential development, except in various easements, authorizing directory city plan development to execute assessment of greenness, directing city clerk to facilitate the recordation of the ordinance and attached documents.

260472, approved in the platform central blank sporting sporting complex in addition in Platt County, Missouri and approximately seventy-seven acres, generally located on the north side of highway 152 between North Line Creek Parkway to the west and north platch drive to the east, creating one lot for the purple multi-purpose sports complex.

The clerk call the row.

No French.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Raya.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Eleven eyes one night.

The ordinance is passed.

We'll clerk please receive with the items on the advanced debate docket.

Yes, sir.

260443 results in an area of about 23.5 acres, generally located at 47 T and Jefferson Street from District B 45 to District MPD.

An approving and development plan to allow for maintenance and redevelopment of the country club plaza.

Appropriating $5,000 for an unappropriate home balance of the development services one for the purpose of public communication.

Recognizes ordinance is 77 effective date.

Finance committees do pass.

Councilwoman Boo.

Honorable Mayor, um, this ordinance resigns the country club plaza to master plan development and adopts a preliminary master or MPD plan to facilitate district enhancement and development.

The proposed MPD plan is comprised of two parts.

The development plan that identifies the MPD district, includes site plan, existing grading utility plans, um, the associated design guidelines which identify how the country club uh plaza district will be preserved and enhanced as the areas updated to meet modern day needs.

The development plan identifies uses, development standards, and deviations that encourage the enhancement of the district.

Highlights include increasing the maximum height of buildings on several blocks throughout the district, identifying character contributing buildings and facades, and script streetscape recommendations.

Finance governance and public safety reviewed and uh recommended advance and due pass.

Thank you, Councilwoman Boo.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing another clerk of call the row.

Curls.

Aye Park Shaw.

Aye.

Who?

Aye.

Duncan.

O'Neill.

Will it?

Aye.

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Raya.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Thirteen eyes.

The ordinance passes.

260445.

Vicating a site wall.

And this item, there's a request to hold the item for one week.

Assuming no objection, the item be held until our next regular meeting.

We'll go to the next item.

Yes, sir.

260457.

Approved and authorizing settlement lawsuit entitled Kenya Mentral versus City of Kansas City Missouri.

Case number 2516 C V05992 related claims.

Any amount of 400,000 dollars.

Finance committee to pass.

Councilwoman Boo.

Honorable mayor.

Um this ordinance um would uh authorize um an approval settlement uh which was um described in a memo that was uh distributed to you all by the law department finance governance and public safety reviewed and recommended uh advance and due pass.

Thank you, Councilwoman Boo.

Is there any further discussion?

Very none, clerk call the row.

Curls aye park shaw aye, Duncan, O'Neill, aye willie now French Rogers, Patterson Hasley, Robinson, Raya, Bunch, Lucas, I've well eyes one night, ordinance passes.

260474, approving authorizing settlement, lawsuit entitled Andrea, Dorse versus the City of Kansas City, Missouri, case number 2416, C V06268, any amount of five hundred thousand dollars, finance committee to Paris, Councilwoman Boo.

Honorable mayor, uh, this ordinance two would approve and authorized the settlement of a lawsuit, which was described to be a memo by the law department, finance governance and public safety reviewed and recommended advance in due pass.

Thank you, Councilwoman Boo.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing no, Clerk will called the row.

Burroughs.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Who?

Aye, Duncan.

O'Neill, no, Willie.

No, French.

Aye.

Rogers.

No.

Patterson Hasley.

No.

Robinson.

Aye.

Raya.

Aye.

Bunch.

Lucas.

I've the ordinance passes.

And let me change your order here.

With a goal of actually how we put the questions on the ballot.

So we'll start with housing trust fund.

So could you call 260484?

Yes, sir.

260484.

Calling for an election on August 4, 2026 for the purpose of authorizing issuance of an amount not to exceed 100 million dollars in a general obligations bond to finance affordable housing projects to out the housing trust fund.

Directing city clerks provide notice of the election, declaring the city's intention to reimburse itself from bond proceeds for bond related exministers.

Directing city clerk to notify responsible election authorities of the election.

Recognize this one is having seller effective date.

Establish an effective date for the voter authorization.

Finance committee was due pass.

Councilwoman Boo.

Honorable mayor, this would call for an election on August 4th of an extension of the geo bonds for uh the housing trust.

It would be a no uh tax increase um extension of our existing GL buttons.

Um, or to fund the housing trust fund in the amount of one hundred uh million dollars.

Uh finance governance public safety reviewed and recommended advance and due pass.

Thank you, councilwoman boo.

Is there any further discussion?

Councilwoman Robinson um thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Madam Clerk, can you add me a circle?

Thank you.

Any further discussion on the ordinance?

Curls.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Aye.

Aye.

Duncan.

O'Neal.

Aye.

Willie.

No.

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Raya.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

12 ayes one name.

The ordinance passes.

Please call item 260483.

260483.

Call in for an election.

Uh calling election on August 4th, 2026 for the purpose of authorizing the issuance of an amount not to exceed 100 million dollars in a general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements in city's convention facilities and other governmental buildings constructed before 1950.

Directing City Clerk to provide notice of the election, declaring the city's intention to reimburse itself from bond proceeds for bond related expenditures.

Directing city clerk to notify the responsible election authorities of the election.

Recognizes ordinance as having so effective date and establish an effective date for the voter authorization.

Councilwoman Boo.

