New mayor to be selected

Lawrence City Commission Agenda highlights ¢ 6:35 p.m. Tuesday ¢ City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets ¢ Sunflower Broadband Channel 25 ¢ Meeting documents online at www.lawrenceks.org

Bottom line

City commissioners will elect a new mayor and vice mayor, and newly elected Commissioner Mike Amyx will begin serving his four-year term.

Background

If commissioners follow tradition, Commissioner Boog Highberger, the second-place vote winner in the 2003 election, will be elected mayor. The meeting also will be the last for City Commissioner David Dunfield, who chose not to seek re-election this year.

Other business

Recognition/proclamations

  • Proclaim the week of April 17-23 to be Compeer Friendship Week.
  • Receive annual report from Lawrence Convention & Visitors Bureau

Consent agenda

  • approve City Commission minutes from March 29 and April 5 meetings
  • receive minutes from various boards and commissions
  • approve all claims
  • approve drinking establishment licenses for: Papa Keno’s Pizzeria, 1035 Mass.; La Familia Cafe & Cantina, 733 N.H.; Thai House Restaurant, 724 Mass.; Limerance, 1520 Wakarusa Drive; Chipotle Mexican Grill, 4000 W. Sixth St.; Chipotle Mexican Grill, 911 Mass.
  • approve appointments as recommended by the mayor
  • bid and purchase items

a.) award bid for janitorial service at the Community Health Center to Cardinal BG Services Solution for $79,756.68

b.) award bid for one knuckle boom crane for the public works department to Knapheide Truck Equipment for $23,435.75

c.) set bid date of April 26 for milling, overlay and pavement marking of Sixth Street from Arkansas to Massachusetts streets

  • receive request for a special assessment benefit district for the improvement of Stoneridge Drive south of West Sixth Street
  • receive timetable from neighborhood resources department for completing the building code adoption process
  • city manager’s report

Regular agenda

  • receive comments from Mayor Mike Rundle and city commissioners
  • swearing in of elected city commissioners
  • conduct election of new mayor
  • conduct election of vice mayor
  • comments of mayor and city commissioners
  • recess for approximately 20 minutes
  • conduct public hearing on the establishment of a special assessment benefit district for the improvement of a westbound turn lane at East 23rd Street and O’Connell Road
  • discuss the city’s noise ordinance as it relates to construction activity