[3:43] Committee.

[17:40] Okay.

[40:46] Testing, testing, testing, testing. It looks like it is because of the live streaming.

[40:54] Okay,

[40:57] up or not, let's move forward.

[41:16] Moving right along. Council, we have the consent agenda.

[41:22] Four items, consider routine will be approved all at one time unless somebody would like to remove one for separate discussion.

[41:28] I have a motion from Ron, for which no second is required to approve the consent agenda.

[41:34] Roll call vote, Adam.

[41:36] Ms. Bartelt.

[41:38] Yes.

[41:39] Mr. Vallett.

[41:40] Yes.

[41:41] Mr. Aniel.

[41:42] I.

[41:43] Mr. Rodell.

[41:44] Yes.

[41:44] Ms. Lawrence.

[41:45] Yes.

[41:46] Mr. Graves.

[41:47] I.

[41:47] Mr. Sellers.

[41:48] I.

[41:49] Mr. Robinson.

[41:50] Yes.

[41:50] Mr. O'Toole.

[41:51] Yes.

[41:52] Sellers.

[41:53] I.

[41:54] Mr. Nelson.

[41:55] Yes.

[41:55] Mr. Logan, that is unanimous all four items including our Mission Hills Police Contract

[42:03] are approved in the consent agenda.

[42:06] Next committee reports, we have any committee reports, Nathan, and then Nick.

[42:16] Thanks, Mayor.

[42:17] I wanted to talk about team council.

[42:20] We are bringing it back.

[42:22] we've talked about it a little bit before, but the application is live on the

[42:26] city website. For those of you who are not aware of what team council is, the

[42:31] mission of the council is to give local students an opportunity to learn and

[42:35] actively participate in municipal government, develop as leaders, and impact our

[42:40] community at the same time. The student must be a Prairie Village resident, or a

[42:51] senior high school student, and so that program that, like I said, the application has started

[42:58] the application window will end on September 15th, so it actually opened on August 15th,

[43:04] so we've got one month there. There will be learning sessions with City Hall, Public

[43:09] Safety, Public Works, Municipal Court, and more to come on all of that, but I encourage

[43:16] everyone out there to, if you know any teenagers in the community, that might want some leadership

[43:20] experience and get to work with some of us on council as well as staff and learn a little

[43:26] bit more about the city and the process. Please encourage them to do the program. I'm glad

[43:31] it's back. I'm really excited about it and people who used to take part in the program

[43:35] really did make an impact positively in Prairie Village and so I'd encourage that and you

[43:40] will start seeing some signs and things around town. So if you've already questions about

[43:44] that, feel free to reach out to me directly or staff and we're excited to get it going.

[43:49] So, there you go.

[43:52] Thanks, Nathan, for stepping up.

[43:53] That's been one of my favorite things we've done over the years.

[43:56] We didn't do it last year, but we're resuming it.

[43:58] And you're right.

[44:00] Some of these alumni from this program, they come back.

[44:03] Now they're in college. They went to West Point.

[44:05] They're starting jobs. Some in municipal government.

[44:07] And talking about what a great experience this was.

[44:10] So, look forward to welcoming them. Thank you, Nathan.

[44:12] Nick.

[44:14] This is just more of an announcement for Ward 5, that's here and I have planned our Ward 5 Council meeting for the public for residents.

[44:23] It's September 14, 630 to 730 at the Metabook Clubhouse.

[44:29] So people should be receiving an invite if they have not already, but just FYI, everybody.

[44:34] I don't know if you want anything.

[44:36] All right, that's it.

[44:37] Great. Thanks for doing that, you guys.

[44:39] Yes.

[44:40] Any other committee reports?

[44:43] Okay.

[44:44] The mayor's report, since we last met folks, we had another ribbon cutting event.

[44:51] I saw Nathan, probably others there, at the flower child restaurant open in the corn

[44:56] shops.

[44:57] A great well attended event.

[45:00] I encourage you to check out that healthy food offering in the shops. On Friday, I was able to attend the Mid-America Regional Council annual regional assembly lunch in awards downtown. We had a standing ovation there for outgoing executive director, David Warm, was his last meeting in that role. And look for a public farewell reception that would love to see some of you in attendance at in September, details coming.

[45:28] on October 1st, David's replacement Geraldine Gardner will start and she's going to make the rounds

[45:36] including to Prairie Village to say hi and introduce herself. I also since we last met with

[45:45] Mission Hills Mayor Weed as we've done regularly since he was elected as I did with the previous

[45:51] mayor as well to discuss areas of cooperation. It's a great partnership we have with Mission Hills

[45:57] and Prairie Village, and I'm happy to report that under Mayor Weeds leadership, that is continuing.

[46:04] I also had a chance to meet with Chief Chick of the Fire District number two and

[46:11] several of his board members, as well as county commissioners to discuss their budget process.

[46:19] He's going to be here in person soon. I don't know if we have that scheduled yet or not,

[46:24] West to talk about that budget, but come in soon.

[46:29] We had a great, it was very hot, but a Corinth kickoff at the Corinth shops for the KU football

[46:36] season, that rock chalk events, always a crowd favorite every year last weekend.

