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No issues are found around the plumbing or fixtures. Test the home's water pressure. Ensure there is no water use inside your home. Locate your front water spigot. Place a water pressure gauge on the spigot.

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An ideal water pressure for your home is 40-80 psi. Contact water utilities about the water pressure issue before adjusting. To adjust your water pressure, locate your home's pressure reducing valve or PRV.

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Loosen the lock nut on the PRV with a wrench,

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loosen or tighten depending if you want more or less water pressure.

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For more information and questions, go to lswater.net

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The olden village project situated near Highway 50 and Missouri 291 is underway with several developments slated for mixed use developments.

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So, why did the chicken cross the road?

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To get to the other side of Lee Summit, Chick-fil-A is coming to the north end of Olden Village with

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chicken sandwiches, strips, nuggets, and more in 2026.

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Small sliders, the Cheeseburger Slider fast-food franchise, will drop the can in the center

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of Olden Village.

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The restaurant operates out of a shipping container set up with a streamed line drive-through and

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walk-up window.

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Award-winning Kansas City-style barbecue Q39 is coming to Olden Village.

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BBQ ribs, burnt ends, brisket, sandwiches, salads, and many more menu items will be available

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in Lee's Summit in 2026.

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Club car wash is bringing quality experience to Oldham Village.

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The modern express-style wash will feature an efficient drive-through tunnel designed for

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quick quality service.

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The best place to work.

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I love working here.

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I feel very blessed.

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I love it here.

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I look forward to coming to work every day, being a part of this team.

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Like a family away from home.

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where everyone feels like everybody knows their name.

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The city that supports you, we see that with our benefits.

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A pension, vacation days, job security.

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Being able to be heard, we feel valued, we feel respected.

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At least some it is a very progressive city.

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It's growing, it's thriving.

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We have this drive towards not just doing a job, but doing it with a spirit of excellence.

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I had the opportunity to continue to grow regardless of 30 plus years doing this kind of work.

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It's more than just a dollars and cents.

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We're here really to give back.

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Providing a service to better a community.

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To go out and serve people.

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To be a part of something bigger than yourself.

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If I would have known what I know now, years ago,

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I would have been here much sooner.

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My name is Armstrong.

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make the difference in somebody else's life.

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If you're trying to get in the fire and eat in that service,

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at least some of it is probably the top name.

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On the daily basis, we are tasked with an incredible task.

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So we're trying to keep it a relaxed environment as a new person. You are constantly on edge learning

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Morning, we're a little typical coming in getting a report from the ship that's going off. We get our truck checks done

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Our citizens trust us and believe in us by providing them in these like our gear our stations

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They build it to accommodate getting to a call but also having a home state of the art weight of present in the virtual

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We're going to go up on crams, downtime dinners, back brothers and dinners together, cook together, get to know one another.

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Train together, like a brother knows a brother and a sister knows a brother.

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Banchor back in fourth club.

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When the tones go off, they go to work.

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We're here for 48 hours so it can happen at any time.

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You can be in the gym, you can be in the middle of night, you can be cooking.

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Stop what you're doing and listen.

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We are in the station.

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People will stop what they're doing and listen.

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finding out which station it is. What is the nature of the call? What is it in my

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district? It's in the highway. It's been in the expectation of the lives involved,

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that adrenaline dumps, hands on, coats on, getting in the truck, we're mentally

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focused here to hang in to see what we're doing.

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happens in the truck. The officer can give directions. The dispatcher will update

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you. The officer will listen to driver listen. We can get all the same pay

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they will get to the call. We can go to work.

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So many degrees of severity,

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structure fire, swift water rescue, RMS, R-Accident, Technical Rescue,

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Tathmetic Team.

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The equipment the fire department offers us is top notch, from rain cutters to

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extrication equipment. The state-of-the-art stuff, rate trucks,

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tablets, Lucas device, battery, power pot. The ride tools, the ride training.

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The learning does not stop an academy. Building blocks continue call after call.

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Opportunity is usually broke. Sardalza Fire Fire Paramedic moves to the rank of

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engineer paramedic, most recently at the qualification of acting captain.

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Fire fighter, engineer, recently promoted to captain.

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I'm headed to paramedic since I've been here.

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I'll be honest, it's scary sometimes.

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You're the one back there, that person is having a bad day and that count on you.

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We practice these scenarios over and over, so when someone has an emergency

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we can channel those energies and minimize it any more injury.

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And then when it's over, we'll say, hey, how did we do how is everyone doing?

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And while Frank conversations back at the station,

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the station assignment for us is a 48 on 96 off.

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The 4 days off is probably one of the greatest things ever.

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The help is improve our sleep patterns, wellness, mental health.

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He gives you many many options.

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I have a small little 15 acres that we like to hobby farm a backpacking in the spring and in the fall.

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Mountain biking when the weather is good.

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I have a 21-month-old at home, so I feel like I get to work full-time job, and then on the four days off, be a stay-at-home mom as well.

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I spent a little more time with my kids, travel around the world. I was able to take my oldest daughter in a trip of a lifetime. We went to Europe for 22 days.

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I got hired to help others helping others also helped me see my children grow

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see my family grow see my career grow and me grow as a person people that are

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in the industry know the name of the assembly fire department every fire

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academy knows it every other fire department knows it if you're looking for a

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job in the fire service at least some it's a place to be that's who you want to

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be somebody who can make positive change in all the human being's life.

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Quickly Summit, I'm Jordan. Here's your flash briefing for the week of March 2nd. This

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week is severe weather preparedness week. Everyone is encouraged to participate in a statewide

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tornado drill Wednesday March 4th at 11 a.m. It is important to have a plan in case of

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a severe weather incident such as a tornado. Shake off the winter blues and jump in the

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Just bring this weekend in downtown Lee Summit for the Spring Open House Friday and Saturday.

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Shop new home decor, plants, apparel, gifts, and more.

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City Council will meet for a regular session Tuesday night at 6 in Council Chambers in

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City Hall.

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Meetings are open to the public or watch live on the city's YouTube channel.

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If you can't watch, catch the recorded meeting on demand on the YouTube channel, or by subscribing

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to the council debrief newsletter, which breaks down three to four key agenda items.

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subscribe at cityofls.net. Thanks for listening and have a great week.

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Lee Summit has lots of local destinations, but where do you start?

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Green Street, a vibrant community space in the heart of downtown, is where Lee Summit comes together.

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Its three dynamic areas have something for everyone.

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Green Street Market is a modern event venue and home to the downtown Lee Summit Farmers Market.

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Green Street Law is a covered performance space, hosting live music, family activities and more.

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Green Street Grove is a mixture of gathering spaces and immersive playground and bold architectural features.

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In all three areas, post community events year-round.

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So the next time you set out to enjoy the city you love, remember, meet at Green Street.

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The City of Lee Summit has hundreds of traffic lights across its more than 1,000 lane miles,

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All managed by the city's public works traffic technicians.

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The work happens inside those metal boxes on the side of each intersection.

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Inside, technicians program a device called the controller.

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The controller communicates directly with each signal head via underground wires, telling

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each light when it turns on and off, based on a program cycle.

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City traffic engineers designed this cycle to allow traffic to flow as efficiently as possible

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for that particular intersection.

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In order to best match current traffic patterns, they install something called a detection system.

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Detection systems have taken many forms over the years, from sensors in the pavement to radar boxes.

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But in Lee's Summit, they primarily consist of cameras which work

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For the delay, we had a closed session that took longer than we expected, so I apologize. Would you please rise for the invocation and stay standing for the Pledge of Allegiance?

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Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of this day and the chance to serve. Hope us appreciate the small moments that matter and we're being grateful for the trust our community has placed in us. Give us wisdom and humble hearts as we lead, and in your name we pray. Amen.

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Okay, again, welcome everyone, I'm calling to order the City of Lee Summit amended regular session number 65.

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Can I get a roll call please?

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Council member Carlisle.

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Present.

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Council member shields.

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Here.

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Council member Hodges.

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Council member Raider.

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Council member Pryor.

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Council member Funk.

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Council member Lovell.

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Mayor Porton Lopez.

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Mayor Baird.

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here. The first item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda. I have a motion

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to it out the agenda by Council Member Funk, seconded by a Council Member Carlisle.

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Discussion?

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Seeing none, please cast your vote.

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Mayor, I'm in aye.

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Thank you all. Our votes are in. Please record the vote.

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Passes 8-0. Thank you. Next is the approval of the consent agenda. The first one was the

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agenda. This is the consent agenda. I have a motion to approve the consent agenda by

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councilmember Carlisle, seconded by a councilmember waiter. Discussion?

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Seeing none,

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please cast your vote.

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All votes are in. Please record the vote. Passes unanimously. Thank

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you. Next item on the agenda is the council roundtable. Items of general interest. Things

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going on in the community.

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Councilmember shields. Thank you, Mayor. We have downtown the spring

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I'm looking open house in the Emerald Isle pub crawl this weekend, I'm looking downtown to make sure I'm getting those dates right and they're giving me the thumbs up so hopefully we'll see folks out there to support local and enjoy hopefully some good weather for this cross thank you very

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good no other comments and we will go to public comments this time is set aside for on the agenda for citizens to address the man council on items and the agenda or items related to the operations of the city

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speakers will be restricted to three minutes. Minutes may not be transferred from one speaker to another. The mayor may declare a speaker out of order if it's not related to an item on the agenda. It's not related to the operations of the city.

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If it has to do with the public hearing that we're having, if it's disruptive of an orderly and fair discussion, no profanity or threats of violence and no attacks on private citizens.

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We have, I think, about four speakers here, so we'll start with Mr. Al-Shawish.

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A couple of days ago, I received a troubling letter from a Lisa McFirefighter,

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and he asked me to share it, and it caught my attention immediately,

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and I believe it demands your immediate attention and action as well.

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I'll read portions of it here and post a full letter to my page.

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He writes that in just the last two years, two of our firefighters have tragically taken their own lives,

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and two more have been forced to medically retire due to the effects of PTSD and unfortunately

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these aren't isolated incidents they reflected deeper crisis for first responders all over

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the world. Now Missouri took meaningful step forward with Senate Bill 24, which recognizes

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PTSD as an occupational disease for first responders and it was meant to ensure access to treatment

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without any barriers yet he says and leaves some it the opposite is happening. Instead of embracing

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this law, the HR department has required firefighters to burn through their own sick

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time for mental health care, and has routinely denied claims for PDSD treatment.

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He said the problem does is stop at HR, inside the department, the culture of silence and

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shame persists, and the firefighters fear ridicule for management if they openly ask for help.

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And the pair of support team they have is unfortunately under-resourced and under-supported.

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Now officially the department encourages documenting all injuries, but in reality, when someone reports

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Even a physical injury like a hurt knee, the captain's question, are you really hurt and this is necessary and people are shamed and

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Distain quiet. He said that that's how physical injuries are handled. Imagine the barriers when someone admits that they need help with their mental health, which is one of the hardest things for anyone to acknowledge.

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Now the neglect extends further. The city also denied a firefighter's work in comp claim when he battled was battling cancer, forcing him to use his own sick time and denying him basic accommodations.

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And I've actually heard a similar story from a former city employee with cancer who was so

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mistreated that they felt forced to resign just so they could focus on their cancer treatment.

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And you know, this toxic culture is no accident.

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You know, for too long, the city has failed to prioritize people.

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And it's not just the residents they fail to prioritize.

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It's the first responders and employees, too.

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Instead, you prioritize institutions and focus on placating to unions, developers, and special interests.

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Our first responders and city employees deserve better than a system that turns its back

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on them when they need to help the most, and our residents deserve better than leadership

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that prioritize a special interest over the needs of the people.

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But in regards to the firefighters claim, I do want to call on the City Council, HR Department

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and Department leadership to implement Senate Bill 24 fully, strengthen peer support in the

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a big-month PTSD and lease summit and provide real accommodations and fair claims processing for first responders and employees that serve lease summit.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Ms. Kaufman.

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The community is so important to have people that care about this community and up on this diet and taking care of the people and the community is to the best of their ability.

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Every meaningful change in our community starts with someone willing to step up, get involved and together.

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study the issues and turned ideas into action. In 2008 I was invited to join

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Lee Summit 360 Strategic Planning Commission, a 20-year vision project that

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included over 100 community volunteers. Through that process we crafted key

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performance areas and collective vision that reflected the city's values

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inclusivity and highest standards. Later I became chair and then co-chair of

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Human Services Advisory Board from 2010 to 2016.

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During that time, we united nonprofits together in the community.

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We united nonprofits at once operated in silos, allowing them to collaborate on fundraisers.

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This not only strengthened each organization, but also made it easier for

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the community to give to multiple causes at once.

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After six years, I stepped down knowing the board was ready for new leadership and

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continued success. If you see if you wish to see positive change in our community it's completely

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possible by getting involved. There are numerous focus groups, city boards and committees or you can

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make a real difference. These forms are designed to empower citizens involvement and whether through

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school district committees or city boards. If you want to make a change all you need to do is step in

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and become part of a community's future.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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Mr. Good.

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I'm here to address the misinformation that has been shared by one particular council member,

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Senator.

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She represents me and more than 20,000 other residents in the third district.

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She had said the schools are in decline.

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They are not.

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As she heard from Dr. Buck last week, the schools are not in decline.

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She has claimed that crime is rising in the summit.

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It is not as if we've heard, as we're about to hear from the police chief, that crime rates are down.

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She said that she wants to freeze all incentives and new developments yet last Wednesday.

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She proposed incentives for affordable and attainable residential housing.

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At that forum, she agreed with her political opponent like any other organization.

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From time to time, you must re-evaluate goals and plans as situations change or goals have

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been met.

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However, this weekend, she posted on social media that we are way past any sort of re-evaluation

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process and that the city should freeze all due commercial development.

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She has no plan on how to pay for her to find housing incentives, unless following her suggested

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freeze on commercial development, she plans to raise taxes on lease on home owners through

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sales, use or property tax.

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She has also said she wanted the market to decide on development, which is it, market or incentives.

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Eight years ago, we did let the market decide, and as a result, nearly 80% of the tax burden

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and fell on the residential property owners.

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That's not balanced.

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A healthy residential to commercial tax base

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should be close to a 40-60 split

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to ease the tax burden on lease-eminent homeowners.

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I say it again, she has no plan.

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In the recent years, our city has turned the corner.

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Developers are now coming to us

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instead of avoiding us as they did in the past.

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Every new commercial development

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helps broaden the tax base

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and reduce the pressure on homeowners.

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She continually talks about transparency.

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yet she was the only one as a self-described black sheep of the City Council against letting the voters vote on trash service.

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She claimed that overwhelmingly opposition to the single hauler system.

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She told me that 50 people had called her an opposition.

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50 people do not constitute overwhelming consensus.

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She was elected to represent the entire district and the entire city, not just the loudest voices.

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This also speaks to her leadership skills and her ability or lack thereof to bring people together.

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other.

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She has repeatedly promoted misinformation and never denounced the divisive personal attacks against her political opposition or federal council member. This kind of rhetoric does not build trust, it erodes it. She has also publicly aligned herself with Zach, a city council candidate. Despite his repeated tax on council members, city officials, developers, and our dedicated police and fire personnel. Leadership requires discernment, accountability, and the commitment to elevating, not undermining those who serve our community.

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In my opinion, Councilmember Raider has demonstrated a lack of transparency, integrity, and ethical leadership expected a something serving on this dius.

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Following the April election, I believe her actions weren't further review, and the residents should consider whether she should continue on this dius to represent the interest of the third district and all of Lisa.

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Thank you.

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misspelling wider this

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Teresa Vollen wider 5201 north east

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is from 1122

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2022 I can see what's up is that.

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So would you have a right like that roadway

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where that road comes through over there

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probably even going over to wherever that

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a little pin is that over there. That roadway, I mean, that's on her property. But of course

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the city has a right-of-way on it for public use. So the public can use it, right?

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Oh, that makes sense. So she can't have stuff that's in that right-of-way that's for public use.

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And the city is probably asserted their authority on it and said, no, we're not going to allow stuff to be here.

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That's

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really sad too, and I mean, completely, is that I said to this city a new community

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goal.

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So we missed all, because I said, you definitely should not drive her a few go there,

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because if it isn't supposed to be there, she is going to need to be paralyzed and miserable.

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And I said.

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So that was Officer Eisberg and Stephanie Mullins.

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Stephanie Mullins and Derek Collins are my neighbors.

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we could stop the clock so I can get the other video up, I'd appreciate it.

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Ms. Fallon Reiter, we waited quite a while while you got the one going, so we've

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seen these before as well.

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Property right now.

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You're trespassed.

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Just that it takes a while.

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I don't care.

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Get off of their property right now.

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I said, do you want me to go get the survey so you can look at it?

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It was that survey right there.

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Her response was, I don't care, how

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can that be?

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How can that be that a police officer doesn't care to look at a survey?

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they would rather escalate the situation and

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they've already said that they

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use the parcel viewer. They've already said that and there is a disclaimer on

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parcel viewers. I don't care if it's the city's parcel viewer or if it's the

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county's parcel viewer. There's a disclaimer on that that those are not survey

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accurate.

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Thank you, Ms. Longlar.

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Okay, we've got quite a few people here tonight that are going to be part of different presentations.

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So we're on agenda item 5A, and these are updates from all of our public service agreements, the recipients that is.

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So we have different partners that the city works with and it's able to work with these partners and do things that the city really shouldn't be doing on its own.

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They should be doing with the collaboration of our stakeholders and a great example of that is the very first one downtown Lee Summit Main Street.

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Good

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evening.

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Good evening. Thank you for allowing us to come speak tonight. My name is Donnie Rogers. I'm the executive director of Downtown Lee Summit Main Street.

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Tonight with me, from my board of directors, I have been wine, our board president, Corey Norris, secretary, Clint Haynes, and Hillary Graves.

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And I want to thank our liaisons as well, assistant fire chief Jim Eden, assistant city manager, Crystal Weber, and council member shields for their service to our board.

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what is downtown Lee Summit Main Street?

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From day one, we have been focused on creating a welcoming and inviting atmosphere to draw members of our community and region to downtown to support our local businesses.

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We were founded in 1989 as a 501c3 nonprofit organization.

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Organizationally, we work closely with Missouri Main Street Connection and Main Street America.

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Since the beginning, those organizations have helped with vital resources for us for trainings, leadership, development, networking and best practices.

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We're proud next Tuesday, we'll actually be hosting the quarterly training for Missouri Main Street Connection, right here in downtown Lee Summit at Green Street.

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We are annually accredited by these organizations and consistently achieve full accreditation.

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I want to also make note that we are only one of only nine communities in the state of Missouri

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to achieve this level designation and this annual accreditation process, the on-site process

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for accreditation happens biennually and looks at all levels of the organization.

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From the very beginning, we were volunteer driven.

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This is those group of heroes that came together in 1989 and rolled up their sleeves to do

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something impossible.

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And I'm proud of the work we've done over the last 36 years to transform downtown Lee

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Summit.

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Of course, everything we do is not possible without an amazing support of volunteers as a

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nonprofit.

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Our volunteers this year really stepped up and answered the call.

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We saw a 34% increase in volunteer hours this year.

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From the year prior, our volunteers logged 2,960 hours in service to downtown at a value

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of over 103,000 dollars.

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Of course, part of those volunteer services is volunteer opportunities are part of hosting

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over 100 free activities in events downtown.

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Almost every event and activity we plan downtown is free to attend and is family friendly.

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We hear from a lot of people how our events have become part of their family traditions.

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This last year alone, we welcomed 3.2 million visitors to downtown.

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On average, someone visiting downtown spends 95 minutes in downtown Lee Summit.

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So that means they're shopping, they're dining, they're doing multiple things.

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I like to highlight this, you know, there's no question downtown has truly become the place

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to be in Lee Summit.

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it. These are the top five Saturdays to be downtown in 2025. Our top visit day, of course,

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was June 7th, downtown days, 43,800 visitors. Number two, September 27th, October

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fest, 3,700 visitors. You see December 6th, holiday season, fog in progress, 12 bars of

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Christmas pub crawl, 22,000 visitors. August 16th, the opening day of Green Street, that was

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or fourth busiest day downtown in 2025, and that was 21,500 visitors, and then the

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Emerald Owl pub crawl rounds out that last busiest Saturday in 19,200.

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Of course, with

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over 100 free activities and events, here's some of the other ones that don't get as

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much visitation, I think, or just as important in building community in our downtown.

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Our art walk or 430 art walk that runs April through August featured over 137 artists

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over those five months and gave opportunities for those artists to set up in our downtown

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businesses and on the sidewalks to display their local art.

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Activities like Wadiff puppets that we hosted in sponsorship with a grant from the Cultural

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our arts department at equity bank.

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Chamrock the block, which is one of our events.

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Coming up, it'll be moved to Green Street,

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but coming up on March 14th, you can see there.

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Last year, we hosted that on Southwest Maine and Southeast Maine

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and filled the street with bubbles and vendors

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and all the fun activities.

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My favorite event though, of course, is Boos Parks and Badges.

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That is a that we partner with police and fire

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to turn downtown over to the cutest goblins

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and four-legged creatures that you've ever seen.

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And so, this is a great opportunity to kind of celebrate

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the holiday season in a safe and fun way.

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And of course, even in the rain this year,

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the mayor's true lighting, we drew over 8,400 people

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to downtown to see the twinkling lights come on

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across all downtown.

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A big thing of what we do is reminding people

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to come downtown.

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Marketing promotion is a major part of what we do

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and getting the word out. Our social media reach for 2025, we reached 4.7 million

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posts on our post-reach on meta-platforms, although that's Facebook and

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Instagram, and specifically looking at just the downtown lease on that

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Facebook page. We have over 35,000 Facebook fans, over 11,000 Instagram followers.

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Our website serves as the destination for all downtown information. We saw 14%

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increase of web traffic over this last year. Our top five pages give an idea of what people

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are looking for when they come to our website. Number one is business directory. They're looking

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for local businesses. Number two, farmers market. Three events. Four is available space.

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And squeaking out Green Street was October fest at number five. We also work to sell downtown

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gift cards in 2025. We kept $85,000 here locally in our downtown economy. We also do postcard

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mailings to over 12,000 households during the spring and holiday seasons. Of course,

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the support I have for my staff is just amazing. Those three ladies in that photo are Julie Cook,

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our event director, Jenny Gail, our assistant director

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and Rachel Finch, our creative content and communications person.

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The long Jeviti of my staff is something I'm quite proud of.

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I've been with the organization now for 12 years.

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Julie just celebrated 10 years this month.

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Jenny's been with us for four years

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and Rachel's been with us almost 10.

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So that means out of the four of us,

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We have an average of eight and a half years serving our community here in downtown Lee summit and

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some of the favorite headlines of this past year

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I mentioned the my three staff members there, but we also got the ability to add in a part time position this year

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Um, these are three that my favorite headlines. This is we posted hiring a farmers market assistant manager

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We hired Chris Spangler. She's been an amazing addition. She's the face you see most Wednesdays and Saturdays

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at the farmers market

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that we submitted two awards to our Missouri Main Street.

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We were honored for Dave Eames' past board chair to receive the Spirit and the User Award for his, not only, volunteerism and commitment to our downtown, but many downtowns across the state. We also were recognized for the best new promotion for our Mary Swift mis-event in 2024 that celebrated our 35th anniversary in the same time I believe Miss Taylor Swift turned 35 as well. And then, of course,

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We were featured on Main Street America's website in early January and we were honored to be able to share our story about the development of Green Street and what it means to this community.

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So a network of downtowns across the nation.

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And of course, I can't not talk about Green Street, it has been the culmination of so much work and I'm so appreciative of council support in making this happen.

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And the corner photo up there is from our farmers market in 1995 and then you see the farmers market this last season.

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Just the transformation has been astounding and I'll kind of go through some statistics with the farmers market.

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But it's been a great season we're looking forward for the market returning on April 4th.

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So I love all numbers.

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This is taken from Placer AI.

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the red line is the farmers market from Saturdays of the farmers market from

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2000 and 24. The blue line is Green Street starting with the move over the

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farmers market moving over there. These numbers are taken from 8 to noon. You

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can see the opening day spike when we moved to Green Street. We welcome nearly 6,000

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shoppers to Green Street, the farmers market that morning. We welcome nearly 50,000

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shoppers for the 2025 season, and I anticipate this year we'll see attendance spike over 100,000.

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You can see how huge those attendance numbers are over the previous year in coming to Greenstreet.

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We saw the increase of attendance over 300%.

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We had over 72 farmers market vendors join us.

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The average length of state the farmers market went from 31 minutes in 2024 to we saw people joining us for 52 minutes at Green Street.

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So almost 21 minute, almost doubling with that average household income for farmers market shoppers, 118,000.

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And on the average Saturday, we see about 2,500 shoppers that's up from about 865 shoppers at the previous location there on the parking lot next to at least some of the elementary.

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We also were able to expand our holiday market offerings from one market, with about 20 vendors inside City Hall to four markets featuring upwards of 50 vendors per market, and that's on average attendance of about 1600 shoppers each to 100 day

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highlighting the work we've done since 2009 or volunteers have logged 61,871 hours.

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We've welcomed over 109 net new businesses downtown.

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on creating over 833 and a half net new jobs and almost 80 million in renovations in these private development downtown since 2009.

440
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:40,580
This past year in 2025, we saw our taxable retail and restaurant sales hit 57 million, doubling in 10 years.

441
01:03:44,820 --> 01:03:50,740
We saw eight new businesses open, creating 53 new jobs,

442
01:03:51,380 --> 01:03:52,460
20 building permits,

443
01:03:53,060 --> 01:03:55,800
representing $6.2 million in private investment downtown,

444
01:03:56,580 --> 01:03:59,160
and 26 new housing units opening at Ellis Glen.

445
01:04:03,330 --> 01:04:05,650
Of course, we're excited for what this year holds.

446
01:04:06,630 --> 01:04:11,090
We are so looking forward to welcoming the world

447
01:04:11,090 --> 01:04:13,870
to the Lee Summit in June for the World Cup.

448
01:04:13,870 --> 01:04:16,350
We're proud of our partners, Alice Gole,

449
01:04:16,590 --> 01:04:18,990
Explorally Summit, LSCDC in the chamber

450
01:04:18,990 --> 01:04:23,130
for working together to really transform our place

451
01:04:23,130 --> 01:04:23,990
in the Metro.

452
01:04:24,830 --> 01:04:26,270
Some of the things that have been possible,

453
01:04:26,390 --> 01:04:28,070
the direct connections to FanFest,

454
01:04:28,990 --> 01:04:31,230
planning for the five football Fridays,

455
01:04:31,630 --> 01:04:32,670
working with tourism,

456
01:04:33,350 --> 01:04:34,770
on pedestrian way, finding downtown,

457
01:04:35,010 --> 01:04:36,870
we'll add community banners and everything.

458
01:04:37,490 --> 01:04:41,110
So the highlight of we are exactly 100 days away today.

459
01:04:41,550 --> 01:04:43,170
So from the World Cup,

460
01:04:43,170 --> 01:04:45,730
It seems like it goes forever ago.

461
01:04:46,350 --> 01:04:47,510
We were like three years out.

462
01:04:48,350 --> 01:04:50,690
So with that, that's really all I have.

463
01:04:51,270 --> 01:04:52,590
I'll just leave you with a fun fact.

464
01:04:52,770 --> 01:04:58,050
This is one of my favorite things to see this last year is a new Christmas tree,

465
01:04:58,150 --> 01:04:59,670
the new mayor's tree at Green Street.

466
01:05:00,490 --> 01:05:02,930
Fun fact, I know exactly how many light bulbs are on there.

467
01:05:02,970 --> 01:05:05,470
We had 5,280 light bulbs.