Um Honorable Mayor, this too would be a no uh tax increase extension of our geo bonds to fund uh the convention and uh city's convention facilities as well as buildings finance governance public safety reviewed and recommended advance and due pass.

Councilwoman Boo is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

Hearing none, the clerk call the roll.

Aye Park Shaw, Boo.

Aye, O'Neill, aye, Willie.

No, French.

Aye, Rogers.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye Robinson.

Aye.

Raya.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

12 ayes one day.

Ordinance passes.

Please call 260485.

Yes, sir.

260485.

Call an election on August 4th, 2026 for the purpose of renewing the 1A since sales for city economic development sales tax for 10 years.

Enacting the sales tax concerned upon the voter approval.

Directing city clerks to provide notice of the election to the election authorities.

Uh-uh.

Directing city clerk to provide notice of director of revenue in the sales tax question is passed by the voters.

Recognize and accelerate effective date.

Finance committees we passed.

Councilwoman Boo.

Honorable mayor.

Um on April 4th, 2017, the majority of Kansas City voters approved the central city economic development sales tax.

The city council desires to submit to the voters a renewal of the central central city economic development sales tax for a new 10 year period.

Finance governance public safety reviewed and recommended advance and due pass.

Thank you, Councilwoman Boo.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

I will very, very briefly, because we're behind center some folks who worked on this 10 years ago.

The head of the Black Health Care Coalition was an important part of that conversation, as was a leader in Urban Summit who helped run the campaign, and Councilwoman Patterson Hasley.

It was the right decision back then, and I appreciated all your work.

There's no further discussion on the ordinance.

Clerk call the roll.

Curls.

Park Shaw.

Aye.

Who?

Aye.

Duncan.

Aye.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Will it?

Now, French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Raya.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Twelve eyes, one night.

I mean to be a uh somewhat stern one.

Missouri state law requires you to be visible when you are voting and not just audible.

So yes, if you could tell us no while your screen's on.

Councilman Willard.

Still no?

No.

Okay, thank you.

Just a reminder.

No.

Thanks.

All right.

The ordinance passes.

The we'll call two four two six zero four eight two.

Yes, sir.

260482.

Providing for submission to the qualified voters of the city for their approval at an election call for August 4, 2026.

The question of authorizing the issuance of waterworks revenue bonds in the city and a principal amount, not too of $750 million for the purpose of rehabilitating, improving and extending the water work system of the city, including acquiring necessary land and right away in order to provide for its continuing operation and to maintain compliance with federal state and judicial requirements, directing city clerk to know the right notify responsibility election authorities of this election, declaring the city's intent to set rates, declaring the city's intention to reimburse itself for revenue bond proceeds for Robin.

Nope, bond-related expenditures.

Recognizing sortings as having celebrate factor date and establish an effective date for the voter authorization.

Finance comes to pass.

Councilwoman Boo.

Um Honorable Mayor, this um would allow us to issue bonds to fund um a significant amount of projects.

If you want more information, go watch finance, but it will also allow us to leverage um uh funding through the state of Missouri uh state revolving fund program and borrow at a reduced market interest rate.

Finance governance public safety reviewed and recommended advance and due pass.

Thank you, Councilwoman Boo.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll.

Curls.

Aye, Boo.

Aye.

Again, O'Neill.

Aye.

Will it?

No.

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Aye.

Raya.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Twelve eyes, one night.

Ordinance passes item two six zero four eight one.

Yes, sir.

Two six zero four eight one.

Providing for the submissions for qualified voters of the city for their approval at an election call for August 4th, 2026.

The question authorizing the issuance of sedentary sewer revenue bonds in the city and a principal amount of 750 million dollars for the purpose of rehabilitating, improving and extending the sanitary sewer system of the city, including inquiring necessary land and rights away in order to provide for the continuing operation to maintain compliance with federal state and judicial requirements.

Directing city card to notify responsibility election authorities of this election, declaring the city's intention to set rates, declaring the city's intention to reimburse itself from revenue bond proceeds for bond-related expenditures, recognizes 27 accelerator effective date and establish an effective date for the voter authorization.

Finance committee recommends due pass.

Councilwoman Boo.

Honorable mayor, he wouldn't have such a thorough um presentation, and I'm not doing it justice, but in the interest of time, I will just say the uh water uh water sanitary sewer capital plan calls for 1.7 billion dollars in capital projects.

Approximately 70 percent of those projects will need uh to be financed with this sanitary sewer revenue bonds.

Uh this too will allow the um utility to use the state of Missouri's state revolving fund program and borrow at a reduced market interest rates, finance governance public safety reviewed and recommended advanced in due pass.

Thank you, Councilwoman Boo.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

No, clerk call the roll.

Aye, Boo.

Aye, okay, O'Neill, Will it?

Now French.

Aye, Rogers, aye, and Hasley, Robinson.

Aye.

Rhea.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Twelve eyes.

One night.

The ordinance passes.

Just for the record, for the clerk, that would mean the ballot questions go in the order of two six zero four eight four, two six zero four eight three, two six zero four eight five, two six zero four eight two, and two six zero four eight one.

We'll follow up with that in a writing.

But next item.

Okay.

Do you want the 486?

Yeah.

Okay.

260486.

Amitting the Plaza overlay, which was created by committee substitute 40 number 190100 and amended by ordinance number 220729, in which establishes the uses and height regulations for the area joining located on the south and north sides of West 47th Street.

