District 5 Advisory Board

Page |1 District V Advisory Board Minutes January 6, 2020 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 Jose Gutierrez Deputy Chief Josh Pavelski, Wichita Fire Department Trevor Kurth Division Chief Allan Gattis, Wichita Fire Department Rachel Murphy-Thomas Gary Janzen, Public Works and Utilities Roman Rodriguez Officer Bradley Haught, Wichita Police Department JV Johnston David McGuire, Park and Recreation Department Angela Breer Tracie Partridge, Wichita Public Library Jill Kerschen Cory Buchta, Community Services Representative Nancy Duling Trey Rios, Youth Member Council Member Bryan Frye Guests Members Absent Alan Kailer Alissa Unruh Marylin Sharp Ben Kittrell Troy Palmer ORDER OF BUSINESS Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by Bryan Frye Approval of January 6, 2020 Agenda: 7-0-0 Approval of December 2, 2019 Agenda: 7-0-0 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 7-0-0. BOARD AGENDA 3. Updates, Issues and Reports Tomorrow is Mayor Longwell’s last city council meeting. There have been some Proposed Community Improvement District – CID – up to 2 percent additional sales tax on the stadium district to help pay for the stadium. 1  Page |2 CM Frye explained the CID and how it works to clear up confusion. Explained it is not a blanket tax increase – very specific use, very targeted. Q (Public): Does CID involve the west bank? A: The motion is to approve the CID and amend the district to allow east bank revenue for east bank purposes and west bank revenue for west bank purposes. Mentioned specifically a new performing arts center generating sales tax revenue that will not go over to the stadium. STAFF REPORTS 4. Fire Department Report Chief Pavelski reported:  11 fire alarms, 27 service alarms, 235 medical alarms, total 273.  House fires – 300 block S. Socorra $170,000 loss. Exterior fire starting at trash container. 8400 block W. Central $40,000 loss. Candle in bedroom.  Recruit class about complete in February. 12 people graduating  Last 10-15 years we’ve had forcible entry tool. Those were taken away due to damage to vehicles. We have new tools and training videos going around. Only really used for person or pet inside car. Q (DAB): How many calls do you get for that? Rough estimate? A: More than you would think. 100s of locked cars in a month. 5. Community Police Report Officer Haught reported:  End of year numbers. 16 beat – 13% down on violent crimes and property crimes. 536 vs 617 for year. 3 year trend total 18% down. 19 beat. 1% up from year prior. 789 vs 784. 3 year trend up 8 $. 199 beat down 21% 513 vs 651. 3 year trend 14% down.  19 beat some of that attributed to population increase.  Auto theft warming assignment. DO that a couple times during the winter. Detectives go out early in the morning and look for unattended vehicles. Handed out 103 fliers in just 2 hours. A lot near central and ridge apartments  Late December, package theft assignment. 4 or 5 different days looking for suspected porch package thieves. Didn’t catch anyone. Q (DAB): I saw a car get egged. Is that increasing during holidays? A: Not that I’ve seen. Q (DAB): Seems like a lot of activity of people getting cars broken into. I’ve seen it on Next Door. A: I don’t think it is happening more, just people are talking about it more on social media. 6. Park & Recreation Department Report David McGuire reported:  Lots of classes going on now. At Lynette Woodard you can sign up for boxing and climbing.  Moon lit walk you can take at Great Plains Nature Center. But be careful of construct on one of the trails.  Spring break camps for kids in March. Quite a few of those.  Not too many park projects. About to rebid mowing. C (CM Frye): Got a lot of positive comments about the lighting of the menorah. Got asked about if we have a nativity scene. Who do they contact about that? A: They can contact me about that. 7. Wichita Public Library Report Tracie Partridge reported:  All libraries will be closed on January 20.  You can still check out eBooks and databases though on the 20th. 2  Page |3  Winter reading challenge month of January. As many people as possible read 2 books. Register it on Beanstack. We are competing against other libraries across the nation. If we win, we could get donated books and author visits.  2020 Read ICT challenge. Last year some of you participated. Started on Dec 29. 12 categories released.  Library has been hosting academy award shorts. January 8 KMUW will talk about history of academy awards.  January 12 Westlink branch program called tasting the past, exploring Kansas food traditions.  Family members that love Harry Potter and 8 years old or older. January 19 at 2:30 at Westlink. 1 Sunday a month Harry Potter class, potions, horticulture, etc.  Art is the Game program at Westlink. Families for ages 4 and up. January 23rd. Work together to paint something. Spin little wheel and it will tell you what you have to do to your canvas. 8. Public Works & Utilities Report Gary Janzen reported:  2020 Pavement Preservation Program.  Left to be completed in 2019 program. Annual funding from CIP and operating budget about 10 million per year. We have a 40 year model. Looks at optimized program to get best return on investment. To get more return on investment. Working well. We have found a good spot to be. We continue to get good input from the public.  Micro surfacing of residential streets to be completed in 2nd quarter of 2020.  Maize and Tyler will receive new surface asphalt overlay in spring.  Sidewalk work on 13th from Ridge to Scouller. Based on requests from public. Funding each year. Built sidewalk on east side of Ridge 21st to Cloisters.  2020 program. Gave map that shows work city wide. A lot of crack seal and preservative seal. Preservative seal and crack seal. Helps to make roads longer. Best return on dollar and cover most pavement.  Map available on website. Also list of each district on website. Totals expenditures across city. Around $10.9 million for 2020. Funding allocated to each district based on percentage of lane miles in that district. C (CM Frye): Started in 2013. Spending $6 million on pavement preservation now almost $11 million. Council has doubled down on road improvements. A: That 11 million is set to increase. In about 5 years it will approach 14 million. This model has been the best thing we’ve done. In 2011, before looking at different pavement treatments. It costs a lot of money to put down new road surface. In 2011 we touched 80 miles and spent all 6 million. 2016 we’ve touched 800 miles of roadway. There are several roads with zero remaining service life in them. But if we only spend on those, then all other roads degrade fast. We have found a really good sweet spot that dedicates 40 to bottom half and 60 percent to top half.  Fixing and sealing cracks doesn’t look very good but it’s a great repair for the road, especially with extreme temperature changes. Keeping moisture out of cracks. Something we haven’t done in the past.  Preservative seal going on new resurfaced roads. Best thing we can do to make roads last.  We’ve been putting up signs letting public know what work is coming up. This year we got ahead of program and work on Central. Won’t have a lag in work like in the past.  Localized repairs – doesn’t look at full block sections but rather problem sections. New to the program this year.  Still working bike path from zoo and hoover up to K96. Finally through most issues. Working on traffic signal plans right now. Ordering signal equipment. Very limited number of vendors nationwide. Right now 5-6 month wait time on new traffic signal. We can order once we have design. Hope to have signal in place by late spring. Acquiring easements for path itself. 3  Page |4  Improvements on 135th. Finally had a breakthrough. One easement we needed to acquire. Valued at $15,000. Counter offer was over a million. Finally offered $75,000. Appraiser for eminent domain came in at $56,000. They can appeal but it will not stop the project by law. Construct under way by March or April. We will invite everyone along corridor to meet and talk specifics.  29th and Maize intersection. Plans are done. Ready to bid by middle of February. Northbound right turn lane. West bound 29th street traffic to create more space. Construction in the spring.  Aquatics Master Plan. 6 pools and 6 splash pads. First 6 locations ready to go – 3 pools 3 splash pads. Bid in November and prices came in way higher than anticipated. 1 bidder. Lose competitiveness of bidding process. Taking a step back. We have some recommended changes. Nothing major. Looking at having everything done for 2021. Harvest Pool in D5 is part of phase 2. Should be done by May of 2021.  Plan to put in traffic signal at 37th and Tyler. Not warranted but close. Maize adding school and other development means we feel comfortable moving forward. City and school district may split cost. Hope to have signal up by summer.  2 arterial corridors. 37th street between ridge and maize. Evergy scheduled for March. We pay a per month fee. They put it up. Total cost for street light is $6 million. Citizen requests.  On 21st between 119th and 135th. Part of road in county. Part of it served by Evergy and rural electric. Working on getting that worked out to have lighting in. Q (DAB): 101st and Maple. Hyde addition. Getting new homes. Will you do a traffic signal? A: I don’t think it warrants it now, but we can look at it.  East Kellogg is open and looks really cool. Looks very different. Without stopping at signals it moves quite well. A year ahead of schedule. Action Taken: Motion to receive and file. Motion PASSED 8-0-0. NEW BUSINESS 9. Fireworks 2019 Review Acting Deputy Chief Josh Pavelski and Division Chief Allan Gattis, Wichita Fire Department, presented a review of 2019 Fireworks Summary. Showed a breakdown on the number of fireworks causes fires over the last 5 years. Showed a breakdown of the number of fireworks complaints calls over las 5 years. For fireworks ordinance enforcement effort. Doubled forces from 2018. Did it on July 3rd and 4th. Wrote 59 citations. Fewer citations than 2018. Showed map of 911 complaints and citations issued 2018 and 2019. $45,000 from sales permits of fireworks to pay for initiative. With leftover money the City put on a bigger fireworks display. Response from fireworks survey. 5,000 responses to the survey. Should we have additional changes – 72% said yes. 51% wanted whatever legal in KS and Sedgwick County to be legal. 24% wanted what was current. 19% said no fireworks legal. Currently we do 9 days to shoot off. 37% leave alone. 27% 4 days. 13% 1 day. Currently fireworks shot 10am to midnight. Should daily ending time be changed? 37% no change. 38% 10pm. 15% 11pm. Does enforcement of fireworks impact personal use/ 39% I don’t use 32% I only use legal. 22% I use illegal fireworks. 59% said firework usage hasn’t changed in their neighborhood. Q (DAB): What’s the next step now that you have info? A: That goes back to council. We gather the data and enforce the ordinance council decides. 4  Page |5 A (CM Frye): I think we are making improvements. Q (DAB): Using media to get the word out. A (CM Frye): We’ve been using social media and local media to get the word out. It’s making a difference I think. A: We also went door to door based on the complaint call map from 2018. A (CM Frye): Before this we haven’t done any enforcement or outreach so it has made a difference. Q (DAB): Any issues making sure fireworks stands are selling the right thing? A: Our stands are not supposed to sell the illegal stuff, but we know that it happens. It’s hard to enforce. A (CM Frye): July 4th is on a Saturday this year. At this point no recommendation to change anything. Q (DAB): Is there any advantage to the 9 days before rule? A: That’s a state rule not our rule. It’d be easier to control if it were just 4 days. Meeting was adjourned at 7:36 p.m. The next DAB V meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., Monday, February ##, 2020, Fire Station #21, 2110 N. 135th St., Wichita, KS 67235. 5