Bottom line

Commissioners have a light agenda for their meeting Tuesday and will meet at 5 p.m. instead of their normal time of 6:35 p.m. Four of the five commissioners will be out of town and will be participating by conference call.

Background

Among the items on the agenda is a request by Lawrence Memorial Hospital to receive a site plan for a temporary parking lot on the hospital campus at 325 Maine. The parking lot is being constructed on a portion of the property where the eastern wing of the hospital once stood. It will add 103 parking spaces to the LMH campus.

Other business

Consent agenda

¢ Receive minutes from various boards and commissions

¢ Receive summary actions from May 11 study session.

¢ Approve all claims.

¢ Bid and purchase items:

a.) Award milling, overlay and pavement-marking projects for Iowa Street from Irving Hill Road overpass to Harvard Road and 23rd Street from Harper Street to the eastern city limits to LRM Industries Inc. in the amount of $534,942.25.

b.) Waive engineer’s estimate and authorize interim city manager to enter into a contract with Hamm Inc. for $962,734.30 for Schedule I and $682,540.10 for Schedule II of the airport improvement project, pending approval from FAA and subject to the level of FAA funding available.

c.) Approve the purchase of two F-350 trucks and three Ford Escapes for Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical from Shawnee Mission Ford for a total of $99,489.

¢ Adopt the following ordinances on second and final reading:

a.) Ordinance No. 8003, allowing the temporary sale, possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages at Burcham Park for separate events on June 10, Aug. 5 and Sept. 8-9.

b.) Ordinance No. 8008, establishing procedures for adoption of certain building permit fees, the accounting of such fees and a temporary two-year reduction in such fees beginning Jan. 1, 2007.

¢ Adopt Resolution No. 6652, setting a public hearing date of July 11 to discuss the condition of structures at 1313 Haskell Ave. and to consider declaring the structures unsafe and dangerous and ordering them to be removed.

¢ Approve the following, subject to conditions:

a.) A site plan for temporary and new parking lots at Lawrence Memorial Hospital complex, 325 Maine.

b.) A site plan for parking lot expansion at 1439 Tenn. for Sigma Chi fraternity.

c.) A temporary-use permit for an acoustic concert from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. June 2 on the patio for the grand opening of Dunn Bros. Coffee, 1618 W. 23rd St.

¢ Approve Central National Bank as the city’s official depository.

¢ Receive city manager’s report.