Between Madison on the west, Mill Creek Parkway on the east, in order to remove two parcels generally located on the east side of Windows Street between 46 West 46 Terrace on the north, West 47th Street to the south from the overlay district, appropriating $5,000 for an unappropriate plan balance of the development services one for the purpose of public communication.

Recognizes 267 pass.

Councilwoman Boom.

Honorable Mayor, this is a companion ordinance to the Plaza MPD plan.

This would amend the plaza overlay by removing two parcels from the overlay.

The proposed new master development plan development for the country plaza area creates a conflict between the MPD and the Plaza Bill Overlay for these two parcels, most notably in terms of maximum height and allowable use.

Thank you, Councilwoman Boo.

Any further discussion?

Harry Nunn, Clerk called the roll.

Curls.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Aye.

Boo.

Aye.

Duncan.

Aye.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Will it?

Yes.

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Raya.

Aye.

Aye.

Uh Lucas.

Aye.

Thirteen eyes.

The ordinance passes.

Committee substitute for ordinance number two six zero three seven eight.

Amending chapter 74 code of ordinances.

Kansas City Redevelopment Ordinance by repealing and replacing section 74-302 to allow community improvement district using revenues for blight removal or capital improvements to have a term up to 27 years.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Current City Code limits CIDs to a term of 20 years.

However, if a proposed CID is using a sales tax to remediate blight and or fund capital improvements, it can have a term of up to 27 years.

This ordinance expands the exception to include a proposed CID that uses special assessments to remediate blight or uh and or fund capital improvements.

The neighborhood plan and development committee review recommended to pass.

Thank you, Councilwoman Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Harry Number Clerk will call the roll.

Earls.

Boo.

Duncan.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Will it?

French.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Ayes.

One extension.

The ordinance passes.

Ordinance number two six zero four three two approving a development plan on about one point five.

General acres generally located at the southwest corner of West 46th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue and District R-0.5, allowing for the construction of a parking garage on a site with three multi-unit residential buildings.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you.

Honorable Mayor.

This uh will allow for expansion or a um is located at the southwest corner of West 46th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.

It allows for reconstruction of a parking garage on a site with three multi-unit residential buildings.

The it will add uh ADA accessibility and conform to modern garage standards and increased landscaping.

Neighborhood planning development committee review recommended to pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Harry, no clerk call the roll.

Curls.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Aye.

Boo.

Duncan.

Aye.

Neil.

Aye.

Will it?

Aye.

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Rhea.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Eleven eyes.

Passes.

Ordinance number two six zero four three three vacating approximately one point five one acres of public right of way in district R-1.5, generally located northwest corner of Northeast Barrie Road and North Prospect Avenue.

And directing the city clerk to record certain documents.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

The public right-of-way section proposed to be vacated as a portion of unimproved right-of-way along North Prospect Avenue.

And the proposed vacation will allow for additional units to be created at the bungalows at Maplewoods, which has already created 153 units.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Harry None, Clerk call the roll.

Aye.

Shaw.

Aye.

Duncan.

Aye.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Will it?

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Aye.

Raya.

Bunch.

Aye.

Aye.

The ordinance passes.

Ordinance number 260434.

Accepting the recommendation of the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Board for additional funding, the amount of 250,000 to the Blue Hills Town Homes project developed by Blue Hills Town Homes LP, located at 5015 Garfield Avenue, reducing 250,000 in existing appropriations in the housing trust fund and appropriating same.

The author and authorizing the manager of procurement services to execute the necessary documents to amend the funding agreements and expend up to 250,000 from the funds appropriated in the housing trust fund.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Everything was specified in the title.

I'll only add that this recommendation is needs council to approve it to and which will allow for the projects to finish in a timely manner and achieve the goals of the Housing Trust Fund.

Neighborhood Planning Development Committee Review recommended to pass.

Is there any further discussion?

The clerk will call the roll.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Aye.

Duncan.

O'Neill.

Will it?

Aye.

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Rhea.

Aye.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Twelve eyes, one night.

Ordinance passes.

Ordinance number two six zero four three five.

Accepting and approving a one-year six hundred and thirty-one thousand eight hundred ninety dollar contract amendment with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to provide funding for activities of the high impact HIV prevention surveillance program.

Estimating appropriating sum of 631,890,000 in the health grants fund and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

This funding supports HIV prevention efforts in the seven county Kansas City area.

It's uh in its current program year.

The program has conducted 851 outreach events and tested over 3,000 people and distributed nearly 200,000 uh condoms.

The neighborhood planning development reviewed and recommended to pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Harry None, the clerk will call the roll.

Park Shaw.

Aye.

Who?

Duncan.

Aye.

And French.

Aye.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Raya.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

12 eyes.

Why next?

Passes.

Ordinance number 260436 rezoning an area of about 42 acres generally located northwest corner of Northeast Vivian Road and North Shoteau Traffic Way from District UR to District UR and approving a development plan serving as a major amendment to your previously approved UR is being updated to accommodate market change permitted uses and the evolution of the anti-ock crossing commercial area.

Uh this ordinance is a major amendment to UR district to permit additional uses include uses allowed in B2 and vehicle services in certain lots.

The neighborhood planning development committee reviewed and recommended to pass.

Thank you.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing none, Clerk will call the roll.

Earls.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Boo.

Aye.

Duncan.

Willie.

French.

Rogers.

Aye.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Okay.

Bunch.

Aye.

13 eyes.

