Remarks by Stacy Goss
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I move to amend the agenda to rename the new business section. On the agenda that was posted online and the one that council has, they don't match. The letters just got mixed up. So they should be 9A, B, C, D, E, and then F. depending on which copy someone has, the letters are just out. Okay. Move to approve the proposed agenda as amended.
Oh, sorry. Yes. 9D should include an action item to accept the bid award for the wood floor replacement. And 9E should include an action item to accept the cost share agreement.
Well... 9E is on there. The cost share one is on there. Sorry. So it would be on the printed copy. It's the sports arena wood floor replacement. It should be an action item to accept the bid.
I move to approve the proposed agenda as amended.
Mayor Meyers, I have a question for you.
So based on what you read at the beginning of the public comment section, it doesn't quite line up with Chapter 2 of the administration articles. So are you wanting us to engage with –
Right. That's why one of the future agenda items that I had requested in August was to solidify the public comment policy because if we're making changes on the fly, it's not fair to the people who showed up expecting something different or Or council members who showed up expecting something different. So I just wanted to clarify how, no, that's, I mean, that's correct.
I would agree with you, and that's why I've been asking for a moratorium since April. I don't know if you were able to attend the event that you had.
That's okay. Well, it is shared for the most part online. I can share out the links. But, yeah, I think that there's a lot of unknowns when it comes to the data centers and data The council has yet to have a true, robust conversation about it and how Senate Bill 98 will impact us. And because Senate Bill 98 took away our home rule, so there will be tax breaks, and we don't have a choice in that.
So calculating the impact depends on what types of projects are being considered, and I think that's something that the council has to have a conversation on, the job incentives, pilot programs, all of the things, and we just haven't yet. So I keep pushing for a moratorium.
Well, so right now, because we sent Chapter 27 of our zoning regulations back to the Planning Commission, we have not received their final regulations yet, their final recommendations yet. So when we get that back, that will tell us what type of zoning regulations They say would be acceptable, and from there we can still make amendments as a council with community input, hopefully. But as far as I know, we're not being shopped for anything potential that I'm aware of. Okay, thank you. I think there's people asking questions. There's projects in the pipeline from the Kansas Department of…
I move to approve the consent agenda as presented and authorize the mayor to sign.
And this does restart the RHID process from the beginning, correct? Closing this will restart. We have to begin at the beginning?
And does any future changes to the development plan put the state's approval of the RHID at risk of not moving forward?
I have a question about that. So obviously, there are other benefits because there would be fire hydrants, et cetera, which improve insurance rates and safety, obviously. If a property owner chose not to tap into the water immediately, because they're already on sewer up there, right? Correct. So let's say that this goes through and just hypothetically in 2027 starts the 20-year special and a property owner taps in five years later. Do they then pay 15 years of specials or are they paying 20 years?
Okay. So there's really, even though it would... the loan would be paid off at the 20. They're still going to pay it through the 25 years.
OK. Sorry, let me ask it a different way. So they're paying the special assessment whether they tap in or not?
OK. Got it. So there's really no benefit to not
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Okay. My understanding is that there's been multiple petitions started and stalled and restarted in this neighborhood. Yes. Would those signatures be considered? No.
I think there are, based on my conversations with people who live up there, I think there's a number of people who are excited about this. And I know there are a number of people who are willing to sign, but they don't want to be the circulators of the petition because that's kind of a lot of work. It is. Yeah. I think that's why they start and stop in the past.
That $250,000, that's set by our committee. city policy, right? Correct. Okay.
And there's a third SRF loan. Sorry, that's the babysitter. There's a third SRF loan that we're pursuing, which is the – I can't turn it off. It's forced to ring through. which is the Cary Park stuff, but that would not be eligible for that fund.
We had a good-sized meeting with those folks. Do you know what rate that fund is being replenished, if there's $200,000 right now?
Yeah, I have a question. Go ahead. So the match from the state for the foothills was 34% forgiveness. Forgiveness, not match, sorry. And for this one, it's 40%. What's the difference there?