Wichita City Council Agenda Review June 13, 2025
No description available.
vice Mayor Ammeritus and acting city manager
let's call this agenda review to order assistant City Manager Martin let's kick us off good
morning everybody um Council Member Ballard is with us on Teams um council members Glascock and
Johnston as well as the mayor unable to join us so um June 17th agenda proclamation for World
Refugee Day we're also going to have presentation of our many MPA program graduates of which
Shannon Warin time participated this past year so look forward to recognizing that
group uh two items on the public agenda two of them on page two petitions for public improvements have a variety of water sewer and paving
improvements that will be presented page three new council business uh a couple of
ordinances one um related to the unauthorized operation or removal of a motor vehicle um
changes being made to the city code that will aid prosecutors in being able to prosecute cases
and also um help officers as far as enforcement of the city code was was this one mandated
by the state as well or is this internal it was one that was recommended by my
office working with the police department um to address issues with um automobiles that
there's no intent to return the car to the odor which is what's required for temporary deprivation
of property so we needed an alternative to that okay second item on uh new council business um is
an ordinance revision related to motorists moving over vehicles for hazard and caution lights
this is to mirror state changes in state law nothing on page three page four a few preliminary um estimates
um item 3B wholesale water and sewer service agreements with city of Kichi um
water agreement been in place since 1985 sewer agreements since 2001 uh various
extensions have occurred since then the extensions that have or the agreements
that are being presented to you next week would extend the sewer agreement by 20
years and the water agreement by 10 years uh next page assignment and assumption agreement
for vendor selection of uniforms or for uniforms uh industrial uniform LLC sold
to Logo Depot um per the contract it's looking to assign its contract
with city of Witchaw to Logo Depot uh 3D contract addendum to reduce fees
so empowerment provides recordkeeping services for our the city's deferred comp
457 plan um came forward with reduction of fees mark Manny jumped at the chance
um will be presented to you next week another reduction number of proc
property acquisitions on item number four uh next page item number six notice of intent debt
financing for airport heavy equipment replacement on the consent planning agenda a dedication of utility easement and acceptance or water
water meter removal i'm struggling today item number nine is applied on 63rd
Street East near uh 69th Street North [Applause] final page consent airport agenda
items a aviation fuel storage and distribution facility rehabilitation and then item 11 heavy
equipment replacement program at the airport just a quick highlight of the June 24th
consent agenda i'll go through just a few items of of interest that staff is working on
and planning uh to present um you'll receive uh multiple grant items including a grant from
the Witchaw Transit related to funding uh for operations planning as well as ADA services
um Penny and the transit department has been working closely with the law department on an
update to title six program in partnership and cooperation with the department of transportation
um Councilman Ballard I know this item has been something that you've been following
closely for the last couple of months it's a cooperative agreement with the
Kansas Forestry Service for wildline uh fires deployment so glad to bring that forward
thank you for your continued interest um item number 11 is a grant application where Witchah
Police Department is working with the school district and 911 to expand access to its real-time
information center that is being implemented it would help improve our response to incidents
at our schools throughout the city that's great um few other items uh that we're going to bring
forward but nothing that I want to highlight at this point any questions anything not not so much
questions but um the agreement with the school district i think maybe that's something that we
should pull and just give a brief update about when that comes up during workshop at the end of
the month so just putting that out there that's something that um you know especially in relating
to like mass shooters and whatnot so I do think that that would be interesting for the public
to just know that we're moving along on that so Captain Moses is on the meeting and Captain
Council members would appreciate a an update or more detail about the project when it's presented
on the consent agenda on the 24th it doesn't have to be a big deep presentation or anything but
just a little more detail that we could get out there to the public just to know where we're on
this and working with school district on it yeah absolutely i'll be happy to be there on uh Tuesday
the 24th and then uh we can work if you want a presentation on the workshop as well we can make
that happen i appreciate it captain that's all I have vice Mayor Emmeritus any other questions yet
i don't have a question but I just wanted to give a shout out to Witchaw Fire Department um the last
two mornings I've spent out at fire camp it's a free camp for 50 kiddos each day ages 8 through
13 um and so we get to and they have a hose and you have to go through a door and get down a cone
and it's fun and I got to do it and um just lots of cool things and then they also have the trailer
with the smoke out trailer and they talk to kids about you know going home tonight and asking your
caregivers to let's check our smoke alarms and if you don't have a smoke alarm how you can get one
so just kudos to our Witchah Fire Department it's not only raising the awareness and there's one
little kiddo who is there today who's already saying he's going into fire so we're recruiting
them young um but it's it's safety but it also gives kids one more free thing to do in the
summer so that you know they can maybe not get in trouble and and whatever so just kudos
to Witchaw Fire Department for putting one more thing on their already busy job jar so thanks i
guess for district 1 we have a neighborhood clean up in Northeast Heights tomorrow so if you live
in Northeast Heights looking forward to seeing you and getting some stuff taken away we got a
lot going on this weekend between uh the music festival and automoilia and dueling protest it
seems like in our city so um I just urge everybody to be kind and respectful of each other uh be safe
we all just want a safe community um and we don't want to stretch ourselves any thinner than we
already are so everybody be safe and respectful out there this weekend awesome and I just need
powers as acting city manager so if you guys could give that to me I'd appreciate it sold all right
that's all we got everyone have a good weekend