e e e oh morning everyone happy Friday November 15th 2024 can we please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance 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 very much and it's now time for city manager Bob Leighton to go over both the draft agenda and next week's agenda thank you mayor so for the 19th uh you start off with one award and two folks on the public agenda on page two yes so I see the award for best tasting water we already did that didn't so I can add to that real quick the uh we get another award no it's the it's the formal the American Water Works Association they wanted to actually give us the tropy that's what this so we get to celebrate twice all the better thank you we'll always accept the good that's right all right on page two uh probably the item and just a reminder mayor I forgot to say this at the beginning this this 6:00 meeting 6 p.m. meeting uh so folks don't get confused with our normal 9:00 9 in the morning start time this is the last of four evening time meetings for 2024 and there will be four additional nighttime meetings in 2025 so yes this is the last one and it's again six o'clock correct that's correct I believe also if people are looking at the agenda for next year I think we have tenative dates for on bonss with the county as well that are on that schedule um on we must end meeting I'm sorry sorry yeah okay um page two the um unfinished Council business that's probably going to be your largest item on the agenda U what we're asking for the council to do is provide us guidance on the option that you would like us to focus on and to finalize um where there are five slash6 options that are coming to you based on the original plan um as well as uh in response to feedback we received at a number of public forums and again I don't expect the council to approve any one plan but if you could at least get us direction to try to get to a final plan for your consideration that would be helpful I want to make sure that this presentation also provides information regarding deferred maintenance and what does that actually ENT yes we'll have some discussion about that in terms of what the volume uh the dollar volume is at our best estimate today and then a discussion about the need to phase that in the CIP over a number of years if that's the direction the council goes uh if you went with option A there would be some money coming from the um Revenue that Revenue to help with capital cost all the others assume that there's not Capital uh that the initial Capital uh improvements to the garages would be through the capital Improvement program so in other words this current CIP that the council pass in August does not take into account any deferred maintenance regarding parking garages that's my recollection yes so you it that is correct money that has not been allocated and we would have to go find over a period of time yes I mean you're not going to do the it's my recollection is about $18 million current estimate you're not going to do $18 million worth of work in one year um you what we would do is if the council decides to go in that direction before we bring the CIP to you this summer we would go ahead and prioritize our the necessary improvements and worst first would be addressed uh but again um we don't anticipate you would do all $18 million in a single year you said out of option A through e which was the only one that addresses the a a is the only one that addresses any Capital needs that has money going towards cap Capital needs and it wouldn't address the full backlog right Troy Y what percent of the backlog would be addressed in it so if you U if you based your backlog on this idea there's approximately 12 to18 million that we've currently identified iner maintenance the the the revenue that option A would generate could help offset the need go find dollars in the CIP to start responding to that backlog as well as start putting money towards future capital okay I want to be very clear that what you said was find dollars in the cips obviously CIP dollars have already been allocated for the August budget um so I guess I I would like to ask the city manager where we would find 12 to18 million over time in the CIP so where would you take money from one bucket to the next bucket in the CIP I I can at least give you the categories where you could have those dollars okay all right on new business number one is um asking uh Council approval for locating a Holocaust Memorial uh in a pro on property adjacent to the Veterans Memorial Park the funding for the memorial has been raised uh privately and all that would be required of the city in addition to approval of this of the site would be about 50 $100 in annual maintenance cost and that's Grounds Maintenance and electrical expenses for the lighting of the memorial is that comparable to the Vietnamese Memorial uh yes and they would be located next to each other from page three uh number two is um a hardware purchase agreement with Dell it's a change in the way that we have would be P purchasing our hardware and as a result of that by doing a direct purchase with the Dell we estimate we'll be able to save about $70,000 a year number three um are uh number of budget adjustments for the public works and utilities department uh there are five divisions that would be impacted by these adjustments the rationale for each of those is uh outlined in the council report and will be shared at the council meeting uh should note the funding is available in the operating budget but what's happened is we've seen overruns in some line items and those will be offset by savings and other line items in the budget so you'll not be increasing the uh total amount of the public works and utilities authorization and then number four is um an item that was the council previously approved uh the bids for this project but on the condition that it approved it um or follow the normal process for approving an overestimate Bid And so it's back in front of you for that approval I have a couple questions uh first on the Green Sheet it's inaccurate uh the city council did not approve this on October 3rd 2024 it was October 3rd 2023 so this council did not approve that budget it was the previous Council uh so that's one correction on the Green Sheet uh number two I know that I believe I saw it in the report $90,000 mayor I'm sorry my my report shows that it's October 3 2023 in the background for the approval and then the bid I think what the mayor is pointing out is the second part under Financial considerations it's just a clerical one oh I see I'm sorry okay got it all right and then there was if I remember correctly $90,000 that has already been spent on this project can we get an understanding of where that money has gone to yes we'll get that all right it's all I have on page three nothing on page four on page five 3A this is a joint funding agreement for