>> Welcome to the 30th regular meeting of the Jackson County
Legislature.
It is Monday, August 10, 2026.
The time is 3:03, when we are at the eastern Jackson County
Courthouse common ground floor, legislative chambers paramedic
madam clerk, we're going to call the roll.
I want to know that legislator Flower asked to be excused.
>> Thank you, Ms. Chair.
[roll call]
Five present, three absent, one excused.
>> Please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance.
>> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
of America and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
>> Is there a motion to approve the journal?
>> So moved.
>> Second.
>> All in favor?
[members voting]
Is anyone opposed?
Today is August the 10th, 2026.
And I will open the public hearing for resolution 22367,
authorizing the County Executive to take
necessary preliminary steps to facilitate
the issuance of a special obligation
bonds for improvements to University health facilities
and services.
If you have not signed in yet, we
do have a sign in sheet outside.
I need you to sign in as soon as possible
if you would like to speak.
Anyone wishing to give testimony will need
to be sworn in by our clerk.
The clerk of the legislature.
Once your sworn in, when your name is called,
please come to the podium, state your full name clearly,
if you're representing your organization, please say that
as well.
Each speaker will have two minutes.
And the deputy county clerk will keep the time.
So please wrap up your thoughts when you hear the timer sound.
All comments should be directed to the county legislature
and not other members of the audience.
Please click your remarks on this subject of this hearing.
We ask that you avoid repeating points
made by previous speakers.
If you have written testimony or documents,
please hand them to the county Clerk or Deputy County
clerk after you speak.
These will be labeled as exhibits.
Madam Clerk, if anyone is going to testify, please stand
and you'll be sworn in.
If you are thinking about testifying,
we stand and You'll be sworn in.
Madam Clerk.
>> So you affirm that your testimony will be the truth
and nothing but the truth?
>> Please join us right over here.
>> Madam chairman?
I have these handouts that the legislator
got from University Health that I would like to pass out.
>> Thank you.
Thank you.
Mr. Schills, thank you for being here.
Please state your name and organization.
>> Thank you, Charles William Shiells with University health.
I'm here in support of the special obligation bonds
to revitalize the Lakewood campus.
You all have heard the presentation a couple of weeks
ago.
And we appreciate the executive voting and legislation
moving forward on this.
We think this is a unique opportunity
to revitalize what is a valuable county asset that provides
health services, particularly to the underserved of Jackson
County.
It is a unique.
We are the only safety net hospital in Missouri
that is supported by County.
We serve 130,000 patients, many of them are the Lakewood campus.
These plans will move this forward and some of the county
will be proud of and the patients can
receive extraordinary services.
The short version is it replaces buildings
that were built in 1908, 1928 with new modernized facilities.
It also makes an investment in others
in the county and the ability to deliver primary care.
We appreciate the leadership of the County executive.
We appreciate you moving forward on this.
This will be a legacy issue for this executive County
legislature.
We appreciate your support.
>> Thank you so much.
Do we have any questions from the legislature?
>> Madam Chair, I just want to say that on the record that over
my past two terms here, this has been an issue,
something we have been needing to get done even before I came
on eight years ago.
And so I just want to make it clear --
crystal clear that my support for this is unwavering.
And I will urge my colleagues to support this plan
that is being proposed by the County Executive
and that we finish the job on an area that
has served so many of our constituents
over the past how many years now?
100 and what?
>> Going back to 1851.
>> Just a short time.
Anyway, this has my full and complete support.
>> Thank you so much.
Since there is no other testimony,
the public hearing is now closed.
We want to make sure that our county clerk has this exhibit.
Thank you so much.
Now we will have -- as a matter of fact, madam clerk,
could you please read 22367?
>> Authorizing the County executive to take necessary
preliminary steps to facilitate the issuance of special
obligation bonds for improvements to university
health facilities and services.
Legislature as a whole.
>> I know this is a bit of an order,
but is there any discussion?
>> I'll move to adopt.
