Director of Aviation - Regular Meeting

TI and O. I'm Kevin O'Neill, chair and colleague.

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Good morning. Melissa Robinson, our district vice chair.

Mayor Clark, 4th District.

Johnson Duck in 6th District. Sorry about my tardiness. Chair.

That's a French, 2nd District at large. That's okay. I sit over here, and I don't exist.

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Martha Ross, city clerk's office.

Tammy Queen, city manager's office.

Andrew Bunkowski, law department.

Ken Morgan, water services department. Hi, McGeehan, Creo department. Alright. We will start with the, first ordinance, three five three.

260353, authorizing the director of water services $2,700,000 construction contract with Leith and Sons for the water department emergency transmission water main repair renewal number two project authorizing two successive renewal options for further city council approval, and that was establishing an ordinance and effective date.

Gentlemen.

Good morning. We are locked out of the computer.

Brandon, it's good to have you back in front of us. Haven't seen you in a while.

I'm taking care of business out in the streets. Good to see you. All right. Good morning, Chair O'Neill and council members. My name is David Poyer. I'm deputy director of engineering at Water Services. To my right is Brent Herring. He is deputy director of operations for Water Services. Ordinance number 260353 is the water department's emergency transmission repair contract. This contract is for $2,700,000 to Leaf and Sons.

This contract will help increase our response time to major brakes. Transmission mains are the backbone of our system, and we rely upon them to distribute water throughout the system. As you can see, pipes are larger in nature. And so when they break, they make quite a big mess, and it's essential that we address these in a timely manner. Last year, I pulled some numbers together to give you guys an idea of what we do

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on half twenty. Twenty. Of can see we have about 400 miles of transmission mains. Transmission we're mains are pipe sizes 16 or larger, so we have all the way up to 90 inches diameter mains. This contract had established goals of 11.11, and Lathe and Sons will be hitting those goals. Do you have any questions regarding this ordinance?

Someone from Leah Sons here? Yes. Thank you, sir, for attending. Appreciate it. Alright. Any questions for my colleagues? If not, any public testimony?

No public testimony.

I would entertain a motion.

Mister chair, I move that ordinance number two six zero three five three be reported out of committee with the recommendation of advance and do pass.

Second. All those in favor?

Aye. Aye.

All those opposed, ordinance passes. Thank you. Appreciate it, gentlemen.

02/60354 authorizing the director of water services to execute a 1,500,000 construction contract with Haynes and Associates construction company for the WD fire hydrant replacements renewal number one project authorizing three successive renewals options with further city council approval and establishing an ordinance effective date.

Good morning, chair O'Neill and council members. David Poyer, deputy director of engineering water services. Have to my right a Brent Herring, deputy director And we're seeing road. We're also lot The focus here is seeing about fire safety and maintaining the hydrant system for fire safety. This the goal of this contract is to replace about 1% of the hydrants within the system.

So we identify by age or if there's any kind of service calls on a particular hydrant. We'll issue those work orders to this contractor. They'll go out there and do the repair work. Last year, I pulled some numbers together. Pipeline, internally, we addressed about 98 of these, and contractors replaced about two thirty two. So about 65% of those work orders were by the contractor. Total repaired was three fifty five last year. That's about actually, it's a little higher than 1%. It's 13% of the system. We have about 26,000 hydrants throughout the system.

Goals for this project were published as 11/11. Haynes and Associates was awarded this contract and will be meeting those goals.

One of the things I asked yesterday, I think, was, on these, these are there is a portion of this job is is actually going out and maintain not maintenance, but identifying problems on the on the actual. And you were saying the fire department does about 90% of that, where they actually test them to make sure they're turn them on, let them run. And then can they also tell you like, we sense there's a water problem here. We need somebody out here to fix it. So they are a big part of this program as far as identifying.

Yes. Try to touch every hydrant once every year. The water or the fire department hits about 85% of that. We actually have a separate contract that hits about 15% of it.

questions from my colleagues?

