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[0:06] Thank you, everyone. Wonderful to have you here. And welcome to our Board of Alderman Work Session. And the Board of Alderman Work Session.
[0:16] For our meeting on May 14th, we will come to order.
[0:21] And we will the city clerk, please call the roll call.
[0:25] Mayor Pagano.
[0:26] Here.
[0:27] Alderman Barclay.
[0:28] Here.
[0:29] Alderman Bateman.
[0:30] Here.
[0:31] Alderman Green.
[0:32] Here.
[0:33] Poor president, coupler.
[0:35] Here.
[0:37] Alderman Rhymer's absent.
[0:39] Alderman Breitmer.
[0:40] Alderman Townsend.
[0:42] Here.
[0:42] Alderman Trippiano.
[0:43] Here.
[0:44] City of Minnesota.
[0:45] Here.
[0:46] City of Toronto.
[0:47] City of Toronto.
[0:48] Thank you.
[0:50] Thank you Lisa.
[0:52] All right.
[0:52] Next up.
[0:53] Communications from Board Members.
[0:54] and automatic representatives. I'll start on my left with Alderman Wright Meyer and Ward 1.
[1:00] Thank you, El Pasadonte.
[1:02] My pleasure. Thanks for that.
[1:04] Yes. Okay. What the Veterans Commission, this is my first meeting this past Monday. We talked
[1:13] about a lot of things. Spirit of St. Louis, Air Show and STEM Expo is June 6th and 7th.
[1:20] You at the United States Blue Angels will perform tickets are $64 each.
[1:25] The St. Charles County Veterans Memorial Day service program is Sunday May 24th at
[1:30] 2 PM at the St. Charles Memorial Gardens.
[1:33] Well, Fallon Veterans Museum, we're talking about that about having some sort of display here
[1:41] at the Hall, but it's still in a talk right now.
[1:45] Hall of Honor, applications posted twice a year Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
[1:50] The approved applications were Dennis Ellsworth, Navy, Frederick H, reading the third
[1:58] Marine Corps, and John A. Barkley Air Force.
[2:02] Motion were all approved.
[2:05] Home Town here as the applications deadline was April 1st, no new applications for review,
[2:11] Banner will be posted in the time for real day.
[2:16] Let's see business items.
[2:18] I'm going to talk about all those in one second.
[2:23] My model day is coming up and a lot of things are happening here in St.
[2:27] Peters and St. Charles County.
[2:30] And I like to start off on this one right here.
[2:35] A total of four cup packs, excuse me, cup packs, slash, boy scout, slash troops, I'll
[2:47] they call it again, I'm sorry, Joyce, but we'll be placing the American flags around
[2:54] our memorial on May 21st, thanks to Joyce Townsend, hurting a bunch of cats that day to make
[3:03] a great flag presentation for us at the city. Saturday, May 23, at Lakeside Park, 370, there
[3:13] is our bike and car show sponsored by DTL360 and also Amvets, chapter 1-0. A great day
[3:21] of seeing all the bikes and cars you wish to own and please stop by all the food vendors
[3:28] and their trucks. 100% of all their money that they've made will go to the proceeds and
[3:38] all of them will go to the local veteran organizations. Next on Sunday may May 24th at Jefferson
[3:46] Berks. This is called Scout Sunday. We're 185,000,000 flags will be placed at each gravesite.
[3:55] These will be on, we'll be at each gravesite, this will be at a ceremony at 11am at the old flag circle.
[4:11] The keynote speaker will be Colonel Robin E. Mr. Marker, Commanding Officer at Fort Leonard Wood.
[4:19] This is to join the community in honoring those who died in the U.S. Armed Forces.
[4:25] Lastly,
[4:29] if you'd like to help handicap fallen heroes in the line of duty right here, it
[4:38] closes the home, go to the Snookstore in your area.
[4:44] This has been done for this past nine years and it's called Bolds for Honor Foundation.
[4:50] It's a non-for-profit, honoring the sacrifice, educating a legacy.
[4:59] They helped with schools and scholarships for spouses and children, housing funds, and
[5:08] ones with special needs.
