Lebanon City Council approves plats, contracts, street projects and places transportation tax renewal on August ballot
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Summary
The council approved a package of measures March 23 including the final plat for Plaza Place, contracts for a Beck Lane sidewalk and Copeland parking lot, multiple street overlay projects, and set a ballot measure to continue a one‑half percent transportation sales tax for August 4, 2026.
Lebanon City Council voted March 23 to approve a bundle of resolutions and ordinances covering land use, infrastructure contracts and budget amendments.
The council approved the consent agenda and moved into a series of individual actions. Resolution 26‑12 set 2026 rates for the Lebanon Golf Course, leaving fees largely unchanged from 2025 while staff plans rate discussions for 2027–28. Resolution 26‑13 declared a list of vehicles and equipment surplus to be offered at Purple Wave auction and removed a 2006 John Deere tractor from surplus to return it to the airport maintenance fleet. Resolution 26‑14 amended task order 53 to continue engineering work on Goldenwood stormwater issues after geotechnical findings ruled out a pond. Resolution 26‑15 authorized a $25,070 contract with True Construction for tenant improvements tied to the Copeland lease agreement, and Resolution 26‑16 awarded the Beck Lane sidewalk contract to True Construction for $505,801 with MoDOT concurrence.
On land use, council completed first and second readings of council bill 7008 and approved the final plat for Plaza Place (1900 block South Jefferson); council bill 7008 became ordinance 26‑39. The council also passed an ordinance to rename Elm Street (and portions of Mill Creek Road and Highway W) to Route 66 with signage effective April 1; that item became ordinance 26‑40.
Council approved placing a one‑half cent transportation sales tax renewal on the August 4, 2026 ballot and removed the sunset provision so the tax would become permanent to fund street operations. Staff estimated annual revenue of about $2.35 million. As staff described it, “This would be a permanent tax because it funds permanent operations of the streets department.”
Other adopted ordinances included a pay adjustment for the city prosecutor to account for increased workload tied to drug‑treatment‑court cases, additional street overlays covering roughly 8,900 lane feet, and a budget amendment to appropriate about $184,000 from economic development funds to build a 50‑space parking lot at a city‑owned Copeland building (ordinance 26‑44). A pawnshop ordinance amendment passed first reading and is scheduled for a second reading on April 13.
All votes recorded in the minutes for the actions listed above were taken by roll call and recorded as affirmative by the councilmembers present.
