City Council - Regular Meeting

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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 bow your heads with me in prayer. Gracious Heavenly Father, we first want to acknowledge that this is a day that you have made and we rejoice and we're glad in it. And Lord, specifically we thank you for this evening and that you are here in our midst, in our presence. for this meeting father we thank you for the city council that's here in goddard and the other leaders that are present here tonight as well those who give of their time and energy to serve the community here we give you Thanks for them. And your word tells us, Lord, that you have appointed them. You have appointed them, these physicians, that all authority comes from you. And you have appointed them to these positions of authority. So may they keep that in mind as they leave. And Father, I pray that there would be harmony, that there would be unity amongst the council tonight, that they would be willing to lay aside any personal agendas or ambitions that they may have, and just to focus on the Goddard, what is best for the community here in Goddard. So Lord, we lift this time up tonight. We ask that you would guide and direct the council through the agenda tonight. That there would be grace, there would be mercy, there would be love, there would be respect amongst them for each other. And Lord, that the accomplishments of tonight would do two things. that it would bring glory to you, and it would be a benefit to the people here in God. And I pray all this in your name, Lord Jesus.

Amen.

Before we approve tonight's agenda, I would like to take a moment to I apologize to my colleagues on the bench for the way I handled the end of the last meeting. It wasn't my intention to make sure that everything went off. I probably need to be a better listener. I'll work to choose my words more wisely. And overall, I'll just try to do better at coming into this thing. So with that, I apologize and appreciate your giving me some grace. With that, we'll move on. I'll take an entertaining motion for approval of tonight's agenda. I move the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the motion to approve the some opportunity for members of our community to share thoughts that they have with the council and we'll go ahead and open citizen comments and if you want to come up state your name write it down on hopefully there's a piece of paper up there to write it down we'll go ahead and open citizen comments

Hello, Mayor, Council. Daniel Carlisle, 217 North Cedar. Two things bring me in front of you guys. A little over a year ago, I came in front of you guys. Our alley behind us didn't rock yet. It ought to start to come back. They're not near as bad. I'd like to see at least something done about that. The next thing about it that brings me in front of you guys, behind the Learning Center, that alley, is a six-foot privacy fence. There's weeds that are presently taller than that six-foot privacy fence. Last time I checked, the code is eight inches. The fence is 72 inches tall. That's way over the code. Anything we can get done about that, too? Obviously, I don't need to see you right this moment, but that's what brings me in front of you guys.

Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. Okay.

Anyone else?

Okay. Good evening, my name is

My name is Amber Mills and my family lives directly inside the new road addition by Rachel Brooks. We are trying to understand the final plan for this area, specifically whether a gate will be installed or what the process of this new road is and why. The current layout already looks unusual. On one side of the former cul-de-sac, there is an existing private driveway. And on the other side, there is now a roadway leading into an entire housing addition. And we live on the south side. And our tree road goes all the way across. We don't know what your plans are. We make this area look even more disconnected and poorly planned rather than appearing like a thoughtfully designed street. It would look like a private driveway and then a gated entrance if that's proposed. We simply add onto opposite sides of an existing cul-de-sac. We're not opposed to the new road. When we bought the property, the kind of new stuff would probably get developed. But we would prefer for it to remain open and for an entire area to be designed so that it looks and it functions like one continuous, intentional roadway. We would like the council to clarify, is the gate definitely gonna be installed? Who requested the gate? city, the developer, future residents. What problem is the gate intended to solve that they just put up? And has the city studied how the gate would affect like emergency vehicles trying to go through, garbage trucks going through, school buses? Because it kind of concerns us. Another major concern is the communication. No one from the city or the development contacted us about this road connection. I just think when you're supposed to be like working together, it would have been a little bit appreciated just to let us know what we were looking at. We were never given an opportunity to ask questions or even provide just input before the work began. We were actually coming back from a family vacation and just to come down your road and see your trees and everything getting taken out was really kind of not a fun ending to our vacation. During construction, our property stake was also removed. No one notified us, explained why it was removed. or told us whether and whether or when it would be properly replaced we would like to know you know who removed it and how the city or the developer intended intends to verify and remark our property one.

Mayor I don't mean to interrupt Ms. Mills but the council may want to vote if they want to extend their time per code of meeting procedure.

I'll make a motion to extend the time to a second. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye.

All those opposed? Aye. Okay, that's 3-2-4-1.

