May 7, 2007 Council Summary

City Council Action Summary - May 7, 2007

Proclaimed the week of May 6-12, 2007, as Building Safety Week in Overland Park.
Appointed Elaine Johnson to the Downtown Business Improvement District (BID) Advisory Board.
Appointed Mayor Gerlach to the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Culture District Commission.
Approved Resolution No. 3593 declaring the intention of the Governing Body to develop certain park property in the southwest corner of 135th Street and Switzer as a youth soccer complex and to issue general obligation bonds in payment therefor.
Approved Ordinance No. TGT-2272, B, levying a Transient Guest Tax of 9 percent upon the gross receipts derived from or paid by transient guests for sleeping accommodations within the City.
Approved the following Consent Agenda items with the exception of the items that were continued as noted:
PUBLIC SAFETY:
STAFF ITEMS:
1. Application for new Massage Therapy License – Perfect Price, Inc., 8675 W. 96th Street, Debra L. Price, applicant;
2. Applications for renewal of Massage Therapy Licenses:a) American Laser Med Spa, 13338 Metcalf, Richard Ruiz, MD, applicant; b) Jan Kelly OTR/LMT, 9200 Glenwood, Janet Kay Kelly, applicant;
3. Application for renewal of Massage Therapy and In-Office Massage Therapy License – Therapeutic Massage, 6806 West 83rd Street, Sue Tucker, applicant.
PUBLIC WORKS:
COMMITTEE ITEMS:
1. Denial of Appeal – damaged concrete curb at 15868 Briar;
2. Waive bid process and authorization to negotiate purchase – Electronic Technology for the purchase of a traffic camera system upgrade in the estimated amount of $70,000;
3. Continued to the May 14, 2007, Council meeting the creation of Improvement District – for flood control along Indian Creek between Roe and Mission;
4. Continued to the May 14, 2007, Council meeting the Memorandum of Understanding – Mission Road Farms, L.P., the Indian Creek Land and Investment Company, L.P., and the City of Overland Park, for proposed flood control project and related development projects along Indian Creek between Roe and Mission;
5. Median Breaks – Switzer, 143rd Street to 151st Street;
6. Median Breaks - 127th Street, Metcalf to Nall.
STAFF ITEMS:
1. Continued to the May 14, 2007, Council meeting Resolution No. 3591 – Setting forth findings and determinations of the Governing Body on the advisability of the creation of an improvement district for the construction of a flood control project along Indian Creek between Roe and Mission (Improvement District No. 07-193);
2. Continued to the May 14, 2007, Council meeting Resolution No. 3592 – Authorizing and providing for the creation of an improvement district for the construction of a flood control project along Indian Creek between Roe and Mission (Improvement District No. 07-193).
FINANCE, ADMINISTRATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:
STAFF ITEMS:
1. Council minutes – January 25, 2007, Special Council;
2. Confirmed investments in the amount of $17,834,576 in U.S. Agency Securities;
3. Expenditure Ordinance No. 4B – Outlining the expenditures from the General Operating Fund for April 4 through April 17, 2007;
4. Capital Projects Expenditure Ordinance No. 4C – Outlining the expenditures from the Capital Projects funds for April 12 through April 18, 2007;
5. Capital Projects Expenditure Ordinance No. 4D – Outlining the expenditures from the Capital Projects funds for April 19 through April 25, 2007;
6. Capital Projects Expenditure Ordinance No. 5A – Outlining the expenditures from the Capital Projects funds for April 26 through May 2, 2007;
7. Application for new Drinking Establishment License contingent on receiving State License and Special Use Permit – Yu Restaurants, L.L.C., d/b/a Four Seasons Asian Restaurant, 7800 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Meghan Chong Yu, manager;
8. Application for renewal of Drinking Establishment License – Pizano’s, Inc., d/b/a Pizano’s Italian Café, 13316 Metcalf, Anthony Pernice, manager;
9. Application for renewal of Drinking Establishment License contingent on receiving State License – Fortune Star, d/b/a Fortune Star Restaurant, 7328 W. 119th Street, Helen Lam, manager;
10. Application for new Caterer License – Pizano’s Inc., d/b/a Pizano’s Italian Café, 13316 Metcalf, Anthony Pernice, manager;
11. Application for new Cereal Malt Beverage License – Hophine Bwosinde Café/New Century Café, d/b/a Fanta’s Kitchen Café, 9934 W. 87th Street, Hophine Bwosinde, manager;
12. Application for renewal of Cereal Malt Beverage License – Old Town Pizza, L.L.C., d/b/a Old Town Pizza, L.L.C., 14850 Metalf, James D. Beery, manager;
13. Application for Temporary Permit to sell Cereal Malt Beverage – Rotary Club of Overland Park, for an event to be held July 4 and July 5, 2007, at Founder’s Park, 9711 W. 109th Street, from 4 p.m. until 11 p.m., Chad Tenpenny, manager.
Heard report from the May 7, 2007, Special Public Safety Committee meeting and approved the following:
Approved contract agreement with the International Play Company, Inc., for the purchase and installation of play equipment at the Matt Ross Community Center in the amount of $99,515.
Accepted low bid from Mid American Golf and Landscape, Inc., in the amount of $2,787,920.63 for the St. Andrews Golf Course remodel project.
Accepted low bid from Advanced Exercise Equipment in the amount of $25,350 for spinning bikes for the Matt Ross Community Center.
Accepted low bid from Southern Aluminum Manufacturing, Inc., in the amount of $30,747 for tables and table trucks for the Matt Ross Community Center.
Accepted low bid from Continental Video Center in the amount of $40,193 for televisions and mounts for the Matt Ross Community Center.
Approved Resolution No. 3590 and Agreement No. 72-07 with the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) for the Central Software Upgrade, Incident Management Module project, KDOT Project No. 46 N-0448-01 (CMQ-N044(801)).
Approved agreement with Larkin Group, Inc., for engineering services for 95th Street and Foster Storm Drainage repairs in an amount not to exceed $64,470.
Approved agreement with Brungardt, Honomichl and Company for engineering services for the 2007 Preliminary Engineering Study for Quivira from 167th Street to 179th Street and 175th Street from 179th Street to Quivira, in an amount not to exceed $106,513.50.
Approved Supplemental Agreement No. 3 with HNTB Corporation to perform field inspection services for Nall from 159th Street to 143rd Street in an amount not to exceed $133,100.
Approved the following Planning Commission Consent Agenda items as stipulated: