Bottom line

The Lawrence City Commission will take up the living wage issue.

Background

There will be a requirement for tax-abated companies to pay workers 130 percent above the poverty line for a family of three — but questions remain about how the requirement will be enforced.

Other business

Recognition

• Presentation by Rotary Clubs for Rotary Arboretum.

Consent agenda

• Approve minutes from City Commission meetings of Sept. 9 and Sept. 16.
• Receive minutes from various boards and commissions: Grant Review Board meeting of March 10; Neighborhood Resources Advisory Committee meeting of April 24; Aviation Advisory Board meeting of July 17.
• Approve all claims.
• Approve appointments to various city advisory boards and commissions as recommended by the mayor.

Bid and purchase items:

• Authorize the city manager to execute Supplement Agreement No. 2, with Black & Veatch Consulting Engineers, for additional resident services at the Wastewater Treatment plan expansion project through Nov. 15, increasing the maximum billing amount by $70,000.
• Waive the engineer’s estimate and award the bid for the construction of a pump station and sanitary sewers for the Riverside sanitary sewer improvement project to Meadows Construction for $1,016,609. A portion of this project is to be funded by the local benefit district with the balance from the utilities’ nonbonded construction fund.
• Authorize the city manager to execute the following change orders for the Department of Utilities: Clinton Phase I Expansion Project to CAS Construction — deduct $226,882; Kaw Lime Residuals Project to CAS Construction — add $144,406; Lime Residual Force Main Project to Razorback Construction — add $56,622.
• Approve supplemental construction engineering services contract for the North Michigan project, KDOT Project No. 23 U-1793-01, with KDOT and TranSystems.
• Set bid opening date of Oct. 14 for the Neighborhood Resources Weatherization Project for 45 homes.
• Adopt on first reading Ordinance No. 7701, ordering the condemnation of a tract of property (generally located at 827 Garfield St. — Stroda tract) for stormwater improvements — 13th and Oregon project.

Adopt on second and final reading the following ordinances:

• Ordinance No. 7697, ordering the condemnation of real property interests for O’Connell Road improvement project (south of East 23rd Street).
• Ordinance No. 7696, naming Douglas County East 1600 Road north of the Kansas River as North 11th Street within the corporate limits of the city.

Adopt the following resolutions:

• Resolution No. 6485, directing and ordering a public hearing on the advisability of the construction of Folks Road from Sixth Street south approximately 1,500 feet to Mulberry.
• Resolution No. 6494, setting a public hearing date of Nov. 11 to discuss the unsafe structure (barn at alley) at 933 R.I. and consider adopting a resolution ordering said structure to be removed or repaired within a specific time frame.
• Resolution No. 6495, directing and ordering a public hearing on the advisability of the construction of Harvard Road from George Williams Way east approximately 500 feet.
• Approve a site plan for Ironwood Court, a proposed 108 dwelling unit apartment complex to be located on approximately 8.7 acres at the southwest corner of West 15th Street and George Williams Way. The property is zoned RM-1 (multiple-family residential) district. Submitted by Paul Werner Architects for Ironwood Management L.L.C., property owner of record.
• Authorize mayor to sign Community Rating System (CRS) Application for FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS)
• City manager’s report.

Regular agenda

• Conduct public hearing on proposed annexation of approximately 2.99 acres generally located at 1241 N. 1300 Road.
• Conduct public hearing on the construction of Monterey Way from the intersection of Peterson Road south approximately 2,700 feet to the existing northern terminus of Monterey Way including property acquisition, traffic calming devices, bicycle facilities, subgrade stabilization, stormwater improvements, water main and other necessary and appropriate improvements.
• Receive staff report concerning wage requirements for tax abatements.
• Consider authorizing the city manager to sign an agreement with Kansas University Endowment Association for the new site for Fire and Medical Station No. 5 at 19th and Iowa streets and to sign a contract with Sabatini and Associates for $30,000 for programming and conceptual design only at this time and 7.7 percent of construction costs fee for remaining phases of the contract.