>> My second.
>> It has been moved and seconded.
Any discussion?
Hearing none madam clerk , please call the roll.
>>
[members voting]
Five yes, three absent, one excused.
>> Thank you so much to the legislature.
I applaud you for taking this action today.
We will hear from our county executive.
>> Madam chairwoman, members of the legislature,
the annual audit compiled every year has been completed.
It dealt with fiscal year ending December 31st, 2025.
I have given all of you a copy of this last week.
Next legislative meeting, next Monday, we
will have the auditor here in person
if you have any questions.
As you understand, within 30 days of being presented
with the audit, the independent auditor
shall be present to be able to take any questions from you.
That'll be August 17th.
After that the legislature votes to accept
the county's financial statements for public record.
Then it can be released to that --
the annual comprehensive audit report is available after that
vote.
As you are reading over the next week,
there were two specific issues that they brought up.
One was the opioid issue.
We have an opioid settlement with the county.
We receive several millions of dollars every year.
And in the past, they have not accounted
for the future opioid payments coming to the county.
So the auditor said that's something
that ought to be dealt with because we weren't sure what
was coming in and we do know.
We should know.
And last year it was not compiled.
We are on top of that now.
The other one is that they found some informational services,
some servers that have outlasted their usage is
one of the issues of their findings.
But the rest of it is in this report that you have a copy of.
Next week the auditor will be here
to take any of your questions.
And that is all I have.
>> Thank you.
Do we have any questions for the County executive?
I do want to ask one question.
That is in regard to our senior tax Levy.
I know that lowered is in place.
They are working diligently.
Can you give us an update on that?
>> As you know and for people that are watching and Listening,
the senior tax Levy that this party was part
of the partnership that got it together, the board is empty.
It had several millions of dollars in empty.
We got the board appointed.
I think in the springtime.
They are working now.
I have a meeting with them to talk to them
in the next couple of weeks.
But they have a plan.
And I would like to ask them to come to the legislature
and say here is a plan.
I'll be quite honest with you.
When I pointed to members of the board,
I told them I want you to spend some money.
I want you to spend that money you've
got in the bank for seniors, the people of Jackson County
have been taxed on to get it out there.
And they all said you bet.
And so they have a plan.
They have a formula.
If it is okay with this body, I would
like to have them come and say here
is our plan for the next 3 or 4 years of spending.
I say spending tax money.
I mean giving to the seniors that need that service.
But I would like to ask if I could
bring the board or at least the board chair
in front of the legislature and make that.
>> Sure we look forward to that.
I certainly welcome that.
>> Clarification.
So could we make sure that our legislative auditor has met with
and understands how the board feels like they're
going to proceed with the distribution of funds, selection
of who is going to be awarded funds?
We have some rules we have to comply with.
And being a new board, I don't want
to get them started on the wrong track.
>> That's a very good point because the board thinks they
can spend dollars on good programs.
But there was a compliance issue and stuff goes.
I will get Mr. Thomas on board with them.
And he can review the proposal and their plan.
>> Thank you.
>> Thank you so much.
Perfection is proposed ordinances and reports
of committee ordinance 6050.
>> Private and law enforcement officers from concealing
their faces or badges during the performance of duties
and establishing penalties and exemptions,
legislature as a whole.
>> Move to adopt.
>> Second.
>> It has been moved and seconded to adopt.
>> Sorry, moved to perfect.
>> It has been moved to perfect and sent to the.
I would like to hear from our county council in regard
to this matter.
>> Thank you Madam Chair.
This refers back to the anti masking
ordinance that was proposed back in January of this year.
The counselor's office previously
had sent an opinion over.
And without reading it entirely, it goes to the fact
that the supremacy clause would supercede the issue
for the federal law that applies for this matter
on federal agents.
US vs State of California came out recently --
prevent officers from performing their functions.
The plan is in motion for injunction pending appeal.
The federal government won that case.
And they supported the injunction
so it could not go into place against the federal officers.
