Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee

26th Floor, Council Chamber

Agenda — 15 items

1. 1 PUBLIC OBSERVANCE OF MEETINGS Members of the City Council may attend this meeting via videoconference. Any closed session may be held via teleconference. The public can observe this meeting at the links provided below. Applicants and citizens wishing to participate have the option of attending each meeting or they may do so through the videoconference platform ZOOM, using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84530222968 ***Public Testimony is Limited to 2 Minutes*** First Readings
2. 2 COUNCIL
3. 3 Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson RESOLUTION - Accepting the recommendations of the Health Sciences Community Improvement District Advisory Committee and adopting the housing improvements funds program. 250925 Immediate Adoption
4. 4 Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea RESOLUTION - Directing the City Manager to review best practices in peer cities related to potholes, evaluate policies in Kansas City, and make recommendations for policy improvements within 60 days. 250930 Immediate Adoption
5. 5 Sponsor: Councilmember Nathan Willett RESOLUTION - Directing the City Manager to provide to City Council no later than December 1, 2025, a listing of programs still in existence originally funded with one-time dollars or created outside of the annual budget process. 250932 Immediate Adoption
6. 6 Sponsor: Councilmember Johnathan Duncan COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Appropriating $800,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund to fund design professional services for the Community Resource Center Project; authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to execute a $800,000.00 design professional services contract with Multistudio, Inc., for the design of the Community Resource Center; designating requisitioning authority; directing the City Manager to identify and report the cost of LEED gold compliance in the Request for Proposals for construction of the Community Resource Center; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date. 250933 Adv and Do Pass as Cmte Sub Pass
7. 7 MAYORS OFFICE
8. 8 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas Authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute agreements to provide funding for security and safety equipment and technology in areas recommended by the Multidisciplinary Public Safety Task Force using previously appropriated funds. 250926 Adv and Do Pass
9. 9 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas Applying the special skills waiver of the residency requirement of City Code Section 2-721.1 for Rafael (“Ralph”) Oropeza who is to be selected as a member of the Construction Workforce Board. 250928 Hold on Agenda
10. 10 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas Amending Chapter 2, Code of Ordinances, Administration, by enacting a new Section 2-11 to establish a process by which the mayor or any member of council, the clerk, the city auditor, or the city manager may seek reimbursement for legal expenses incurred in the process of seeking or enforcing an order of protection. 250931 Adv and Do Pass
11. 11 HELD IN COMMITTEE
12. 12 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas Enacting a new Chapter 52, Code of Ordinances, containing Sections 52-1 to 52-9 to provide for the regulation of surface parking lots in the City’s entertainment districts and Central Business District Area, 18th & Vine, the Country Club Plaza, Westport and Crossroads, and providing for a delayed effective date. 250711 Hold on Agenda
13. 13 ADDITIONAL BUSINESS
14. 14 The City Clerk`s Office now has equipment for the hearing impaired for use with every meeting. To check out the equipment please see the secretary for each committee. Be prepared to leave your Driver`s License or State issued Identification Card with the secretary and she will give you the equipment. Upon returning the equipment your license will be returned.
15. 15 Adjournment