Harrisonville aldermen adopt budget-language correction ordinance, set Royal Street right-of-way hearing for April 7; enter closed session

The Harrisonville City Board of Aldermen adopted an administrative ordinance correcting budget language and closed a public hearing on a request to vacate portions of right-of-way adjacent to lots near the Royal Street extension, the board confirmed at its regular meeting.

The adopted measure, Council Bill 11, amends the city budget ordinance language to correct how a power-and-demand rate was described; the board voted to suspend rules and adopt the ordinance in the same meeting. A separate public hearing on vacation of certain right-of-way adjacent to Lots 567 and 8 of the Ventura Subdivision (described in the meeting transcript also as “Venture Subdivision”) was closed; the council bill tied to that hearing (Council Bill 10) was read and scheduled to return for additional consideration on April 7.

City Administrator and staff presented the budget-language correction as a technical fix. City staff said a table copied into the budget ordinance had incorrectly described the power-and-demand rate thresholds; the correction replaces the erroneous verbiage so the rate language matches the fee schedule. The board moved to suspend the rules to move Council Bill 11 to immediate reading; Alderman Turner made the motion and Alderman Mills seconded. A roll-call vote recorded ayes from Aldermen Turner, Davidson, Fouch, Franklin, Chaney, Mills and Doerhoff;…