468
01:05:05,970 --> 01:05:10,070
I know this because our volunteers screwed in each and every one of those light bulbs

469
01:05:10,070 --> 01:05:15,350
And we'll have to each one of those branches, so we're looking forward to that be a long

470
01:05:15,350 --> 01:05:21,410
standing and how the tradition moving forward, so that is it for me if there's any questions.

471
01:05:23,210 --> 01:05:27,810
Yeah, I'll open up to the council questions or comments, councilmember Breyer.

472
01:05:28,670 --> 01:05:28,970
Thank you.

473
01:05:29,130 --> 01:05:37,010
So this is kind of just generic, but I hear so often that people are excited to have the

474
01:05:39,430 --> 01:05:45,290
So I was wondering if you could maybe like give your plans on that, and I hear so many

475
01:05:45,290 --> 01:05:49,910
people asking if we can extend hours, and I always tell them to reach out to you, but

476
01:05:49,910 --> 01:05:54,130
extend Saturday hours on the farmer's market, are there any plans for that?

477
01:05:54,130 --> 01:05:55,050
So two questions.

478
01:05:55,470 --> 01:06:01,190
So yes, we do want to go year round, and so we have our new vendor, returning vendor meeting

479
01:06:01,190 --> 01:06:05,370
next week, and part of that research surveying them to make sure that we can get enough vendors

480
01:06:05,370 --> 01:06:07,370
for that January February and March time.

481
01:06:08,550 --> 01:06:12,450
If we do anything, we want to make sure we do it right and we have the number of vendors

482
01:06:12,450 --> 01:06:15,350
and quality of vendors the customers expect.

483
01:06:16,550 --> 01:06:22,910
So yes, we are hoping in 2027 to go, at least with some Saturdays in those three months.

484
01:06:24,190 --> 01:06:30,510
With the extending hours and everything, the struggle there is our vendors work so hard and

485
01:06:30,510 --> 01:06:34,830
pull together everything they have and so extending hours I think sometimes could be a challenge

486
01:06:34,830 --> 01:06:39,450
for us to making sure they have the product because a lot of our farmer's market vendors

487
01:06:39,450 --> 01:06:47,710
will, all of them, they're raising crops, animals, you know, they're preparing baked goods,

488
01:06:48,170 --> 01:06:53,310
jelly sheet, all that takes time and a lot of them return to their farms afterwards and then

489
01:06:53,310 --> 01:06:58,470
take care of livestock, take care of the crop. You know, they're getting up at, the market opens

490
01:06:58,470 --> 01:07:03,610
at eight. Some of them are getting up at three a.m. to load up for the farmer's market and so

491
01:07:03,610 --> 01:07:08,330
So I think that's the struggle we always face is just like we'd love to have longer hours

492
01:07:08,330 --> 01:07:13,390
but from a sales point from the farmers market it's just we don't have the capacity I think

493
01:07:13,390 --> 01:07:14,890
for them to be longer.

494
01:07:16,190 --> 01:07:21,590
Yeah I know they work hard but and then selfishly since I'm a soccer mom and I have a soccer

495
01:07:21,590 --> 01:07:26,950
all day on Saturdays I would like to see it open later too but I think council member Hodges

496
01:07:26,950 --> 01:07:34,470
and I have to go Wednesday. Yeah, I know. Yeah, Wednesday and we are adding a number of

497
01:07:34,470 --> 01:07:40,010
vendors to Wednesday. So yeah, Wednesday is something to check out. I like I like the

498
01:07:40,010 --> 01:07:43,910
Wednesday one, but the Saturday just has so much more and there's that really good Saturday

499
01:07:43,910 --> 01:07:46,610
one Saturdays, but they run out really early.

500
01:07:50,580 --> 01:07:52,620
Thank you, Councilmember Shields.

501
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:57,340
Don't really have questions. I just really appreciate what you guys could do and I want to say that.

502
01:07:57,340 --> 01:08:01,800
But I appreciate when you come and speak to us, you know, as you mentioned earlier, I'm

503
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:04,960
the liaison at your board meeting, so I see how hard all your volunteers are working.

504
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,540
And I just really appreciate it.

505
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:13,100
Like I live downtown, Councilmember prior lives downtown and it, it's great seeing the data,

506
01:08:13,260 --> 01:08:17,660
it's great seeing, you know, the increase in sales and tax revenue and new businesses and

507
01:08:17,660 --> 01:08:17,900
all that.

508
01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:23,760
But it's, you can't quantify the level of community building that it is.

509
01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:32,460
It makes Lee summit more than just a town like it's a community and I really appreciate all the work that goes into making that happen so thank you.

510
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:34,000
Definitely thank you so much.

511
01:08:34,780 --> 01:08:35,420
Thank you.

512
01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:36,720
Council Member Funk.

513
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:38,020
Thank you Mayor.

514
01:08:38,420 --> 01:08:40,440
Just echo what Council Member Shield said.

515
01:08:40,580 --> 01:08:50,200
Thank you to you and all the volunteers that put on all these events and do all these things but you mentioned fun fact about number of light bulbs on the Christmas tree.

516
01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:56,580
If you can answer a fun fact, there was a viral video of maybe the president of downtown

517
01:08:56,580 --> 01:08:58,600
main street during this process.

518
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:01,020
How many hits did that video get?

519
01:09:01,580 --> 01:09:05,420
He asked if we were going to share that tonight, so he's quite proud of that viral video.

520
01:09:06,980 --> 01:09:09,920
Over 100,000 on Facebook, I'm pretty sure.

521
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:11,240
It didn't do so well on TikTok.

522
01:09:11,940 --> 01:09:16,140
Now, Davies, our passport chair, had the bigger TikTok hit last year.

523
01:09:16,140 --> 01:09:24,320
I have over 164,000 views on social media, and so, yeah, we're thankful for our volunteers.

524
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:29,900
I mean, we come up with some crazy ideas, and they just nod their head, and, yeah, like,

525
01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:35,860
I mean, and that was, I will be fully honest, that Ben's video with the Christmas tree was

526
01:09:35,860 --> 01:09:40,520
something when I was at the office, so sometimes my staff does even amazing things when I get the

527
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:41,220
heck out of the way.

528
01:09:41,220 --> 01:09:44,740
Okay, so thank you guys, thank you Mayor.

529
01:09:45,140 --> 01:09:46,980
Thank you, Council member Raider.

530
01:09:47,580 --> 01:09:51,340
Thank you Mayor, Donnie, I just want to tell you thank you in your team.

531
01:09:51,860 --> 01:09:55,120
For everything that you do, you've made our downtown beautiful all the events.

532
01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:56,680
I try to make them all.

533
01:09:56,920 --> 01:10:00,220
I love your quarterly meetings because I learned a lot at those meetings.

534
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:06,100
So I just say good job, keep going, so glad that you're here and you're doing what you're doing.

535
01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:06,960
Thank you so much.

536
01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:08,920
Welcome, thanks Mayor.

537
01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:09,960
Thank you.

538
01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:12,440
Okay.

539
01:10:14,780 --> 01:10:20,180
I'll throw some kudos at you too, I mean, because the staff, you mentioned your staff,

540
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:30,200
the stability, the consistency, the longevity, the welcoming crew that you have, just thank

541
01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:35,580
you for them and for keeping them happy and not overworking them, but yet pushing them as

542
01:10:35,580 --> 01:10:38,220
hard as you can at the same time, getting the most out of them.

543
01:10:40,660 --> 01:10:47,740
But numbers, you always share numbers when you do this presentation, which is really what this is supposed to be kind of about as well.

544
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:57,440
It's return on investment. And I think you showed some really great numbers tonight that I'm pretty proud of as far as people in our spending more time in our downtown.

545
01:10:57,740 --> 01:11:04,500
I mean, that's what we're looking for. And they must be having a good time if there's been that much time in our downtown.

546
01:11:04,500 --> 01:11:06,220
town, so that's a great thing.

547
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:15,800
And then thank you for putting up with crazy board members that probably you have to

548
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:21,180
reel in sometimes, and then lastly, you're doing a great job, so thanks for the relationship

549
01:11:21,180 --> 01:11:21,580
here.

550
01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:28,440
That's what we want, we want a relationship with our community partners, so thanks for facilitating

551
01:11:28,440 --> 01:11:28,740
that.

552
01:11:29,100 --> 01:11:31,820
Thank you so much, and we are so appreciative of your support.

553
01:11:31,820 --> 01:11:34,940
and having the support council makes our jobs so much easier.

554
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:38,900
And so it's great to have you in our corner.

555
01:11:39,660 --> 01:11:41,000
I mean, and city staff as well.

556
01:11:41,220 --> 01:11:43,380
I mean, everyone is very supportive of everything we do.

557
01:11:43,580 --> 01:11:45,200
I mean, I think that's what sets us apart

558
01:11:45,200 --> 01:11:48,840
from any of our competitors in the metro or even the nation.

559
01:11:49,980 --> 01:11:50,100
Yep.

560
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:51,380
All right, thank you, sir.

561
01:11:51,900 --> 01:11:52,260
Thank you.

562
01:11:55,090 --> 01:11:56,830
All right, he set the bar off the high.

563
01:12:01,810 --> 01:12:03,370
Yeah, he's got some experience.

564
01:12:04,190 --> 01:12:09,770
You know is what we like to hear, so now we'll bring the new girl up.

565
01:12:11,550 --> 01:12:16,010
The next is, I thought it was interesting that you put Explore L.S., which, that's great,

566
01:12:16,130 --> 01:12:20,270
you're trying to brand right on our agenda like that, but it's the Visitors Bureau.

567
01:12:20,510 --> 01:12:26,930
Are you going by the, at least I'm at Visitors Bureau, is that what you call, or do you sometimes

568
01:12:26,930 --> 01:12:32,610
There's inter, you know, intermingle tourism and what's the official status and what's your name?

569
01:12:33,630 --> 01:12:41,190
So, good evening, Mayor and members of Council, my name is Corey Day and I have the privilege of serving as tourism director for Explorally Summit.

570
01:12:41,890 --> 01:12:47,230
Our doing business as name is Explorally Summit and our official name is Lee Sermon, that's Mr. Spiro.

571
01:12:47,690 --> 01:12:48,490
All right, thank you.

572
01:12:48,490 --> 01:12:56,410
So I am joined tonight by a few board members, so I'd like to say thank you to Crystal

573
01:12:56,410 --> 01:12:59,630
Raymond, Tina Rockhold, and Donnie Rogers for joining me tonight.

574
01:13:00,810 --> 01:13:06,710
So we are here to talk with you a little bit about what's been going on with Explorally

575
01:13:06,710 --> 01:13:11,190
Summit, and I will get to get to that and how we got to that point.

576
01:13:11,190 --> 01:13:18,730
So, since we've last spoke, we've been busy implementing our strategic plan by creating

577
01:13:18,730 --> 01:13:22,790
new operating procedures and continuing to ensure the organization is being good stewards

578
01:13:22,790 --> 01:13:25,250
of the resources that you have entrusted to us.

579
01:13:26,030 --> 01:13:30,810
Some of these include establishing new financial and budget policies, including our reserve

580
01:13:30,810 --> 01:13:31,190
amounts.

581
01:13:31,670 --> 01:13:37,550
As we just mentioned, we accepted Explorally Summit as our doing business as name for the DMO

582
01:13:37,550 --> 01:13:39,310
or the Lee Summit Visitors Bureau.

583
01:13:39,870 --> 01:14:05,550
We applied for a fictitious name registration with Missouri Secretary of State, which is something you have to do whenever you have a DBA, like Explorely Summit, and then we were also able to establish an agreement with the City of Lee Summit Finance Department to provide financial services to us, which has been very, very beneficial, and we're very appreciative of all of the city services that we are able to use because we couldn't do it on our own.

584
01:14:05,550 --> 01:14:13,970
And most of 2025 was spent cultivating a plan to tell the story of our amazing community,

585
01:14:14,370 --> 01:14:18,050
not only to those outside of Lee Summit but also our own community members.

586
01:14:18,810 --> 01:14:22,410
Not because they didn't know how great we were but just as a way to remind them of all

587
01:14:22,410 --> 01:14:26,270
the amazing things we have to offer and get them on board to help us spread the word.

588
01:14:27,370 --> 01:14:32,430
Building a loyal group of community investors was, and is, a huge goal as we set out to create

589
01:14:32,430 --> 01:14:33,510
this new marketing campaign.

590
01:14:34,190 --> 01:14:38,050
It took a lot of prep work to make sure we were doing it justice and telling the story

591
01:14:38,050 --> 01:14:39,710
in an authentic and genuine way.

592
01:14:40,430 --> 01:14:44,770
So after all the work that is listed here on the screen, we were able to bring you the

593
01:14:44,770 --> 01:14:51,150
completed project in January during the presentation that you saw regarding the marketing campaign.

594
01:14:51,650 --> 01:14:56,570
The official launch of the campaign happened in early February and we now have some analytics

595
01:14:56,570 --> 01:14:58,690
on how it has performed the first 30 days.

596
01:14:58,690 --> 01:14:59,970
So, I wanted to bring those...

597
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,980
Welcome to you tonight, just as a way to kind of give you your return on investment and what we've been doing with the funds that you've trusted to us. So just as a recap, we did talk a little bit about this on my presentation in January, but just as a recap on what media we've invested in and what key performance indicators we're using to gauge return on investment. In the upper funnel is where you will see media that is in the market to create awareness. So just TV radio billboards print and others that grab the attention

598
01:15:29,980 --> 01:15:34,440
of a large pool of people. The middle funnel is a little more targeted with paid search

599
01:15:34,440 --> 01:15:39,020
and paid socials, so it will reach people that are on those platforms and are searching

600
01:15:39,020 --> 01:15:44,440
using certain key words. The lower funnel is where we hope to drive our conversion, and

601
01:15:44,440 --> 01:15:49,540
we'll target those people that have shown interest in Lee Summit and orch have shown interest

602
01:15:49,540 --> 01:15:55,660
through their related searches. The results we hope to see through all of these media outlets

603
01:15:55,660 --> 01:16:01,140
are the number of impressions we see, an increase in website traffic, and those that search

604
01:16:01,140 --> 01:16:05,220
release some of it specifically after seeing an ad or being served up something on their

605
01:16:05,220 --> 01:16:09,720
social media feeds. And I'll explain a little bit more in detail of some of that as we go

606
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:09,920
on.

607
01:16:12,180 --> 01:16:17,720
So this is just a quick snapshot of what the campaign has seen so far. Some of these

608
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:23,160
have been in the market longer than others. So some of the paid search has been in the market

609
01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:26,140
that a little bit longer than connected TV has,

610
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:29,700
but as an overall, everything is within the last 90 days.

611
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:31,260
So from December through February.

612
01:16:31,900 --> 01:16:33,480
So I won't read all of these to you,

613
01:16:33,540 --> 01:16:35,580
but there are some very impressive numbers on here.

614
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:37,500
And just as a point of clarification,

615
01:16:37,820 --> 01:16:40,620
I just wanted to clarify a couple things on the slide.

616
01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:43,860
CTV refers to connected TV.

617
01:16:44,100 --> 01:16:46,380
So that is internet, that is a television

618
01:16:46,380 --> 01:16:47,440
that is connected to the internet.

619
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:50,840
So smart TVs, streaming devices such as Roku

620
01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:53,100
to an Amazon fire and then even gaming consoles

621
01:16:53,100 --> 01:16:54,500
like your PlayStation or Xbox.

622
01:16:56,060 --> 01:16:57,680
The other one that I wanted to draw attention to

623
01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:00,140
was PMAX, which is a Google product

624
01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:03,160
and it uses a person's search history

625
01:17:03,580 --> 01:17:06,060
to determine their interests and then uses AI

626
01:17:06,620 --> 01:17:08,680
to configure the messaging that is served up

627
01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:09,500
to them about Lee Summit.

628
01:17:09,780 --> 01:17:11,540
So that's where they start following people around

629
01:17:11,540 --> 01:17:13,660
based on what their interests are on the internet.

630
01:17:14,280 --> 01:17:16,720
So if you show interest in Lee Summit

631
01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:17,740
we're gonna live in your feed

632
01:17:17,740 --> 01:17:19,200
for probably three to six months.

633
01:17:19,200 --> 01:17:25,840
So that's that's what good marketing does, but that's that's kind of the the the back the background of some of that stuff

634
01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:30,220
So I just wanted to show you kind of a snapshot of what we were seeing so far

635
01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:35,600
We're really proud of these numbers and I think it's really exciting that we're reaching so many people

636
01:17:37,500 --> 01:17:44,080
So as far as geography just so that you can kind of see who we're who we're talking to right now and who is showing high engagement

637
01:17:44,580 --> 01:17:49,140
We're seeing a very high engagement in our connected TV and our streaming audio

638
01:17:49,140 --> 01:17:51,740
10 to 30 miles out for day trips.

639
01:17:52,480 --> 01:17:55,460
So the top performers, not overly surprising,

640
01:17:55,600 --> 01:17:57,200
are Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas,

641
01:17:57,340 --> 01:17:58,380
and Overland Park, Kansas.

642
01:17:58,980 --> 01:18:00,520
The one that is really interesting

643
01:18:00,520 --> 01:18:03,280
is a little town east of here

644
01:18:03,280 --> 01:18:04,960
that is Smithton, Missouri.

645
01:18:05,580 --> 01:18:07,400
It's a location that we are monitoring

646
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:09,320
because we've seen a spike in traffic.

647
01:18:10,060 --> 01:18:13,300
And more than likely, it's because it sits

648
01:18:13,300 --> 01:18:15,820
at the perfect intersection of three counties.

649
01:18:15,820 --> 01:18:18,820
So we believe that it's contributing to the added traffic.

650
01:18:19,300 --> 01:18:22,820
This is the perfect example of why we say we are in the learning phase of our campaign.

651
01:18:23,420 --> 01:18:27,860
We have only been in the market for 30 to 90 days depending on the media outlets.

652
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:32,440
So we will continue to monitor things like this so that we can continue to invest our resources

653
01:18:32,440 --> 01:18:34,180
strategically and gain the most ROI.

654
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:42,820
So Facebook, again, I won't take you through all of these, but this was the 15th second spot

655
01:18:42,820 --> 01:18:44,720
that I hope some of you saw on your Facebook feeds.

656
01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:50,200
And we saw over 400,000 impressions, so that means that then

657
01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:25,980
in the bottom left-hand corner,

658
01:19:26,180 --> 01:19:27,380
you'll see trips

659
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:31,920
to Kansas City or activities to do.

660
01:19:32,060 --> 01:19:33,680
We pay to be at the top of that results.

661
01:19:34,540 --> 01:19:37,600
And so they are seemingly summoned, and they're clicking on it.

662
01:19:37,780 --> 01:19:42,400
So you can see the top clicks by city, and then also what our top demographics are on the right.

663
01:19:44,780 --> 01:19:47,940
PMAX, which I mentioned a little bit earlier, this is another

664
01:19:56,130 --> 01:19:59,710
example of a way that we

665
01:19:59,710 --> 01:20:03,430
We are reaching folks, you can see the top keywords down in the bottom left hand corner.

666
01:20:04,030 --> 01:20:08,630
And then the people that we are reaching, their interests, when they are searching the

667
01:20:08,630 --> 01:20:11,490
Internet, are travel lifestyle and hobby student drinks.

668
01:20:11,790 --> 01:20:16,310
So not overly surprising that we would be following those people around considering we want

669
01:20:16,310 --> 01:20:17,790
them to come and do those things here.

670
01:20:18,910 --> 01:20:25,870
So the click-through rate on this one, good is considered 0.5%, so the good news is in all

671
01:20:25,870 --> 01:20:30,590
of these examples, we are exceeding expectations, which is very exciting.

672
01:20:32,430 --> 01:20:36,050
It's also important, I think, on this to talk about demographics.

673
01:20:36,410 --> 01:20:40,890
As you can see, the top demographics are different in the three slides that I showed you.

674
01:20:41,890 --> 01:20:47,210
So we're definitely, that's the reason that we diversify all of our media outlets.

675
01:20:47,810 --> 01:20:52,130
In order to reach everyone that we want to engage, we have to be in many different outlets

676
01:20:52,130 --> 01:20:54,750
until we figure out which ones are giving the best return on investment.

677
01:20:54,750 --> 01:21:01,190
So, we will continue to move our dollars around where we're seeing the highest return on

678
01:21:01,190 --> 01:21:01,570
investment.

679
01:21:02,370 --> 01:21:04,690
And this just shows a little bit about our website traffic.

680
01:21:04,950 --> 01:21:08,590
Driving people to the website is the goal in all of our media outlets.

681
01:21:09,050 --> 01:21:13,410
We've seen an incredible response when comparing last February, when we didn't have much marketing

682
01:21:13,410 --> 01:21:17,870
beyond some social media posts to now when we have a complete marketing campaign running.

683
01:21:18,390 --> 01:21:23,230
So, you can see the increases, and this is February of 25 versus February of 26.

684
01:21:27,420 --> 01:21:33,400
And this is just another way to see the really great website traffic that we are seeing over

685
01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:34,180
the past three months.

686
01:21:34,360 --> 01:21:39,580
This graph compares December of 24 through February of 25 to December 25 through February

687
01:21:39,580 --> 01:21:40,220
of 26.

688
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:48,480
It does take in the holiday campaign that we had in some various media outlets as well as when

689
01:21:48,480 --> 01:21:49,640
the campaign went live.

690
01:21:49,820 --> 01:21:53,700
So as you can see, we have seen an incredible traffic to the website over the past three months

691
01:21:53,700 --> 01:21:55,680
and certainly a major increase over last year.

692
01:21:59,610 --> 01:22:02,310
And again, this is just a year-over-year snapshot.

693
01:22:03,170 --> 01:22:05,890
So sessions are people that get on the website

694
01:22:05,890 --> 01:22:08,610
and actually click through to another part of the website.

695
01:22:09,010 --> 01:22:10,990
Views are people that see our landing page.

696
01:22:11,230 --> 01:22:15,830
And so you can see that from February of 25th through February 26th,

697
01:22:15,930 --> 01:22:19,090
we've seen an incredible climb, which is very exciting again,

698
01:22:19,190 --> 01:22:21,190
because our goal is to get our story out

699
01:22:21,190 --> 01:22:22,390
and we feel like we're doing that.

700
01:22:24,790 --> 01:22:26,730
So from a PR and communications standpoint,

701
01:22:26,730 --> 01:22:32,610
point. We've been very active. We've had the opportunity and the good fortune to be asked

702
01:22:32,610 --> 01:22:38,490
to do a lot of speaking engagements over the past year at a variety of community events,

703
01:22:38,850 --> 01:22:46,610
rotary chamber luncheon, Optimus Club, many of that, rotary, so that. Many of them that

704
01:22:46,610 --> 01:22:50,950
we were able to tell our story and what our goals are as far as tourism is concerned.

705
01:22:52,350 --> 01:22:56,190
Another engagement and another partnership that we're really proud of is the work that we've

706
01:22:56,190 --> 01:22:57,950
we've been able to do with the hospitality restaurant

707
01:22:57,950 --> 01:23:00,190
and tourism management program through LSR7.

708
01:23:00,870 --> 01:23:03,650
I have had the privilege of going over and working

709
01:23:03,650 --> 01:23:07,030
with the students a lot this year through client

710
01:23:07,030 --> 01:23:10,590
centered programs, they worked on some itineraries for us.

711
01:23:10,750 --> 01:23:13,510
We currently have two interns that are working with us

712
01:23:13,510 --> 01:23:17,990
that are helping us with an exciting new thing

713
01:23:17,990 --> 01:23:19,030
that we wanna roll out in summer

714
01:23:19,030 --> 01:23:20,910
that I'll hopefully be telling you about soon.

715
01:23:21,950 --> 01:23:24,050
And so we're really fortunate that we get to work

716
01:23:24,050 --> 01:23:30,010
with the students that are wanting to become hospitality professionals and I feel really

717
01:23:30,010 --> 01:23:34,310
privileged to be able to help them through that and it's just been a lot of fun. We've done

718
01:23:34,310 --> 01:23:39,730
some mock interviews and different things that has been a lot of fun. One of the other things

719
01:23:39,730 --> 01:23:44,650
that we were able to work on this year and partner with was the Green Street Grand Opening which

720
01:23:44,650 --> 01:23:50,410
we all know as an extremely successful and exciting four days. But one of the things that we did

721
01:23:50,410 --> 01:23:57,310
from a tourism perspective was we invited four influencers to come and cover those four

722
01:23:57,310 --> 01:24:03,890
days and so we asked four people to come and these are just a little bit of what we saw

723
01:24:03,890 --> 01:24:10,530
from that engagement. They posted on their stories. Most of this wasn't, they were all on Instagram.

724
01:24:10,830 --> 01:24:16,050
I think there were a few on TikTok. So there were 32 posts and that total reach of almost

725
01:24:16,050 --> 01:24:17,030
to 100,000 people.

726
01:24:17,670 --> 01:24:24,010
What EMV means has earned media value, so we invested 4,600, but we got back over 9,000.

727
01:24:24,730 --> 01:24:30,210
So we like to show that as a way to, again, the return on investment that we have of the

728
01:24:30,210 --> 01:24:32,070
dollars that you've trusted to us.

729
01:24:33,050 --> 01:24:37,910
One of the other fun things that came out of Green Street was a feature in KC Parent

730
01:24:37,910 --> 01:24:38,630
magazine.

731
01:24:38,850 --> 01:24:41,450
This was a full page six stop tour of Lee Summit.

732
01:24:42,050 --> 01:24:48,370
their editor came out in tour Green Street and after that tour this this appeared in their October

733
01:24:49,290 --> 01:24:55,270
magazine and this was completely earned media just by showing them Lee Summit and getting them

734
01:24:55,270 --> 01:24:56,970
excited about what we had to offer so that

735
01:25:31,850 --> 01:25:33,910
800 people and it was an excellent.

736
01:25:39,550 --> 01:25:40,770
One of the events

737
01:25:40,770 --> 01:25:44,570
that we have coming up and we've been doing a lot of work with Ellis Gold I have the privilege of

738
01:25:44,570 --> 01:25:49,070
serving on that board and one of the things that we are planning and I know that you're aware of

739
01:25:49,070 --> 01:25:51,770
this, but football Fridays are coming this summer.

740
01:26:00,230 --> 01:26:02,210
June 12th through July 10th. So you

741
01:26:02,210 --> 01:26:07,610
can see on here, and we did leave those rat cards for you at your up on the dius as

742
01:26:07,610 --> 01:26:12,350
well. But each one of our phrase has a really fun theme. And our amazing group of volunteers

743
01:26:12,350 --> 01:26:16,750
is already busy planning all of the family, friendly activities that we'll be doing each

744
01:26:16,750 --> 01:26:22,070
of those days. So I'm really excited for our community to get to come down to Green Street

745
01:26:22,070 --> 01:26:26,350
and have fun with us during our summer follow-up soccer.

746
01:26:28,350 --> 01:26:31,950
And last but certainly not least, and just a way to wrap it all up, we updated our visitor

747
01:26:31,950 --> 01:26:32,970
guide in 2025.

748
01:26:33,690 --> 01:26:36,770
It is currently in the works to be updated again in 2026.

749
01:26:36,770 --> 01:26:38,750
We'll actually have two different versions this year.

750
01:26:39,370 --> 01:26:43,690
We are doing one that includes a World Cup spread and then in the last half of the year,

751
01:26:43,770 --> 01:26:45,210
that will come out and

752
01:26:50,490 --> 01:26:52,430
something else will go in its place.

753
01:26:52,670 --> 01:26:56,750
But we are trying to make sure that we're serving those visitors that are coming to our community

754
01:26:56,750 --> 01:27:02,890
and happen to get a visitor guide so that they know what's going on and how we're celebrating that event this summer.

