Bottom line

City commissioners are expected to extend the special use permit for the Lawrence Community Shelter at 10th and Kentucky streets as part of the consent agenda.

Background

The homeless shelter is in the process of moving its operations to a vacant warehouse building near the Douglas County Jail in eastern Lawrence. But shelter officials do not expect to be moved out of their current downtown location before the facility city occupancy permit expires later this year. The shelter is expected to move into its new space at 3701 Franklin Park Circle by mid-September.

Lawrence-Douglas County planning commissioners unanimously recommended approving an extension of the permit to Dec. 31.

Recognition

• Proclaim March 12-16 as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.

• Proclaim March 17 as the 25th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Consent agenda

• Approve City Commission meeting minutes from Feb. 21 and Feb. 28.

• Receive minutes from various boards and commissions.

• Approve all claims.  

• Approve licenses as recommended by the City Clerk’s Office.    

• Bid and purchase items:

a) Set a bid date of April 10 for Bid Number B1221, Project UT1204CS Pump Station PS43 Pump Replacement.  

b) Authorize staff to sell as scrap a van totaled by fire damage.  

c) Award the construction contract for Bid No. B1208; Priority Group I of Project UT0919CS General Wastewater Pumping Station Improvements to the low bidder EmCon, Inc. in the amount of $1,105,954.60 and authorize the city manager to execute the contract.  

d) Authorize the city manager to execute Change Order No. 2 to the existing Construction Contract with Walters Morgan Construction for project WW0601 Anaerobic Digester Improvements increasing the contract amount by $22,928 and increasing the contract times by 10 days.    

e) Authorize the city manager to approve the payment to Cullum & Brown for $28,880 for the repair of Blower 3 at Wastewater Treatment Plant.  

• Adopt on first reading, Ordinance No. 8712 to establish no parking along the south side of Seminole Drive from St. Andrews Drive, east 175 feet.  

• Adopt on second and final reading, the following ordinances:

a) Ordinance No. 8696, pertaining to domesticated Vietnamese potbellied pigs.   

b) Ordinance No. 8713, prohibiting the possession of glass bottles and other glass containers in the downtown district from noon March 24 through 6 a.m. March 26 and noon March 31 through 6 a.m. April 3.

c) Ordinance No. 8694, authorizing the possession and consumption of alcoholic liquor on the 100 block of East Eighth Street and the intersection of Eighth and New Hampshire streets from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. April 18, and on the 100 block of West Eighth Street from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. April 19 during the KU Relays.

• Adopt Resolution No. 6964, setting a public hearing date of May 15 to review the condition of the dilapidated structures located at 1106 R.I. and to consider declaring structures unsafe and ordering the repair or removal within a specified period of time.    

• Approve request to extend approval of Preliminary Development Plan for Mercato, PDP-08-08-06, to June 30, 2014.  

• Approve Special Event, SE-2-6-12, for Final Four merchandise tent sale at 2300 La. (Checkers) from March 24 through April 8. Submitted by Gene Wayenberg, Sun Creation, with permission of 2300 Louisiana Co, LLC, property owner of record.  

• Approve Special Event, SE-2-4-12, for a Country Produce tent sale at the Discovery Furniture parking lot, 2525 Iowa, from July 13 through August 23. Submitted by Julie Galemore, Country Produce, with permission of Discovery Furniture, property owner of record.  

• Approve Special Event, SE-2-7-12, for a fundraiser barbecue cook-off located at 1803 W. Sixth St. June 1-2. Submitted by Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 309, property owner of record.  

• Approve Special Use Permit, SUP-12-7-11, for a renewal of a temporary shelter (Lawrence Community Shelter), located at 214 W. 10th St./944 Ky., to include an expiration date of Dec. 31, 2012. Submitted by Loring Henderson, for James Dunn, property owner of record. Adopt on first reading, Ordinance No. 8710, for Special Use Permit (SUP-12-7-11), for a renewal of a temporary shelter at 214 W. 10th St./944 Ky. (PC Item 2; approved 8-0 on Feb. 27.)    

• Accept dedication of easements and rights of way for Final Plat, PF-12-7-11, for Bauer Farm Fifth Plat for Theatre Lawrence, a one-lot subdivision consisting of approximately 4 acres located at 4700 Bauer Farm Drive.

• Authorize the city manager to execute a funding agreement with 900 New Hampshire LLC to fund various costs related to financial analysis and bond counsel work for the proposed Marriott Town Place (Ninth and New Hampshire mixed-use hotel project) and authorize the city manager to enter into an agreement with Springsted Incorporated to complete the financial analysis on the proposed project.  

• Authorize staff to submit applications for the 2012 Playful City USA program and a Playground Construction Grant.  

• Authorize staff to receive proposals/qualifications for the repairs to the Riverfront Parking Garage and the New Hampshire Parking Garage.

• Authorize the city manager to execute an agreement with the Bowersock Mills & Power Company for city participation in the installation and maintenance of a rubber dam system, as approved by the City Commission at its meeting Dec. 6.  

• Receive city manager’s report.

Regular agenda

• Consider a request to rezone, Z-12-37-11, approximately 14.52 acres from RM12D (Multi-Dwelling Residential) and RS7 (Single-Dwelling Residential) to RM12D (Multi-Dwelling Residential) and RS7 (Single-Dwelling Residential), to adjust zoning boundaries, located south and east of 25th Terrace and O’Connell Road.

• Consider a Preliminary Plat, PP-12-15-11, for Fairfield Farms East Addition 1, located south and east of 25th Terrace and O’Connell Road, including considerations of a waiver to install sidewalks on only one side of the street.