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Home My WebLink About2021-08-17 Regular Meeting Minutes MINUTES REGULAR MEETING BOARD OF ALDERMEN RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI Tuesday, August 17, 2021 6:00 p.m. The Board of Aldermen for the City of Riverside, Missouri, met in regular session in the Board of Aldermen Chambers at City Hall, 2950 NW Vivion Road, Riverside, Missouri, on Tuesday, August 17, 2021. Mayor Rose called the meeting to order at 6:04 p.m. Those in attendance were, Mayor Kathy Rose, Aldermen Jill Hammond, Mike Fuller, Dawn Cockrell, and Robert Milner. Aldermen Nathan Cretsinger and Sal LoPorto were absent. Also present were City Administrator Brian Koral, City Clerk Robin Kincaid, Community Development Director Mike Duffy, HR Manager Amy Strough, and Fire Chief Gordon Fowlston. MOTION TO ENTER INTO Alderman Fuller moved to enter into closed session CLOSED @ 6:04 P.M. pursuant to RSMo 610.021 (1) Legal Action and litigation, and RSMo 610.021 (2) Leasing, Purchase, or sale of real estate, RSMo 610.021(3) Hiring, firing, disciplining, or promoting a particular employee, when personal information about the employee is discussed, and RSMo 610.021 (13) Individually identifiable personnel records, performance ratings or records pertaining to employee or applicant for employment, second by Alderman Hammond. Yes: Fuller, Hammond, Milner, and Cockrell. Motion carried 4-0. MOTION TO ADJOURN Alderman Hammond moved at 6:39 p.m. to adjourn closed CLOSED @ 6:39 P.M. session with action taken, second by Alderman Cockrell. Yes: Hammond, Cockrell, Fuller, and Milner. Motion carried 4-0. REGULAR SESSION Mayor Kathy Rose called the Regular Session Meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. Those in attendance were Mayor Kathy Rose, Aldermen Mike Fuller, Dawn Cockrell, Jill Hammond, and Rob Milner. Aldermen Nathan Cretsinger and Sal LoPorto were absent. Also present were City Administrator Brian Koral, Community Development Director Mike Duffy, Finance Director Nate Blum, City Clerk Robin Kincaid, Public Works Director Tom Wooddell, City Engineer Travis Hoover, Police Captain Gary McMullin, Fire Chief Gordon Fowlston, Human Resources Manager Amy Strough, and IT Manager Jason Ketter. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Mayor Rose led the Pledge of Allegiance. 1 PUBLIC COMMENT None. CONSENT AGENDA Alderman Milner moved to approve the consent agenda as presented, second by Alderman Hammond. Yes: Milner, Hammond, Fuller, and Cockrell. Motion carried 4-0. MINUTES OF 08-03-21 Alderman Milner moved to approve the minutes of the August 3, 2021, meeting, second by Alderman Hammond. Yes: Milner, Hammond, Fuller, and Cockrell. Motion carried 4-0. MINUTES OF 08-11-21 Alderman Milner moved to approve the minutes of the August 11, 2021, meeting, second by Alderman Hammond. Yes: Milner, Hammond, Fuller, and Cockrell. Motion carried 4-0. COURT REPORT Alderman Milner moved to approve the court report for the month of July 2021, second by Alderman Hammond. Yes: Milner, Hammond, Fuller, and Cockrell. Motion carried 4-0. RESOLUTION 2021-098 Alderman Milner moved to approve Resolution 2021-098 Purchase Gas Masks authorizing the purchase of gas masks and filters for the Police Department from Galls, LLC off the GSA purchasing contract in the amount not to exceed $14,889.60, second by Alderman Hammond. Yes: Milner, Hammond, Fuller, and Cockrell. Motion carried 4-0. REGULAR AGENDA BILL NO.2021-034 City Clerk Robin Kincaid gave first reading of Bill No. 2021-034. MOU with MDHSS-NARCAN City Administrator Brian Koral briefed the Board on the purpose of the ordinance and how helpful it may be for the Police to be able to help, as first on scene, of these difficult situations. Alderman Hammond moved to place Bill 2021-034 on second and final reading, second by Alderman Milner. Yes: Hammond, Milner, Cockrell, and Fuller. Motion carried 4-0. City Clerk Kincaid gave second reading of Bill No. 2021-034. Alderman Milner moved to approve Bill 2021-034 and enact said bill as ordinance, second by Alderman Cockrell. Yes: Milner, Cockrell, Fuller, and Hammond. Motion carried 4-0. BILL NO. 2021-035 City Clerk Robin Kincaid gave first reading of Bill No. 2021-035. Police Hire- Roelle Alderman Hammond moved to accept first reading and place Bill 2021-035 on second and final reading, second by Alderman Cockrell. Yes: Hammond, Cockrell, Fuller, and Milner. 