The Carl. Junction City Council met in regular session on Tuesday February 21, 2017 at 7:00 PM at City Hall. Mayor Michael Moss called the meeting to order with the following present: Bob Cook, Don Marshall, Richard Zaccardelli, Mark Powers, Roger Spencer, Wayne Smith, LaDonna Allen and Mike Burns. Also present were City Administrator Steve Lawver, City Clerk  Maribeth Matney and City Attorneyl Mike Talley.  AGENDA  Roger Spencer motioned to approve the agenda as presented. Richard Zaccardelli seconded. Alli in favor. No opposed.  Mark Powers motioned to approve the consent agenda. Roger Spencer seconded. All in favor. No opposed.  PUBLIC. FORUM  Alan Palmer, 504 Joplin, addressed the council about the 21 houses behind his house. There is trash everywhere and it looks terrible. He asked what procedures need to be done to get something done about those 21 houses. These houses face Main Street. Steve reported that we have. sent certified letters to all the lien holes of the properties. We will need to address the trash and that would be our Code enforcement officer. Mike Talley stated that these 2 issues are different procedures. One is demolition and the other is nuisance abatement. He also explained that we can site them for nuisance abatement and they can pay the fines and go on. There was al Iot of discussion about our condemnation process and our nuisance abatement. Steve said thatt the bank agreedt that one of the houses needs torn down. He is not sure why the trash has not been addressed but we will contact code enforcement. Sherry Palmer also stated that every night between 9:001 PM and midnight the dogs go crazy and she is not sure what is going on back there. There was a lot of discussion about where we were with the demolition process. The council stated we will try to address the trash  issue.  REVIEWANDACCHT 2016 AUDIT  Steve Lawver explained that we received our 2016 audit from Taylor & Green. He also pointed out that we are converting from a cash basis to an accrual basis. Itis a more in depth audit. This year we have a modified accrual and next year we will try to complete our infrastructure inventory to complete the accrual items needed to complete the audit. The 18 items in the management letter deal with the changeover from cash to accrual. They did not find any faulty bookkeeping. We also need to do ai management letter for the audit. We have never done that before and iti is al brief description of items that happened through the year. We have never shown our inventory andi infrastructure beforei in our audit. Mark Powers stated after talking with the auditor we are on1 the right track. Mark Powers motioned to accept the 2016 audit. Richard Zaccardelli seconded. Alli in favor. No opposed.  REVIEW AND APPROVE DELINQUENTTAKIIST  The council reviewed the delinquent tax list. There was some discussion about pursuing taking taxes through our municipal court. LaDonna Allen motioned to accept the delinquent tax list. Bob Cook asked if we could collect the taxes with the water bill. The City Clerk stated thats some cities do, ift they shut the water off for nonpayment they have toj pay everything they owe1 to the city to geti it reinstated, including taxes. Richard. Zaccardelli seconded the motion on thei floor. Alli in' favor. No opposed  ORDINANCES  Mark Powers motioned to put "AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY OF CARL JUNCTION, MISSOURI AND ALLGEIER, MARTIN & ASSOCIATES, INC., TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PHASES FOR SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS ALONG ROUTE Z (PENNELL STREET) FROM MIILLER STREET TO NORTH GRIMES STREET IN THE CITY OF CARL. JUNCTION, FOR SUMS WHICH WILLNOT: EXCEED $42,999.63 FORI DESIGN SERVICES AND $24,319.95. FOR CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, AND SUCH ADDITIONAL SERVICES AND REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES AS PROVIDED IN THE CONTRACT; PROVIDING THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS THEREOF; AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE SAID CONTRACT FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CARL JUNCTION, MISSOURI" on first reading byt title only. Roger Spencer seconded. All in favor. No opposed. Steve Lawver explained that this isa contract for the sidewalk along] Pennell. MODOT will pay 80% and wej pay: 20%. Bob Cook asked if we went out for bid. Steve said no they are on MODOT's qualified engineering list. We do not have to go out for bid for professional services. Mark Powers motioned to put it on second reading by title only. Don Marshall seconded. All in favor. No opposed. There was no discussion. Mark Powers motioned to put it on final passage. Richard Zaccardelli seconded. All in favor. No opposed. Cook-y, Marshall-y, Zaccardelli-y, Powers-y, Spençer-y' W Smith-y, Allen-y, Burns-y. Motion