[0:00] city council is back in
session and
[0:09] notion moving on to the agenda move to
approve the consent agenda
[0:15] presented have a motion second to
approve the consent agenda any further
[0:21] discussion all in favor reading your
right hand all oppose same sign motion
[0:28] Carri moving on to staff
[0:42] reports good evening mayor Truman and
members of city
[0:45] council December 21st
2015 8:00 a.m. Valley Center City Hall I
[0:53] arrived for my first day of service with
the city of Valley Center George Co was
[0:57] serving as the interim City
administrator at the time
[1:00] and had already left for the holidays
Christine pan who served as the finance
[1:04] director had also left for the holidays
as well thankfully Christie was here and
[1:09] showed me to my new office in the
basement she apologized on behalf of
[1:14] George and Christine and said they must
have forgotten that I was starting today
[1:18] thus began my service with Valley Center
the past 8 and a half years have been
[1:22] amazing it has truly been an honor to
work and collaborate with my fellow
[1:26] staff members the governing bodies
including the planning and zoning board
[1:30] Economic Development board in the city
council and many Community organizations
[1:34] including Main Street Valley Center and
the Chamber of Commerce I take great
[1:38] pride in knowing that I am leaving
Valley Center better than when I arrived
[1:42] when I look back over the past 8 and a
half years we have made significant
[1:46] progress in the betterment of the
community at the start of my service it
[1:50] had been s years since the last ploted
subdivision had been approved by the
[1:54] city since the end of 2015 we have
approved eight new subdivision PL with
[2:00] two more going through the approval
process right now the number of building
[2:04] permits for new construction has grown
substantially and we can now proudly say
[2:08] that we have certified staff that can
conduct all residential and commercial
[2:12] building inspections in house which is
keeping tax dollars here and not being
[2:16] sent to Cedric County speaking of
building permits back in 2021 at the
[2:20] request of City administrator Clark I
was asked to lead the development of a
[2:23] new building permit application form
working together with my department
[2:27] staff and the public works department we
reduced the new construction building
[2:31] permit application packet from nearly 20
pages to one page printed front and back
[2:36] as you can imagine this change was
greatly welcomed by both contractors and
[2:40] developers during the past 8 and a half
years the city has made great strides in
[2:44] planning for the current and projected
growth taking place in our community
[2:49] during my tenure we have seen the
conception and execution of two
[2:53] strategic plans a new pedestrian and
bicycle master plan a community survey
[2:58] that was instrumental in the creation of
the new Aquatic and Recreation Center
[3:01] now being built north of the middle
school and a grocery store Market study
[3:05] that staff uses in his continued mission
of bringing a new grocery store to
[3:09] Valley Center during the 2020 census I
served as the city's main point of
[3:14] contact with the Census Bureau and was
able to serve on the Cedric County
[3:17] complete count Committee in partnership
with Cedric County we were able to
[3:21] update our future land use map and
designated Urban growth area to better
[3:25] plan for the future expansion of the
community the newest planning project
[3:29] under way is the drafting of the new
10-year comprehensive plan this document
[3:33] will provide valuable guidance as the
city continues to develop over the next
[3:38] decade in order to encourage growth and
investment in Valley Center New
[3:42] incentives were adopted during the past
several years the housing and Senate
[3:46] program and the commercial housing and
Center Program both of which were
[3:49] drafted by my office and approved by
city council have led to the
[3:52] construction of numerous single and
multiple family residences and
[3:56] neighborhoods I never thought I'd be a
real estate agent but with the creation
[4:00] of the Valley Center Land Bank back in
2017 it became my responsibility to
[4:04] Market and sell the 46 slots in the
Ridgefield subdivision that were put
[4:08] into the land bank we were able to sell
all 46 Lots within 3 years which was no
[4:13] easy feat the city now operates a booth
at the annual waa home show where we
[4:17] showcase new homes and subdivisions our
school district and the community in
[4:22] general by the way market calendar now
for next year's show which will take
[4:26] place from January 30th through February
2nd one of the accomplishments that I am
[4:31] most proud to have been a part of was
the creation of Main Street Valley
[4:34] Center in early 2016 with the support of
city council I reached out to our