Ordinance number 260438 rezoning an area of about 2.6 acres, generally located at 6655 Treus Avenue from district B4-2 and R-5 to district B4-3 and approving a development plan to allow for 30,000 square foot expansion of an industrial use.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

This proposed development plan is acting in lieu of a special use permit for the expansion of a limited manufacturing use in the B4 district.

The additional building will be just under 33,000 square feet and contain a parking garage, office, and limited manufacturing uses.

The majority of the site is currently B4-2 and rezoning to B4-3 will allow slightly taller building due to grade changes across the site.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing none, the clerk will call the row.

Euros.

Aye.

Duncan.

Aye.

French.

Rogers.

Aye.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Raya.

Aye.

Bunch.

Lucas.

12 eyes.

Ordinance passes.

Ordinance number 260453.

Amending Chapter 50 Code of Ordinances Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions by repealing Section 50-234 conversion therapy of minors prohibited in its entirety and amending chapter 38 Article 3 Division 1 Section 381 13 discriminatory accommodation practices for the purpose of creating an exception regarding preferred pronouns.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

This ordinance would amend Chapter 50 by repealing Section 50-234 conversion therapy of minors prohibited.

Additionally, it would amend Chapter 38, Section 38-113, discriminatory accommodation practices by creating an exception regarding the use of preferred pronouns.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance, Councilman Bunch?

Yeah, I understand the point of this.

I get why we're doing this, but I conversion therapy is harmful.

There's a reason why we banned it.

I get that we're being told that we need to do this to avoid potential litigation.

Uh however, I will be voting no in protest.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman Bunch.

Are there other others which speak to the ordinance?

Councilman Boo.

I too.

I'm a rule follower.

Um I know that we need to do it.

I'm gonna vote no as a protest, but I know that we have to do it.

Thank you.

For those of uh a bit confused, I would say I support the ordinance primarily because of the fact that it isn't potential litigation, we're in active litigation.

There are potential exposures to the city relating to liability herein, would always be happy for us to write a new piece of legislation that avoids the types of legal challenges coming our way.

That'd be difficult, but nonetheless, I think that's always an option.

There's no further discussion, clerk will call the room.

Councilman Councilman Willett.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Is this just repealing entirely, or is there also repealing and then adding additional segments?

The question, and I'll have the city attorney answer.

Does it is this repeal the item in its entirety, or does it retain certain provisions?

Yeah, it repeals the entire entirety of chapter 50.

Obviously, the city has an interest in its public accommodations uh provisions remaining in place, and so that is a more targeted repeal.

Okay, Councilman Curls.

Yeah, so my understanding is is that if we don't pass this, there's a potential lawsuit, or are we already in a lawsuit?

I'll say it this way that we are already in litigation.

We are we've already been sued in connection with this.

And and we've won at the preliminary stage.

This is just where we're at now.

Any further discussion?

Hearing none, nothing.

Clerk will call the room.

Aye.

Joe.

Aye.

Who?

Duncan.

O'Neill.

Will it?

French.

Aye.

Rogers.

No.

Patterson Hasley.

Robinson.

Aye.

Raya.

No.

Bunch.

No.

Lucas.

Aye.

No.

Seven eyes, five nays.

Ordinance passes.

Ordinance number two six zero four five eight.

Accepting recommendations of the Central City Economic Development Tax Board reducing existing appropriations of the Central City Economic Development Sales Tax Fund.

Fund number two two zero zero by six hundred and sixty seven thousand seven hundred and eighteen.

And appropriating the same reducing existing appropriations of the Central City Economic Development Sales Tax Fund.

Fund number two two zero zero by two million one hundred and fifty thousand three hundred and eighty and appropriating the authorizing the director of housing and community development department to expend up to two million one hundred and fifty thousand three hundred and eighty from funds previously appropriate appropriated in the Central City Economic Development Sales Tax Fund and authorizing the manager of procurement services to execute various funding agreements in accordance with this ordinance.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

The specifics of this are um the sample two million dollars in additional funding for sample B lab project.

The budget has increased and uh the additional funds will allow all 84 units to remain affordable.

It's also uh awards 150,000 to the East 27th Street project for increased cost and finally uh capture 667,000 awarded to Allenwood properties, who was unable to to contract due to finance a financing gap that the developer was unable to close the neighborhood plan and development committee review recommended to pass.

Mayor Pro Tim, thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Harry now the clerk will call the role.

Girls.

Aye, park soye.

Who Duncan?

O'Neill Willard French Rogersley Robinson, Raya.

Bunch.

Lucas.

Aye.

Ordinance number two six zero four six four authorizing manager of procurement services to execute a one hundred and fifty-three thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollar contract with the community capital fund from previously appropriated funds to support an invest in a hope ambassador program for innovative and measurable community development that aligns with the that aligns with and strengthens the financial human and social capital of venture resource neighborhoods in the greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor College.

We should have put this on on uh the consent, but this is the uh to fund the community capital fund at 153,000 dollars that will provide uh funding implementation of the community wellness ambassador program neighborhood planning development committee review recommended to pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing now the clerk will call the room.

Currows right soye Duncan O'Neill Willie French Rogers Patterson Hasley Robinson Rhea Bunch Lucas Ordinance passes ordinance number two six zero four six five authorizing the manager of procurement services to execute two contracts and the amount of five hundred thousand dollars each with qualified community-based organizations, arts tech and upper room KC from two design, implement and operate youth summer and after school programming designed to reduce youth violence using previously appropriated funds.

Mayor Pro Tim.

