AGENDA

FORT SCOTT CITY COMMISSION

FORT SCOTT CITY HALL

COMMISSION ROOM

123 SOUTH MAIN

APRIL 7, 2020

6:00 P.M.

I. ROLL CALL:

K. ALLEN P. ALLEN NICHOLS WATTS MITCHELL

II. FLAG SALUTE:

III. INVOCATION: None

IV. PROCLAMATIONS/RECOGNITIONS:

Fair Housing Month Proclamation – April

National Safe Digging Month Proclamation – April

National Service Recognition Day Proclamation – April 7, 2020

National Library Week Proclamation – April 19-25, 2020

National Library Workers Day Proclamation – April 21^st, 2020

V. CONSENT AGENDA:

1. Approval of minutes of the regular meeting of March 31^st, 2020.

2. Approval of Appropriation Ordinance 1260-A totaling $736,063.92.

3. Quit Claim Deed – City of Fort Scott to Margaret P. Cummings-3 ½” of alley (Amended legal description)

VI. APPEARANCE/COMMENTS/PUBLIC HEARING:

1. APPEARANCE: None

B. CITIZEN COMMENTS (Concerning Items Not on Agenda – 5 minute limit per citizen) Comments will not be taken during this meeting. If you have a topic to discuss not listed on the agenda, please contact a City Commissioner or send a written request to [email protected].

C. PUBLIC HEARINGS/COMMENTS: None

VII. CONSIDERATION:

1. Donation of Lunette Blair Blockhouse to the National Parks Service

2. Consideration of painting/resurfacing Aquatic Center bids

3. Consideration of Resolution No. 9-2020 declaring a local State of Emergency and temporarily expanding the authority of the City Manager

4. Consideration of Ordinance No. 3559 – Ordinance appropriating the amounts for each fund in the budget until the Governor rescinds her Executive Order

5. Consideration of Request for Qualifications for a City Engineering firm.

6. Consideration of Charter Ordinance relating to the filling of vacancies in elected public offices

VIII. COMMENTS:

1. Director Updates: None

2. Commission:

3. City Manager:

EXECUTIVE SESSION:

I MOVE THAT THE CITY COMMISSION RECESS INTO EXECUTIVE

SESSION FOR ________________________________ IN ORDER TO

(see below justification)

DISCUSS ______________________________________. THE

EXECUTIVE SESSION WILL BE ___________ MINUTES AND THE OPEN

MEETING TO RESUME AT ________________.

Justifications for Executive Sessions:

• Personnel matters of non-elected personnel

• Consultation with an attorney for the body or agency which would be deemed privileged in the attorney-client relationship

• Matters relating to employer-employee negotiations whether or not in consultation with the representative or representatives of the body or agency

• Confidential data relating to financial affairs or trade secrets of corporations, partnerships, trusts and individual proprietorships

• Preliminary discussions relating to the acquisition of real property

X. MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT: ROLL CALL