We'll need a couple more minutes. We respectfully ask the council to just give us clarification on what is going to take place before making that decision, please visit the location and look at the layout from the perspective of families to see and use this area every day. If this road is going to remain, you'd like it to flow naturally into an addition and look like it was intentionally planned, not like unrelated entrances were attached to the end of the cul-de-sac. We're just asking for clear answers about the gate. Our missing property state and why the directly affected homeowners were not included in the communication before the construction began.

Thank you

Micah, you might want to get her phone number and maybe talk.

You guys want to talk?

I guess I'll take his agenda items. Anyone else? Okay, we'll close citizen comments then. Move on to item E. Interest check and declaration of nominative conflicts agenda items, it's diagnosed on that. Appointments, affirmations, recognitions or not. So we'll move to the consent agenda.

I'll make a motion to approve.

Thank you. I'll hand it out. 40 seconds. Mrs. Baker, say aye. Aye. Motion carries 5-0. New business. Good shitting.

You're going to rotate this for me?

Okay. Ottawa Mayor and City Council. Cool, these are running hot. Craig Crossett, your city manager here. Tim Chitting for our community development director. This agenda item is related to the Sedgwick County electric co-op rebates. The ordinance 1047, the council would be establishing that it would finance and pay for the cost of the co-op electric utility system improvements to serve Rancho Rica State's addition phase three. and that the property owners benefiting by such improvements will pay special assessments in respect of those improvements. Next slide. So here's a breakdown of the cost. And so this works generally just like special assessments do. The cost will be spread pro rata against the loss that it will be benefiting. The reason we do this is because unlike Evergy, the co-op will finance those costs. So using the CID statute, we're able to help extend those costs over a period of time so there's not a large cash lump sum payment paid up front for the electric improvements to serve the development. Next slide, please. The agreement has been reviewed and approved by both our bond counsel, Kevin Cowan, and our attorneys at Morris Lane. Next slide. Here is staff's recommendation. If you have any questions of a technical nature that I can't answer, Kevin Cowan, our bond counsel with Gilmore and Bell would be glad to assist.

The more we develop into Cedric County as a co-operative, this is even more kind of a more routine thing. Any questions on this? Pretty well. in agreement here, so I'll entertain a motion to approve this.

I make a motion that we accept the document as drafted in its substantially completed form by the Mayor to sign it on behalf of the City, and include any future under-law applications that may arise prior to the execution of the agreement. Next second.

And he's made a motion. Chris to seconds. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you Mayor.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. It is a karaoke night, isn't it? So we are looking to get a change order approved for 199th Street south of Kellogg to Santa Fe. We did some further review as this project was moving along of the MAPA II service deal. and decided that it was not the best product for what we were gonna utilize it for. So we're looking to get a deduct of $94,659.63 on that. And that money then would be utilized towards this change order on 199. What's proposed is, next slide please. What is proposed is concrete there at Kellogg and Cutter Road, about 100 foot approximately past that enterprise bank entrance there. That would eliminate the potholes and such that have developed there due to the meaning of the concrete and the asphalt, due to the slope as vehicles come down to the asphalt that's creating the potholes and damage there. So when we extend that concrete out, that can change that slope, make it more gradual as it meets up with the asphalt, eliminating some of those issues. And then also, that is a solution that you're looking at 20 years or so of lifespan on that concrete. Any expansions that would happen in that area can also be pinned to the current concrete to allow us for those expansions and to keep us from having to tear out the concrete. And then of course the asphalt would be a mill, edge mill, with overlay 7 foot from the edges on each side extending all the way down to Santa Fe. That would allow us to leave the current asphalt and kind of tape that into the drives and sides of the event, the sides of the road, to keep that from having a larger edge. And then we also get to use the current asphalt kind of base material. It kind of helps and supports, gives a little strong base. Because as we speak, we don't really know what's going on. Under 199? Under 199. And so this is kind of the best solution to keep from getting into a mess that we may not want to get into. Next slide, please. So as we speak, these are the specifications that we're looking at. Harlan will be helping us out a little bit on this as well, of some survey work and such. But the total is $232,270 is what APAC has given us for an estimate of that cost. With this, that still put us under budget. 1.25 million is the top of our budget, and this put us about that 1.138 million. Leaving us some money there for contingencies as we get into these projects. If there's any issues, then we can take care of that. Next slide, please. This is the summary of the project. proposal of the $203,270. As you can tell, you know, it's mainly the, like I spoke of, the pro bono living excavations and the concrete. Next slide, please. Like I said, this will all be fit underneath the 2026 roadway budget. It puts us under budget still. Gives us some room for contingencies. Next slide, please. At this point, I had 15 questions behind me.