755
01:27:03,350 --> 01:27:07,250
In addition, we continued to supplier hotel partners with our tariff maps of the city.

756
01:27:07,730 --> 01:27:12,650
And we also participated with Amtrak and the Missouri River Renner team to promote train services here in Lee Summit.

757
01:27:15,060 --> 01:27:17,680
So with that, I am happy to take any questions that you might have.

758
01:27:18,220 --> 01:27:19,020
Thank you so much.

759
01:27:19,460 --> 01:27:20,180
All right, thank you.

760
01:27:21,540 --> 01:27:23,740
All right, open up for discussion.

761
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:24,920
Yes, Councilmember Reader.

762
01:27:25,280 --> 01:27:26,020
Thank you, Mayor.

763
01:27:26,020 --> 01:27:33,020
here. So I had some copies of the Visitors Guide and I need more. Okay. I can help you

764
01:27:33,020 --> 01:27:36,700
again. You're going to get to some great new ones. Okay. Great. Because I passed your

765
01:27:36,700 --> 01:27:39,560
amount of clients in there. Perfect. Thank you. They're great. Of course. Thank you.

766
01:27:39,700 --> 01:27:40,940
Thanks, Mayor. Thank you.

767
01:27:44,100 --> 01:27:47,500
Before we go around, I just want to clarify something. You were

768
01:27:47,500 --> 01:27:54,300
talking about influencers and then you weren't like double dipping in using the board downtown

769
01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:24,280
I just want to say thank you also for this. I appreciate their presentation gave to us not too long ago about the marketing campaign. It's great to see some fall with additional data and I just think it's really clear that that you're very serious about being good stewards of taxpayer money and the dollars that you're going to be able to do.

770
01:28:24,280 --> 01:28:26,800
you're receiving through the PSA to try to do a great job

771
01:28:26,800 --> 01:28:29,540
marketing our community and really focused on that ROI

772
01:28:30,040 --> 01:28:31,160
that we're concerned with.

773
01:28:31,420 --> 01:28:34,300
So thank you and all the materials look beautiful

774
01:28:34,300 --> 01:28:36,820
and just love seeing this rolled out.

775
01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:37,340
So thanks.

776
01:28:37,420 --> 01:28:38,000
Thank you so much.

777
01:28:38,520 --> 01:28:39,280
And thank you for your support.

778
01:28:39,580 --> 01:28:40,760
It's very much appreciated.

779
01:28:40,920 --> 01:28:42,100
Obviously, we couldn't do it without you.

780
01:28:43,100 --> 01:28:43,620
All right.

781
01:28:43,780 --> 01:28:44,120
Thank you.

782
01:28:44,240 --> 01:28:45,380
Council member Lowell.

783
01:28:45,860 --> 01:28:47,700
I'm interested in Smith and Missouri.

784
01:28:48,140 --> 01:28:48,660
I know.

785
01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:49,480
Me too, right?

786
01:28:49,900 --> 01:28:51,700
The data simulator are.

787
01:28:51,700 --> 01:28:57,160
I never until they until we started getting numbers back I had I hope I don't offend anybody

788
01:28:57,160 --> 01:29:01,960
I've never heard of Smith that was I've been researching it's not about 500 people

789
01:29:02,660 --> 01:29:09,120
The only thing honestly the only thing we can determine is that it sits right at the intersection of three counties and so

790
01:29:09,120 --> 01:29:11,720
I don't know but we're gonna watch it

791
01:29:11,720 --> 01:29:15,400
I mean if they're coming to lease them and then they're interested in this company have any data

792
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:20,780
That's when that's all they can target on it right now, and so that's why it just we saw a huge spike

793
01:29:21,700 --> 01:29:25,980
recently like the last couple weeks and so I just I wanted to bring it to you

794
01:29:25,980 --> 01:29:29,820
tonight just because it's it's things like that that we see and we we may not

795
01:29:29,820 --> 01:29:33,420
know exactly why so we have to watch it and kind of see aren't there billboards

796
01:29:34,360 --> 01:29:39,140
there are there's one in Sidelia I was wondering you see that billboard maybe you

797
01:29:39,140 --> 01:29:44,180
do something there but well anyway maybe it encourages further

798
01:29:44,180 --> 01:29:49,640
exploration I'd be careful spending a ton of money yeah yeah I'm not sure how

799
01:29:51,380 --> 01:29:55,560
I think this is something, I know the mayor brought this, I don't remember, I was early

800
01:29:55,560 --> 01:29:59,900
on in my tenure here and really kind of championing a DMO or whatever.

801
01:30:00,050 --> 01:30:22,690
You know, whatever we call it. And it has been very nice seeing our name and brand out there. I think you've done a great job with the branding and communication. And, you know, I mean, we, anybody we talk to outside of the summit, everybody talks about our downtown summit and just our city in general. So I just think it's great what you guys are doing and keep up the good work. Thanks.

802
01:30:24,750 --> 01:30:29,950
Thank you. Thank you. I'll put them up those. Thanks, Mayor. Just kind of with the party.

803
01:30:29,950 --> 01:30:31,910
He said, thank you for what you've done.

804
01:30:33,210 --> 01:30:34,910
I'm so, we're so fortunate

805
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:41,860
that the board selected you.

806
01:30:42,280 --> 01:30:43,980
I know you're all over the place as well.

807
01:30:44,740 --> 01:30:46,160
And like Councilmember Lovell said,

808
01:30:46,240 --> 01:30:48,640
I know just a few years ago when this whole idea

809
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:52,220
was just a thought for it to come to reality.

810
01:30:52,920 --> 01:30:53,920
And be where we are today.

811
01:30:54,160 --> 01:30:56,020
It's just super exciting for our community.

812
01:30:56,180 --> 01:30:58,440
And the fact that all of our community partners,

813
01:30:58,620 --> 01:31:00,000
you all are working in tandem,

814
01:31:00,860 --> 01:31:03,020
especially with the upcoming activities this summer.

815
01:31:03,020 --> 01:31:10,040
I think both well and just is further proof that there's good things going on with our community partners.

816
01:31:10,640 --> 01:31:13,280
And you all are very transparent and we're seeing metrics.

817
01:31:13,720 --> 01:31:17,160
We're seeing every turn on investment, which is critical for us as we make these decisions.

818
01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:18,700
So thank you all for that.

819
01:31:19,240 --> 01:31:25,980
Small smiths and smiths and though, people like from Kansas City are they coming in on the rail line?

820
01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:30,160
The amtrak or do we track any of that?

821
01:31:30,160 --> 01:31:37,880
We do. I don't have that data for you, but I am more than happy to get that from our friends at Amtrak, but I mean, I certainly can.

822
01:31:38,240 --> 01:31:47,180
But that Smithson doesn't, obviously, Sidelia sits on the Missouri Ribbon Runner line, and so there's always that possibility that that's also another reason why they're recognizing Lee Summit.

823
01:31:47,640 --> 01:31:53,640
Someone was telling me that people from Kansas City are coming from downtown Indian Station coming out here for the day.

824
01:31:54,100 --> 01:31:59,920
I don't know what the hours are for the different trains that come through here, but maybe that's something to capitalize on.

825
01:31:59,920 --> 01:32:04,000
Absolutely. So thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you.

826
01:32:07,530 --> 01:32:11,010
Okay, Ms. Quarry Day. A few things.

827
01:32:13,450 --> 01:32:20,010
We've always talked about up here for years and years. We just, we wanted the DML destination,

828
01:32:20,010 --> 01:32:28,110
marketing, organization, tourism, whatever convention bureau to tell our story. And so we're super excited.

829
01:32:28,110 --> 01:32:35,550
it's just been a really fun year in so many ways. And you were thrown right into the fire with

830
01:32:35,550 --> 01:32:43,650
Green Street and you can blame Mr. Brennan for throwing that all on you and you took on so much

831
01:32:43,650 --> 01:32:52,430
and then right into the the World Cup and working with community partners and of course

832
01:32:52,430 --> 01:32:56,970
Main Street, you're working with great, and you guys have a great relationship.

833
01:32:57,290 --> 01:33:03,530
And then, seeing you on a panel recently with the EDC, I mean, it's exactly what we want from tourism,

834
01:33:04,190 --> 01:33:10,290
from this community partners bringing everybody together and collaborating.

835
01:33:11,770 --> 01:33:19,670
And, you know, thank you for being so, you know, so easy to work with on their part

836
01:33:19,670 --> 01:33:30,790
and putting up with other people and I think I'll echo the expertise that you have, I think that you can, you've really brought up the,

837
01:34:06,540 --> 01:34:07,620
at least summit, economic,

838
01:34:11,590 --> 01:34:12,410
what a year of change.

839
01:34:12,930 --> 01:34:14,630
When did you start Miss Day?

840
01:34:17,150 --> 01:34:19,170
All right, and when did you start, sir? What's your name?

841
01:34:19,650 --> 01:34:20,750
April 1st,

842
01:34:22,760 --> 01:34:25,740
April 1st, so you're really the new guy.

843
01:34:25,740 --> 01:34:28,520
You're even newer than she is.

844
01:34:29,600 --> 01:34:32,440
So that's what's going on in the last year, year and a few months.

845
01:34:35,460 --> 01:34:36,420
Mr. Van Busskirk.

846
01:34:37,100 --> 01:34:37,880
Thank you, Mayor.

847
01:34:39,520 --> 01:34:48,860
Mayor Baird and members of the City Council, Mike Van Bussk here, Kirk, here tonight in my role as chair of the LSEEDC.

848
01:34:49,940 --> 01:34:57,280
It's always great to follow our community partners in the presentation that's going to come after this as well.

849
01:34:58,140 --> 01:35:01,380
because we are out all doing the same thing when you really get down to it.

850
01:35:01,440 --> 01:35:03,620
We're all selling lease on it in our own special way.

851
01:35:03,880 --> 01:35:08,100
So the collaboration that we have is really unbelievable.

852
01:35:11,780 --> 01:35:17,680
So who we are, the lease on EDC is a not profit public private partnership.

853
01:35:19,420 --> 01:35:24,540
We foster our mission of sustainable economic growth and prosperity in lease on it.

854
01:35:25,560 --> 01:35:29,160
Our funding, as you know, comes from the city through our PSA,

855
01:35:29,160 --> 01:35:32,900
as well as our partnership with at least some of our seven, the Blue Spring School District,

856
01:35:33,380 --> 01:35:38,500
our other community partners, and our over 75 private investors that we'll touch on later.

857
01:35:39,520 --> 01:35:44,500
This slide, you've seen this before, when I was in front of you last time,

858
01:35:44,500 --> 01:35:49,060
but I think this summarizes economic development pretty quickly in one slide.

859
01:35:49,460 --> 01:35:50,700
And this is literally what we do.

860
01:35:51,240 --> 01:35:54,280
Attraction of new business, retention and expansion of existing business,

861
01:35:54,280 --> 01:35:58,840
work force development and then marketing communication that we do in all

862
01:35:58,840 --> 01:36:03,540
interrelates with the other things that you've heard this evening. Last year we

863
01:36:03,540 --> 01:36:07,540
celebrated the 40th anniversary of the LSEDC and as you all know we went

864
01:36:07,540 --> 01:36:11,540
through a full organizational reset that we completed with our community

865
01:36:11,540 --> 01:36:17,160
partners, some of you on the Dias as well and really it has been a year of

866
01:36:17,160 --> 01:36:22,640
change. Our organization at the end of the day is focused as what you see on

867
01:36:22,640 --> 01:36:23,060
this slide.

868
01:36:25,940 --> 01:36:32,560
I'll touch on briefly, the current officers. One thing I will mention is that,

869
01:36:33,140 --> 01:36:36,460
you know, this group plus the board that you're going to see in a minute, and I know you

870
01:36:36,460 --> 01:36:40,300
heard this earlier about the boards, but we have so many great folks in this community

871
01:36:40,300 --> 01:36:44,140
who volunteer so much at their time to do these things. And I think that's something that

872
01:36:44,140 --> 01:36:50,180
sometimes gets lost of how many hours are spent doing, participating in these organizations.

873
01:36:50,180 --> 01:36:53,760
And I've got to say that this group is really stepped up as well.

874
01:36:54,440 --> 01:36:57,240
You'll notice that one thing is vacant on here by shareperson.

875
01:36:57,460 --> 01:36:58,600
I'll explain that to you.

876
01:36:59,380 --> 01:37:05,240
As many of you know, or may know, Bobby Olm Shipman with St. Luke's East was promoted.

877
01:37:05,720 --> 01:37:09,160
And he's still here in Kansas City, but now he's over the whole St. Luke system.

878
01:37:09,880 --> 01:37:14,300
So Bobby, because of this additional responsibility, resigned from our board

879
01:37:14,300 --> 01:37:17,340
at the first of the year, and we've kept that space open.

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John Ellis who's here with us this evening is our secretary and Jackie McCormick in you treasurer.

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We have a standing finance committee for our bylaws that Jackie is treasurer runs council member shields is on that as well as Doug Bates.

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And then this year we started their programs and events committee that John Ellis chairs along with Megan Lickty and Eric Miller with the Ellis R7 Board of Education.

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That's our board as it currently sets.

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What you see on here is a real cross section of governmental representatives, education

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partners, community partners, all of our community groups have leadership, are represented

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on our board as well as our private investors.

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Two other things I'll mention, well, two openings are coming up.

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In addition to Bobby, we have a member of the board who's terming out at the end of our fiscal

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year.

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So, we've actually already started the process of filling those two open seats that will start with our new fiscal year this summer.

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So, the nominated committee has been formed and over the next 60 days will be taken applications from our investors and then the board will select those two members to be introduced at our July annual meeting.

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I've shared this with you before, but last year our board approved our new vision statement

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of core values.

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I'm not going to read them.

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I know you've seen them, but I will say this in addition to that, one of the things that

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we spent a lot of time on over the last year is policies and procedures with an organization

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has been around 40 years.

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There was some policies and procedures, but we're reviewing all of those.

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Part of that was we actually created a code of ethics that we didn't have before and all

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all these policies and procedures, we use these core values as part of our review process.

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Another thing is part of our PSA, one of the deliverables was a new strategic plan.

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And I have to highlight Jackie McCormick in you and Council Member Shields for really

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their leadership and leading that process because they really advanced it, took the ball and

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ran with it, and I really appreciate that.

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So that board, our board approved, actually I should back up, our board shared with you all city staff and city council at the beginning of the year, the draft of the strategic plan, then we informally adopted it as our board and then submitted it as an approved strategic plan, January 31st of this year.

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What you see in front of you, those six goals, they align with the City's Ignite Comprehensive Plan and other policies that we reviewed as part of implementing our plan.

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And similar to some of the other documents I've mentioned already, including the bylaws.

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One of the things that the board has decided is that these aren't static.

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I mean, we review these things on a regular basis.

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And that, of course, incorporates this plan as well.

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So with that, I'm going to introduce Joe Perry, who has been here since April 1st of last year.

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And then I'll be available to answer questions at the end.

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Thank you Mike, delighted to be here again this year.

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When I spoke to you last year, it was about three weeks before I started the position.

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And so it's delightful to be here this many months later.

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The, what we're showing you here is basically a funnel of the projects that have come in the door,

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and the ones we've looked at as a project.

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Almost all of the 30 projects that were presented to the Lee Summit EDC have been in one way or

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another brought to the city staff for acknowledgement or review of those 31 of

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those came from the KC ADC or the Missouri partnership and or the Missouri

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partnership. Nine of those were more organically brought to us by stakeholders in

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the community business owners, real estate brokers and or other stakeholders in

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the community. Of those 30 projects that came here in the last 11 months, we

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We submitted on 18 of those, 12 of those just weren't good fits.

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I would send them to the city staff and saying, I don't think we want this kind of heavy industrial.

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Or, I don't think we want this kind of animal rendering plan in Lee Summit.

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And it was easy to say no to those that just don't fit with the strategic plan for the city.

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Of those 18, they were split.

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Nine, nine, what organically brought through to the community, to the Lee Summit at EC and

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and nine came from our statewide and local partners.

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Of those 18, we're still in the running on 12 of those.

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Six of those, either they said we're not gonna

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move into Kansas City period,

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or we've been eliminated for consideration.

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Of those 12, three of them have already made their way

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to some level of adjudication by application

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or request for some action at the city level.

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A good example of one of those would be

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the mid-states expansion. That's one of those three that's in the process of becoming a real

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project. Those three projects have a net worth of about $125 million. One of the ways I was able

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this 11 months to really hone the messaging and the narratives of how to sell Lee Summit was

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01:42:53,020 --> 01:43:01,940
talking about Lee Summit from month one. Here's a list of about 17 or 18 projects about

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About a little more than one and a half per month, we've had the opportunity to go out and talk to regional wide forums of people.

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Some of these are as few as 25 people and one of them that Mayor Baird and I talked to my first month on the job was several hundred people.

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One of the ones in the last fall was about 400 people.

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So we've gotten to hone the message of what the least some advantages are by these opportunities to talk to people that know about real estate that want to invest in either businesses or into vertical development.

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One of the messages that it comes down to, and we talked about it at our last City,

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LSEDC, luncheon, is the word certainty.

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It really often comes down to certainty.

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We often hear with people making big investment that certainty is as important as cost.

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And there is certainty of process.

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That's the city staff.

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They bring certainty to that process.

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They're efficient.

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There's very little friction in the pipe.

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They adjudicate projects according to the good plans and procedures and policies of the city.

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No one does it better in the metro.

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There's certainty of outcome. Really, that's largely you. You're the elected body.

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You're the one who listen to these. You measure them against your stated plans and policies.

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And what's good about Lee Summon, and it's been good for a long time, but I would suggest that it's never been better than right now,

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is that when you get a project that is consistent with your policies and your

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procedures and your incentive policies and all those things that are

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important to a city, you look at those favorably and you give them a fair

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shot. There is certainty of service provision. This is good

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This is delivering on good services and good parks and clean streets and a vibrant downtown and good social services. These are the things that so many places you don't have the certainty that these things are going to be good for you once you've made those investments. The final one that I think maybe is underrated too often is the certainty of the financial stability of the city that you're making the investment in.

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With a Moody's triple A bond rating, there's no higher bond rating.

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You deliver that with excellent reserves that the city has.

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Very few people could give you certainty that you can make it through an economic cycle.

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So these are things that I've been able to hone and I give a lot of credit to city staff.

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when we met for our last presentation,

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Tracy Albers helped me hone in on the words

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to better articulate those last two, by the way.

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So with that, I'm gonna talk about investor engagement

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and really just start with how we engage

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with our investors and stakeholders.

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We have four lunchens a year

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And in our spring quarterly investment meeting, we talked about collaboration.

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We had the Chamber, the Lee Summit EDC, and the downtown Lee Summit Main Street.

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And then we also had Explorer, Lee Summit.

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And the four of us talked about how we could create a better economic development ecosystem

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in Lee Summit.

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And we have worked together in so many ways since then.

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In the fall meeting, we were, that was our annual meeting and we were able to have Missouri

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Department, the Economic Development Director, Michelle Hadaway, VR Speaker, and we had lots

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of our 40 years of Lee Summit EDC board chairs and presidents there, and we also were delighted

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to have Speaker of the House, John Patterson there.

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In our spring quarterly meeting, we were able to have an emphasis on work force.

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And then in our last one, I just mentioned those four points that we really honed in on

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how to talk about the certainty of investing in the least summit.

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With that, I'm going to ask our board secretary to talk about further engagement.

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All right, thank you, Jackie.

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Good evening, Mayor City Council.

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Thank you for having us, Jackie McCormick.

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And you are in the current board treasurer

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of Lisa Meneconoct Development Council.

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And I am here to kind of talk with you,

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not only about the finances,

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01:47:57,950 --> 01:47:59,510
but a little bit more about our investor engagement

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01:47:59,510 --> 01:48:01,670
to make sure that we're communicating

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about all of the different opportunities that we have

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for our investors within the community.

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As Joe mentioned, we not only have

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all of the quarterly meetings, which include luncheons

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and our annual meeting.

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We also have receptions on the off-months

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that we're not having those quarterly meetings.

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Those have ranged in design from just an informal reception,

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where we're up on the Stanley rooftop,

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socializing and talking with one another

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to a little bit more formal environments,

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kind of like the Evergie seminar

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that we had on January 28th held in downtown Lee Summit.

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It was entitled Powering the Future,

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Evergie's energy demand approach.

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And we had a speaker from Evergie talking about the energy programs that, energy, like electric resiliency seminars that are available.

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And in fact, that seminar is now posted on the YouTube page for the LeSemitic Economic Development Council.

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So if you're interested and you didn't have the opportunity to participate, you can certainly go out and watch that.

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One of the other really great things that they mentioned in the earlier parts of our presentation

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is the new events and programs committee that is chaired by John Ellis, our current secretary,

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and is supported by Eric Miller and Megan Latekki, who are both on our board.

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They are working very hard to plan the remainder of those events for our investor

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receptions this year, and we're really excited about the opportunities for community engagement

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that we're going to participate in.

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We also engaged professional services earlier in 2025

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five for assistance with our website, social media, marketing, all of those opportunities,

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treasure advertising was very helpful with all of those endeavors.

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01:49:48,760 --> 01:49:54,360
And our office manager, Ella Phillips, has been taking on the lead role of all of our

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social media since that time.

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She has also worked very hard to get our YouTube channel up and running, make sure that all

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of the communications are getting out to our investors and the community about the opportunities

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that we have.

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So we thank her for all of her hard work on that.

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So now we're going to talk a little bit about finances.

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As you can see, our top line budget for 2025-2026,

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which we are a July 1 fiscal year,

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is right at $555,000.

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We worked very intentionally when we were establishing

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that budget last year to be mindful of our current situation,

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which is one of regrowth, right?

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We're trying to make sure that we are being good stewards

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of all of the funds that we receive, a little bit, right about half of our funds come from

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City of Lee Summit U, City Council and the Lee Summit R7 School District, the remainder

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of our funds are generated from our investors. So we try very hard to make sure that we

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were being responsible with those funds and the expenditures associated therewith.

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But we, in fact, in establishing the budget for the year, set aside almost a third in

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what we would call kind of contingent expenses, where the Finance Committee actually undertakes

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a review of the proposed expense before it is finally approved for expenditure.

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So, it's been working very well and I can tell you that at this point in time, we do expect

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to be well within positive net revenues at the end of our fiscal year this year.

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so we're very proud of that.

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And we recognize that we still have great reserves

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from previous leadership in the Economic Development Council,

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but we want to make sure that that continues.

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So one of the other policies, as Mike was mentioning earlier,

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that we established is a reserve policy to ensure

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that we do have funding to carry on the operations

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of the organization and the event

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that unforeseen circumstances occur.

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So another policy that we established

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is what we call an in-kind policy.

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It allows some of our private investors who may not otherwise have the opportunity to invest

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at a higher level to make in-kind investments in conjunction with their financial investments

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to not only advance the cause of the Leesamadec Economic Development Council but also provide

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resources and opportunities for those investors.

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So examples of that include providing space for our events and receptions, providing catering

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or beverage services, those sorts of things.

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Finally, we also increased our investor levels,

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so the levels at which you could invest in the lease

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on economic development council had not changed

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for quite some time as we all know inflation

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and those things occurred,

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so we made some adjustments to those investor levels

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to better reflect the benefits that are being conveyed

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as a result of that.

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This slide provides you with kind of an overview

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of all of those investors that we were speaking

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of earlier. Mike mentioned that we have both public and private investors. Currently,

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the public partners, as we mentioned, are at the top or grand champions. The city and

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the two school districts do make up about 50% of our funding. The remainder of the funding

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comes through not only financial investments, but also some of those in-kind contributions

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that our pay centers leadership partners, benefactors, and patrons provide.

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So coming back to the strategic plan that we discussed, we do believe that the KPIs and

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And the short mid and long range goals that we established in the strategic plan are of

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the utmost importance.

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And we are working very hard to ensure that we are accountable to those responsibilities

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and that we are delivering on them and to make sure that we are clearly defining what

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those objectives are for all of our investors, including the City of Lee Summit.

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We realize that those are fluid, moving documents, goals, objectives and that we have a lot of work

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to do in continuing to make sure that we are achieving those things, one of those things

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is ensuring that we have adequate staffing and support to make sure that that happens.

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So one of the things that we are working on very diligently is trying to identify opportunities

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for that.

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We are of limited funds, however, we do have a lot of resources within our community.

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We have strategic partners in the education sector.

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We have opportunities with respect to some part-time staff.

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And we are looking at some of those creative opportunities to secure the talent that we need in order to make sure that we're able to deliver all of those promises that we have for you.

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So with that, I believe we are ready to answer any questions that you have.

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Okay. Thank you.

1099
01:54:37,040 --> 01:54:39,220
I'll open up for discussion, Councilmember Hodges.

1100
01:54:39,800 --> 01:54:50,340
Thank you. So I was wondering, so on one of your slides, you said three city submissions on that I was curious you mentioned one was that

1101
01:54:50,340 --> 01:54:52,760
the mid-stage expansion, but what were the other two?

1102
01:54:53,580 --> 01:54:59,600
One of the other two is protected by a non-disclosure agreement, so I wouldn't be able to answer

1103
01:54:59,600 --> 01:55:00,560
on that one.

1104
01:55:01,240 --> 01:55:06,440
And the other one is a project that is also an industrial type expansion.

1105
01:55:07,200 --> 01:55:07,400
Okay.

1106
01:55:08,360 --> 01:55:14,000
And then in regard to, I know your other, what we do page on retention.

1107
01:55:14,620 --> 01:55:16,680
So what can you just kind of explain what that looks like?

1108
01:55:16,920 --> 01:55:20,140
I mean, because I think of mid-sates I'm thinking, my first thought would be, oh, they're just

1109
01:55:20,140 --> 01:55:24,540
It's coming to us because they're already here, so why wouldn't they come and ask to expand?

1110
01:55:24,840 --> 01:55:26,900
So what does that look like from LSEC standpoint?

1111
01:55:27,520 --> 01:55:35,680
It's my favorite part because the job creation is the super majority of job creation or the businesses you already have.

1112
01:55:35,860 --> 01:55:39,400
So keeping them really important, that's the retention part.

1113
01:55:39,880 --> 01:55:45,680
The expansion part is like mid-states, when they come to us before they bring that to the city,

1114
01:55:45,680 --> 01:55:53,400
We can talk to them about what other companies have done to make that happen well, and what the processes are.

1115
01:55:53,620 --> 01:56:08,480
So I immediately will always call the city staff, and the exciting part looking forward on how to do more and better is we're just getting our new contact management software put in place this very month.

1116
01:56:08,480 --> 01:56:19,620
And when we have that, we're going to be able to poll and work with, I believe it's 85% of all the businesses in Lee Summit hold a business license with the city.

1117
01:56:20,160 --> 01:56:35,200
And there are gaps in the data and we believe with working with Mike Weisenborn and others in development services who have control of that data that we can contact all of those using our new systems, fill in some gaps and also identify needs.

1118
01:56:35,200 --> 01:56:37,080
There are state jobs programs.

1119
01:56:37,300 --> 01:56:41,600
There are local other types of programs through the full employment counts on others.

1120
01:56:42,100 --> 01:56:44,460
And that's just in workforce development.

1121
01:56:44,580 --> 01:56:48,180
There's also ways to get people into tax credits at the state.

1122
01:56:48,740 --> 01:56:53,660
And we'll be able to answer or ask questions by using that database and

1123
01:56:53,660 --> 01:57:01,080
bringing that data back in that used to require about 1.5 full time employees at the lease

1124
01:57:01,080 --> 01:57:03,880
some at EDC that we think we can do a lot of that work

1125
01:57:04,480 --> 01:57:05,500
by using tools.

1126
01:57:06,180 --> 01:57:09,860
And that's really, I'm very excited in that.

