Agenda highlights • 6:50 p.m. Tuesday • City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets • Sunflower Broadband Channel 25 • Meeting documents online at www.lawrenceks.org

Land preservation to be highlighted

Bottom line

City commissioners will consider new regulations that get more specific about when developers must preserve certain types of environmental features on land that is set to be built upon.

Background

Type of environmental features that could require preservation include floodplains, wetlands, streams, woodland areas, individually significant trees of 12 inches in diameter or more, prominent geological features with rocky outcroppings, archaeological and historical sites, prairie remnants of 1 acre or larger and lands with steep slopes.

Other business

Executive session

• Consider motion to recess into executive session at 6 p.m. for approximately 45 minutes to meet with attorneys for the city on matters that are deemed privileged under the attorney-client relationship. The justification for the executive session is to keep attorney-client matters confidential at this time. After a short break, the City Commission meeting will resume at approximately 6:50 p.m.

Consent agenda

• Approve City Commission meeting minutes from Jan. 13.

• 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.) Set bid date of Feb. 17 for City Bid No. B09006, Project No. PW0816, 2008 Sidewalk Gap Program.

b.) Set bid date of Feb. 17 for Bid No. B09007, 2009 Fire Hydrant Painting Program.

c.) Waive engineer’s estimate and award City Bid No. B08075, Project No. 32-AC1-604(S), UBS/O’Reilly Site Work (23rd Street Access Management Improvements) to R.D. Johnson Excavating for $99,999.99.

d.) Award Bid No. B09001, tee and anchor coupling waterline fittings for the Utilities Department, to Ferguson Enterprises for $17,717.03.

e.) Waive bidding requirements and approve sole-source purchase (state of Kansas contract) of 19 Motorola MW810 mobile data computers for the police department from TFM Communications Inc. for $97,944.

f.) Approve continuation of the city’s practice of purchasing vehicles through the sealed bid process, rather than the MACCPP cooperative contract.

• Adopt the following ordinance(s) on second and final reading:

a.) Ordinance No. 8361, adopting the 2009 edition of the code of the city of Lawrence.

b.) Ordinance No. 8367, ordering the condemnation of appropriate interests in real property for use by the city for the location, construction, operation and maintenance of a public sanitary sewer pump station, sanitary sewer main and equipment and facilities appurtenant thereto, located adjacent to the existing Pump Station 25 and to the former Farmland Industries property.

c.) Ordinance No. 8286 for Text Amendment TA-11-24-07 for the Lawrence SmartCode and, pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. Chapter 12, Article 7, enacting a new Chapter 21 of the code of the city of Lawrence establishing comprehensive zoning regulations and other land use regulations.

d.) Ordinance No. 8288 for Comprehensive Plan Amendment CPA-2007-6, to amend Horizon 2020 by creating Chapter 15 – Place Making to ensure proper comprehensive plan language is in place for the proposed Lawrence SmartCode in the city of Lawrence.

e.) Ordinance No. 8289 for Comprehensive Plan Amendment CPA-2007-7, to amend Horizon 2020, Chapter 14 Specific Plans, to add a reference to the Lawrence SmartCode Infill Plan.

• Adopt Resolution No. 6820, setting a public hearing date of March 17 to discuss the condition of the dilapidated structure at 1207 E. 13th St. and to consider declaring the structure unsafe and ordering its repair or removal within a specified period of time.

• Approve the following unanimous recommendations from the Traffic Safety Commission:

a.) Establish no parking 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday along the south side of Hillcrest Road and along the west side of Spencer Drive.

b.) Establish no parking along the west side of Stone Meadows Drive between Bob Billings Parkway and the south leg of Brighton Circle.

c.) Establish no parking along the west side of Louisiana Street between 18th Street and 19th Street.

d.) Deny request to establish a school crossing on Connecticut Street at 11th Street.

e.) Adopt on first reading Ordinance No. 8213, rescinding all-way stop signs at the Kasold Drive and Peterson Road intersection, to prohibit parking on the south side of Hillcrest Road and on the west side of Spencer Drive from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and prohibit parking on the west side of Stone Meadows Drive between Bob Billings Parkway and the south leg of Brighton Circle and on the west side of Louisiana Street between 18th Street and 19th Street.

• Authorize the city manager to enter into an agreement with Olsson Associates for route and schedule design for coordinated transportation services in Lawrence.

• Receive 2008 annual report for the ECO2 Commission.

• Authorize the city manager to execute a cooperation agreement with Douglas County for use of 4-H Fairgrounds Baseball Facilities.

• Receive and refer to staff and the Bicycle Advisory Committee, a request from the Lawrence Bicycle Club.

• Receive city manager’s report.

Regular agenda

• Consider adopting on second and final reading, Revised Joint City Ordinance No. 8283/County Resolution No. ____, for Comprehensive Plan Amendment (CPA-2004-02) to Horizon 2020, Chapter 7.

• Consider approving Text Amendment TA-12-27-07, revisions to multiple sections of the city development code to revise the protection standards for environmentally sensitive areas and to provide more precise definitions.

• Receive city auditor’s report on small purchases.

• Consider approving the 2009 Contracted Street Maintenance Program. Authorize staff to request proposals for the engineering design of Kasold Drive from 23rd Street to 31st Street.

• Consider alternatives to individual bid fuel purchasing.