What's the timing for this look like?

So the timing would look like possibly fall. We would work with APAC to try to make sure that we have minimal disruptions to the school as possible. Keep kind of saying this is short-term paying for long-term gain in a lot of respects. This is something that once we get this completed, you know, you may have about 199th shutdown for couple of weeks for the concrete and the asphalt that won't take very long at all. So we'll have a little delays, but we'll try to make sure we fall inside those fall breaks and things of that nature. We'll do the best we can on that.

I wasn't really thinking of this earlier when we discussed this, but what about the houses that are

down 199th I mean what will this look like for them there should be minimal disruptions for them as well you know there's other streets that they can access when it comes to the edge mill and such there's a little drivable surface there yeah so you're not really disrupting too much on that because the concrete work is just going to be right there at catalog and 199th so that's for them the biggest disruption

And I know, are we planning to try to get that little island put in there too then?

Yeah, we'll talk to APAC about that and see if we can get that kind of project as well while that area is shut down to kind of help consolidate some of those projects.

I think one thing that's important to point out that we are still waiting for a study from KDOT, an engineering service that's almost four months in delay. So these things we were doing that won't negatively impact anything in the future in terms of adding lanes, but it is frustrating that when you're promised something that it goes three and a half or four months before we receive it. sometimes when people hear we're doing this little piece it's not in response to that study we'll make sure that's clear this is just an improvement that we're going to make to eliminate part of the issue there just with the surface and hopefully once we get the study then If it works out like it did at 183rd Street, CAVOT will hopefully provide us with some funding to do maybe the expansion of turn lanes. It's not by want of the fact that we're not paying attention to it. We are severely limited. When they did the 183rd Street expansion, KDOT would not do the study at 199 until 183rd was finished, and they wanted a time limit to let the traffic flow settle in before they'd actually do the study. So the reason really for the delay from not doing anything right after 183rd Street was done is really the timeline of KDOT and the way they function. And Cade Isles say this on a lot of other things they've been really good to work with. They cost share the drives on the north side, I think three or four of those. And I don't want to discourage them, but there's an engineering firm that's slow walking this deal right along. I just want to make sure that people understand that we're highly aware of the corner. I think we all cringe when we hear that there's been an accident there. So that's my two cents on that.

Well, to speak to that as well, on the asphalt side of things, there at first we're starting to see the roads slow off. We're starting to see some damage done. 299 that we get ahead of before it becomes a large risk.

And it's so heavy traffic, too. It doesn't take as long to the cheer once it gets to that point. Any other comments or questions?

I just want to say thank you for being proactive. I feel like I say this all the time. I don't think we could say enough good things about Public Works this last year, but just being proactive and getting ahead of these situations before they become situations. I'm grateful for that, so thank you.

I'll make a motion to approve a change order to the City Roadway Maintenance Contract with an 8-pack cadence sink in the amount of $232,207 and authorize the City Manager to execute the change order.

Court has made the motion. Crystal seconds. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries 9-0. Thank you Jason.