1127
01:57:10,740 --> 01:57:13,880
I just think that's something that is

1128
01:57:14,460 --> 01:57:18,140
how we use the tools that technology has given us.

1129
01:57:18,600 --> 01:57:19,320
Okay, that's awesome.

1130
01:57:19,460 --> 01:57:22,000
I was gonna ask that how you know who to reach out to

1131
01:57:22,000 --> 01:57:24,340
and making sure that you're staying on top of everybody

1132
01:57:24,340 --> 01:57:24,900
that's here.

1133
01:57:26,860 --> 01:57:27,960
What was my other question?

1134
01:57:30,950 --> 01:57:35,710
So I'm thinking back to previous LSDDC, and I know one of the issues was we've constantly

1135
01:57:35,710 --> 01:57:37,150
asked, what are they bringing?

1136
01:57:37,590 --> 01:57:41,050
What are you, you know, other than this slide show that's, you know, you present to us,

1137
01:57:41,130 --> 01:57:43,790
but is there a way or is it on your website?

1138
01:57:43,970 --> 01:57:47,730
Like, once it's secured and it's through, is that way you can be like, what have they brought

1139
01:57:47,730 --> 01:57:51,350
to us in case, you know, just for updates and there's like a list of like, here's what we brought

1140
01:57:51,350 --> 01:57:55,050
and here's what we're, you know, you can't say necessarily what you're working on, but things

1141
01:57:55,050 --> 01:57:55,830
that have been completed.

1142
01:57:55,830 --> 01:57:59,730
And it just so, it's like, we can be reminded, like, hey, this is actually working.

1143
01:58:00,370 --> 01:58:00,910
Totally agree.

1144
01:58:01,370 --> 01:58:04,650
Yes, exactly, thank you, Council member for bringing that up.

1145
01:58:05,270 --> 01:58:07,430
That was something that was definitely missing in the past.

1146
01:58:08,170 --> 01:58:13,010
And as Joe said, I mean, there's projects that we're working on that we can't disclose.

1147
01:58:13,310 --> 01:58:16,850
City staff knows who they are, Joe knows, I don't know who they are.

1148
01:58:16,970 --> 01:58:20,530
I just know it's a project name, because of the confidential audits agreements.

1149
01:58:20,870 --> 01:58:25,090
But at the appropriate times, yes, we all need to do a greater,

1150
01:58:25,090 --> 01:58:29,270
a better job of really publicizing the winds for sure.

1151
01:58:30,090 --> 01:58:31,750
Okay, thank you so much.

1152
01:58:31,870 --> 01:58:32,150
Thank you, Mayor.

1153
01:58:32,630 --> 01:58:32,970
Thank you.

1154
01:58:43,660 --> 01:58:45,820
Could you all pause the video?

1155
01:58:46,280 --> 01:58:47,460
It's too much for me.

1156
01:58:47,840 --> 01:58:47,940
Sorry.

1157
01:58:48,700 --> 01:58:49,300
It's good.

1158
01:58:49,840 --> 01:58:50,120
It's good.

1159
01:58:50,780 --> 01:58:51,760
I can't focus.

1160
01:58:52,620 --> 01:58:52,740
Yeah.

1161
01:58:53,240 --> 01:58:55,400
I had stopped the one on the right, but the others are.

1162
01:58:56,180 --> 01:58:56,440
Thank you.

1163
01:58:57,860 --> 01:58:58,560
Councilmember Raider.

1164
01:58:59,000 --> 01:58:59,460
Thank you, Mayor.

1165
01:59:00,120 --> 01:59:04,560
So, I just wanted to tell you that one of the favorite things that I have seen come out

1166
01:59:04,560 --> 01:59:06,180
from the EDC is the average.

1167
01:59:08,520 --> 01:59:10,880
I learned a lot from that, and I'm gonna tell you,

1168
01:59:10,980 --> 01:59:12,740
there's a lot of negative stuff going on

1169
01:59:12,740 --> 01:59:18,040
about data centers, and it opened up my perspective,

1170
01:59:18,220 --> 01:59:20,100
my mind as to wait a minute.

1171
01:59:21,300 --> 01:59:22,880
We shouldn't be negative about that.

1172
01:59:22,960 --> 01:59:26,100
We should be exploring if that could work here.

1173
01:59:26,420 --> 01:59:29,240
It sounds like they have done a lot of work around that space

1174
01:59:29,240 --> 01:59:33,020
to try to take that negativity away,

1175
01:59:33,280 --> 01:59:35,520
and then make it work so that people don't feel

1176
01:59:35,520 --> 01:59:40,720
like they're burdened by the electricity in the water, but anyway, I would love more

1177
01:59:40,720 --> 01:59:44,880
of those kind of educational things, Joe and everybody.

1178
01:59:45,320 --> 01:59:46,380
That was really great.

1179
01:59:46,540 --> 01:59:50,560
I mean, it just, again, I think these are things that are important to take to our community

1180
01:59:50,560 --> 01:59:55,320
so that they are aware of the opportunities that could be out there for us.

1181
01:59:56,080 --> 01:59:56,660
Thank you.

1182
01:59:56,820 --> 01:59:57,100
Thank you.

1183
01:59:57,460 --> 01:59:57,580
Yeah.

1184
01:59:58,080 --> 01:59:58,720
Thanks, Mayor.

1185
01:59:59,260 --> 01:59:59,580
Thank you.

1186
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:29,980
Councilmember Shields. Thank you, Mayor. Well, first of all, thank you, especially to the board. It's a it's very much a working volunteer board, and I appreciate the service, especially the folks who've been speaking with us tonight. I know they put a lot of hours behind the scenes. I think Councilmember Hodges brought up some really good points about wanting to know about, especially the successes when when a project comes to fruition. So I do appreciate kind of hearing some of that and seeing the slide about

1187
02:00:29,980 --> 02:00:36,620
kind of the project funnel. I know there's been some discussion about how the EDC may going forward

1188
02:00:36,620 --> 02:00:41,020
kind of endorse specific projects that may come before council. Do you want to talk a little bit

1189
02:00:41,020 --> 02:00:45,920
about that and what you guys are thinking there? Sure, I'll be happy to. And thank you for bringing

1190
02:00:45,920 --> 02:00:51,800
that up, Council Member Shields. Yes, we actually have a draft policy, another policy, by the way,

1191
02:00:52,540 --> 02:00:59,700
that someone behind me helped draft that we are bringing forward for consideration in our next

1192
02:00:59,700 --> 02:01:03,700
board meeting, we introduced the topic at our last board meeting, but amazingly, the

1193
02:01:03,700 --> 02:01:07,460
previous CDC iteration didn't have a policy to this effect.

1194
02:01:08,560 --> 02:01:14,340
So what this will do is lay out when a project comes forward, if the LSEDC board would like

1195
02:01:14,340 --> 02:01:19,600
to support that project and then let you all know that they are in support of that project,

1196
02:01:20,200 --> 02:01:21,920
we'll have a policy how that will be done.

1197
02:01:22,340 --> 02:01:27,260
I will say that does take a lot of communication, and Joe and staff have a great communication

1198
02:01:27,260 --> 02:01:27,760
going on.

1199
02:01:27,760 --> 02:01:34,320
But sometimes, you know, things line up with your meetings that we need to know that there, and there is sometimes, as I said earlier,

1200
02:01:35,380 --> 02:01:39,420
projects that are confidential that we need to make sure that we're all in the same page on that.

1201
02:01:39,580 --> 02:01:45,600
So, yes, we are laying out that policy because I want to make sure that it was very clear when we do come forward and support

1202
02:01:45,600 --> 02:01:50,720
of something that the board has considered it and voted on it to be in support, or not, whatever the case may be.

1203
02:01:50,720 --> 02:01:56,720
So those could be the things that a project that EDC was actually instrumental in bringing if it's something that's been

1204
02:01:56,720 --> 02:02:02,740
Worked on or something that you look at that's coming and you say that that puts him with our strategic plan of these are the kind of businesses that we know

1205
02:02:02,740 --> 02:02:06,160
The EDC wants to promote that the city wants to promote and then kind of to

1206
02:02:07,020 --> 02:02:10,780
Be able to to give us some voice to that. I just think it'd be helpful for us to see

1207
02:02:11,420 --> 02:02:15,080
Especially if it's a project the EDC's been involved in like oh, this this is one that

1208
02:02:15,520 --> 02:02:20,420
That investment that we've made has brought a return on investment to us. I think it's great to see that

1209
02:02:20,720 --> 02:02:21,360
So thank you.

1210
02:02:21,580 --> 02:02:21,840
Thank you.

1211
02:02:22,460 --> 02:02:23,060
All right.

1212
02:02:23,200 --> 02:02:23,580
Thank you.

1213
02:02:23,980 --> 02:02:24,840
Council member level.

1214
02:02:25,100 --> 02:02:25,520
Thank you, Mayor.

1215
02:02:26,200 --> 02:02:27,720
Well, look how far we've come.

1216
02:02:28,380 --> 02:02:33,820
I feel like as I'm coming close to the end of my tenure here that this has been something

1217
02:02:33,820 --> 02:02:36,520
I've been working on for a better part of the four years.

1218
02:02:38,020 --> 02:02:44,500
You know, I think it's a great testament to what can come out of extreme difficulty, right?

1219
02:02:45,300 --> 02:02:48,860
You know, sometimes you gotta tear something down to rebuild it.

1220
02:02:48,860 --> 02:02:56,620
I mean, you know, maybe it wasn't as easy as it could have been, but I know we're in a better place now.

1221
02:02:57,400 --> 02:03:01,940
I really feel like the organization has a chance to really elevate.

1222
02:03:02,300 --> 02:03:04,960
And a couple of things that I heard tonight that I think are important.

1223
02:03:05,720 --> 02:03:13,040
And I know this is something that Mayor and I talked about early on because we're kind of sales, you know, when you mention the CRM, right?

1224
02:03:13,220 --> 02:03:17,000
I mean, just one of the lowest-hanging fruit things that we could have been doing.

1225
02:03:17,000 --> 02:03:22,560
And what that does, and maybe I think you may have undersoldered, so I'm going to oversell it.

1226
02:03:23,180 --> 02:03:29,020
The ability to have in our database all the business owners and the key stakeholders of those business

1227
02:03:29,020 --> 02:03:32,640
and have a constant contact with them is immeasurable.

1228
02:03:34,020 --> 02:03:39,500
You don't have to look, I mean you can go look in the news and see how competitive it is right now to keep businesses.

1229
02:03:40,200 --> 02:03:42,080
And that state line war is going on every day.

1230
02:03:43,000 --> 02:03:46,980
And there are types of businesses that we won't, they don't come here overnight and

1231
02:03:46,980 --> 02:03:50,720
there will be, you know, we've always say class A office, all these things.

1232
02:03:50,720 --> 02:03:53,920
There are so much that goes in to bring these businesses, but I will just say like that step

1233
02:03:53,920 --> 02:03:54,960
right there is critical.

1234
02:03:55,760 --> 02:04:01,140
It also will allow us to create outreach outside of our city.

1235
02:04:01,660 --> 02:04:08,260
And so one of the other things that we always wanted to do, and I think Mr. Perry does a great

1236
02:04:08,260 --> 02:04:14,100
job of this about being out in the city because you are talking to the people that make a lot of

1237
02:04:14,100 --> 02:04:19,440
decisions. And so think of I know sometimes we get hung up on the EDC of like well what did you

1238
02:04:19,440 --> 02:04:24,540
bring us like what wasn't already here and I think that's fair criticism sometimes but understand

1239
02:04:24,540 --> 02:04:29,820
the EDC is a connection to the business world it's connection to developers it's connection to real

1240
02:04:29,820 --> 02:04:36,440
state and business and industry not just in this town but around the country in that that gives us

1241
02:04:36,440 --> 02:04:41,300
That's the ability to have conversations that we may not be able to have otherwise inside the city.

1242
02:04:41,960 --> 02:04:44,260
Through development services or something like that.

1243
02:04:44,780 --> 02:04:48,660
The connections that this group can make with Mr. Butsker, Mr. Perry, and

1244
02:04:48,660 --> 02:04:53,580
other stakeholders, board members around this community and outside of it is immeasurable.

1245
02:04:53,880 --> 02:04:56,440
We've got a rock star team, and we have rock star members.

1246
02:04:56,580 --> 02:05:02,820
The people that are members of the EDC can get, we can get anything done with that group, right?

1247
02:05:02,820 --> 02:05:06,900
And that is what development is all about, is connecting the right people.

1248
02:05:07,460 --> 02:05:11,240
I mean, you've got financing components, you've got developers, you've got users, you've got,

1249
02:05:11,380 --> 02:05:17,040
you know, all these different things. And so I'm just very excited and proud of where we are today

1250
02:05:17,040 --> 02:05:21,760
from where we were, you know, even four years ago. And so that's a testament to, you know, I was,

1251
02:05:21,880 --> 02:05:29,540
you know, I was not, I was maybe not for a lot of the changes, but I just want, I will give props

1252
02:05:29,540 --> 02:05:33,540
still out of my fellow councilmembers here, they're really pushed to see through some

1253
02:05:33,540 --> 02:05:39,560
of these changes and where we are today is really good and so I'm just thankful for the

1254
02:05:39,560 --> 02:05:46,580
direction that we're going and I would just say keep up the good work and and again like I think

1255
02:05:46,580 --> 02:05:52,540
it's important to you know where we can show those wins but like however those deals come in

1256
02:05:52,540 --> 02:05:58,460
like but having that touch point you know is really important and we may not generate it you know

1257
02:05:58,460 --> 02:06:03,700
It's like you didn't we didn't produce it like a salesperson, but it came in and we had the right people there to make the right

1258
02:06:03,700 --> 02:06:09,560
Connections to get the things going in the direction and we haven't had that for a while, right? So we have a center

1259
02:06:10,200 --> 02:06:16,260
Point to go to and know that we've got a group that that can handle it and get it going in the right direction

1260
02:06:16,260 --> 02:06:20,540
So I thank you for the presentation and mr. Bussker just

1261
02:06:21,220 --> 02:06:23,180
What you've given to this organization?

1262
02:06:23,180 --> 02:06:26,580
I mean, seriously, I mean, you deserve a round of applause.

1263
02:06:26,940 --> 02:06:28,440
Like most people would have turned away.

1264
02:06:28,520 --> 02:06:29,320
You're very busy man.

1265
02:06:29,580 --> 02:06:31,500
You've got a lot on your plate.

1266
02:06:32,020 --> 02:06:35,760
You do a lot for this city, not just here with the EDC,

1267
02:06:35,920 --> 02:06:39,160
but all that you do for our development community

1268
02:06:39,160 --> 02:06:41,560
and even more so.

1269
02:06:41,720 --> 02:06:43,800
But I really appreciate you.

1270
02:06:44,240 --> 02:06:47,700
You've done a great service to this city and for the EDC.

1271
02:06:48,120 --> 02:06:48,660
So thank you.

1272
02:06:48,960 --> 02:06:49,280
Thank you, thank you, Mayor.

1273
02:06:49,280 --> 02:06:56,660
here. Thank you. You know, he only got to serve on the EDC board for one year. So we

1274
02:06:56,660 --> 02:07:02,640
got to find a way to keep him involved. That's all I agree. And, you know, I can do it remotely

1275
02:07:02,640 --> 02:07:09,740
from a beach somewhere, be happy. Well, we need, we need this kind of passion and expertise.

1276
02:07:10,860 --> 02:07:15,180
And I love, I love the changes we've made with regard to the board, with regard to, you're

1277
02:07:15,180 --> 02:07:24,440
really super diversified, we've got a pretty big board but he's right, I'll say it a

1278
02:07:24,440 --> 02:07:29,940
different way, he kept saying it measurable with regard to, but I consider your gold

1279
02:07:29,940 --> 02:07:35,340
mine of businesses and people and stakeholders and such. I always call it a good mine because

1280
02:07:35,340 --> 02:07:40,380
you're mining it and you have to constantly take care of it and protect it and so retention

1281
02:07:40,380 --> 02:07:47,520
is really important, I think, a great place to focus and because that's where you're

1282
02:07:47,520 --> 02:07:50,440
going to get your referrals and that's where people are going to tell your stories and

1283
02:07:50,440 --> 02:07:57,940
such and so we are of such a similar mindset when it comes to that but and I love the

1284
02:07:57,940 --> 02:08:04,420
opportunity to recruit businesses to our community and jobs to our community. However, for me, the

1285
02:08:04,420 --> 02:08:11,480
The CDC has always been about, you know, I can live with a lot of things as long as there's a relationship.

1286
02:08:11,940 --> 02:08:18,820
And I've been talking about the, you know, explore LS and the relationship that we have, that they have with everybody.

1287
02:08:19,120 --> 02:08:33,780
And downtown Main Street and the relationship they have with, I mean, they just work so, and then, you know, the EDC is now working collaboratively with all of these organizations and nothing could make me, you know, happier than to see that because I know we're going to be okay.

1288
02:08:33,780 --> 02:08:41,580
And I know that obviously you've already built up some reserves, and I appreciate the dedication and commitment to that.

1289
02:08:43,240 --> 02:08:47,720
The leadership that you have with the board is phenomenal.

1290
02:08:48,100 --> 02:08:58,760
Thank you all, like Michael Van Belskert, yes, we wouldn't be here without you, but you've got some great people that are right beside you helping forge this path.

1291
02:08:58,760 --> 02:09:03,340
So thank you to your to your leadership team and to the board members themselves and

1292
02:09:04,340 --> 02:09:10,560
Yeah, I mean all these kudos and yet I mean my bar is still really going to be high. It's just

1293
02:09:11,300 --> 02:09:15,800
It's who I am and so please continue this path and

1294
02:09:16,560 --> 02:09:22,940
You know keep engaging the council. That's the key is this is a relationship to not just with the other partners

1295
02:09:22,940 --> 02:09:24,920
But with the council talk to us

1296
02:09:25,500 --> 02:09:28,200
Help us, you know, there's going to be a new council

1297
02:09:31,840 --> 02:09:36,560
There's going to be a new council, pretty new council here in 30 days and you got to start

1298
02:09:36,560 --> 02:09:36,820
over.

1299
02:09:37,320 --> 02:09:38,400
You got to build these relationships.

1300
02:09:38,600 --> 02:09:44,440
You got to help them understand what it is you all do because it takes a while to figure

1301
02:09:44,440 --> 02:09:48,120
out what you do, especially if you're not doing it really well, so you're in a much better

1302
02:09:48,120 --> 02:09:55,240
position at this point and I think that I just want to, I don't know, I'm not sure who

1303
02:09:55,240 --> 02:09:59,120
to thank, but with that said, I'm going to just say thanks for the presentation.

1304
02:09:59,680 --> 02:10:00,360
Thank you.

1305
02:10:00,940 --> 02:10:01,100
All right.

1306
02:10:02,460 --> 02:10:03,000
All right.

1307
02:10:03,140 --> 02:10:04,260
Well, we've been forging along.

1308
02:10:04,400 --> 02:10:04,800
Do we need a break?

1309
02:10:05,220 --> 02:10:05,920
Yeah, we need a break.

1310
02:10:07,100 --> 02:10:08,640
So sorry, World Cup.

1311
02:10:09,040 --> 02:10:09,620
We need a break.

1312
02:10:10,760 --> 02:10:11,940
You probably do too, though.

1313
02:10:12,480 --> 02:10:19,020
So you can go out and stretch your legs for a minute, and we'll be back in 15.

1314
02:10:19,020 --> 02:10:19,960
We wondered

1315
02:10:23,160 --> 02:10:24,440
how the city budget works.

1316
02:10:25,460 --> 02:10:28,260
The total 2026 budget is over $380 million,

1317
02:10:28,860 --> 02:10:30,800
which includes funding for daily operations,

1318
02:10:31,320 --> 02:10:33,000
capital improvements, debt service,

1319
02:10:33,520 --> 02:10:35,760
internal service, and enterprise operations.

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02:10:36,300 --> 02:10:38,380
For example, the General Fund is the foundation

1321
02:10:38,380 --> 02:10:40,080
for the city's day-to-day services

1322
02:10:40,080 --> 02:10:42,660
and investments like road maintenance, public safety,

1323
02:10:42,860 --> 02:10:43,960
and fire protection.

1324
02:10:45,180 --> 02:10:47,240
The General Fund is supported by property taxes,

1325
02:10:47,800 --> 02:10:49,820
sales taxes generated by local businesses,

1326
02:10:49,820 --> 02:10:55,500
franchise taxes and other sources like licenses permits and fees. For every

1327
02:10:55,500 --> 02:10:59,960
dollar citizens paying property tax the city receives $0.18. This means the city

1328
02:10:59,960 --> 02:11:05,320
receives $845 a year in property taxes for a median single-family house. These

1329
02:11:05,320 --> 02:11:09,160
taxes provide public safety, park maintenance, infrastructure and the best

1330
02:11:09,160 --> 02:11:13,200
services to keep lease them at going and improving. One of the community's top

1331
02:11:13,200 --> 02:11:16,660
priorities is infrastructure investment which is reflected in the capital

1332
02:11:16,660 --> 02:11:21,320
improvement plan. $130 million of the 2026 budget is invested into the

1333
02:11:21,320 --> 02:11:24,460
capital improvement plan. The 2026 capital improvement budget includes

1334
02:11:24,460 --> 02:11:26,720
investments like the 2.91 and 50 highway interchange,

1335
02:11:27,560 --> 02:11:30,420
3rd Street, Water and Purcell's intersection and prior road.

1336
02:11:31,020 --> 02:11:34,420
The budget process includes guidance from the City Council, citizen input,

1337
02:11:34,800 --> 02:11:38,020
and critical success factors from the City's Ignite Strategic Plan.

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02:11:38,840 --> 02:11:44,000
To learn more about the city's budget, visit cityofls.net-slash-budget.

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02:11:44,000 --> 02:11:44,760
When

1340
02:11:47,800 --> 02:11:51,820
the person called on the phone, she said that there was a dinosaur walking down her

1341
02:11:51,820 --> 02:11:52,120
road.

1342
02:11:56,710 --> 02:11:58,190
Of course, we had to go out and check that out.

1343
02:12:00,700 --> 02:12:07,720
We get out there and it was a big African tortoise, probably 60 pounds, walking down the

1344
02:12:07,720 --> 02:12:08,060
road.

1345
02:12:08,500 --> 02:12:12,300
When they walked, they really stand up tall, so I could see why she thought it was a dinosaur.

1346
02:12:15,680 --> 02:12:16,400
I'm Rodney Wagner.

1347
02:12:16,600 --> 02:12:18,000
I'm the manager of least some animal control.

1348
02:12:18,800 --> 02:12:20,340
As far as you can see, we get all sorts of animals here.

1349
02:12:20,580 --> 02:12:22,120
We got some guinea pigs off to the side.

1350
02:12:22,940 --> 02:12:26,100
All the windows up here are animals that are adoptable right now.

1351
02:12:26,460 --> 02:12:28,780
Everyone of these dogs is ready to go and ready for adoption.

1352
02:12:34,480 --> 02:12:36,380
And the same thing with our cats over here.

1353
02:12:42,020 --> 02:12:43,360
A lot of cool cats in here now.

1354
02:12:43,680 --> 02:12:48,000
So this is our three-acre lot we have out back on.

1355
02:12:48,060 --> 02:12:50,040
This is where we do all the walking of dogs, the exercise.

1356
02:12:50,820 --> 02:12:54,400
We also have a side yard off the side over there so we can let them run loose.

1357
02:12:54,720 --> 02:12:56,600
They can run together and we have what's called playgroups.

1358
02:12:57,780 --> 02:12:58,900
Kind of got a bunch of kids.

1359
02:13:00,040 --> 02:13:01,520
Here's our vet room.

1360
02:13:02,260 --> 02:13:03,840
We have a vet that comes out twice a week.

1361
02:13:04,420 --> 02:13:06,740
This is our Sally Port where we bring the animals into.

1362
02:13:07,200 --> 02:13:08,860
This is one of our animal control trucks.

1363
02:13:10,060 --> 02:13:11,940
And we can hold up to six animals.

1364
02:13:12,140 --> 02:13:13,880
We have a lift on the other side to put big animals in.

1365
02:13:14,120 --> 02:13:15,840
We actually have temperature gauges in here

1366
02:13:15,840 --> 02:13:17,680
and in the truck to tell if I hide this.

1367
02:13:18,080 --> 02:13:19,080
Once it gets to a certain temperature,

1368
02:13:19,200 --> 02:13:20,320
we bring all the animals back immediately.

1369
02:13:21,420 --> 02:13:22,640
This actually has traps in it,

1370
02:13:22,640 --> 02:13:26,370
but we do a lot of wildlife trapping.

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02:13:26,870 --> 02:13:27,670
I mean a lot.

1372
02:13:28,090 --> 02:13:31,850
So that's top belly pigs.

1373
02:13:33,150 --> 02:13:35,730
He moves a lot of reptiles.

1374
02:13:36,470 --> 02:13:38,830
We had a system one time the head,

1375
02:13:39,150 --> 02:13:41,310
over 200 reptiles in his basement.

1376
02:13:43,390 --> 02:13:45,850
Cameins and alligators in here that are four or five feet long.

1377
02:13:46,010 --> 02:13:46,770
You can't keep those.

1378
02:13:47,070 --> 02:13:49,250
And people do, and they're surprised when they can't keep them.

1379
02:13:49,490 --> 02:13:49,970
I'm like, really?

1380
02:13:50,130 --> 02:13:51,570
You're surprised you can't have an alligator in your house.

1381
02:13:58,700 --> 02:14:01,240
Our main goal here is public safety

1382
02:14:01,240 --> 02:14:03,120
and also the safety of the animals.

1383
02:14:03,380 --> 02:14:05,880
And we have very dedicated people back there

1384
02:14:05,880 --> 02:14:08,300
and they definitely stay here for the love of the animals,

1385
02:14:08,520 --> 02:14:10,360
which also includes getting them adopted out.

1386
02:14:11,300 --> 02:14:14,520
We'll have about 4,000 impounded animals a year,

1387
02:14:14,680 --> 02:14:16,680
probably about close to 2,000 or dogs and cats.

1388
02:14:17,020 --> 02:14:18,520
The cats and dogs, when they get impounded here,

1389
02:14:18,560 --> 02:14:19,560
they go on a five-day hold,

1390
02:14:19,800 --> 02:14:22,460
and then after the five days, if the owner doesn't show up,

1391
02:14:22,640 --> 02:14:24,100
then we can put them up for adoption.

1392
02:14:26,490 --> 02:14:28,370
Adopt animal here is actually really simple.

1393
02:14:28,530 --> 02:14:31,210
You just come in, look for every animal you're looking for,

1394
02:14:31,370 --> 02:14:32,150
find the right pick.

1395
02:14:32,590 --> 02:14:34,470
You have you go to the adoption room up there

1396
02:14:34,470 --> 02:14:35,870
and see if you get along with them

1397
02:14:35,870 --> 02:14:37,310
as much time as you want to in there.

1398
02:14:39,540 --> 02:14:41,720
From that point on, it's just a matter of making sure

1399
02:14:41,720 --> 02:14:43,700
they're sparing neutered and all their vaccinations

1400
02:14:43,700 --> 02:14:44,920
up the par and they're good to go.

1401
02:14:46,480 --> 02:14:49,060
We have a very high adoption rate because we try

1402
02:14:49,060 --> 02:14:51,360
everything our power to get animals adopted out.

1403
02:14:52,020 --> 02:14:54,100
We have Harvard, America, a humane society

1404
02:14:54,100 --> 02:14:56,080
that we do a lot of adoptions through.

1405
02:14:56,440 --> 02:14:57,380
And then we also have other groups.

