Bottomline

Commissioners will consider approving a waterline replacement project that is expected to close a portion of Ninth Street to traffic for a portion of this summer.

Background

Construction crews will replace a waterlines that run along Avalon Road and Hilltop Drive. The project will cause traffic disruptions when crews are replacing the lines as they connect into Ninth Street. Plans call for Ninth Street to be closed to traffic between an area just west of Hilltop Drive and just east of Avalon Road. The city plans for the street to be closed from May 26 to June 7.

Recognition

Proclaim the week of April 6 – 12, 2015 as Public Health Week.

Proclaim the month of April, 2015 as Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Proclaim the month of April, 2015 as Mathematics Awareness Month.

Proclaim the month of April, 2015 as Lawrence Poetry Month.

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.

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

Bid and purchase items:

a) Award Bid No. B1518, Project No. PW1513, 2015 Overlay, Patch, and Microsurfacing Program, to Sunflower Paving, Inc. in the total amount of $1,088,070.60.  

b) Award Bid No. B1508 – Construction of the Burcham River Trail, to the low bidder, RD Johnson Excavation, for $107,950 and authorize the City Manager to sign a grant agreement with the Sunflower Foundation to provide funding of $49,775 toward the project.  

c) Authorize the City Manager to enter into an agreement with CFS Engineers for design and engineering of the Baldwin Creek Trail Project for a total of $39,556.62.     

Adopt on second and final reading, the following ordinances:

a) Ordinance No. 9093, authorizing up to $23 million in industrial revenue bond (IRB) financing for the 100 E. 9th Street project located on the northeast corner of 9th & New Hampshire Street for the purpose of accessing a sales tax exemption on construction materials.  

b) Ordinance No. 9075, authorizing the sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic liquor in the 100 block of E. 8th Street and the intersection of 8th Street and New Hampshire Street from 12:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. on Friday, April 17, 2015 for the Downtown Olympic Shotput Event.   

c) Ordinance No. 9094, allowing the sale, possession and consumption of alcohol in the 100 block of E. 8th Street, from 12:00 p.m. on Friday, August 7, 2015, to 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 9, 2015, for the 2015 Sandbar Birthday Party.

d) Ordinance No. 9095, allowing the possession and consumption of alcohol in the 800 block of Pennsylvania Street and the 600 block of E. 8th Street on Saturday, May 2, 2015, from 12:00 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. for the Kansas Food Truck Festival.

e) Ordinance No. 9076, allowing the sale, possession and consumption of alcohol in the public right-of-way in the 900 block of New Hampshire Street on Friday, May 29, 2015, from 12:00 p.m. to Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. during the Art Tougeau and Final Friday events.

f) Ordinance No. 9077, allowing the sale, possession and consumption of alcohol in the public right-of-way in the 100 block of E. 8th Street, Friday, May 29, 2015 from 12:00 p.m. to Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. and the 900 block of New Hampshire Street, from Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. to Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. during the 2015 Lawrence Buskerfest event.

g) Ordinance No. 9073, allowing the sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol in the public right-of-way in the 900 block of New Hampshire Street, from Monday, June 22, 2015 from 12:00 p.m. to Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 11:59 p.m. during the 2015 Freestate Festival.

h) Ordinance No. 9097, allowing the sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol in the 700 and 800 blocks of Vermont Street and west 100 block of 8th Street from Massachusetts Street to Vermont Street , including the intersection of 8th and Vermont Street and the plaza area between the Vermont Street parking garage and the Public Library on Friday, June 26, 2015, from 4:00 p.m. until 11:59 p.m., and the 700, 800 and 900 blocks of Massachusetts Street and the east & west 100 blocks of 8th Street from Vermont Street to New Hampshire Street, on Sunday, June 28, 2015, from 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m., provided the sale, possession and consumption of alcoholic liquor are pursuant to City of Lawrence and State of Kansas law.

Concur with the following recommendations from the Traffic Safety Commission:

a) To establish a 15-Minute Loading Zone, 9am-6pm, Tuesday-Saturday in front of 905 Rhode Island Street. It should be noted that loading zones are not generally actively enforced by police officers or parking control officers, but, are usually enforced on a complaint basis  and adopt on first reading, Ordinance No. 9096, establishing a  15-Minute Loading Zone, 9am-6pm, Tuesday-Saturday, in front of 905 Rhode Island Street

b) To establish a 15 Minute Parking Zone for 50 feet in the recessed parking area on the north side of 6th Street, east of Mississippi Street. It should be noted that short term parking zones are not generally actively enforced by police officers or parking control officers, but, are usually enforced on a complaint basis and adopt on first reading, Ordinance No. 9097, establishing a 15-Minute Parking Zone for 50 feet in the recessed parking area on the north side of 6th Street, east of Mississippi Street  

c) To deny the request to establish Yale Road as a one-way eastbound between Murrow Court and Crestline Drive (TSC item #5; denied 7-0 on 02/02/15).    

Approve the dedication of pedestrian easement along Hilltop Drive and Harvard Road adjacent to Hillcrest Elementary.  

Authorize staff to negotiate a scope and fee for financial services with Raftelis Financial Consultants, Inc.  

Authorize the Mayor to sign the City/State Safe Routes to School Grant Agreement.  

Authorize the City Manager to execute a License Agreement permitting Presto Convenience Stores, LLC, a Kansas limited liability company, to install and maintain eleven ground water monitoring wells within the City’s rights of way on Ohio Street, Tennessee Street, and Eighth Street, in the vicinity of 602 West Ninth Street, in accordance with the terms of that Agreement.  

Authorize the City Manager to execute a License Agreement permitting Larsen & Associates, Inc., a Kansas corporation, to install and maintain two ground water monitoring wells within the City’s Right of Way near the intersection of 23rd Street and Naismith Drive.  

Consider amendment to lease between the City of Lawrence, Douglas County and the Bioscience Technology Business Center (BTBC) to extend the lease repayment schedule for the BTBC expansion facility located at 4950 Bob Billings Parkway for three years through 2017 as requested by the BTBC.  

Receive PIRC recommendation to issue industrial revenue bonds for the Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center for the purpose of accessing a sales tax exemption certificate for the labor and materials used on the building renovation.  Adopt Resolution No. 7110, authorizing the issuance of up to $3.2 million in industrial revenue bond financing to finance the renovations of the Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center.    

Authorize the Mayor to sign Releases of Mortgage for Rosalie Ketter, 1315 Sunchase Drive and Loznell Rhodes, 325 Lincoln Street.  

Authorize the Mayor to sign a Mortgage Subordination for Brenda Davis Miller, 1622 Powers Street.  

Receive city manager’s report.

Regular agenda items

Consider awarding the construction contract for Bid No. B1502, Project No. UT1409, Avalon Road Waterline Replacement, 9th Street to Cambridge Street, to Westland Construction, Inc. in the amount of $371,760 and consider authorizing the City Manager to execute the construction contract   Consider approving the Traffic Control Plan for the road closure of 9th Street for Hilltop and Avalon Waterline Construction projects.    

Consider request from Tenants to Homeowners for neighborhood infrastructure and public improvements assistance related to the Cedarwood Senior Cottages project.    

Receive presentation on the 2014 Rental Licensing and Inspection Program Annual Report.  

Vice-Mayor Farmer report on capital improvement data from listening sessions.