St. Joseph council approves consent agenda, postpones $611,556 landfill equipment purchase

The St. Joseph City Council on July 28 unanimously approved a consent agenda that included a funding agreement of up to $225,000 for the Friends of the Animal Shelter and a technology-services infrastructure investment of up to $997,659.

Clerk (speaker 1) read consent items that also included an ordinance committing $19,860,418.56 in financial assurance to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources for closure and post-closure costs at the Saint Joseph Sanitary Landfill (permit 102104), a driveway access request for 3024 Ashland Avenue, park projects and other routine contracts. The presiding officer (speaker 2) then called for the council's vote; the clerk recorded the result as 7-0.

Item 14, a resolution authorizing the purchase of a CAT certified rebuild and reusability program from Foley Equipment Company for $611,556 to be used by the landfill division, was pulled for further review. An unidentified council member (speaker 4) asked that the numbers and options be revisited, and the city manager (speaker 5) proposed holding the item for two weeks to gather answers. Speaker 3 seconded the motion. The council voted to postpone item 14 for two weeks, recorded as 7-0.

The meeting also included the first reading of several measures, including acceptance of Missouri Department of Transportation traffic-safety grants totaling $92,000 for police overtime and pension-related expenses and a fire-department budget amendment to cover aerial boom repair and pump replacement invoices of $44,878.12.

The council did not receive public comment on a separate public hearing for an ordinance to reclassify properties at 2012 through 2022 Jones Street from R-4 apartment residential to C-3 commercial, and that matter was closed and advanced with a unanimous vote.

The council adjourned after the city manager's report. No legal or procedural objections were raised during the recorded votes.