[46:42] Some things coming up, Captain Porter is going to give us the details, love to see you at

[46:48] the National Police Night Out coming up this Thursday evening in the

[46:53] Prairie Village shops in front of the tavern there for all ages but especially for the kids,

[46:58] that's always a thrill. I'd love to see you there. The Northeast Johnson County Mayors lunch,

[47:05] I'll be attending Friday, the Shawnee Mission School District annual lunch kickoff with the

[47:10] the Northeast Johnson County Chamber Council, that's August 25th at the Shawnee Mission

[47:18] School District Administration, B-strow to have that date right west, 25th. I don't have

[47:26] that date right. It is the 25th, yep. So a great chance to hear about what's coming up for

[47:34] Shawnee Mission School District. Love to see you there.

[47:38] Golf, T.R.K., opening in the

[47:41] Peruvialage Shops September 11th. That will be one of those shops right next to Big

[47:46] Grove as we continue to fill those in over the year. That should be an exciting opening.

[47:52] And then we'll have a council meeting before then, but I want to continue to ask people

[47:57] to put on their calendars. This tremendous jazz fest lineup we have. We're looking forward to

[48:04] that September 12th. A couple of new things. Well, one new thing this year is we're partnering

[48:09] with the Jazz Museum at 18th and Vine. They're going to be there thanks to our diversity committee

[48:15] to do some cultural component to that. And we're also going to have a Prairie Village Foundation booth

[48:24] there at the Jazz Fest. I love to see you there. And then finally, Council, I want to point

[48:32] out to you and the public that we have one of those coveted three-week breaks coming

[48:37] up. And this is a bonus because it's three weeks and one day. We don't see those very often.

[48:44] Our next meeting will be Tuesday, September 8, because the Monday is Labor Day, okay?

[48:49] Okay, so we'll see you then.

[48:50] Thanks.

[48:51] Staff reports, West.

[48:54] Good evening, Mayor and Council.

[48:56] We'll start with Cindy.

[48:58] You know, start us off.

[49:00] And then I know Chief and Keith

[49:02] both have a couple items for you.

[49:04] So.

[49:07] Good evening, Mayor, City Council.

[49:11] Cindy Volonte, I'm the Human Resource Manager here

[49:13] for the City of Prairie Village.

[49:16] And wanted to give you an update of our upcoming RFP

[49:20] for the compensation and benefit study.

[49:24] A little bit of a background.

[49:26] We did have a 2017 study that the city council at that time did direct staff to complete

[49:37] a compensation and benefit study for every five years to ensure that the city continues

[49:44] to offer competitive wages and benefits for the city employees.

[49:49] and market studies have been performed in 2017 and then in 2022.

[49:58] So recently during the 2027 budget the council did approve within that budget a

[50:05] consultant fee for a salary survey of $30,000.

[50:10] And we are anticipating this study to be completed in the spring of 2027.

[50:17] and then that will be used to prepare the 2028 budget.

[50:26] So some key dates of our process that will be upcoming.

[50:31] We will issue the RFP out for BIDs next Monday, I believe the 24th is next Monday already.

[50:40] Then we will prepare for recommendations of a consultant with a proposed agreement on

[50:48] of November 16th of 2026. As we go through, we will present preliminary findings to the

[50:58] Finance Committee and Jason for the 2028 budget that will be in March of 27. And then in April

[51:07] of 2027, that is when we will finalize the or start preparing, I should say, the 2028 budget

[51:17] with those proposed salary adjustments, then that moves us to May of 2027, where we will do

[51:27] a presentation of the consultant that has performed our study, and that will come before the

[51:34] City Council. So as you can see, we're talking a long process, but then implementation will begin

[51:43] in with our first payroll of the 2028,

[51:48] but the salary adjustments.

[51:51] So that's it, and in that shell,

[51:53] if you have any questions, be free to answer this for you.

[51:58] That's it.

[51:59] I just have a quick question, and I'll probably see it in the RFP,

[52:02] but I'm assuming when you say salary,

[52:04] this is a comp and benefits,

[52:05] but it'll also look at the whole benefit package.

[52:07] We are going to review the full benefit package

[52:10] that's what we did in 2022.

[52:16] Okay, that's coming.

[52:17] No action needed at this time, just an FYI.

[52:21] Yeah. Thanks, Cindy.

[52:22] Thank you.

[52:28] Chief, you're going to go first. Thank you.

[52:32] There we go.

[52:33] Yeah, just briefly wanted to mention a couple of opportunities

[52:36] for the community to connect with our staff coming up.

[52:40] Mayor mentioned this Thursday evening, the 20th,

[52:44] at the shops at Prairie Village,

[52:46] we'll be doing our national night out event

[52:48] from six o'clock to eight o'clock PM. This year we're actually going to be just north of

[52:53] the Clementine's Einstein Village Flower shop area in the parking lot. We have vehicles and

[53:00] other equipment set up for display and other activities. We'll be running a grill with some burgers

[53:05] and hot dogs, so please come out and enjoy some time getting to know our staff at that event.

[53:12] And then just wanted to do another plug for our upcoming fall citizens academy.

