The Wichita City Council convened on January 20, 2026, at 3:00 PM UTC to address a range of items including routine approvals, a public comment on road safety, expansion of the Delano common consumption area, adoption of the 2026 city and joint state legislative agendas, and a significant contract amendment for the Wichita Waterworks project. The meeting featured extensive discussion on clarifier failures at the new water plant, liability and settlement negotiations, and culminated in unanimous votes on all items.
For spinning for the cloud. Kyle, the fixer of everything. One really long thing up. Yeah, yeah. Who was that guy? Thank you so much for the other. Please take a moment to silence your mobile device. If you wish to speak on an agenda item after the mayor invites public comment, proceed to the podium, state your name and address, and you will be given five minutes to speak. A timer can be viewed on the podium screen. You may speak one time per agenda item. Please refrain from clapping after other speakers. Thank you again for joining us today. Let's pause a moment for our television audience to join us. Well, good morning. Great to see everybody. Well, Father Heaven, I just uh thank you so much, God, for the place, the people of Wichita. God, what a great place you've given us, Lord, to be able to live and to work and to be able to raise our families. And Father, we thank you yesterday just for the opportunity. We had to remember Dr. Martin Luther King and how he reminded us that hate can't drive out hate, only love can. And help us, Father, just to continue to love others always. And Father, I want to especially pray today as we come together for our mayor and our city commissioners. I know what it means to carry the weight of leadership. And I pray that you just would lighten their load and that you would give them wisdom and discernment as they discuss the matters at hand today. And Father, I just uh thank you as well that you say that we can come to you and we're your we are weary and burdened, and you'll give us rest. And Father, I pray as well, just uh today for all of our first responders and the things they do to serve our city. God keep them safe, watch over them. Thank you for their example of sacrificial service. Uh we love you, God, and we just pray all this in Jesus' name. Amen. And to the republic, which is stands, under God, indivisible for liberty, and justice are all. Thank you, Pastor Carter. Madam Clerk, can you please call the first item? Approve the minutes of changing of the guard, January twelfth, two thousand twenty-six. Regular meeting, January thirteenth, two thousand twenty-six, and special meeting January fourteenth, two thousand twenty-six. Council members, any items to be edited. I see none. I move to approve the minutes of the changing of the guard, January twelfth, twenty twenty-six, regular meeting, January thirteenth, twenty twenty-six, and special meeting January fourteenth, twenty twenty-six. Second. Motion and a second, any further discussion. I see none. Madam Clerk, please open the roll. Aye. Motion passes seven zero. Madam Clerk, please call the next item. Awards and proclamations. Mayor, we only have one award today for Friends University Football. May I please invite Dr. Amy Bragg Carey of Friends University and her entire uh team that she brought with her, along with council member for District Four, Vice Mayor Dalton Glasscock to the front. We wanted to give a special recognition to the Friends University Falcons football team.