Proclamations, an easement request, a budget review, and Little Libraries are among the items on the Salina City Commission agenda for Monday.
Commissioners are scheduled to begin their work with a study session at 2:30 p.m. Monday in 107B of the City-County Building, 300 W. Ash. The focus of the study session is “Budget: 2019 Review/Fund Balances/Set 2020 Fund Balance Targets.” A time for public comment concerning the study session is scheduled for 3:45 p.m.
The commission’s regular meeting is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Monday in room 107 of the City-County Building. A time for public comment is scheduled near the beginning of the meeting.
Commissioners are being asked to consider three proclamation requests. They are as follows.
- Proclaim the week of May 19-25, 2019, as “Emergency Medical Services Week” in the city of Salina. Shane Pearson, EMS chief, is scheduled to read the proclamation.
- Proclaim the week of May 19-25, 2019, as “National Public Works Week” in the city of Salina. Leann Johnson, administrative assistant III, is scheduled to read the proclamation.
- Proclaim the day of June 8, 2019, as “National Gun Violence Awareness Day” in the city of Salina. Mona Hargrave, Moms Demand Action Social Media Lead, is scheduled read the proclamation.
Commissioners also are scheduled to consider acceptance of the offered utility easement dedication from Michael McArthur in the Replat of Block 3 of the Country Club Heights Addition. McArtur is requesting the vacation of an eight-foot-wide, north-south utility easement 4 ft. either side of the common lot line between Lots 7 and 8, Block 3, Country Club Heights Addition to the City of Salina, Saline County, Kansas located on property addressed as 214 Greenway Road.
This matter is continued from the commission’s May 6 meeting. Kansas Gas Services provided a written objection to McArthur’s request, noting that the utility easement was needed for the company to complete a gas line replacement project in that particular block. McArthur requested that the public hearing be continued on May 20 so that he could continue a discussion of alternatives with Kansas Gas Services.
According to information in the city commission meeting packet, Kansas Gas Services expressed support of McArthur’s new easement proposal “as long as they did not lose the utility easement altogether and received a copy of the new executed and recorded utility easement.”
There is no fiscal impact on the city if the new easement proposal is accepted, the meeting packet information noted.
Commissioners also are scheduled to consider a request from North Salina Community Development, Inc., to be allowed to install small concrete pads and refurbished newspaper racks on city property at nine locations in north Salina to be used as community neighborhood book exchanges known as “Little Libraries.” Eight of the locations would be adjacent to CityGo bus stops, while the ninth would be located adjacent to the city’s Drive Thru Recycling Center.
The group is planning to install a 10th Little Library on private property, according to commission packet information.
Additionally, commissioners are scheduled to consider a resolution “authorizing the Mayor to execute a grant of Permanent Easement for Road/Bridge Right-of-Way to the Board of County Commissioners of Saline County, Kansas for West Water Well Road and a related Memo of Understanding granting a Temporary Construction Easement.”
To view the entire city commission meeting packet (a 66-page pdf), click here.