Bottom line

City commissioners will discuss the idea of requiring contractors that do roofing jobs in the city to receive a city license to conduct business.

Background

Several local roofing contractors have asked the city to create the licensing system, which would require new contractors to pass a test and require all contractors to take a certain number of classes per year.

The city already has a licensing system for general homebuilders, but it does not cover roofing contractors. City staff members are supportive of the request but said it could require additional staffing in the city’s Neighborhood Resources Department. Commissioners are scheduled to discuss the idea.

If they want to move forward, staff members will have to create a specific ordinance for commissioners to vote on at a later meeting.

Other business

Recognition

¢ Recognition of Mayor’s Excellence in Education Award Recipients.

¢ Proclaim the week of April 12-19 as Week of the Young Child.

¢ Proclaim the month of April as Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month.

Consent agenda

¢ Approve City Commission meeting minutes from March 25.

¢ Receive minutes from various boards and commissions:

¢ Approve all claims.

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

¢ Approve appointments as recommended by the mayor.

¢ Bid and purchase items:

a.) Authorize the city manager to execute a contract agreement and purchase order with Mayer Specialty Services LLC in the amount of $120,000 to complete the 2008 Manhole Rehabilitation Manhole Program.

b.) Authorize payment in the amount of $26,000 to Olsson & Associates for city-initiated design costs related to optional bidding configurations of Pump Station PS49 in the Douglas County Sanitary Sewer Benefit Districts Nos. 1, 2 & 3.

¢ Adopt on first reading, the following ordinances:

a.) Joint City Ordinance No. 8255/County Resolution No. ____, incorporating by reference the “Subdivision Regulations for Lawrence and the Unincorporated Areas of Douglas County.”

b.) Ordinance No. 8258, providing for the deferral of special assessments for public improvements in improvement districts established on property owned by a political subdivision.

c.) Ordinance No. 8259, amending City Ordinance No. 6010 pertaining to the deferral period of certain special assessments previously authorized by the city on lots, pieces and parcels of East Hills Business Park.

¢ Adopt the following ordinances on second and final reading:

a.) Ordinance No. 8249, providing for the amendment to various sections of Chapter 20 Development Code related to the definition of family in RS Districts.

b.) Ordinance No. 8253 adopting the Oread Redevelopment Project Plan.

c.) Ordinance No. 8254, creating a Transportation Development District and levying a Transportation Development District sales tax.

¢ Approve extension of parking agreement with Sunflower Broadband to use City Lot 16 at the monthly rate of $10 per metered space for 43 spaces, for a total of $430 per month, until May 31.

¢ Approve signs of community interest, a request from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for a Free Community Emergency Preparedness Fair to place signs in the city right-of-way, median at 10th Street and Kasold Drive, north and southbound on Kasold Drive, beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, May 2, and ending about 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 3.

¢ Authorize the mayor to sign a release of mortgage for Lance and Amy Hoover, 1511 Davis Road.

¢ Approve temporary “Resident Parking Only, Violators Will Be Towed” signs on the 900 block of Rhode Island on May 14.

¢ Receive city manager’s report.

Regular agenda

¢ Receive 2007 annual report from the Convention and Visitors Bureau.

¢ Receive request from David McLaughlin, to include roofing contractors under the Lawrence licensing requirements.

¢ Consider authorizing the mayor to sign the “Authority to Award Contract and Commitment of City Funds” and the Construction Engineering Agreement with KDOT for construction of Project No. 61-GI2-1104(C) for the improvement of 19th Street from Ohio Street to Alabama Street, and adopt Resolution No. 6762, authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds for a principal maximum amount of $250,000.

¢ Receive draft federal legislative statement.

¢ Receive request from Lawrence Community Shelter for a letter of support for a federal earmark request of $600,000 for shelter relocation.

¢ Receive draft Tax Increment Financing and Transportation Development District policies.