[4:39] Chamber of Commerce and created a
steering committee comprised of downtown
[4:43] business and building owners and other
community stakeholders that wanted to
[4:46] see progress made in revitalizing our
Historic downtown court within a year
[4:50] the steering committee transitioned into
its own 501c3 nonprofit organization and
[4:56] has worked tirelessly to improve the
core of our community
[5:00] in 2020 uh 2022 Main Street Valley
Center became a designated Main Street
[5:04] Community with the Kansas Main Street
program Valley Center can hold its head
[5:08] high as being the only designated
community in cedri county and one of
[5:12] only a few in South Central Kansas the
following is a list of projects and
[5:16] events that have given New Life to our
downtown food trucks on Main Street cies
[5:21] on Main Street the farmers market
mainstream enhancement grants the
[5:25] veteran banners program Hometown
Christmas the downtown planters and the
[5:30] downtown facade lighting project during
the pandemic Main Street Valley Center
[5:34] took the lead in providing nearly
$110,000 to local businesses through the
[5:38] commercial businesses relief grant
program Main Street Valley Center's
[5:41] continued efforts have encouraged
private sector investment in the
[5:44] downtown Corridor totaling nearly
$450,000 to date the m valy center board
[5:50] of directors are committed to its
Mission and it has been a pleasure
[5:53] serving with them I now thank each board
member for their
[5:58] service and for the many many hours
they've spent as volunteers Advocates
[6:03] and champions of Main Street what we've
discussed tonight barely scratches the
[6:07] surface of what we've been able to
achieve these past 8 and a half years in
[6:10] Aly
Center what we've achieved has been made
[6:14] possible because of successful
Partnerships and cooperation both from
[6:18] within our city organization and
community and allies in the county
[6:22] surrounding region and state I would
like to thank George Co for giving me
[6:26] the opportunity to come and serve as the
community development director and thank
[6:30] his successors Scott hildbrand and Brent
Clark for putting their faith in me and
[6:34] providing me with resources and
encouragement to lead my department and
[6:37] team I also thank Mayors Lori Dove L
cerillo and Jet Truman along with all of
[6:43] the members of city council the economic
development board and the Planning and
[6:46] Zoning Board that I've had the honor of
working with for their uh for working
[6:51] with for this their service to the
community and their support as we worked
[6:55] on Bold new initiatives and programs
drafting Creative Solutions to sometimes
[7:00] very difficult problems and approving
projects that make Valley Center a
[7:04] remarkable place to call home operate a
business or make a significant public or
[7:08] private investment to my fellow
department heads and City staff I thank
[7:13] you for the years spent together and all
the progress we've made to make our city
[7:17] team more cohesive and effective in
carrying out our various
[7:20] responsibilities and being wise stewards
of the taxpayers dollars I take with
[7:25] many me many happy memories and a few
inside jokes including nits and running
[7:29] it up the the
flight if you ever need someone to
[7:32] karaoke an employee event in their
Christmas onesie pajamas give me a
[7:37] call to my department staff Bill Andrew
Brittney Ortega and Es bonara thank you
[7:43] for your daily efforts to provide
exceptional customer service to our
[7:47] residents contractors Builders and other
business partners and being ever
[7:51] dedicated to magnifying the roles in
which you serve you represent the city
[7:56] well and I couldn't ask for a better
team I wish you all the best to Valley
[8:01] Center thank you for welcoming this
native hoer on a cold December
[8:07] morning and making an indelible imprint
on my heart that I will take with me for
[8:12] the rest of my life thank
[8:15] [Applause]
you thank you ran thank you for your
[8:27] service and good luck thank thank you
when you go to God still B
[8:35] for okay
you I follow there uh good evening mayor
[8:43] members of council um few items to bring
to your attention at our uh recent
[8:48] outdoor spaces and our public properties
and outdoor spaces board meeting uh some
[8:52] of the discussions that we've been
having and work one of the projects that
[8:55] we're working on is is uh coming up with
a survey side Ames and playground survey
[9:01] for the community so that's something
that uh we've been working on for the
[9:05] last couple meetings and we're going to
be putting that out to the public we'll
[9:08] go through social media outlets and be
on the website hard copies available as
[9:13] well um what we're wanting to do is um
have this collect some information about
[9:20] our current status of our playgrounds
