Bottom line

City commissioners will consider approving the final design for the reconstruction of Kasold Drive from Clinton Parkway to 31st Street.

Background

The $6 million project will include making the road five lanes wide. The project will include a combination of a center-turn lane and a median. A large retaining wall and recreation path also will be moved to improve the site distance at 24th Street intersection. During the project, one-lane traffic in each direction will be maintained. The project is expected to be bid in November and could be completed by December 2011.

Other business

Recognition

• Proclaim Sept. 12-18 as POW/MIA Recognition Week and Sept. 17 as POW/MIA Recognition Day.

• Proclaim Sept. 17-23 as Constitution Week.

Consent agenda

• Approve City Commission meeting minutes from Aug. 3 and 10.

• 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. Approve sale of surplus buses and Fire/Medical equipment on GovDeals.com.

b. Authorize payments from Capital Improvement Reserve Fund to Kansas Department of Transportation for final closeout costs for 23rd Street and Barker Avenue geometric traffic signal improvements, which were completed 2003, for $20,736.62, and 27th and Iowa geometric traffic signal improvements, completed 2003, in the amount of $21,120.73.

• Accept dedication of easements and rights of way for a preliminary plat of Riverside Business Park, a two-lot subdivision containing 30.527 acres at 2030 Packer Court.

• Accept dedication of easements and rights of way for a preliminary plat for Hallmark Addition 3rd Plat, a three-lot subdivision containing 5.252 acres at 151 McDonald Drive and a waiver request from the requirement in Section 20-811 to provide sidewalks along all street frontages.

• Accept dedication of easements and rights of way for a preliminary plat for George Subdivision No. 4 (Northwind Apartments), a one-lot residential subdivision containing 1.31 acres at 200 N. Mich.

• Approve rezoning of 1.31 acres from RS10 (Single-Dwelling Residential) to RM12 (Multi-Dwelling Residential), at 200 N. Mich. for Northwind Apartments.

• Approve rezoning of 3.92 acres from CS (Commercial Strip) and RM12 (Multi-Dwelling Residential) to RM12 (Multi-Dwelling Residential) at 2130 Silicon Avenue for Crosswinds East.

• Approve acceptance of the right-of-way and easement dedication from Kansas Department of Transportation for Renaissance Drive, Mercato Development at the northeast corner of Kansas Highway 10 and U.S. Highway 40 (West Sixth Street), as outlined in the quit-claim deed.

• Authorize staff to negotiate an engineering services agreement with URS Corporation for transitional engineering services to assist upon transfer of the former Farmland Industries Plant from the Farmland Trust Fund to the city.

• Receive request from Kansas University for pedestrian crosswalks at 11th Street and West Campus Road; refer to staff for report.

• Receive request from the Friends of the Lawrence Public Library to place yard signs advertising the Friends of the Public Library book sale.

• Receive city manager’s report.

Regular agenda

• Consider request for a Temporary Use of Public Right-of-Way Permit for the 2011 KC MS 150 from 1 p.m. Sept. 16, 2011, through noon Sept. 18, 2011, allowing closure of Massachusetts Street between North Park and South Park streets; closure of the Community Building parking lot, as well as North Park Street from Massachusetts Street to Vermont Street from 6 a.m. Sept. 17, 2011, through noon Sept. 18.

• Consider a request for a street vendor license for Last Stop Snack Shop at the southwest corner of 10th and Massachusetts streets, pending satisfactory inspection of the cart’s heating devices by the Fire Medical Department.

• Receive staff report regarding mobile food vendors.

• Consider approving final design and schedule for Kasold Drive reconstruction from Clinton Parkway to 31st Street.