2 Motion carried 4-0. City Clerk Kincaid gave second reading of Bill No. 2021-035. Alderman Milner moved to approve Bill 2021-035 and enact said bill as ordinance, second by Alderman Hammond. Yes: Milner, Hammond, Cockrell, and Fuller. Motion carried 4-0. RESOLUTION 2021-096 Alderman Milner moved to approve Resolution 2021-096 Bill Pay authorizing the expenditure of funds for fiscal year 2020- 2021 and 2021-2022, for weeks ending August 6th and August 13th in the amount of$580,821.26, second by Alderman Cockrell. Yes: Milner, Cockrell, and Fuller. No: none Abstain: Hammond. Motion carried 3-0-1. RESOLUTION 2021-097 Alderman Milner moved to approve Resolution 2021-097 Purchase Large Format Printer authorizing the purchase of a large format printing system, second by Alderman Cockrell. Yes: Milner, Cockrell, Fuller, and Hammond. Motion carried 4-0. RESOLUTION 2021-099 Finance Director Nate Blum reported that this resolution is a Accept Funds ARPA request for approximately $635,000 in COVID Relief Funds that are allocated to the City to be spent by 2024 and he mentioned some of the allowed uses of the funds. Alderman Hammond moved to approve Resolution 2021-099 requesting and accepting funds under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), second by Alderman Cockrell. Yes: Hammond, Cockrell, Milner, and Fuller. Motion carried 4-0. CITY ADMINISTRATOR City Administrator Brian Koral shared information about the NRCC monthly luncheon and the speaker reviewed the history of Union Station. He then showed an email for an Upstream Story received -, letting the city know how much the EH Young Park is enjoyed by their family and how beautiful it is as well. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Nothing to report. ENGINEERING Nothing to report. FINANCE Finance Director Nate Blum reviewed by PowerPoint presentation with the July financial status. FIRE Fire Chief Gordon Fowlston reviewed the Fire Department monthly reports. He reported how the Spire gas odor came about 3 and that they took care of it by doing a burning. Siren questions were answered. POLICE Police Captain Gary McMullin reported that their July report mirrors the June report as there were not many changes. Arrests are down and that is probably due to COVID and our restrictions. Accidents are down, which is a good thing. PUBLIC WORKS Nothing to report. LEVEE BOARD City Engineer Travis Hoover announced that there is a meeting tomorrow at noon. MAYOR'S DISCUSSION Mayor Kathy Rose noted that the sponsor of today's luncheon was from North Kansas City Hospital, and she spoke to me after the meeting for 20 minutes and only had great things to say about our parks and trails. I went for an MML Board Retreat this past weekend and Richard Sheets has been placed as the full-time Director of MML. MML is strong and has done so much for communities this last year. Riverside has been asked to present and lead discussions regarding VLT issues to the MML membership at the annual conference in September, with Attorney Dave Winton's help. BOARD OF ALDERMEN Alderman Cockrell — Nothing to report. Alderman Milner— I appreciated that this week Alderman Hammond and myself were able to get with some neighbors and talk about equity, inclusion and getting that committee up and going again to allow for voices that may not have been heard, to have a voice. It was a really good conversation. Alderman Hammond — I had friends from KCMO, and they loved our park. Thank you for all Public Works does and the City does. to keep it so nice and clean. Mayor Rose spoke about the great job Public Works did at the Loud and Local event, they were super busy and super-efficient. Alderman Fuller— I saw a report on the news, that Platte and Clay counties have had the most growth of all counties in Missouri. Shout out to Barth Brothers for working together with the Indian Hills neighbors that had a steep slope concern, bringing in some dirt that was needed where they had done some grading. This was a very kind effort from the Barth Brothers to unite the communities. Mayor Rose commented that the 2020 Census numbers did come in and Riverside Population is 3,342. 4 MOTION TO ADJOURN Alderman Hammond moved to adjourn the meeting at 7:34 p.m., second by Alderman Cockrell. Yes: Hammond, Cockrell, Fuller, and Milner. Motions carried 4-0. Robin Kincaid, City Clerk 5