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June 23, 2026 — Meeting Transcript

This is a transcript of the Clayton, MO City Council meeting held June 23, 2026. It includes a discussion session on proposed fiscal year 2027 special events and related planning, conversation about landscape and tree-protection regulations (including discussion of keystone species and tree-permitting practices), and remarks on LEED and PUD review processes. The transcript also contains financial reporting through March 31, 2026 (first and second quarters), noting year-over-year sales tax increases of 5.5% in the first quarter and 10.4% through the second quarter and attributing a portion of the increase to a new fire sales tax that began collecting October 1. The meeting ends with a motion and roll-call vote to hold a closed session under multiple sections of Missouri statutes for legal, real estate, personnel, proprietary information, and public safety/security matters; the roll call shows all listed council members and the mayor voting in the affirmative.
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Good evening. It's Tuesday, June 23. We are here for our city council meeting. We're going to start out with a discussion session. And the first item is our fiscal year 27 special event. Discussion. Welcome, Gary Carter. Thank you, Mayor. Gary Carter, Director of Economic Development. So tonight, we'll be going through the proposed fiscal year 27 special events. As a reminder, we typically do this presentation in advance of the budget preparation, so we make sure we hit the mark with those numbers. A little bit different deviation from this year than in the past, this presentation has gone to the special business district advisory board, actually twice in the last two months for their comments and their considerations. And they did make some changes and we'll discuss those as we go through this. Since we do have another discussion item tonight, I'll try to move through these slides relatively quickly because unfortunately I do have several. So if you have a comment or question as we go along, please don't hesitate to ask for more explanation. So this is kind of what we operate from every year since these have been in place for the last several now. The event goals that the council handed to us, I want to say four or five years ago now at this point. So these are the marks that we try to meet as we go through our planning process.

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