City Council - Regular Meeting

okay at 7 o'clock good evening we'll call this meeting to order and I've asked that councilman Cory Deer to lead us in the pledge and the invocation

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Please join me in prayer. Lord, thank you for this day and thank you for this opportunity to bring our community together to make decisions to just continue to improve our community for your glory and thank you for for sending your son Jesus to die for us, and just please give us the wisdom to make good decisions for our community. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

Amen.

Okay, to start things off, I'll make a motion to approve tonight's agenda. Do I have a second? Second. Amanda seconds. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries. We approve the agenda. Rolling right along. Your next item is item D, citizen comments. Give anybody an opportunity in three minutes to address the council. if anyone would like to speak we'll go ahead and open citizen comments

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Okay, we're all together now. Hasn't anybody come up to speak? So we'll close this in comments and move on to item E on the agenda. Just want to check and see if anyone has any. Council members have conflicts of interest. tonight's meeting no no no so that's we'll get on that mail item f and we've got appointments and proclamations recognitions nominations and uh assistant city administrator introductions yes just a good evening there council just a breather put this on yeah no this should be on

all right yes just very this first item we have with us the seating members of Prairie Travelers and so I am going to ask them to come to the podium and make their presentation you do have some information on the bench that they have provided for you and they're here so I'm going to turn it over to them

Good evening. My name is Ruth Holliday, and I'm Secretary for Great Catholic. Many of you may not have been around in the early 2000s, and that's when the possibility of converting an old railroad vest into a trail for promoting healthy, active lifestyles became a concept and a possibility that we just had to pursue. Having ridden to California on my bike 20 years earlier, I yearned for safety while riding and realized that I was not alone. Thanks to the support of both of the City of Wichita for guidance and to the Goddard Mayor at the time, Larry Zimmerman, we were able to convert what was an abandoned railroad yard full of debris believe it or not, and trash into what we know now as the Prairie Sunset Trail Linear Park. It was not easy, and it took years before we completed the Prairie Sunset Trail, which is now 15 miles. The handout we each have is our history and our timeline for the last 28 years, as well as the results of a trail counter that we switch every few months to a different location along the prairie. Our trail counter downloads our numbers daily, giving us a real view of Prairie Sunset Trail's usage. And right now it's a garden plane and Jim Whitted is our number man that changes where the location of the counter ends. I cannot say enough about our volunteers, our previous volunteers who have passed away, our board members as well as families and businesses that adopt a mile to help us with maintenance. But the first mile and the first family to adopt a mile was Larry and Jean Zimmerman. Originally it was from 199th to 215th, and then when the city came apart, theirs was from Walnut to 215th, and to this day he still helps maintain it. So without any further ado, I'll pass the mic to Larry, who is the reason the Prairie Sunset Trail exists, because without his early support, we would not have a Prairie Sunset Trail.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Thank you, Mayor and Council, for the opportunity to be here.

Man, it just seems like yesterday when this came about. Cecile Kallenbarger and Larry Ross came to me in my office when I was mayor. and had this concept that we could save the downtown area in eight miles of trail and make it into a park. They helped share that vision with me. Little did I know how much conflict there was going to be. I almost needed an armed guard to keep me safe the first couple of years because of all the people on both sides of the trail that wanted that land and didn't have that vision that we had. But I'm so thankful that We were able to get things going, and we were able to start cleaning up. Ruth was a big part of it, Larry Hatfield, John Moore, many others that had passed away. You see what it is today. We were, we were instrumental in making the first cobalt. We got a grant for that and helped the vision see what could be. And then we leased downtown park to the city for a hundred years. I think you got a good deal. We're so happy that you help see our vision, and help expand on our vision for the North Park, and help create the water park that's there now, and help us to make this something that is a key component of keeping your downtown vibrant. So I want to present to you this award. I'll go ahead and let you do it, Gwen. Okay.

My name's Gwen Whittitt, and I am the president of Prairie Travelers right now. And so we would like to present this plaque to Mayor Levy and the city of Goddard. This is really awesome. It's an original.

Thank you. Thank you. I just want to say to the furry travelers group that there isn't an A goes by.