[53:18] That will be starting up on Wednesday September 2nd.

[53:24] It will run for 10 straight weeks on the Wednesday evening from 6.30 to 9 o'clock PM.

[53:31] Think November 4th would end up being the last class.

[53:36] This is a great opportunity for people to learn the kind of more nuts and bolts of what we

[53:40] be on a day-to-day basis and everything that we do in service to the community.

[53:45] So, great opportunity to meet our staff through that program as well.

[53:49] Always a lot of fun for us as we get to do those classes and connect with the people that

[53:55] attend that as well.

[53:56] So, looking for applicants for that class this year, you can do so from the city's website

[54:02] and then any other questions that you may have, Sergeant Travis Gray is the person responsible

[54:08] for that program at this time and please feel free to call or email him if interested.

[54:13] So that's all I have.

[54:18] Thanks.

[54:18] I think Wes gave you a promotion, Mike.

[54:21] What did I say?

[54:22] I didn't say chief today.

[54:24] Sorry.

[54:25] It's what I saw.

[54:26] Are you?

[54:26] Gosh, you got me, Mayor.

[54:33] Any other staff reports, Wes?

[54:35] Oh, Keith, go ahead.

[54:36] Just a real quick update on the municipal complex project.

[54:41] The NPR wing over here is things are going well with it.

[54:44] but we're looking at probably mid-October completion for that.

[54:49] The main level is a reminder is going to be a new property room and then the animal

[54:55] control and traffic offices will be moved into that space.

[54:58] The basement will be of the new fitness facility will be down there.

[55:04] One of the next things they're going to start, it's looking like there's smaller renovations

[55:10] done to the dispatch area that we're looking to start in September.

[55:13] It's a shorter term amount of work, but they're going to start that in the first part

[55:19] of September.

[55:20] But once everybody gets moved into the NPR wing over here, that's from the basement

[55:23] renovations and the police department will start.

[55:27] So that's an update on what's going on over here, the new city hall building itself.

[55:31] All the subgrade is in and complete, and we're starting footings and foundations now, and

[55:36] that's all going well.

[55:37] There aren't really any surprises in that whole process.

[55:40] There was a minor asbestos surprises that we had with the floor and the church removed

[55:45] building, but as far as building it we haven't had any real surprises, so that's good.

[55:51] So probably late October or in December you'll start seeing steel start going up, so the

[55:57] building will be coming out of the ground and going vertical and then it gets a little

[56:00] more exciting when you start seeing things happen.

[56:03] The parking lot and asphalt work is also doing drainage work now, anticipation of having

[56:09] the base level of asphalt in the middle of October, late October as well. So a lot of

[56:13] things are going to start changing and looking a lot differently here soon. So, so far things

[56:18] gone. I would say very, very well reasonable things to expect in construction that we're managing

[56:23] and working through, but all good.

[56:28] That's great. Exciting progress. Progress to hear about, Keith.

[56:31] Thank you, Betsy. Yeah, I took a quick question on timing. I know you and I exchange and we have some

[56:36] resident interest in the contract requirements in terms of the handling of the demolition material

[56:43] and the requirements that that be recycled and properly disposed of. When do we get that

[56:49] kind of report back from the contractor? Is that at the end of the project or at the end of

[56:53] demolition? I don't know the exact timing of it. They probably already are developing that or have

[56:59] all of that. I know that it was going to be much higher than what our once they started that process

[57:03] us it ended up being a lot higher than say the 50% that was required by the platinum.

[57:08] But there'll be a number that I can, I don't know the exact timing, but I will, I'll have

[57:12] a bit of life here I will soon.

[57:14] Yeah, I would appreciate a report out, and I'm sure the Environmental Committee will as well.

[57:17] I know some residents were interested in ensuring that.

[57:20] I'll check on timing.

[57:21] Yeah, that's awesome.

[57:22] Thanks.

[57:24] Terry?

[57:26] Yes.

[57:27] Yeah.

[57:28] Please.

[57:31] Yeah.

[57:31] Good point.

[57:32] Anything else for Keith on the City Hall Municipal Center project?

[57:35] questions, comments, keep up the great work, Keith.

[57:39] Thanks, Terry.

[57:40] Thank you, Mayor.

[57:41] I actually want to give a testimonial and say Captain Porter.

[57:46] It was a fantastic event when we did the Citizens Academy.

[57:49] And I think it's sort of neat that right now sitting

[57:52] in this room are three people that were in the class with me.

[57:55] Leon was in that class, Cindy was in that class.

[57:57] So three other 12 people are sitting in the room tonight

[58:01] with us.

[58:01] And I know that the other people have stayed active in politics and I can't say anything

[58:07] more than if you are sitting home on many Monday nights watching the city council meeting,

[58:12] you will greatly enjoy this process.

[58:14] It doesn't take a lot of time.

[58:16] It's a short 12 weeks and you will learn a lot.

[58:19] So it's not full.

[58:21] Should be full.

[58:21] If you're sitting home watching this, go ahead and check in tomorrow and sign up if you have

[58:25] time.

[58:26] Thank you.

