Agenda highlights • 6:35 p.m. Tuesday • City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets • Sunflower Broadband Channel 25 • Meeting documents online at www.lawrenceks.org

Ninth Street repaving may get rolling

Bottom line

City commissioners will consider approving the hiring of a contractor to repave and rebuild portions of Ninth Street, and they may not be willing to wait.

Commissioners are scheduled to receive a recommendation from staffers pertaining to the project: repaving Ninth, from Iowa to Tennessee streets; adding a center turn lane for traffic turning left off of Ninth onto Avalon Road; and replacing sections of curbs and gutters.

Background

The project is slated to be the first road-maintenance project to be financed using proceeds from a dedicated sales tax, a financing stream approved by voters in November.

The city plans to use $295,000 in sales tax revenue. The project is expected to cost more, and any additional expenses would be covered using revenue from other sources.

City officials want to get the project started as soon as possible, so that crews can have all lanes open for traffic once Kansas University classes begin for the fall semester.

Other business

Consent agenda

• Approve City Commission meeting minutes from May 19.

• Receive minutes from various boards and commissions, including the Jan. 21 meeting of the Board of Plumbers and Pipefitters.

• Approve all claims.

• Bid and purchase items:

a) Authorize $566,174.04 payment to Douglas County for the city’s participation in the Douglas County Southeast Area Sanitary Sewer Benefit District’s Nos. 1, 2, and 3.

b) Approve reimbursement to Caspian Group, 746 Mass. (Tellers Restaurant), for costs associated with fire sprinkler system installation for $41,000 in accordance with the Downtown Sprinkler System Incentive Program.

• Adopt two ordinances on second and final reading:

a) No. 8405, pertaining to the use and occupancies of buildings and structures with nonflammable medical gas systems, inhalation anesthetic systems and vacuum piping systems to reflect that Certificates of Occupancy shall not be issued until all verification and testing records required by NFPA 99C have been provided to the building official and the responsible facility authority shall provide a statement in writing to the building official that all inspections and testing have been successfully completed.

b) No. 8406, incorporating by reference, TA-04-03-08, to Chapter 20 of the Lawrence City Code (Land Development Code) to define and permit various homeless facilities.

• Approve a Cooperative Agreement of Understanding involving the city of Lawrence/Lawrence Transit System, Kansas Department of Transportation, and the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization for the Regional Transportation Planning Process in Douglas County.

• Receive status update on the Sixth Street ITS (Intelligent Transportation System) Project.

• Approve, as a sign of community interest, a request from Downtown Lawrence Inc. to hang a banner promoting the Downtown Film Festival. The sign would hang on the north wall of the downtown parking garage, near the corner of Ninth and New Hampshire streets. The banner would be displayed June 3 through Aug. 28.

• Receive city manager’s report.

Regular agenda items

• Consider adopting, on first reading, Joint Ordinance 8402/County Resolution No.___ approving CPA-2004-02, a Comprehensive Plan Amendment to Horizon 2020, Chapter 7: Industrial and Employment Related Land Use as recommended by the Planning Commission at its April 22 meeting.

• Consider authorizing Mayor Rob Chestnut to sign ARRA Agreement for the reconstruction of the intersection of North Second and Locust streets, state project No. 23 U-2041-01.

• Consider awarding City Bid No. B09032, Project No. PW0906, West Ninth Street, Iowa to Tennessee streets, Rehabilitation Project. Bids would be opened at 2 p.m. today. Staffers plan to recommend a contractor’s bid for approval at the commission meeting.

• Consider the following items related to the Street Sprint portion of the Tour of Lawrence bicycle race, set for July 3 downtown:

a) Approve a temporary use of right-of-way permit from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. for specified portions of Seventh Street; the 600 and 700 blocks of Vermont Street; the 600 and 700 blocks of Massachusetts Street; and the alley east of the 600 block of Massachusetts Street.

• Adopt an ordinance, on first reading, authorizing the temporary sale, possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages from 5 p.m. to midnight as part of the Street Sprint bike race in downtown Lawrence, on the south half of the 600 block of Massachusetts Street and the north half of the 700 block of Massachusetts Street.