I was going to say is that there isn't a day goes by when there are not hundreds of people using that park, especially in the summer. The amazing thing is the traffic on the trail and also the traffic on the little disc golf course. That's amazing too. So it's been a great addition to our community.

Thank you so much.

That is beautiful.

Just in case anybody's interested, prairie sunset trail dot org if you want to be part of this.

Thank you so much, guys. Thank you.

Again, thank you so much.

So appreciative of all your efforts over the years. God or can have nice things. And that's one of what we've got this year. Thank you.

Okay. Next item.

I'm the Mayor and City Council, Craig Crossley, your City Manager here. It is my pleasure to introduce to you Dr. Julie Stimson and Randy Rayner to discuss the CERT program and the hard work that's going on in emergency management in the county and here in Goddard. Please come on up. There you are.

And I think Craig had mentioned that you did just receive your doctorate.

Yes, it was actually just confirmed yesterday. So you can go first. Well thank you for giving me a few moments of your time to talk about the Community Emergency Response Team, or what we call CERT. It is a program I am very passionate about. It's a program that I cannot get enough people trained in the program fast enough. Community members in response is pretty much neighbors helping neighbors. That is what happens in disasters. If it's a tornado, storm, flood, anything that disrupts our neighborhoods, who are the true first responders? We are. We come out of our houses, we see damage, we see chaos, we make sure we're okay, and then we check in our neighbors. What the community emergency response team does is provide some basic training of what those skills can be so you can do that safely. I shared a flyer with you. At the end of this month, June 19th through 21st, we're actually going to be here in Goddard at the USD 265 Conference Center. There's a QR code in the webpage on this flyer that I can leave a few extra copies here. We still have some seats available for our class, but we have 38 signed up already. So the idea is we want local folks to come and learn how to safely help each other out when there's times of disasters. So a little bit about this program. It started back actually in the 80s in California based off earthquakes in Japan and Mexico. One of the fire chiefs went out to kind of assess the response because in Japan, There was very little fatalities with the rescue workers. But in Mexico, they had a lot of fatalities and serious injuries after the earthquake happened. And it was because of the difference between trained and untrained folks and how to do some light search and rescue and things. So what are some of the topics we talked about? It's a 20-hour class. We do the public sessions in three days, a Friday night, all day Saturday, and an afternoon on Sunday. And some of the topics we talked about is individual preparedness, to have a good community resilience population as we need our individuals to be prepared. We talked about fire safety and utility controls. We actually do have a small fire and everybody gets to physically use a fire extinguisher. So we hear the acronyms, but it's something different when you have a fire in front of you and you have to pull, aim, squeeze, and sweep. So everyone gets to play with fire. Disaster medical operations, we teach basic first aid, how to control bleeding, how to do a head-to-toe assessment on someone to look for injuries. We actually talk about anti-terrorism and safety of law enforcement. Light search and rescue. We teach folks how they can use cribbage to help elevate surfaces that may be able to get someone free from being damaged. And then we actually teach disaster psychology. Mental health is real important in disasters, especially when our own homes are disrupted and friends and family that we love are impacted. So even if you don't sign up and can't commit to the weekend, we invite any of you to stop by that weekend. You can observe, ask questions. If you want to sit in a couple sessions, by all means, you're free to. I want to thank you for allowing us to come in your communities. Our goal is to have trained volunteers in all of our communities because when you're trained, you're also a force multiplier for our first responders. Only so many fire trucks, ambulances, and law enforcement officials can go out when there is widespread disasters. So we have trusted, trained volunteers in our communities. They can help liaise on and help communicate with the first responders where the true priorities need to be. You know, how bad is this area? How wide is this damage? Where do we need to line up resources? We also have an advanced opportunity. So for those who come through the 20 hours, You're free to do whatever you want with that information. We give everyone a backpack with kind of a starter preparedness kit that has like gloves in there, reflective vest, a helmet. And if you don't ever come see us again or volunteer, that's fine. We have some where this kind of gives an appetite and they want more, so we have some advanced teams, which Randy is one of our team chiefs, that we come together every month. I know, right? I sound like he does everything. This is another happy word. An advanced team where we do background checks and we do more advanced training and they're force multiplied for us and again, first responders, but they're community force multipliers. So if you need vetted volunteers to maybe help with traffic control or to help communicate or any kind of volunteer opportunity in your communities, folks have checked out and kind of been vetted. Some of those volunteer units that we have is managing volunteers. So if we have a widespread disaster, everybody wants to help. Our health has to be managed. We can't just have everybody coming up and just doing what they want. We have to safely manage our folks. Helping with damage assessment, outreach, doing community fairs and festivals and talking to people about getting prepared and letting people know that there is an individual responsibility in overall preparedness. And then just helping overall with community events, you know, just volunteering with traffic control. We just had some folks down at Riverfest helping, you know, with barricades when the parade went through. So it's a force multiplier for everybody, and it's basic skills that I hope everybody will learn someday. We're starting to teach some of this in schools. We just did USD 259 last year as our first teen cert. And it just tells us we're going to do it anyway. We're Kansas neighbors help neighbors. We just want to give folks training and some safety here so that way we don't have any secondary injuries or fatalities. Randy is actually, he is helping our, he said he's our team chief for the auxiliary communications unit. So if all of our communication systems crash, we are still able to use an amateur radio, a GMRS, and communicate in ways that do not rely on the internet and do not rely on cell phone signals.