This is to fund uh Arts Tech and Upper Room KC who will provide structured after school and summer programming during high risk hours in safe and a safe supervised environment.

The neighborhood planning development committee review recommended you pass.

Thank you, Mayor.

Pro Tim, is there any further discussion?

Eric, now the clerk will call the roll.

Curls, Park Shaw.

Aye.

Duncan.

Aye, Neil.

Aye.

French, Rogers, aye, Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Prayer.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Ordinance passes.

Ordinance number two.

Well, Mayor Force.

Yes, ma'am.

I need the record to reflect our reques on the next two items for uh perception of a possible conflict.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

The record will reflect recusal on the next two items for the Mayor Pro Tim.

Proceed.

Ordinance number two six zero four six nine authorizing the manager procurement services to execute a contract in the amount of one million with rediscover and previously appropriated funds to operate the Kansas City and Assessment Triage Center and provide crisis and adventure services for individuals experiencing mental health or substance use emergencies.

Councilman Bunch, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Yeah, this is a contract with Kansas City Assessment and Triage Center and uh to operate uh mental health services, crisis intervention in particular and treatment will be provided for individuals experiencing mental health or substance base crisis, and this will continue to help help us uh address these major challenges in the city neighborhood planning development committee recommended advanced due pass.

Thank you, Councilman Bunch.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing number clerk call the roll.

Girls, boo, aye.

O'Neill, aye, Willie.

Hi.

French.

All right, President Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Ray.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

I've 11 ayes.

Ordinance passes.

Okay.

One extension.

Okay.

Mayor Tim.

Okay.

Okay.

Ordinance passes.

Next item.

Ordinance number 260470.

Approving the 2026 annual action plan for the community development block grant.

Home investment partnership program, the emergency solution grant and housing opportunities for persons with AIDS.

And including reprogramming funds from CDBG 2021-2024 and the amount of two million four hundred and seventy thousand and ninety-eight dollars and home two thousand nineteen through twenty twenty-four and the amount of four million three hundred and thirty-seven four hundred and ten dollars and authorizing submitted to the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Councilman Bunch.

Housing solutions for those who are low income.

And neighborhood development committee recommended advanced to do pass.

Thank you, Councilman Bunch.

Is there any further discussion?

Heard another clerk, call the roll.

Curls.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Boo.

Aye.

Duncan.

Aye.

Will it?

No.

Rogers.

Aye.

Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Ray.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

And ayes.

One A, one abstention.

Ordinance passes.

Ordinance number 260473 approving a waiver of the code 3-622 requirements for the site and first building renovation located at 935 Broadway Boulevard.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

This is requesting a waiver of prevailing wage requirements for the site and first building renovation at 935 Broadway Boulevard due to the building's historic significance and contribution to the historic wholesale district.

This is a $2 million project that with the recent changes, the recent ordinance that we just passed, this fell in between, and so this technically qualifies under the new guideline that we we uh changed the new ordinance that we changed whenever we did that with the failing wage, and so uh just kind of bringing this in alignment with what we had um approved.

Neighborhood plan development committee review recommended to pass.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing on the clerk call the roll.

Aye, park show.

Aye, who Duncan.

Aye, aye, French Rogers, aye, Patterson Hasley, Robinson, Raya, aye, bunch, aye, Lucas.

Aye.

Nice.

Thank you.

Ordinance passes.

Ordinance number 260477, vacating right-of-way access to the city's needs in Jackson County, Missouri.

And upon the effective date of this ordinance, the city clerk is hereby directed to record said ordinance in the office of the recorder of deeds for Jackson County, Missouri.

Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

In 1987, the city acquired right of way within the South Side Place and Ellison and Murdoch's addition subdivisions for the construction of the Broadway West Penway byduct and its approach roadways.

Following completion of the viaduct, a portion of this right-of-way remained that is no longer necessary for public use.

The public works department has reviewed the subject property and determined that this right away is access to the city's needs with no further future plans for improvement or use as a public right-of-way.

The neighborhood plan and development committee review recommended due pass.

Thank you, Mayor.

Pro Tim.

Is there any further discussion?

Harry now the clerk will call the road.

Currows.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Aye.

Who?

Aye.

Duncan.

Aye.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Will it?

French.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Eleven ayes, one extension.

Ordinance passes.

Ordinance number 260478.

Amending chapter 88, the zoning and development code by repealing section 8861005E.

Loss of non-conforming status and enacted in lieu there of a new section of like number and subject matter for the purpose of facilitating reconstruction of nonconforming detached houses after accidental damage or destruction.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

The proposed amendment would add an exception to section 88-610-05-E2, allowing non-conforming detached houses to which is single-family homes to be reconstructed when the damage was accidental and not within the control of the owner, and no new nonconformities are created.

The structure remains and a detached house and a building permit is obtained within 12 months.

The neighborhood planning development committee, let me say this.

I'm sorry.

So that's what the current order says.

This amendment will alter that with everything else I just said.

Neighborhood planning development committee reviewed and recommended to pass.

Lucas.

Aye 11 ayes.

Councilman O'Neill.

Mr.

Mayor, this proposed ordinance is for renewal number two in the amount of 246,085.56 cents for a term of two years.

This is the final renewal for this contract and consists of the rehabilitation of one of the existing river water intakes traveling screens at our raw water pump station at the water treatment plant at one northwest Briar Cliff Road to remove river debris from our source water prior to further treatment.

Transportation Infrastructure and Operations Committee recommends advance and do pass.

