The Kansas City Council convened on July 10, 2026, at approximately 3:00 PM. The meeting included recognitions for retiring police officer Jason Cooley, state champion baseball teams, a civic engagement award, and a new Frosty Frogs business. The council also debated and passed ordinances related to transit funding, health care services, zoning changes, and a resolution directing the city manager to establish policies for city-backed property transactions. Several items were adopted unanimously, while one contract vote saw a split result.
The meeting will the meeting will come to order. Our guest chaplain is Pastor Dale Schwartzler of Day Spring Pentecostal Church. Would all who are able please stand for the invocation and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Good afternoon. Father God, we thank you for this day for our families, our friends, and the freedoms that we enjoy in this nation. We thank you for these representatives that are here today serving with willingness. Bless their families and each of them individually. Help us to recognize your blessings in our lives and this great council. We pray, Lord, that you would give them wisdom and discernment to make decisions that are pleasing to you. Knowledge and clarity in matters that they will consider this day. The courage govern with justice and humility. Protection from deception and corruption. Guide their steps, give them hearts inclined towards righteousness, enable them to settle the business of governing on the sure foundation, and let their conversations be fruitful. May your blessing and your peace be upon this place and all that are here. We invoke the name of Jesus and thank you for your blessing. Amen. Officer Jason Cooley of the uh Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, after 32 years, is retiring from KCPD this Friday. Officer Cooley often has the opportunity to serve as our deputy chaplain, I'd like to say. He works with the chaplains at KCPD and has had for several years. In addition to other duties, he was on the mayor's detail. He was the third district citizen of the year in 2017. But I think most importantly, he is someone who the community, particularly in the east side of Kansas City, but all around, have had the good fortune of knowing. Officer Cooley, we thank you for your many years of service. We know there's been a coolie on KCPD for some time. So we'll make sure we get that picked up again. But thank you for your years of public service, and we just wanted to give you an applause for them. All right. Now to show all of you, young people the opposite side of your career arc. Officer Cooley, we're going with a much younger group. If the clerk could read the first special action. What's that? It's on. Yeah, it's just, yeah. I'll try to shout it out, but uh this degree. Yep. Ready? Hello? So 606. I think it's kind of recognizing, congratulating Faith Christian Academy Ms. Baseball team for an outstanding 2025-26 season. Maybe we'll just add a fall. All right. Oh, now we're back. Yeah, I think, oh, there we go. Is this better? All right. We're getting there. All right. Councilman Willett, do you want to uh give it a try to you come on over? Yeah.