OZARK CITY COUNCIL REGULAR SESSION
January 12, 2018
5:30 p.m.

Mayor McNutt opened the council meeting at 5:30 p.m. Present: Mayor McNutt, Clerk Eveld,
Attorney Jeff Phillips, Alderpersons Warden, Holman, Hall, Patterson, Anderson, and Waters.
Holman Gave the invocation and Waters led the pledge.
All were present. Mayor McNutt welcomed everyone and called the meeting to order.
Hall motioned to approve the minutes and financial statements, seconded by Holman, On a roll vote,
the following voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters, Warden, Patterson. No Nays.
Committees/Commissions: None Reported
Commissions: Will meet Thursday in the training room/council chambers at 3:00 p.m.
Department Heads:
Jody had been sick all week, but Michael Brasseux said he had nothing for Street to report.
Devin had nothing. Kevin asked council if he could take bids on a turnout washer/dryer. He said
legislations is going to mandate it as the turnouts are known to have carcinogens from fires and must
be washed after each use. He said if we wait until legislations passes the prices would go up, so he
had the funds in 833 and thinks it best to purchase now. There is a 3-5- year warranty on these as
well. Holman motioned to bid out turnout washer/dryers seconded by Anderson. On a roll vote, the
following voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters, Warden, Patterson. No Nays.
Next Cecil passed out paperwork to the council. He said he had a study done and it was found there
is concrete cracking on the 47 and 24-year- old structures. He said it was recommended to use hydro-
cement to repair. It will cost about 30,000 to repair but he wants to bid that out. Patterson asked
about warranty on the work and Cecil said he would include that in the bid packets. He said he
would pay for it out of the depreciation fund. Holman made a motion seconded by warden. On a
roll vote, the following voted: Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters, Warden, Patterson. No Nays.
Cecil said its time to look at water rates and we are looking at a 2%-2.5% increase. He will come back
next council meeting with that information.
He also said we need to amend the contract with Altes Sanitation to specify rates for all customers
outside of the city who are served by the City of Ozark Water. He said out of city rates are $18.20. he
said there are around 70 customers.
Next Mayor McNutt introduced Greg Shirk, the new aquatic center director. Greg took the podium
and told the council he is optimistic about the new center operating in the black citing that he had
taken in $1800 on Friday and $1100 today. He said it is a clean pool and had the latest technology.
He is installing software to track members.

Old Business:
Budget.
Clerk Eveld said she had two items under budget. One was the 2018 budget that needed to be
passed and secondly was the adjust the 2017 budget to actual.
Susan asked about district court and Eveld said it was a line item under administrative since we are
going to be billed by the county clerk now for district court. Jeff read resolution 2018-1. Holman
motioned to approve seconded by Hall with one notion. She wanted to resolution to read that in the
expenses from reserves specify by council approval only. On a roll vote, the following voted: Aye:
Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters, Warden, Patterson. No Nays.
Next World of Wireless, Ben Thomas wanted to update the council regarding the WOW for the past
year. He said he has 70% of the city covered now and can offer 40 mg speed. He said 140 citizens
have WOW service. He is wanting to extend a tower for more coverage area. He said he had
invested around $150,000 in Ozark.

New Business:

Next Mayor McNutt gave the state of the city address. He said the highlights were the new building.
Afterwards, he presented a plaque to Kevin Eveld for all the hours spent working on this project.

Public Input. Kevin Eveld said he spoke with a big business man in the area who noted all the big
investments taking place within the city of Ozark and thought it was work thing to tout. He said
there is approximately $150,000,000 being invested here and that is worthy of mention. He said the
city should take pride in that.

A motion to adjourn was made by Anderson, seconded by Waters On a roll vote, the following voted:
Aye: Holman, Hall, Anderson, Waters, Warden, Patterson. No Nays.
The Meeting adjourned at 6:50 p.m.
Passed and APPROVED this February 12 th , 2018