Wichita City Council Agenda Review February 13, 2026
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for joining us for the agenda review today,
February 13th. May we please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance 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. Assistant city manager Troy Anderson. Mayor,
thank you. Um, okay. February 17th. Um got a proclamation. Uh two uh individuals
on public agenda so far. Uh next page uh new business first item quarterly reports.
Um have a golf point of sale and t sheet system vendor award. Um item number three codifying
food and farm council. It's just a corrective action. Um item number four is a change order to
BNR package three. That's just one package out of six. Uh and so items number five and six next page
have a couple of supplemental design agreements uh for a couple road projects. U probably the
most noteworthy item number seven storm water utility rate increase. You might recall
work back in November presenting a couple of different options. Got a question about
that. Yeah. Um it mentions a dollar a month. Then it mentions 15% dollar for the year
up front. Correct. And it mentions 15 cents per month. Correct. So when does
that 15 cents start or is it just for 26 dollar would be for6? I'm sorry. Would
be a$126, right? Then 15 cents a year. The initial dollar would be in 2026 and
then the 15 cents will start in 2027. Oh, okay. 15 cents a in perpetuity.
Yes, sir. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thanks. Any other questions on that one? Okay. Um,
item number eight, have a public art project for Woodland Park North, a history walk,
about a $50,000 project. Item number nine, um, this is our annual community service block
grant coupled with couple hundred,000 community development block grant dollars for a total
of about 1.3 million. Item number 10 is uh conditional home program funding about $200,000
in home funds uh coupled with a number of other sources for 46 unit affordable senior housing
project. Item number 11 and 12 a couple of business service agreements. First one's with
Nexus. The other one's with create campaign. Each one of those is about $50,000 for
just one year business service agreements. That concludes new business uh non-conent
planning. Uh item number one, this is a zoning change request. This is in district six. Uh this
is being brought before you just because there's a difference between the planning commission
recommendation and the DAB recommendation. Uh similarly, item number two there, conditional
use permit for a short-term rental. Again, just a discrepancy between the recommendation
coming from the planning commission and that coming from the district advisory board. Uh
next page, uh public housing recovery agreement. Uh it's just part of our monthly reporting
requirements. Uh next page, consent agenda. Um items 3A 3B couple of amended amortization
schedules. So nothing significant there. Uh it's just interest in fees that are being capitalized
and a new amortization schedule that's being presented. Next sections for A through E are uh
some acquisitions of some temporary construction easements for the Bley project. Um next page uh
we have a number of five-year reviews that we have done. Uh item number seven enterprises. Uh number
eight leading technology composits. Number nine uh spirit era systems as part of project eclipse.
Uh number 10 IH1 and number 11 Shannon. two, they all uh met the capital investment and job
creation requirements. And so this is just a continuation of uh each of the previous
five-year property taxments. Correct. So there's one of them uh number eight that I just
wanted to highlight. The agreement was 33 net new jobs and they've created 206. Yeah. We went
back and uh sort of trust but verify. Yeah. Uh incredible incredible success story there. Um
So love to celebrate those opportunities. Yes. Okay. Uh item number 12. This was part of our kind
of annual childcare licensing grant application and award. Uh total about $400,000. Covers about
62% of our operating costs. Uh number 14 uh this is associated with an item later on in the agenda
under airport authority. This is the first action I've noticed of intent to use debt financing about
$75,000. Again, you'll see the formal action item under the airport authority board later on on
the agenda. Item number 15, settlement of a claim about $200,000. Item number 16, project safe
neighborhood grant grant modification. Um, this is just reallocating $60,000 that uh was sort of
unspent, reallocating that into some some overtime for police. Item number 17, this is a community
development block grant budget modification. Uh, we had some rapid rehousing and some H MIS
custom port dollars. We're simply reallocating to second light supplies and equipment and
some care coordination team uh expenses. And that's it. Most of the rest
of this consent planning last page is that uh for authority drainage
infrastructure process that $75,000. Looking forward sort of a
preview to February 24th. um early on in the process. Got some agreements
and contracts. Nothing significant to know. Uh couple of subdivision design agreement
number one for dirt street paving. We have a number of additional property acquisitions
particularly around Bleley Drive. Uh we are in the process of finalizing acquisition
as a property for police department uh storage. See if there's anything else
of note community me alcohol consumption on the consent. So nothing else of
note on the 24th. With that being said, any questions? Council, we do have uh Kimberly
for a legislative update. Um, do we did we pull item nine for next week? I don't see it in
my packet. It came late. It came late. So, it'll be on the next meeting or that the
green sheet came late. Okay. I was looking at mine and then she brought brought number nine
later. I'm sure it might be in your might be in your I'm sure it's on my mess of a desk. So,
Thank you for that. Anything else? Kimberly. Okay. Well, good morning everyone. Hello
from Topeka. Uh real quick update. We have 10 key bills that we're really um working on
for Witchah and and 21 that we're actively watching and involved with and then a bevy