[5:11] Stop by the register, round up your bill, or hit the QR code, or donate $1 $3 or $5
[5:20] dollars. But a hundred percent of these donations will benefit folds of honor. And also
[5:27] we heard this one is the one of the veteran campaigns that it's not a scam. So stop
[5:35] by your snooks, help them out, and if you want to help our veterans, this is the way
[5:44] to do it. For us at St. Peter's on Monday, May 25, Veterans Day, at the St. Peter's Memorial
[5:51] at 9 AM, we will be having our own Memorial Day Remembrance. Our Veterans Commission
[5:57] will start off with Chairman John Gunn-Sales, U.S. Air Force, our honours to St. Charles
[6:04] County Marine Corpley, Veterans Post-106, Vietnam Veterans, American Legion, St.
[6:15] Peters, also the St. Peters Honor Guard, Knights of Columbus, fourth degree.
[6:22] Our color guard will be the U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and
[6:27] U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army at Fort Leonard Wood, will also be there too.
[6:37] Flyovers by the B-52, excuse me. A flyer by a B-25 World War II will be at 9.15 through
[6:47] 9.30. A fantastic vocal we've done by Katherine Lawton Brown. If you ever remember, Kate Smith,
[6:55] The National Anthem and God Bless America will be sung by her.
[7:00] The Pledge of Allegiance will be done by the St. Charles County Young Marines.
[7:05] Welcome remarks will be done by our mayor.
[7:09] Guess speaker, Lieutenant Colonel, raised by Bront Byron, Missouri Air National Guard.
[7:16] Breast ceremony and folding of the flag is will be done by the AMVets Post 106.
[7:20] The rifle salute be done by our St. Charles County Marine Corps.
[7:25] Taps will be done by Jeff Bornfeld.
[7:28] St. Peter's Veterans Commission.
[7:30] And our famous bagpiper, Kevin Hemssey from the Ancient Order of Hyde Burns will also be there. The big thing of that day is, please, bring a launcher. This is a event we have here, and a great day of remembrance. Please bring a launcher. And lastly, pennies for patriots, please again, collect those aluminum cans, goes to the USO at Lambert Field. As of right now, we've collected 2,279 pounds of
[7:59] aluminum cans, which breaks down to $1,481.35, dropped them off at the west side of City Hall
[8:08] at the Mayor Tom Brown Senior Center and also at Recycled City, and comes through with the American flag
[8:15] on there, done by one of our retirees, but please, all that money goes with U.S.O. at Lambert Field,
[8:21] I'm sorry it took a little bit long, but a lot of good information there for our Memorial Day
[8:27] remember it's thank you. Thank you all of them and right buyer and then all of them
[8:31] Barclay have come. Yeah I should have mentioned this last time but when all of them
[8:35] right might have been talking about the all the stuff going on with the mortal day. If you
[8:39] might remember that at the beginning of the year I had talked at the Veterans Commission
[8:44] meeting and I brought up here too about the fact that we have the headstones of former members
[8:48] of the commission and then we talked appear and all of them right in the mayor gave who they thought
[8:54] made those headstones. Cody Walker, the staff liaison, looked into it. There's no record that
[9:00] they ever did do that. Somebody must have given that as a gift of some type as a generous
[9:05] recognition for our veterans. So they're trying to go ahead and figure something out going forward
[9:11] in the future. Rocky, you've probably talked to Cody in the future about that. And then also,
[9:17] we're going to look slow in as well. But I just wanted to give that update that they are still
[9:22] working on that, but they weren't able to get it figured out before the Memorial Day ceremony.
[9:27] Thank you.
[9:28] Thank you.
[9:28] Thank you all for embarking.
[9:29] Anyone else have any comments?
[9:30] All right.
[9:31] We're going to go to the wonderful Mr. Alderman Randy Green of Ward 2.
[9:36] Thank you sir.
[9:38] In the cultural arts building coming up this next Thursday on May 21, you're invited to
[9:46] to join us for a special America 250 Art Show opening reception at Lake Peter's Cultural
[9:51] Arts Center.
[9:53] It's an evening where art, story, and history come together in celebration of 250 years
[9:58] of America's unfolding story.