Thank you, Councilman O'Neill.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing on the curve called the road.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Aye.

Who?

Duncan.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Will it?

French.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Robinson.

Yeah.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

11 eyes.

6'2.

Authorized indirect water service to execute a 13,425,900 design bill contract with heartline construction for the Blue River Wastewater Treatment Plant Primary Sight Power Pin Project.

Authorizing a maximum expenditure of 14,768,900.

The recognized disorders and having salary effective date.

Transportation committees do pass.

Councilman O'Neill.

Mr.

Mayor, this project will upgrade the plant's core electrical infrastructure at the Blue River Wastewater Treatment Plant to install a new 15 kilovolt primary switch gear with automatic transfers upon loss of power.

The electrical equipment will be housed in a dedicated modern building.

The new power pen will have a 20% redundancy for future power needs at the facility, and goals are 14% MBE and 14% WB.

Transportation Infrastructure Operations Committee recommends advance in DuPass.

Thank you, Councilman O'Neill.

Is there any further discussion?

Here, now the clerk call the room.

Shaw.

Aye.

Who?

Duncan.

O'Neal.

Aye.

French.

Rogers.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Ray.

Bunch.

Lucas.

I have 11 ox.

60466.

Authorized manager of camera service to execute a two million seven hundred thousand dollar construction contract, which she digs it for emergency water distribution repairs project.

Authorizing four successive renewal operations before the council approval recognizes one as having so effective date.

Transportation committees do pass.

Thank you.

Councilman O'Neill.

Uh Mr.

Mayor, this works this work will assist the Water Services Department pipeline division repair efforts on water mine brakes, valves, hydrants, service lines, and other water distribution, water system assets.

Goals are 11% MVE and 11% WBE and up and subcontracting at 11% MBE and 30% WBE.

Transportation Infrastructure and Operations Committee recommends advance in Du Pass.

Thank you, Councilman O'Neill.

Any further discussion?

Hearing another clerk call the roll.

Currels.

Aye.

Park Shaw.

Aye.

Duncan.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Will it?

Aye.

French.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Raya.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Eleven eyes.

Ordinance passes.

The manager of the career of sufferers execute a two million dollar construction contract with she digs it for the emergency large diameter water system repair project.

Authorizing four successive renewal options with further council proper recognizes ordinance as having solar effective date.

Councilman O'Neill.

Mr.

Mayor, this work will assist the Water Services Department Pipeline Division repair efforts to repair or replace water transmission assets, including large valves.

On occasion, work may also include repairs to small distribution system assets.

Councilman O'Neill.

Any further discussion?

Aaron Clerk, call the room.

Park Shaw.

Duncan.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Will it?

Aye.

Finch.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Aye.

Raya.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Ayes.

Ordinance passes.

0468.

Otherwise, director of aviation executed 30 year lease and concession agreement with two 20-year renewal options with terminal C hotel for the purpose of developing construction and operating a hotel on the grounds of Kansas International Airport.

Transportation Committee do pass.

The stealth hotel will be a four-floor hotel with a total room count of 163 rooms and approximately 7,000 square feet of meeting space with a total building area of about 85,920 square feet.

Property will feature 163 total parking stalls and the uh the renderings of the hotel uh shape it like a stealth plane.

So it's uh it's really modern looking design and it should look pretty cool.

So uh transportation infrastructure operations committee recommends evidence to pass.

Thank you, Councilman O'Neill.

Is there any further discussion?

Harry, now the clerk call the roll.

Girls.

Hi.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Will it?

Hi.

Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Hi.

Robinson.

Raya.

Bunch.

Lucas.

I have 11 ayes.

Ordinance passes.

260476.

Reduce appropriation, amount of 1 million 500,000 dollars in fund number 3527.

The goal 2027 question one fund appropriating in that amount for an unappropriate fund balance of fund 3527, the GO 2027 question one fund for street resurfacing.

Reducing appropriation amount of 1.5 million dollars and fund number 39 capital improvements fund appropriating that amount for an unproduct fund balance of fund number 390, capital improvements fund for 8900 832 8232, 31st and Van Boulevard.

Recognize this ordinance is having salary effective date.

Transportation Commission to pass.

Councilman O'Neill.

The city takes 1.5 million in geobond funds that were originally assigned to the 31st and Van Brump project and redirects it to the street preservation program used for maintaining and repairing streets citywide.

The capital improvement funds can legally be used by property right away needed for the project.

The geobond funds cannot be used to purchase property right away.

By swapping funding funding, it ensures both projects don't lose funding.

The memo confirms that this is a net zero change.

Transportation Infrastructure and Operations Committee recommends advance and do pass.

Thank you, Councilman O'Neill.

Is there any further discussion?

The clerk called the room.

Ooh, Duncan.

O'Neill.

Aye.

Will it?

French Rogers.

Aye.

Patterson Hasley.

Aye.

Robinson.

Raya.

Bunch.

Lucas.

Eleven ayes.

Ordinance passes.

Mayor for Tim.

Honorable Mayor, I move that the charter requirement for reading of ordinances on three separate days be waited for the ordinance on today's document list in his first readings and that these ordinances be introduced as listed to the committee so designated.

Second.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

Harry, none, the clerk will call the roll.

Rose.

Aye.

Boo.

Duncan.

O'Neill.

Will it?

French.

Rogers.

Aye.

Mr.

Hasley.

Aye.

Raya.

Bunch.

Aye.

Lucas.