of other bills. And I mentioned that because week we move into this coming week we move into
what's called legislative turnaround. So all bills that have not been introduced in a an exempt
committee or that have not been blessed will actually fall off the calendar. They'll they'll
die for lack of a better term. Um so we will see our bill tracking matrix slim down considerably
uh within the next week. So couple of items that I just want to bring your attention to. Uh first
of all, the house tax bill 2745 had a hearing yesterday. Um the city of Witchah provided comment
along with probably a hundred other communities around the state. And it is our understanding that
that bill will be amended from its current form uh to make it more palatable for cities just from
a just from an election timing standpoint and a few other um kind of nits if you will that
that make it difficult for implementation. That bill will be worked on Monday in a house tax
committee. So we are um working with the chairman and also the league on what those amendments
will look like, how they're specifically drafted. Uh the the wish PD actually has been monitoring
House Bill 2329 and that was an important bill for them. It relates to the juvenile justice
code and that bill did come successfully out of committee. Uh it was passed by the house
last year. So now it's just pending on what we call general orders. So the full senate will
likely debate that bill this coming legisl this coming week. So we continue to watch that. Uh we
met this morning with the speaker of the house on uh the Witchaw water reuse bill, House Bill
2462. That bill was passed favorably out of committee last week and we're hoping that it
will be worked and debated by the full house this week and we did have nice conversation with
the speaker. We had we've had movement on several other pieces of legislation that wish the house
has been involved with related to right away uh the relocation fund that bill did come out of
committee. Um I think it will have a high hurdle to come through the full house but we'll see. Then
also um the rightway parity bill that bill is not moving right now but a stakeholder meeting has
been set for this coming Tuesday to talk about what would a statute and what should statute look
like going forward to create that parody within the right way between all the different types
of telecommunications and broadband users. Uh and then another bill that I'll mention is Senate
Bill 66. And that requires all local um officials at the county level, uh the city level, and then
any other elected boards uh to provide to complete an annual statement of substantial interest form
similar to what state legislators file. That bill passed the Senate 363 and will now move to the
House for deliberation. There is another provision in that bill that says if there is any um anyone
on the local governing body board that has an interest in a real estate position that may come
before that particular governing body that they must self-declare related to annexation. There
was Senate Bill 124 which restricts unilateral annexation and in that hearing two weeks ago
there was a lot of conversation about three mile um three mile radius as well as extr territorial
zoning. So that bill has been pulled from hearing and the Senate leadership has said that they will
move forward with an interim hearing on annexation three mile and extr territorial zoning. It is yet
to be seen whether or not the house will join the senate on the on that interum but the senate at
minimum will have that. And then one more issue bill 373 which was the law enforcement utility
pool bill that PD had some concerns with. That bill did make it out of committee. It was amended
um fairly significantly. I know law enforcement is still trying to decide exactly where it it feels
it needs to be on that bill, but it did pass um out of committee and is on the Senate Senate
general orders for debate. I don't know what the viability of that bill is in the House just
because of you some local issues. And then lastly, the wish sales tax bill, House Bill 2456, uh
was introduced in the Senate tax committee that, you know, would allow for the city of Witchah
to in fact accept food sales tax. And that's the issue that uh we have to work with the
interstate compact on in order to to allow for that to move forward. Um those conversations
are ongoing. So there has been no action on that bill due to the discussion related
to interstate compact. So I've sent Jim and Sharon a listing of all of the additional
bills that we are actively working on as well as some of the other ones we're monitoring. So
that that information is available for you all um to per peruse and feel free to ask any
questions and with that I'm happy to stand for any questions. Hey Kimberly um the I believe the house
bill that was addressing hidden fees for renters um we had a hearing of it earlier this week. Do
you expect it to get worked and out of committee or where do you think that one's head? So, that's
a great question. There are probably six or probably six or eight actual bills that relate to
landlord rental tenant matters. And I I wouldn't be surprised if at some point they're not all
merged together. I was talking with a couple of the legislators on that and I think that there's
a sense that there's a lot out there uh and that they may ultimately um it's not clear which ones
are going to get across the finish line and so if there's any that actually start moving they may
all be locked into one. So I know that's kind of a a non-answer answer but I think that there's
there's a lot still to be determined on how things move forward with those land owner tenant land
owner land owner tenant issues. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Kimberly. Sorry. And one more. The
the golf cart bill did advance from the Senate on an unanimous vote. So, it would allow
for cities to regulate when golf carts are um driving on sidewalks. J from the
great unifier over here. Thank you. Congratulations on that vote. See how it
does in the house. Any further comments, council members? Uh I think council
member Tuttles online as well. And I see none. Happy Valentine's Day.