and and the side amenities out there as
[9:25] well but specifically keing in on our
playgrounds of them and parts
[9:31] availabilities and just to try to keep
up and as well as you know looking it
[9:37] new opportunities new opportunities for
making them more inclusive for all types
[9:44] of ailments and disabilities as well as
you know just keeping it keeping a
[9:49] modern playground system as well so
that's something that we're looking at
[9:53] long term obviously for more like
CIP necessarily budget this year
[9:59] uh we're we're looking at you know
somewhere in a 3 to five year range
[10:03] knowing where our playground equipment
is is at in this so just wanted to bring
[10:08] that item to you all's attention and
mention that as well so uh other items
[10:15] um the pool opens this Saturday May 25th
uh there will be a rhythm cutting for
[10:22] the new Splash Pad at noon um at that
time so I don't know a whole lot about
[10:28] it I know ad Clark had put out a flyer
in social media and probably send it out
[10:32] to you all as well but I just wanted to
make that announcement was made uh along
[10:36] with that um pool first day of the pool
is always free day so just as a reminder
[10:42] that's water is good and cold but it'll
still be fine the lifeguards have been
[10:47] enjoying it and my staff has been so
proud of them they've been over there
[10:51] working their tails off this last week
and several weeks actually but
[10:55] especially this last week trying to put
the finishing touches on
[10:59] as well as are the contractors for the
splash
[11:04] so the last item I have is the Ford
Street welcome sign I know that that's
[11:09] been bits and pieces here in the process
um
[11:14] obviously many of you probably have seen
that the stonemason has been out there
[11:19] he's got it pretty well ready to go and
my understanding is the sign itself will
[11:25] be uh they're looking to try to set that
in the next we or so perit their
[11:30] concerns are obviously getting down in
that site with their with their crane
[11:34] equipment and you know if it's muddy and
not want to tear things up and get stuck
[11:40] on on some slopes and stuff there so
that's kind any
[11:47] questions okay thank
[11:55] you good evening Mar councel a few
things uh first off is that I'll be
[12:00] having my Citizens Academy graduation
this Thursday at 6:30 uh here at City
[12:06] Hall so
we get that this next class concluded uh
[12:12] we did get our uh new police officer
graduated from the police academy last
[12:17] Friday so he started his field training
and so we're of course still in the
[12:22] process of trying to hire more officers
since we still got about five positions
[12:27] to get filled um uh the last thing as
you all know from the uh what's been in
[12:33] the news about the shooting that we are
investigating that happened early Sunday
[12:38] morning uh so that case is still under
investigation so myself and detective
[12:43] meder have been working pretty hard on
that uh here the last few days a lot of
[12:48] interviews and U trying to sort through
that situation so that is all I have at
[12:55] this point if you have any questions
[13:23] as you may imagine the street scw been
pretty busy last couple of days stor
[13:29] we may have a little bit left ENT is
pretty fortunate as compared to Hol we
[13:36] have we have extended some some
assistance to City hallad so far they
[13:43] generator from us for down lift station
and we were able to L them a d trip so
[13:51] we have we have been in contact with
them and offering some assistance uh
[13:55] water and waste water guys have been
very busy just
[14:00] duties
rounds um and meridians they're continue
[14:05] to poor this week they're working on
poring from Third Street on continue to
[14:10] work on sidewalks and it's actually
Street down there now for a while so
[14:17] that's exciting Ryan I wish you all the
best and I can actually thank you for
[14:23] bringing me to City Live Center thank
you for that
[14:29] and congratulate crew theyve done a good
job this lasted of
[14:35] this thank you very much I'll
[14:49] do uh just to inform you we have made a
conditional offer for the finance
[14:54] director position um if everything
checks out passes all the different
[15:00] tests June 10th I believe is his start
date so we look forward to that the
[15:07] community development director position
is open and posted so if anyone knows if
[15:15] anyone who has
those very unique skills that ran
[15:22] possesses please send them to our
website they're in need and and fill out
[15:26] an application so um we also do want to
offer our condolences to Chief Newman
[15:33] during this time so thank you Matt for
[15:42] step
V to governing body
[15:47] reports uh I have a few
today I spent
[15:53] Friday
thday going to the elementary schools
[15:58] high school
school
[16:01] ofland I went to all five
