By SALINA POST
The Salina City Commission has a busy agenda Monday afternoon.
About the meeting
Study sessions and city commission meetings will take place in–person in room 107 of the City-County Building, 300 West Ash Street, and via Zoom until further notice. Meetings also can be viewed at the City of Salina YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/cityofSalinaKansas.
To participate via Zoom, citizens will need to use the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89275984587.
The meeting also can be accessed by phone at 1-346-248-7799. Enter Meeting ID:892 7598 4587 when prompted.
If citizens wish to speak, either during the public forum or when the mayor requests public comment on an item, citizens attending via Zoom must raise their hands so that the meeting host can allow them to speak. Those who attend the in-person meeting will have the opportunity to speak at the podium.
Citizens also can send written comments or questions to city commissioners via email at [email protected].
In order for the commissioners to have an opportunity to review comments in advance of the meeting, please email your comments or questions by 5 p.m. the Sunday prior to the Monday meetings.
Study session
Commissioners are scheduled to meet in a study session at 2 p.m. Monday to discuss part of the proposed 2023 budget.
Regular meeting
The commissioners' regular session is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.
Commissioners are scheduled to conduct two public hearings and deal with proposed ordinances related to the public hearings early in the meeting. Those two public hearings are as follows.
●Conduct a public hearing related to the proposed de-annexing of the portion of the Chicago Addition lying west of the relocated Dry Creek channel. Following the public hearing, commissioners are scheduled to consider approving a proposed ordinance on the matter.
●Conduct a public hearing concerning the establishment of a Rural Housing Incentive District within the city and adopt a plan for the development of housing and public facilities in such a district. (Aero Plains Addition) Following the public hearing, commissioners are scheduled to consider approving a proposed ordinance on the matter.
Commissioners also are being asked to authorize the city manager to execute a contract for traffic engineering services with Wilson & Company in an amount not to exceed $71,675 to study three intersections along Magnolia Road near the Central Mall and perform a signal warrant analysis at E. Schilling Road and S. Ohio Street.
Other items on the Salina City Commission agenda for Monday include the following.
●Consider awarding the bid for 2022 Street Markings to Twin Traffic Marking Corporation of Kansas City, Kan., in the amount of $54,797.60 with a 5 percent ($2,739.88) construction contingency for a total project authorization not to exceed $57,537.48 and authorizing the city manager to execute a contract with Twin Traffic Marking Corporation upon fulfillment of all prerequisites under the bid documents.
●Consider approving a proposed ordinance on first reading that would make the Feast on the Fe a special event and would approve the consumption of liquor within the boundaries of barricaded public areas at such event.
●Consider a Wheat State Hospitality Transfer Agreement amendment request.
●Consider authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement for preliminary engineering design services with WSP USA Inc. for an amount not to exceed $248,714 for street improvements of W. Magnolia Road from Centennial Road to Interstate 135.
●Consider authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement for preliminary engineering design services with H.W. Lochner, Inc. for an amount not to exceed $250,000 for street improvements of Holmes Road from Country Club Road to E. Magnolia Road.
●Consider approving a proposed resolution that would extend the compliance deadline date as ordered by Resolution No. 22-8049 related to repairs or demolition of a dangerous structure located at 619 S. Santa Fe.
●Consider approving a proposed ordinance that would change thezoning district classification from A-1 (agricultural) to R-2 (multi-family residential) on a 52-acre unplatted tract of land located east and south of the Stone Lake sandpit lake at the northeast corner of S. Ohio Street and E. Schilling Road.
●Consider approving a proposed ordinance to change street names of four public street segments in the Stone Lake Addition and the proposed Stone Lake Addition No. 2.
●Consider approving a proposed ordinance that would change the zoning district classification from A-1 (agricultural) to R-1 (single-family residential) and R-2 (multi-family residential) on a 46.84-acre unplatted tract of land located on the west side of S. Holmes Road north of E. Magnolia Road.
Commissioners also are scheduled to meet in executive session to discuss with legal counsel the legal considerations resulting from the defendant’s appeal of the district court’s ruling in the initiative ordinance case. Possible public action may follow the executive session.
To view the full Salina City Commission for Monday, click here.