Aye.

Extension.

The motion passes.

Yes.

Let's go.

All right, Mayor Pro Tem.

We'll start with.

You're doing.

You're doing a floor introduction or a.

I was gonna do your 2498.

You still want to do that?

You know, I will not do that.

Which one was that?

That's the one that puts another one on the ballot, the uh fees.

You know, let's.

I'm sorry, see, I'm doing too much thinking right now.

I need to do it.

Yeah.

Let's do it.

Let's do it.

And if mine changes, we're there are ways to fix that.

Still vote committee.

Okay.

I request the council now consider ordinance number two six oh four nine eight, which is the doc on the docket for first read.

Second.

It's been moved in second.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

I don't think there was any of it.

Oh there's no objections.

No objection.

Yeah.

Call the automatic.

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

I know.

All right.

Yes, sir.

Yes, ma'am.

That ordinance number 260498.

Call in an election on August 4th for the purpose of submitting to the voters of Kansas City or question authorizing the city to establish semi-annual vacant property registration fees not to exceed $200 for chronically vacant nuisance properties, one thousand dollars for vacant commercial property, two hundred dollars for vacant unimproved property.

Correcting city clerk to notify the responsible election authorities on or before May 26, 2026, enacting the vacant property registration registration fee ordinance continued upon the voter approval and recognizes ordinance as having accelerated effective date because it calls for an election.

Madam Clerk, uh this item was not referred to committee.

It's being considered right now.

So make sure your records.

Okay, thank you.

It's been moved and seconded.

I have to make the motion now, sir.

I'm sorry.

Okay.

Honorable mayor, I move the charter requirement for the reading of ordinances for reading of ordinance number 260498 on three separate days be weighed and that the ordinance be advanced for final reading and consideration at this time.

It's been moved and seconded.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

Yeah, I would just like an explanation of the ordinance.

Well, yeah, talking about this.

You know, I'm I'm just I'm not in a hundred percent.

Uh, the core of this is, and so I may just ask us to hold for consideration.

This would um address on the vacant land issues a registration fee for vacant properties.

Long-term goal is to force private owners who it's to address the issue of those who aren't keeping up their property, right?

You'd pay a fee that addresses the registration point, and then I believe the other step relating to it, and I guess I could just read the question, um, is a fee for chronically vacant nuisance properties as well.

So I think it's good policy.

I just think it may be good policy that could stand to have a bit more work before presentment to the voters.

So while I thank you for this, I might actually just ask that on the whole.

I guess we just rescind everything, the motion, and it goes to committee through the normal process.

And if it makes it to a ballot, it'll be one later on in our tenure.

Yeah, and I would like some analysis from legal because I think there is a previous legal opinion.

I'll stand that.

Um, we'll be happy to get you allowed.

Identify some challenges with us doing that.

Now, on that one, I think they do have the work, but you haven't had the fortune of reviewing it.

So uh very well heard.

All right, we'll go.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

On that, um, we'll go to the legal review.

It's been referred to legal review.

Next, we will go to some of y'all who are looking to adopt ordinances today, and everything got out of order, so we'll go with um Councilman Carls.

You have one today, right?

Now that was the um, I'm sorry, Councilwoman Robinson.

Oh no.

Councilman Rogers, I think.

You have a World Cup one.

Oh, okay.

I do.

Okay, I do.

Yes, I do.

Okay.

Jesus.

Okay.

Somebody should have.

That's 6912.

Okay.

Thank you.

Um, it just says council parts of one, so I didn't know I was up, but that's okay.

I'm ready.

Um, I requested the one.

The clerk received the ordinance to sign a number and read the time.

That number is going to be 260503, reducing a contingent appropriation amount of 400,000 in capital improvements fund 390.

Appropriating that amount for an appropriate fund balance of the capital improvements fund to the World Cup contingency account for the purpose of funding the capital improvements expenses incurred by the city related to the hosting the 2026 fee for World Cup.

Recognize this ordinance is having solely effective date.

Um I move that the charter requirement for the reading of ordinances on three separate days be waived, and this ordinance be advanced for final consideration today.

Second, it's been moved and seconded.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

The clerk will call the roll.

I boo.

Delegate.

O'Neal, will it?

All right, French Rogers, Patterson Hasley.

Robinson, Raya, bunch, Lucas.

I let my ayes.

The motion passes the ordinance is before the council for final consideration.

Is there any discussion on the ordinance?

Um, just essentially it's um quite self-explanatory.

We want to empower the city manager uh with an appropriation of $400,000 as we um go through the World Cup, um, recognizing that there's going to be unforeseen costs that we'll need to move quickly to ensure our preparation.

So that is what this ordinance does.

Thank you, Councilman Robinson.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing another clerk call the roll on the ordinance.

Aye, Mark Show.

Aye.

Who?

Duncan.

O'Neal.

Will it?

No.

French.

Rogers.

Asley.

Robinson.

Aye.

Raya.

Aye.

Lucas.

Ten eyes, one night.

The ordinance passes.

Councilman Rogers.

So I've also got Councilwoman French is here too.

Um, which one should I do first?

One of them's just the oh, yeah, sorry, okay, I've got it.

Um, oh councilwoman French, she's just got an introduction.

All right.

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

Clerk receive the ordinance, assign a number and read the title.

Last court numbers are 6904.

The ordinance number is 260504, mini committee substitute for ordinance number 260447 as amended by the filling in place in section three and enacting in this place a new section three for the purpose of expanding the districts and areas permitted to operate until 5 a.m.

with prior submittal to of security plan to the city and the police department by June 1, 2026.

