Bottomline

City commissioners will select four to six topics for City Auditor Michael Eglinski to investigate in 2015. Eglinski has produced a list of about 12 topics that may warrant a performance audit in the coming year. They include reviews of: the police department’s workload; the city’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; downtown parking issues; how change orders are processed with city construction projects; information technology security; cleanliness of city parks and recreation facilities; employee turnover in city departments; training of utility plant operators; workplace safety issues; and better performance reporting measures for city departments.

Study session 4 p.m.

• City Commission Study Session with Wicked Broadband.

Consent agenda

• Receive minutes from various boards and commissions:

• Approve all claims.  The list of approved claims will be posted to the agenda the day after the City Commission meeting.

• Bid and purchase items:

a) Award three (3) year backhoe leases for the Public Works and the Utilities Departments to Murphy Tractor of Topeka for five (5) backhoes.    

b) Authorize payment to Emery Sapp and Son, Inc. for Project UT1415 Emergency Sanitary Sewer Repair (1000 Block of Connecticut Street) for a total project cost of $553,369.    

c) Authorize the lease of seven (7) Ford Explorers for the Fire/Medical Department, from Laird Noller Ford, for a total amount of $211,483.92. (Annual payments will be $70,494.64 in 2015, 2016, and 2017, plus $7.00 in 2017 and the City owns the vehicles.)  

• Adopt on first reading, Ordinance No. 9049, authorizing the Codification of the ordinances of the City of Lawrence, Kansas.  

• Affirm administrative approval of a demolition permit to demolish an accessory garage at 920 Missouri Street and approve a request by owner to waive related building permit or utility connection fees.  

• Concur with the Traffic Safety Commission (TSC) on the following items:

a) To approve traffic calming on Lake Pointe Drive between Clinton Parkway and Candy Lane (TSC item #2; approved 6-2 on 8/4/14). Funding is not currently available for construction of traffic calming devices.    

b) To deny the request to establish no parking along the south side of University Drive from Brittany Place to Weston Square (TSC item #2; denied 8-0 on 10/6/14).    

c) To deny the request to establish no parking along the west side of Delaware Street between 9th Street & 11th Street (TSC item #3; denied 8-0 on 10/6/14).    

d) To establish a multi-way stop at Overland Drive and Queens Road and adopt on first reading, Ordinance No. 9055, establishing the multi-way stop (TSC item #5; approved 8-0 on 10/6/14).   Staff Memo   TSC 10/06/14 Meeting Materials

e) To establish yield signs on Laura Avenue and on Maple Lane at 13th Street and adopt on first reading Ordinance No. 9056, establishing the yield signs (TSC item #6; approved 8-0 on 10/6/14).    

• Receive city manager’s report.

Regular agenda

• City Auditor will request direction on a proposed audit plan.

• City Auditor will present Performance Audit:  Financial Indicators

• Receive Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Update Report from the Sustainability Coordinator, and consider request from the Sustainability Advisory Board to sign the 2014 Mayors Climate Protection Agreement.   

• Consider a request to rezone, Z-14-00300, approximately 0.8 acres from RSO (Single-Dwelling Residential-Office) District to CN2 (Neighborhood Commercial Center) District, located at 4101 W. 6th Street.  Submitted by Doug and Berniece Garber, property owners of record.  

• Consider request from Cornerstone Plaza, LLC to purchase one-half acre of Lawrence VenturePark property currently leased to them, located north of 2004 E. 23rd Street.   

• Consider the following as they relate to the HERE @ Kansas mixed use development project located at 1101 and 1115 Indiana Street:    

a) A request to revise the Preliminary Development Plan, PDP-14-00183, to meet the parking requirements of the project by employing shared parking via a shared parking agreement between HERE Kansas, LLC and the University of Kansas sharing 100 spaces on property owned by the University of Kansas and to reduce by 100 spaces the total parking spaces provided on the site of the HERE @ Kansas development (all 100 spaces requested to be removed from onsite are located within the onsite parking structure).

b) A Development and License Agreement related to the construction, maintenance, and operation of parking and other improvements in the rights-of-way of Mississippi Street and Indiana Street.