Water / Wastewater Brandon Craig, Supt The City Lake is 20 inches low.

For the month of December 2025, we treated a total of 28,382,000 gallons of water and averaged a system usage of 868,000 gallons per day. The bi-yearly maintenance on all process turbidimeters was performed.

During this procedure, multiple pieces of equipment needed to be cleaned extensively, but all are back in operation and performing more efficiently. The sample line for the finished water monitoring equipment needed to be adjusted, flushed, and a fitting needed to be removed and replaced. The door for the chlorine dioxide room had to be removed, due to a failed panic bar. It has temporarily been addressed until a permanent repair can be scheduled. The sheer pin between the Rite-Speed and gear reducer for the flocculator on basin #1 had to be repaired.

We are in the process of assessing whether the VFD at the water plant needs a control panel board replacement or an upgrade to a new VFD. With all the recent power blinks, the VFD has not been recovering as it is intended to do.

Wastewater Treatment Plant Aero-Mod is scheduled to make their final visit next week. We will get the Digesters full and begin our wasting routine. Martin Construction is working on the last few items on the punch list. Only a couple of items remain, and we are waiting for them to be shipped.

Lumix has nearly completed the controls on the SCADA program. The only items that need to be addressed are the UV controls and the non-potable water system. Operators have Win-911 set up on their phones. This will give us alerts when any alarms are triggered.

Performed routine maintenance on our vehicle fleet.

Hand-built a desk for Lumix systems back up computer in the control room that is located in the headworks building.

Water Distribution / Wastewater Collection Cleaned the intake screen at the lake pump house several times, due to fish. We are looking into changing the pump intake level to help alleviate this problem.

Repaired a water service line at 2408 Pine St.

Repaired a leak on an 8-inch water main on 19th St.

Replaced the packing bolts on a valve at 15th and Hickory St.

We continue to TV the sewer mains that were recently jetted.

Street Department Mark Kays – Supt

General – We continue our weekly run of downtown trash and recycling. City Hall is still shredding old documents. This continues to add to our burning time. Crews picked up limbs and debris while we searched for Christmas trees at the curb. Each year there are less Christmas trees to pick up. There were only 4 trees found this year. The catch basins were cleaned one time this period. The work to have a second spreader available is complete. I do not have an update for the delivery of our new dump truck. We have started our winter maintenance of all equipment. The Missouri onecalls are picking up again in numbers, due to new connections with both companies providing internet services. We are still working toward implementing more options of equipment to work for several tasks instead of a piece of equipment only being used for one thing. We have traversed town looking at our signs and checking them off as satisfactory or noting repairs needing made. The process of changing out some of them or straightening posts has begun. Last week during a rain event we found time to clean up the shop.

Cemetery – There was one burial this period. We picked up a few flowers that were blown around.

Street Work – We found a few potholes needing attention and repaired them. We have addressed a few more street cuts. A water main leak was repaired at 15th and Walnut. We reworked the surface to make it drivable. Other street cuts have been addressed, also. We are leveling some undesirable and uneven street surfacing. Oak Street is the first location. We will be blending into other areas as time allows.

New Sidewalk at Mc-Cord’s Park – We had enough good weather to complete the new sidewalks on the east and north sides of McCord’s Park. All backfills are now complete.

EMS Douglas Kenney, Dir 2024 responses: 1299 2025 responses: 1343 Transported:893 Flown from scene:11 Refused Transport:176 Cancelled: 188 Standbys:70 Mutual Aid:43 January EMS responses to date: 52 / 41 were treated/transported, 5 refused transport, 3 were cancelled, 3 LRHC ETransfers, 6 Mutual Aid, 2 DOA Med 2 responses: 5 #300 responses: 8 Staffing Status: 4 FT Paramedics, 2 FT EMTs: (Fully Staffed), 8 PT Paramedics and 8 PT EMTs.

Fleet Status: current mileage: Car #300: 93,040 Car #301: 115,175 Ambulance #35: 200,543 Ambulance #32: 220,513 Department Activities/ News: Jan 1st, we gave an ambulance tour to a family. They made the request for their daughter; ambulances are her favorite. We could not agree more.

Jan 5th, we returned the JCAD ambulance to them along with a Thank You card signed by staff.

Jan 6th, I attended a zoom meeting on the Medicare Cost Collection Data Survey results. The findings were as expected by anyone in EMS.

The costs of providing EMS to the public far exceed the re-imbursement, by more the 50% nationwide.

Part of the problem is, the government and insurance industries still see EMS as a transportation service as opposed to a healthcare provider that also transports.

Jan 9th & 11th, I completed our last EVOS class for remaining employees. We are grateful to Lafayette County C- 1 for the use of their parking lot.