1406
02:14:57,560 --> 02:14:59,180
We have some people that literally will just look

1407
02:14:59,180 --> 02:14:59,960
all over the country.

1408
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:08,280
for somewhere for a dog to go. And we sent dogs up into South Dakota, North Dakota, Washington State. So it's actually, it's a huge United

1409
02:15:08,280 --> 02:15:09,780
effort to get all these animals home.

1410
02:15:13,500 --> 02:15:23,080
And the good thing about the people here is that they get all their friends to get animals too. All of us have

1411
02:15:23,080 --> 02:15:26,420
have probably the limit of all the animals that we can have at home.

1412
02:15:26,840 --> 02:15:28,220
You know, they are huge animal lovers.

1413
02:15:28,880 --> 02:15:32,400
If it was up to the people here, we'd have 15 cats run around in here.

1414
02:15:37,920 --> 02:15:41,580
Did a system one time out there and he was bathing his two,

1415
02:15:42,080 --> 02:15:44,320
nine-foot-long boa constrictors in the front yard.

1416
02:15:45,800 --> 02:15:48,140
Currently, I was at guarding some attention.

1417
02:15:48,740 --> 02:15:50,720
So we went out there and had to talk to him about that.

1418
02:15:53,650 --> 02:15:54,430
Well, I do this job.

1419
02:15:54,850 --> 02:15:55,790
Dude, I love this job.

1420
02:15:56,210 --> 02:15:59,330
I grew up on a farm and taken care of that many animals.

1421
02:15:59,330 --> 02:16:04,510
animals. You can't help but like animals. This is just like fancy farm it. You know you're

1422
02:16:04,510 --> 02:16:09,070
just bringing animals in there taking care of them and and find them homes and uh yeah absolutely

1423
02:16:09,070 --> 02:16:09,730
animal lover.

1424
02:16:27,910 --> 02:16:34,490
This is the best place to work. I love working here. I feel very blessed. I love it here.

1425
02:16:34,690 --> 02:16:38,610
I look forward to coming to work every day being a part of this team. Like a family away from home.

1426
02:16:38,810 --> 02:16:45,470
Where everyone feels like everybody knows their name. A city that supports you. We see that with our

1427
02:16:45,470 --> 02:16:52,150
benefits. A pension, vacation days, jobs security. Being able to be heard, we feel valued, we feel

1428
02:16:52,150 --> 02:16:57,630
respected. At least some it is a very progressive city. It's growing, it's thriving. We have this drive

1429
02:16:57,630 --> 02:17:02,090
towards not just doing a job, but doing it with a spirit of excellence. I had the opportunity to

1430
02:17:02,090 --> 02:17:07,690
continue to grow regardless of 30 plus years doing this kind of work. It's more than just a

1431
02:17:07,690 --> 02:17:12,870
dollars and cents. We're here really to give back. Providing a service to better a community.

1432
02:17:12,870 --> 02:17:16,510
to go out and serve people to be a part of something bigger than yourself.

1433
02:17:17,990 --> 02:17:22,370
If I would have known what I know now, years ago, I would have been here much sooner.

1434
02:17:30,670 --> 02:17:35,730
Traditionally, we think as police officers, those responding to law enforcement needs within the community.

1435
02:17:35,870 --> 02:17:40,070
But honestly, we are there to serve our citizens and our citizens do go into crisis.

1436
02:17:40,270 --> 02:17:44,210
They do have mental health crises and we're being called with those scenes on a regular basis.

1437
02:17:44,530 --> 02:17:49,470
In order to help serve those citizens better, we did initiate the Christ's intervention team program.

1438
02:17:49,470 --> 02:17:53,650
These are officers that are especially trained to de-escalate crisis situations.

1439
02:17:54,030 --> 02:17:58,310
Recently, we brought co-responders under the scene, licensed, qualified mental health professionals,

1440
02:17:58,570 --> 02:18:03,050
housed within our police department, and they respond with those officers directly to those

1441
02:18:03,050 --> 02:18:07,750
scenes where crisis is occurring so they can interact with that citizen and get them the help they

1442
02:18:07,750 --> 02:18:14,050
need right there on that scene. The co-responders are either a bachelor or a master level in a behavioral

1443
02:18:14,050 --> 02:18:15,130
for a health-related field.

1444
02:18:15,370 --> 02:18:16,210
They wear plain clothes.

1445
02:18:16,730 --> 02:18:18,430
They don't carry weapons or anything like that.

1446
02:18:19,150 --> 02:18:22,030
I have a police radio that I listen to all day.

1447
02:18:22,190 --> 02:18:23,770
I listen for, you know, those key words.

1448
02:18:24,010 --> 02:18:25,670
Mental health, behavioral health, crisis.

1449
02:18:26,210 --> 02:18:28,390
There's a lot of officers that just call for me.

1450
02:18:28,550 --> 02:18:29,510
I have my own radio number.

1451
02:18:29,770 --> 02:18:32,390
I also have the ability to self-dispatch to them

1452
02:18:32,390 --> 02:18:34,450
and say, $9.82, they're fraught.

1453
02:18:34,810 --> 02:18:37,890
There's a route, $9.14, $4.13.

1454
02:18:40,100 --> 02:18:42,600
So typically, I arrive after they've made it safe.

1455
02:18:42,600 --> 02:18:44,880
I'll make contact and get kind of the rundown.

1456
02:18:44,880 --> 02:18:46,700
and then I just kind of jump right in.

1457
02:18:47,220 --> 02:18:48,500
My kid, you know, my name's Allison.

1458
02:18:48,700 --> 02:18:49,740
I'm a mental health professional

1459
02:18:49,740 --> 02:18:50,920
and here to help you.

1460
02:18:51,240 --> 02:18:53,860
I'm not here to take you to jail or rest you.

1461
02:18:54,020 --> 02:18:56,860
Sometimes all a person needs is a voice.

1462
02:18:57,300 --> 02:19:00,260
Someone neutral, someone outside that, you know, can listen.

1463
02:19:01,100 --> 02:19:02,500
I do a lot of safety planning,

1464
02:19:02,740 --> 02:19:06,400
including family, their support network, who's close to you?

1465
02:19:06,720 --> 02:19:09,040
If they're home alone, who can come over

1466
02:19:09,040 --> 02:19:10,160
and hang out with you today?

1467
02:19:10,560 --> 02:19:12,780
Can we lock away your sharps?

1468
02:19:12,940 --> 02:19:13,920
Can we put up your meds?

1469
02:19:13,920 --> 02:19:14,900
do you need meds?

1470
02:19:14,960 --> 02:19:16,620
Can we get you over to the urgent care

1471
02:19:16,620 --> 02:19:18,500
to get you assessed for your medications?

1472
02:19:19,100 --> 02:19:20,040
Some of them also are like,

1473
02:19:20,100 --> 02:19:21,240
oh, I'm so glad you came.

1474
02:19:21,380 --> 02:19:22,740
This may mean feel so much better.

1475
02:19:23,040 --> 02:19:24,840
Our main goal as a co-responders is

1476
02:19:25,320 --> 02:19:28,220
to one, get people connected to the services that they need,

1477
02:19:28,520 --> 02:19:31,840
and also divert from emergency rooms and jails.

1478
02:19:32,020 --> 02:19:33,180
And they almost get a different view

1479
02:19:33,180 --> 02:19:34,240
of the police responding.

1480
02:19:34,640 --> 02:19:37,060
That lets me know you care and the officers care.

1481
02:19:38,380 --> 02:19:39,840
You have a police at my out there?

1482
02:19:40,200 --> 02:19:41,400
My husband had.

1483
02:19:41,400 --> 02:19:45,100
In 2020, we had 722 mental health related calls for service.

1484
02:19:45,560 --> 02:19:48,680
2022 by that time, 1,479.

1485
02:19:48,740 --> 02:19:50,400
These mental health related calls for service

1486
02:19:50,400 --> 02:19:51,260
are increasing.

1487
02:19:51,720 --> 02:19:52,940
How responding to that is increasing

1488
02:19:52,940 --> 02:19:54,520
the number of Christ's intervention team

1489
02:19:54,520 --> 02:19:57,020
officers we have available, as well as the number

1490
02:19:57,020 --> 02:19:59,880
of co-responders we have available to respond on these calls.

1491
02:20:00,120 --> 02:20:01,740
So what I think is important for the community

1492
02:20:01,740 --> 02:20:03,760
to know about the co-responder program

1493
02:20:03,760 --> 02:20:05,080
is that we're here.

1494
02:20:05,440 --> 02:20:06,040
We exist.

1495
02:20:06,600 --> 02:20:09,680
All you have to do when you call 911 is ask for us,

1496
02:20:09,680 --> 02:20:15,140
You know, they had one of co-responder to respond to this crisis and we'll go.

1497
02:20:16,180 --> 02:20:18,460
I was really struggling about eight years ago.

1498
02:20:18,740 --> 02:20:23,680
My personal journey with mental health and I met some amazing social workers and amazing

1499
02:20:23,680 --> 02:20:26,360
programs that have helped me get to where I am today.

1500
02:20:26,780 --> 02:20:28,820
I really couldn't see myself doing anything else.

1501
02:20:29,160 --> 02:20:31,840
We want to help and that's stuff what we love to do.

1502
02:20:32,740 --> 02:20:36,800
So at a client, we got a cautious and suicidal ideations and she really felt that she had

1503
02:20:36,800 --> 02:20:37,460
nobody.

1504
02:20:37,460 --> 02:20:42,640
And you know, I'm getting to know her story and getting to know who comes around and sees you.

1505
02:20:42,780 --> 02:20:46,880
Well, then we found a support person and they responded immediately.

1506
02:20:47,220 --> 02:20:47,880
And we made a plan.

1507
02:20:48,040 --> 02:20:51,540
I called back and checked on her in an hour and then I checked on her on two hours.

1508
02:20:51,860 --> 02:20:57,460
We were able to get her into the additional services to where she talks to someone every week or more.

1509
02:20:57,840 --> 02:21:02,760
I just took a person that really just thought they had nobody and nobody would show up for them and show them you do.

1510
02:21:02,760 --> 02:21:05,080
and you'll be amazed who is in your corner

1511
02:21:05,080 --> 02:21:07,400
if you just simply say I need a little help.

1512
02:21:07,960 --> 02:21:08,180
You

1513
02:23:57,140 --> 02:23:58,800
can make the difference in somebody's life.

1514
02:24:00,000 --> 02:24:02,080
If you're trying to get in the fire and eat in that service,

1515
02:24:02,560 --> 02:24:04,100
Lisa is probably the top name.

1516
02:24:04,740 --> 02:24:07,620
On the daily basis, we are tasked with an incredible task.

1517
02:24:08,140 --> 02:24:10,220
So we try to keep it a relaxed environment.

1518
02:24:10,620 --> 02:24:13,360
As a new person, you are constantly on edge learning.

1519
02:24:13,900 --> 02:24:16,300
Morning willow typical, coming in, getting a report

1520
02:24:16,300 --> 02:24:18,620
from the ship that's going off, get our truck checks done.

1521
02:24:19,680 --> 02:24:22,920
Our citizens trust us and believe in us by providing them

1522
02:24:22,920 --> 02:24:28,720
menus like our gear, our stations. They build it to accommodate it into a

1523
02:24:28,720 --> 02:24:31,920
call, but also having a home state of the art way to present individual

1524
02:24:31,920 --> 02:24:36,600
bond grounds and downtime areas. Back by send dinners together, cook together, get to

1525
02:24:36,600 --> 02:24:40,180
know one another, train together, like a brother knows a brother and a sister knows

1526
02:24:40,180 --> 02:24:43,820
a brother. Banner back and forth. When the tones go off, they go to work.

1527
02:24:48,790 --> 02:24:49,130
We're here

1528
02:24:49,130 --> 02:24:51,470
for 48 hours, so it can happen at any time.

1529
02:24:54,280 --> 02:24:57,940
You can be in the gym, you can be in the middle of night,

1530
02:24:58,920 --> 02:24:59,900
you can be cooking,

1531
02:25:02,130 --> 02:25:03,650
stop what you're doing and listen.

1532
02:25:09,160 --> 02:25:11,120
We are in the station, people will stop what they're doing

1533
02:25:11,120 --> 02:25:13,040
and listen, find out which station it is,

1534
02:25:13,180 --> 02:25:15,880
what is the nature of the call, what app are we going?

1535
02:25:16,060 --> 02:25:16,700
It's in my district.

1536
02:25:16,760 --> 02:25:17,280
It's in the highway.

1537
02:25:17,640 --> 02:25:21,480
We're going to see some of the expectations of the lives involved,

1538
02:25:24,870 --> 02:25:27,570
that adrenaline dumps, pants on, coats on,

1539
02:25:27,570 --> 02:25:30,890
getting in the truck for mentally focused year two and we

1540
02:25:33,740 --> 02:25:35,760
have a game plan that

1541
02:25:35,760 --> 02:25:39,040
happens in the truck. The officer can give directions. The dispatcher will

1542
02:25:39,040 --> 02:25:41,960
update you. The officer will listen to driverless. We can get all the same pay

1543
02:25:41,960 --> 02:25:43,560
they will get to the call. We can go to work.

1544
02:25:46,160 --> 02:25:48,460
So many degrees of severity, structure

1545
02:25:48,460 --> 02:25:52,660
fire, swift water rescue, R-A-X-N-T, technical rescue,

1546
02:25:53,900 --> 02:25:58,500
tachmetic teams. The equipment the fire department offers us is op-notch.

1547
02:26:01,060 --> 02:26:01,460
From

1548
02:26:01,460 --> 02:26:06,400
yard stuff, rate trucks, tablets, Lucas device, battery power pot, the right tools, the right

1549
02:26:06,400 --> 02:26:12,740
training. The learning does not stop an academy. Building blocks continue call after call.

1550
02:26:13,500 --> 02:26:18,200
Opportunity usually broke. Sardar was a firefighter paramedic move to the rank of engineer paramedic,

1551
02:26:18,260 --> 02:26:23,020
most recently at the qualification of acting captain. Fire fighter, engineer, recently promoted

1552
02:26:23,020 --> 02:26:26,560
to captain. I'm headed to paramedic since I've been here.

1553
02:26:29,910 --> 02:26:31,290
I'll be honest, it's scary sometimes.

1554
02:26:31,290 --> 02:26:35,850
You're the one back there that person is having a bad day and that count on you.

1555
02:26:36,530 --> 02:26:41,190
We practice these scenarios over and over it so when someone has an emergency, we can

1556
02:26:41,190 --> 02:26:43,670
channel those energies and minimize any more injury.

1557
02:26:45,950 --> 02:26:49,790
And then when it's over, we'll say, hey, how did we do how is everyone doing?

1558
02:26:50,970 --> 02:26:53,150
And we'll have frank conversations back at the station.

1559
02:26:57,380 --> 02:27:00,180
The station assignment for us is a 48 on 96 off.

1560
02:27:00,820 --> 02:27:04,500
The 40s off is probably one of the greatest things ever.

1561
02:27:04,500 --> 02:27:08,460
Help us improve our sleep patterns, wellness, mental health.

1562
02:27:08,620 --> 02:27:09,820
You use you many, many options.

1563
02:27:10,280 --> 02:27:14,260
I have a small little 15 acres that we like to hobby farm,

1564
02:27:14,420 --> 02:27:16,120
backpacking in the spring and in the fall.

1565
02:27:16,420 --> 02:27:17,900
Mountain biking, when the weather's good.

1566
02:27:18,300 --> 02:27:23,680
I have a 21 month old at home, so I feel like I get to work full-time job

1567
02:27:23,680 --> 02:27:28,580
and then on the four days off, be a stay-at-home mom as well.

1568
02:27:29,160 --> 02:27:32,200
I spend a little more time with my kids, travel around the world.

1569
02:27:32,200 --> 02:27:37,580
I was able to take my oldest daughter in a trip of a lifetime. We went to Europe for 22 days.

1570
02:27:38,960 --> 02:27:45,540
I got hired to help others. Helping others also helped me see my children grow, see my family

1571
02:27:45,540 --> 02:27:52,400
grow, see my career grow, and me grow as a person. People that are in the industry know the name of

1572
02:27:52,400 --> 02:27:53,000
Lisa McFarber.

1573
02:27:55,420 --> 02:27:58,340
Every fire academy knows it, every other fire department knows it.

1574
02:27:59,960 --> 02:28:02,560
If you're looking for a job in the fire service,

1575
02:28:03,120 --> 02:28:04,440
at least some of it's a place to be.

1576
02:28:07,030 --> 02:28:09,950
That's who you want to be, somebody who can make

1577
02:28:09,950 --> 02:28:13,130
positive change in all the human beings' lives.

1578
02:28:34,730 --> 02:28:36,830
Welcome to the least summit sign department,

1579
02:28:37,090 --> 02:28:39,170
where you're going to walk you through our process

1580
02:28:39,170 --> 02:28:42,030
from start to finish. We make signs as needed here.

1581
02:28:42,190 --> 02:28:44,170
It's not like we just go out into the field

1582
02:28:44,170 --> 02:28:47,750
and place the speed limit sign here, no parking here.

1583
02:28:48,050 --> 02:28:49,850
Our traffic engineers, they go through

1584
02:28:49,850 --> 02:28:54,690
and they'll do field studies. Let's send us down an engineering work order for us to go out,

1585
02:28:54,850 --> 02:29:01,270
place new signs, or remove signs as needed. Coming from the material, our blanks come in and they're

1586
02:29:01,270 --> 02:29:07,430
just aluminum blanks. We can put our white, our red, our, you know, our fluorescent yellow green,

1587
02:29:07,430 --> 02:29:12,950
whatever. And basically what it looks like is just that there. Throw it up into the roller.

1588
02:29:20,950 --> 02:29:26,630
And once we got it covered, take it to our work table here and then we'll cut the corners,

1589
02:29:26,630 --> 02:29:29,850
First cut all the access off where it's lined up right.

1590
02:29:30,090 --> 02:29:33,830
As far as the plotter and the software that we use, there's a straight name sign there

1591
02:29:33,830 --> 02:29:37,150
and he's going to go ahead and print that out on the plotter so you can see the plotter

1592
02:29:37,150 --> 02:29:38,550
and how it operates and runs.

1593
02:29:38,830 --> 02:29:43,390
There's standards for the height even just on letters on the sign block.

1594
02:29:43,570 --> 02:29:48,510
Basically what we have on the computer there is it's pretty much set up to those and it goes

1595
02:29:48,510 --> 02:29:54,770
through, it's got a very small but sharp needle that goes through and cuts everything out,

1596
02:29:54,770 --> 02:29:59,890
Letter by letter. Once that's done cutting our next stage

1597
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:10,480
We would be bringing it over here, currently picking out the sign letters right now. We call it weeding or picking or however we want to call it. Next, putting it on the transfer tape.

1598
02:30:17,150 --> 02:30:28,300
Then after it's taped, we bring it over to the roller. That's where we apply it to the actual sign blank and we'll roll it through one time just to get the air bubbles out.

1599
02:30:38,200 --> 02:30:40,800
I'm going to bring this meeting back to order, please.

1600
02:30:42,840 --> 02:30:46,040
And we have made it all the way to agenda item

1601
02:30:46,560 --> 02:30:53,480
5B, which is the presentation for L.S. Goal 26, an updated funding request.

1602
02:30:54,600 --> 02:30:57,020
Oh, I see a miss down the lake is going to start us off.

1603
02:30:58,060 --> 02:31:01,480
Good evening, Mayor and Council, down the lake, Assistant City Manager.

1604
02:31:02,020 --> 02:31:06,320
I'm here to introduce the board members, couple board members for L.S. Goal 26.

1605
02:31:06,320 --> 02:31:09,260
It will speak to you about an updated funding request.

1606
02:31:09,280 --> 02:31:15,560
If you recall, we were here back in January and presented a presentation at that point

1607
02:31:15,560 --> 02:31:21,980
in time we heard your feedback coming back with a little more refinement on the budget for

1608
02:31:21,980 --> 02:31:29,120
LSGL 26 and a couple things I want to note. One, I would say that at that time in January we were

1609
02:31:29,120 --> 02:31:37,340
very unaware of where the licensor for showing games was going to be. We were taking estimates based

1610
02:31:37,340 --> 02:31:44,120
off of a club, World Cup, licensing fees and kind of the things that we were hearing in the community

1611
02:31:44,120 --> 02:31:49,640
about licensing fees. And then absolutely the very next day after our presentation we found out

1612
02:31:49,640 --> 02:31:57,580
that the floor dropped out on the cost of license fees to show games publicly for the soccer event.

1613
02:31:57,940 --> 02:32:06,900
And so that really significantly caused or was actually very, we went from about $25,000 per showing

1614
02:32:06,900 --> 02:32:13,520
to $1,000 for the entire time frame. And so that is a huge drop in what we estimated that we thought

1615
02:32:14,120 --> 02:32:20,200
this event would cost, but as I said, I'm here to introduce the group, LSGOL 26.

1616
02:32:20,980 --> 02:32:28,080
As you can see, many of the people that presented from our partners with the EDC and at least

1617
02:32:28,080 --> 02:32:34,760
some at downtown Lee Summit Main Street and Tourism are part of the board or represented on

1618
02:32:34,760 --> 02:32:40,780
the board of directors as well as over 100 plus volunteers that have come together wanting

1619
02:32:40,780 --> 02:32:49,140
to promote our community and provide a safe venue for showing games and giving visitors

1620
02:32:49,140 --> 02:32:55,200
the opportunity to experience a little bit of Americana and what Lisa-Mont has to offer.

1621
02:32:55,780 --> 02:32:59,980
So with that further ado, I will introduce Laura Maxwell and John Ellis, who will continue

1622
02:32:59,980 --> 02:33:00,740
with the presentation.

1623
02:33:03,000 --> 02:33:03,480
Thank you.

1624
02:33:03,760 --> 02:33:03,860
All

1625
02:33:07,060 --> 02:33:07,900
right.

1626
02:33:08,160 --> 02:33:08,620
Thank you, Donna.

1627
02:33:08,840 --> 02:33:11,380
Thank you, Councilor Mayor, for letting us be here tonight.

1628
02:33:11,540 --> 02:33:12,840
We're super excited to be back.

1629
02:33:12,840 --> 02:33:23,040
And as Donnie shared the number a while ago that we are, as of today, 100 days out from the actual start of World Cup competition,

1630
02:33:23,780 --> 02:33:34,300
we looked up just a moment ago and thought she might be entertained to know that our first World Cup community meeting was 475 days ago.

1631
02:33:34,300 --> 02:33:40,720
So it seems like we've been on this journey for quite some time, and we had the opportunity

1632
02:33:40,720 --> 02:33:43,200
to share with you a conceptual framework in January.

1633
02:33:43,800 --> 02:33:47,680
You asked for some more specificity, so we're here tonight to share some of that.

1634
02:33:48,360 --> 02:33:54,500
As Donna said, many of the community partners that have already either spoken tonight or

1635
02:33:54,500 --> 02:33:58,660
been referenced tonight have played a significant role in bringing this all to fruition.

1636
02:33:58,660 --> 02:34:13,580
And so what you see before you right now are five logos that are thematic elements for each of the five football Fridays that we're hosting in June and July.

1637
02:34:13,920 --> 02:34:19,060
John and I are going to toggle back and forth just speaking a little bit about each of those very quickly.

1638
02:34:19,060 --> 02:34:25,880
So, our first celebration is Champions of the Heartland, and our intention is to celebrate

1639
02:34:25,880 --> 02:34:33,140
not just soccer, but all of the sporting teams that we have in our city and the metropolitan

1640
02:34:33,140 --> 02:34:39,940
area, and we'll encourage things like wearing your favorite jersey that night, and just kind

1641
02:34:39,940 --> 02:34:44,060
of celebrate some traditional American tailgate food and beverages.

1642
02:34:45,100 --> 02:34:50,000
We've shared previously that we want all of our activities to be kid and family friendly.

1643
02:34:51,300 --> 02:34:55,760
So you look at the team and the ideas that they have here.

1644
02:34:56,300 --> 02:35:02,260
We're considering yard games and the pop-up soccer, maybe the inflatable soccer balls,

1645
02:35:02,360 --> 02:35:08,180
where you roll around and it's quite entertaining to watch those take place.

1646
02:35:08,180 --> 02:35:15,880
adult activities, maybe a Tedlaso look-alike, we do have the benefit of having Jason

1647
02:35:15,880 --> 02:35:20,120
Sedacus' high school teacher living right here in Lee Summit and so if we

1648
02:35:20,120 --> 02:35:24,100
wanted to do some Tedlaso trivia, we've got some conversations started with him

1649
02:35:24,100 --> 02:35:29,820
and then our band, each week will be the Crossroads sound, they were with us for

1650
02:35:29,820 --> 02:35:34,780
Draw Day and they have committed to providing us with different styles of

1651
02:35:34,780 --> 02:35:41,600
music each week. So this would be your kind of traditional tailgate party music. And then our decor and

1652
02:35:41,600 --> 02:35:48,360
theme, we would be able to capitalize on all of the local and regional mascots and photo ops and

1653
02:35:48,360 --> 02:35:49,100
things like that.

1654
02:35:51,560 --> 02:35:56,220
Thank you. I'm going to just feature a little bit on the next event which is

1655
02:35:56,220 --> 02:36:01,260
boots on the pitch. And I'm going to start out just with the food and beverage budget item where you

1656
02:36:01,260 --> 02:36:05,720
see a zero, you might be wondering why that is. And that's because we're bringing in people partners

1657
02:36:05,720 --> 02:36:07,520
that will actually supply all of that.

1658
02:36:08,280 --> 02:36:12,760
And like we said before, our goal is to really break even

1659
02:36:12,760 --> 02:36:15,860
on this whole thing and make it to where it's an event

1660
02:36:15,860 --> 02:36:19,860
that we're showing off downtown, especially Green Street Marketplace

1661
02:36:19,860 --> 02:36:22,780
and show all the different things that can be done down there.

1662
02:36:23,280 --> 02:36:26,360
So again, more of a Western theme here on that.

1663
02:36:26,680 --> 02:36:28,900
I will point out with the kids' activities that the acts

1664
02:36:28,900 --> 02:36:31,640
throwing, the acts are not real, they're Velcro.

1665
02:36:31,940 --> 02:36:34,980
So as a safety precaution with it, if you didn't get

1666
02:36:34,980 --> 02:36:40,320
It's a chance to see those at draw day, it was a big hit, and that was also a sponsored

1667
02:36:40,320 --> 02:36:44,540
activity from Parks and Rec, so that was a wonderful thing that they were able to do.

1668
02:36:44,900 --> 02:36:49,380
Other inflatables and things like that, again, more of a Western theme that we'll be doing.

1669
02:36:50,220 --> 02:36:55,540
Line dancing lessons, we fully expect all of you to be at participants in that, and I

1670
02:36:55,540 --> 02:36:59,000
think just having it to where it's a good fun activity for everyone.

1671
02:36:59,720 --> 02:37:05,700
The beauty of having crossroads sound with this, I have them as a consistent partner is going to be.

1672
02:37:06,420 --> 02:37:09,820
They've been involved, Jenny's been on the planning committee.

1673
02:37:10,260 --> 02:37:17,480
She's actually heading up the entertainment committee now and is going to be able to really kind of take it wherever we need it.

1674
02:37:17,580 --> 02:37:22,240
And so we felt like we could be moving around on different bands and

1675
02:37:22,240 --> 02:37:28,160
entertainment people, but we thought it was better to have something that was consistent that could really kind of change with it.

1676
02:37:28,160 --> 02:37:30,460
and they have a lot of different flexibility with that too.

1677
02:37:31,500 --> 02:37:35,960
And then finally, just more of the theme with the decor and all that.

