Feb. 17th City Council Meeting to be held at MSSU’s Corley Auditorium

The City of Joplin is announcing a change of venue for an upcoming meeting of the Joplin City Council.

The second regular council meeting for February would normally fall on the third Monday of the month, February 16, but due to the President’s Day holiday, the meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 17.

The February 17 meeting will also be held in a larger venue, the Corley Auditorium at Missouri State Southern University.

This change of venue is being made in anticipation of the need to accommodate a significant number of people who may attend, since the attendance at the Jan. 20 meeting exceeded the City Council Chambers’ capacity. One of the items on the Feb. 17 meeting agenda will be a second and third reading of ordinances regarding annexation and rezoning of property in Wildwood Ranch.

The City is making preparations to stream the Feb. 17 meeting live on YouTube (YouTube.com/@JoplinCityHall).

Meetings in Council Chambers at City Hall are normally streamed on the City’s website and broadcast by KGCS-TV, however, the Corley Auditorium is not set up with the same streaming and broadcast equipment, resulting in the City’s ability to live stream to YouTube but not to the City website as is normal practice.

The City does plan to post the recording of the Feb. 17 meeting to the City website archive of recorded council meetings within two business days of the meeting’s conclusion.

The Joplin City Council meeting scheduled for Monday, February 2 at Joplin City Hall will be held as normally scheduled, and the agenda for that meeting does NOT include the annexation and rezoning of land in Wildwood Ranch, nor any other issue regarding any potential data center.

The City anticipates normal turnout (within the Council Chambers' fire capacity) for the Feb. 2 meeting.