All right once you uh sub in a pinch if you can't take them out of line I'm coming back here for the new vehicle purchase for the building inspector. Next slide please. We have a 2014 Chevy Impala, so when we got that vehicle it was used for code enforcement purposes and then most recently it was used for building inspection services and through extensive effort by our on-staff maintenance person of vehicles and the effort of a actual mechanic that has a shop outside of town where we take our fleet we found that it's going to need the head gaskets or a full engine replacement, which are both exorbitant costs. I think if you did either of those things, the vehicle itself would probably be worth around what those items cost. So with that, we have looked at some options where our attempt was to find new vehicle so we have warranty something with good gas mileage that's going to be used as our building inspector who's going to be doing inspections around town which by the way he's very busy he's been here for a couple months and we've had a lot of permits pulled just in the last few weeks so we've been really excited to put him to work but the car went out on him soon after he started we were trying to share the ACO vehicle but we've been keeping three to four dogs in our some reason folks have a harder time taking care of their pets in the summer months. Not sure what the science is behind that but the ACO vehicle has been pretty well tied up during business hours and so then he's had to resort to utilizing his personal vehicle and it's not very efficient for his time to be keeping a diary of his mileage so he can be reimbursed his personal vehicle for inspections that are a mile from City Hall all day long so What it really amounts to is this position spends a lot of time in a vehicle, so we would like to use equipment reserve funds on hand to purchase something new. We looked at some new sedans. The American manufacturers are not really making sedans anymore. I think they've figured something out with the market there. That really leaves you with Nissan or Kia. We saw the Nissan Sentra that we preferred over Kia's options. It's around a $27,000, $28,000 vehicle. While I was having a meeting with Councilman Durr late last week, he had brought up an opportunity for perhaps a Chevy Sport Track. I'd actually never heard of this vehicle before, which I like to think I know a little bit about cars, so it was a nice surprise to hear there was another option. It's around the same price, right around $28,000, but it's an SUV. There are going to be few instances where having a little bit more grade separation in an SUV versus a sedan could be fruitful. Typically, he's gonna be able to park on a paved street and walk into a construction site, but there may be some times where it would be beneficial to have an SUV to be able to do inspections. Unfortunately, our contractors can sometimes have a difficulty in keeping up with their track out, which is the large, big clods of dirt that they pull in and out of construction sites. If you drive a sedan with a low profile, sometimes that can be an issue. So just, again, kind of attributing to maybe a desire to look at the Chevy option instead. So the Chevy Trax, so it were. Next slide, please. Here's a look at the two options. Next slide, please. Again, this will be attributed to equipment reserve, per the advice of our chief financial officer. So we always like to give you guys options. Staff would recommend purchase authority for the Chevy Trax. I would think $29,000 could cover it comfortably from what we have seen. It looks like there's a couple of ships here locally. that we could source it from. And so at that point, we would just be looking for the best cost up to that expenditure authority. And we're gonna go after the basic warranties and stuff like that too. So a revised motion, if you were willing to go with staff recommendation, would just be authorizing a staff to have expenditure authority of $29,000 to purchase 2026 Chevy Trax from the best dealership price in the area. I'm sure you'll be able to narrate that word for word back to me if that's the route you want to go, but I'm here to help piecemeal a motion together if needed.

Any questions?

My suggestion was just simply to give them the budget authority to spend it to $29,000. I think they're pretty responsible and I think that if we respond on a better deal on a vehicle that works for a building inspector, I personally don't trust that you're going to make the best purchase, so.

My only comment would be to round it to 30. I'm calling either numbers, guys. You can just, you know, with the other sheet.

You say it doesn't mean leather? Yeah. It's too hot on these August days.

Heated and cooled seats.

Yeah, I'd be fine with 30.

You okay with 30? I'm okay with 30.

Mike is not in here to say this, so I will say that I feel like you guys went well past the expectancy.

of life on this vehicle, so I feel like rounding up an extra $1,000 is fair.

I recommend that we approve the purchase of a new vehicle for not to exceed $30,000. That sounds discretion. I've had a good day at the plate so