[58:27] I second that. It was a great program. It made me and I think all of you who went through it, better governing body, better citizens. And it was, it was fun too. I mean, it was just really interesting and fun.

[58:40] Check it out if you have any interest at all. Thanks, Cherry. It's free and there are good snacks.

[58:47] two bonuses, right? Also, Council, Tim is going to arrange a time that if you like to

[58:55] tour the construction area that's underway, we're probably getting close to that. Probably

[59:01] one of our off-mundays to do it. The entire you were at the meeting probably

[59:06] bitten be good for taking a tour, but we're proud of what we're seeing and we'd like for

[59:13] you have a chance to look at it behind the scenes and preparation for it being done to

[59:18] see what everything is undertaken on a daily basis. So, look for that in the near future.

[59:27] Then that's all I have from staff unless anybody has any questions.

[59:32] Comments? Council? No. Okay. Move right along then.

[59:37] Thanks, Wes. We don't have any old business or new business on the main council agenda.

[59:43] And so with a motion, we can move right to CCOW from Nathan, second by Piler.

[59:49] All in favor, please say aye, raise your hand, any opposed?

[59:52] Please say nay.

[59:53] President Robinson.

[59:54] All right.

[59:55] Thank you, Mayor.

[59:55] Thank you, Council.

[59:56] Just one item on our agenda tonight, and that is with...

[1:00:00] Johnson County wastewater in regard to their pump station adjacent to Porter Park. I see some wastewater

[1:00:05] folks isn't precaric in her team here and Keith will be the item. Thank you, Keith. Yeah, just

[1:00:10] real quick. Johnson County wastewater is here to talk about some improvements that they're going

[1:00:14] to be making in Prairie Village and in their system in the northeast part of Johnson County. We've

[1:00:19] been having conversations with them about some of the things they're going to be needing to do

[1:00:23] for several years now and some of the potential impacts to specifically Porter Park is what there's going to be some modifications to that facility there now that they're going to have to rebuild so they're here tonight to kind of talk about globally what all they're facing and what they have to do in the area and also a little specifically about what we're doing at Porter Park what some of the needs are going to be there with easements and such.

[1:00:44] This is just a discussion tonight and it is the topic to everybody or we're thinking the September 21st meeting probably bring back the item with

[1:00:52] some easements and stuff attached to it that they would need to continue kind of developing their project. So with that, I'll turn it over to Patrick Dennings.

[1:01:09] Thank you, Keith.

[1:01:11] Mayor and City Council, I appreciate your time this evening. My name is Patrick Denning. I'm the Assistant Chief Engineer for Johnson County Voicewater.

[1:01:18] with me tonight is Susan Picarek, our general manager as well as Alex Lewinsky, the Managing Engineer for Treatment and Pumping for John's County Wastewater.

[1:01:27] I'm here tonight to talk about Wastewater Infrastructure Improvement Project at our Brush Creek pump station, which is at 74th and Roe at the very southern end of Porter Park.

[1:01:39] Just a quick background on who we are, John's County Wastewater is a department of Johnson County Government.

[1:01:45] We provide wastewater service to 16 municipalities in the area, including Prairie Village,

[1:01:51] all the ones that are great out in that map.

[1:01:54] The area in question this evening is part of the sewer system that includes the Prairie Village area

[1:02:01] that ultimately ends up at our Nelson Wastewater Treatment Facility, which is up in Mission right at the Johnson County Wine Dot County Line on NALL.

[1:02:08] It's depicted as the water drop in the upper right corner of the figure, which is right under my head in the screen.

[1:02:21] Just can't waste water and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment have agreed to a consent order to improve water quality or treatment facilities and also handle our wet weather flows differently.

[1:02:32] To achieve this, JCW has presented to KDHE a 25 year integrated plan, which is like a long CIP or schedule of projects,

[1:02:42] which will help us achieve the goals of this consent order over time.

[1:02:46] This project is a key part of that plan, and I'll explain that a little bit more on the next slide.

[1:02:54] All right, so here's a little wastewater engineering.

[1:02:57] More than you wanted to know, probably, but here we go.

[1:02:59] Currently, the Brush Creek pump station, which is shown in the upper right, that's off.

[1:03:03] That's the one we're talking about tonight, conveys up to five and a half million gallons per day.

[1:03:08] Okay, gravity sewers, which flow towards brush creek, the large ones of which are shown

[1:03:15] in green, are intercepted by the pump station, and flow is conveyed north, up, row, or the

[1:03:21] Nelson Waysfar treatment facility, through a pressure pipe, which is shown by that dark

[1:03:27] black line there, that dashed line that runs up row.

[1:03:31] When it rains, defects in the JCW sewer system, but also private sewer laterals from all

[1:03:38] homes, leak water into the system. Brush Creek works with another facility, located at

[1:03:45] 75th and Noll in Overland Park, which is shown on the left. It kind of looks like a house. You've

[1:03:49] driven by it. It may not realize it's a pump station. And when the capacity of Brush Creek is

[1:03:54] reached, this sister facility activates. It pumps flow into an adjacent below ground holding tank.