And we're happy to teach.

So again, if you can't make it, that's fine. If you want to stop by and see some activity going on or some smoke over by the conference center, that's us. We're actually going to have one of our Senate County firefighters also training so that way they kind of get to know who's in the community and who's going through this. Appreciate you giving me the opportunity to talk about CERC.

Anybody have any questions?

I just have one. Sure. So once these battered locals go through the CERC training, does our local police department, will they get a list of these? People are like, how do they keep track of that? So if a natural disaster were to occur or something were to happen,

We don't provide a list, we can on request, but they have marked vests that have CERT on them and then they have CERT palettes. And if they're on the advanced team, they're going to have a dark green color like what Randy's wearing, that kind of differs. They said advanced are down there. So that does help our first responder know who's on request. Thank you. Alright, thanks so much.

I just want to say, Randy, thank you for being the human billboard to see me demonstrating this shirt. I wasn't going to say that. Thank you. Randy, we appreciate your service. Several years ago, when Randy first moved here, we had a conversation at the garden we were putting together with some of those steel bins that they made the garden out of and he made a comment about wanting to get more involved and I came across a notification from one of the, I think it was a REIT group and so we found a spot for him and he started his second term specifically helping with the Citizens Emergency Communications Advisory Board That's why I didn't try to... But we appreciate you serving in that capacity and joining the community and serving. Thank you. That's been pretty fun, too. So a couple hats in addition to everything else. All right. We'll move along here. Next we've got Consent Agenda. Amanda has made the motion. Naomi seconds.

All those in favor say aye. New business.

I do want to tell you that we are actually planning in the budget for 2027 to completely replace everything in here for our audio and video streaming needs because Like you, we too are frustrated about these things not working when they're supposed to. You guys know that we've got a pretty big issue behind City Hall just with the amount of traffic, especially during the day when all the administrative staff are here, all our officers are here, we have court that's exacerbated. It's pretty common for there not to be any spaces available. You'll see us parallel parking along the alley on the east side of the alley. Our employees are instructed not to park on Main Street. We like to keep that available for our citizens and other patrons that are visiting Main Street businesses.

And so we're out of parking. It's an issue.

And Chief Geegly, who, by the way, we're celebrating 20 years with him today, I don't know why he didn't come up with this idea before. He mentioned to me, hey, we've got some really nice neighbors to the east. Why don't we inquire with them if they'd be willing to part with some of their property to help soothe the issue that we're dealing with. So had some conversations with the property owner, and they're feeling generous to help the city out with the issue we're facing. And so we asked our legal team to put together a parking plan lot easement agreement and a parking easement that would be filed. Our city engineering firm, Harlan Foraker, did the survey to grab the legal description. And we gave the paperwork to our neighbors and they signed it. So tonight we would ask the council to approve acquiring that parking easement. So based on our measurements, we think we can add nine angled parking spots back there, which I think would solve our issue for many years to come. especially as we move our police department up north. So at any rate, it's about 20 feet by 210 or so, and based on the math, it was nine spots, angled spots. So we have not put together a budget or a plan for actually building the parking at this time, whether it'll be in-house or if we contract it out. Once we throw some numbers together, we'll either try to tackle it this year or if we have to look to budget for 2027. We'll do it then, but at this time, we just wanted to get the easement secured. So I'd be glad to take any questions if the council has any. Oh, I guess I should add, it's $3,000. That's the financial impact. We'll have some closing costs, and of course we have the cost for legal and the surveying as well. So not consequential as far as those amounts are concerned. Legal teams approved it as the formals. We're asking that you approve the easement purchase agreement attached in Exhibit A.