on Ordinance #17-04 was approved by roll call vote, signed  by thel Mayor, attested by the City Clerk and made aj part oft the permanent records oft the City of Carl Junction  REPORTS  The council reviewed the Administration: report. Steve reported that Jimmy hadj priced the concrete blocks. Ifwe do 1 block high will still need an easement for grading. Ifwe go 21 blocks high we will not need an easement as it will alll be ini the right of way. It will reduce the costs and not take as much time. The blocks will run $5400 to go 21 blocks high. Steve will talk to the owner about paying $2000-$3000. as was discussed in an earlier conversation. Mikel Burns askedi if we were going tol have toi repair all the retaining walls in the city. Steve said that this retaining wall is on our right of way. Mark Powers pointed out that it is not costing the City labor since we would bej paying our employee'sa anyway: no matter what job1 they are doing unless the work overtime. Bob Cook asked how many other walls in town have problems. Iti is wear and tear on our equipment. There was discussion as to why it was on our  1    right of way and what liability we have. It was stated we didn't put it up and now we have to fix it. It should be the owner's responsibility. It was also asked what happens if we build it back on our right of way and someone gets hurt on it. We willl be liable. Steve said that he tried tol bring to the council 2 years ago an ordinance that made thej property owner: responsible for the right of ways and the council rejected it. It was stated that this is a dangerous wall and that puts the city at risk since we know iti is dangerous and we are not doing something about it. It was stated that we could do thel labor but make the owner pay for the materials. Jimmy stated that at firstl he thought we could repair itl but after looking at it he feels we should go with the concrete block wall. Mike Burns stated that if we are going to do that we should puti it on the property owners land not the city) ROW. He is trying to sell the house. It was also suggested we: spliti it 50/50. Mike' Talley said that we would need an agreement with the owner to do that. Once councilman aked if we are going to set aj precedent with this. There was al lot of debate on this topic Mark Powers motioned to fix the wall with the conçrete blocks and charge Steve Lawver to negotiate with the property owner to contribute towards the project. Richard. Zaccardelli seconded. Mike Burns restated that we should put the wall on his property not the city ROW. 7 (Cook, Marshall, Zaccardelli, Steve also reported that JATSO will pay 80% of our Fir Road traffic study. He will talk to APD. Thursday about contributing. Bob Cooks said that thisi is not the right time to be doing the study with the work being done on the bridge. Hei thinks we PW report- - there was nothing to add. Jimmy did say they tested the water lines fort the new subdivision on Copper Oaks. Police report -1 there was nothing to add. Mike Burns stated that Officer Jensen was named officer of the week. Mike Talley then thanked Mark McCall: for his help after the council meeting when hel had his flat tire. It was really appreciated. Court report- - there was nothing to add. It was stated that the council: really likes Crystal'sreports.  Powers, Spencer, Smith, Allen) in favor. 1 (Burns) opposed.  should wait until thel bridgei is completed  COMMITTEE REPORTS  Budget/Finance Mark Powers reported that they! have finished their budget meetings and will present it at thei next meeting.  He also reviewed the! bank statements and all looked OK. Code/Nuisance -Don Marshalll had nothing to report. Human Resources Roger Spencer had nothing to report Public Facilities & Planning - Wayne Smith1 had: nothing toi report. Senior Citizens- Richard Zaccardelli had nothing toi report.  UNFINISHED BUSINESS NEWI BUSINESS  It was stated that the Cityl has now collected 100% oft thel BCID that they were collecting for the Briarbrook CID. Don] Marshall stated hel has received several phone calls about people noti receiving their utility bills till 2-3 days before the Mayor Moss introduced Mayor Pro-Tem Gary Heilbrun from) Duquesne. He was in attendance to see. how we conduct our Mayor Moss asked for the young gentleman ini the audience toi introducel himself. Hei is Blake Willoughby and was in the National Guards and is currently working for the. Joplin Globe. He found out that no one is covering Carl Junction at this time and  due date. It was reported that they are all: mailed at the same time around the 29th-3 30" of eachi month.  meetings.  since he was from Carl Junction he thought he would attend the: meeting to get ai feel of city events.  ADJOURNMENT  Mark Powers motioned to adjourn the meeting. Roger Spencer seconded. 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