Good morning. This is Mayor Sean Wilson with your weekly update for April 21st 2025. First, I have a request. If there is an issue to report or a concern, I highly recommend that you, as a concerned and passionate citizen, call the City of Waynesville at 573-774-6171, 573-774-6171, and let us know your concern and, trust me, they will direct you to the proper department so we can get it reported and hopefully, correct the issue. If you are not satisfied with that response, you can also call, email or text your respective council member. There are two council member assigned to each ward. You can go to the Waynesville website at waynesvillemoorg and you can locate your councilman and your ward representative. Their contact information is online and they're there for you. If you do not know your council member, you can call, text or email me. You can even email me at mayor at waynesvillemoorg that's mayor at waynesvillemoorg or you can text me or call me at 573-855-5950. We're here to serve our community. We're here to serve our community.

Now I do want to make mention of what is not the preferred method of notification or communication of concerns. Now, I know that most people will utilize Facebook and social media to share their grievances, but I will tell you, no matter what organization it is. It can be any organization. You can fill in the blank. The proper way to contact or express your grievance or concern is to contact the institution directly. So I'm asking you to please contact us directly. That's why I gave you the councilman numbers. I told you where you can get the email addresses, but posting on Facebook pages and groups random pages is not always visible to those who can provide the most help. So please, if you do have concerns, contact us directly so we can address those concerns. Thank you for that.

Now, moving on to last week, we had our city council meeting on Thursday April 17th at 5 pm. Of course, everybody's always welcome to those gatherings there, but I wanted to make mention of several actions that took place that night. First, we had several reappointments and one new appointment to our board's. For our board of adjustments, we had a reappointment of Clinton Jarrett. We had a reappointment on planning and zoning of Timothy Rivera. We also had a reappointment of Micah Perez to the Waynesville Park Board and I'm excited to say that we have Melissa Sharp, who was appointed as a member of our Waynesville Park Board, and we're very excited to have Melissa on board and I thank all of our citizens that applied and filled out volunteer applications to participate in serving with us in the community to make our community better.

Other items that we had on the agenda was an appointment of our members to our ward redistricting board. So what this is is, as our city grows and the population density changes within our wards, we need to adjust our boundaries to ensure that each one of our council members are properly represented within the city. So as the numbers grow in one ward, we may have to shift the boundaries, and it doesn't do anything except change who your representative is, and it changes also the pool of candidates to run for elected officials within those boundaries. So that's something that we'll be working on here in the next year as a committee and, of course, we'll keep everybody abreast in this entire process. We had a proposed resolution 0425, which was approved, and it was approval of a preliminary plat of phase three in Pinnacle Place. We had several ordinances that were also being considered ordinance HB 2025-20, which was amending the chapter 615 of the city's municipal code regarding seasonal flow meters, and that was approved. The proposed ordinance HB 2025-21 is approving of the final plat of Phase 3 of Pinnacle Place in the Mark Routon homes. And then also we had a proposed ordinance HB 2025 dash 22 approving the rezoning of one oh five and one oh seven North street um from our R one to our three um by Errol Arnold, and proposed ordinance HB 2025 dash 23 approving the airport aid agreement for the airport promotion. Those passed and we had one last one was the proposed ordinance HB 2025-24 approving the airport aid agreement for the construction of a commercial terminal facility. All ordinances passed and all of our appointments were also approved and we're very excited about what is happening in our city.

I also want to say that we did vote on the certification of the election results and, of course, they were approved, and we had the swearing in of our council members in Ward 1. That was Bill Farnham. In Ward 2, that was Don Hayden he will be sworn in at the next meeting because he was out of town at this meeting and also Ward 3, we had Ms Trudy Dills. Ward 4, we had Amanda Corrine, and we want to say congratulations to our team and we're very excited about working together again and continuing to improve our community, our processes and also, just just as a whole, quality of life. We also held our election for our mayor pro tem. At each um election period, the council will vote on a member to be the mayor pro tem. The mayor pro tem acts as the mayor when the mayor is absent or when I and I'm not available and we can split forces. But it was a nomination of Amanda Corrine, who was the previous mayor pro tem, and she continues to serve in that capacity by the majority vote of her peers. So we want to say congratulations to Amanda Corrine for being elected as the mayor pro tem for the 2025-26 year.

I would also like to make mention on April 14th, the city of Waynesville proudly sent four members of its electric department to Jeff City to take part in the Lyman Appreciation Day at the Missouri State Capitol. They joined fellow Lyman from across the state in recognition of essential and often dangerous work Lyman perform year round to keep the communities powered and safe. Linemen Appreciation Day is an annual event set aside to honor the dedication and service of linemen throughout Missouri. Both the Missouri House of Representatives and Senate passed a formal resolution to acknowledge the vital role these professionals play in maintaining and restoring electric service, often under the most challenging conditions. We are incredibly proud of the hard work the individuals who represent our electric department, said Administrator John Doyle. These men serve our community with unwavering commitment. Rain or shine, day or night commitment, rain or shine, day or night.

Waynesville team that went to the Capitol included Daniel Sheldon, who is the electric department supervisor of 14 years of service. Joss Evans, who is a journeyman lineman, who's been working for 10 years of service. Keaton Studdisman, who's a third year apprentice. He's been working for a year and a half of service. Tyler Langston he's in his second year of apprentice and he's been working for a year and a half of service. Tyler Langston, he's in his second year of apprentice and he's been working for a year and a half of service.

We had other members that were unable to attend the event and that's Craig Wilson. He's our assistant supervisor and he's been working for 29 years of service. Bradley Kernett, who's a fourth-year apprentice. He has two years of service. Bradley Kernett, who's a fourth year apprentice. He has two years of service. And please help us congratulate our team for such a prestigious, noteworthy honor. And I want to end with this. I do want to remind everyone that this weekend is the best sapper competition. Come out and join us in the park between 8 and 12 and you will not be be disappointed. I encourage you to come and participate and come connect with us in the park. With that being said, I look forward to seeing you around the town.