By SALINA POST
A proclamation request, a rezoning request, comments from outgoing commissioners, and the organizational meeting for the new governing body are on the Salina City Commission agenda 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 citycommission@salina.org.
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.
Regular meeting
The commission's regular meeting is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Monday. A time for public comment is scheduled near the beginning of the meeting.
Commissioners are scheduled to consider a request to proclaim Jan. 17, 2022, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemoration Day in the City of Salina. Sandy Beverly and Ramona Malone are scheduled to read the proclamation.
Commissioners also are scheduled to consider accepting the offered easement and restricted access dedications from Holm Real Estate Abilene, LLC, to serve the Holm Addition, a five-lot subdivision of a 9.42 acre tract of land located at the northwest corner of the S. Ninth Street/Water Well Road intersection.
Additionally, commissioners are scheduled to hear the second reading of a proposed ordinance to change the zoning district classification for the 9.42 acre tract from A-1 (agriculture) to PC-5 (planned service commercial with corridor overlay). The proposed ordinance was passed on first reading on Sept. 27, 2021, however, the second reading was put on hold until the property was platted.
According to information in the commission meeting packet, "since that time, the property has been sold to Holm Real Estate, LLC (Tim Holm) who has completed final platting of the property."
Other items on the city commission agenda for Monday include the following.
●Consider authorizing the city manager to enter into a copier and printer lease with Century Business Systems.
●Consider approving a resolution to provide COVID-19 paid leave from Jan. 3-Dec. 31, 2022.
●Consider approving an ordinance that would amend Salina Municipal Code to allow class A, B, and C general contractors to install swimming pools.
●Hear comments from outgoing City Commissioner Aaron Peck.
●Hear comments from outgoing Mayor Melissa Rose Hodges at the end of her mayoral term.
With the city clerk presiding, the commission then is scheduled to meet in an organizational meeting that will include the swearing in of Bill Longbine, Greg Lenkiewicz, and Mike Hoppock as commissioners. Additionally, commissioners will elect a mayor and acting mayor, and the new mayor is scheduled to make comments. Plaques of appreciation are to be presented to Peck and Hodges.
To see the full Salina City Commission meeting packet, click here.