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Gerald aldermen enter closed session, approve consent items and police equipment purchase
Summary
At its Jan. 9 meeting the Gerald Board of Aldermen entered a closed session under RSMo 610.021(1) and (2), approved routine consent items including agenda/minutes/bills, agreed to two post-closed-session items tied to the GDA property, authorized police radio and prisoner-transport purchases not to exceed $3,000, and set a Jan. 30 workshop.
The Gerald Board of Aldermen voted to approve routine consent items and took a brief closed session under Missouri law before returning to open session and authorizing several follow-up actions.
Alderman Cary Parker moved to enter closed session citing RSMo 610.021(1) (confidential communications with the board's attorneys) and RSMo 610.021(2) (leasing, purchase or sale of real estate); Alderman Kyle Guerrant seconded. The minutes record roll-call votes in the order given: Guerrant “aye,” Novotney “aye,” Parker “aye,” and Via “aye.” The board entered closed session at 6:33 PM and returned to open session at 6:52 PM.
After returning to open session, the board reentered regular session by motion and then recorded two items connected in the minutes to the GDA property: an agreement that Gerald Public Works will maintain vegetation and ditches along Depot Drive at the GDA property, and approval of a contract after a stated typo correction. The minutes include inconsistent phrasing — noting both that “all aldermen voted ‘aye’” and that Alderman Parker “abstained” in the same paragraphs — and do not resolve those contradictions. The minutes are recorded here as written; the transcript does not provide an explicit roll-call breakdown for those two items beyond the language in the minutes.
Police Chief Jim Helton presented quotes from A & W Communications and requested authorization to order a portable radio package for $683.60 and a Single Cell Lite prisoner transport system for $2,021.42, with a total not to exceed $3,000. Alderman Rudy Via moved to approve the purchase; Alderman Kyle Guerrant seconded. The minutes state all aldermen voted “aye” and the motion carried.
The board also set a special meeting/workshop for Jan. 30, 2025, at 5:30 PM to discuss 2025 goals and 2024 year-end financials, and adjourned the meeting at 7:40 PM.
