OZARK CITY COUNCIL Session
June 11, 2018
5:30 p.m.

Ozark city council met in regular session on June 11 st at 5:30 p.m. Roxie Hall, Susan Holman, and
Dwayne Patterson called the city clerk to request the special session.

Mayor McNutt called the meeting to order. Present were Mayor McNutt, Clerk Eveld, Attorney Phillips,
Roxie Hall, Susan Holman, Dwayne Patterson, Harvey Waters, Warden and Rex Anderson. None were
absent.

Anderson gave the invocation seconded by Holman

First off, Mayor McNutt called up Andi Romo to award her a plaque for all her volunteer hours. She
is retiring and she will be missed.
A motion to approve minutes and financials seconded by Warden. on a roll vote, the following
voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters & Patterson. No Nays.

Susan reported that police and fire had met Thursday and the need two vehicles for the police. She
participated in a ride along and sees where an SUV is needed over a car. She also wants to purchase
one vehicle and one later after another review. She moves to spend $41,302.91 for one SUV for the
police seconded by Anderson. on a roll vote, the following voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson,
Waters & Patterson. No Nays.

Mayor is assigning Susan, Hall, Patterson, himself, Devin as chair a committee to review the property
maintenance ordinance and the animal ordinances. Also, Susan reported that they met with the
school on Friday regarding a proposal for a lower elementary school resource officer. Culver now
does it for upper classes. They want the city to pay for the officer and his vehicle but they will
supplement the costs.
The council will revisit this item.

Next hall said Anna Underwood has found a location for her memory garden with OAYO.
Department Heads:
Jody said he has bid for the soccer fields and skate park and needs to know how to proceed. The bids
were over by $67K. Jody said he could go back and reduce parking spaces.
Hall asked how many summer helps he has and he said three.
Jody said the pool center needs tables and chairs. Hall motioned to purchase three table/chair
combos seconded by Patterson. on a roll vote, the following voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson,
Waters & Patterson. No Nays.
Stay within $2500.00.

He also wants a large screen tv to preview classes and schedules as patrons come into the center.
Next Cecil passed out bids for a vac trailer and a ditch witch. He got two bids: Premier $44,000 and
Vermeer at $36,987.24. he will pay from his equipment fund. He has $155K in the fund now.
Holman motioned to go with Vermeer at $36,987.24 seconded by hall. on a roll vote, the following
voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters & Patterson. No Nays.
He said he also needs a vehicle and the ford place can meet state bid so he will go with a 2018
extended cab for $22,572.00 state bid.
He said he is also bidding out concrete structure repair on June 12 & 20 th and will open bids on June
28 th . The budget for this project is $50K.

The building committee met last Wednesday and took bids on a new engine. HVAC etc. and
everything was higher than what they were prepared for. They sent this bad to rebid turnkey and
reworked. They will meet August 9 th at 4:00 at Fire station 1.
Next was the permit schedule:
It had an ordinance 2018-4 which added a few inspections to the old one. The old ordinance will not
change. Jeff read in full ordinance 2018-4 and Holman motioned to approve seconded by Hall. on a
roll vote, the following voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters & Patterson. No Nays.
Susan motioned to suspend second and third readings and read by title only. Warden seconded the
motion. on a roll vote, the following voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters & Patterson. No
Nays.
Jeff read ordinance 2018-4 b title only. A motion to adopt was made by hall seconded by Holman.
on a roll vote, the following voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters & Patterson. No Nays.

Fair Housing was on the agenda but we took it off the agenda.
Next was resolution 2018-3. Jeff read the resolution. A motion to adopt was made by Holman
seconded by hall. on a roll vote, the following voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters &
Patterson. No Nays.
Next Jeff read resolution 2018-4. Jeff read the resolution. A motion to adopt was made by Holman
seconded by hall. on a roll vote, the following voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters &
Patterson. No Nays.
Next Jeff read resolution 2018-5. Jeff read the resolution. A motion to adopt was made by Hall
seconded by Patterson. on a roll vote, the following voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters &
Patterson. No Nays.
Next Jeff read Citizen participation plan and needs verbal approval for adopting the policy. A motion
to adopt was made by Hall seconded by Waters. on a roll vote, the following voted: Aye: Holman,
Hall, Anderson, Waters & Patterson. No Nays.

Next was resolution 2018-7. Jeff said we shouldn’t pass that tonight.
Next was annexation if anyone wants to voluntarily annex into the city. There were no takers.
Public Input:
Jody said he also wants a bike rack that will hold 18 bikes for $550.00. Hall motioned to add this to
the agenda seconded by Patterson. on a roll vote, the following voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson,
Waters & Patterson. No Nays Patterson thinks we need a 6-8 bike rack with a pad. He moved to get
that with the picnic tables together. Hall seconded the motion. on a roll vote, the following voted:
Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters & Patterson. No Nays
Spider Bowman spoke first commending the fire chief and wishing him well on his retirement.
Next Mr. Steve Whiteaker berated the council again regarding their spending. He felts that spending
approx. $5K on the gas bill for the aquatic center was too much and he said the fire chief spend on
the bank card pruchases an average of $23,762.85. he admonished the council to look at receipts and
said they were not doing that. He said that the fire chief ordered boots from Australia for $200! He
said that the paper was obviously not going to print what he says but he will find a way to get this
information out!

A motion to adjourn was made by Paterson seconded by Waters., on a roll vote, the following voted:
Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters & Patterson. No Nays.

The meeting adjourned at 6:56 p.m.
Passed and APPROVED this July 9th, 2018