Bottom line

City commissioners will hear a request from North Lawrence residents to create a quiet zone that will allow trains to go through the area from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. without blowing their whistles

Background

City commissioners had the request before, but sent it to the Traffic Safety Commission for a recommendation. The Traffic Safety Commission is recommending approval of the request. The city will have to make about $50,000 worth of improvements at train crossings in the area before the plan could be implemented.

Other business

Consent agenda

¢ approve City Commission minutes.

¢ receive minutes from various boards and commissions.

¢ approve all claims.

¢ approve licenses as recommended by the Department of Administrative Services.

¢ bid and purchase items:

a.) declare a 1995 Ford Ambulance as surplus property and transfer title to Douglas County.

b.) approve purchase from Shawnee Mission Ford through state contract of the following vehicles: Ford Escape, for Utilities Department for $18,671; four half-ton pickups for Public Works and Finance departments for $82,108; two Ford Expeditions for Police and Fire & Medical departments for $52,054; two Ford F-550s for Utilities for $61,524.

c.) approve purchase of one Ford 500 from Shawnee Mission Ford for $21,187.

d.) authorize the city manager to enter into a preliminary design/build services contract with Burns & McDonnell/Garney LLC to modify the sewage pump station near Sixth and Kentucky streets for $93,085.

e.) award sanitary sewer improvements for 17th and Massachusetts/New Hampshire to Nowak Construction for $1,362,011.39.

¢ adopt the following on second and final reading:

a.) ordinance extending a portion of the Hillcrest-Old West Lawrence-Pinckney building permit moratorium until March 1.

b.) ordinance amending the city code related to reduction of area or space and nonconformance as a result of governmental taking or acquisition.

c.) ordinance establishing an all-way stop at the intersection of 10th and Vermont streets.

¢ adopt the following resolutions:

a.) resolution authorizing the city to convey the Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive, to Lawrence Hotel Partners LLC.

b.) resolution authorizing an amendment to the performance agreement with Microtech Computers concerning its 1997 property tax abatement.

¢ accept dedication of easements and rights of way on Fairfield Farms, a three-lot, 4.3 acres subdivision south of Kansas Highway 10 and west of O’Connell Road.

¢ request staff report on a possible T-Mobile Communications cell tower site near the Harper Street Fire & Medical Station.

¢ receive city manager’s report.

Regular agenda

¢ consider amendments to the city’s disorderly house ordinance.

¢ consider recommendations from Traffic Safety Commission to:

a.) construct mid-block pedestrian crossing on New Hampshire Street between Sixth and Seventh streets.

b.) construct a mid-block pedestrian crossing on New Hampshire Street between Eighth and Ninth streets.

¢ receive recommendation from Traffic Safety Commission to establish a Train Horn Quiet Zone in North Lawrence.

¢ consider initiation of text amendment that would repeal the 50-foot setback requirement along West Sixth Street from Monterey Way to Kansas Highway 10.