District 5 Advisory Board

Page |1 District V Advisory Board Minutes September 4, 2019 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 Nancy Duling Capt. Jason Lindell, Wichita Fire Department Jose Gutierrez Officer Lori Kimrey, Wichita Police Department Rachel Murphy-Thomas David McGuire, Park & Recreation Department Roman Rodriguez Tracie Partridge, Senior Librarian Jill Kerschen Shawn Mellies, Public Works and Utilities Alissa Unruh Cory Buchta, Community Services JV Johnston Representative Ben Kittrell Trey Rios, Youth Member Guests Council Member Bryan Frye Terry Greshem Jason Mundell Members Absent Marylin Sharp Trevor Kurth Troy Palmer Angela Breer ORDER OF BUSINESS Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by Bryan Frye Approval of September 4, 2019 Agenda: 8-0-0 Approval of August 5, 2019 Agenda: 8-0-0 PUBLIC AGENDA This portion of the agenda provides an opportunity for citizens to present issues that are not part of the regular agenda for the meeting. There is a five minute time limit for each speaker. 1. Scheduled Items NONE 2. Off-agenda Items NONE Action Taken: Motion to receive and file. Motion PASSED 8-0-0. BOARD AGENDA 3. Updates, Issues and Reports NNO – 11 parties in 3 hours Baseball – taking shape – grass coming in soon Water treatment plant project update given STAFF REPORTS 1  Page |2 4. Fire Department Report Capt. Jason Lindell reported:  7 fire alarms, 53 service, 238 medical alarms total.  Cross training hazmat team and technical rescue team. 4 members in Jacksonville, FL to assist with hurricane efforts including K-9 search and rescue and new communication command bus. 5. Community Police Report Officer Lori Kimrey reported:  Beat 19 –  Stealth Stat Box – radar in a box. Monitor speeding in neighborhoods. o This month – 9900 W. Westport in Fox Ridge. Average speed 25mph. Curves make it look like people are going faster. o 1952 cars – 5 going over speed o 1001 Socorro – 452 cars – 11 going over speed  Open Streets on 9/22  199 beat model home burglaries. Somebody in custody but not sure if they worked alone  21st and Hillbrook, people complaining people are using shoulder/bike lane to pass. During rush hour. Contacted Lee Carmichael – looking to set up something to alleviate. 6. Park & Recreation Department Report David McGuire reported:  Golf guide is out.  Lots of mowing and tree trimming – challenging season.  Splash pad through end of Sept.  Open Streets coming up Sept 22.  Keeper K9 5K Classic – Oct 12. Leave from Keeper on bike path to have K9 run. .  Watson Park – peddle boats to go trick or treating.  Family camp out at Watson Park in November  Night with Santa and Polar Express event.  Pracht Wetlands – Westar went out and planted seeds and other native plants to start building bridge from the neighborhood on the east side. Donated all of that work. That will get us to half way around the park. Path will be short mow/dirt path. Q (DAB): Crystal Prairie Lake what’s going on with that? A (CM Frye): Back side of brooks landfill. Have been mining and dredging for several years to be a recreational area. Continual dredging operation for about 2 more years. No other funding or plans for it now. We have it master planned. Public swim beach. Cable wake park. Picnic areas. Shelters, pavilion rentals. Walking path. But that’s all in the master plan – no specific plan or finding yet. Still a ways off. A (McGuire): Had a talk with Kansas Wildlife about getting a fishery established. Fish and game have done some testing to see what they would need to do to make it a good fishery. A (CM Frye): You can see it start to take shape. Q (DAB): Is there a plan to remove median from where parking lot is on north side of Pracht because you can’t turn into it going westbound? A: Delayed until we get a better idea of ultimate footprint. Waiting to see where curb cuts will be. Drive we have now is temporary. That’s why we haven’t cut median yet. Q (DAB): Are U-turns allowed there? A: You can, yes. 2  Page |3 7. Wichita Public Library Report Tracie Partridge reported:  Big read initiative Oct 1 – Nov 15. Get as many people as possible to read same book. This year book is Lab Girl. o Kickoff party – Sat Sept 28 2-4pm at ALL – give away free copies of the book.  Story times start next week – Birth to 5. Westlink Tuesday 10:30 babies. Also have preschool and nursery rhyme time.  Sept 12 at 6:30 Book Bonanza. Did it in January. This one library selectors will talk about favorite fiction and non-fiction items.  50th anniversary of Sesame Street o Sept 20 at 10:30 – 11:15 children 2-5 welcome to celebrate  Sunday 29, 2:30-3:30 Alzheimer’s Association will talk about impact of Alzheimer’s, risk factors, and treatments. 