• Prepare an ordinance and notice calling for a mail ballot election to authorize the City to adopt a one-eighth (1/8th) of one percent City Retailers’ Sales Tax that would begin on April 1, 2009, and end on March 31, 2014, with the understanding that the proceeds from the tax would be spent 50 percent on Residential Street Improvement Projects and 50 percent on Thoroughfare Improvement Projects;
• Schedule a public hearing to be held at the Oct. 15, 2007, City Council meeting regarding the advisability of passage of an ordinance calling for a mail ballot election; and
• Recommend to the City Council that the 2009-2013 Capital Improvements Program calendar be approved.
  
  

FINANCE, ADMINISTRATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:
Committee Items:

1. Agreement with Shawnee Mission School District No. 512 for use of Time Warner Cable Government Access Channel 2;
2. Authorized Global Spectrum to dispose of obsolete furnishings and equipment at the Overland Park Convention Center by several methods, including competitive sale, donations and destruction;
3. Waived bid process and authorized staff to purchase Microsoft Citizen CRM licenses using the State of Kansas Contract No. 02137 in the amount of $42,000, and authorized staff to negotiate an agreement with Quilogy to provide consulting services in an amount not to exceed $60,000;
4. Ordinance No. GF-2585, granting to Atmos Energy Corporation, its grantees and successors a franchise to construct, maintain, and operate all works and plants necessary or proper for supplying consumers with natural gas;
5. Selection of United Health Care as the Administrative Service Provider for 2008 Self-Insured Group Health Care Benefit Plan; and
6. Selection of Delta Dental as Provider for 2008 Group Dental Insurance Plan.

Staff Items:

1. Council meeting minutes of August 6 and August 13, 2007;
2. Confirmed investments in the amount of $4,068,120.89 in U.S. Agency Securities;
3. Expenditure Ordinance No. 9B – Outlining the expenditures from the General Operating Fund for Sept. 5 through Sept. 18, 2007;
4. Capital Projects Expenditure Ordinance No. 9C – Outlining the expenditures from the Capital Projects funds for Sept. 13 through Sept. 19, 2007;
5. Capital Projects Expenditure Ordinance No. 9D – Outlining the expenditures from the Capital Projects funds for Sept. 20 through Sept. 26, 2007;
6. Application for New Drinking Establishment License Contingent on Receiving State License - A-Yang, Inc., d/b/a Kobe Steak and Sushi, 13366 Metcalf, Andy Yang, manager;
7. Applications for Renewal of Drinking Establishment Licenses Contingent on Receiving State Licenses - a) Doughboy, L.L.C., d/b/a Uno Chicago Grill, 8420 W. 135th St., Jeff Nelson, manager; b) Italian Delight of Mission Kansas, Inc., d/b/a Il Trullo Restaurant, 9056 Metcalf, Sean Price, new manager; c) Kansas Hospitality Services, Inc., d/b/a Courtyard by Marriott, 11001 Woodson, Steven M. Nechvatal, manager; d) The Peanut of Kansas, d/b/a The Peanut of Kansas, 12663 Metcalf, April Allen, manager;
8. Application for Renewal of Class A Private Club License Contingent on Receiving State License - Rosedale Aerie No. 1100, Inc., d/b/a Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 1100, 4726 Merriam Drive, Albert J. Smith, new manager.
9. Applications for Renewal of Cereal Malt Beverage Licenses - a) Khan Petroleum Corporation, d/b/a Valero, 3456 Merriam Drive, Jehangir Khan, manager; b) QuikTrip Corporation, d/b/a QuikTrip No. 210, 10700 Roe, Timothy O. Heuback, manager.

PUBLIC SAFETY:
Staff Items:

1. Applications for New Massage Therapy Licenses - a) Ahimsa Massage and Healing, Inc., 10551 Barkley, Jeana L. Timmons, applicant; and b) Sastun Center of Integrative Health Care, 10875 Grandview, Steven Arthur Kent, applicant.
2. Applications for Renewal of Massage Therapy Licenses - a) Blades, Inc., 4514 W. 107th St., Judy Azale, applicant; and b) Life Spa, 6800 W. 138th St., Nanette Haskin, applicant.

PUBLIC WORKS:
Committee Items:

1. Waive bidding process and allow staff to negotiate directly with a contractor selected by the developer of Mission Farms West for excavation operations related to the Indian Creek Flood Control project; and
2. Amend 2008-2012 Capital Improvements Program by deleting Project ST-1028 (159th Street and Roe intersection improvements) and adding Project ST-1130 (Quivira, from 175th Street to 179th Street.
   

1. Special Event Permit No. 2007-396 for Queen’s Price Chopper, located at 7201 W. 151st St., from Sept. 28 to Oct. 27, 2007, to allow a pumpkin sale in the parking lot;
2. Special Event Permit No. 2007-412 for Nick and Jake’s restaurant, 6830 W. 135th St., from Oct. 17 to Oct. 21, 2007, to allow an Oktoberfest celebration;
3. Acceptance of Right-of-Way – Final Plat No. 2007-59 for Storage Mart, vicinity of the southeast corner of 151st Street and Antioch; and
4. Rezoning No. 2007-15 (Ordinance No. Z-3008), 9205 West 75th Street, from R-1, Single-Family Residential District, to CP-O, Planned Office Building District, to allow an existing residence to be zoned for office uses.