1678
02:37:36,120 --> 02:37:43,460
Being able to have a budget for some of those things to give to the committee to work on is going to be a key with us.

1679
02:37:43,560 --> 02:37:47,500
And you can see a theme of us basically having a $10,000 budget every week.

1680
02:37:49,790 --> 02:37:56,410
So similarly, the budget for the following week is just like the prior and those to come.

1681
02:37:56,410 --> 02:38:02,810
We do look forward to finding additional ways to partner with our organizations like

1682
02:38:02,810 --> 02:38:07,770
Downtown Main Street and the fourth Fridays and so you see the theme of goals, galleries

1683
02:38:07,770 --> 02:38:13,310
and great vibes and the food and beverage will have a little bit of a different flavor

1684
02:38:13,310 --> 02:38:18,650
there doing some fun things with different cultural food types, charcuterie, crepes and so

1685
02:38:18,650 --> 02:38:19,410
on and so forth.

1686
02:38:19,930 --> 02:38:26,390
We look forward to also partnering with organizations like LS Creates and the History Museum

1687
02:38:26,390 --> 02:38:32,690
them to be able to bring in some live art and just really kind of capitalize on the creativity

1688
02:38:32,950 --> 02:38:39,270
that our community likes to showcase and then the Crossroads sound again with their more

1689
02:38:39,270 --> 02:38:47,930
mellow music and our art theme that will be fully developed by that group's organizing

1690
02:38:47,930 --> 02:38:48,510
team.

1691
02:38:50,010 --> 02:38:51,070
Thank you.

1692
02:38:51,070 --> 02:38:56,730
And then obviously it's a big deal this year with 4th of July and we know that there are

1693
02:38:56,730 --> 02:39:00,950
a lot of other activities going on there too but we plan on really participating with that

1694
02:39:00,950 --> 02:39:06,830
of being an all-american celebration as well really kind of taking everything with it from the yard

1695
02:39:06,830 --> 02:39:13,550
games all the way through the red, white, and blue and possibly classic car show. We know that

1696
02:39:13,550 --> 02:39:21,410
But the legacy blast is the day before I believe on the second and we know that there's

1697
02:39:21,410 --> 02:39:26,610
a lot of speculation on great things going on just with the 250th anniversary with it.

1698
02:39:28,920 --> 02:39:34,560
And then last but certainly not least is that Friday, July 10 event kicking it on Route

1699
02:39:34,560 --> 02:39:41,280
66 and we know that there's a special anniversary there, all kinds of anniversaries this year

1700
02:39:41,280 --> 02:39:48,040
and so being able to capitalize on some of the other events and activities that are happening

1701
02:39:48,040 --> 02:39:54,900
in the community and really trying to engage our partners with doing some fun throwback

1702
02:39:54,900 --> 02:40:02,420
type things, bouncy ball races, maybe a box car race, and just for the record all of these

1703
02:40:02,420 --> 02:40:10,540
ideas that you've seen for each week have been cultivated and pitched to us in the last month

1704
02:40:10,540 --> 02:40:13,480
since we last met with U.S. for that specificity.

1705
02:40:13,640 --> 02:40:17,480
So we brought back with some detail what we're hoping

1706
02:40:17,480 --> 02:40:19,300
to execute each week.

1707
02:40:20,200 --> 02:40:24,000
And so that's one other thing that I did want to say.

1708
02:40:24,120 --> 02:40:26,820
Cory mentioned the rat cards that you each have.

1709
02:40:27,360 --> 02:40:31,600
We were able to share these with about 140 individuals

1710
02:40:31,600 --> 02:40:35,020
who came to Lee Summit, to Green Street,

1711
02:40:35,800 --> 02:40:41,780
at a Casey 2026 meeting just a few days after we last met with you.

1712
02:40:42,420 --> 02:40:49,380
So we're super excited to be able to offer these events for our community members but

1713
02:40:49,380 --> 02:40:54,140
also to really show off our community to some of those regional partners and

1714
02:40:54,140 --> 02:40:59,020
folks even from Smithton that would like to come and join us for these events.

1715
02:41:00,380 --> 02:41:11,820
Thank you so really the total event budget that we're asking for on this to apply towards the five different football Fridays as a rental of $50,000.

1716
02:41:12,040 --> 02:41:18,080
We do have other funds from our first events from sponsorships that we've got that's to help them bring a cushion.

1717
02:41:18,380 --> 02:41:21,640
We do have requests in for a few private partners as well.

1718
02:41:21,860 --> 02:41:28,460
One thing about the private partners is they have to be approved by FIFA and they can't conflict with anyone else.

1719
02:41:28,460 --> 02:41:30,880
So we're hopeful that those are going to come in.

1720
02:41:31,600 --> 02:41:41,100
The big deal with this is that this really solidifies us to the point where we know we can facilitate all of these events with the funding that you would approve.

1721
02:41:41,360 --> 02:41:48,180
And we're very thankful that I did see that you had the ordinance on right after this to for consideration.

1722
02:41:48,600 --> 02:41:53,380
So I think we'd like to go ahead and answer any questions that you've got at this point in time.

1723
02:41:54,280 --> 02:41:55,720
All right, thank you.

1724
02:41:57,060 --> 02:41:58,240
I can't remember how it is.

1725
02:41:58,760 --> 02:41:59,360
Thank you.

1726
02:41:59,980 --> 02:42:04,200
So thank you for this presentation because I know when you came last time I was a little

1727
02:42:04,200 --> 02:42:08,440
skeptical like do we want to spend money on this but having brought back more details

1728
02:42:08,440 --> 02:42:11,180
and just a vision that you guys have has really helped.

1729
02:42:11,380 --> 02:42:15,180
So thank you for doing that and just kind of spelling things out for us because it helped

1730
02:42:15,180 --> 02:42:17,920
me see like man that would be neat to have that man there's so many things for kids.

1731
02:42:17,920 --> 02:42:19,520
It's just very interactive.

1732
02:42:20,260 --> 02:42:23,520
So thank you for presenting that and putting a lot of thought into it.

1733
02:42:24,160 --> 02:42:26,660
I just had a comment about that, so thank you, thank you guys.

1734
02:42:27,020 --> 02:42:27,720
Thank you.

1735
02:42:28,200 --> 02:42:29,200
Kasper and Shields.

1736
02:42:29,940 --> 02:42:30,460
Thank you, Mayor.

1737
02:42:31,120 --> 02:42:33,960
Well, first of all, I appreciate this presentation as well.

1738
02:42:34,160 --> 02:42:36,680
I think this is going to be a really fun series of events.

1739
02:42:36,760 --> 02:42:41,400
A really great way to showcase Green Street, as well as promoting visitors to Lee Summit.

1740
02:42:41,660 --> 02:42:45,400
So I think especially with that space being so new,

1741
02:42:45,440 --> 02:42:48,980
it's really important that we program it fully and show what it's capable of.

1742
02:42:48,980 --> 02:42:51,160
So I think this is going to be a really great partnership.

1743
02:42:52,160 --> 02:43:01,600
I did have a couple of questions, so for the $50,000 potential budget, would that be reimbursables for specific expenses?

1744
02:43:02,460 --> 02:43:10,640
So if your decor comes in lower, then we only reimburse up to the amount that's required, and then would that also be offset by any sponsorships, how's that?

1745
02:43:10,820 --> 02:43:17,980
Yeah, I think we can definitely work on that, well, obviously this is all kind of a guide of where we think we're going to end up on the expenses.

1746
02:43:17,980 --> 02:43:23,620
This is if we come in lower our needs may be much lower and we probably need to talk

1747
02:43:23,620 --> 02:43:29,880
about how to handle that if there's anything left over that we don't use with that.

1748
02:43:30,160 --> 02:43:33,120
I think we've been really efficient.

1749
02:43:33,200 --> 02:43:39,320
I know on the first event that we ended up doing, we had raised over $10,000 I think for

1750
02:43:39,320 --> 02:43:43,480
that and I believe we ended up around $6,500 or something like that.

1751
02:43:43,480 --> 02:43:48,940
I guess in the ordinance language, it says an amount not to exceed $50,000, as opposed to just $50,000.

1752
02:43:49,040 --> 02:43:50,820
So I wasn't really sure, just the mechanics of that.

1753
02:43:51,000 --> 02:43:52,020
I guess the sort of I was curious about.

1754
02:43:52,140 --> 02:43:53,540
I don't know if that's a staff question or.

1755
02:43:54,640 --> 02:43:56,120
So thank you for the question.

1756
02:43:56,520 --> 02:44:01,920
Just in looking through what has been drafted and as the exhibit with the public service agreement,

1757
02:44:02,320 --> 02:44:07,680
there's a provision saying at the conclusion of these activities that there'll be an after-action report

1758
02:44:07,680 --> 02:44:16,560
report and that any funds remaining would be, is there another PSA, because the one that

1759
02:44:16,560 --> 02:44:20,480
was attached to our packet I think has the old $100,000 ask for the licensing fees,

1760
02:44:20,840 --> 02:44:23,420
but I didn't see one that was covered those two things.

1761
02:44:23,880 --> 02:44:30,140
So one that in the PSA it does say that any funds, the expense will be, sorry, the PSA does

1762
02:44:30,140 --> 02:44:33,780
have a Schrivener's error because we pulled it forward, but before it's executed it will

1763
02:44:33,780 --> 02:44:38,900
be reflective of what's in the ordinance, which is not to exceed the 50,000, but what

1764
02:44:38,900 --> 02:44:45,420
it does say is that in any funds that are remaining from the budget would transfer

1765
02:44:45,420 --> 02:44:54,640
to the visitors bureau. Okay. Okay. That makes sense. And then, I guess for me, the $50,000

1766
02:44:54,640 --> 02:44:59,060
budget is reasonable, especially if any excess is going to go to the visitors bureau. I sort

1767
02:44:59,060 --> 02:44:59,980
of a soon this would.

1768
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:29,980
And come out of the business and industry fund it, to me, it makes sense to come out of that fund balance and that those funds are intended for tourism anyway. So. Yeah, yes, that is where we are looking for those funds to come from. Okay, you know, I look at this and I think that's pretty close to what we spent on legacy blast every year. Don't we spend about $50,000 on legacy blast there? They're about. That's what we've been budgeting, but recognizing this is a 250th that's something that we're considering. Okay. But I guess 50,000 as I think about whether it's

1769
02:45:29,980 --> 02:45:35,080
a reasonable expense, I think about where we're willing to spend that much on community

1770
02:45:35,080 --> 02:45:39,880
events to promote our community and serve our residents, and to me this feels similar

1771
02:45:39,880 --> 02:45:45,640
to that, that hopefully will also promote tourism and do lots of great things, but it seems

1772
02:45:45,640 --> 02:45:50,400
like a reasonable amount to spend to celebrate this amazing event, and then hopefully have

1773
02:45:50,400 --> 02:45:54,400
some really great added on benefits of promoting regional visitors and that kind of thing.

1774
02:45:54,400 --> 02:46:24,380
I know we've talked about how we're trying to position ourselves in the Metro is to be the family-friendly destination for people who don't want to drive into FanFest that this is a great place to come if they're coming from Pleasant Hill or Smithin or wherever we're never going to drop that, but that will be like a, I think this really fits that vision of being the family-friendly alternative to trying to go into the more large-scale events in Kansas City.

1775
02:46:24,400 --> 02:46:50,700
Yeah, and we were also trying to figure out ways to, you know, for people to take a break from all of that fan fest and, you know, the hysteria from downtown and, and all of those things and have a place that can, they can bring their kids enjoy the day or evening and then also, you know, wanting to make sure that we're allowing our residents to have that experience as well if they don't want to travel into fan fest or whatever, but they can still feel that excitement about the events.

1776
02:46:50,700 --> 02:46:57,220
Okay. Well, I appreciate that appreciate the presentation and I'd be happy to support

1777
02:46:57,220 --> 02:47:00,520
this and then hopefully once you have kind of a guaranteed budget you can really start

1778
02:47:00,520 --> 02:47:05,320
to drill down on exactly what all those entertainment. I was I was at the brainstorming session

1779
02:47:05,320 --> 02:47:10,100
there were a ton of great ideas and I think once once those groups know how much budget they

1780
02:47:10,100 --> 02:47:14,000
have to work with they can really figure out how much of that they can implement so yeah thank

1781
02:47:14,600 --> 02:47:15,040
you.

1782
02:47:15,040 --> 02:47:32,980
All right. Thank you. Councilmember Funk. Thank you, Mayor. All this echo, what everybody has said, bringing this back and then the detailed presentation, I would be in support of this, and I would also be in support of maybe coming up with some sort of food wager with the city manager.

1783
02:47:33,920 --> 02:47:40,300
If we could convince councilmember level to grow his mustache back and be a part of the lookalike contest.

1784
02:47:45,360 --> 02:47:46,360
Thank you mayor.

1785
02:47:48,140 --> 02:47:48,900
Thank you.

1786
02:47:49,460 --> 02:47:49,980
Thank you.

1787
02:47:51,060 --> 02:47:52,660
I don't know how I can top that.

1788
02:47:54,740 --> 02:47:56,260
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

1789
02:47:56,320 --> 02:48:01,000
I know you put so much time, effort, energy, you all in the whole committee.

1790
02:48:01,840 --> 02:48:03,660
I was early on and I left you guys hanging.

1791
02:48:04,380 --> 02:48:05,960
I had a little preoccupied with other stuff.

1792
02:48:05,960 --> 02:48:16,360
But, you know, everything that was presented today before you all came up and did your second presentation just not fits in very well.

1793
02:48:16,920 --> 02:48:23,800
You know, all the collaboration, we've used that word, I've heard that word like maybe ten times tonight, the all the community partners.

1794
02:48:24,640 --> 02:48:33,540
When I look outside and I have a confession, Mr. Dunning, last week I came in early and was trying to find the light switch and I opened all the blinds.

1795
02:48:33,540 --> 02:49:00,140
And so it's hard not to look outside and look at the neon lights and the signage, but when I look back at when the committee and everyone that was involved in the marketplace, all the surets that were put together, that's exactly what we were looking at, looking for, and this is a perfect opportunity for us as a community to showcase what in a lot of promotional areas or retail centers, that's an anchor.

1796
02:49:00,140 --> 02:49:06,520
It's like a major anchor tenant for the city that will bring people from all over hopefully all of our residents

1797
02:49:06,520 --> 02:49:09,980
But people from all over and come and spend time in our downtown

1798
02:49:10,940 --> 02:49:15,080
That's what it was all about and that's what this is all about. So thank you guys for your efforts

1799
02:49:16,020 --> 02:49:18,220
Definitely, I'd be in support of this. So thank you

1800
02:49:19,760 --> 02:49:20,560
Thank you

1801
02:49:21,380 --> 02:49:22,180
Consumable level

1802
02:49:23,220 --> 02:49:24,440
Did I miss?

1803
02:49:25,040 --> 02:49:29,700
Did we not have to do that licensing thing anymore? What's the deal with that the TV?

1804
02:49:29,700 --> 02:49:34,700
So if we thought it was going to be like $50,000 plus potentially, but it came in at $1,000.

1805
02:49:35,080 --> 02:49:36,380
Okay, great.

1806
02:49:36,740 --> 02:49:38,600
And the reason for that is Fox and

1807
02:49:38,600 --> 02:49:43,980
Telemundo are doing a good thing in today's world.

1808
02:49:43,980 --> 02:49:45,860
You don't hear a lot about positivity, but

1809
02:49:45,860 --> 02:49:49,100
they're taking instead of charging extra 10 amounts,

1810
02:49:49,100 --> 02:49:53,600
they're charging organizations like ours, just $1,000 to show them all.

1811
02:49:53,720 --> 02:49:55,940
And then they're taking all those funds raised and

1812
02:49:55,940 --> 02:49:59,540
distributing it to the boys and girls clubs of America, which is pretty cool.

1813
02:49:59,540 --> 02:50:01,340
Oh, wow, that's great.

1814
02:50:03,260 --> 02:50:07,720
And then I would like to announce that I'm leaving the summit and moving to Smithton

1815
02:50:07,720 --> 02:50:11,260
and we'll be running for mayor in 2027.

1816
02:50:11,900 --> 02:50:12,380
Nice.

1817
02:50:14,600 --> 02:50:17,620
All right.

1818
02:50:17,760 --> 02:50:18,240
Thank you.

1819
02:50:21,400 --> 02:50:24,060
It does have my curiosity up now.

1820
02:50:24,340 --> 02:50:25,600
We're all going to go in there.

1821
02:50:26,160 --> 02:50:26,540
Yeah.

1822
02:50:27,820 --> 02:50:28,420
All right.

1823
02:50:28,540 --> 02:50:29,140
Councilmember Raider.

1824
02:50:31,140 --> 02:50:31,820
Thanks, Mayor.

1825
02:50:32,220 --> 02:50:33,660
I just want to tell you guys, great job.

1826
02:50:33,660 --> 02:50:36,820
and give you a thumbs up. Go. That's it. Thanks.

1827
02:50:37,400 --> 02:50:41,540
All right. Thank you. The events look very fun. I mean,

1828
02:50:42,240 --> 02:50:46,200
I can't wait. I'll be right over there hanging out with you.

1829
02:50:49,150 --> 02:50:50,430
Yard games. I mean, come on.

1830
02:50:51,810 --> 02:50:54,610
That's what that was built for. So it's going to be so fun.

1831
02:50:55,550 --> 02:50:58,570
Nine dancing is for Hillary. Not me.

1832
02:50:59,970 --> 02:51:03,290
Councilmember Fire. Thank you. I actually just thought of something because

1833
02:51:03,290 --> 02:51:08,210
Because somebody asked me just a few days ago, do you guys, and I think you've discussed this before,

1834
02:51:08,310 --> 02:51:11,510
do you have a place where people in the least amount can sign up to volunteer?

1835
02:51:12,270 --> 02:51:12,830
Yeah, yeah.

1836
02:51:13,030 --> 02:51:20,110
Actually, if you go on the website right now, I got to give that committee a lot of accolades

1837
02:51:20,110 --> 02:51:27,130
because they did a great job on getting everything pretty much organized around there.

1838
02:51:27,470 --> 02:51:28,630
So you can go on, you can register.

1839
02:51:28,630 --> 02:51:32,210
Sure, yeah, there's a QR code on there that tends to rate to it.

1840
02:51:32,410 --> 02:51:35,470
And then there's a lot of the information that's on there.

1841
02:51:35,570 --> 02:51:42,890
Not only talks about this, but it has links over to even explore the summit and all the other attractions that are in the area.

1842
02:51:43,150 --> 02:51:46,810
Perfect, is there a link from the city's website to this website?

1843
02:51:49,110 --> 02:51:54,690
I don't think there's a current link right now, but given that we're entering into a PSA,

1844
02:51:54,690 --> 02:51:58,430
similar to our other community partners we can absolutely make that connection.

1845
02:51:58,990 --> 02:51:59,550
Okay, good.

1846
02:52:00,070 --> 02:52:00,530
Thank you.

1847
02:52:01,290 --> 02:52:01,830
All right.

1848
02:52:01,930 --> 02:52:02,290
Thank you.

1849
02:52:03,530 --> 02:52:08,790
You know, being out, you know, around the Metro and stuff, I always hear really nice compliments

1850
02:52:08,790 --> 02:52:15,010
about how other communities sometimes want to be likely summit and here's another example

1851
02:52:15,010 --> 02:52:19,970
you guys have really role modeled how to do this, everybody's talking about how well you've

1852
02:52:19,970 --> 02:52:20,250
done this.

1853
02:52:20,370 --> 02:52:20,890
So thank you all.

1854
02:52:21,990 --> 02:52:22,590
All right.

1855
02:52:22,590 --> 02:52:28,210
Okay, we will go ahead and read their ordinance and discuss it and vote on it.

1856
02:52:29,370 --> 02:52:30,070
Thank you.

1857
02:52:32,750 --> 02:52:35,430
This would be Council Member Funk.

1858
02:52:35,790 --> 02:52:39,050
I'd ask you to read bill number 26-035.

1859
02:52:39,970 --> 02:52:40,350
Thank you, Mayor.

1860
02:52:41,770 --> 02:52:47,290
I advance the second reading bill number 26-035 in ordinance approving a public service agreement

1861
02:52:47,290 --> 02:52:53,350
between the City of Lee Summit and LS Goal 26 Inc for the services to be provided to the

1862
02:52:53,350 --> 02:52:56,410
The city in the mouth not to exceed $50,000.

1863
02:52:58,190 --> 02:52:58,870
Thank you.

1864
02:52:58,990 --> 02:53:02,990
We have a motion to move to second reading bill number 26-035 by Council Member Funk.

1865
02:53:03,590 --> 02:53:05,110
Seconded by Council Member Shields.

1866
02:53:05,790 --> 02:53:06,270
Discussion?

1867
02:53:09,620 --> 02:53:11,080
Seeing none, please cast your vote.

1868
02:53:14,840 --> 02:53:16,320
Although it's raining, please record the vote.

1869
02:53:17,160 --> 02:53:18,320
And it passes unanimously.

1870
02:53:19,100 --> 02:53:20,340
So thank you all very much.

1871
02:53:21,100 --> 02:53:29,680
We'll read the second time next week and look forward to the World Cup.

1872
02:53:32,280 --> 02:53:43,380
We're on presentation still, we're on 5C, which is a City of Lee Summit 2025 crime data trends, Chief Travis Forbes is here.

1873
02:53:44,060 --> 02:53:44,380
Hey, sir.

1874
02:53:44,960 --> 02:53:46,700
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Council members.

1875
02:53:47,740 --> 02:54:01,380
This started with a conversation I had a couple of few weeks ago with Mr. Dunning about we got our final crime statistics for the year 2025.

1876
02:54:02,460 --> 02:54:05,340
And I'm losing part of my audience, unfortunately.

1877
02:54:05,880 --> 02:54:14,520
This is a good news, folks, but it was a rather startling to see a significant drop in our crime statistics.

1878
02:54:14,920 --> 02:54:16,680
So I was pretty happy to see that.

1879
02:54:17,100 --> 02:54:24,000
We normally don't present crime statistics every year, but Mr. Dunning thought it's nice to share some good news every once in a while.

1880
02:54:24,000 --> 02:54:25,700
So that is the reason why I'm here.

1881
02:54:26,900 --> 02:54:33,920
And there's, I tell people all the time that there's lots of reasons for crime fluctuations.

1882
02:54:34,420 --> 02:54:38,460
So it's not the police department spiking the ball and saying, look what we did.

1883
02:54:38,880 --> 02:54:43,500
It's much more complicated than that for why crime rises and falls.

1884
02:54:44,480 --> 02:54:47,080
I do believe we play a role and I do.

1885
02:54:47,300 --> 02:54:55,680
I'm super proud of the women and men who work for the at least on the police department who contribute to keeping this community safe, but I also realize there's lots of factors.

1886
02:54:55,680 --> 02:55:02,960
that go into it. So I'll just show some of what occurred over this last year. This was put

1887
02:55:02,960 --> 02:55:12,620
together by my crime analysis team. They do a great job, but they focus quite a bit on what we do

1888
02:55:12,620 --> 02:55:19,040
in the police department and how we try to address crime. We're really focused on using criminal

1889
02:55:19,040 --> 02:55:24,480
intelligence information to drive what we do. We're big on evidence-based practices and using what

1890
02:55:24,480 --> 02:55:32,220
works and really crime analysis has become the engine for our police department and in the future

1891
02:55:32,220 --> 02:55:38,100
it's going to be even bigger engine because we're going to use the real-time crime center that we

1892
02:55:38,100 --> 02:55:45,280
hope to open this summer once we move our dispatch resources to the new joint operation center

1893
02:55:46,040 --> 02:55:53,060
to really increase that to a greater degree. But we use the information that we gain from analysis to

1894
02:55:53,060 --> 02:55:57,860
to target enforcement to certain areas where we notice crime trends occurring,

1895
02:55:58,460 --> 02:56:01,900
working with community members and our partners.

1896
02:56:02,780 --> 02:56:14,200
And we really have leaned in heavily to technology, which has been the council has been a great help to us in helping find resources for us to utilize that technology.

1897
02:56:14,660 --> 02:56:21,800
And in fact, you'll see some more of that coming before council here in the next few weeks with some council packets too.

1898
02:56:22,660 --> 02:56:29,720
crime statistics changed across the country here in the last decade used to be

1899
02:56:29,720 --> 02:56:35,080
uniform crime reporting through the FBI. Now they changed it to national

1900
02:56:35,080 --> 02:56:39,300
incident based reporting systems or neighbors which is a different way of

1901
02:56:39,300 --> 02:56:43,860
reporting crime much more accurate than UCR which had actually been around for

1902
02:56:43,860 --> 02:56:49,300
decades and was a bit dated. This is actually much more accurate but we can only go

1903
02:56:49,300 --> 02:56:53,940
back so far and kind of compare ourselves to ourselves to see how it's

1904
02:56:53,940 --> 02:57:00,860
trended but persons crimes kind of falls into the category of violent crimes

1905
02:57:00,860 --> 02:57:06,960
trended down 2% now where thankfully don't have a significant violent

1906
02:57:06,960 --> 02:57:13,540
crime rate in the summit anyway so a 2% drop was pretty significant but then

1907
02:57:13,540 --> 02:57:18,520
property crime we saw a 17% reduction which kind of floored me.

1908
02:57:21,000 --> 02:57:22,480
We've been pretty flat.

1909
02:57:23,440 --> 02:57:29,800
We did see a slight decrease in a couple areas last year and I attribute a lot of that

1910
02:57:29,800 --> 02:57:36,400
to efforts with community to make them aware of issues with auto thefts and things of that

1911
02:57:36,400 --> 02:57:42,560
nature. We had the Kia Hyundai problem where some of those vehicles were easy to steal through

1912
02:57:42,560 --> 02:57:48,120
widely available electronic means that you can look up a YouTube video on how to do it.

1913
02:57:48,140 --> 02:57:53,220
It was really a big problem across the country, but we worked with our community to get

1914
02:57:53,220 --> 02:57:57,480
that information out there and last year that continued down.

1915
02:57:57,700 --> 02:58:06,220
The one area where we've really been focusing in the last few months, and I'll talk about

1916
02:58:06,220 --> 02:58:10,500
that more here soon, is our retail theft and trying to address that too.

1917
02:58:10,500 --> 02:58:12,260
So I'll talk about that in a little bit.

1918
02:58:13,440 --> 02:58:16,040
And that society crime is an odd sounding category,

1919
02:58:16,300 --> 02:58:20,760
but it's really drug offenses is probably the biggest one here.

1920
02:58:21,500 --> 02:58:26,060
And here's where I'll compare to nationwide crime

1921
02:58:26,060 --> 02:58:27,580
has dropped significantly as well.

1922
02:58:27,840 --> 02:58:30,780
So thankfully, Lisa was not alone in sharing this.

1923
02:58:31,480 --> 02:58:35,100
But the one area where crime did increase in last year

1924
02:58:35,100 --> 02:58:37,780
across the country was in drug offenses.

1925
02:58:38,120 --> 02:58:39,580
Actually, one up 7%.

1926
02:58:39,580 --> 02:58:44,360
And these are still preliminary numbers, they're still collecting data, but this is what

1927
02:58:44,360 --> 02:58:46,180
they're estimating it's going to go up.

1928
02:58:46,720 --> 02:58:52,720
A violent crime was down 9% to 10% and property crime was down 12% they're estimating across

1929
02:58:52,720 --> 02:58:54,160
the United States last year.

1930
02:58:54,800 --> 02:59:00,560
So we kind of beat the trend in property crimes and we beat the trend in drug offenses as

1931
02:59:00,560 --> 02:59:00,780
well.

1932
02:59:00,980 --> 02:59:07,400
So that was refreshing to see, but I do think that there's been a good shift across the

1933
02:59:07,400 --> 02:59:11,060
country, but at least some, thankfully, is included in that.