[10:03] We're featuring an artist talk by Adele Abudaya, he is a U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran
[10:09] and a multidisciplinary artist whose work was previously shown at last year's combat
[10:14] paper exhibit, and we'll also host a display from St. Charles County, America, a 250
[10:20] committee, which will add a powerful connection to the celebration. Again, that's next
[10:26] Thursday, May 21st at the Cultural Arts Center from 6 to 8 p.m. And then also this June,
[10:37] We, June and July, every Wednesday, we are looking for volunteers from staff and employees to help.
[10:52] There are seeking story readers for art camp.
[10:54] Storytime will be each Wednesday at 10am and not including the July 4th weekend, which would be Wednesday July 1.
[11:02] but every Wednesday other than that went from June through July, they are looking for volunteers
[11:10] from staff and employees. And if you're interested in volunteering, you can contact Jill.
[11:17] That's Jill Tuck with the Cultural Arts Center. And then also at the Redplex, I just want to encourage
[11:23] our residents to take all the summer camps that are available. There's a
[11:32] going on there, and within each camp, there's a lot of breakdown within that, you know,
[11:39] we have an art camp, a day camp, a game camp, a hockey camp, an ice skating camp, a ball
[11:44] and strikes camp, a soccer camp, there should be something there that each family can find
[11:51] something that their children would have interest in, and there's also, I believe there's a
[11:58] make your available for children if needed.
[12:01] So again, you know, lack going on at the Redplex, try to make something available for everybody
[12:07] so everyone can have a good time and enjoy what St. Peter has to offer.
[12:12] Thank you, sir.
[12:13] Thank you, Alderman Green.
[12:14] Are there any comments or questions for Alderman Green?
[12:18] All right, haven't done?
[12:19] Then Alderman Barkley, please, of award for.
[12:21] Thank you, Mr. President.
[12:23] First of all, I'm looking forward to going to our first Pox Board meeting, which is next
[12:27] Tuesday, May 19th at 6 p.m. at the Coach Lodge Center.
[12:32] Since Melissa's not here, I'll just mention that our main stuff going on, besides the normal agenda items,
[12:37] is going to be Dylan Thomas directplex, the Quattix Superintendent's going to give an update about his department.
[12:43] And then I know that all the men, Tupiano and the Parks Board, they did a lot of different tours of the different parks around the city.
[12:51] And I think they're done for the spring maybe later on a summer or a form if they'll do others, but in the meantime
[12:58] I look forward to possibly going out and looking at some of the parks that I've never been to because there's many in the city that I know I haven't reached them all
[13:06] So I look forward to do a little adventure on myself and maybe going ahead and doing a little bike trails too
[13:12] But other than that, I'll give an update at the next meeting about what happened at that meeting. Thanks
[13:19] Are there any questions or comments for Alderman Berkeley?
[13:23] All right, see you then.
[13:25] Then we'll move on to Alderman Townsend of Ward 1.
[13:29] Thank you, Mr. President.
[13:31] Well, first of all, the historical focus group meet the next Wednesday, May 20th at 630 in the Cultural Arts Center.
[13:39] Join us as we unravel some more of the historical maps of our city.
[13:43] Secondly, I've had the honor of this last couple of weeks of meeting with some more
[13:48] cubscouts in the area as they work toward their advancements, that's always fun.
[13:53] And finally, Ward 1 has been very busy on the HOA annual meeting front.
[13:59] I've enjoyed meeting with our neighbors, it's a pleasure representing you.
[14:02] That's all I have, thanks.
[14:04] Please.
[14:05] Townsend any questions or comments for all of my thoughts?
[14:08] All right, seeing none, we'll move on to Alderman Beatman of Ward 2.
[14:13] Thank you, Mr. President.
[14:15] Coupler.
[14:17] The Honorable.
[14:18] Mr. Coupler.
[14:21] So I'm going to report on the planning and zoning update from our meeting which was May 6.
[14:27] The Commission voted to recommend approval of the following to the Board of
[14:33] St. Peter's amended plant, the site is dated on the north side of Mexico Road East of Spencer Road,
[14:40] the annexation of the Cleary Loomis property at 1824 Elm Tree Street. The committee voted to
[14:48] recommend our one single family residential zoning for this property. The commission also voted
[14:56] to approve the following and amended site plan for Axiom plastic.
