Bottom line

City commissioners are being asked to add $511,000 to the city’s street maintenance program to make emergency repairs to four more city streets and two city parking lots.

Background

City staff members are proposing this work: concrete rehabilitation for the intersection of 23rd Street and Haskell Avenue; mill and overlay Missouri Street from Ninth to 11th streets; mill and overlay Emery Road from Ninth Street to High Drive; and mill and overlay 17th Street from Indiana to Illinois streets.

A parking lot on the west side of the 700 block of New Hampshire and a lot at the southwest corner of Sixth and New Hampshire also are being proposed for resurfacing. The city’s capital reserve fund, which has a balance of $2 million, would handle $500,000 of the additional funding. The remaining $11,000 would come from the city’s parking fund.

Other business

Executive session, 5:30 p.m.

• City Commission will recess into an executive session to discuss employer/employee negotiations.

Regular meeting, 6:35 p.m.

Recognition

• Proclamation reaffirming the city of Lawrence’s commitment to ADA compliance.

Consent agenda

• Receive minutes from boards and commissions:

• Approve claims.

• Approve licenses recommended by the city clerk’s office.

• Approve appointments recommended by the mayor.

• Bid and purchase items:

a. Set bid opening for June 15 for Wastewater Pump Station 04 Discharge Piping Replacement.

b. Award bid for Wet Weather Storage Expansion for Pump Station PS09 (Four Seasons), to the low bidder, Wildcat Construction Company Inc., for $1,444,400 and authorize the city manager to execute the contract.

c. Approve change order for the Carnegie renovation project (Ninth and Vermont) to AB Bradley for $23,821.69.

• Approve a special event for a downtown film festival at the southwest corner of Ninth and New Hampshire streets.

• Authorize mayor to execute Memorandum of Understanding providing for the receipt of $50,000 donation from the Kansas University Housing Department for the acquisition of a new ladder apparatus for the Fire Medical Department.

• Approve a request by Bartlett and West, on behalf of the property owner of the property at 1804 W. Sixth St., Johnson & Ellis Investments, for a variance from city code that states that a private sanitary sewer service line shall not be in a public right-of-way for greater than 15 feet.

• Authorize the mayor to sign a release of mortgage for Julie Faust, 537 Eldridge. • Approve a request from First Southern Baptist Church to place promotional signs advertising Vacation Bible School in the right-of-way at 4300 W. Sixth St., from June 9 through June 24.

• Receive year-end 990 Form for Lawrence Freenet.

• Receive city manager’s report.

Regular agenda

• Consider approving revisions to the 2010 Comprehensive Street Maintenance Program, and an increase of $511,000 to the program budget.

• Consider adopting a resolution ordering the improvement and authorizing issuance of General Obligations Bonds for $1.25 million for the Iowa Street reconstruction project, from Yale Road to 15th Street/Bob Billings Parkway, as discussed and approved by city commissioners on April 27.

• Consider approving purchase of six light-duty 25-foot buses from Kansas Truck Equipment Co., for $480,000. The buses will be purchased off the existing Kansas Department of Transportation state bid vehicle contract; $398,400 is funded from existing Federal Transit Administration Grants and $81,600 will be funded from the state of Kansas Transportation Program. There is no cost to the city.

• Consider on first reading an ordinance that amends city code provisions establishing procedures for allowing alcohol on city property.