1. Approved Resolution No. 3455, declaring the intent of the City to issue Federally Taxable Private Activity Revenue Bonds in the principal amount not to exceed $35 million for the purpose of financing the acquisition of equipment for a mail order pharmacy service and to grant property tax exemption.
   
   
2. Appointed Mayor Carl R. Gerlach to the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Culture District Commission.
   
   
3. Proclaimed the week of May 8-14, 2005, as Building Safety Week.
   
   
4. Approved the following Council Consent Agenda items:

PUBLIC SAFETY – Staff Item –

1. Application for new massage therapy license for Re Nu Day Spa, 4522 W. 107th St.

PUBLIC WORKS – Committee Items –

1. Waive selection process and authorize staff to negotiate contract with HNTB Corporation for the 159th St. & U.S. 69 Interchange Study;
2. Waive selection process and authorize staff to negotiate contract with David Ford and Associates for the Enhanced Forecasting Decision Support for Flood Warning System.

FINANCE, ADMINISTRATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT – Committee Items –

1. Request for Special Alcohol Funds in an amount not to exceed $47,000 for information packets and events related to the “Wrong of Passage” underage drinking prevention program;
2. Ordinance No. CF-2542 to increase change fund at Deanna Rose Farmstead to $2,525;
3. Request to waive the bid process and authorization to increase funding for renovation of the City Council Chamber from $225,500 to $396,800;
4. Request to increase contingency funding for document imaging project from $100,000 to $140,000;
5. Request to waive bid process and negotiate contract with Choice Solutions, Inc., for purpose of software and consulting services for an amount not to exceed $65,000;
6. Request to waive bidding process and negotiate contract with Turn-Key Mobile, Inc., for purchase of mobile computer equipment for Planning and Development Services’ vehicles in an amount not to exceed $65,000.

Staff Items –

1. Council minutes for March 7, 2005;
2. Expenditure Ordinance No. 4B, outlining the expenditures from the General Fund for April 7 through April 20, 2005;
3. Capital Projects Expenditure Ordinance No. 4C, outlining the expenditures from the Capital Projects Funds for April 14 through April 20, 2005;
4. Capital Projects Expenditure Ordinance No. 4D, outlining the expenditures from the Capital Projects Funds for April 21 through April 27, 20205;
5. One application for new drinking establish-ment license as listed on agenda;
6. Two applications for renewal of drinking establishment licenses as listed on agenda;
7. Two applications for renewal of drinking establishment licenses contingent on receiving state licenses as listed on agenda;
8. Two applications for renewal of cereal malt beverage licenses as listed on agenda;
9. Application for temporary permit to sell alcoholic liquor for Harvesters The Community Food Network for a one-day event on May 19, 2005, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., at the Sheraton Overland Park Hotel, 6100 College;
10. Request to extend premises to sell alcoholic liquor for LCDP L.L.C., d/b/a La Cocina Del Puerco, 9097 Metcalf for a four-day event to be held May 5-8, 2005, from 11 a.m. until 2 a.m.
    
    

5. Approved the low bid from Kranz of Kansas City, in the amount of $38,292, for completed assembly of one sign truck.
   
   
6. Approved the low bid from Kranz of Kansas City, in the amount of $297,100, for completed assembly of four tandem snowplow dump trucks.
   
   
7. Approved low bid from Knapheide Truck Equipment, including Option 1 for a total of $14,907.50.
   
   
8. Approved Ordinance No. TF-2545, granting Telcove Investment, L.L.C., a contract franchise to construct, operate and maintain facilities to provide telecommunications services in the City.
   
   
9. Approved contract with Valley View State Bank to conduct the Home Improvement Program for the period July 1, 2005, to July 1, 2006.
   
   
10. Approved the following Planning Commission Consent Agenda items:
    1. Special Event Permit No. 2005-138, 7126 W. 80th Street, for an outdoor music series on Monday nights between Memorial Day and Labor Day;
    2. Special Event Permit No. 2005-152, 10700 Metcalf, to allow two banners through July 20, 2005, for McCarthy Dodge;
    3. Acceptance of Right-of-Way for Final Plat No. 2005-28, Stonegate Villas First Plat, vicinity of 163rd Street and Switzer, for a residential subdivision;
    4. Revised Preliminary Plans for Southridge, vicinity of the northwest corner of 127th Street and Metcalf, to allow revisions to an office park;
    5. Revised Preliminary Plans for 135th Street Business Park, vicinity of the northwest corner of 135th Street and Grandview, to allow modifi-cations to a business park development;
    6. Ordinance No. Z-3137 (Special Use Permit No. 2005-1), 9103 Elmhurst, for a five-year period of time, for the renewal of a drinking establishment;
    7. Ordinance No. Z-3133 (Special Use Permit No. 2005-3), 12300 Metcalf, for an indefinite period of time, to allow a hospital and medical office building;
    8. Ordinance No. Z-3135 (Special Use Permit No. 2005-8, 7380 West 162nd Street, for a five-year period of time, to allow a tow yard storage lot;
    9. Ordinance No. Z-3139 (Special Use Permit No. 2005-9), 15102 Travis, for a three-year period of time, to allow a drinking establishment;
    10. Ordinance No. Z-3134 (Rezoning No. 2005-8) vicinity of the southwest corner of 161st Street and Quivira, to rezone from A-J, Agricultural District, Johnson County, to RP-OS, Planned Open Space Single-Family Residential District, to allow an open space subdivision.
        
        
11. Approved Ordinance No. VAC-2544 (Street Right-of-Way Vacation No. 2005-4), 6400 Santa Fe Drive.
    
    
12. Remanded Revised Preliminary Plan for United Investor Park, vicinity of the southwest corner of Shawnee Mission Parkway and Lamar, to the Planning Commission on May 9, 2005, to consider changes in the plan and that the item be returned to the Governing Body on May 16, 2005.

OLD BUSINESS:

13. Approved 133rd Street and Lamar Intersection project with the construction of a roundabout.
    
    
14. Approved Resolution No. 3457, which rescinds the date for a public hearing before the Governing Body on the Petition for Exclusion of the Ross Tract, at the southwest corner of 175th Street and Pflumm, that was set for May 2, 2005, in Resolution No. 3438 and postpones such public hearing to a future date to be determined; postpones consideration of both the consent to annexation and the withdrawal of that consent with respect to the 80 acres west of the Ross Tract to a future date to be determined; and continues in effect the Right of Prior Jurisdiction with respect to the 80 acres west of the Ross Tract that the Governing Body first established in Resolution No. 3432, and reasserted in a motion passed at the Council meeting on February 21, 2005.

NEW BUSINESS:

15. Approved the Local Government Endorsement of Girl Scouts of Mid-Continent Council’s Expansion Project for Camp Timberlake.