8. Public Works & Utilities Report Shawn Mellies shared the following:  2019 Pavement Preservation Program o Continue through fall o Micro surfacing in 2020 – Stafford to Maize and Tyler Maple to 2nd  Hoover bike path from Sedgwick Co Park to 29th – design concept has been approved. Looking at signal piece – have to acquire right of way – that will take a while. Looking at doing signal ahead of time. Signal is warranted now.  13th St from Cowskin to 135th. Right of way negotiations have not gone well. Started eminent domain process. All of utilities have relocated. This is last piece. Maybe sometime this fall. They can ask for delays. Project would take about a year. Does not signalize intersection on 135th.  29th and Maize intersection project was approved. Moved construction funding up to spring of 2020. Utilities relocation and area is subject to – don’t want to start in middle of holiday shopping season. Will start in the spring.  37th and Tyler – looking to signalize intersection. Under design. 4 way stop now. Planning to bid this fall depending on budget.  Arterial sidewalks. Ridge road from 29th the Cloisters. 13th, from ridge to – 37th between Ridge and Ridgeport – started taking a look at that – won’t be done this year – looking at right of way and relocating a fence. Q (DAB): Situation with sidewalk – has that been communicated with the church? A (CM Frye): Yes. They approached me and a lot of people in that neighborhood would like it. I have shared that with Father Dan. Action Taken: Motion to receive and file. Motion PASSED 8-0-0. NEW BUSINESS 9. ICT-1 Update Malachi Winters, Sedgwick County, presented an update on the ICT-1 (Integrated Care Team). Crisis response, crisis intervention team. Getting calls from 911 system, first response calls, and calls straight from mental health groups. Vehicle donated from WFD, so it’s red. Pick and chooses a lot of their own calls. Not every single mental health crisis can be responded to with this team. Pick the ones where they make the most impact. Running list of clients to visit. This is not mobile crisis unit. That is from ComCare. They send out mental health person and case worker. Issue is that is not meant to be very reactive. Often pre-scheduled visits and can be a waitlist of 30 days or more. ICT-1is meant to help right now. 3  Page |4 Things we track – calls where we don’t make contact (25%), treatment placed calls (42%), and transports (33%). Not a taxi service, but we will do that right thing at the right now. Will transport to emergency department. Have been up and running for just over 30 days. 30 day data – 107 people seen. Not a 7 day a week program. Highest call volume, Tuesday through Friday. Each call takes about an hour and a half. A lot of requests coming in. Freed up over 80 911 resources. Police officers, fire trucks, ambulances back out on the street. Some success stories already. Strong evidence this group can do some things that just haven’t been possible before. Success story #1 23 yr old female experienced recent traumatic death from car accident. She was feeling suicidal. Self- medicating with alcohol and drugs. Traditional access to MH services not an option because she worked in that field and there was no possibility of privacy. Was not willing to utilize resources. Went out and assessed. Medically cleared. Problem solved. Needed intense impatient stabilization. Working on plan for different city outside of Wichita. Arranged daily visits and check ins. Established rapport. Wasn’t seen in hospital and not exposed. Got her connected with family. Got us thinking, what do we do for our own? Maybe we bring the help to them? Real concern about privacy issue. Success story #2 Elderly homeless woman out in sun. Severe 2nd degree burns to legs. Mental health issues. Generating about 5 calls a day. Washing wounds with storm drain water. Not well. Very injured. But response was always to refuse help. Brought in officers from her beat. Set up game plan for how to engage. Got to know people who know her. Did in depth screening and mental evaluation under direct guidance of physician. Was able to treat her and she had a remarkable recovery. Small sampling of things we’ve been doing. Outside of the box creative thinking. Great results. C (CM Frye): Collaboration of seven different agencies. Doing this without raising any tax dollars. Existing resources. Vehicle and equipment donated. Using existing hours. Members volunteered for it. See it as another way to help with mental illness issue. Not final solution, just a pilot. Allows resources for more emergency situations. Doing its job. Right care at place they need it. Right now operating in downtown. Will deploy all over county, but deploying out of downtown. Have made calls to Cheney and Derby. Q (DAB): Hours Tuesday through Friday? A: Looked at 911 data to see when calls come in. Data showed Tuesday is busiest day and tapers on down to Friday. Everyone was surprised about that, but that’s the nice thing