Mr. Chair, I don't have a question, but it would be helpful, I believe, for us and for the public if there was some sort of attachment to this that talks about maybe, like, a map of where those hydrants have been replaced and which ones that are still in need of repair but this contract won't cover. Sure.

When I'm driving around the city, sometimes I I notice the distance between especially out in the rural areas where we have the fire hydrants sit. How how far is that question

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attach that if you can Absolutely. To

I would,

any public testimony?

No public testimony.

If not, would mister Haynes stand up? And thank you so much for coming today. Alright. I would entertain motion.

Mister chair, I move that ordinance number two six zero three five four be reported out of committee with the recommendation of advance and do pass. Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Those opposed, ordinance passes. Thank you, gentlemen.

Ordinance two six zero three five five authorizing the director of water services to execute a $1,500,000 construction contract with Haynes and Associates construction company for the w d emergency valve replacement renewal. Number one project authorizing three successive renewal options with further city council approval in establishing an ordinance effective date.

Good morning, chair O'Neill and council members. David Poirier, Deputy Director, Engineering Water Services. To my right is Brent Herring. He's Deputy Director of Operations Water Services. Order number 260355 authorizes a $1,500,000 contract to Hayne Associates for emergency valve replacement.

So similarly to the transmission repairs, these are the code 3s. So these are the valves that we've identified that are actively leaking and impact delivery of water to our residents. So in this case, you have the valves is the culprit, so to speak. A lot of these valves are very old, over 100 years old, and they've passed their serviceable life. So we go out there.

We use Haynes and Associates, in this case, to repair those valves for us. This is kind of a breakdown of what we did last year just to show you how much the contractors are responsible for versus what we do internally. So last year, our pipeline group replaced 38 of these valves. Our contract replaced 173. Others are we might have valves replaced as associated with a separate water main replacement contract.

So we leverage those contracts to also address some of the repair issues we see out in the field. Total repaired last year was three thirty one. That's about 5% of the system. In the system, we have about 68,000 of these valves.

So when you say 52%, 1136%, those are the percentages of those fixed?

Yes, of the 133,000, yes, sir. And then 5% is of the total. So we only hit about 5% of the entire system last year. As you say, it's a lot to address. Published goals for this project was 11/11 MBEWBE. And

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question. So that's that. Head. So And Any I questions for my colleagues? If not, I would ask for public testimony.

There's no public testimony

for this.

A motion?

Mister chair, I move that ordinance number two six zero three five five be reported out of committee with the recommendation of advance and do pass. Second.

All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed? Thank you, gentlemen.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Appreciate it.

We have our last John,

are you gonna

I I think that's

six prohibits prohibited acts for

the that's purpose case. Of permitting pedicab operations in the area commonly known as the Country Club Plaza.

Thank you, Bertha. Mister chair, this ordinance amends chapter 76 prohibited acts for vehicles for hire. It's interesting. It's o that we're removing out of the out of the ord code of ordinances. It states that no driver shall operate a pedicab in the area bound by West 70 West 47th Street on the North, Eastboundward Parkway on the South, JC Nichols Parkway on the East, Roanoke Road on the West, which is commonly known as a Country Club plaza. I have no idea why the plaza was carved out. Can

Horses were more tell you.

Oh, I Horses were more of a

I I assumed it was the horses.

But Yeah. I was I was around when the I think the second pedicab business tried to begin operating in Kansas City. And I was not on the city council, but I was policy director for Michael LKC. The challenge was largely the horses that they wanted to continue the monopoly on shuttling people around the plaza. And that was my understanding was that that was the reason why.

And so I support this ordinance for sure. And I think that more options to get people around is warranted, especially in our most pedestrian one of our most pedestrian friendly areas of the city, providing those types of options are a good thing. So anyway, there is a history there, and it is probably what Chairman O'Neill indicated.

That's it.

That's it.

We do have public testimony, I believe so. Let me let me get this name. Chris Perry? Chris, you wanna

looks like we have morning more.