[1:04:01] It's a nice yard next to it. That's the below ground holding tank. It also has the ability to settle

[1:04:08] solids, chlorinate water, de-chlorinate the water, and discharge the treated flow to brush

[1:04:13] creek. While studies have shown that this effluent that we discharge is as good or better

[1:04:18] than the water quality in brush creek during storm events, the U.S. EPA wants us to eliminate

[1:04:23] these wet weather discharges over time. We are currently upgrading the Nelson wastewater

[1:04:29] treatment facility to accept future increased wet weather flows. The next step in this wet

[1:04:35] weather plan is to improve our pumping stations to be able to convey that additional wet weather flow

[1:04:40] to the treatment facility.

[1:04:45] So since we cannot discharge the treated flow at 75th and all in the

[1:04:49] future, our two options are to convey all of that flow to the treatment plant as it arrives. So in

[1:04:55] real time, or store it and pump it back to the treatment plant at a reduced rate once the pump state

[1:05:04] We worked with HDR engineering to model the system and used optimization modeling to

[1:05:09] understand what the most cost-effective solution was to achieving this.

[1:05:15] Optimization modeling runs thousands of scenarios and tries to optimize the best set of solutions

[1:05:20] presented to the model, so it's like a little bit of a precursor to like an AI type thing

[1:05:24] trying to figure out what the most cost-effective solution part rate pairs would be.

[1:05:29] The model determined that the most cost-effective solution was to construct a storage tank at

[1:05:34] Porter Park and send flow to our Nelson wastewater treatment facility at a reduced rate

[1:05:39] once the storm passed, so that's depicted in like that red triangle would be like a four

[1:05:44] and a half million gallon storage facility.

[1:05:48] However, this would cause significant impact to the park and the adjacent residents, and in

[1:05:53] consultation with Prairie Village staff and our own analysis.

[1:05:57] We have instead decided to upgrade the pump station to convey all the flows to the Nelson

[1:06:01] wastewater treatment facility.

[1:06:03] So we don't want to pursue the storage tank.

[1:06:06] We're going to need to rather upgrade the pump station at the site to a larger pump station

[1:06:12] to build and convey that flow in real time.

[1:06:18] It's just a real quick map of the facility.

[1:06:21] The area in blue is the existing site that's owned by the county, obviously to the north

[1:06:26] that's the Porter Park.

[1:06:32] So the existing pump station was constructed in the 1950s to serve the

[1:06:37] area. So when that area started to develop needed sewer services, pump station was constructed.

[1:06:43] The infrastructure in the pump station is at the end of its useful life. To get up to modern

[1:06:47] codes, a new pump station structure is needed. We can't rehab what's there and meet modern codes.

[1:06:53] And then we would also construct a new facility at this time with the increased at least

[1:06:59] structure to support future wet weather flows in the future.

[1:07:03] So the drivers for this project in summary are, we have aging assets that need to be replaced.

[1:07:09] This equipment runs 24.7, 365, and it's at the end of its useful life.

[1:07:13] So we need to do something.

[1:07:15] We can't rehab the existing station due to modern codes and having electrical and wastewater

[1:07:20] water things in the same areas, it's not okay anymore, like it was in the 50s.

[1:07:25] And we know that there's wet weather component is coming as well, and so if we're going to

[1:07:29] build a new pump station, we should plan for the future and do it one time.

[1:07:36] We plan on starting the design for this new facility in 2027, and construction will begin

[1:07:42] likely in 2028 and into 2029.

[1:07:45] In the future, 15 years from now, and once we are ready to bring wet weather flow to the

[1:07:50] and facility will install the equipment in the pump station and will also need to do piping

[1:07:55] improvements around the pump station and up row to the treatment facility to get the water

[1:08:00] to the facility and then up to the treatment facility. Those improvements are like I mentioned

[1:08:06] about 15 years in the future. That will be a large project and will need to be coordinated

[1:08:11] with all the impacted cities.

[1:08:17] So we have moved this pump station as close as we can to the existing

[1:08:21] facility, so as far south as we can, and we stretched it out to try to take as much

[1:08:27] advantage of the small site that we have to the best that we can. This is just a preliminary

[1:08:33] floor plan, but it gives an idea of the size and kind of what we're looking at.

[1:08:39] The old facility will need to operate for the duration of the construction project into the new

[1:08:43] pump station can take over, and at that time we would then demolish the old facility.

[1:08:48] The city also uses the site to access brush creek for maintenance.

[1:08:53] We'll be establishing a new way for the city to get access to the creek through the site.

[1:08:59] So I want to talk a little bit about what our easement and property request is for the city.

[1:09:06] So because the pump station is in a new location, like Keith mentioned,

[1:09:11] we'll be bringing agreement before you likely in September for your consideration on land acquisition.

[1:09:15] position, easements, and some other logistical items between Prairie Village and JCW, mostly

[1:09:20] permitting and things how that process would go between the two governmental entities.

[1:09:26] Just walking through this, the yellow that you see is existing sewer easements.

[1:09:30] That's sewer we already had that was put in in the 50s.

[1:09:33] The light blue is the acquisition of five feet of property north of the site.