1934
02:59:11,200 --> 02:59:13,600
So overall crime was down 13 and a half percent.

1935
02:59:14,380 --> 02:59:19,280
So some of the other factors that I believe helped us was our community.

1936
02:59:19,540 --> 02:59:25,200
I mean, people don't hesitate to work with the police department and call us and let us

1937
02:59:25,200 --> 02:59:27,160
know when something's a skew.

1938
02:59:27,800 --> 02:59:33,020
And that's something we try to maintain that relationship, it's very important to us.

1939
02:59:33,020 --> 02:59:39,180
I will do a special call out for the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office.

1940
02:59:39,780 --> 02:59:47,780
Melissa Johnson has been very responsive and has worked with us very well since she's been in office.

1941
02:59:49,820 --> 02:59:54,760
I'll see her Thursday at a meeting and I'll make sure to tell her that but she's done a very good job, too.

1942
02:59:55,300 --> 02:59:59,980
We have great community partnerships, for example with rediscover and our mental health.

1943
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:29,980
Health co-responders, our safe passage partners with, at least some of our seven and our SROs and our impact program there. So they're a big part of that too. So that's all part of this equation of different factors that impact crime. And so I think each of those has a little bit of slice of what made a difference this year. But looking specific to the police department. Some of the technology that has very much helped us and contributed to some significant

1944
03:00:29,980 --> 03:00:36,260
significant cases, for example, our license plate readers, our FOX system.

1945
03:00:37,740 --> 03:00:42,720
We solved a shooting over the last year, and several other high-profile cases.

1946
03:00:43,320 --> 03:00:49,400
In fact, there's a pretty famous case that's in the news significantly this year.

1947
03:00:49,700 --> 03:00:53,160
And I read up about it, and I did a little bit investigating myself.

1948
03:00:53,160 --> 03:01:02,220
and it sounds like they took down some LPR systems that could have helped there and that's very disappointing.

1949
03:01:02,720 --> 03:01:09,300
I'm thankful that that hasn't happened in our community but if something like that did happen in our community,

1950
03:01:09,420 --> 03:01:11,160
I feel like we'd be better prepared.

1951
03:01:11,740 --> 03:01:18,700
We also have a drone program currently that we're looking to expand in the future.

1952
03:01:18,700 --> 03:01:23,860
we use the heck out of these drones. In fact, one of our drone operators is a canine officer

1953
03:01:24,320 --> 03:01:29,240
and he gets the drone out probably as much as he does his dog. And I think sometimes

1954
03:01:29,240 --> 03:01:34,480
the dog looks for lonely out the window wondering when his turn will be because the drones are

1955
03:01:34,480 --> 03:01:39,600
very effective to get up when somebody runs from the police or we're searching for a missing

1956
03:01:39,600 --> 03:01:44,600
person or something like that. And so we're looking to expand that and you'll probably hear

1957
03:01:44,600 --> 03:01:46,080
about that in the future here too.

1958
03:01:47,300 --> 03:01:50,540
We also have a trailer-matter cameras that we've deployed.

1959
03:01:50,720 --> 03:01:55,260
We deploy them during our festivals downtown, but we also use them out in the community

1960
03:01:55,260 --> 03:02:00,800
in areas where we have been advised that there could be construction theft or other issues

1961
03:02:00,800 --> 03:02:01,440
going on.

1962
03:02:01,640 --> 03:02:06,800
So you'll drive by probably sometimes they'll, there's those trailers that they're talking about.

1963
03:02:07,560 --> 03:02:12,760
And I talked about the retail theft issues and our concentration on that, it was just

1964
03:02:12,760 --> 03:02:15,780
a few months ago that we started our retail theft unit.

1965
03:02:16,000 --> 03:02:20,880
These are right now two uniform officers, we have plans to expand that in the future.

1966
03:02:21,660 --> 03:02:29,120
That work with our loss prevention folks, some bear, some at woods, Wal-Mart's, and they

1967
03:02:29,120 --> 03:02:32,280
formed a great partnership.

1968
03:02:32,500 --> 03:02:35,020
We also have detectives who are part of that effort as well.

1969
03:02:36,060 --> 03:02:41,880
And it's gotten to where loss prevention actually is mirroring the officers' schedules because

1970
03:02:41,880 --> 03:02:43,680
as they know when the officers are working now,

1971
03:02:43,820 --> 03:02:45,560
so they'll put a heavier presence

1972
03:02:45,560 --> 03:02:48,560
of lost prevention officers on those times

1973
03:02:48,560 --> 03:02:52,600
that our officers are working in order to work collaboratively.

1974
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And so it's been a great success,

1975
03:02:56,060 --> 03:02:58,100
and probably is contributed to some

1976
03:02:58,100 --> 03:02:59,940
of those property crime drops that we've seen.

1977
03:03:00,720 --> 03:03:02,940
And just again, a heavily leaning into

1978
03:03:02,940 --> 03:03:04,660
additional investigative tools.

1979
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It's, again, I'm never spiking the ball,

1980
03:03:10,140 --> 03:03:15,620
our jobs never done. We're constantly worried about what's coming next. And there certainly

1981
03:03:15,620 --> 03:03:20,760
are some concerns I've seen and heard through intelligence debriefings with our regional

1982
03:03:20,760 --> 03:03:25,380
partners about terrorism concerns with all the world events that are happening today,

1983
03:03:25,380 --> 03:03:30,660
the fact that the World Cup is getting ready to spin up in this region has our ears perked

1984
03:03:30,660 --> 03:03:36,520
up significantly to that. We have an evolving landscape of synthetic drugs that we're dealing

1985
03:03:36,520 --> 03:03:41,200
with, I know some have been mentioned to try to figure out some sort of legislative

1986
03:03:41,200 --> 03:03:47,080
solution, but I just attended a meeting Friday where I heard about a couple of new substances

1987
03:03:47,080 --> 03:03:51,880
that I've never heard mentioned before that are showing up in our schools and other places

1988
03:03:51,880 --> 03:03:55,180
too, so it's going to be very difficult to keep up with that.

1989
03:03:55,740 --> 03:04:01,820
And as much as we invest in technology, technology is being used to victimize people too, so that's

1990
03:04:01,820 --> 03:04:05,200
a significant issue, including artificial intelligence,

1991
03:04:05,460 --> 03:04:06,160
things of that nature.

1992
03:04:06,620 --> 03:04:12,400
So, as always, our role, I believe, in the police department

1993
03:04:12,400 --> 03:04:18,360
is to make our community as resistant to crime as we can.

1994
03:04:18,460 --> 03:04:20,660
I always say it's like water running downhill.

1995
03:04:21,100 --> 03:04:23,240
It's going to find the path at least resistance.

1996
03:04:23,940 --> 03:04:27,000
So I want to make least summit as a resistant

1997
03:04:27,000 --> 03:04:28,420
to that as possible.

1998
03:04:29,140 --> 03:04:31,440
And sometimes we can be a bit of a nuisance

1999
03:04:31,440 --> 03:04:36,260
because we're always just so safety-focused in the police department and the fire department too

2000
03:04:36,260 --> 03:04:41,420
that we're always looking at things that those men and saying this is why we have to do things

2001
03:04:41,420 --> 03:04:47,740
this way and we want to keep people safe. I just never want this community to be known for

2002
03:04:47,740 --> 03:04:53,820
some sort of significant crime or event and have that label stick to us because it's a great place

2003
03:04:53,820 --> 03:04:59,320
to live, work and play and we take that role very seriously and I'm blessed to work with some good

2004
03:04:59,320 --> 03:05:06,900
officers and so he ends to carry that forward. So any questions you have about that, I'll

2005
03:05:06,900 --> 03:05:07,540
take those now.

2006
03:05:08,640 --> 03:05:15,220
Okay. Thanks. Thank you, Chief. Yes, we've got some questions and comments. Can I smell

2007
03:05:15,220 --> 03:05:15,620
your shields?

2008
03:05:16,180 --> 03:05:21,140
Thank you, Mayor. I mean, first, I thank you. I really appreciate the hard work that

2009
03:05:21,140 --> 03:05:21,700
you guys do.

2010
03:05:22,160 --> 03:05:26,340
The presentation as well. The information is very helpful and I know everybody up here

2011
03:05:26,340 --> 03:05:29,980
really appreciates the worth of you and all your officers are doing.

2012
03:05:30,800 --> 03:05:32,780
I did have just a couple of questions.

2013
03:05:33,340 --> 03:05:37,580
When you had the statistics, are those total number of incidents per year or per capita

2014
03:05:37,580 --> 03:05:40,000
at like, what am I looking at in the different paragraphs?

2015
03:05:40,260 --> 03:05:41,240
That's a great question.

2016
03:05:41,480 --> 03:05:45,660
And they're actually just total raw incidents compared to last year.

2017
03:05:45,940 --> 03:05:52,480
And typically, I will ask our crime analyst unit to do per capita because I think that's

2018
03:05:52,480 --> 03:05:58,220
actually a fairer way to assess things because as you know the city grows every year we

2019
03:05:58,220 --> 03:06:03,560
have more residents moving in but this that's just flat numbers so they actually would

2020
03:06:03,560 --> 03:06:06,300
be better if we applied a per capita formula to it.

2021
03:06:06,300 --> 03:06:10,200
Yeah that's really impressive that we're actually we've got more people and less crimes.

2022
03:06:10,400 --> 03:06:15,860
Yes and our calls for service actually went up too but the crimes didn't follow it was

2023
03:06:15,860 --> 03:06:16,380
just calls.

2024
03:06:16,380 --> 03:06:16,480
Yes.

2025
03:06:16,900 --> 03:06:17,120
Okay.

2026
03:06:17,340 --> 03:06:20,800
Well, hopefully that means that folks are engaged and trust the response.

2027
03:06:21,460 --> 03:06:21,820
Yeah.

2028
03:06:22,000 --> 03:06:22,260
Absolutely.

2029
03:06:22,640 --> 03:06:23,020
I hope so.

2030
03:06:24,440 --> 03:06:27,320
I guess the other thing I want to say won't really question some more comments.

2031
03:06:27,420 --> 03:06:30,320
I appreciate a lot of the proactive work that you guys do.

2032
03:06:30,680 --> 03:06:35,820
I know when I've been like liaison at downtown Main Street, the officer liaison will come in

2033
03:06:35,820 --> 03:06:40,140
and give a little presentation educational stuff about, you know, how to prevent theft out

2034
03:06:40,140 --> 03:06:41,220
of your car and stuff like that.

2035
03:06:41,280 --> 03:06:44,940
I know you guys are kind of deploying that all over the place, which is great, you know,

2036
03:06:44,940 --> 03:06:46,800
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, right?

2037
03:06:47,120 --> 03:06:47,480
Absolutely.

2038
03:06:48,880 --> 03:06:54,400
And then I look at things like the retail theft unit that I think that's great is both

2039
03:06:54,400 --> 03:06:58,960
kind of, it's reacting to an issue that you see and responding to it, but also being

2040
03:06:58,960 --> 03:07:01,120
proactive to try to prevent future issues.

2041
03:07:01,340 --> 03:07:04,760
So I think that's a really great thing you guys are deploying and obviously I'm a huge fan

2042
03:07:04,760 --> 03:07:09,820
of the mental health co-responders, so I'm glad that we're able to have those out there helping

2043
03:07:09,820 --> 03:07:10,140
you guys.

2044
03:07:10,440 --> 03:07:11,740
So thank you.

2045
03:07:11,880 --> 03:07:12,480
We really appreciate it.

2046
03:07:12,740 --> 03:07:13,020
Thank you.

2047
03:07:13,020 --> 03:07:18,100
appreciate it. All right, thank you. Councilmember Falker.

2048
03:07:18,620 --> 03:07:25,440
Thank you, Mayor. A couple quick questions, Chief, and a couple comments. In your statistics,

2049
03:07:26,420 --> 03:07:31,760
can you differentiate, like, crimes committed by people that live in Lee Summit or is it crime?

2050
03:07:32,100 --> 03:07:38,500
People coming from other areas into our city and being the retail theft and things like that

2051
03:07:38,500 --> 03:07:40,420
is that something you guys track?

2052
03:07:41,020 --> 03:07:50,460
We can and I don't have those statistics with me we have looked at them in the past though it's it's it's always an interesting breakdown it's usually about 50-50

2053
03:07:50,460 --> 03:08:00,420
and so I don't know what that tells you really but I don't know if I've looked at them per category of crime or crime type to that degree

2054
03:08:00,420 --> 03:08:08,400
but our retail theft officers specifically they are and I may have talked about this with some of you before so I apologize

2055
03:08:08,400 --> 03:08:20,600
But they are really specific looking at these targeted groups that are out there stealing from not only lease-summit stores and businesses but all throughout the Metro.

2056
03:08:20,880 --> 03:08:38,220
People would be kind of surprised at the level of sophistication some of these groups have and how organized they are to both steal and fence and sell goods that they will go to certain businesses and know exactly what the most expensive item.

2057
03:08:38,220 --> 03:08:44,980
they can steal is and easily sell on this. That's what they're looking for. And again,

2058
03:08:45,260 --> 03:08:49,160
working with loss prevention, we've been able to identify those folks. We're not looking for the

2059
03:08:49,740 --> 03:08:54,600
teenagers, you know, who steal a pair of earrings on a dare with their friends or something like that.

2060
03:08:54,680 --> 03:08:58,560
Not that, you know, those folks might encounter some problems with the criminal justice system too,

2061
03:08:58,660 --> 03:09:00,620
but that's not what our retail theft folks are after.

2062
03:09:00,620 --> 03:09:09,460
So the landscape, um, there's been a lot of talk crimes way up and it's all caused by multi-family.

2063
03:09:09,520 --> 03:09:14,840
We're developing too many apartments. Do you see, I mean, obviously, we see the trend that's going down.

2064
03:09:15,180 --> 03:09:19,880
So multi-family is not creating an issue. It's just crime in general.

2065
03:09:20,500 --> 03:09:28,480
We haven't noticed that at all. We work very closely with our, um, apartments and our multi-family areas

2066
03:09:28,480 --> 03:09:33,980
is because we know that just the concentration of people creates a target rich environment

2067
03:09:33,980 --> 03:09:39,780
just like anything, you know, there's more cars, more victims, potential victims who

2068
03:09:39,780 --> 03:09:44,480
live in an apartment complex, so we really encourage our rental property owners and we have

2069
03:09:44,480 --> 03:09:48,180
a good amount of participation in this community in our safe rentals program.

2070
03:09:48,780 --> 03:09:49,720
We think that's key.

2071
03:09:50,100 --> 03:09:53,780
We form partnerships with our property managers throughout the community.

2072
03:09:54,420 --> 03:09:56,080
We let them know when incidents occur.

2073
03:09:56,080 --> 03:10:04,920
We also work collaboratively with them on things like good, strong lease agreements,

2074
03:10:06,380 --> 03:10:12,180
evictions if necessary for problem tenants, so that's a good, strong partnership we're

2075
03:10:12,180 --> 03:10:14,800
pretty proud of, and we'll continue to work at.

2076
03:10:15,960 --> 03:10:20,140
Well, thank you for the presentation, and Happy News is back there.

2077
03:10:20,260 --> 03:10:20,500
Absolutely.

2078
03:10:20,920 --> 03:10:24,140
I learned how somebody told me they always said his name wrong,

2079
03:10:24,140 --> 03:10:29,220
and they said, just remember Dougie Hauser, so they got to do, so that's all I told him how to remember.

2080
03:10:29,360 --> 03:10:36,680
But him and his team and the things they do, educating our youth on these synthetic drugs is just amazing.

2081
03:10:37,020 --> 03:10:41,460
And I'm glad I get to play a part in that and then thank you very much for your presentation tonight.

2082
03:10:41,780 --> 03:10:42,900
Thank you, thank you, Mayor.

2083
03:10:43,680 --> 03:10:44,000
Thank you.

2084
03:10:48,370 --> 03:10:54,190
Chief, you know, these presentations are really great because you're engaging with us.

2085
03:10:54,190 --> 03:11:00,350
and you know that we're a public safety-minded council but it just takes

2086
03:11:01,450 --> 03:11:04,950
continued, continued engagement like this educating us letting us know where

2087
03:11:04,950 --> 03:11:12,390
the numbers are you know it helps us understand that you know hopefully our

2088
03:11:12,390 --> 03:11:18,290
support helps you do your job and you know we want to continue that we want to

2089
03:11:18,290 --> 03:11:20,670
continue that in the future you got a new council coming I'm gonna give you the

2090
03:11:20,670 --> 03:11:28,030
same speech I gave the PSAs which is just keep working with them the same way and we really

2091
03:11:28,030 --> 03:11:33,650
like this brand and we like you know just how much you've made us proud as a council

2092
03:11:33,650 --> 03:11:38,410
and as city and community so thank you sir. Thank you very much very important to us that we have

2093
03:11:38,410 --> 03:11:44,770
your trust as well that I know you've invested a lot in technologies that we've used and pay for

2094
03:11:44,770 --> 03:11:48,190
or I'll affect you have a work agreement that she'll vote on tonight.

2095
03:11:49,850 --> 03:11:53,550
And adding personnel, the public safety sales tax, all of these,

2096
03:11:53,770 --> 03:11:56,130
we really appreciate it from this body.

2097
03:11:56,750 --> 03:12:01,410
And we want to show that we're using the resources that you give us to good effects.

2098
03:12:01,410 --> 03:12:03,130
So hopefully we have done that.

2099
03:12:03,610 --> 03:12:04,530
All right, thank you, sir.

2100
03:12:04,830 --> 03:12:05,050
Thank you.

2101
03:12:07,720 --> 03:12:10,680
Okay, we have one more presentation.

2102
03:12:12,820 --> 03:12:13,480
Excuse me.

2103
03:12:15,550 --> 03:12:19,790
This is a, called a Southway, South Gateway Monument Options.

2104
03:12:20,570 --> 03:12:23,410
This has been in the works to be quite honest years.

2105
03:12:24,790 --> 03:12:29,470
I don't know when it really got serious, but it's been serious for some people for years.

2106
03:12:30,430 --> 03:12:31,510
And so, it's finally here.

2107
03:12:31,650 --> 03:12:34,170
I'm excited to see this presentation, Mr. Elin.

2108
03:12:34,490 --> 03:12:34,830
All right.

2109
03:12:35,010 --> 03:12:37,130
Well, good evening, Ryan Elin, the Assistant City Manager.

2110
03:12:37,470 --> 03:12:41,630
And just like Mayor Barrett said, we're going to talk a little bit about the Lee Summit Gateway

2111
03:12:41,630 --> 03:12:44,770
way projects and particularly the Southern Gateway.

2112
03:12:45,890 --> 03:12:51,050
The goal tonight, what we're looking for tonight is we're looking for feedback on the

2113
03:12:51,050 --> 03:12:58,390
final concept plan to take that final concept to final design and into construction ultimately.

2114
03:12:58,870 --> 03:13:04,810
So tonight with me, you're going to hear from Abby Brown and Lance Johnson from Bartlett and

2115
03:13:04,810 --> 03:13:05,030
West.

2116
03:13:05,490 --> 03:13:09,850
And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention John Persing, who's with our public horse department,

2117
03:13:09,850 --> 03:13:21,190
It's been kind of leading this project, as well as the work that Sean Marshall did, our graduate fellow intern before he left us to go serve at the Jackson County has been working on this project as well.

2118
03:13:21,870 --> 03:13:34,130
So again, tonight, very brief overview and history, the location in the next steps, but again, the primary purpose of tonight is to get the council's feedback in direction on the final concept to move forward to that construction phase.

2119
03:13:35,470 --> 03:13:37,730
So, as Mayor Barrett said, this has been around for a while.

2120
03:13:38,270 --> 03:13:41,810
This is a screenshot from the 2008 Gateway Master Plan.

2121
03:13:42,690 --> 03:13:47,250
So again, yeah, 2008, coming up on 20 years that we've had a plan in order to put monuments

2122
03:13:47,250 --> 03:13:47,930
in place.

2123
03:13:48,730 --> 03:13:55,630
First monument really came on in 2015, and that was this monument here.

2124
03:13:56,410 --> 03:14:01,830
And then we have another monument that came on in 2018 that is in the general area here.

2125
03:14:01,830 --> 03:14:04,930
here, and now we are looking at one down here.

2126
03:14:07,250 --> 03:14:08,630
On the screen here, you can see there's

2127
03:14:08,630 --> 03:14:14,830
the original artistic renderings from 2008, and then as well as the current monuments.

2128
03:14:15,230 --> 03:14:21,270
The one right here is the, I'll call it the original monument, I-470. That is Eastbound

2129
03:14:21,270 --> 03:14:27,610
at View High. That was done in 2015. This monument here is the Southbound Monument, Southbound

2130
03:14:27,610 --> 03:14:30,850
478 Lakewood Boulevard. That one was completed in 2018.

2131
03:14:33,500 --> 03:14:34,800
So now as we go to the Southern Gateway

2132
03:14:34,800 --> 03:14:41,020
Monument, this will be located northbound on 291. You can see this aerial photo here. This is 291

2133
03:14:41,020 --> 03:14:48,360
in 150. The generalized location of the new monument. There's what it looks like today. And again,

2134
03:14:48,440 --> 03:14:55,080
another image of where this is at. So at this point with that brief background and introduction,

2135
03:14:55,080 --> 03:14:59,920
I'm going to turn it over to Abby Brown and Lance Johnson to talk about the public process that is

2136
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:05,960
We're going in and then start getting the feedback associated with that. So with that, I'll turn it over.

2137
03:15:10,650 --> 03:15:32,310
Mr. Mayor, Council members, thank you for your time. We'll try to be brief. I know you guys are wanting to get out of here. Lance Johnson, this is my colleague, Abby Brown. She leads the design on this. Appreciate the time. We're with Bartlett and West. We're an engineering architecture and construction company.

2138
03:15:32,310 --> 03:15:36,910
we are celebrating our 75th year in business this year.

2139
03:15:37,610 --> 03:15:39,570
And I just wanted to tell you our passion

2140
03:15:39,570 --> 03:15:42,950
or at least what we enjoy is being your trusted advisor

2141
03:15:43,510 --> 03:15:45,950
and helping people design and build things.

2142
03:15:46,470 --> 03:15:49,650
So we're glad to be here and we're looking forward to this.

2143
03:15:49,970 --> 03:15:52,030
And I found it kind of ironic sitting here

2144
03:15:52,030 --> 03:15:56,410
watching the other digital or the presentations

2145
03:15:56,410 --> 03:15:58,410
in this hub of social media and branding.

2146
03:15:59,010 --> 03:15:59,610
And here we are.

2147
03:15:59,690 --> 03:16:01,050
This started several years ago.

2148
03:16:01,050 --> 03:16:07,230
So we're here the same night and we're talking about branding and signage for your city.

2149
03:16:07,410 --> 03:16:13,030
And I did Google to see if Smithton has a monument sign from what I can tell, according

2150
03:16:13,030 --> 03:16:14,310
to Google, they do not.

2151
03:16:14,590 --> 03:16:16,230
So you're way ahead of the game.

2152
03:16:16,630 --> 03:16:22,470
But we held a public meeting back in the fall to get some input.

2153
03:16:22,650 --> 03:16:27,630
We wanted to, as you can imagine, trying to come up with something and see what the community

2154
03:16:27,630 --> 03:16:34,370
and try to get the community's voice on a gateway monument sign, the challenge, or at

2155
03:16:34,370 --> 03:16:36,930
least the opportunities that that can present us.

2156
03:16:37,810 --> 03:16:44,610
We had a public meeting, had good attendance, and we had six boards, six different design

2157
03:16:44,610 --> 03:16:50,770
concepts, and we asked everybody that attended if they would take sticky notes and essentially

2158
03:16:50,770 --> 03:16:58,850
We vote on the boards and not only just on the concept but just materials and then anonymously

2159
03:16:59,390 --> 03:17:02,190
be able to provide their feedback and their input.

2160
03:17:02,970 --> 03:17:08,950
And we collected those as well as social media comments through Facebook and we're here

2161
03:17:08,950 --> 03:17:14,110
tonight to go through, I'm going to turn it over here to Abby here in a minute, to kind

2162
03:17:14,110 --> 03:17:18,710
of go through some of those comments and then how we culminated really in the two that we've

2163
03:17:18,710 --> 03:17:20,310
got before you tonight.

2164
03:17:20,830 --> 03:17:24,550
We did meet with the industrial development authority

2165
03:17:24,550 --> 03:17:30,430
board last Friday presented the same presentation to them

2166
03:17:30,430 --> 03:17:32,070
and received their feedback as well.

2167
03:17:32,410 --> 03:17:34,290
So I'll go ahead and turn it over to Abby

2168
03:17:34,290 --> 03:17:37,970
and then I'll stick around for any questions you might have.

2169
03:17:38,410 --> 03:17:38,730
Thank you.

2170
03:17:39,650 --> 03:17:40,330
Thank you.

2171
03:17:41,290 --> 03:17:44,730
OK, so right here at the side that we're

2172
03:17:44,730 --> 03:17:46,910
looking at are six different concepts

2173
03:17:46,910 --> 03:17:52,550
that we designed to get feedback on in the fall and we tried to make them all

2174
03:17:52,550 --> 03:17:56,930
different to give a variety to show people and get a feel for what direction we

2175
03:17:56,930 --> 03:18:00,870
should head in for this monument sign. I'm not going to necessarily walk through

2176
03:18:00,870 --> 03:18:05,690
all six of them but I'll just point out a couple of them in particular the one

2177
03:18:05,690 --> 03:18:12,790
on the top left that says Lee summit and it has the peak and the slope. That one had

2178
03:18:12,790 --> 03:18:20,470
the most green votes which were good votes. And a lot of the consensus on that sign was

2179
03:18:20,470 --> 03:18:25,830
that people like the mix of materials and the modern look. And this is actually one

2180
03:18:25,830 --> 03:18:31,570
sign that we will be taking forward to another concept. So keep that in mind. You'll see this

2181
03:18:31,570 --> 03:18:37,710
again soon. The next sign that I'd like to talk about is the one on the bottom left. That

2182
03:18:37,710 --> 03:18:44,390
That is the existing sign and we've been calling this one the replica, so we'll also be keeping

2183
03:18:44,390 --> 03:18:49,110
that one in mind as we move forward and we have taken our own spin on that one.

2184
03:18:49,650 --> 03:18:55,890
So it had 18 green votes, four red votes, and a lot of people liked it for the consistency

2185
03:18:55,890 --> 03:18:59,130
but maybe thought it might be better to modernize it.

2186
03:18:59,770 --> 03:19:03,790
The last one in particular that I'll talk about is the one on the bottom right.

2187
03:19:03,790 --> 03:19:13,050
it was the most fun conversation starter concept that we had. It also had almost the most

2188
03:19:13,050 --> 03:19:19,090
no or red votes but again a lot of people liked it because it was a conversation starter

2189
03:19:19,090 --> 03:19:24,030
but maybe not this design in particular. We did not move forward with this concept

2190
03:19:24,030 --> 03:19:29,550
but it was really great to have people come up and talk about it and get their feedback on it.

2191
03:19:29,550 --> 03:19:30,370
Okay,

2192
03:19:33,100 --> 03:19:42,240
so with the concepts that I had just walked through we are moving forward with two of them and we are calling this one the summit.

2193
03:19:43,040 --> 03:19:55,220
The representation of the summit would be the fact that we summit is the high point between Kansas City and St. Louis and so we tried to depict that in a modern way in this monument sign.

2194
03:19:55,220 --> 03:20:00,600
And so on the top is a day rendering and then on the bottom is a nighttime rendering.