[15:00] Premier Parkway, east of Executive Center Parkway, a temporary pop-up shop for Hale properties LLC. The site is located on the south side of Mexico Road, east of
[15:24] Mill Road 510 Youngerman Road.
[15:27] A temporary carnival for cable works LLC doing business as fun timeshows at Mid River's
[15:35] Mall.
[15:36] A temporary food truck for ashore, villager, LLC at Mid River's Mall.
[15:43] The commission voted to postpone the following item until June 3 meeting that's a request
[15:48] for a special use permit from Gorilla Express Auto-Wash and the C2 community community
[15:54] commercial district for 1.21 acre track to allow for a car wash. The subject site is located
[16:01] on the north side of Mexico Road, west of Deer Grove, Deer Grove, Drive, east of Salt
[16:08] Lowe, 17860, Mexico Road, and you're probably very familiar. There's been a car wash there.
[16:14] It's been vacant now for a couple years or a year and a half maybe. The commission
[16:19] voted to withdraw the following items from their agenda.
[16:24] A rezoning from our three multiple family residential district to planned urban development
[16:30] PUD for watermark St. Peter's to permit the conversion of living units from independent living
[16:36] to assisted living and our skilled nursing units in 12 on 13 by 2 and a half acres tracked.
[16:44] Properties located on the east side of Youngerman Road at Brentmore Lane 363 Youngerman Road and that's all I have
[16:53] Thank you, Olderman Beaven any questions or comments for Olderman Beaven?
[16:57] All right very good and then last but certainly not least, Olderman Truppiano of Ward 4. Thank you, President Kuppler
[17:04] From the sustainability corner the material recovery is embarking upon the one year anniversary of
[17:12] This time last year, City staff was putting the finishing touches on the project and preparing for the future.
[17:20] Today, we are processing and recovering a record amount of recycled, bold material, an average of 1,200 tons per month.
[17:29] We want to thank our residents for all their help in making this a huge success and remind them about polypropalling
[17:36] So Pauline are those number five plastics.
[17:40] We have a strong market for these items in postcards, like this that are being delivered
[17:45] and to provide our residents with image examples of the plastics.
[17:51] Items to help with identification so we could increase recovery.
[17:55] Thanks again, more information, and of coming events is at St. Peter's Mode.net slash
[18:01] recycle.
[18:02] I want to thank our recycling department for putting this together and educating in our
[18:07] communication department, working together, and again I think that was so successful for
[18:13] our success a year or so ago.
[18:15] So again, both of those departments working together and that concludes my report.
[18:20] Thank you, Alderman Truppiano.
[18:21] Any other questions or comments for Alderman Truppiano?
[18:25] All right, very good.
[18:26] That'll close our comments.
[18:27] And there is no unfinished items, unfinished business items for discussion, so with that, at this time I'll turn the meeting over to Mayor Pagano.
[18:37] Thank you, President Copler.
[18:39] I have to say you're first two weeks.
[18:43] You've been in a date with every project.
[18:48] A lot of compliments I got on your delivery,
[18:53] especially at the herals.
[18:54] Okay. Thank you.
[18:56] Then the report I got on that was very good.
[19:03] Okay.
[19:06] Motion 2nd to remove fiscal year,
[19:09] 2026 financial audit service recommendation.
[19:13] All in favor?
[19:15] Aye.
[19:15] Just a benefit.
[19:17] Thank you Mayor and Board.
[19:19] The fourth class city to say to Missouri,
[19:20] We're required to form an annual comprehensive financial audit of all city of funds.
[19:28] The generally accepted accounting principles practices that we follow through GFOA,
[19:33] I recommend publicly soliciting for independent audit services every three to five years.
[19:39] The past five years we've been using the firm of Kerber, EC and Breckle or KEB, and we've
[19:49] completed their audit. I'm to publicly solicit for a new independent for to look for a qualified
[19:55] independent auditor. The author's scope of our audit is for this firm to look at our 13 government
[20:02] funds and seven proprietary funds. This firm will also assist with preparation of our annual
[20:08] comprehensive financial report or act for, as well as assist with the preparation of tax returns
[20:15] state and federal for our Central County joint agreement or joint venture pipeline program
[20:21] with the city of St. Charles with the same peers, the Natatorium Foundation tax return.
