And by the way, March is thirteen.

Oh, we have to like it.

Yeah, and we get a change there to work.

I don't choose I like the course of the first time.

Oh, I thought it was white.

Or not that one.

Good morning, Wichita, and good morning, all of you.

Good morning, staff.

We will begin.

Uh we have two council members that are here, but we're going to start.

Uh I call this meeting to order.

Before we begin, can we please stand for the pledge of allegiance?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

Undergone indivisible with liberty and justice are all Madame Clerk, please call the first item.

Council members, any edits to those minutes?

I see none.

I move to approve the minutes for the regular meeting of June 16th, 2026.

Second.

Motion second discussion.

See none.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, same sign.

Motion passes 70.

Madam Clerk, please call the next item.

They leave with respect and dignity and honor every resident and all communities.

They are working to create an environment that values shared goals with increased empathy and genuine dialogue.

We now come to the public agenda.

The public agenda allows for up to five speakers to have five minutes each to address the council.

Please bear in mind that this is not a period of dialogue with council or a question and answer period.

This is your opportunity to address the city council with your concerns.

I ask that you address your remarks to the city council as a body and not to any individual council member.

No action will be taken relative to items on the public agenda other than referral to the city manager for information as necessary.

Speakers will please speak into the microphone.

Please state their name and address for the record.

A time clock will display the speaker's remaining time to speak.

Order and rules of decorum will be observed.

We do not have any speakers currently signed up to speak today.

Would anyone in the audience like to address the council?

I see none.

We'll bring it back.

Madam Clerk, please call the next item.

Consent agenda items one through 19.

Council members, any items to be pulled.

I see none.

I move to approve consent agendas items one through 19.

Second.

Motion second.

Discussion.

See none.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, same sign.

Motion passes, 70.

Madam Clerk, please call the next item.

Board of Bids and Contracts.

Dated June 22nd, 2026.

Morning.

Mayor, City Council, Josh Lauber, Department of Finance.

Board of Bids and Contracts convened yesterday, June 22nd, 2026 for the following items.

We have for engineering the stormwater sewer number 834 2026 stormwater ditch grading and culvert cleaning program for RL utility solutions for an aggregate bid total of 166,502.

For purchasing, we have the riding front deck mowers for prairie land partners for an aggregate bid total of 84,886.

Requesting your authorization to extend the contract three months.

That'll allow us to bring back our new RFP we have completed for you.

Estimated.

And for airport, we have the upgrade of the Dwight D.

Eisenhower existing terminal building paging system for electronic contracting company for $1,079,817 and 14 cents.

This is how to do business with the city of Wichita.

This is our purchasing calendar, small business resource partner events the city's hosting or participating in.

And these are public opportunities out on the street opening on June 26th, July 10th, 17th, and 31st.

And I'll be happy to answer your questions and recommend your approval.

Thank you, Josh.

Questions for staff.

Can you please go back to slide number five?

Sure.

Usually the city takes the lowest bid.

Can you explain this one?

Yeah, fantastic question.

So the four-wheel drive articulated tree care handler was a unique instance.

We're U.S.

equipment sales and rental only bid option four for the 77,575, respectfully for the other vendor with no other options.

The bid document, the bid package explicitly outlined the base bid with options as selected by the department would be the determining factor.

The department has funding to purchase the other options.

The department requested options one, four, five, six, and seven.

So it was a low bid with only one of those options, but the aggregate total in alignment with the bid package was lowest.

Thank you, Josh.

And can you go back to slide number 15?

Sure.

These are the open bids available.

Can you just um sometimes people don't know that uh the city is always looking for vendors, whether local, um established or new businesses?

Can you talk about um specifically?

Uh we have a new fire station that will be constructed in Southwest Wichita.

So that's a bid that's open right now.

Correct.

Um we have a bid open for the construction of the new fire station, and all of our bids are are on our public website, Wichita.gov/slash procurement portal.

Um we want any vendors and all vendors that can participate.

So if you send those to myself, um, we also have our small and emerging business enterprise program where um small businesses are afforded 10 points on the evaluation criteria.

Um so we look forward to getting as many bids as we possibly can.

Question Josh, on the the uh parking garage dare replacement and beam repair.

What parking garage is that?

I believe it's the employee parking garage, but I'm gonna have to let someone from public works speak to that.

Oh, I would not know.

Okay.

Paul Ganselman Public Works and Utilities.

Yes, it is the employee parking garage, the uh Southwest stairs.

Are you sure it's not the old town garage?

No, it is not.

Sorry.

Thank you, Paul.

Thank you, Josh.

I see no further questions.