about looking at data. Q (DAB) I work downtown. Lot of homeless people. Just recently learned that there are other communities that are loading their homeless up and bringing them here and dropping them off. Had you heard of that? A: We’re aware of that. C (DAB) Tempe, Arizona and Kansas City A: Sheriff is working on that. He is working with the state on that. C (CM Frye): Similar situation with discharged felons getting dropped in Wichita. Talking with state officials to make sure they’re discharged where the crimes occurred. Homeless or discharged felons. We take care of our people and now we are getting taken advantage of. Mental health one of the biggest things they deal with now. Q (DAB): Do you see more of pilot on taking care of your own now? 4  Page |5 A: I’d love to. Probably its own initiative. Each dept. has own internal; peer support network. They tend to operate independently. Q (DAB): What’s next step for ICT-1? A: Hope we get additional funding for that. Q (DAB): Of people serviced, what percentage drug/alcohol vs mental illness? A: A lot of overlap. Couldn’t tell you. Medication for mental illness, sometimes treating with drug and alcohol makes them feel better. Everyone on team is well trained in both. Action Taken: Motion to receive and file made by Alissa Unruh. Seconded by Jose Gutierrez. Motion PASSED 8-0-0. 10. Riverfront Legacy Master Plan Shelley Prichard, Wichita Community Foundation, presented an update on the Riverfront Legacy Master Plan. Studies have been done since 2013. Everything is on table as possibility. Not saying tear down Century 2. Working with Populous out of Kansas City. Kicked off on July 31st at Boat House. Standing room only. Lots of community came out. Gathered a lot of ideas. Populous looking at all that. Wasn’t a time for people to stand up and talk. But there will be plenty of opportunity for that. Sept 24th and 25th Urban Exploration walks to check out those things. In the evening and around noon. Guided tour with time to stop and talk. Imagine what can be and understand reality of space. October 17th, folks will present research. Location TBD. Will look at what type of business would make sense in that space. Another subcontractor will look at greenspace, how it connects, etc. How do we get across the street to Exploration Place and Library? November, recommendations. January a public meeting with recommendations. Call anyone on coalition team with your ideas. Community foundation has decided to work with Knight Foundation to do intensive community engagement. Two big containers on Kennedy Plaza. He’s painting river on one side. Will kick off Friday. Launch with food trucks and activities. Legacy lounge. 4x6 signs will have information. Will have visuals of other cities and their big projects to get us thinking. We will have a mailbox for citizens to give us their ideas. Will be at open streets and chili cook-off. Encouraging people to give feedback as often as we can. C (CM Frye): This is the next biggest decision facing the city. This is what makes a community above and beyond. It’s an opportunity to do something fantastic. Encourage friends and family to get involved. We’re really doing this for economic development. Action Taken: Motion to receive and file made by Roman Rodriguez. Seconded by Nancy Duling. Motion PASSED 8-0-0. 11. ZON2019-00029 and CON2019-00027 Philip Zevenbergen, Metropolitan Area Planning Department, presented an application for a zoning case with conditional use. 2750 North Tyler. Dentist office now. Requesting rezone from neighborhood office to general office and conditional use for personal care. Wants to lease out space to more tenants. Only wants those two types of uses for personal care. Include beauty and barber shop, shoe shining, tailors, dry cleaning, and electrolysis. Portrait shops, massage therapists, health and fitness, etc. He doesn’t have an intended use in mind. Conditions and protective overlay as well. Provides additional rules. Nothing is really changing on property just allowing 2 additional uses. Case was heard at planning commission August 21. 11-0-1. 1 phone call from gentleman in area. No concerns just curious. Listed out all possible uses. Decided we wouldn’t want to allow a few things like neighborhood laundry, swim club, and a couple others. Still has to go to City Council for final approval. Protest petition is due tomorrow. 5  Page |6 No questions from DAB Action Taken: Motion to APPROVE the application as presented made by Jose Gutierrez. Seconded by Rachel Thomas-Murphy. Motion PASSED 8-0-0. C (CM FRYE): Rachel went through CEA – starting in October – 8 weeks, meets Wednesday nights. Find out how city works. Meeting was adjourned at 7:43 p.m. The next DAB V meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 4, 2019, Fire Station #21, 2110 N. 135th St., Wichita, KS 67235. 6