Wichita City Council Agenda Review May 30, 2025
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good morning everyone Agenda review day May
30th Let's start with the pledge of allegiance I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States
of America and to the republic for which it stands One nation under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for all City manager Thank you mayor Um okay Um the just a reminder again that the June
3rd meeting is an evening meeting starting at 6 Uh we start off with two proclamations
and five people on the public agenda Uh real quick on the public agenda that
zoning case that those two want to talk to got pulled I don't know if they know that
or not Is it temporarily pulled or is it going to be permanently Do you know I don't know
that but I know it got pulled Um we can tell I'll make sure the clerk's office reaches
out to them and lets them know that Okay Okay Um and then we have one new council business
item that um will take some time and that is the review of the new inter national uh property
maintenance code and some possible amendments to that Uh we're trying to get feedback from
all of you so we can move towards public um discussion uh at least get to
the dabs and then bring a formal um code or ordinance set of ordinances to you
So the only vote on Tuesday is just to receive and file Correct And again we're looking but
again you're not in workshop so you do I mean I'm looking for direction uh on any specific
changes or modifications you'd like to see Um page three Not quite sure I don't have it
listed now I do You uh are you to the point where you're ready to make appointments to the
city manager selection uh advisory committee I'm ready I am ready But like process-wise how many
appointments are we making because I think we have different views of how many people that
should be or from what sectors So I have two people I have a neighborhood president and a
business representative that we could appoint if we were doing two and especially following
the categories we had talked about But either way I guess I'm ready How about if we send your
names to Bob and Yeah Okay Do we send one or two names Send one to Bob So there's seven of us one
each for right now And then we can see if there are any missing sectors or missing individuals
that should be represented So we all will get one appointment to that and it'll be a seven
member committee to maybe that's when uh city manager can let us know Sure if um if you send me
the name if you could just in parenthesis tell me what their background is or what kind of what
classification they're in Are they neighborhood leader Are they you know business person whatever
And then that would help you all identify if there are gaps in the committee So you may want to go
to nine or 11 you know depending on And the police search or the police chief search had how many
members I think we had 11 if I remember correctly Okay So we'll go ahead and put this on the
agenda Appointments to the committee advisory committee All right Uh I don't have anything
on page four or page five Page six there are three airport items All consent The first
one would approve a license agreement for the luggage carts at Eisenhower The
second item would approve a new lease agreement for an existing hanger at Jabara
And the last one would extend by one year the existing lease with the US Postal
Service at Eisenhower Um we intend to uh negotiate a longer term lease agreement with
them and that's why we're asking for the one-year extension there That's all I have for the third There aren't any questions
Just a quick highlight On June 10th we have several uh economic development
projects that uh lead off um the new business The first would approve a 2% CD for the SoCi
mixeduse development at the corner of Lincoln and South Broadway Second one uh sec the second and
third would approve two airport special facility revenue bonds Uh the number four would approve
a multifamily residential revenue l uh bond on page three Number five would approve an IRB issue
for a manufacturing product project Uh number six would approve changes to the city's open records
ordinance primarily uh the fee schedule to reflect changes that were made in the last legislative
session Number seven would ratify an agreement for online cataloging services at the library
Number eight would approve the annual arterial sidewalk program Excuse me Number nine is also
an annual program to extend sewer main extensions uh for future development Uh number 10 would
approve improvements to rounds and porter to implement the recommendations from the property
and evidence audit that was done a few years ago So these are just the police department um a
property and evidence for police Yes Nothing else It would modify a budget that you've already
approved for the uh sprinkler or fire suppression system It would make some elevator improvements
and then it would make improvements to the heating and cooling system to protect evidence And I
think there's some other mechanical issues and electrical issues though I think that's
generally what's included in the budget Number 11 would approve a grant
application for improvements to Broadway all the way from 37th Street North to Pawne on non-conent housing if we can have a
drum roll here This is actually approving the funding and development contract for the first
third phase of the MAC So this would be for the uh u supportive housing as
well as for non- congregate housing Kudos to Sally and her staff
for being able to pull this off We are not going to have tax credits for this
project but we still found a way to fund it So as long as I'm on that item because I'm
really I would put that would that be able to get public comment Yes it is Yes it can One
of the nice things about this is it's using $10 million in proceeds from the sale of
the public housing The affordable housing fund Yeah No No From actual the sale of the
houses Yeah Yes That's pretty substantial It sure is It sure was And so now you've got
additional units plus all those other units are in you know right now being rehabbed
and will be back you know on the tax roles Um on page six 3A would approve a contract for the
assessment of eight city- owned parking garages So this is only for finding out what really
needs to be the improvements are that are necessary Yes So not the actual budget for
the actual improvements just the assessment of of these garages Right And I don't
have the item in front of me but it's if I recall there's also some project
budget that we're asking for that will help us on this first step of clean and
safe So I think it would includes some um gates and additional uh equipment in a few of
the garages and that'll be in the council report Uh nothing until page nine I just
want to highlight 16 would approve um home funding for the construction of two
homes by Habitat And that's all I've got is preview Mayor is that the meeting uh the
vice mayor will be running or is that well you'll still be here Mayor will be here for the
10th Let's make sure that we save I'll be gone for the 10th You'll be gone the 17th Okay Save
all the controversial stuff for the 17th We'll load it up big time No problem Yeah We'll get
through quickly Okay Well thank you very much city manager Any comments from council members
Well have a great Exactly Riverfest buttons I see council member JB Johnston or Vice Mayor
Council Member Glascock where are your buttons Mine's in my office Okay All right Well today
is the start of Riverfest and uh we're looking forward to being part of the parade alongside our
Witchaw area sister cities group from Talaponta Mexico and several of the museums here in town
So see you out there at 6:30 p.m Council Member Glascock uh volunteered to ride his bike back with
them There you go I'll see if I can commandeer the the cow town coach and just drive the mules that
far down there All right have a great weekend