The only other comment is we need to build a fence for him too.

That is right. We are going to put a new fence there on a new property, shared property line, and a gate so he can mow his lawn. And maybe ours.

You know what, get the log work part of it.

So I have one other question. It talks about drainage as part of when we put it in. Is that assuming that any drains that are concrete or anything would cause it to drain back towards the alley and not onto their property?

we want to make sure that we're not creating a new issue with drainage so we'll have our city engineer take it further than just the boundary survey that's been done thus far we'll get a topographical survey and we'll probably put together a plan to account for the flow of storm water do we know i'm just going to ask what is it like when it rains like that right now i mean i know

that that area is not bad honestly honestly the water shedding off of the parking lot back here right now goes right into our garage So we end up with bubbles in the garage every time it rains because of the water coming off the existing alleyway.

I think anytime you have new construction is an opportunity to fix a current issue. So when we go back there, certainly during an active rain event, there's going to be some water at that. What we don't want to see is the standing water for days on end afterwards. But we'll work with our team to try to address that.

Any questions? Anything else? I think they got it.

All right.

I'm going to make a motion to...

I will make a motion to approve the event purchase agreement attached in Exhibit A.

Second. Do you guys need a motion? Amanda seconds again. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries 4-0. Thank you. Okay, one down, one to go.

next item relates to a public hearing and then an authorizing ordinance for electric system improvements of rachel brook the state's edition phase three the the background and we talked about this before is that because this is not city-owned infrastructure the process is a little different than what you see a lot with special assessments we use the community improvement district statute which allows you to do special assessments but to do so when you receive a petition you call for a hearing with an intent resolution give notice of the hearing hold the hearing and then you can pass an ordinance that creates the district it's a little different And what you normally do with city infrastructure, which is just petition and resolution of the city. So last month, the petition was submitted by the property owner. Sufficient petitions, 100% of the property owner's developer submitted it asking for these electric system improvements to be specially assessed. That, again, triggered the intent resolution. The city adopted it. It's been published twice on the city's website, which is the prerequisite. So the notice of the hearing has been given, and that leads to tonight um we're going to be asked to hold a public hearing and then consider an ordinance Financial, nothing different than what you normally have when you're financing improvements, so nothing tonight will really cause any expenses to be incurred. Eventually, there will be temporary notes issued by the city for the improvements, and then we go through special assessment proceedings and permanent bonds at some point. I prepared the proceedings, including the petition and the intent resolution, in accordance with the CID Act. So, in terms of the roadmap tonight, if you're willing, open public hearing in connection with the advisability of the Rachel Brooks State's Community Improvement District based re-electory. close to public hearing after folks have had an opportunity to speak you can waive the reading of the ordinance by voice vote and then the ordinance again sort of replaces what we normally do with the resolution it will create the district it will authorize the improvements the financing and the imposition of special assessments and that gets recorded with the register of deeds as I said published so I will stop there happy to address any questions you may have

I'll make a motion to open the public hearing. Do we have a second?

Second.

Do we have any seconds? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

We've opened public hearing. It's an opportunity to come forward and speak. Just seeing none, I'll make a motion to close the public hearing. Give a second. Second. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries 4-0. It is kind of a cut-and-dried procedure. It is.

For infrastructure that... I'll be honest with you. I think the notice of hearing relates primarily, I think this is what the legislature had in mind, is if it's a new sales tax, and you do have CID sales taxes sometimes, this is not it in your school. If you weren't doing the general obligation financing, it wouldn't require. I mean, it's a little bit convoluted, but I think those two things. The fact that normally you have a sales tax requires the hearing. The statute doesn't recognize this is a little different. So, yes, it's more than what you normally deal with, just because it's slightly different.

nobody's missing anything we're not sliding anybody well so he's got a plan now but it says it has to do with five percent of the construction cost amount when you're in there's no community improvement district sales tax levied on the property within this region I'll make a motion to waive the reading of the ordinance. Second.

