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Kennett City committee report: staff to hire roof contractor after no bids; hospital certificate of need canceled
Summary
At a Kennett City meeting a city staff member reported the committee’s end-of-term items, including directing staff to hire a contractor for a damaged street-department roof after no bids were received, a review of insurance amounts by the park department, and a hospital committee announcement that a certificate of need was canceled.
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A city staff member reported during a Kennett City meeting that the committee’s end-of-term report included agreement to proceed with immediate roof repairs for the street department after no bids were received, a pending insurance-review by the park department and an announcement that a hospital ‘‘certificate of need’’ had been canceled.
The staff member said the group ‘‘pretty well got everything back from the department’’ and that they had been coordinating with the park department to ‘‘review their properties and the dollar amounts of insurance.’’ On the roof issue, the staff member said, ‘‘we did not receive any bids on the roof that we have damage in the street department. Can we just go ahead and hire somebody to do it?’’ According to the same speaker, the request was answered in the affirmative.
In the meeting the staff member also reported on the hospital committee’s work, saying the committee ‘‘went up and did the dog and pony show and we got the certificate of need canceled’’ and added that, in the speaker’s view, that was ‘‘the first time in the history of the state of Missouri that everyone canceled.’’ The staff member said the street department obligations within Kennett City limits are now paid and that the stormwater program had ‘‘pretty significant proof’’ related to its work.
The meeting record supplied no formal motions or roll-call votes on these items. The roof repair direction was handled as consensus/direction to proceed rather than a recorded vote. The staff member named Gerald and Terry in passing while discussing department coordination; their roles were not stated in the transcript.
The report combined several administrative items: confirming internal payments for street-department work within city limits, prompting an insurance-amount review by the park department, and noting administrative progress on a hospital certificate of need. No dollar amounts, vendor names, bid documents, or specific timelines for the roof work were provided in the transcript.