Oh, and

I I do wanna if if you are do wanna speak to it, just come up after the next one.

And, mister chair, just one one second. I the reason that I held this for a few weeks is I did wanna check-in with the Plaza ownership, and and they they are they are good with this.

They're good. Okay. Yeah. Good to hear. Yes, sir.

Good morning. My name is Chris Sperry. I am a business owner there on the plaza Country Country Club Plaza. I have the ambiance on the water. We have those gondola boat rides down there. Been down there for twenty one years. I've been in the transportation business for about thirty years. I used to own and run a horse drawn carriage business for nine years prior to that. I designed and built my own carriages and designed and built my own gondola boats. Anyway, I've been addressing this pedicab, trying to get them on the plaza since 2008.

I've had letters from the surrounding businesses, hotels, restaurants, all in favor of it. I met with everybody from Capital Grill, inner InterContinental, Rafael, Jack Stacks, Graham and Dunn, Cooper's Hawk, Bogota Chao, and things like that, Capital Grill, Cheesecake Factory, met with all of them yesterday, talked to the managers and the regional managers, and they're all in favor of being able to have pedicabs bringing customers to their biz to and from their business. So I'm in favor of the pedicabs. It was like John was saying that 2016, they voted and the reason they didn't approve for the plaza was just strictly my understanding was because of the horse drawn carriages. At that time, they felt it had too much congestion down there.

They didn't create wanna create anymore. And since then, the carriages aren't there now except for, like, during the holidays, Christmas, and stuff like that. So I'd like

to

reintroduce this pedicabs back to the plaza for the patrons on the on the plaza and and and the businesses there.

Thank you, mister Smith. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Yes, sir. Come on up. Just give us your name and your address and go go forth.

Yes. My name is Atticus Sloan. I'm owner of EZ Petty Cavs. We operate currently downtown So you're

against it?

Kansas City, Missouri resident. Yes.

I'm just kidding. I'm sorry.

Yeah. We started our business in twenty twenty twenty four with two pedicabs. We've been mostly focused on downtown crossroads area. However, we've reached a lot of demand from the Plaza District, residents, tourists, hotels. And our electric assist eco friendly pedicabs will cover that distance between our our headquarters downtown to up to the plaza.

We've had discussions about activations for the World Cup and demand for shuttling people there to the fan fest as well. We believe that we could not only provide services during the World Cup, but outside enhancing the tourist and visitor experience of Kansas City. We can fit up to six passengers per pedicab, and we would love and be delighted to have that opportunity to bring more guests to the area. We were allowed access temporarily working with the Kansas City Sports Commission for the Garmin Marathon, shuttling runners to and from their parking. It was a successful attempt at that.

We would love the opportunity to have something more regular. And I want to thank Councilman Duncan for bringing this to the discussion today as we've been working on this for the two years we've been in business. So thank you, everybody, for your time and consideration.

Thank you for that. I think I've seen the petty cabs in action. You guys do a great job. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Mister chair

Yes, sir.

I just wanna say for the record, my my kids have asked me, when are we gonna get the little boat to come past the plaza to along Brush Creek? So there is a a market for getting them, and I told them it's too much debris east of the the boat probably can't get down there. But I do wanna be on record for mister Chris that there is young people asking for us to travel east with the boats.

Any other anybody who want to speak? No. Any other public testimony online? There is let

me make sure I don't see any hands up.

Okay. If not, then we would entertain a motion.

Sure. Mister chair, I move that ordinance number two six zero two nine six be reported out of committee with the recommendation of do pass.

Second. All those in favor?

Aye. Opposed? You heard Thursday.

Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you, guys. That I don't think we have anything else to do.

Do you

have a presentation?

Don't think so. That's a good.

Mm-mm. No. I think we've got a we've

got a couple coming up, but I

don't think they have anything this week. Okay. I didn't know if the

other one's out. That's next week or

the week after. Week after.

Wow.

Alright. Okay. It's pretty quick.

Good. Right.

Good job.