schools U to present their signs to them
[16:07] you know we had them D streets up in the
place Edition that was to do that for
[16:17] those kids was something they they all
had all had a good positive
[16:25] response it was just a lot of fun we
especially because Harvest place was
[16:31] their street so not only they get a
street sign they're going to have an
[16:36] addition sign probably out front to see
so they were really excited about that
[16:42] and uh I want to thank sta for putting
those signs together for because that
[16:47] was really something they can display
those signs
[16:53] and put them up in the school
somewhere um just want to reiterate that
[17:00] we have a farewell from Mr Ryan Thursday
at 4: and 6 to 6 here in City Hall we
[17:07] have the
academy and
[17:11] Saturday there's
a ribbon cutting for a new business at
[17:16] 11:00
bubble
[17:20] and and then the splash pad at new so
got some activity going on with the new
[17:26] business and
a new player
[17:32] show you'll be an exciting weekend
that's all I
[17:41] have you're
[17:45] not um first of all I've been getting a
lot of calls in reference to two
[17:51] subjects one is
[17:59] people are getting interested especially
the
[18:03] new projects that we have going on
that's the
[18:07] first and the second one is
[18:12] golf what I'd like to do is
[18:32] but I'd like to bring these before the
council and have discussion because
[18:37] believe it or not the
golfs is
[18:45] 2002 and
the traffic is Al also
[19:05] the thing
is the L comme
[19:11] and
talk L
[19:17] ideas um on
Transportation there's going to be two
[19:21] subjects one isun by state by itself
[19:32] uh the
transportation being disa is
[19:39] not and we have a lot of people
here
[19:45] that have a problem getting to their
doctor Tes or what true
[19:59] and it's always seems that the
transportation picture is for
[20:12] which
[20:15] why now
Senor C does have a gentleman that does
[20:21] part time part time to me does not work
for a simple reason's say you have one
[20:29] day have
do that individual he's working he's not
[20:34] going work
[20:36] all that's
person but we need to discuss that also
[20:42] as to whether we want to push for the
transportation system would actually
[20:50] start in Park
City but uh I'm trying to get to move
[20:57] Center starting point that we have
a center
[21:05] to and and come back to the city now
there's three different places within
[21:12] which
[21:22] stop
facilities so this is one reason
[21:28] we need the support so there's going to
be a meeting on in
[21:44] on recomend people want to go
there do your
[21:50] in the other thing is too you've heard
rumors about the transportation system
[21:56] for railroads
of people open the state opening of the
[22:03] railroad system to run
north with the Bic train
[22:09] traffic Valley Center from newon to
Oklahoma City
[22:36] just bring you up today on some of the
other things that I wanted to talk to
[22:41] you
about also due to my
[22:47] condition I've come back quite a bit so
I some
[22:52] that take over permanently L and I'll
help him as much as I can I'm going to
[22:59] restrict myself basically to the counil
time and a few other
[23:07] things the senior citizens program with
that I
[23:43] thank work pretty
good that's all I thank
[23:50] you yeah I wish you the best I know you
worked with me on many many questions
[23:57] through so I really appreciate that help
me grow to be counil person so I
[24:03] apprciate
[24:09] that ran thank you for everything I've
got to work with you um more than most
[24:16] council members because of Economic
Development um one of the things you did
[24:21] not list in your job title which I don't
think's official but you're a
[24:25] cheerleader and you have always been a
cheerleader for Valley CER and and I
[24:29] thank you um for everything that you've
done um everything that you've touched
[24:34] is is better um you've left it better so
we wish you the best of luck and
[24:41] um if you want to come back I think our
Do's
[24:45] always thank
[24:51] you we're going to miss you a lot
especially Main Street group is really
[24:57] going to miss you
[25:00] yeah and the only other thing I have is
to thank Rodney I have heard Kudos about
[25:06] the crew work since Sunday night but
they were out there working late at
[25:13] night early in the morning doing great
thank
[25:21] you thank
you I I can't say much was already
[25:27] said thank you and then both for Captain
andu thank you Sunday
[25:36] nights what whatever you guys did I know
you guys did a lot cuz I saw a lot of
[25:40] stuff going on and since I had dou power
I could
[25:47] sleep CH I just want to say thank you as
well Ryan you you got me going to the
[25:53] home show and you you uh helped me grow
as a council M as
[25:58] so thank you very
[26:02] much
[26:10] I'm
willed
[26:22] Reon any discussion favor motion for
your hand
[26:28] same