Bottomline

City commissioners will consider passing a resolution that states it is the City Commission’s intention to sell several pieces of city property to help pay for the $2.25 million the city plans to spend to buy property for the proposed police headquarters.

Background

Commissioners are considering the resolution after some opponents to the police headquarters sales tax proposal have said the city can make no guarantees it will sell property to help pay for the project. The resolution does not legally commit the city to sell any property to pay for the land purchase, but it does state that the city intends to do so. The City Commission has said it plans to sell the West Lawrence office building that a portion of the police department currently uses. That sale would take place after a new headquarters facility was constructed. The city also intends to sell some portions of the 47-acre acre site it plans to purchase for the police headquarters. The city needs only 15 acres for the police headquarters, but it is being forced to buy the entire 47-acre site in order to secure the 15 acres it needs for the project.

Recognition

• Proclaim Thursday, October 30, 2014 as Lights on Afterschool Day.

• Proclaim Friday, October 31, 2014 as Halloween Trick-or-Treating Night.

• Proclaim the month of November, 2014 as Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.

Consent agenda

• Approve City Commission meeting minutes from 09/23/14, 10/07/14, and 10/14/14.

• 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.

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

• Approve appointments as recommended by the Mayor.

• Bid and purchase items:

a) Authorize the purchase of three (3) Motorola MDC Model MW810 for the Fire/Medical Department, from Motorola, for $16,695.50, utilizing the Kansas State Contract.   

b) Authorize the three year lease of seven (7) Ford Explorers for the Fire/Medical Department, from Shawnee Mission Ford, for a total amount of $215,603.46.  (Annual payments will be $72,176.20, $71,726.20, and $71,733.20, plus $7.00 and City owns vehicle).    

c) Authorize the upgrade of Fire/Medical Department wireless equipment used for 911 calls and approve the purchase of equipment for the upgrade to Vital Support, for $28,527.60, utilizing the State of Kansas contract.  

d) Authorize the purchase of office furniture for City Hall office reconfiguration from DBI, for $20,211.72, utilizing the State of Kansas contract.  

e) Authorize the execution of a purchase agreement with Logic Inc. in the amount of $56,488 for the purchase of one ABB Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) with a five (5) year warranty for the Clinton West Hills #3 pump.  

• Authorize the City Manager to execute an Agreement with Virginia L. Romero, for $23,795.09, for the purchase of three (3) easements and property for right-of-way, for the Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Plant road improvement project.  

• Authorize the City Manager to execute the necessary agreements with Voya to provide stop-loss coverage at the current levels for the City’s Employee Healthcare Plan for 2015 in the amount of $1,031,603 and Cigna for interface fees in the amount of $14,958.  

• Approve Sign Permits for mural installations at the Lawrence Community Shelter and New York Elementary School, as recommended by the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission.     

• Receive city manager’s report.

Regular agenda

• Conduct a public hearing on the unsafe two-story porch structure located at 608 Kentucky Street and consider adopting Resolution No. 7095, declaring the front porch structure to be unsafe and dangerous, and ordering the owner to complete substantial structural repairs or to initiate demolition and removal of the porch within a specified period of time.  Should the property owner fail to comply, the City would contract for the removal of the structure.  

• Consider adoption of Resolution No. 7096, providing that the City shall off-set all of the cost of acquiring the Hallmark site for a police facility by the sale of surplus real estate within its inventory.

• Consider motion to recess into executive session for 30 minutes for the purpose of consultation with attorneys for the City deemed privileged in the attorney-client relationship.   The justification is to keep attorney-client matters confidential at this time.  The City Commission will resume their regular meeting in the Commission meeting room at the conclusion of the executive session.