By SALINA POST
The 2022 budget, rezoning, and a COVID-19 update are among the City of Salina agenda items for Monday.
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 begin with a study session at 3:34 p.m. Monday. The topic of the study session is Lower Smoky Hill Water Supply Access District meeting.
Regular meeting
The regular meeting is scheduled for 4 p.m. A time for public comment is scheduled near the beginning of the meeting.
Commissioners are scheduled to consider authorizing publication of the notice of the budget hearing for the 2022 budget. The measure would set Aug. 16 as the date of the hearing and establishes the maximum limits of the 2022 budget. To read the budget summary, click here.
Additionally, commissioners are scheduled to hear the second reading of an ordinance that would amend the future land use designation of the lots north of W. Claflin Avenue between Highland Avenue and S. Ninth Street. If the ordinance is approved, the designation of those lots would change from urban residential and neighborhood center to public/semi-public.
Kansas Wesleyan University, which owns the property would like to change the land use designation and rezone the four lots on the north side of W. Claflin Avenue between Highland Avenue and S. Ninth Street. Kansas Wesleyan would like to use part of the property for student parking. Additionally, the university wants to convert a former service station building on the property to an art building, according to commission meeting packet information.
Commissioners also are scheduled to hear the second reading of an ordinance that would change the zoning classification of the Kansas Wesleyan property from R-3 (multi-family residential), C-3 (shopping center), and PC-5 (planned service commercial) to U (university).
A proposed ordinance that would rezone the Salina Public Library campus will also be before the city commission for a second reading. The ordinance would change the zoning classification of the library campus from C-4 (central business district) to P-PF (public use-public facilities). Library staff have requested the change as the current classification does not allow for the library to install an electronic message center sign that could be used to notify the public of library activities, events, and available resources, according to the commission meeting packet.
Other items on the city commission agenda for Monday include the following.
●Hear the second reading of a proposed ordinance that would order the vacation of the south 20 feet of the 80-foot right-of-way for Pine Street between N. Santa Fe Avenue and N. Fifth Street. The ordinance was passed on first reading on Nov. 20, 2017, subject to the condition that the petitioner, Bieberly Architect complete all improvements shown on the site plan concerning the renovation of the former Missouri Pacific depot at N. Santa Fe and Pine Street. The renovation is complete and a certificare of occupancy for the project has been issued, the paved parking area in front of the building has been constructed and striped, and planters have been constructed. According to information from the city, only the installation of landscape plantings has not been completed, however, Bieberly Architects has entered into a landscape compliance agreement to assure completion of the plantings.
●Hear a COVID-19 update from Salina County Health Director Jason Tiller.
To see the entire Salina City Commission meeting packet for Monday (34 pages), click here. (You also can open agenda items individually.)