Electric / IT / GIS Ron Kumm, Sup’t

Electric Production

• The Production crew Continues with fall maintenance, changing oil in the water treatment pumps, fuel skid pumps, Power Plant 2 air compressors, and Unit 4 air compressors.

Unit 4 was called to run for 3.49 hours on 1-14-26, producing 129,289 kw. Int talks with Mitsubishi for a replacement temperature control valve for Unit 4 generator, also in review of the SEL Scada upgrade project.

Regulatory Sent the Rice/NESHP and the quarter 4 2025 reports to DNR and EPA.

Electric Distribution Construction/Maintenance – Removed the Christmas decorations and Mayor’s Christmas tree.

Installed a new air compressor in the truck shed with three hose reels.

Tree trimming continues. Removed a big tree at 2406 Main Street, ground brush at 11 W. 23rd St. and the 270 line along 13 Highway to the junction.

One outage this period at 2607 Highway 13, due to a squirrel, and the whole system had a blinking issue, due to Evergy having a bad 69 kv line arrestor on the Waverly feed. Installed 150 kv three phase transformer at the new Fre Station, terminated the primary, set new switching cabinets, and put into servce. / Locates, street light repair and change-outs continue.

Information Technology – Assisted Dispatch with reboot of the Cad server, Wastewater with camera issues, and laptop issues, Water Treatment Plant with operator computer issues, and the Ambulance department with space issues on one computer and ran a HDMI cable to another computer in the EMS bay.

Weekly checks, monitoring, and backups continue.

Geographic Information System

Police Department Tom Long, Chief

Between 12/31/2026 and 01/13/2026, the Higginsville Police Department handled 280 incidents for the City of Higginsville.

The Police Department is currently fully-staffed.

Higginsville officers are all compliant for their yearly MIRMA required online courses for 2025.

Officer Burns has completed his K9 training, Officer Burns and K9 Leo are now actively in the field serving the citizens of Higginsville.

Higginsville officers have completed their continuing education hours for 2025. These hours are required to be Missouri POST-approved Officers for 2026.

On 01/13/26, Detective DiNovi completed the National Domestic Communications Assistance training. The training was provided by the FBI.

Detective DiNovi completed training for Internet Crimes Against Children. The training was provided by the MO Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

Vehicle parking issues have been, and will continue to be, addressed.

Bldg, Plan & Zoning Sandra Stephens, Dir Total Inspections this period: I performed 6 building inspections, 1 code enforcement inspection, and two construction consultations.

Of Note: In 2025, 4 building permits were issued for new homes, compared to 8 new home permits in 2024. Two building permits were issued for placement of mobile homes in mobile home parks, as compared to 4 mobile homes placed in 2024. There were 5 demolition permits issued for single family homes, some of which were demolished due to fire damage. (This year we had 5 homes significantly damaged by fire.) There were 3 building permits issued for residential storage buildings. A building permit was issued for Higginsville Fire Protection District’s new fire station.

In 2025, citizens upgraded their residential electrical service at 10 homes. They replaced 22 water service lines and 22 sewer service lines. Mooses Market installed a solar photovoltaic system.

The Planning and Zoning Commission met 3 times in 2025, once for a Re-zoning request and two other times for a Site Plan review and one Conditional Use Permit application.

In 2024, the total fees from building permits were $22,277.64, $2,830 less than in 2025 which was $25,107.00.

Project valuation total in 2024 was $7,965,671.16, $855,090.34 more than in 2025.. With the exception of the year 2022, since 2020, we have issued over 200 permits each year. The years prior to 2020, starting at 2013 (when I started working for this City) have all had less than 200 permits issued per year.

Permit fees and valuation for 2025 is as follows: Total building permit fees Total Valuations 207 Foundation work has started at 7420 Hwy 13 Blvd. for the new residential storage facility. A Missouri One Call was made for one of the new homes on W. 18th, so foundation work will be starting there shortly. The new fire station is working on interior finishes and site work.

Candy Wing Dispatch Dir

Between 12/31/25 and 1/13/26, Higginsville Central Dispatch answered a total of 1705 phone calls. 392 of those were 911 emergency calls. 1313 came in on the administrative phone lines.

During that same time period, the Dispatch Denter dispatched Lafayette County agencies to 1566 calls for service. The busiest day in the Dispatch Center was Monday, December 12th, with 159 incidents opened in that 24-hour period. L&B Electronics was at the Dispatch Center on Friday Dec 9th, finishing installing racks for radio equipment at the new Dispatch Center and making adjustments to existing equipment.

Work continues at the new Dispatch Center at 12 W 20th Street.

Carleigh Jenkins, City Collector Business Licenses

New Business Licenses were issued to the following from 1/5/2026 1/15/2026

• Atkison Electric, LLC – Gary Atkison – Centerview, MO – Electrician Roland Auto Sales Crystal & Robert Roland 2809 Hwy 13 Blvd – Used Auto Sales