I move that the charter requirement for the reading of ordinances on three separate days be waived and this ordinance be advanced for final consideration today.

Second.

It's been moved and seconded.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

Councilman Rogers.

Or is there any?

Mr.

Mayor, this simply takes what we did last week regarding the hours to serve alcohol and adds the Zona Rosa area to it.

Um I've spoken with several neighbors there, and um everyone I've talked to is in support of that.

Is there any further discussion on the motion?

Harry Nunn, the clerk call the row.

Aye.

Aye.

Duncan.

You.

Will it?

French Rogers.

All right, Patterson Hasley, Robinson.

Raya.

Bunch, Lucas.

Eleven eyes.

The uh motion passes the ordinances now before a committee for final consideration.

Is there any further discussion on the ordinance?

The clerk call the role.

I I have a mayor appropriate.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

I would just like uh further clarification about uh what this will accomplish.

I think it can I do it succinctly and then you get to do more.

It just expands zone or either adds zona rush or expands the boundary also south of Barrie Road.

So just picks up another commercial.

So Zona Rosa wasn't included in the original ordinance at all.

So this adds to the zone rose area with a little bit different definition than usual.

Okay, thank you.

Councilman curls.

Yeah, does this just include one particular uh bar or or is this uh uh business?

I mean it's it's a commercial district, so there's several bars and restaurants in there.

Um two of the four Northland 3 a.m.

licenses are in this area, but it's all commercial, there's no houses or anything.

Councilman Ray.

I think Councilman Rogers, I'm correct, there's there's not currently a Northland Entertainment District included in the ordinance.

So this would open for the Northland to take advantage of the hours, operating hours.

Yeah, I should have mentioned that that's a great point, and Gladstone and Park are both keeping their bars and restaurants open.

So this puts us on a level playing field up north with our pair cities.

Any mayor pro tim.

Thank you, Honorable Mayor.

Just in the uh spirit of safety, have um have you does as KCPD indicated they have the capacity to be able to manage this?

So I talked to KCPD and the Platt County Prosecutor, they're both neutral on this legislation, and they're still out to submit the same security plan as everybody else.

Thank you.

Any further discussion?

What I will say is because it's and the city attorney may remember, but he doesn't speak on policy, and we may just introduce an ordinance that adds clarity to the uh entertainment districts.

I feel like back during pandemic time, we were issuing orders in some situations, particularly protests that made citations to actual entertainment districts, but it seems like there are lots of, for one, for example, it's how we did a curfew on the plaza area.

We actually cited both the plaza and the Westport areas for a certain time, but things change over six years, and maybe we need some clarity as to that.

So we'll try to offer some because I always thought Zona Rosa was in some list of them, but not another, and we'll get it together.

Any further discussion on the ordinance?

Hearing none the clerk will call the roll.

Curros.

No.

For our show.

Hi.

Duncan.

Oh, Neil.

Willie.

Hi.

French.

Rogers.

I have aye.

Robinson.

Hi.

Aye.

Lucas.

I have ten eyes.

One night.

Ordinance passes.

Let's go to the um.

You said you were doing French.

Councilman Rogers.

Councilwoman French is item.

I requested the clerk receive docket and read an ordinance.

Prepare it too late to be on today's docket.

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

That ordinance number is going to be 260505.

Approving a position to establish the Show Crossings community improvement district, establishing the Shelto Crossing Community Improvement District.

Gentlemen Boundary by 35, Interstate 35 to the north, winter road to the Northwind Road to the east, northeast 42nd Terrace to the south, and Northeast Shelto Traffic to the West in Kansas Clay County, Missouri.

Determine that the district to be in blighted area, determining that certain actions are reasonably anticipated to remediate blighting conditions and to serve for public purpose requiring this annual submission of certain records directing city clerk to record report the creation of the district of Missouri Department of Economic Development and the State Auditor.

Refer to neighborhood planning and development committee.

Councilman Rogers.

Clerk will receive the ordinance to sign a number.

Receiving the ordinance, not a number, read the title.

Yes, sir.

That number is going to be 260506.

Amen in Chapter 2, Article 6, Code of Ordinance is entitled Boards, Commissions, and Committees.

And acting a new division entitled Welcoming KC Commission consisting of section 2-851 through 855 and formerly established such commission.

Refer to the finance governance and public safety committee.

Yes, Mr.

Mayor, request the clerk receive docket and read an ordinance prepare too late to be on today's docket.

The clerk will receive the ordinance, sign a number and read the time.

Rezone area about 587 acres, gentlemen, located between Lou Holland Drive and North Broadway Freeway from District M1 through 5 to District KCI KCIA.

Refer to the neighborhood planning development committee.

I have one too if anyone does mind uh this is my document.

Do you mind reading the mayor?

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

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

That number is going to be 260507.

I'm in chapter 70 code warnings.

By repealing replacement section one definitions and amending chapter 70 code ordinances and enacting a new section 706 entitled Electric Bicycles Rights and Privileges Label Requirements Modifications Require New Label Product Safety Standards Authorized to Ride Wear Exceptions Class 3 Electrical Bicycles Special Provisions for the Purpose of Aligning Definition Operating Requirements and Rights and Privileges Associated with the Electric Bicycle and State Law.

Refer to the transportation infrastructure and operations committee.

Is there any further business to come before council?

None.

I'm standing adjourned