support services from the US Geological Service um this work supports our Chi and ASR operations could we get a report on uh the cheny lake levels sure uh we'll send out in writing unless you want to pull this item off it would be just good if the whole Council knew just we just sent a press release out yesterday that talked about that that has that information it's on the sa water yep we'll go we'll go ahead and okay we'll be prepared for that that's all I have on page five on page six um 3E this is the annual agreement to determine the amount of water that uh is recharged into the eus beds and what is withdrawn from the city is a requirement of the state that's all I have on page six on page seven number seven this would extend the contract date for the Jensen Hughes review of 911 um call center and fire Services um that uh we entered into uh this analysis is being done on behalf of the county and the city I saw the green sheet for number seven and it says due to unforeseen circumstances what are those unforeseen circumstances Dante Martin is our uh staff liaison on this and he's not here today so I we we can explain that after I get more information I think it just took them longer to do the interviews and review process plus you have an estimate when the the report will be out excuse me um and I think that's it that the they can't get to the council and the Commission in time for the by the time their contract ends I don't quote me on this I think it's January um I know they're nearing the completion of their work the green sheet says report by end of December 2024 yeah I think they're trying to determine how that would be presented to each body and whether or not they have the time to get that done so exion that's my recollection yeah number eight would approve the use of uh arpa dollars uh for Transit capital and operating expenses and these are specific arpa dollars for Transit not our normal arpa funding mayor that is all I have uh I have a question regarding number nine which is the second reading ordinance uh previously uh it used to list uh the three different changes in the common language form can we please have that back on the agenda so that it's clear for people to see what has been changed um in addition the white sheet uh for number nine please add the links to these ordinances so that folks can easily look at that that was also in a few weeks ago that change um had already occurred but it has not carried forward staff transition issue thank you thank you all right um You should also have received a preliminary copy of the November 26th agenda that is a reminder that's all consent items and mayor I'm not sure there's too much that I really want to highlight on this agenda um the uh three number three the when the council was discussing um water rates for this year there was some discussion about the tiered approaches and also the impact on Commercial properties um and so we what we want to do is a commercial a commercial rate analysis and drill down deeper to bring back options for the council's consideration um on conservation measures um for commercial prop and Industrial properties and then we have a change order uh due to some um final field measurements on the op3 program that's number five and then we have an IRB project in number seven um I believe a count I believe a um letter of intent has already been approved by the council this is actually um uh issuing the uh irbs Al on page four number 10 this comes to us comes to the council occasionally and this has to do with USDA uh providing Technical Services to us so we can control uh Wildlife around both of our airports uh try to minimize some conflict especially with water foul that's all I have thank you and thank you for providing this is now the second week uh that we have the draft agenda which is two weeks in advance to a city council meeting so that uh there's enough time to look at these uh consent agenda items and try to pull them to new business if need be um and so again thank you city manager for that change and I know that it took staff some time but um I think moving forward it provides greater transparency to see what consent agenda items are coming forth two weeks in advance so that folks can prepare um and then I appreciate the more in-depth a few days before the city council meeting which is the um agenda review that we've had traditionally right thank you any comments from Council Members including council members who are uh at the National League of cities I do mayor uh District 5 breakfast this Saturday from 9: to at 10:00 a.m. I'll give some updates and we have a uh a speaker Jay Miller from Lille wierch so he'd be a great speaker so everybody's invited breakfast should be good provided by Park West so I also appreciate that hope they have bacon uh one more thing is there anyone uh online that would like to speak yeah this is C member Balor I didn't get an opportunity to say when you guys talking about the Hydration Stations and I've asked staff for data to show why these Investments are important and plan to share them with my colleagues as soon as I receive it thank you council member Ballard any other I just want to say thank you to uh there are three council members right now at National League of cities um I just came back from National League of cities and represented the city um for for the aviation advisory forum and um I am one of the co-chairs alongside the mayor of Orlando Florida so this is an opportunity for the city of Witchita to be at the Forefront of Advanced Air Mobility this means air taxis the production of them the research of them um and Orlando is more on the Forefront of actually having it on their airport because of their congestion on their streets but um I do believe that this is a great opportunity for Witchita as we are the aviation capital of the world um and so it really is a great opportunity to make sure that witcha is known for our manufacturing our research and our Innovation so um I'm really grateful to serve alongside Council U mayor Dyer of Orlando so I know that the council members who are in Tampa right now uh we will come back next agenda review which will be next Friday and just share a couple of the things that we took away from um our experiences there and so uh safe travels to uh vice mayor Ballard council member hoisel and council member Johnson yeah and one other thing real quick I and talking about that at the next agenda review it was a um Maggie and I went on a really good tour yesterday of the the equivalent the Tampa's equivalent of the Haven of Hope or um the Mac for us and and so yeah we there's a lot of great things that we learned um their Design's a little different than ours but um look forward to giving um giving an update on some of those things as well and what we what we learned out at the uh the homeless Center well thank you all very much have a wonderful weekend you