A variety of money-related issues and a downtown rezoning request are among the agenda items for Monday's Salina City Commission meeting.
About city meetings
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, city study sessions and commission meetings will take place via Zoom until further notice. You can view the meetings at the City of Salina YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/cityofSalinaKansas.
To participate in the meetings, citizens will need to use the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89275984587
If citizens wish to speak, either during the public forum or when the mayor requests public comment on an item, citizens must raise their hand so that the meeting host can allow them to speak.
Citizens can also send written comments or questions to commissioners via email at [email protected]. The city requests that in order for commissioners to have an opportunity to review comments in advance of the meeting, citizens should email their comments or questions by 5 p.m. the Sunday prior to the Monday meeting.
Regular meeting
The regular commission 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 conduct a public hearing on the proposed 2020 amended budget. The amendment, if approved, would be to the Special Gas Tax Fund. According to city commission meeting packet information, "the original 2020 budget for expenditures in the Special Gas Tax Fund was $1,668,193 which included street projects totaling $1,181,243. During the uncertainty of the early COVID-19 outbreak, City Commission instructed staff to cancel, delay and redirect funding for may streets projects in this fund as shown in the following table."
At the end of December 2019, the Special Gas Tax Fund had an ending balance of $1,794,474.21, "so it was recognized that this fund could support projects that possibly could both be supported by their current funding source," the city noted in the meeting packet information.
According to the city information, city staff recommends "increasing the 2020 budget expenditures in the Special Gas Tax Fund by $650,000 to $2,318,193 to cover the cost of these additional projects."
Other items on the city agenda for Monday include the following.
●Consider approving Resolution No. 20-7910 establishing water and wastewater rates effective Feb. 1, 2021, in the Comprehensive Fee Schedule of the City of Salina.
●Hear the first reading Ordinance No. 20-11049 establishing the “Former SAFB Environmental Project” Fund.
●Consider authorizing publication of the Notice of Budget Hearing for the 2021 Amended Budget.
●Consider authorizing the fire department to purchase the replacement of its eight heart monitor/defibrillators and 18 automatic external defibrillators (AED).
●Consider Resolution No. 20-7921 authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement with Delta Dental of Kansas, Inc. for dental care benefits.
●Consider Resolution No. 20-7924 authorizing the city manager to execute an amendment to the agreement with Tria Health to provide therapy management.
●Hear the first reading Ordinance No. 20-11048 granting to Kansas Gas Service, a division of One Gas, Inc., and its successors and assigns, a natural gas franchise.
●Consider application No. Z20-4 (filed by Lighthouse Properties, III, LLC) requesting a change in zoning district classification from C-3 (Shopping Center District) and R-3 (Multi-Family Residential) to C-4 (Central Business District) on property addressed as 303 South Santa Fe Avenue, 300 South Fifth Street and 308 South Fifth Street. The first reading of a related ordinance is scheduled to follow.
To view the entire Salina City Commission meeting packet for Monday (138 pages), click here.