Coach is leaving me in here. This last item in new business will be the strategic growth zone overlay district. So back in August of 2025, we had a joint special meeting amongst the Lightning Commission and City Council. This concept first appeared at that time. And if you go back and watch that meeting, which I did, hopefully some of you guys did too, such as staff, but it was a consensus that this was something that we wanted to look at moving forward with and at least put on the council agenda. So unfortunately, due to competing interests, we did not get that on the agenda in the fall of last year. And I'll take accountability for that falling through the cracks. It should have come up pretty soon thereafter, that special meeting. So you guys might recall, we spent quite a bit of the second quarter of this year working through a resolution that put some parameters, design standards, and things of that nature around two-family, three-family, and four-family zoning districts. And so it's at that time, kind of that light bulb went up. Oh, we talked about this last year. It's kind of a part of the same discussion. Let's check the pulse again to see if they still want to go through with considering this. If so, then we'll put it on the agenda. another pulse check with you guys July 1 again it was provided by the governing body that staff go ahead and put this on the agenda so the last Planning Commission meeting here a week or so ago they approved adopting the strategic growth zone overlay district and so now it is before you to ratify the decision of the Planning Commission advance slide please So this is meant to be an area where the development community and stakeholders could expect a more favorable outcome from Planning Commission and Council for zoning amendments with the expectation that certain restrictions passed on the two-family resolution related to the 40% ratio of two-family properties would not apply in the area. The expectation would be that the design standards would still be intact. This is merely a policy signal. So if this were approved tonight, it would be published in the paper and then put on the zoning map as an overlay district. And it's a policy signal to developers and stakeholders that if you were to contemplate purchasing property in this area and apply for a zoning amendment to R2, 3, or 4 zoning classification, that the Planning Commission and Council would give high consideration to amending or waiving the portion of the resolution and restrictive covenant as it relates to the 40% on the two family properties. It does not give any additional authority. The same Kansas statutes would need to be followed when it comes to the zoning amendments. So go through that same due process. This would just kind of be a layer of color over that process for you guys to consider if this were to be adopted. Here's a look at the west region as it relates to the area around Goddard. In the light blue, you have the city of Goddard city limits. In the purple hashed area, you have the city of Wichita's 2035 urban growth area, which is more or less an official symbol of where they see potential growth patterns in our area. In the dark gray, you see the City of Wichita city limits. The orange is the strategic growth zone area. It's basically the entire unincorporated Sedgwick County between the City of Goddard and the City of Wichita from 21st Street north to MacArthur south. You can see a little area within the orange where City of Goddard has already established city limits. within the strategic growth zone area, as well as just some light blue areas within the city of Wichita's 2025 urban growth area. Go ahead and go to that next one. When we looked at this the first time, we didn't include the school district overlay, but as we had more conversations about this, it became more and more relevant to us. Now, the school district is roughly 10 times our size in land mass. It takes up a large portion of the city of Wichita. To the northeast there, you know, it goes up to 119th and the half mile line north of Central between it and 13th. Looking a little further south, it goes all the way to Maple and Tyler. Of course, to the southwest, we're, you know, on and past Lake Afton. So we think this is an important context to the conversation because we feel like the neighboring city is generating more value from a financial perspective only from the school district versus the city of Goddard. And there's a line of thought that the strategic growth zone being a policy signal that developers may consider to annex into Goddard versus Wichita, that we would be able to take more advantage of the fact that our school district is probably the primary reason, if not one, maybe two, as to why development dollars are being invested into the city of Goddard. I always say the school district is the lifeboat of our community. And I really need that. Next slide. There's a small publication cost for notice to approve the council. The ordinance would be published. We got two options here. One is to waive the reading of the ordinance. And then two, we recommend you approve the ordinance introducing the strategic overlay district into the zoning and subdivision regulations and updating the official zoning map to reflect the new district. With that, I would be glad to take any questions that you guys might have. And I believe a city attorney could contribute as well if needed.

Craig, can we go back to that image? Yes, sir. Could you just explain, Craig and Micah, why we wouldn't target further south because of the large border to MacArthur that's still in the school district?

It's a great question and to me it's a matter of practicality. There's a cost-benefit analysis that we must consider when we look at annexing on the periphery of the community and that boils down to where are the nearest available utilities. there becomes a time where it's cost ineffective for development to come into the city of Goddard if the nearest water main or sewer main is too far away. It's just the pro forma doesn't, the math doesn't work. So our thought was is to go much further south than what we're recommending today may not be necessary because we're probably not going to see development that far south. The annex into the city of Goddard are requested to be within relative amount of time five to ten years maybe I think it's really important in the context of this conversation to remind ourselves that we're going through a comprehensive planning process some communities or stakeholders say well why don't you wait for that process to conclude before making decisions like this and the reason is is we don't have the affordability of time because of the growth pressure that we're currently experiencing We don't want to not have these things in place and dollars be invested in other communities instead of ours because we haven't set a clear line of sight for those who are interested in investing in Goddard.

Well, time is a thing, like I just saw the news today about, you know, somebody developing at 119th and Pauley, and that's right there along that border, and that's going to be Wichita. So it's, they're making their way in, and if that gets developed and it's in Wichita, which it looks like it will be, so Big Boston is right there against that.

I think you're right and there's been some recent signals I think that have affirmed this concept in my mind as it relates to the speed of growth from us or our neighbors to the east and there's been a couple of pretty significant capital investments and their utility infrastructure near us that are kind of a signal to me okay know we're wanting to make sure that we are capable of serving this periphery and having the capacity to do so which tells me that this general area is of interest and part of it is just due to the fact that you look at the other areas of the county where the suburbs are butted up against the city and they kind of develop through all those areas and this is the next spot

I think it's also important to note for people who are not really in favor of the growth of Goddard to look at this chart closely because the intention of Wichita is spelled out there in purple and this is our way to say this is our way to protect our city and the limits the boundaries and It's a pretty clear image about what the intentions of everyone are.