With that, I move to approve the boards of bids and contracts dated June 22nd, 2026.

Motion second discussion.

See none.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, same sign.

Motion passes 70.

Madam Clerk, please call the next item.

Council member agenda.

We don't have an agenda listed today unless council has an agenda to add.

Council members, any agenda items.

I see none.

Madam Clerk, please call the next item.

Council member appointments and comments.

Council members, any appointments.

I see none.

Council member comments.

I will just say thank you to City Manager Dennis, uh, Chief Sullivan and Chief Snow alongside uh the council this morning.

We visited district number one.

Uh Jimmy's diner had a fundraiser.

It was the 10th annual hot cakes for hope care in memory of Joe Davidson, and it's uh in benefit for a benefit for Grace Med Health Clinic.

So thank you all who volunteered their time, and uh thank you to our partners in our community that help all these nonprofits.

Councilmember Hoheisel.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh, is Chief Snow in the crowd?

She's not.

She's not okay.

Well, um, I believe it is her birthday today.

Oh, yeah so happy birthday, Chief Snow.

If anybody sees her in the hallway up here at City Hall, please embarrass her since she um avoided this one right here.

So thank you, Chi, for all you do.

And then uh council member for district one and six.

Do you have an event to share?

Go ahead.

Uh councilmember Shepard.

And I will be at Nasgar Park tomorrow for the uh Mexico um World Cup game.

So everyone is invited to come out and have fun.

We're gonna have food trucks, benders.

Shout out to Park and Rec for making this happen in WPD and everyone who's involved, but we've heard overwhelmingly from constituents both in district one and district six, really all of the districts that they wanted to see it happen again.

And so this is one of the ways that we can respond to our constituents uh immediately and hopefully you all come out and we have a full crowd.

And then also want to give a major shout out to uh Vice Mayor Glasscock.

If you weren't here on Saturday, you missed him dancing with the drum line from Topeka in the Juneteenth parade, uh, which was a great sight to see.

So uh thanks to Vice Mayor Glasscock for walking in the parade and for Councilmember Hohazel for coming out to Juneteenth and all the colleagues who, even though couldn't make it this year, have been out in previous years to support Juneteenth as well.

So really grateful for that.

Thank you, Council members.

With that, we cannot adjourn this meeting because we will have an executive session, so we will remain in um the meeting, but we will now have city manager Marstall take over for the workshop.

Thank you, Mayor and Council.

And I did want to highlight as we have on the screen there about the bid is out for fire station 23.

So we will be working on a groundbreaking um for that station once we have things lined up, but hopefully late summer, early fall, we will do a groundbreaking for that.

Um for our agenda item today for the workshop portion.

We have four items for you, and we'll start off today with our monthly update on the water works project.

Oh, we have a motion, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, she needs to make the motion.

With that, I move that the city council recess into executive session for 20 minutes to receive information on an EEOC case pursuant to KSA 75-4319B2 for legal consultation with the city attorney, which would be deemed privileged in the attorney-client relationship, pending litigation, legal advice.

This executive session is required to protect attorney client privilege and the public interest.

This executive session will begin at 4 32 p.m.

and end at 4 uh 47 p.m.

Oh 52.

52 p.m.

Uh are we gonna get a break though?

I would do it now.

We can do it.

No, we're just gonna stay here.

Let's just go.

The meeting will resume not in the council chambers, but the council board room, correct?

I don't know, JV.

How much money are we taking?

Here?

We're gonna do it here.

Okay.

All right.

So Jennifer Hill is here and has been waiting very patiently.

Oh Jennifer Dacon.

Yeah, right.

Uh-uh.

Do I get kicked off?

No, stay.

Is everybody else?

But is everybody else?

We had an issue when it's committed.

Yeah.

We'll call you Dalton.

Do you remember that happened one time?

Yes.

So you can just be on the street.

I'll call you on my cell phone.

Oh, Dalton.

Okay, sounds good.

We've got the other.

One time we did that and somebody was still on it.

Oh.

Yeah, it's a cozy.

This is all good though.

Right.

Jim and I went to Topeka and Matt.

You're back.

Okay.

I was listening the whole way.

I could have gone to Topeka.

I wish you could have too.

It was fantastic.

Thanks, Tyler.

Sorry, we killed your microphones.

Didn't stop us this time.

We set the record.

One, two, three, five.

I'm gonna have to, huh?

I mean, seven hours.

It's whoever builds the agenda is just putting all the controversial stuff on the head.

Hi.

I heard that.

This is all phone and not on air.

Yes, it does it off.

So we were just here a couple of weeks ago, so we're following up on the fuller matter.

Um, you can get a lot of a lot of people.