Columbia

Top issues

The five most-discussed unresolved issues, ranked by recorded discussion time (a measure of importance and contention), then by how many meetings they came up in.

Issues on upcoming agendas

Issues linked from the meetings scheduled in the next 10 days.

Recent updates

Issues with new information found in the last 7 days, newest first.

Upcoming meetings

Recent meetings

One page per meeting, summarizing every record we have of it (agenda, minutes, video and transcript).

Issues with near term decisions

Long running topics

No actions pending

Completed

Sources

Where the data comes from

• City website: https://www.como.gov/ (City of Columbia, Boone County, Missouri). City Council page https://www.como.gov/city-council/; City Clerk https://www.como.gov/clerk/; boards https://www.como.gov/boards/.
• Agendas, minutes and legislation: the City's Legistar site, https://gocolumbiamo.legistar.com/. Pages here were built from Legistar's meeting calendar and item listings (titles and recorded actions); agenda and minutes PDFs were not read. Minutes marked Draft on Legistar have no PDF posted yet.
• Meeting video: the City's Granicus video system, embedded on the City website (https://www.como.gov/broadcasts/). It is not on YouTube; the City's YouTube playlist holds promotional videos only, so these pages carry no YouTube video.
• Collected 2026-11-04 (added at Dewey's request).

Governing body

• Mayor Barbara Buffaloe
• City Council (7 members, 3-year staggered terms): Valerie Carroll (Ward 1), Vera Elwood (Ward 2), Jacque Sample (Ward 3), Sharon Geuea Jones (Ward 4), Christina Hartman (Ward 5), Betsy Peters (Ward 6). Regular meetings 7 PM on the 1st and 3rd Mondays (inferred from the calendar), preceded by a Pre-Council meeting; City Hall, 701 E. Broadway.
• City Clerk Sheela Amin
• Planning and Zoning Commission (Thursdays, 5:30 PM work session and 7 PM regular, usually 2nd and 4th): Community Development Director Clinton Smith; Development Services Manager Patrick Zenner
• Board of Adjustment (7 PM, one Tuesday a month)
• Other bodies on Legistar: Historic Preservation Commission, Board of Health, Finance Advisory and Audit Committee, Water and Light Advisory Board, Parks and Recreation Commission, Citizens Police Review Board, and many advisory commissions

Data quality notes

• Only meetings from 2026-09-01 are built. Item-level detail exists for the City Council regular meetings, two closed-session specials, the 2026-09-09 joint work session, and the Planning and Zoning Commission and Board of Adjustment meetings; every other meeting is listed only.
• Recorded actions come from Legistar's live item data for meetings whose minutes are still Draft and may differ from the final minutes.
• The outcome of Board of Adjustment Case 236-2026 and of the Creekside CID item (tabled 2026-11-02) is unknown. The pairing of Planning and Zoning items to the 2026-10-08 meeting may be offset.
• The City's website lists a Council regular meeting on 2026-11-16 and a Pre-Council on 2026-11-09 that do not yet appear in the Legistar calendar; no pages exist for them. No December meetings are posted.
• Cancelled meetings have no pages (Food Council 9/16 and 10/21, Airport Advisory Board 9/23, Mayor's Council on Physical Fitness and Health 10/1, Collegiate Advisory Council 10/26, Climate and Environment Commission 10/27).