City Agenda

Commissioner’s absence trims down meeting’s agenda

Bottom Line

A light agenda is planned during Commissioner Mike Rundle’s trip to Lawrence’s sister city of Hiratsuka, Japan.

Other business

Recognition

Proclaim the week of April 1- 7 as “National Community Development Week.”

Proclaim the week of April 7-13 to be “International Building Safety Week.”

Proclaim the month of April to be “Fair Housing Month.”

Proclaim the month of April to be “Mathematics Awareness Month.”

Proclaim the month of April as “Sexual Violence Awareness Month.”

Consent agenda

Review and approve minutes of various boards and commissions: city commission meeting of March 26; Mechanical Code Board of Appeals meeting of Sept. 27; Recycling and Resource Conservation Advisory Board meeting of Feb. 13; Lawrence Douglas County Housing Authority Board meeting of Feb. 26; Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Board meeting of Feb. 26.

Receive the monthly activity report for February to March from the Lawrence Douglas County Economic Development Board.

Approve all claims.

Bid and purchase items:

Set bid date of April 16 to curb and overlay the following districts: Cardinal Drive, Eighth Street to Crawford Drive; Crawford Drive, Ninth Street to Cardinal Drive; 11th Street, Connecticut to Delaware streets; 14th Street, Tennessee to Kentucky streets; Harvard Road, Kasold Drive to Monterey Way; Harvard Road, Kasold Drive to Lawrence Avenue; Lawrence Avenue, Clinton Parkway to 27th Street; Maine Street, Sixth to Ninth streets (milling will expose existing brick); Maine Street, Ninth to 11th streets (milling will expose existing brick); Mitchell Street, 20th Terrace to 20th Street; Rose Lane, 16th Street to cul-de-sac; 16th Street, Cadet Avenue to the west end; 20th Terrace, Alabama to Mitchell streets; 21st Street, Maple Lane to Miller Drive; 21st Terrace, 21st Street south one-half block; Wellington Road, Ninth Street to cul-de-sac.

Authorize city manager to execute the engineering design contract with Bartlett & West Engineers Inc., for O’Connell Road, 23rd to 31st streets, in the amount of $250,108.81.

Award bid for one 11-foot, high-capacity mower, for the Parks and Recreation Department, to the low bidder, TPEC, for $1,045.05 for 36 months, $37,621.80 total.

Adopt on first reading the following ordinances:

Establishing approximately 50 feet of additional NO PARKING along the west side of Sunset Drive, north of Cambridge Road.

Establishing a 35 mph speed limit on Harper Street between 19th and 23rd streets.

Adopt on second and final reading the following ordinances:

Rezoning properties generally located south of West Sixth Street west of the center line of Illinois Street, north of the center line of West Ninth Street, and east of the center line of Michigan Street from duplex to single family.

Requiring the recording of nonconforming uses in the properties generally located south of West Sixth Street, west of the center line of Illinois Street, north of the center line of West Ninth Street, and east of the center line of Michigan Street.

Allowing sale, possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages in Burcham Park, April 20.

Adopt the following resolutions:

Authorizing the public sale on April 23 of approximately $10,200,000 principal amount of general obligation temporary notes, approximately $10,140,000 principal amount of general obligation bonds, and approximately $2,130,000 principal amount of general obligation refunding bonds.

Authorizing $600,000 in general obligation bond authority for main trafficway improvements: Lawrence Avenue, Sixth Street to Princeton Boulevard; Clinton Parkway, Hartford Avenue to Inverness Drive; Iowa Street, Sixth to 19th streets; 15th Street, Iowa Street to Engel Road; and 15th Street, Cadet Avenue to east city limits.

Approve preparation of ordinance rezoning 1201 E. 13th St. from a general commercial district to single-family residence district.

Approve site plan for a clubhouse addition at Heatherwood Apartments, located at 1940 Heatherwood Drive.

Approve total expenditure of $68,000 for the remediation of the existing fuel tanks at the city maintenance shop at 11th Street and Haskell Avenue. This replaces Feb. 26 authorization of $55,000 expenditure.

Authorize the mayor to sign a Subordination Agreement for Aaron and Khalila Blosser, 1226 Conn.

City manager’s report.

Regular agenda

Consider approving the submittal of three intersections (Seventh and Kentucky streets, 15th Street and Engel Road, and 31st Street and Nieder Road) for the Federal-Aid Safety Program for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005. Other recent projects funded under this program are 23rd Street and Barker Avenue and 27th and Iowa streets, both currently under construction.