Wichita City Council Agenda Review October 11, 2024
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e e e e start this meeting uh 2 minutes late thank you
city manager for uh deciding to join us today after all sorry for actually doing business right
up to the end here this is City Hall we don't do work here Bob come on thank you Mike all right
Mr manager the floor is yours thank you council member um I don't have anything on you have three
proclamations uh nothing to highlight on page one on page two uh you established a date of October
15th to bring the k96 Improvement project um issue back to the council um so we have to put it on
but the but we don't have any new information from K do regarding an updated timetable
for the project so we're recommending that you simply um bring this item back up and then
table it indefinitely and then when we do have more tangible information about the future of the
k96 project we'll bring it back to you actually we'll bring it back to the park board and then
bring it to you will we have to go back to Park Board again yes because this specific item um
they should because we don't know timetable or what the changes to the project could be Mak y um
on new business number one this would approve a letter of intent for for a $30 million IRB project
for 114 units of affordable housing at 155 North Market number two um we're going to
remove that from the agenda uh the Planning Commission was to consider
that this week and apparently they lost Quorum before they considered this
item so we can't we shouldn't bring it to you until after the Planning Commission has
has uh heard it so that'll come back to you in November page three number three and actually
really three four and five are all adoptions of international building codes the 2024 editions the
first one and number three it's the uh mechanical fuel gas and residential codes number four is
the existing buildings code and then number five is the actual building building code itself
do these go to the county too I believe the county also considers them have they voted in yet they'll
probably do it the day after you do I but I I you know what oh so they already have thank you Chris
they make any changes or recommendations or they passed us presenting thank you thanks Chris all
right uh number six is uh you would approve the 2025 cultural funding recommendations from the
Cal funding committee um just for my colleagues um due to a personal conflict of interest I will
be abstaining from this vote thank you uh number seven would approve the purchase of license
plate readers and shot DET detection equipment to support the real-time information center and
a majority of that those expenses will be Grant funded Grant funded okay page four number eight
would approve a professional Services agreement with operational Technical Services for temporary
supplemental Staffing at the new water treatment plant non-consent planning agenda number
one this is an item that has been in front of you before it's been modified since you saw it
last it would cons you would consider an amended request to increase the square footage
for a restaurant uh and at Douglas and Oliver that's all I have on page four
nothing on page five page six 3A would approve a 2025 agreement for to help fund
best management practices to improve water quality in the cheny lake Watershed we've
had this contract in place for a number of years uh 3B would approve uh kdhe Grant agreement
for Waste reduction education materials and neighborhood cleanup assistance basically the
purchase of gloves for residents in neighborhood cleanups 3C would approve a $65,000 Grant
from kdhe to assist with the city's air quality program that's all I have on six page
74a would approve a $589,000 change order for the op3 program to reflect uh more work than
originally anticipated for base pavement repairs um associated with this with the
overlay program that's all I have on page seven page 87 would approve the low bid for
water me meter extension project in District Six it's $86,000 over the engineer's estimate
we're asking to proceed with the overestimate bid Council risel that's all I have
all right any questions for the city manager okay did we uh cancel the um director's
report for today we did I thank you I'm sorry thanks for bringing that up um the presenter
is ill and so won't be able to to present today okay I know you were anxious to hear about it
who is it going to be I don't it was going to be about Ai and its use in City operations oh
that is interesting we'll bring it back oh so make trying to get my tin foil hat for that
one yeah I will tell you it's a Hot Topic it was um uh subject to a number of presentations
at our International Conference a couple weeks ago lot of discussion well we don't need a
south of catalog that's where the resistance starts all right um any announcements or
anything for the good of the group The Good of the city Becky uh Sunday is open streets ICT
my favorite day of the year U from noon to 5: all the way from College Hill to Delo everybody
remember Douglas will be closed down we also have the prairie fire but um just an excellent
opportunity for the community to get out celebrate witcha um there's lots of activities there's food
trucks there's vendors for-profit non-for-profit entities are there so um just a a really really
important day in our city of witchta and it looks like the weather is supposed to be perfect so
hope to see you all at open streets noon to 5 Sunday yeah thank you Mike I'd like to thank uh
Jeff at the water department gave our district Advisory Board a tour of the water treatment plant
he is absolutely unbelievable and knowledgeable and extremely interesting tour so just to thank
him very much and they really everybody really enjoyed it so so you you had your dab at the
water treatment plant was this did you bring all 110 attendance to the we the in the admin
building okay until the library is done oh okay so I said why not have a uh two the treatment plant
they're setting a pretty high standard for the rest of us here now we all have to have tours of
the treatment plant for dab you get a BNR okay yes we'll take it to the BNR PLS mayor hoisel I was
thinking in lie of having the director's report we could all go drive tractors I I concur I concur my
mayor temporary mayoral powers that last until the end of this meeting we should do that just show
us your CDLs and everything will work [Laughter] fine anything uh today I my bik's broken they
turned it off um hosting unity in the community in my district but instead of a March we're doing
a tailgate um and it's going to be in partnership with West High you know so the mo um it's going
to be at Friends University at 5 o'clock we're hosting ice cream sandwiches West High bring
hot dos hambers to join out and cheer on West all right that's happening at the stadium of The
Undefeated Friends University Falcons the Fighting Falcons yeah um you have to struggle not to find
something to do this weekend yeah and if you're you're looking for um some spooky stuff to do the
drivein Saturday night Friday and Saturday night they have The Nightmare Before Christmas followed
by Rocky Horror Picture Show so um I don't know that you need to necessarily keep the kids around
for the second movie but and then uh Sunday evening they have um Dracula the 1992
version so always a good time to come on out and again got to love spooky season so
um with that I guess we're done here everybody have a good weekend and look forward
to seeing everybody next week great job e for