Bottom line

City commissioners will consider funding recommendations from the city’s Housing Trust Fund Board.

Background

Board members met earlier this month to make recommendations on how to spend approximately $570,000 that had accumulated in the city’s Housing Trust Fund. The group has recommended funding for six groups that would use it to either build new projects or fund existing programs that address affordable housing concerns. The groups and amounts are Emergency Services Council, $10,800; Lawrence Community Shelter and other social service providers, $36,225; Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority, $200,000; Lawrence Habitat for Humanity, $100,000; the Salvation Army, $48,775; and Tenants to Homeowners, $175,000.

Other business

Recognition/Proclamations

¢ proclaim month of June as Kansas Business Appreciation Month.

Consent agenda

¢ approve City Commission minutes.

¢ receive minutes from various boards and commissions.

¢ approve all claims

¢ approve drinking establishment license for Milton’s Coffee, 920 Mass.; Carlos O’Kelly’s Mexican Cafe, 707 W. 23rd St.; World Wine & Beer, 3106 Iowa.

¢ approve appointments as recommended by the mayor.

¢ bid and purchase items:

a.) award chip and seal program to Vance Bros. Inc. for $157,372.70

b.) award overlay program, phase 2, to LRM Industries Inc. for $767,065.55

¢ adopt following ordinances on first reading:

a.) establish no parking on west side of Four Wheel Drive between 29th Terrace and 31st Street.

b.) establish no parking along both sides of Wakarusa Drive within the city limits.

¢ order public hearing on the advisability of the construction of Anna Tappan Way from Haskell Avenue west approximately 500 feet to Hanscom Road.

¢ approve Bohmann Excavating site plan for the construction of a warehouse at 808 E. 28th St.

¢ approve unanimous recommendations from Traffic Safety Commission:

a.) to deny request to establish no parking along the east side of Bobwhite Drive between Bob Billings Parkway and Lake Alvamar Drive.

b.) to establish no parking along both sides of Wakarusa Drive within the city limits.

c.) to establish no parking along the west side of Four Wheel Drive between 29th Terrace and 31st Street.

¢ receive Building Code Board of Appeals recommendation to take no further action on the issue of additional regulation of wood shake shingle construction.

¢ city manager’s report

Regular agenda

¢ consider approval of Housing Trust Fund Board funding recommendations.

¢ consider adopting on first reading ordinance for temporary building permit moratorium to implement the recommendations of the Hillcrest/Old West Lawrence/Pinckney Area Plan.

¢ consider recommendation from the traffic safety commission to establish adult crossing guards at 27th Street and Mayfair Drive and at 28th Street and Kensington Road.