By SALINA POST
Rezoning and annexation are among the items 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 [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 2:30 p.m. Monday. The study session will consist of a tour of the Salina Rescue Mission.
Regular meeting
The regular meeting is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. A time for public comment is scheduled near the beginning of the meeting.
Commissioners are scheduled to hear the first reading of a proposed ordinance for the rezoning of the former Kmart store property at S. Broadway Boulevard and W. South Street.
Rabb Investments, LLC, has requested that the property be rezoned from C-3 (shopping center) to C-5 (service commercial). Rabb has a contract to purchase the property with plans to convert it into an Atwood's Ranch and Home store. The farm and ranch supply store based in Oklahoma has 66 stores covering a five-state area.
The Atwood business model includes displaying farm and ranch merchandise outside in front of the store. As the property currently is zoned, only "plants, nursery stock and gardening supplies in an area not greater than fifteen (15) percent of the floor area of the store" may be displayed outside, according to information from the city.
Commissioners also are scheduled to to hear the first reading of a proposed ordinance to annex the former Signify plant site on S. Ninth Street. On Aug. 6, 2020, the city commission adopted a resolution preliminarily indicating the city's intent to issue $20 million in industrial revenue bonds for what was later announced as Great Plains Manufacturing's expansion into the site, with the understanding that the plant site would be annexed into the city upon Great Plains taking ownership.
Other items on the city agenda for Monday include the following.
●Conduct a public hearing at the conclusion of the Community Development Block Grant - Coronavirus process.
●Hear the first reading of a proposed ordinance levying special assessments against certain lots and pieces of property to pay the cost of sidewalk repairs.
●Hear the first reading of a proposed ordinance levying special assessments against certain lots and pieces of property to pay the cost of abatement of nuisances.
●Consider awarding a bid for Bill Burke Park drainage improvements to Smoky Hill, LLC, of Salina, in the amount not to exceed $136,849.13 (including a five-percent construction contingency) and authorizing the city manager to execute a contract with Smoky Hill, LLC, upon fulfillment of all prerequisites under the bid documents.
To see the full Salina City Commission meeting packet (95 pages), click here. (You also can open agenda items individually.)