It's moved and seconded to waive the reading of the ordinance. We'll read the motion in a few seconds. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries 4-0.

I'll make a motion to approve the ordinance attached creating the Rachel Brookett States Community Improvement District.

Amanda's made the motion. Is there a second? Second. Corey seconds. Roll call.

Council Member Gertz?

Yes.

Council Member White? Yes. Mayor Lee?

Yes.

Council Member Leonard? Yes.

1049.

1049. Very good. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. Next batter. City Manager's report.

Honorable Mayor and City Council, I'm Craig Crossley, your City Manager here. Real quick, as you know, we're here to celebrate a special leader in our group tonight, so I just want to give another round of applause to Chief Beaver for 20 years of dedication, sir. We're very thankful to have his leadership and his dedication to keeping our community safe and protecting our health and well-being. So here's to another 20 years. Thank you. all right let's do it fiscal year 2027 budget workshops we've got two that are coming up here pretty quick uh later this month tuesday june 23rd at noon and wednesday june 24th at 6 p.m you should already be on your uh city council calendars so hopefully not new news to you so to speak but we've got a flyer in the back over there that folks can take We'll start really pushing it out on social media this week and we'll share it a few times before we start the hearing, excuse me, the workshops. Community events weather policy, I've got an abbreviated version of our policy. This will go in the bylaws for the committees for our different community events. So I think the main points in here that our events are rain or shine. We've got a lightning meter. We will refer to National Weather Service and tornado watches. And then it's gonna be at the city manager's discretion after receiving a recommendation from the committee chair and community engagement director who should be providing me with the recommendation as a result of their conversation with their committee members. So that's gonna go into effect immediately and apply to all the events going forward. City hall hours, so we're proposing an hour change. We're gonna go from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. so as our staff grows we've now got six people in the front office and it's can be a little bit of pandemonium up there with all the activity that's going on we got community engagement building inspector accounts payable utility building clerk construction manager All of that's going on in a small office space, and it creates opportunities for errors and omissions when there's a lot of activity going on. So the idea is, one, we've directed the staff that if you're going to be having verbal conversations up there, or if you're just visiting, please take that to the back of City Hall so we're not distracting others. And then also we want quiet hours for our city staff so they're not having interruptions while they are doing their work, having meetings, etc. So in 2026, pretty much all the business that you could want to do with the city of Goddard can be handled remotely, either through our app or our website. Now, we respect and value the fact that there are some folks out there that prefer doing business in person. If they are unable to do that between 9 and 4 p.m., Give us a call and we'll try to schedule an appointment with you to handle whatever it is necessary. We do have a Dropbox. If you'd like to pay your bill in person too, you don't want to do it online, you can click a check in our Dropbox and avoid fees and those types of things. So if there's any questions about that, I'd be glad to take those. Public works facility, lots of progress going on out there. You can see they've got some of the walls are going up. We're supposed to get a lot of rain this week, so not sure if they're going to get to the slabs. The sewer utility is almost in. I think they're getting ready to start working their way south on that, so it's getting... It's getting good out there. The rain is certainly a challenge. Legacy Bank Park groundbreaking. So we got rained out last week. I don't know if you saw Danny's cool video with the blue umbrella. We got lots of comments on. But we're going to have a beam hanging ceremony in lieu of the groundbreaking. And the beam hanging will probably be here in a few months. we'll do a big celebration out there the dignitaries will sign the beam as it's hooked to the crane before they lift it up and it may be a nice photo opportunity and actually you'll get to see some progress on the project and it will be open to the public for them to come see that too we've got a police department we still have a patrol officer vacancy public works we've got a maintenance technician one vacancy that used to be what we called a public works labor we've had some title changes as of late Hawkins Lane, the landscape and plantings, they should be in tomorrow. And then the HROA monument sign, I was told, would start November to June 5th. So we're kind of taking care of the last few items out there. Guiding Goddard Comprehensive Plan, we went live last week. So it's real simple, guidinggoddard.com. You can go take this community questionnaire. It's got all the information on the timeline and the different engagement opportunities that are to come. Our deputy city manager, Ryan Shroud, and community development director, Micah Scoggin, along with our consultant team, Olson, have done a fantastic job getting this thing loaded up and ready to go. They're going to be out there at the Sunday, June 14th, Main Street Market from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at booth 18, engaging our neighbors where they're at. So really excited about that. I'm a big believer in piggybacking where there's already going to be a lot of folks congregating to go out and getting that information and getting our neighbors opinions and their guidance as to how they'd like our community to look over the next decade. The emergency operation plan development, very timely with Dr. Stinson and Randy in the room tonight. So we've been working on our essential function surveys. There's three of them that I want to continue to develop further, basically each department. fills out this very robust Excel sheet that kind of helps make the meet up of the emergency operation plan. So we're continuing to punch away at that. I think we have another meeting coming up in a week. There will be a community engagement opportunity with that item. I also want to note, I think it'll be at some point when we're developing that document that we'll want to give Dr. Stimson a call and ask her how do we plug CERT into this and how does that work. Please also know that your senior staff and I even have had a couple council members are attending some of the fantastic training that Sedgwick County Emergency Management is putting on for us so we are prepared when we get the call. As Dr. Stimson would