That continuously happened in Virginia.
There was cases from New York and the city of Philadelphia
and the city of Los Angeles.
They consistently said the supremacy Clause
would take effect.
And therefore, for that and the opinion you previously wrote,
we believe it should be unsigned,
and we will be subject to liability
if we were to enact that ordinance.
>> Thank you so much.
Any questions?
>> Madam chair thank you Madam Chair.
I will just say that the amount of attacks
and personal challenges that this has given and specifically
to the Latino community is something
that should frighten all of us.
I understand what the County Councilor just said
and I respect that opinion.
The reason why I'll be voting yes Is because of the way
the federal government has been using this
as a tactic to bring fear to communities
that have done nothing wrong.
And until this United States starts to understand that no one
is illegal, a person cannot be illegal,
we will have to face whatever comes down from the federal
government and from these courts.
But my heart and soul Are with those
who face there terrible times, especially
the young children who are just trying
to make their way in this life.
But that is I wanted to give my reasoning why I'll
be voting yes, madam chair.
>> Thank you so much.
Any other comments?
>> I would like to say that I totally understand the supremacy
clause.
I totally understand that people's rights, however,
are being violated.
And I also understand that I am in a position where
I am responsible to look at the finances for the County.
If we pass this, we will be setting ourselves up for --
I can't even estimate how many fees
we would have to pay and attorney fees
and what have you when a precedent has been
set for the Supremacy Clause.
I am stating here because this is what I believe.
I believe it is wrong for people to be
accosted by members of law enforcement
that do not show their face.
That do not wear their badges.
But I am also a public servant.
And I must serve the county to the best of my ability.
Madam clerk, would you please call the roll?
[members voting]
>> Just to clarify, madam chair, this is ordinance 6050?
>> Correct.
>> My vote on the ordinance is no.
[members voting]
>> 2 yes, 3 no, 2 abstaining, 1 absent, 1 excused.
>> Ordinance 6077.
>>enacting section 6004., of the Jackson County 1984,
relating to standards for care and treatment in Jackson
residential facilities with a severability clause,
the legislature as a whole.
>> From Committee?
We will hold 6077.
Ordinance 6091.
>> Submitting to the qualified voters of Jackson County
a general election to be heldNovember 3, 2026,
a authorizing Jackson County to impose a countywide sales tax
of one half one percent for public transportation purposes.
Legislature as a whole.
>> I will move to perfect.
>> Is there a second?
>> I second.
>> Is there discussion?
>> One quick procedural question,
did we do a public hearing on this and we were --
were we required to?
>> I don't know.
I'd have to ask the attorneys.
>> I don't recall there being a public hearing.
>> I don't believe there was.
We also haven't signed it because there is
no statute applicable to this.
And that is what we testified to last week.
Shared that before, I think, as being recommended.
>> Any other discussion?
Madam Clerk?
>> On the motion to perfect, Anderson.
>> No.
>> Smith.
>> No.
>> Abarca.
Huskey.
>> No.
>> Franklin.
>> No.
>> Lauer.
Smith, Peyton.
>> No.
>> 7 no, 1 absent, 1 excused.
>> Ordinance 6097.
>>establishing the position of Legislative Intern
within Office of the Jackson County Legislature
and setting forth governing the appointment, supervision,
and employment of Legislative Interns.
legislature as a whole.
>> Madam chair?
I am working on a substitute for this.
So if the body is okay with it and you're okay with it,
I would like to hold.
>> We will hold.
Ordinance 6105.
>> repealing sections 1030. and 1040. of the County Code, 1984,
relating to competitive bidding, and enacting, in thereof,
two new sections relating to the same subject.
finance and audit Committee.
>> Report from Committee?
This committee did not meet today.
We will hold.
Ordinance 6109.
>>appropriating $32,000.00 from the undesignated balance
of the 2026 Anti-Crime Sales Tax Fund and authorizing Prosecuting
Attorney to execute an agreement with a certain outside which is
engaged in anti-crime, anti-violence,
drug prevention and activities, at a cost to the County not
to exceed $32,000.00.
