The Powell City Council held its regular meeting on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at 7:30 PM in Council Chambers at 47 Hall Street. The meeting included approval of prior minutes, adoption of a consent agenda, two resolutions on software and crisis intervention referrals, committee updates, and a City Manager's report covering population growth, electric aggregation study, and parking initiatives. The meeting concluded with an executive session.
I will call the February 17th, 2026 Council meeting to order. Tom Counts. Carlos Crawford. Tyler Herman notified us that he'd be unable to attend. He's passing. Heather Carr here. David Lester. And Kurt Ramsey. Here. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. The first item on our agenda is citizen participation. Now is your opportunity to come and speak on anything that is not on the agenda. Please come forward, state your name, and you have three minutes. Seeing none, we will move on to the next portion of the agenda, the approval of the minutes. You will note three sets of minutes were included in your packet. Having read the minutes, are there any additions or corrections to be made? Hearing none, is there a motion to adopt? So moved. Second. All those in favor? Those opposed, same sign. And the minutes are adopted. Yes. The next item on our agenda is the consent agenda. Any council member can remove an item from the consent agenda. Now is your opportunity to do so. Seeing none. Can I get an motion on the consent agenda? I'll move to adopt. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. And those opposed, same sign. All right. The next item is resolution 2026-16, a resolution authorizing the city manager to enter into an agreement with Civic Serve Incorporated. Andy. Thank you, Mayor. The adopted 2026 budget included an increase for several economic development software programs. We recently did one with uh an AI program. This is an additional software request that's budgeted for the amount of 5250. I turn it over to the economic development administrator for further description over uh the program that we'll provide. Sean. Thank you, Andy. Thank you, Mayor, members of council. Um this is the uh the second uh software package I've brought before you this year, uh with the first being place for AI, I think you mentioned uh this particular software package is called Civic Serve. It is a um an incentive management software. So um instead of using all kinds of fun, fancy spreadsheets that Sam and I oftentimes utilize right now, um, especially for those that serve on our tax and center review council. Um, this will give us uh a much more professional way to manage abatements, grants for PDC TIFFs and everything else from from beginning of application all the way to the reporting phases and so on and so forth.