say, disasters begin locally so it's really important that we're going to those trainings as they're provided and that we get these two plans developed. Wichita Area Builders Association, WALA, will be present at the June 15th council meeting to engage the governing body on the R2 design standards resolution. Our city staff and legal team will be meeting in the coming days to continue refining the design standards with a focus on adjustments for sound absorption, storm shelters, also time limits. Water softeners and limiting duplexes to curved roads versus straight. That was one that came up from one of the builders. They said if you can, try to get the duplexes on a linear curve versus on the straight streets, which kind of makes it seem a little repetitive door after door. The plan is that if the council wants to make any minor adjustments within the margins based on the dialogue they have with WABA on the 15th, we can incorporate those. We'll have a few weeks to do that before then coming back on Monday, July 6th to adopt the resolution. We would do it the fourth Tuesday, but that is dedicated to a big budget workshop that we're really excited to have with you all. The contractor will begin work on the water looping project Monday, June 22nd on Spruce, Pine and Oak from the park to 3rd Street. The neighboring property owners have been notified, but we will continue to follow up with them just to make sure they are ready for that work to come. We want to make sure we're communicating early and often. And I have a feeling this general contractor is going to do a really good job of keeping the adjacent neighbors informed based on the first impression I got. 2026 roadway projects, they're going to start curb cuts on Spruce Pine Oak and 4th Street. They had some availability come up in their schedule and I made the decision that let's get out there, that our team did, to go ahead and start that work. Our neighbors are going to be getting a little bit of short notice but Sometimes it's challenging to get the contractors to get to work and to stay on the site. If we can get them there, let's get them there. So they're going to be contacting the citizens tomorrow and we'll try to get something on social media. As I'm told by our public works director that curb cuts are not that intrusive, but we want to get them out there to start work and they're going to be working really closely with the general contractor on the water moving project. because we're going to kind of be working in the same area, but I'm sure it will be communicating appropriately as that work progresses. The Willows Ridge project, you've probably seen a lot of activity going on there in the southeast corner, 183rd and Maple. Seven of 50 working days complete. Micro-mobility device ordinance. If you're wondering what in the world that is, it's those electric scooters and go-pads and bikes that you see people zooming around on. We had a citizen comment expressing some concern. We're seeing a lot of that happening unsupervised and on public roads. It's a danger to the rider, which is usually a young person from what I've seen. And it's also a danger to the traveling public. So Chief Beagley and our city attorney and myself, we've been looking at something. There's other communities that have these ordinances, so we're not reinventing the wheel here. But starting to just get a growing concern that there's a lot of that going on and it's super dangerous, so we wanna try to regulate it a bit. get on top of it before somebody has an accident. 167 to 23rd Street, I get lots of questions about that one. The street, excuse me, it should say Sanitary Sewer Lift Station in Forest Main. We got the engineering drawings last Monday. Our third party engineering consultant that the city hires has completed their review and comment. They submitted their comments back. think a week later and so I was told that they would be advertising that project for bid this week and that it would be in construction in June and done sometime in October so we'll see how that goes hopefully that timeline stays pretty close to what was most recently shared with us and we'll start seeing some home site center construction out there in the next few months so A few upcoming agenda items, we're working with Harland and CED on the preliminary engineering contract for a 2027 road. That's going to be Spruce Pine and Oak from 3rd up to the highway. Two family structure sound separation ordinance, so if you're wondering why you're seeing that here as well as in the two family structure resolution, it's because the resolution is only going to apply to newly zoned R2 districts and feedback we've gotten from council and our thought among city staff is that we should probably start requiring the sound separation more immediately. So we felt a little confident that we had it right until about a week ago we started getting some different feedback on that so we're kind of working through the kinks on it. Hopefully we'll have an ordinance in front of you on June 15th for the sound separation and that would apply to any new building permits that are pulled once it's been codified. Code meeting procedure governing body manual. We actually do have a final draft of that. We're just looking for a good time to present that to the council. Water leak billing adjustment policy. That one maybe sounds a little new to you because we haven't discussed it much. Other cities such as the one I served in prior, if you have a residential customer who has a water leak and their bill is $1,500 instead of 60 because all of this water was consumed unbeknownst to them because of a plumbing issue. This water leak policy would create an ability to save them some money on that issue. We want them to prove that it's been fixed and elite situation that they're unknown to have and they can not have to pay that full amount. Right now we don't have anything to do to deal with that and so it's been pretty black and white that you gotta pay the bill because the water went through your meter. We're wanting to create a policy that would allow some flexibility in that. In Christ Bank North entrance discussion, we've got one department that we need to work with that a little bit. We haven't approached them on it yet, but we've been working with Engineering Legal to try to continue addressing some low-hanging fruit on 199th and US 54 to make it more safe and efficient travel. We already talked about the R2 multi-family, and then we've got four or five personnel manual updates that we'll do in one tranche that we'll bring to you sometime within the next month or two. So that's a look at the current operations, all the fun projects we're working on, and a glimpse into the future and what's to come. We have 17 active residential commercial projects occurring right now in our small but mighty community. So your staff, while a little weary, we're ambitious and working as hard as we can to continue to take care of all these projects. So we appreciate your confidence and support.

