Bottom line

City commissioners will consider closing down parts of Massachusetts Street and providing other services for the upcoming Kansas Half Marathon.

Background

The event is slated for Sunday, April 17. The races would start at 7:30 a.m. and would follow a route that starts at Haskell Indian Nations University, travels through the Park Hill Neighborhood, crosses back over the Haskell campus to the Burroughs Creek Trail, travels north on the trail through east Lawrence and to downtown on Massachusetts Street and then will follow the same route back to Haskell. Organizers are asking that Massachusetts Street from Eighth to 11th Street be closed from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. to accommodate the runners and allow for setup and removal of various barricades and signs. The police department, however, is recommending closure from 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., based on past experiences with the event. The event would close about 230 parking meters along Eighth and along Massachusetts streets.

The city also is being asked to donate traffic control, stand-by medical services, and Dumpsters for the event. Traditionally such services have cost the city about $10,000 in staff time, according to the city manager’s office. Proceeds from the half marathon will benefit Lawrence’s Health Care Access.

Proclamations

• Proclaim April as Read Across Lawrence Month and as Mathematics Awareness Month.

• Proclaim the week of April 4-10 as Public Health Week.

Consent agenda

• Approve City Commission meeting minutes from Jan. 25.

• Receive minutes from various 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 equipment on Gov Deals.

B. Rescind Olathe Ford’s previously awarded bid approved March 15. Apply local purchasing preference policy and award bid for two half-ton pickups for the Public Works Department to Laird Noller Automotive for $23,225 each.

C. Authorize purchase of a wheel loader to Murphy Tractor for $120,590 with a guaranteed buy back option of $107,500 at the end of three years.

D. Waive bidding requirements and approve the sole source rental and purchase of PMSI rental equipment and materials for $147,000 and approve the use of contract labor for $20,100 for the 2011 Crack Sealing Program.

E. Award bid for LED Downtown Lighting to Stanion Wholesale Electric for $148,895. Approve the purchase of 15 additional units at the bid price of $1,488.95 ($22,334.25) for a total bid award of $171,229.25, to maximize total grant amount available.

F. Award bid for Airport Area Sanitary Sewer Improvements, to the second low bidder, Schmidtlein Excavating Inc. for $411,000 and authorize the city manager to execute the contract.

G. Award bid for Planning and Development Services contract blight mowing to Vernon’s Lawn and Picture Perfect Lawns at the rate of $35 an hour.

H. Approve the sole source purchase of five Motorola MW 810 Mobile Data Computers for the Police Department from Topeka FM for $29,064.

• Adopt ordinances on second and final reading that would:

A. Renew a Special Use Permit and to increase the maximum occupancy year round from 57 people to 81 people for Lawrence Community Shelter, 214 W. 10th St.

B. Rezone 0.27 acre from RM24 (Multi-Dwelling Residential) to CN1 (InnerNeighborhood Commercial), at 313 E. Eighth St.

C. Rezone 3.47 acres from PCD (Planned Commercial Development-Monterey Center) to CN2 (Neighborhood Commercial Center), at 4000 W. Sixth St.

D. Approve Special Use Permit for a drive-through window in a retail center at 4000 W. Sixth St.

E. Amend eligibility criteria for serving as a member of the Electrical Code Board of Appeals.

• Authorize staff to proceed with development of an agreement with Airport Development Group Inc. for the Wildlife Hazard Assessment at the Lawrence Municipal Airport.

• Authorize city manager to sign an agreement for an access opening along West Sixth Street, west of George Williams Way, for the Mercato Development.

• Receive 2010 annual report on Infrastructure and Transit Sales Taxes as approved by the Sales Tax Audit Committee on March 15.

• Authorize the mayor to sign a Subordination Agreement for Preston and C. Jane Hoyt, 3817 Overland Drive.

Regular agenda

• Consider approving a Temporary Use of Public Right-of-Way Permit for various city streets from 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 17, for the Kansas Half Marathon, and donation of city services in support of the event.

• Consider an ordinance on first and second reading that prohibits possession of glass bottles or glass containers in the Downtown District during specified hours during the Final Four weekend, April 2-5.