2195
03:20:01,240 --> 03:20:09,320
And we're thinking of making sure that we have good lighting, representative of kind

2196
03:20:09,320 --> 03:20:13,940
of responding to what's existing at some of the monument signs, but upgrading that.

2197
03:20:14,520 --> 03:20:19,560
And then maybe with some more modern material and some plantings.

2198
03:20:19,560 --> 03:20:24,440
The monument sign does have to be 50 feet away from the road.

2199
03:20:24,700 --> 03:20:28,740
That's a requirement that we've been given.

2200
03:20:30,540 --> 03:20:33,480
So this is the second version of this summit.

2201
03:20:33,740 --> 03:20:35,040
It's just a flat top.

2202
03:20:35,300 --> 03:20:38,180
So there was feedback that we should have either option.

2203
03:20:38,720 --> 03:20:42,280
And so this is literally the same concept, but flat top.

2204
03:20:42,400 --> 03:20:44,460
It kind of defeats the purpose of the summit.

2205
03:20:44,640 --> 03:20:47,460
But, you know, for consistency, we're keeping the name.

2206
03:20:48,320 --> 03:20:52,600
We'll move on to the next concept, which is called the replicas.

2207
03:20:52,920 --> 03:20:58,780
You can see we've taken some of the same elements of the existing sign, and there's an image

2208
03:20:58,780 --> 03:20:59,840
of it on the right.

2209
03:21:00,560 --> 03:21:07,480
And we've extorted some of the, I guess, massings in it, but kept the same sign.

2210
03:21:07,940 --> 03:21:16,140
The idea with this one is to potentially maybe have that LS logo be able to be replaced

2211
03:21:16,140 --> 03:21:21,260
as the logo might change in the future if there's any updates along that so

2212
03:21:21,260 --> 03:21:25,500
then the monument sign can stay the same with the option of interchanging the

2213
03:21:25,500 --> 03:21:30,040
logo out. And again you'll see on the top is the daytime rendering and the

2214
03:21:30,040 --> 03:21:37,900
bottom is the nighttime rendering. This is the next version of the replica and we're

2215
03:21:37,900 --> 03:21:42,300
calling this one without the arch so it's literally the same thing but without

2216
03:21:42,300 --> 03:21:43,500
the arch on top.

2217
03:21:45,540 --> 03:21:50,700
Just to note on all of the concepts we do have landscaping around the bottom

2218
03:21:50,700 --> 03:21:57,760
of the monument to kind of protect the lighting from moors, et cetera. So that's something

2219
03:21:57,760 --> 03:22:06,620
that we've been thinking about as well. I guess the next and final slide is this one. You want

2220
03:22:06,620 --> 03:22:07,240
to hit on that one?

2221
03:22:09,780 --> 03:22:12,460
Yeah, so I think at this point, before we start talking about the timeline

2222
03:22:13,880 --> 03:22:23,380
I like to just have brief conversation on any preference for moving forward on these options here and we can put back and forth through this.

2223
03:22:24,060 --> 03:22:34,820
I will say the IDA's comments, the IDA really seemed to, as a whole, prefer the consistency aspects of the replica with the arch.

2224
03:22:35,280 --> 03:22:39,840
There were some comments about making sure that Lee Summit was maybe a little bit bigger,

2225
03:22:40,560 --> 03:22:46,820
so you can, it was really, really important that you could see Lee Summit kind of throughout

2226
03:22:46,820 --> 03:22:47,040
there.

2227
03:22:47,600 --> 03:22:51,140
And then I'll say the second would have been the summit with the peak.

2228
03:22:51,340 --> 03:22:55,100
They really liked the idea that Lee Summit was so bold as well as the way that the lighting

2229
03:22:55,100 --> 03:22:57,900
interacted with it at night because of how it was set back.

2230
03:22:58,520 --> 03:23:03,640
but on a whole I would say that the IDA's feedback was generally consistency was

2231
03:23:03,640 --> 03:23:09,540
important and just one more detail just for we mentioned the IDA and I forgot

2232
03:23:09,540 --> 03:23:15,780
to mention this but the IDA is a funding partner in this back in of gosh I forgot

2233
03:23:15,780 --> 03:23:20,800
the date. Back earlier this year we did enter into a funding agreement with

2234
03:23:20,800 --> 03:23:23,740
the IDA and IDA is funding a quarter of this project.

2235
03:23:25,910 --> 03:23:28,490
Thank you. All right I'll

2236
03:23:28,490 --> 03:23:29,390
We opened up for discussion.

2237
03:23:30,310 --> 03:23:31,030
Council member Carla.

2238
03:23:32,090 --> 03:23:32,610
Thank you mayor.

2239
03:23:32,930 --> 03:23:35,470
So I would say that I have to agree with IDA.

2240
03:23:35,650 --> 03:23:39,950
I do like the replica, the consistency of it.

2241
03:23:40,550 --> 03:23:51,430
My concern is that the Lee Summit with overgrown vegetation

2242
03:23:51,430 --> 03:23:54,090
or what have you might disappear on that.

2243
03:23:56,230 --> 03:24:00,650
the other two are kind of way up high on a hill so it's easy for that

2244
03:24:00,650 --> 03:24:07,370
Lisa to not get covered up but I think you know something that's not so far up

2245
03:24:07,370 --> 03:24:12,450
might have a little more issues so that that would be my only concern with this

2246
03:24:12,450 --> 03:24:18,370
one but out of the rest of everything that you have that that's my favorite

2247
03:24:18,930 --> 03:24:20,970
That's my vote, thank you.

2248
03:24:22,810 --> 03:24:23,530
Thank you.

2249
03:24:24,390 --> 03:24:25,210
Councilmember Shields.

2250
03:24:26,250 --> 03:24:27,750
I agree with Councilmember Carlow.

2251
03:24:28,130 --> 03:24:29,730
I like the replica with the arches.

2252
03:24:29,910 --> 03:24:32,830
Nice to kind of keep consistent with the other ones

2253
03:24:32,830 --> 03:24:35,630
so that we have sort of a consistent brand.

2254
03:24:36,110 --> 03:24:38,370
If they want to tweak it and make the lease on it bigger,

2255
03:24:38,850 --> 03:24:39,430
that's fine.

2256
03:24:40,370 --> 03:24:41,710
Yeah, I like that, nice.

2257
03:24:43,620 --> 03:24:45,020
Thank you, Councilmember Hodges.

2258
03:24:45,640 --> 03:24:47,140
Yeah, I would agree with my fellow council members.

2259
03:24:47,740 --> 03:24:50,060
I think that the replica with the arches

2260
03:24:50,060 --> 03:24:56,580
to pick more of who we are, whereas I feel like the first one is yes more modern but I don't

2261
03:24:56,580 --> 03:25:01,820
feel like that depicts what we look like once you're in our city. I like that we stuck to brick on

2262
03:25:01,820 --> 03:25:06,160
this one which depicts a lot of what our buildings are. So I think it just looks more classy. So that

2263
03:25:06,160 --> 03:25:09,840
that too would be my vote. Thank you. Okay, thank you.

2264
03:25:12,110 --> 03:25:12,970
Council member Reader.

2265
03:25:13,750 --> 03:25:19,990
Thank you, Mayor. On the vegetation, Council member Carlisle brought up a good point that

2266
03:25:19,990 --> 03:25:21,610
But that will have to be maintained.

2267
03:25:24,230 --> 03:25:31,410
So I would say I like the replica a lot, that's my favorite one, but I don't know about

2268
03:25:31,410 --> 03:25:31,910
the vegetation.

2269
03:25:32,290 --> 03:25:35,750
I'd be a little worried about that, because it's just going to be hard, it's one more

2270
03:25:35,750 --> 03:25:36,850
thing we have to take care of.

2271
03:25:37,150 --> 03:25:38,330
So I would say cut that.

2272
03:25:40,360 --> 03:25:41,760
Which one do you prefer?

2273
03:25:42,040 --> 03:25:42,380
That's my word.

2274
03:25:42,380 --> 03:25:42,900
I'm sorry.

2275
03:25:43,580 --> 03:25:44,180
Same one.

2276
03:25:44,520 --> 03:25:44,820
Same one.

2277
03:25:50,120 --> 03:25:51,060
You chose the arch.

2278
03:25:51,440 --> 03:25:52,020
Yes, sir.

2279
03:25:52,280 --> 03:25:52,420
Okay.

2280
03:25:52,640 --> 03:25:53,320
Thank you.

2281
03:25:53,920 --> 03:25:54,460
Mayor Rare.

2282
03:25:54,460 --> 03:25:59,680
Yes. Sorry, since we're on the vegetation discussion, I thought I'd add a little insight.

2283
03:26:00,020 --> 03:26:07,400
So, with the North Monument sign, we have an arrangement through, I want to say it's a license agreement.

2284
03:26:07,540 --> 03:26:15,880
I'm going to look at Michael Park to allow for us as the city to enhance the level of maintenance on Mo.Ride-of-way.

2285
03:26:16,080 --> 03:26:21,580
So, we do take and know that more often than Mo.'s typical is it three times a year, Michael.

2286
03:26:21,580 --> 03:26:28,500
So we'll do that monthly through this arrangement to keep the vegetation down.

2287
03:26:28,600 --> 03:26:33,580
That is something we could do in this instance as well, just working through Modat and the appropriate approvals.

2288
03:26:33,820 --> 03:26:34,800
So I just wanted to mention that.

2289
03:26:36,960 --> 03:26:48,100
And one thing that I will add is that comment with the possible weeds growing up to cover the sign or the text that says we summit has been brought up in previous meetings.

2290
03:26:48,100 --> 03:26:54,280
And we've discussed that we would probably make the text that actually says we summon a

2291
03:26:54,280 --> 03:27:00,940
little bit bigger and off the ground a little bit more to keep in mind the height of some

2292
03:27:00,940 --> 03:27:01,740
weeds that could grow.

2293
03:27:01,760 --> 03:27:06,540
We're thinking of having the minimum up bottom line of those letters be about three feet

2294
03:27:06,540 --> 03:27:07,820
plus off the ground.

2295
03:27:07,820 --> 03:27:13,540
And then if we do put some accent plantings, we can make sure that those don't grow to a

2296
03:27:13,540 --> 03:27:14,240
certain height.

2297
03:27:15,620 --> 03:27:18,320
That is something that we are being very aware of.

2298
03:27:20,810 --> 03:27:21,210
Yeah.

2299
03:27:23,230 --> 03:27:23,830
Thank you.

2300
03:27:23,950 --> 03:27:24,490
Council member level.

2301
03:27:25,610 --> 03:27:26,690
I agree with everybody.

2302
03:27:28,050 --> 03:27:28,890
I do like what you said.

2303
03:27:29,190 --> 03:27:29,570
I do.

2304
03:27:29,750 --> 03:27:30,610
I thought it was cool.

2305
03:27:31,210 --> 03:27:32,790
I didn't like the summit.

2306
03:27:32,850 --> 03:27:34,150
I thought it looked like the Golden Gate Bridge,

2307
03:27:34,150 --> 03:27:37,130
but I did like how that least summit popped there

2308
03:27:37,130 --> 03:27:38,350
like when driving by at night.

2309
03:27:38,350 --> 03:27:39,190
So if there was a.

2310
03:27:39,730 --> 03:27:40,110
Yeah.

2311
03:27:40,390 --> 03:27:41,750
I mean, obviously not that big.

2312
03:27:41,950 --> 03:27:44,050
So I think what you said there if we can make that.

2313
03:27:44,050 --> 03:27:47,370
And then I love the idea that we can replace that logo at some point.

2314
03:27:47,450 --> 03:27:51,430
Good gracious, not my favorite, our logo.

2315
03:27:55,370 --> 03:27:57,570
Yeah, very free up here these days.

2316
03:27:57,990 --> 03:28:00,050
Yeah, yeah.

2317
03:28:00,950 --> 03:28:02,670
Okay, thank you, Council Member Funk.

2318
03:28:03,450 --> 03:28:06,830
The replica with the arch, sir, thank you.

2319
03:28:07,110 --> 03:28:08,830
Thank you, Council Member Prior.

2320
03:28:09,670 --> 03:28:13,130
Thank you. Well, it's kind of pointless that I even say this because I'm the odd man out,

2321
03:28:13,130 --> 03:28:20,670
But I like the first one the best, but I like the arch one is my second favorite, so thanks.

2322
03:28:21,190 --> 03:28:22,590
Okay, thank you.

2323
03:28:22,750 --> 03:28:23,570
Mayor Patimov.

2324
03:28:23,630 --> 03:28:27,650
Just for the record, I'll do the replica with the arch, so I'm good.

2325
03:28:29,950 --> 03:28:30,490
It

2326
03:28:36,280 --> 03:28:37,900
was quite a bit of consensus there.

2327
03:28:40,880 --> 03:28:50,080
I like the peak the summit, but I just think that's symbolic, but I understand the consistency.

2328
03:28:50,080 --> 03:28:59,860
I just think that being a sign person, because my living depends on that kind of stuff, you want to be able to see the name.

2329
03:29:00,540 --> 03:29:04,180
And so even if you don't have the, like, if

2330
03:29:06,290 --> 03:29:13,010
there's not landscape that covers it up or we're grown, but it doesn't, you know, at least some it doesn't.

2331
03:29:13,250 --> 03:29:17,050
It's going to be challenged to see driving 55 to 70 miles an hour.

2332
03:29:18,110 --> 03:29:19,550
But it's a cool sign.

2333
03:29:20,010 --> 03:29:20,410
All

2334
03:29:23,640 --> 03:29:28,700
right. Well, I think the feedback's pretty good. I think that you've probably got

2335
03:29:28,700 --> 03:29:33,620
enough to go on for the final design. And so with that, yeah, I'm just kind of recapping,

2336
03:29:33,880 --> 03:29:39,700
replica with the arch, keep the landscaping trimmed up, and signs going to get a little bigger.

2337
03:29:40,640 --> 03:29:44,360
Letters are going to get a little bit taller, so you can make sure that you can see that moving forward.

2338
03:29:44,820 --> 03:29:49,280
Just a little bit more on the timeline. Tonight we're here at the wrapping up the design process,

2339
03:29:49,720 --> 03:29:51,520
But now the project is going to move really quickly.

2340
03:29:51,980 --> 03:29:58,880
We're going to move essentially, we'll have a GMP price for final approval, and then we'll look to go into construction.

2341
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:29,680
Coming up here in April, May, in construction over the summer, not anticipating a very long construction time frame, so this will be completed early this summer. Thank you. Thank you, and thank you, Mr. Johnson, Ms. Brown, for your hard work. Okay, please read, bill number 26-037. Thank you, Mayor. I move for second reading, bill number 26-037, in ordinance proving the 2026 labor agreement by between the city of Lisa and Missouri and the fraternal order of police lodge number 50.

2342
03:30:29,680 --> 03:30:32,440
and authorizing city managed to execute the same by and on behalf of the city.

2343
03:30:34,020 --> 03:30:34,620
Thank you.

2344
03:30:34,680 --> 03:30:39,480
We have a motion to move to second reading, bill number 26-037 by Councilmember Shields,

2345
03:30:39,560 --> 03:30:40,680
seconded by Councilmember Carlyle.

2346
03:30:41,800 --> 03:30:46,040
Mr. Dunning, what kind of a big deal, what should we say?

2347
03:30:47,380 --> 03:30:54,180
Well, so this is a renegotiated collective bargaining agreement with the Federal Order of Police,

2348
03:30:54,180 --> 03:31:01,860
and it's a three year agreement, establishes the new wage tables and pay for our represented members.

2349
03:31:02,620 --> 03:31:09,120
And so this is something that occurs as we enter into these agreements as they come up on their expiration

2350
03:31:09,120 --> 03:31:15,500
and we go back into negotiations. So this is a fully negotiated and we understand that the FOP has ratified this,

2351
03:31:15,640 --> 03:31:16,920
so it's all set for approval.

2352
03:31:17,660 --> 03:31:22,900
Okay, and what's the what's the terminology, attraction, retention, and

2353
03:31:23,900 --> 03:31:29,020
attraction, retention, and equipping are public safety folks with the

2354
03:31:29,020 --> 03:31:32,840
this is both the attraction and the retention part.

2355
03:31:33,260 --> 03:31:37,400
It's hugely beneficial in that and if we're going to be a public safety minded council,

2356
03:31:37,440 --> 03:31:39,920
this is this is how you how you do that.

2357
03:31:40,100 --> 03:31:41,200
Yes, all right.

2358
03:31:42,260 --> 03:31:42,980
Thanks sir.

2359
03:31:43,180 --> 03:31:43,700
Any discussion?

2360
03:31:48,340 --> 03:31:49,460
All right.

2361
03:31:55,540 --> 03:31:57,460
All votes are in, please record the vote.

2362
03:31:58,460 --> 03:32:01,040
And it passes unanimously, goes to second reading.

2363
03:32:02,400 --> 03:32:07,000
All right, committee reports, customer shields.

2364
03:32:08,040 --> 03:32:08,740
Thank you, Mayor.

2365
03:32:08,920 --> 03:32:10,720
We had finance and budget committee yesterday.

2366
03:32:10,920 --> 03:32:15,460
We had a really great kind of health insurance 101 presentation, some good discussion just

2367
03:32:15,460 --> 03:32:22,000
generally about how our insurance policies have been working, what kind of loss ratios they've

2368
03:32:22,000 --> 03:32:23,940
been seeing, what some options are going forward.

2369
03:32:23,940 --> 03:32:43,600
And I believe the plan is to bring that to full council for, as we looked at sort of like level setting sort of make sure that we all are starting the same base of knowledge as we kind of go into these discussions and what's probably going to be able to your process to slowly transition towards more of a self ensured style.

2370
03:32:43,780 --> 03:32:47,520
So I think that will come back sometime in April or May maybe to the full council.

2371
03:32:47,520 --> 03:32:53,800
Yeah, there was a discussion I recall about, you know, getting through the elections and

2372
03:32:53,800 --> 03:32:58,920
then kind of starting fresh with where we at and where we headed and what's the plan.

2373
03:32:59,300 --> 03:33:03,240
And to provide the same education to any new council members that we might have.

2374
03:33:03,500 --> 03:33:03,760
That's correct.

2375
03:33:04,620 --> 03:33:05,440
So I'll be coming forward.

2376
03:33:05,620 --> 03:33:11,800
And then we also had an ordinance on the agenda that I guess will be coming to council maybe

2377
03:33:11,800 --> 03:33:16,640
next meeting about the municipal court audit to slightly increase their scope of services

2378
03:33:16,640 --> 03:33:20,480
is that they can present their findings directly to the Council. Am I quoting that correctly?

2379
03:33:20,720 --> 03:33:21,000
That's correct.

2380
03:33:21,360 --> 03:33:27,060
Okay, so I know we've all been interested in that topic and they should be coming the audit

2381
03:33:27,060 --> 03:33:30,780
firm would be coming to present their findings directly to us and help walk us through those

2382
03:33:30,780 --> 03:33:31,260
correct?

2383
03:33:31,600 --> 03:33:31,940
That's correct.

2384
03:33:32,180 --> 03:33:35,800
Okay, so lots of exciting stuff at Finance and Budget as always. Thank you, Mayor.

2385
03:33:36,120 --> 03:33:36,420
Thank you.

2386
03:33:39,170 --> 03:33:40,090
Other committee reports?

2387
03:33:42,950 --> 03:33:43,710
Council comments?

2388
03:33:49,280 --> 03:33:50,100
Staff around table?

2389
03:33:51,220 --> 03:33:53,520
Thank you Mayor, a few items to share.

2390
03:33:54,440 --> 03:33:59,140
So we are proceeding forward with the Douglas Street Improvement Projects on the north side

2391
03:33:59,140 --> 03:34:04,820
between Shipman and Second Street and so as part of that project it involves taking care

2392
03:34:04,820 --> 03:34:10,280
of some trees and if you may recall there are certain times of the year where tree clearing

2393
03:34:10,280 --> 03:34:14,560
shall not occur so that comes upon us sometime in April.

2394
03:34:14,760 --> 03:34:19,120
So this is kind of advanced awareness that there will be some tree clearing that will be

2395
03:34:19,120 --> 03:34:25,240
taking place on that North Douglas project in the coming days and weeks ahead.

2396
03:34:27,460 --> 03:34:28,120
Let's

2397
03:34:28,120 --> 03:34:30,280
see. I'd also see my hand

2398
03:34:33,130 --> 03:34:33,950
lost my trade of thought.

2399
03:34:37,650 --> 03:34:46,190
Just listening intently to the public comments regarding the claims that the city is not

2400
03:34:46,190 --> 03:34:51,910
supporting employees and seeking attention when they need them with regards to health.

2401
03:34:52,170 --> 03:34:55,330
And I would just say that I take that very seriously.

2402
03:34:55,910 --> 03:35:03,110
And I know that our fire department takes that very seriously, even to the extent that we're proud of our peer support groups that we have in place.

2403
03:35:03,470 --> 03:35:08,950
And I know that Chief Snyder represents us very well at the state level in the critical illness pool.

2404
03:35:09,170 --> 03:35:12,970
And then many other areas and we're very, very keen to those needs.

2405
03:35:12,970 --> 03:35:19,070
and so I guess I would just say I don't agree with some of those statements as

2406
03:35:19,070 --> 03:35:21,710
your city manager. With that mayor, that's all I have.

2407
03:35:24,090 --> 03:35:25,510
Thank you. Council Member

2408
03:35:25,510 --> 03:35:34,070
Karla. Thank you mayor. Just real quick Mr. Dunning about the trees on Douglas.

2409
03:35:34,750 --> 03:35:36,030
What are we going to do with those?

2410
03:35:38,700 --> 03:35:41,780
I'm going to find a friend. Thank you.

2411
03:35:41,780 --> 03:35:45,080
That's what the, what takes place with that.

2412
03:35:49,980 --> 03:35:52,240
Yeah, thank you, Michael Park, Director of Public Works.

2413
03:35:52,420 --> 03:35:57,300
I appreciate creating the community awareness, because you will see start to activity, but the project's not starting yet.

2414
03:35:57,840 --> 03:36:01,480
It is because we have a seasonal limitation on when we can take priests down.

2415
03:36:01,540 --> 03:36:09,720
So it's not just happening on Douglas, but you may see tree removals like out at Ward Purcells, or on other development size we're all under the same regulations.

2416
03:36:10,180 --> 03:36:14,920
And what we will do is we will cut them down on Douglas, in this case, we'll cut them down, we'll grind the stomps,

2417
03:36:14,920 --> 03:36:18,240
will remove everything, so it's a cleaned up site.

2418
03:36:18,700 --> 03:36:21,320
And other areas of town where it may not be as visible,

2419
03:36:21,740 --> 03:36:24,760
the requirement is just to literally cut the tree down

2420
03:36:24,760 --> 03:36:26,060
and sometimes it will lie there

2421
03:36:26,060 --> 03:36:28,180
until the construction begins.

2422
03:36:28,640 --> 03:36:30,760
So as long as the tree is not vertical,

2423
03:36:31,160 --> 03:36:33,240
it's cut down, we have eliminated the habitat,

2424
03:36:33,320 --> 03:36:36,380
it's of concern and allows us to then continue work

2425
03:36:36,380 --> 03:36:39,520
during the other seasons when we're not allowed

2426
03:36:39,520 --> 03:36:40,240
to cut down trees.

2427
03:36:40,600 --> 03:36:44,000
Okay, so after we cut them down and either lay them

2428
03:36:44,000 --> 03:36:46,380
or don't lay them, then what happens to them?

2429
03:36:46,760 --> 03:36:50,000
Well, in this case on Douglas, they will be ground up,

2430
03:36:50,200 --> 03:36:52,640
removed from the site, taken to a landfill

2431
03:36:52,640 --> 03:36:54,320
or other acceptable location.

2432
03:36:54,700 --> 03:36:57,540
So we don't, we don't turn them into mulch and sell it

2433
03:36:57,540 --> 03:37:00,600
through our, or let our parks use it

2434
03:37:00,600 --> 03:37:05,680
because mulch is expensive, or some puttin' a landfill somewhere.

2435
03:37:05,740 --> 03:37:07,860
Well, some of the brush we do go through recycling,

2436
03:37:07,860 --> 03:37:10,720
but in this case, our contractor will cut it down.

2437
03:37:10,920 --> 03:37:12,660
It'll grind out the stumps, remove those.

2438
03:37:12,660 --> 03:37:25,780
Wherever they take them, I would not be surprised if they take them to a resource recovery park operation, where it's ground up made into mulch, but okay well you can just if I see them, I will ask them so you can let them know that I will be asking.

2439
03:37:26,300 --> 03:37:26,920
Thank you.

2440
03:37:27,000 --> 03:37:27,460
Yeah, you're welcome.

2441
03:37:29,340 --> 03:37:30,340
Okay, thank you.

2442
03:37:34,160 --> 03:37:34,560
Okay.

2443
03:37:36,520 --> 03:37:41,220
We're going to read in the closed session, so all of you have a thank you for sticking with us tonight.

2444
03:37:42,200 --> 03:37:43,580
Customer shields, would you please?

2445
03:37:44,500 --> 03:37:47,820
Yep, pursuant section 610-211 of the revised statutes, the state of Missouri

2446
03:37:47,820 --> 03:37:50,080
pertain to legal actions causes of action and litigation involving public

2447
03:37:50,080 --> 03:37:52,000
government of body in any confidential and privileged communication

2448
03:37:52,000 --> 03:37:53,240
in a public government of body.

2449
03:37:53,280 --> 03:37:56,120
It's represented in its attorneys of pursuant section 610-219.

2450
03:37:56,540 --> 03:37:59,080
With revised statutes, the state of Missouri pertain to preparation, including any

2451
03:37:59,080 --> 03:38:01,360
discussion of work product on behalf of the public government of body or

2452
03:38:01,360 --> 03:38:04,480
it's representatives from negotiations with employee groups, I moved to enter a

2453
03:38:04,480 --> 03:38:04,880
closed session.

2454
03:38:06,180 --> 03:38:06,540
Second.

2455
03:38:06,880 --> 03:38:07,180
Thank you.

2456
03:38:07,300 --> 03:38:09,460
We have a motion to go in a closed session by Council Member Shields.

2457
03:38:09,580 --> 03:38:10,880
Seconded by Council Member Carlisle.

2458
03:38:10,980 --> 03:38:11,220
Discussion?

2459
03:38:11,220 --> 03:38:11,360
motion.

2460
03:38:14,080 --> 03:38:16,200
Seeing none, could I get a roll call vote, please?

2461
03:38:16,960 --> 03:38:17,800
Council member funk.

2462
03:38:19,500 --> 03:38:20,020
Aye.

2463
03:38:20,720 --> 03:38:21,620
Council member level.

2464
03:38:22,500 --> 03:38:22,700
Aye.

2465
03:38:23,280 --> 03:38:24,100
Council member prior.

2466
03:38:25,180 --> 03:38:25,460
Aye.

2467
03:38:26,400 --> 03:38:27,440
Council member Carlisle.

2468
03:38:27,880 --> 03:38:28,100
Aye.

2469
03:38:28,740 --> 03:38:29,760
Council member Raider.

2470
03:38:30,220 --> 03:38:30,440
Aye.

2471
03:38:30,920 --> 03:38:31,760
Council member Hodges.

2472
03:38:32,060 --> 03:38:32,160
Aye.

2473
03:38:32,740 --> 03:38:33,900
Council member Shields.

2474
03:38:33,940 --> 03:38:34,060
Aye.

2475
03:38:34,580 --> 03:38:35,180
May I put a template?

2476
03:38:35,860 --> 03:38:36,520
May I bear it?

2477
03:38:36,820 --> 03:38:37,340
Aye.

2478
03:38:37,880 --> 03:38:38,640
Everyone have a good night.