Quick question. A long awaited study on 199th and Kellogg. We're hoping to see that by the end of May.

The preliminary draft was due on April 24th. When I asked for the preliminary draft, I was told that's close to 75% done, and that I shouldn't have expected it on the 24th, because that was when the preliminary draft was due, and then when June 1st came, which was the final draft deadline, it's not midnight yet, but I'm not expecting it this evening. So, Mayor, I got a taste of frustration from you in that. I don't think it was directed to me. I'm equally frustrated with the consultant that we still haven't gotten that study done yet. I will say it's a KDOT program, and so they got a little more teeth to try.

I'm not necessarily pointing fingers at any of them. I just want people to understand that there is a working process. that we are working on this project and we've had a good working relationship this last two and a half years with KDOT and in terms of process this document is really key for moving the whole development and whatever changes need to be made in that intersection. So it's something that hasn't been ignored. We've been waiting patiently and I guess we'll just be a little more patient. But there's a certain sense of urgency with trying to

repair and work on that that intersection so we just thought it'd be good to share that with everyone i appreciate it i think chief if i'm not mistaken we had an injury accident there about two weeks ago or less so it is front of mind and i rest assured i'll be making a phone call and email tomorrow to keep the pressure up appreciate it of course good things come to those who wait so thank you for the report thank you mr manson

Who wants to go first tonight?

Corey. Corey, yes.

All right, well, thanks again, Chief, for 20 years. Hopefully another 20. I'll be around for it. How old were you 20 years ago? Younger. I also want to thank the Prairie Traveler for their presentation and thank you for the plaque. It's very nice. Thank you also to the CERT folks for presenting and we look forward to the training from both groups. Like Craig mentioned with the comp plan and then also the emergency operations plan, doing some outreach with the community. If your guys' teams or volunteers, if you could help spread that with them to get more of their input, it would be helpful. So just look for all those surveys and opportunities, please. And I think that's it for me.