[20:26] On March 31st, a public solicitation was submitted.
[20:31] We received three proposals on April 16th.
[20:36] After a careful review, Qualifications-based selection process was conducted by our Finance
[20:41] department where we looked at the qualifications and the plan by each firm that they were
[20:48] going to use to basically perform our audit and then based on what we felt based on
[20:53] a scoring system to elect the firm that we thought was being qualified to perform that
[20:58] work.
[20:59] After that qualification based selection process, recommending extending our relationship with
[21:04] K.E.B. and recommending execution of work authorization with K.E.B. to perform
[21:09] our F526 financial audit. That will also include the tax preparation services that I mentioned.
[21:16] With approval, KB provided a cost proposal, both for the fiscal year 26 audit, but they also
[21:24] provided fees for the next four years up to F531 as well. Each one of those that will be brought to
[21:33] the board separately and the board will have an opportunity to act on those agreements.
[21:37] if act on staff recommendation to proceed with KB if we choose to do so.
[21:42] So what I'm asking for tonight is to recommend that we execute a work authorization,
[21:48] we KEB to perform our FY26 financial audit, approval of this recommendation would authorize
[21:54] execution of that agreement in the amount of $99,700. The funds for this audit are
[22:01] proportioned through the different funds that are being audited and with your approval and
[22:05] the rising ordinance would place on the May 28th Board of Alderman meeting agenda.
[22:08] Be happy to answer any questions.
[22:11] I see I have no speakers.
[22:14] What are you doing?
[22:17] I hit request to speak.
[22:21] I have to.
[22:21] I just want to ask a question.
[22:23] Okay, Judy.
[22:24] I'm sorry.
[22:25] Go ahead.
[22:26] Yes, Judy.
[22:30] I'm going to ask you, when we accept these bids like those three, I know just from
[22:34] out state and one was local. The one we accepted was local.
[22:38] Yes, ma'am. Is that normally, do you get extra points for local versus, I mean, how does
[22:44] that work on our grading system?
[22:46] We don't have a specific grade for local, but we want to make sure that the company has a local
[22:51] office, and so that's always the feather in their cap. It's just easier to coordinate.
[22:59] There's a
[23:00] between staff and the auditor. It's nice to have them on station. You can do it remotely.
[23:07] It's better if they're in person. Okay. I just wanted to know. I didn't know if that was.
[23:11] I know we give so much. I thought for local. On other, on any bids.
[23:15] Yeah. So this is a consultant selection. So this is qualification space selection.
[23:22] So we're not basing it on price. We're basing it on the qualifications of the consultant.
[23:26] And so good news is KB is both local and the most qualified firm that we're recommending.
[23:33] Okay.
[23:33] Thank you.
[23:35] No other comments.
[23:37] I need a motion of second to side and put on the next board meeting.
[23:43] Green.
[23:44] Big matter.
[23:45] All in favor?
[23:45] Aye.
[23:46] All opposed.
[23:47] Motion passes.
[23:48] Most of the second to remove resolution closing certain cameras bank.
[23:54] Trish Rhea County, Paul and Faber, Mr. Benisec.
[24:00] Thank you, Mayor and Board.
[24:03] You'll recall in 2024 and in 2024 and 2025,
[24:08] the Board approved a transition from enterprise bank to commerce bank,
[24:15] and then with the resolution 1678,
[24:18] the establishment of various accounts with commerce bank.
[24:22] We have now completed our transition fully from enterprise to commerce and so we're fully operating under commerce bank now.
[24:31] Our Prime Minister Department has reviewed the accounts that were established with commerce and have determined that three accounts are no longer needed.
[24:39] The three accounts are our city ACH fund.
[24:42] That's a set up when ACH transactions was still relatively new and it was thought to be a security feature to have that those funds in a separate account.
[24:53] Modern banking practices make that count unnecessary.
[24:56] The municipal court bond account, that was a requirement at one point for our court office to have a separate bond account.
[25:03] That requirement is no longer established until that account is no longer needed.
[25:07] And then we also had to establish a police block grant account, and that was supposed to be a depository for a certain funding that the police department was receiving at the time.
[25:19] We no longer received those types of funds.
[25:22] There are no funds in these accounts currently, and we would just hope it requires board approval to close them.