I think it's coming either way. We have this conversation. It's obviously hard to swallow. I mean, I've said this and I would say it again. It's hard to swallow a lot of the hard work that we put in to put regulations on developers and just make sure that we're building what we want. And I think that there's things that no matter what, we want to make sure we keep. No matter what happens, whether we do this or we don't do this, this is coming. These developments are coming. It's a matter of, is Goddard going to see the revenue from that? And are we going to benefit from what we're going to be driving past every day? We have some of that already. We drive past things that we really don't love and we don't have a say in because it's not Goddard. And so I think it's really important that as we're looking at this, We're getting a piece of this to benefit the city.

I guess the last point is there's really no guarantee that in that grow zone that we're going to be able to develop for God. to the developers, but it just does provide them with an additional option. It makes sense on the north side, too. That's kind of the direction where our next water source is. So I think there's reasons, and there's water-related reasons, too.

Not to just continue on, but it's a small incentive When you think the disadvantage that we already have with our tax rate being higher and some of those types of things, it gives a reason to choose Goddard over our neighbor. I think there's more than one, but for some it's a dollars and cents thing. And if your annual cost of living is excessively more in one versus the other, that may be the determining factor on where you live. So having a small incentive like this, is helpful but there's still going to be other forces that we're going to be working against as people look at one versus the other i think the other thing is is we have to consider this in the context of the northwest expressway but also the massive amount of floodplain especially on the north side of the strategic growth overlay district it is financially unfeasible to do a more inefficient single-family development in these areas where you have a 80-acre piece of land, but only 45 acres of it is developable because there's floodplain issues, there's Northwest Expressway. The only opportunity for those types of tracks is going to be higher density uses. And that's not only to help out the developer, but also the city of Goddard. We want more value per acre, more taxable value for the smallest amount of land possible. Those tracks are not going to develop as single-family homes next to the expressway and with all that floodplain mixed in there. There's already some 100% two-family projects there. There's mobile home park. Just lots of context to be considered, especially as we look north.

Any other questions? Okay, I'll look for someone to make a recommendation to waive the reading of the ordinance.

I'll make a motion to waive the reading of the ordinance.

Okay. And I made the motion. Corey seconds. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Passes 5-0. Next step in the dance.

May I make a motion? Go ahead.

May I make a motion to approve the ordinance introducing the strategic overlay of the zoning and sub-districts and regulations and updating the official zoning map to reflect the new district.

Second. May I just make a motion? No. Naomi made the motion. Corey seconds. I'll get this straight. Roll call.

Council Member Burke?

Yes.

Council Member White? Yes. Mayor Leese?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Hall? Yes. Council Member Leonard? Yes. Ordinance 1051.

1051, carries 5-0. I wasn't planning to speak so much tonight.

I sound so nasally. Thanks for bearing with me here. I want to just highlight one point to reiterate. The design standards stay the same so long as the council wants to continue to do that as they look at zoning and the standards for covenant. We are merely discussing the ratio. I think that's really important. The design standards were not lost in that. I've been a little remiss not to introduce a new member of our city staff, our assistant to the city manager, Josiah Wadney, he's just starting week four here. So he's already added another gear to the work that we're doing through his expertise and his efforts. So I'm super glad to have him on our team and just want to make sure I recognize him.

So excited to work with you all.

