By SALINA POSTA zoning amendment, Broadway Boulevard enhancements, and the classified pay plan are among the items on the Salina City Commission agenda for Monday.About the meetingsStudy 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,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/cityofSalinaKansas">https://www.youtube.com/cityofSalinaKansas</a>.To participate via Zoom, citizens will need to use the following link:&nbsp;<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89275984587">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89275984587</a>.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&nbsp;<a href="mailto:citycommission@salina.org">citycommission@salina.org</a>.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 sessionCommissioners are scheduled to begin with a 2 p.m. study session concerning housing development opportunities.Regular meetingThe regular meeting is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.Commissioners are scheduled to hear the second reading of a proposed ordinance requesting approval of an amendment to a Planned Shopping Center zoning district and approval of a final site development plan for a proposed restaurant at 916 E. Crawford Street with an outdoor seating area that exceeds 50 percent of the capacity of the indoor seating area.Additionally, commissioners are scheduled to consider authorizing the the city manager to execute an application with the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) for the Broadway Boulevard median and bicycle lanes project in the amount of $190,000 in city funds and $1,710,000 in cost-share program funds. The KDOT cost share program provides financial assistance to local entities for transportation projects that improve safety, support job retention and growth, improve access or mobility, relieve congestion, and help areas across the state improve the transportation system, according to information in the commission meeting packet.City staff's proposal includes the following improvements to Broadway Boulevard from W. Republic Avenue to W. Ash Street, the meeting packet information noted.●Remove all old raised asphalt medians.●Replace medians with raised brick and/or landscaped medians from W. Republic Avenue to W. Crawford Street.●Replace medians with raised brick medians for turn lanes at three signalized intersections from W. Crawford Street to W. Ash Street.●Replace raised medians with flush brick medians at locations other than signalized intersections from W. Crawford Street to W. Ash Street, creating a two-way left turn lane (similar to Santa Fe Avenue Streetscape).●Remove the auxiliary lane in front of the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant and the former K-Mart.●Amend the approved bicycle plan to add Broadway Boulevard from W. Republic Avenue to W. Ash Street and W. Ash Street from N. Broadway Boulevard to N. College Avenue.●Create five-foot-wide bicycle lanes in each direction by reducing the existing 18-foot median width by six feet and reducing each of the travel lanes by one foot from W. Republic Avenue to W. Walnut Street.●Continue the bicycle facilities with shared use markings from W. Walnut Street to W. Ash Street.Commissioners also are scheduled to consider a request to add a new classification to the executive/senior staff wage/salary schedule: assistant city manager with a pay range of $85,560-$136,595.Other items on the city commission agenda for Monday include the following.●Consider approving a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute an amended and restated license agreement with North Salina Community Development, Inc., to install a Little Library at the senior center bus stop.●Consider awarding a contract for a 2021 minor concrete-pavement repair project to Davis Concrete Construction in the amount of $44,354.80 with a $2,217.74 (five percent) construction contingency and authorize the city manager to execute the contract.●Hear the first reading of Charter Ordinance No. 40, exempting the the city from the provisions of K.S.A. 12-1697, and providing substitute and additional provisions on the same subject relating to the promotion of tourism and convention, authorizing the levying of a transient guest tax by cities, and repealing Charter Ordinance 35.To see the full Salina City Commission meeting packet (70 pages), <a href="http://weblink.salina.org/WebLink/Browse.aspx?startid=177362&amp;&amp;dbid=0&amp;cr=1">click here</a>.

Zoning, Broadway Boulevard, pay plan among city agenda items