[1:09:38] The idea here is that the building straddles that property line right now, and the idea would

[1:09:43] be that then the building would all be on county property as opposed to having a building

[1:09:47] that straddles different properties.

[1:09:52] A 20-foot permanent easement will be requested to the north of that so that the sanitary

[1:09:56] sewer lines can be routed in and out of the pump station and then we show a 10-foot permanent

[1:10:01] easement being requested on the side of the creek so that building occurrences will all be

[1:10:06] within that easement, mostly fencing and things like that.

[1:10:10] The permanent easement will be restored following construction and will work with the city as there may be some trail modifications needed right along that that southern end of Porter Park.

[1:10:22] The city will be running a permanent access easement through the site. We haven't shown that yet.

[1:10:26] A little bit of it depends on how the design unfolds on the best way for the city to access that to get access into the creek.

[1:10:36] And because the site is so small, we'll have the new facility, we'll have the existing facility running.

[1:10:42] It will be very difficult to construct this without some temporary location to store materials equipment and give the contractor some room to work.

[1:10:50] We are requesting the use of the ball field on the south end of Porter Park for the construction period, which again is likely 28 and 2029 potentially restoration in 2030.

[1:11:01] We'll see exactly how that schedule unfolds, but we would then restore the ball field after the construction period.

[1:11:11] So those are the easement asks to construct this facility.

[1:11:18] So the next action is to come before you again and for you to consider the property acquisition and easement agreement.

[1:11:29] Once we have the property acquisitions, easements figured out, we can procure our design builder team.

[1:11:36] We're going to do this project as a design builder, our intent is to do that.

[1:11:41] To try to minimize the time we're on site, minimize the impacts to their surrounding area.

[1:11:47] And then we'll continue to coordinate with the city on the park, the access, easement, and others.

[1:11:52] There's also have a big public outreach component here, because this is directly adjacent to a lot of residents.

[1:11:59] So we'll need to get ahead, we'll need to message this, why are we doing this project, what people can expect, etc.

[1:12:05] We've done a lot of these before, we'll put up a website so people know how to get in contact with us.

[1:12:11] And we've done projects like this, pumping stations and residential areas and things.

[1:12:16] And we've learned some things about how to message things to the public and

[1:12:20] make sure that their feelings are heard and we understand where they're coming from as well.

[1:12:25] So, that's a real high-level overview of what we've got coming there.

[1:12:30] Is there any questions that I can answer for you for this time?

[1:12:34] Thank you, Patrick.

[1:12:34] Appreciate the presentation.

[1:12:36] Keith, is there anything you want to add before we open it up for comments?

[1:12:39] Okay.

[1:12:39] Inga.

[1:12:40] Yeah, so I live right across the street from this on Tomahawk Road.

[1:12:44] I mean, over the years since my family's on this home, every four or five years,

[1:12:49] we have a major sewage backup in our basement and I just want to make sure as things are moving

[1:12:54] along that there's studies done on the homes that on that side of the street that this is not

[1:12:59] going to impact that any further. Correct, yes. So part of our integrated plan and why we're not

[1:13:04] like doing all of this at once is we're trying to get that water that's getting into the system during

[1:13:10] storm events we're trying to reduce that. So we have several programs that we're working on to

[1:13:14] reduce that. Once we've had a chance to get through all that and then we can really size the

[1:13:19] facilities for wet weather flows but yeah we're not we're not going to impact in a negative fashion

[1:13:27] current sewer service. The sewers are very shallow in that area

[1:13:32] and and it was the whole system was made to operate with this wet weather facility so

[1:13:36] being able to take it out of services is a long-term project.

[1:13:40] Okay and then the building itself is not going to wind up getting demolished and replaced.

[1:13:45] All right so I just have a little bit of resident feedback. They like the style of the building

[1:13:49] and the mid-century modern look, so as the design moves forward maybe a little homage to that moving forward on the new design?

[1:13:57] Yes, I think that's the kind of thing that we're looking for matching the other park architecture and things like that to try to make it blend in the community.

[1:14:05] Okay, thank you.

[1:14:07] Andy?

[1:14:08] Yes.

[1:14:08] Thank you.

[1:14:09] 74th Street crosses the creek, just a little ways down to the north.

[1:14:14] To what extent does this affect the flow of water, or the increased frequency of having

[1:14:19] to close the street, things like that down there, if at all?

[1:14:25] As far as closing, because of the creek coming up, I do not think that would be stormwater.

[1:14:32] Yes.

[1:14:33] Brush Creek would just be the stormwater that is flowing from Overland Park through Prairie

[1:14:37] knowledge and that low water crossing is just pure rain water when it's when it's flowing

[1:14:41] not not sanitary. I didn't affect that at all. And nothing during the construction either

[1:14:46] in terms of how it's all going to go. We would stay out of the floodway at all. Yeah,

[1:14:51] we can't be in the floodway. A couple of questions from me. I think I heard you say you're looking at the

[1:15:00] The southern ball field being occupied for two years, is that what you said? So we don't have the design builder on board yet. So I don't know their exact schedule, you know, I think 2029 is pretty certain that we'll be in construction. We probably start sometime in 2028. I think we could work with the city on when that is and when that easement would begin potentially after the uses in 2028. And then, you know, in 2030, we've got to restore it. We're not going to be able to get grass and stuff to grow in the winter.