So a few updates here on some of the agenda items. I just want to highlight we've got the regular budget hearing and the revenue neutral rate budget hearing on Tuesday, September 8th. That's the day after Labor Day, so make sure you've got the right date on your calendar. It'll be our regularly 7 p.m. meeting. The guiding Goddard Comprehensive Plan, we've got some engagement opportunity coming up on September 24th, as well as a booth at Fall Festival where we will have the group going out and meeting the community where they're at to ask them their vision for Goddard's Grove. In two or three days, so I'm told, we will have possession of the van from Wichita Transit for the Goddard GO! transportation program. It's been kind of a fun hurdle after the other to get the title and the VIN number issue worked out that our staff has been diligently working through. I'm grateful for their perseverance. Starting tomorrow, we will begin getting our new AV upgrades. It should be done by Monday, August 24th. So we'll have the new system in our Tuesday council meeting. It'll feel a lot more professional in here, which is something I'm really excited about. No one feels good about clickers not working and having to use boom boxes and all the other issues we've faced over the last several months. So I appreciate the council and the community kind of being patient with us through those trials. Trails End Third Edition, 12 of 60 days have elapsed on that project. We're about to have a lot of new residential development come online that's nearing shovel-ready. You know, it takes a year, year and a half to get all this horizontal infrastructure in. Interesting, I sent an update to the governing body last week, I think. I think we've issued around 60 single-family new construction permits to six two-family new construction permits. Amongst all the discussion about two-family, this year has been all about the single-family home thus far. I do expect that a lot of these residential developments that are about shovel-ready will be a bit of a catch-up moment for the two-family properties. The public works facility is progressing really well. I hope you guys have been driving by to watch those guys work. They're going to be continuing the exterior panels, wall blocking, and starting some of the HVAC electrical and mechanical work as well. Legacy Bank Park. The crews boarded and finished the pavilion pad. They finished the excavating and grading of the pond. They've done the sanitary sewer boring beneath Maple. The pipe is in for the sewer. We're going to be seeing the bentonite being packed into the bottom of that pond so we have a pond that doesn't leak once it's full of water. Super excited for the progress on that project. The water looping project, you know that the historic part of town, I'll call it, has proved to provide its trials and tribulations as it relates to this project. Once we get out of there, it should be a much more smooth sailing. You've got to consider that area is full of utilities. It's well established. There's old stuff in there that we may not even know is there. So, you know, they've been doing pretty good dealing with little paper cuts that have come up here and there as they've been working through that part of the project. Four streets pretty much done, Oak Street's pretty much done. We got a couple of tree streets left there as far as water lines are concerned. And then hopefully in the next few weeks, they'll be moving on to other parts of town and we'll get that base layer of asphalt, excuse me, the top layer of asphalt put back on those tree street roads. uh the 2026 roadway projects are kind of on pause in that area of town until then uh as jason shared tonight uh we'll be doing uh the mill and overlay work now that's been approved and then the concrete tear out and replace um we're going to try to target fall break for that richard burka state's phase three uh so they're continuing to keep moving forward on that uh i'll just take a brief moment uh as far as the aids concern and the separation with the other county residents. We're hoping to get a final recommendation from our legal team mid-week this week on the legalities of putting the gate there. The gates that have been proposed are really nice, decorative looking gates. They didn't want to go with something that would not fit within that, I'll call it a state-style neighborhood. We've seen the application of them before, so I'm hopeful it'll work. As you heard tonight, we basically got two property owners saying they want two different things. They're not residents of Goddard. So here we are refereeing two different positions from county neighboring property owners. I don't think at this time I'm ready to change course from the fence unless we get something from legal that says otherwise. Since this continues to get put back on your plate, we'll just keep you updated with one-way updates via email. Bill is at Pleasant Ridge Creek. They've got mostly asphalt down there. I think we're just waiting on a base coat. It's one of those that's nearing shovel ready. Willows Ridge paving will be coming soon. They're finishing up the storm water drainage. So in true contractor fashion, they wanted to start the day they told us they wanted to close Maple. We said, no, that's not going to work. We need to give the community a week of heads up. And then they didn't show up to do that work on that day. So we are trying to figure out if and when they need to close Maple. And we'll go at giving everyone notice again. So if you see folks getting riled up again about that, that's because it wasn't done the first time as it was committed to be done. Micromobility device ordinance, it's just kind of been hanging out in purgatory. I need to get a final review and comment from our staff leadership on that. Our legal teams have the draft ordinance to us now for a few weeks. 167 to 23rd Street, crews should be starting construction this week. Maple Tree, believe it or not, this one has been hanging out there for a really long time, but they just had their pre-construction conference and will have the notice to proceed issued September 1st. Applications are due for the Mayor's Youth Council September 1. If anyone from the public knows of a high school student at Goddard High, Goddard Eisenhower, or Goddard Academy that would like to be more civically involved and learn more about their local, state, and federal government, we would love to have them be a part of this program. And then there lies a few upcoming agenda items for you to pre-use. Mr. Mayor, with that, I will retire. And if anyone has comments or questions, I'd be glad to field those.

Any questions? We're going to fill in the blanks and then field them.