[25:27] So I'm requesting through item I6 of tonight's agenda approval of an authorizing resolution to allow those three accounts to be closed.
[25:34] be happy to answer any questions.
[25:37] No other comments on here.
[25:42] Moving to Mr. Linia's updates, Mr. Molly.
[25:45] Thank you.
[25:46] Good evening, Mayor and board.
[25:47] Tonight I have plenty of updates.
[25:50] Ms. Haddock has the first two,
[25:52] and then Lee Ann Sardin has the last and third one.
[25:59] Thank you.
[26:01] During the April 23rd meeting,
[26:02] we had asked for approval to present
[26:04] at this meeting, both the recommendation
[26:06] and the authorizing ordinance
[26:08] for our annual contract for the purchase of bioxide chemicals.
[26:12] So you may remember that's an annual operating expense
[26:14] in the water sewer fund, and we bring it to you every year
[26:17] because that contract value is over $100,000.
[26:20] My name is used to treat hydrogen sulfide gas
[26:23] that are at our several of our sanitary pump stations.
[26:26] So last year, when we made the recommendation,
[26:28] the authorizing ordinance at that time, number 8125,
[26:32] provided our city administrative, the authority
[26:34] to renew contracts for up to three additional years.
[26:37] So with that ordinance in place, we will not actually need to present to you a recommendation
[26:42] or an authorizing ordinance.
[26:44] So that item is not placed on today's work session or BOA agenda.
[26:47] But I did, as a quick summary, I want to let you know, we will be renewing that contract
[26:51] with a vote for water technology.
[26:53] It will be in the contract value of 159,430 dollars, which is less than what we budgeted
[26:59] of 168,000 in the water sewer fund.
[27:02] So if you have any questions, I can answer those otherwise I don't have any items for that particular item.
[27:11] Let's see, you know, comments here, moving on?
[27:15] Okay, so I have a second item.
[27:17] So this one I am asking.
[27:20] We are actively constructing that Colby Drive Stormwater Improvement Project.
[27:23] And it does have that upcoming our budget at the end of this year.
[27:26] So I'm requesting approval today to present to you next board meeting,
[27:31] a recommendation and then authorize an ordinance for construction change order for that project.
[27:38] It will prevent delays to the project since we only have one board of all the remaining
[27:41] in June.
[27:43] So, this change order is related to construction, retaining walls, additional fencing, and
[27:48] some modifications related to a very complicated junction, stormwater, junction backs to be
[27:53] constructed as part of the project.
[27:55] So, currently, the construction contract is $5.00, the proposed change order is expected
[28:00] to be about $198,000, which is about three and a half percent of the current contract
[28:05] values.
[28:06] So that much I can offer today, and if given approval to present that recommendation and
[28:10] the authorizing ordinance of the next meeting, I will of course put in that more detail
[28:14] and provide summary sites for you.
[28:17] Any questions?
[28:19] I don't see any discussion here.
[28:23] I've got to make sure, here, Washington Second to put this item on the next board meeting.
[28:40] Thank you.
[28:41] During the April 23rd executive session, I had preceded a bid recommendation for the sale of a small parcel of ground owned by the city.
[28:49] It was a remnant office salt river road left over from that construction.
[28:53] I stated that I'd have an ordinance on tonight's agenda, but we're currently working on the sales contract that goes along with that ordinance is an attachment
[29:01] So that's
[29:02] Yeah, at this time, but we'll have it on the next board meeting
[29:10] Discussion, I got to make sure everybody's button works
[29:16] All
[29:19] right
[29:20] Those are the three correct. They'll yes, sir
[29:23] Okay, Bill board meeting agenda revisions. They're none this week
[29:29] I believe we do have an executive session, is that correct?
[29:34] Oh.
[29:35] The City Ministry, that's always scary.
[29:37] If you think we do not have one.
[29:39] Oh, you do.
[29:39] Unless you have one, then you don't want me to be invited to.
[29:42] Oh.
[29:45] Sorry for my shock load, but no.
[29:47] I'm not aware of any.
[29:52] Okay.
[29:52] Motion of second to adjourn.
[29:54] Okay, four, four, couple.
[29:56] All in favor.
[29:57] All right.