District 5 Advisory Board

Page |1 District V Advisory Board Minutes October 3, 2016 www.wichita.gov The District V Advisory Board meeting was held at 6:30 p.m. at Fire Station #21 located at 2110 N. 135th St W., Wichita, KS 67235. ATTENDANCE Members Present Staff Present Angela Breer Gary Janzen, City Engineer Jose Gutierrez Officer Lori Kimrey, WPD JV Johnston David McGuire, Park & Rec Jill Kerschen Shawn Mellies, Chief Design Engineer Trevor Kurth Kathy Morgan, Senior Planner, MAPD Troy Palmer Laura Rainwater, Community Rep. Roman Rodriguez Alissa Unruh Guests Council Member Bryan Frye Brian Lindebak Carrie Corliss Members Absent Dr. Carla Lee Ben Bradley Barby Jobe Ben Kittrell ORDER OF BUSINESS Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by JV Johnston Approval of October 3, 2016 Agenda: Approved 8-0 Approval of minutes from September 19, 2016: Approved 8-0 Board Agenda None Public Agenda Items Carrie Corliss, President, Family Promise: enables groups to unite to provide shelter, meals and compassionate assistance for homeless families.  New organization to Wichita– 200 affiliates in 40 states  Doors open October 23  Families make up 41% of all homeless  Wichita schools provided services to 2400+ homeless children ages 0-21 during the 2014/2015 school year  Wichita family shelter are routinely full  Five churches within District V have agreed to partnership  Page |2 Dr. Carla Lee, President, Westlink Neighborhood Association:  October 8 at 8:00am – Tree planting along Westlink Creek on west bank. Meet at Famer’s insurance on W. Central. Park & Rec Forestry Division will be providing mulch  NUSA Conference (Neighborhoods, USA) – May 24-27 in Omaha  Groundwater Contamination study completed by KUMC  January 17 – Annual Dinner at Park West Village Off-Agenda Items None Staff Reports Fire Department Report: No report (left on call) Community Police Report: Officer Lori Kimrey reported.  Construction site burglaries – Suspect identified  Larceny to autos still up. Please remove valuables from car!  Residential burglaries in Reflection Ridge. Suspect caught  Westside liquor store robberies – surveillance video is poor quality. Working with owners to upgrade security Park and Recreation Department Report: David McGuire, Division Manager, Park & Rec reported.  Difficult mowing season this year due to rain and long growing season. Extra funding has been allocated to increase staff and equipment  ICTrees – tree planting around City. Forestry Division is providing mulch  Grant funding to increase Forestry Dept. staff and equipment has been identified  Thursday, October 6, at 6PM at Sunset Park – Barry’s Recreation Station family event  Citizen inquiry about adding dog parks Libraries Report: Tracie Partridge, Westlink Branch Senior Librarian, provided written report to DAB members. Attached at the end of Minutes. Public Works Report: Gary Janzen, City Engineer, reported.  Kellogg/235 –  Southbound West St to westbound Kellogg reopened  SB 235 to WB Kellogg closed for a year  Elder St. at Maple is still closed and is being moved to the east  KDOT – Bridge repair along 235  Everything will be reopened in November  Work will resume in spring 2017 with completion in Fall 2017  OP3 Program – Crack sealing and micro-surfacing in neighborhoods  Water line replacement in Country Acres – 18 miles of water lines being replaced  New groundwater contamination site – Maple & Maize – KDHE reimbursing City to hook up properties to City water  13th Street west of Cowskin Creek bridge – was recently restriped. Citizen called to complain that is should be a no passing zone. Traffic engineer investigated and agreed. It was restriped double yellow no- passing zone. Action Taken: Motion made to receive and file all staff reports. Passed 8-0.  Page |3 New Business Tyler Road between 2nd and Central: Shawn Mellies, Chief Design Engineer, presented the revised design concept to add a left turn lane on Tyler Road from south of 2nd Street to north of Frazier where the existing section of Tyler is a five lane roadway. The intersection of Tyler and 2nd will be signalized, upgraded to accommodate pedestrian traffic, and pavement markings will be installed on 2nd Street to clearly identify a left and right turn movement for westbound traffic. The existing pedestrian signal on Tyler will be removed. Action Taken: Gutierrez motioned made to APPROVE the design concept presented by staff. Unruh seconded. PASSED 8-0. ZON2016-00039: Kathy Morgan, Senior Planner, MAPD, will present the request for City request to rezone from NR Neighborhood Retail and SF-5 Single-Family Residential to LC Limited Commercial on property located on the northeast corner of Maple Street and Tyler Road. Action Taken: Kurth, motioned to APPROVE staff recommendation with the addition of 1 ½ times the landscape screening requirements along SF-5 properties. Palmer seconded. Motion PASSED 7-0. Old Business None Meeting adjourned at 7:35 p.m. The next District V Advisory Board meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, November 7, 2016, at Fire Station #21, located at 2110 N. 135th St W., Wichita, KS 67235. Page |4