Anti-crime committee.
>> Report from Committee.
>> Committee recommends perfection.
I move to perfection.
>> I will second.
>> All those in favor of perfection?
[members voting]
>> Do we need a roll call?
>> No, just for the adoption.
Is there a motion to adopt?
>> I second.
>> Yes, but do we want to adopt?
>> Do we have enough here?
>> A motion to adopt.
Is there a second?
>> Yes, motion to adopt please.
>> I will second.
>> Is there any discussion?
Madam clerk please call the roll.
[members voting]
>> 7 yes, 1 excused, 1 absent.
>> Ordinance 6110.
>> appropriating $82,500.00 from the undesignated balance
of the 2026 Grant Fund, in acceptance of a grant received
from United States Office of National Drug Control Policy,
High Intensity Trafficking Area program,
for use by the Jackson County Drug Task for funding
of undercover duties, purchases, and vehicles,
land use Committee.
>> Report from Committee.
>> Committee recommends perfection.
>> Is there a motion to perfect?
>> So moved.
>> Second.
>> All those in favor?
[members voting]
Without objection.
>> I'll move to adopt.
>> Is there a second to >> Second.
>> Any discussion?
Madam Clerk, please call the roll.
[members voting]
7 yes, 1 excused, 1 absent.
>> Ordinance 6111.
>> appropriating $82,500.00 from the undesignated balance
of the 2026 Grant Fund, in acceptance of a grant received
from United States Office of National Drug Control Policy,
High Intensity Trafficking Area program,
for use by the Jackson County Drug Task for funding
of undercover duties, purchases, and vehicles,
anti-crime committee.
>> Report from Committee.
>> Committee recommends perfection.
I move to perfect.
>> Second.
[members voting]
>> I will move to adopt.
>> Second.
>> It has been moved and seconded to adopt.
Ordinance 6111.
Madam clerk comment will you please call the roll?
[members voting]
7 yes, 1 excuse, one absent.
>> Resolutions in Committee?
Resolution 22323, we have voted on.
No.
>> Directing the County Executive,
the Department of Public Works, and all appropriate County
departments and agencies to develop and implement
a comprehensive framework governing the siting,
construction, expansion, and operation of artificial
intelligence and high-capacity data center facilities within
Jackson County, Missouri, and establishing conditions
necessary to protect public infrastructure, utility systems,
environmental resources, public safety,
and neighboring communities.
legislature as a whole.
>> Will be holding this.
Resolution 22355.
>>authorizing the County Executive to execute Memorandum
of Understanding with the Kansas City,
Missouri Parks Recreation Department
related to the maintenance of the parks
within the County's Park System.
legislature as a whole.
>> Move to adopt.
>> Second.
>> It has been moved and seconded to adopt is there
a discussion?
>> This is directing the County executive to execute an MOU that
is not yet drafted.
And we don't really tell the County executive
what to do via resolution.
So I think this was just not constructed quite right.
The idea I think is to partner with the Kansas City Parks
and Rec.
It might be a delightful idea.
But in this format, I just don't think
we are calling out the right things
or authorizing the right things.
Is that a fair assessment?
>> That's correct.
Both of those issues, and we don't have the MOU.
But in theory it sounds great with the construction
of this legislation is faulty.
>> Any other discussion?
Madam clerk, please call the roll.
[members voting]
>> 7 no, 1 absent, 1 excused.
>> Resolution 22357.
>> establishing the Jackson County Housing Trust Fund
support the development, preservation, rehabilitation,
and accessibility affordable housing throughout Jackson
County, Missouri, and requesting County Administration to develop
policies governing the use of the Fund, budget Committee.
>> Committee is holding.
>> 22357 will be held.
Resolution 22364.
>>declaring certain County-owned IT equipment as property
and authorizing its disposal pursuant to Chapter 11 of County
Code, 1984, budget Committee.
