Wichita City Council Agenda Review December 1,2025
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stand 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. Thank you. And thank you, mayor. Um, I see that
council member Tuttle is also on. Is council member Glascock on? Don't see him. Okay. All
right. Busy agenda for December 2nd for tomorrow. starts off the presentation from Sher Utach
about WSU Tech. Right now, you have four people scheduled on the public agenda. Number one is
the approval of the employment contract with city manager. Understand that's being finalized
um and should be ready for tomorrow. Uh number two is approving $8 million in multifamily housing
revenue bonds for a 30 unit apartment project. Next page number three approves SE would approve
a $7 million multifamily housing revenue bond issue for 36 a 36 unit apartment project. Number
four would approve $15 million in IRBs for the consolidation of Envisions facilities here in
Witchah uh on South Water Street. Bob, I just want to go and record I'll state this tomorrow.
Due to a conflict of interest, I will be Thank you. Thank you. Number six would approve a budget
for the installation of irrigation at Texan Solver and Auburn Hills golf courses. Number seven,
um actually you would review once again three options for water and sewer rates in 2026 and
approve one of those options for implementation. Number eight would approve two change orders
for BNR, the BNR project with a net increase of $ 1.9 million. Uh there would be no change
in the budget. Um number nine would approve a number of upgrades to a price woodard and Chester
eye Lewis parks at a cost of a million dollars. Number 10 would approve approximately
$4 million for the replacement of heavy equipment and snow removal equipment. These are
scheduled replacements. Number 11 would approve multi-year agreement with international
international association of firefighters. Number 12 would approve multi-year
agreement with Teamsters Transit Local. And number 13 would approve a multi-year
agreement with the Teamsters Airport Local. Next page, the first item would approve a
zoning change in district three. Second item would approve a zoning change in district
4. And the third item would approve a CUP with a zoning change in district two. I
have a question about uh number three. There were no daff notes attached to
this. Can the DAP notes be attached? Mayor, I'm getting an answer here for you. Good morning, Mayor. This is Phil Zenber
with the planning department. Uh we sure will get DAB notes uh sent to you
guys. Apologize that they were not included in the packet. They're typically
in there. Not exactly sure what happened. I'm filling in on short notice this morning.
So, mayor, we'll get those out today. Um, under the housing agenda, number one would
approve the sale of 29 public housing authority homes for redevelopment and u sale or rent.
The there are three entities that would be purchasing these homes. Uh number two would
approve cell tower easement uh on MLAN manor. Next page non-consent airport agenda item would
approve a $2.4 million uh airport special facility revenue bond issuance for construction of a
hanger at Jabara. I have nothing on the next page. Following page 3A would approve the annual allocation for Cheni
wershed water quality projects. Next page number seven would approve issuance
of $45 million in industrial revenue bonds for uh significant improvements at Techstrong
Aviation. Number eight would approve $60 million IRB issue for Luxfield Place retirement
communities. Number 10 would approve $12 million industrial revenue bond issuance for
construction uh at Air Capital Flight Line. Number 11 would approve assessments
for the annual sidewalk repair program. Number 12 would approve approximately
$690,000 grant application for the funding of transit for seniors and uh
individual with disabilities in the region. Um we have um next last page number 21
is a sale of a public housing authority home. That's all I have for tomorrow's agenda. some next year. Is it just FOP as
far as the union negotiations? Yes, that is correct. Okay. Thank you, city manager. One question on consent agenda item
number 19. This is annexation of rideway. Um on the financial considerations, it mentions that um
there will be 13.4 lane miles of rideway that will become part of the city of Witchah with estimated
annual maintenance cost of 201,000. Are we gaining any revenue from annexing some of this property
or just um incurring maintenance costs? Um this we've been working on this issue for number
of months. Thank you mayor for asking. Uh, mayor, generally these are uh road rightway only. Um,
these are based on um state law uh and how we work through these with the county. Um, generally
when you get one side of the roadway that's been annexed into the city, so we gain the additional
property values, property taxes if you will, uh, then we work with the county on
annexations. Most of these roadways, in fact, Some of them right now we are improving
ourselves. We worked with county public works. The majority of these roads they have
resurfaced in the last several years. So we will be taking over roadways that are in in
good condition, really good condition, which was something that we desired from them. So uh
even though that number is our estimate per year, I don't think that uh you know we should be able
to push that out. But to to answer your question, we don't necessarily gain any additional revenue.
Um this is something that we effectively have to do by the way the state law is set for
annexation. But again recognizing that we're taking over the responsibility and don't
have a choice. Cedric County has been good to work with in terms of improving the quality
of the streets before they turn them over. Thank you. Thank you. Just a quick u uh review of
the December 9th meeting on unfinished business on the second page. uh the uh committee that
you or the task force that you appointed to review the international property maintenance
code will be bringing back its recommendations, a series of recommendations that will specifically
target um problem tenant or problem landlords and um problem properties, rental properties
in the community. Uh on new business, um there's a recommendation for an overnaming of
Ash Street. Number two would be the consideration of placing an item on the ballot for
March for the approval of 1% sales tax. Number three would be in uh improving the
condition of the main water treatment plant uh as previously discussed with council to
allow it to be converted for emergency use. Will that still be on the agenda considering
it'll be essentially our still our main water plant for next couple of months anyways?
Yes, but we Gary, you want to talk about it? Sure. So, the city council previously approved
u moving forward the concept to convert as the manager said existing plant to emergency
use. Uh it's going to take some time to develop the design. It's a progressive design
build project, but it'll take some time to develop the design. I think it makes sense to
still keep moving forward. Um we probably have um I would say a good 12 months ahead of us to
be able to continue working on the design. We're also taking a look at that existing plan and what
it might do for the future of water reuse. Uh so that adds some time to it. So we still got a lot
of planning, development, design to do before we get to any point of construction and then we'll
just have to see where we're at with the new plan at that time. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Gary.
Number four would approve a three-year agreement with the Greater Witchaw Partnership. Uh number
five would approve a one-year agreement with Witchdaw Independent Business Association
for Small Business Assistance. And then number six would be the uh public hearing to
consider the K96 Green Witch Starbond proposal. City manager. Yes. I see that uh
there's no item number seven. However, I was made aware that Douglas
Avenue redesign was supposed to come up on December 9th. Where is
that? I'm sorry. The Douglas redesign. Paul Gman, we are moving that project to December
19th. We're going to the 16th 16th December 16th. Moving that project to December 16th. We're going
to the District 1 Advisory Board tonight. Thank you, Paul. The website is not updated with
any new renderings. Can the website please be updated with the latest renance of what is
being proposed at one? Uh, in addition, uh, I know that there was a letter sent to businesses
and residents near that area. Um, can we have that presentation sent to the council? Yes, we can
do that. And we will be renotifying those prop adjacent property owners that the meeting will
be held December 16th instead of December 9th. Uh 3A would be the annual agreement with Cedric
County for improve flood control improvements. Number seven is an overestimate bid
uh for work on 17th Street North. Um numbers eight and nine will be
moved to the following meeting. Number 10 would approve the members
of the 2026 grants review committee. Mayor, that is all I have in terms of
preview for the ninth. Thank you very much, city manager, council members, are there
any items to be brought up or events? I see none. I'll just remind eventual wonderland. is happening this Friday at N Park and
Council Member Johnson will be hosting the grand opening of the Carl Community
Center on Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. Thank you.