Call to order the Monday, November 9th, 2026, me and the Ellsville Town Council. Pledge please, or prayer,
I'm sorry. Dear Heavenly Father, we want to bless our new expanded town, but make sure that we're humble
enough to listen to those voices and make sure that we have enough wisdom to steer through this process
and rely on you, not our own methods. In your name, amen. Birthday boy. I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all. Whenever you're ready, roll call. Scott Oldham? Yes. Dan Swafford?
Here. William Ellis? Yes, here. Trevor Sager? Pamela Samples? Here.
Approval of the minutes for the 1026-2026 town council meeting. So moved. Second. Motion to second.
All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstaining? Abstain. It wasn't here. Action to pay
accounts payable vouchers and the payable vouchers. So moved. Second. Motion to second. All those in
favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstaining?
There is one resolution this evening, which is 27-2026, a transfer of funds for the police department.
So the police department made a request at the end of October to transfer $1,000 from their 374 arms
radar and equipment maintenance. Currently,
That line has $15,595.13, so if we were to transfer $1,000 out of it, it would bring the total down
to $14,595.13. It's gonna be going into their building maintenance, which is 234, and currently in that
appropriation line, we have $1,306.92, so that will bring that appropriation up to $2,306.92. Any specific
questions about what that'd be used for, I would please direct to the police department.
speak to this? I had an air conditioning problem over the summer, and so money was used to fix that,
and that ran that line short, and then we had a maintenance for our generator. That's why it's short.
Okay. All right. Questions from council? That is involved in transfer of funds from the public. And
back to council.
motion to approve resolution 27-2026 transfer of funds for police department motion second roll call
please Scott Oldham yes Dan Swafford William Ellis yes Pamela samples yes motion passes there are no
ordinances on first reading on second reading there is no old business under new business is the release
of developer bonds for developer bonds for value-built LLC good evening
Ernest C., the developer for value-built construction and a developer of prominence fields has completed
his phases one, two, and three, which are all phases of the subdivision. They've been inspected by planning,
DPW, and the MS4 inspector. All conditions have been met to complete that subdivision pursuant
to the plans. So we are requesting his cash bonds, which were in the form of certificates of deposit,
be released and ask town council approval for the same. How much money is we talking? State
total $601,034.74. Okay. Mike, do you have any issue with this? No. Okay. Questions from council? Any
motions from council?
motion to release developer bonds value dash bill LLC motion a second roll call please Scott Oldham
yes William Ellis and Pamela samples yes motion passes moving not a privilege of the floor anyone having
business for the council not part of our normal agenda
No one rising in chambers, no one rising online. We'll now move to the supervisor comments beginning
with the town manager. I would like to comment on prominence field and the bond that we just released.
We sure appreciate people like Ernest and their company coming into our town and putting effort into
making a nice subdivision, literally a small development village type.
Anyway, I just really appreciate the builders and the developers that we have in town right now. It's
one of the prime needs of our community, of the whole county, if not the whole nation, of affordable
housing, housing that looks good and is well built, and the subdivision looks good, so I really appreciate it.
And it's part of the reorganization effort that we keep this going on. People need a place to live.
Everybody's friends, family, especially their kids. And someday their kids' kids will need places to
live. And so I think it's a big deal. So I really appreciate the efforts that our developers and builders
make in LSO. Anything else? No.
Just a quick update on our open school resource officer spot. We're interviewing this week. We'll have
officers from the department and RBB on the panel for that. I believe there's an interview tomorrow
and an interview Thursday. So hopefully by the end of the week, we can have somebody picked and get
somebody started as soon as possible. And the only other thing I got is happy birthday to Chief Patton.
Birthday boy, no cupcakes for the crowd? No. No, okay. Do you want us to sing to you?
Kip's already done it. Okay. So I just got a notification that our Black Cat traffic slash radar counters
are in shipment right now, so we should have them any day. So as soon as myself and some of the office
staff gets trains on them, we'll get them out there and going hopefully within the next week or so.
Also, I just like to remind the public to try to get their leaves out as close to the edge of the road
as they can.
Some days we run one crew, some days we run two crews. So we try to get around the whole town within
one day, depending on how many leagues are out there. We'll be doing this until probably the first of
December or weather permitting. So if they've got any questions, they can call the office. Great,
thank you. Okay, council comments. I'd like to congratulate the Edgewood Marching Mustangs
for placing first at state. For the fifth year in a row. Yes, five years. Five years. They've tied two
others for that record. Five years. That is a wonderful accomplishment. I just want to thank the voters
for trusting us with the vision of moving forward with Ellisville reorganization. I know those and it
was a very close race in the township part and we are going to do every effort
to win your trust and win your belief that this is actually something that's gonna be good for the entire
community and just we had record turnout and I just wanna thank you. Just wanna echo what both of my
colleagues here have said and just again thank you all for the trust, thank you all for the vision of
the future and again I look forward to
Making this thing happen. It's very complicated. There's a lot of people have been putting a lot of
time and effort into this and it shows and Think in the years to come you're going to see where this
is a absolute turning point in the development of this town So again, thank you and congratulations
to everyone With that anyone else having business? We'll stand adjourned