Mayor Shane Gerleman called the meeting to order at 7:05 P.M. All council members were present except for John Menke. Present: Lonnie Cutshaw, Vicky Vail and Tony Lunde.
This meeting was called as Leona Hale has found a buyer for her convenience store. She has been wanting to sell and feels she has found the right people to take over.
In order for the sale to go through the city ordinance needed updated. Lonnie moved to repeal Section 5-3 (d) which states in short the owner, general and or managing partner or a principal officer, stockholder, etc. had to live in Bates County Missouri. Vicky 2nd the motion. All were in favor.
Lonnie also moved to repeal Section 5-3 (e) which forbids absentee ownership and or absentee managing control of a business granted a permit to do business under and per the provisions of the chapter. This motion was 2nd by Tony. All were in favor.
Mr. Richard Koehler (the city attorney) is making all necessary changes that are needed.
Leona, thank you so much for the 30 years you have given to us. You will be missed but you deserve the retirement. We hope you can enjoy every minute of it. She is selling the convenience store to Irshad Cheema and others of Crossland Investment Group, LLC.
We would like to welcome Irshad and Haroon to our city. They plan to take over the store in May. They are planning to make many changes to the store as well as putting in new pumps and fixing the driveway. They plan to hire local as well. They want to be a part of our community and help in any way they can. Best of luck to all.
Meeting adjourned at 7:45 P.M.