I played second, so if I had to, I'd run over and cover first.

I do have a question. I know our senior center director is fairly new, but I was just curious if we expect to get quarterly updates at some point? Yes, so actually I thought I had that as an upcoming agenda item. Sorry, I didn't read all of it through.

Yes, she will be here to give the quarter three report. If not the next meeting, it should be within one to three council meetings. I'm looking forward to it.

And just because we're on that, and I see Karen over there, I think nothing but high praises for our new senior center director. She's fantastic, so I love the sparkle of color she's bringing to the space.

The old pink room. I love it.

So if you have not had a chance to stop by and see it, please do.

You'll need your sunglasses to go in there. You will. Any other questions for Matt? Thank you guys.

It's a pretty big meeting. I just want to thank our speakers, Hannah, Amber, for coming in and sharing the thoughts. We always like it when the community does that, so we appreciate you coming in and speaking sometimes. I know they're gone, but maybe they're watching us. Or on the computer.

Welcome, Josiah, officially. We've been a huge asset already in the short events that we've been here. And I want us to pay attention to Main Street because the work has begun on our mural, our first mural in Goddard. So they were out there today spraying the wall down and preparing it. So that will be coming. I'm excited about that, and I want to thank Craig for the work on that because he has applied three years.

Ryan Shrack. I've got to give credit where it's due.

Okay, so Ryan has applied three years for that grant, and we finally got it. So, yeah, so government's getting its first mural on the site of Stroop's Locker.

Our systems pays off.

I'm excited to see it. I got all of that. I would tell everyone to drink your vitamin C because we're a week to school and I know Chris was edging her chair down there, so it's going around a little early. I just want to say, I mean, I've been seated, what are we, month seven? And I appreciate that, even if we all don't share the same use all the time I feel like we're pretty aligned but I appreciate that we all have enough respect that we can have that gander and um we're willing to come back in the next time and I think we all our hearts are all in the right place and so I just appreciate that we're able to do that and we get along well and we work together well and so I just want to put that out there and say thank you because this has been a really good experience

I did want to make a comment about the Rachel Booker States thing so we have been listening and we do appreciate when citizens come up and give us comments so we get to hear things but I want to let everyone knows that the city does do a great job of fielding a lot of these questions and we've seen some of the communications that have been going on and the city's been doing a great job and I appreciate you, Micah, going and talking with individuals but I hope citizens don't feel like they have to come up and give comments. We appreciate it but there's also a whole staff that's always willing to listen and provide feedback. So you don't have to go that route. You can always go to the city and talk to them during their business hours. Just letting everybody know that. I also wanted to just give a shout out to all the videos I've been seeing of some of the new things going on on Facebook, social media. The city's been putting out, it's been great. I hope the community's been enjoying seeing what all has been going on, not just the city projects, but other things that have been going on with other developments. So I just look forward to seeing more of those. So thank you.

The micromobility ordinance was after our meeting here in downtown about 2 o'clock. There was a guy on a bike bed and I pulled out, turned on the main street. He was behind me. He pulled my little sidewalk, and he raced me to the other corner, and I was doing 20, and I think he was doing 25. And all I could see is someone stepping out of City Hall or the Senior Center. The daycare? Yeah. He kind of zigzagged back around, but I think we probably need to kind of get a handle on that. You know, you kind of see something and you kind of go, is this really happening?

And it did, so anyway. Mayor, we'll put a shot clock on ourselves to have a draft of the ordinance in front of you. by the next council meeting, which is the fourth Tuesday. The city attorney's given us one that we provided input on. We've had a couple meetings about it. And the last draft they gave us a few weeks ago, and it's been our leadership, including myself, that has not gotten that turned back around to them because of other priorities. At any rate, we'll get a draft in front of you guys at that 14-day meeting, and we can workshop it a bit if you see some things you want to adjust, and we could look at codifying it that first Monday of September. I suppose it'll be here soon.

Tuesday?

Yeah, the 8th. And just seeing that was probably the... this afternoon is just kind of a reminder to all of us that we need to kind of keep up on that. The other thing I'll mention is that the last Tuesday's WAMPO meeting, the final approval for our joint project with the county to pave 183rd north of Maple to Central was approved, which includes our first roundabout. First money spent on roads in Western Sedgwick County in 20 years. That, any other comments?

I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. make a motion to adjourn every time all in favor say aye