[1:15:29] obviously. So there's going to be some spring, but we're going to have to restore the wall field.

[1:15:36] Missing in this is any sort of discussion around renumeration for the city. So I don't know,

[1:15:41] is that something you bring at the next meeting, or is that part of this conversation, or how do you

[1:15:46] how do you want to talk about that part of all of this?

[1:15:51] Yeah, we've been discussing that with city staff, and we can work that out at that level,

[1:15:55] or we can discuss it here if you'd like.

[1:15:58] That's it.

[1:16:02] I had sort of just some similar questions.

[1:16:05] Is there any way to consider not having such an expansive?

[1:16:11] I mean, the loss of the ball diamond,

[1:16:13] that's a pretty significant area.

[1:16:15] And I think it's pretty heavily used.

[1:16:19] Is that the only option from construction?

[1:16:21] Is there a way to pull it back?

[1:16:23] And then my other question in conjunction with that is,

[1:16:26] I don't know if there's any loss of trees or anything that is in that area.

[1:16:31] And I think I'm not close to that area, but I think there's a shelter house nearby, too.

[1:16:36] So what are their impacts?

[1:16:39] I believe the shelter house is like, oh, I keep far enough away.

[1:16:44] The shelter house, I believe, is north of the ball field.

[1:16:52] There are some trees along that southern end.

[1:16:55] There's five trees kind of in that permanent easement.

[1:16:57] and a few of them probably won't survive

[1:17:01] because a pump station is a very deep structure.

[1:17:04] We've got to go 20 plus deep in the ground.

[1:17:07] So there are some trees along that southern end

[1:17:09] that would not survive and would have to be replaced.

[1:17:12] Okay, so that would be part of the restoration plan

[1:17:14] is replaning trees.

[1:17:17] And then to Inga's point, I do think some residents

[1:17:19] have some nostalgia about that current pump station.

[1:17:23] Is there any way to repurpose that

[1:17:25] not as an open shelter, or is it just pass it's?

[1:17:29] I think it's a pass that's useful life.

[1:17:32] There's, it's a wastewater pump station inside.

[1:17:35] It looks nice outside.

[1:17:36] Yeah, yeah.

[1:17:37] And then, and then I was glad to hear you say

[1:17:39] that you do neighborhood outreach.

[1:17:41] Well, you do that soon enough so that they,

[1:17:43] especially the abutting neighbors,

[1:17:44] will have some input on what the design looks like.

[1:17:50] Yeah, well, we'll engage them in the design phase,

[1:17:54] for sure I think it always works better when you give them something to see though and then they can

[1:17:59] say if they like it or not or what things they're looking for so that's what we've done in the past.

[1:18:04] Well I would just strongly and I don't know if everybody else agrees but if there's any way to reduce or

[1:18:12] reconfigure the need by the construction contractor that's a big ask for a couple years I think to be

[1:18:18] without that ballpark.

[1:18:21] One of the things on that, as we've talked about this in the past, once you start, we want

[1:18:26] to stay to the east of that, because of the trees are there, and you start getting into

[1:18:31] where you're taking up a good part of the outfield.

[1:18:33] I think our thoughts where we might as well discover, take the whole ballfield, and then

[1:18:37] we end up kind of having a, you know, I won't say an improved ballfield, but maybe an improved

[1:18:43] ballfield when we're done when it's being used for that.

[1:18:46] So it's almost going to be rendered, you know, yeah, not usable whether that boundary is pulled down or not.

[1:18:53] So it's been some of our thoughts on it.

[1:18:57] All right, West want to jump into.

[1:18:58] Yeah, one of the things is this conversation has been going on for probably two or three years.

[1:19:05] Johnson County wastewater has been trying to find compromises to staff telling them no.

[1:19:12] They were looking at a very large underground

[1:19:19] I don't, how many gallons was it you remember off top of your head?

[1:19:22] It was about 4.5 million gallons.

[1:19:24] 4.5 million gallons of sanitary water, so we said no.

[1:19:30] We didn't think we needed to bring that to council to us.

[1:19:34] That was a no-brainer.

[1:19:35] But they are certainly in a predicament with getting those lines enlarged and taking it to.

[1:19:45] is at the Nelson Center up north Rowland Park area. And so they are in quite a pickle here.

[1:19:54] And while I'm not crazy about this, they really don't have a choice. And I think it's going to be

[1:20:00] very, very beneficial to our residents due to that improvement and the narrow easement that's being

[1:20:09] asked for. We as staff we're going to recommend that this just be given to the county because

[1:20:17] of the benefits to us. And we think that ball field can be approved. Sorry, Cole, it may

[1:20:24] not be turf, but as as previously requested. So there's going to be some benefit to our

[1:20:33] citizens. We looked at this about trying to get around some of that staging. I know that

[1:20:39] they will work with us, but I think the county is here tonight with hat in hand because

[1:20:47] of those limitations and they have certainly listened to us and they gave the large

[1:20:53] tank of valiant try and they had to make the ask and we said no.

