The Tourism Advisory Board will meet on Thursday, September 10^th, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. in the City Commission Meeting Room at City Hall, 123 S. Main. This meeting is open to the public.

The Tourism meeting will be available on the City’s YouTube channel.

The Design Review Board will meet on Wednesday, September 9^th, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. at the City Hall Commission Meeting room at 123 S. Main Street, Fort Scott, Kansas. This meeting will be held to discuss a Certificate of Appropriateness for signage in the downtown area for the walking trail, and a Certificate of Appropriateness for signage and alterations to a building at 113 S. National and any others matters to be brought before the Board. This meeting is open to the public.

This meeting will be made available via the City’s you tube channel at City of Fort Scott.

AGENDA

FORT SCOTT CITY COMMISSION

BUCK RUN COMMUNITY CENTER

COREY LARSON GYMNASIUM

735 SCOTT AVENUE

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

6:00 P.M.

Updated was the following:

Design Review Board meeting minutes on the signage dimensions at 124 E. Wall Street.

Added:

#1 under Consideration:  Consideration to adopt Code of Procedures for the Commission of the City of Fort Scott.

#6 – Approval of Airport Storage Facility Lease Agreement and Hangar Lease Agreement – Heinen Brothers Agra Services, Inc.

I. ROLL CALL:

K. ALLEN P. ALLEN NICHOLS WATTS MITCHELL

II. FLAG SALUTE:

III. INVOCATION: Pastor (to be announced)

IV. PROCLAMATIONS/RECOGNITIONS:

V. CONSENT AGENDA:

1. Approval of minutes of the regular meeting of August 18^th, 2020 and special meeting of August 20^th, 2020.

2. Approval of Appropriation Ordinance 1270-A totaling $1,554,358.29.

3. Request to Pay #2 – Home Center Construction, Inc. – $29,232.00 – Water Treatment Plant Fire Damage

4. Request to Pay #3 – Home Center Construction, Inc. – $30,225.50 – Water Treatment Plant Fire Damage

5. Certificate of Appropriateness – Sign at 19 S. National – Structures by Margo

6. Certificate of Appropriateness – Sign at 124 E. Wall – H-Bar Suites – Hole in the Wall Liquor

7. Request to Pay – HDR Engineering, Inc. – River Intake Project – $6,394.38

8. July financials

VI. APPEARANCE/COMMENTS/PUBLIC HEARING:

1. APPEARANCE:

Anne Rawlins – Sewer Incident

B. CITIZEN COMMENTS (Concerning Items Not on Agenda – 5 minute limit per citizen)

C. PUBLIC HEARINGS/COMMENTS:

VII. CONSIDERATION:

1. Consideration to adopt Code of Procedures for the Commission of the City of Fort Scott

2. Report from City Attorney on Union Lofts project

3. Sale/Destruction of firearms

4. Furniture at First Source building

5. Skitch’s Hauling & Excavation Invoice – July port-a-potties – $3,335.50

6. Approval of Airport Storage Facility Lease Agreement and Hangar Lease Agreement – Heinen Brothers Agra Services, Inc.

VIII. COMMENTS:

1. Director Updates:

2. Commission:

3. City Attorney:

4. City Manager:

EXECUTIVE SESSION:

I MOVE THAT THE CITY COMMISSION RECESS INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.

THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE RECESS IS THE DISCUSSION OF:

The statutory justification for the recess is:

K.S.A. 75-4319(b)(1) – to discuss matters of non-elected personnel;

K.S.A. 75-4319(b)(2) – consultation with the City Attorney on matters that would be deemed privileged in the attorney-client relationship;

K.S.A. 75-4319(b)(3) – to discuss employer-employee negotiations whether or not in consultation with the representative(s) of the public body or agency;

K.S.A. 75-4319(b)(4) – to discuss data relating to financial affairs or trade secrets of corporations, partnerships, trusts, and individual proprietorships;

K.S.A. 75-4319(b)(6) – for the preliminary discussion of the acquisition of real property.

The Executive Session will be for _________ minutes long and the open meeting will resume at ___________ am/pm.

X. MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT: ROLL CALL

The Street Advisory Board will meet on Thursday, September 3^rd, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. at the City Commission Meeting Room at 123 S. Main Street.

This meeting will be made available via the City’s youtube channel at City of Fort Scott.

The City of Fort Scott Administrative Office will be closed on Monday, September 7^th, 2020 in observance of the Labor Day holiday. The offices will reopen on Tuesday, September 8^th, 2020.

The City’s tree and brush dump site located on North Hill will also be closed on Saturday, September 5^th, 2020 for the Labor Day holiday. It will be open again on Tuesday, September 8^th, 2020 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

CITY OF FORT SCOTT

SPECIAL CITY COMMISSION MEETING

Minutes of August 20, 2020 Special Meeting #8

A special meeting of the Fort Scott City Commission was held August 20^th, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. in the City Commission Meeting Room, 123 S. Main Street, Fort Scott, Kansas.

ROLL CALL:

Commissioners Kevin Allen, Pete Allen, and Lindsey Watts were present with Mayor JoLynne Mitchell presiding. Randy Nichols was absent.

AUDIENCE IN ATTENDANCE: Ron Rogers and Nate Stansberry.

CONSIDERATION:

1. Consideration of Rogers & Sons Concrete Invoice – 500 block of Andrick Street – Nate Stansberry, City Engineer, said he went out to the job location with Chad Brown, Public Works Director, and is in agreement with the amount he has proposed to be paid to the contractor and agrees with the quantities.

Discussion was held regarding measurements.

J. Mitchell moved to approve the amount of $25,008.00 to be paid to Rogers & Sons Concrete for the project in the 500 block of Andrick Street. L. Watts seconded. All voted aye.

APPROVED TO PAY THE AMOUNT OF $25,008.00 TO ROGERS AND SONS CONCRETE FOR THE 500 BLOCK OF ANDRICK PROJECT.

L. Watts moved to adjourn the special meeting at 11:56 a.m. K. Allen seconded. All voted aye. Motion carried.

ADJOURNED SPECIAL MEETING AT 11:56 A.M.

The next regularly scheduled meeting is to be held on September 1^st, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.

RECORDED BY:

DIANE K. CLAY

CITY CLERK