So I'll start by saying that this is the second council meeting my kids have had attended. You can see them over here and this is also the second council meeting they showed up to and there's some form of dessert so they're very grateful to be coming. I'm sure they're going to want to come every time. Congratulations on 20 years. We know you loved it and the cake with your face on it and the painting that everyone can see in the hallway hopefully very very soon. I just wanted to touch on a couple of things tonight. I echo everything you said. Thank you guys for coming. I know that we had a concerned citizen come in a few months ago and discuss these mopeds and just how quickly they go. So obviously I do read all of the Facebook comments that goes back and forth, but I just want to share I think that a brain injury does not discriminate. And I think even with a helmet, they can be very dangerous. Anything two wheels is very dangerous. So I would encourage everyone even about the ordinance to make sure that we're having these talks with our kids and that they understand that this is probably one of the worst injuries that you could undertake. And so safety matters that we have a lot of kids that ride the roads. And so I would hate to see something happen to someone there. So that's kind of all I got there.

Congratulations, Chief. for all your service over the last 20 years. Thank you to the Prairie Travelers and Larry. I know sometimes it can be tough listening to the community because sometimes they can be quite harsh on us, right? Thanks for fighting that because I'm so glad that we heard that story today because I had not heard it before of how the park and the trail came to light and so thanks for putting up with all of that hate and discontent at the time because the park is beautiful. The trail is awesome and I really do think it's a staple to this community and who we are. And I think it brings a lot of joy to a lot of people. I know since we put the garden in there, that trail is used a lot. There's always people walking in and now they just come into the garden and Thanks for that. Thanks for being part of that and pushing to make that happen because I think it's very good for our community as a whole. So thank you for that, Larry. Thanks for everybody that keeps that trail up. You're kind of motivated me to maybe come and help with that because I don't have enough going on. I think I need to do a little bit more. Dr. Simpson and Randy, thanks for coming in and your presentation. I keep saying I need to get out there and do your CERT training. I'm about to retire, so that'll happen sooner rather than later. Probably October, because then I won't have to worry about giving up a weekend. But I'll get out there and get that done, because I think it's a worthy cause. And so thank you for all of the work that you do with that. And... And you guys are crushing it. There's a lot going on. I don't know how you guys manage it all. I really don't. There's so much going on. So thank you to all the staff with all of the things that you are tackling. I just want to say how much I appreciate all the work that you do because I know that's a lot to juggle. So thank you. You're always here and I love that. I love that. Thank you for being here all the time.

That's all you have. Very good. Chief, again, congratulations. Randy, thank you for helping with the presentation. Just want to encourage anyone that is interested to sign up for the training on the 19th, 20th, and 21st. Six people from our community have signed up, and it'd be nice to maybe see a few more. I want to thank Prairie Travelers for the presentation. The plaque is one of a kind and the little t-shirts. I guess if I'm riding and walking in that trail, everybody will see me now. Good color. But thank you for that gift. That's wonderful. I just want to encourage everybody. Here we are. We're starting June. There's going to be some construction going on. Just ask all our friends and neighbors to be patient. And as Craig has said a couple times the last six months, with a little team and patience comes great things. we can have nice things in Goddard and starting on the park and also the work that's being done on the out there for the public works facility that's exciting to see and and we'll be putting in the budget to start serious work on the plans for building police stations so the chief will have a nice place for the next 20 years to be serving us. We're going to tie some deal in terms of how that works out. We'll negotiate the size of the office. You know, you get a window view or working with the street or however that works out. I'm just kidding.

A new car.

Yeah. A private jet. I'm sorry. We need a private jet.

You can take a trip on it once a year, though.

Well, anybody can use it on a weekend on Wednesdays.

I'll start with the glider.

Right. Glider. Glider. I've got a level one, so I'll start with that. Anyway, if anybody's seriously taking that seriously, that is a joke. So we're not buying any aircraft out here. So anyway, any other comments? I'll make a motion that we adjourn our meeting this evening. Do we have a second? Second. Second. So all those in favor say aye.

Aye. Meeting is closed. Yep. Adjourned.