The Olathe City Council held its regular meeting on Tuesday, October 15, 2024, at 7:00 PM in the Council Chamber. The meeting included recognition of the city's Storm Ready status, a public hearing on a de-annexation, approval of the consent agenda with one item pulled for discussion, several new business items including industrial revenue bonds for a Heartland Coca-Cola facility and land acquisition for the new animal shelter, council member announcements, a report on proposed traffic ordinance amendments, an executive session, and a late public comment period. The meeting adjourned at 7:48 PM.
All items on the consent agenda were approved in a single motion (7-0), with the exception of Item O which was pulled by Councilmember Felter and considered separately.
Good evening. Welcome to the regular meeting of the Olatha City Council for Tuesday, October 15th, 2024. The first item on our agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance. Would you please stand with me for the pledge? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Liberty and Justice Raw. We'll now move to special business. Living in Kansas means weather can be pretty wild sometimes, even dangerous. As a city, we understand the importance of being aware and prepared for severe weather and ensuring our residents are too. Jonathan Kurtz with the National Weather Service is with us tonight, along with Olatha Fire Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, Rob Cole, and Special Operations Division Chief, Toby Aldridge. Would you individuals like to come up? Yeah. Thanks for being here. We don't have any complaints about the weather here. I'd love to have complaints about the first time. So for all of you in our area, you know that no community to be storm group, every community storm ready. So you appreciate the words of managers to see the way that we'll process review that certification. So awesome. Thank you so much. And if you would fire by talk about how we get storm ready. No, absolutely. Thank you very much, Jonathan. Uh it's an honor as a city uh to be able to not only accept your street sign here, but also to be able to renew our status as a storm ready community with you all for the next four years. Uh it's truly great to see just that all the efforts that we put in as a city uh to keep our community safe. Not only the citizens' lives and their property um is paying off, but also um getting recognized for it. Uh we very much uh value our partnership with the National Weather Service and plan to be even more prepared as we push into the future for significant weather events. So thanks. Appreciate it. Um yes, uh again, thank you. I appreciate everything that uh National Weather Service does. They support us for special events, they provide weather briefings, um, they help us when we exercise, when we do the city exercise, they provided a scenario uh when we did the community disaster resiliency uh exercise. They provided a winter storm scenario, so they are just fantastic partners, and I just really appreciate everything they do. Thanks. Thanks for being here. And where are the citizens? Where do they find out more about being storm ready and how they can participate? Uh you can find more at uh weather.gov forward slash KC, Kansas City Forecast Office. Where's the sign good? That's a great question. I I think uh I think that's being discussed between uh Chief DeGraf and Reed uh Mrs. Gay here. All right. So let's take a quick picture off something. Thank you all for being there and for uh all our uh employees that work so hard are making sure that we're prepared. So the police and firefighters in our community, we appreciate it. Uh we'll now move to uh uh public hearings. I'd like to open a public hearing in consideration of ordinance number 24-42, which is annexation 24-003 requesting approval of a de-annexation to exclude approximately 186.22 acres located northeast of West 175th Street and Clare Road from the corporate boundaries of the City of Olatha. Uh the property owner requested de-annexation according to the process outlined in the annexation agreement with the city. Um is there any need for uh is anyone signed up to speak? No, sir.