[1:20:59] So some of this is a byproduct of us saying no and that pump station need to be replaced

[1:21:06] anyway.

[1:21:06] Okay, so there is some background, it's gone back two or three years prior to some of you being elected and what we felt was the most minimal impact to our residents, especially those living close and overall improvements to the flow.

[1:21:27] Thank you for putting my request for turf fields into the public domain.

[1:21:31] I did ask if we could, I did make that request public works and they ran me through the numbers

[1:21:39] and we're like, and also they didn't want to do it.

[1:21:42] Terry.

[1:21:43] Thank you.

[1:21:44] Thanks for the presentation.

[1:21:46] And I'm going to have, I've got two things to sort of, I think, clarify to be honest with you.

[1:21:51] And Keith, this might be for you, on that, on that last rendition, it almost looks larger

[1:21:56] than I think it does on Google Maps.

[1:21:59] and it might just be the way I'm looking at it.

[1:22:01] But is the intention to stay inside the sidewalks

[1:22:05] that sort of about the field if I'm looking at Google Maps?

[1:22:11] I believe that's what's shown on the drawing.

[1:22:14] Yeah, that's why it's kind of got the curves.

[1:22:16] And that's just kind of what it doesn't have to be exactly

[1:22:18] that shape that was just where we would get rid of that whole area

[1:22:22] would be reestablished at one time when we got done with the project.

[1:22:26] So it would all be consistently done the same.

[1:22:27] Yeah, I'm just pointing out that if you look at on Google Maps, it almost looks like pretty natural break points

[1:22:34] that sort of work for everybody, even though it is a long period of time, I agree with that, but it is what it is.

[1:22:40] And then I did not understand Cole's comment about being paid for some way.

[1:22:46] You're comment about that's part of the discussion. Did you say that's not part of the discussion that we're giving it to him?

[1:22:51] I mean, I'm just, I mean, I think that's what we've kind of been thinking on this due to the narrow the narrow width and the added benefit to our community.

[1:23:06] Okay. Thank you.

[1:23:08] I'll go with Ian first just because he hasn't spoken and then Betsy.

[1:23:11] Just since there's going to be a five foot, there's going to be a land acquisition or a conveyance in this whole arrangement.

[1:23:18] So I assume that means we're going to have to make sure we're on the up and up with the sale or

[1:23:23] advance of parkland and do the adequate notifications accordingly so we don't end up in a situation that

[1:23:31] happened recently nearby. So just leave it at that.

[1:23:37] Well in a follow-on to Terry's, when I look at this I do see it on this side but I just want to flag now and keep on

[1:23:44] the radar. We do not want to, we just planted the tree in honor of Sarah Milgram and I believe it's just on the

[1:23:50] other side of that sidewalk so everything we need to do to protect that I think will be important.

[1:23:57] Any other comments? And I will just very gently push back on the

[1:24:03] modifying the ball field. I'm not aware of any real inadequacies with the baseball field so it

[1:24:07] just seems like it's going to be restored versus unless you have some sort of suggested improvements

[1:24:11] that are coming because of this process or just going to basically restore it. Okay, so I don't

[1:24:17] necessarily attribute value to that. It's just a disruption. Ron?

[1:24:22] On that point, the current baseball field does flood, so any improvement would be good for that.

[1:24:32] Thank you, Ron. Any other comments?

[1:24:37] Okay, looks like we'll leave it there. Thank you very much coming tonight.

[1:24:39] Thank you.

[1:24:40] That's the only item we have on community of the whole, so I will accept a motion to adjourn

[1:24:44] back to City Council from Jim, second from Nick. All in favor adjournment, please raise your hand.

[1:24:50] That carries unanimously. Mayor, it's yours.

[1:24:53] Thank you, President.

[1:24:55] But do you have a motion for me, President Robinson?

[1:24:58] I do. One

[1:25:06] of my tabs.

[1:25:09] All right, Mayor, I move that the City Council recess into an executive session for a period

[1:25:13] of 20 minutes.

[1:25:15] Alex was trying to negotiate for 15, but for a period of 20 minutes on the subject of consultations

[1:25:20] with the city attorney, which would be deemed privileged in the attorney-client relationship

[1:25:24] that pursuant to KSA 75-4319 B2, the governing body,

[1:25:29] city administrator, deputy city administrator,

[1:25:31] assistant city administrators, and city attorney,

[1:25:34] will be present.

[1:25:35] The open meeting will resume at 744, okay, 744 PM mayor.

[1:25:43] Is there a second?

[1:25:45] Second by Nathan, any discussion council?

[1:25:48] All in favor, please say aye and raise your hand.

[1:25:50] Any opposed, please say nay and raise your hand.

[1:25:52] And we'll remain here.

[1:25:53] We'd ask our residents to give us the room.

[1:25:56] Thanks for being here tonight.

[1:25:58] Appreciate you.

[1:26:00] There will be no further business after this executive session

[1:26:04] other than to adjourn.

[1:26:06] And we will not take any binding action

[1:26:08] at this executive session.

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