>> Report from Committee?
>> Committee recommends adoption.
>> Without objection this will be added to the consent agenda.
Resolution 22365.
>> awarding a twenty-four-month term and supply with one (1)
twelve-month option to extend, for the furnishing of services
for use by various County departments to Delta Innovative
of Kansas City, KS and Blue Chip Roofing and Waterproofing
of Summit, MO under the terms and conditions of Invitation
to Bid No.
26-037, budget Committee.
>> Is the report from the committee?
>> Committee recommends adoption.
>> Without objection.
The resolution 22365 will be added to the consent agenda.
>> Mayor Peyton?
>> Yes.
>> It might be wise to let our two new people weigh in on 22367
just in case we need six votes.
>> 22367, do we need six votes?
>> No it is a resolution.
It only needs five votes.
>> So we've got two new ones over here now.
>> I do appreciate that.
While we don't need six votes, I do
want to give the opportunity to legislators Smith and McGee.
If you would like to vote, we had a public meeting
and voted on this earlier.
In regards to the bonds for University Health.
>> I'm sorry.
Smith?
>> Yes, I'm in favor of this.
>> And Magee?
>> Yes as well.
>> Thank you so much, legislator Franklin.
>> The new vote is seven yes, one, one excuse.
>> Thank you.
>> We are at the consent agenda.
On the consent agenda we have--
>> 22364 and 22365.
>> Move to adopt.
>> Second.
>> It has been moved and seconded.
Madam clerk?
[members voting]
>> 8 yes, 1 excused, 1 >> Introduction of ordinances
and assignments of Committee.
>> There are none.
>> Introduction of proposed resolutions and assignments
Committee.
Resolution 22368.
>> Declaring certain county owned boats as surplus property
and authorizing their disposal pursuant to chapter 11
of the Jackson County Code, 1984,
introduced by Charlie Franklin.
>> Assigned to Budget Committee.
Resolution 22369.
>> Awarding a six-month extension to a term and supply
contract, with two (2) twelve-month options to extend,
for the furnishing of personal computers,
miscellaneous computer hardware, software, maintenance,
and professional services for use by various County
departments to ConvergeOne of Bloomington, MN,
under the terms and conditions set forth in Cooperating School
Districts of Greater Kansas City Contract No.
CO62518, an existing government contract.
Introduced by Jaylen >> Assigned to budget Committee please.
Resolution 22370.
>> Awarding awarding a split twenty-four-month term
and contract, with one (1) twelve-month option to extend,
for the furnishing HVAC services for use by various County
departments to Services-Fagan of Kansas City,
KS and Lippert Mechanical Service Kansas City, MO,
under the terms and conditions of Invitation to Bid No.
26-038, introduced by Jason Anderson.
>> Assigned to budget Committee.
Resolution 22371.
>> Authorizingthe Jackson County Legislature to hold closed
meeting on Monday, August 10, 2026,
for the purpose of privileged and confidential communications
between itself and the County Counselor under sections
610.021(1) and (3) of the Statutes of Missouri and closing
all records prepared for discussion at said meeting.
introduced by Donna Peyton.
>> Move to adopt.
>> Seconded.
>> It has been moved and seconded.
Please call the roll.
[members voting]
>> 8 yes, one excused, one absent.
>> Do we have any county executive orders?
>> No, chair.
>> Any unfinished business?
Under new business, Mr. Covinsky,
will we need to vote following closed >> I don't believe so.
>> Then we will now recess, closed meeting per --
we will go into our closed meeting for resolution 22371.
>> Would it be advisable to adjourn while we have a quorum
here so we don't have to come back after closed,
just in case we lose our online friends?
Mr. Would that be acceptable?
>> I still believe it's on the agenda,
therefore you have to adjourn after you have a closed session.
>> We have review the rules.
>> Highly encourage our remote members to help us adjourn
properly.
>> And we will certainly contact you once we get into closed
session.
>> Do they want to be on closed session?
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