Pittsburg City Commission Meeting Recap – July 26 | City of Pittsburg

PITTSBURG, KS – The next actions have been taken on the Pittsburg Metropolis Fee assembly held on Tuesday, July 26, 2022:

Public Enter:

• Bishop Walter Simpson shared a prayer of invocation.
• Pittsburg residents Martin Dupslaff and Kevin Calm expressed issues in regards to the Oxford Home at 2404 South Homer.

The next objects have been authorised beneath the consent agenda:

• The July 12, 2022, Metropolis Fee Assembly minutes.

• Ordinance No. S-1085, levying a particular evaluation towards the tons or parcels of land on which refuse matter was positioned, to pay the price of making the premises secure and hygienic.

• Ordinance No. S-1086, levying a particular evaluation towards the tons or parcels of land on which a public nuisance was positioned, to pay the price of abating the nuisance.

• Ordinance No. S-1087, levying a particular evaluation towards the tons or parcels of land on which existed weeds or obnoxious vegetable development, to pay the price of slicing or eradicating mentioned development.

• Visitors Advisory Board request to put cease indicators on the intersections of seventeenth & North Grand, seventeenth & North Smelter, and tenth & North Miles.

• Appropriation Ordinance for the interval ending July 26, 2022.

The next objects have been thought-about beneath the principle agenda:

• FIVE YEAR FINANCIAL FORECAST – Metropolis Supervisor Daron Corridor and Metropolis Finance Director Larissa Bowman offered the five-year monetary forecast, which is a long-term planning doc that guides the town’s budgeting course of. Corridor and Bowman shared the town’s suggestions to deal with expenditures, and match tempo with rising working prices, with out growing the mill charge. The governing physique voted to formally undertake the five-year monetary plan.

• PRESENTATION OF THE CITY MANAGERS SUBMITTED 2023 BUDGET – Metropolis Supervisor Daron Corridor and Metropolis Director of Finance Larissa Bowman offered the Metropolis Supervisor’s Submitted Finances for 2023. On August 9, 2022, the town commissioners will focus on the submitted finances. A public listening to is scheduled for September 13, 2022 for the submitted finances and income impartial charge, at which era the fee will formally undertake the finances for 2023. See submitted finances doc.

 Non-agenda reviews & requests:

• BULKY ITEM PICK UP EVENT – Public Works & Utilities Director Matt Bacon recapped the cumbersome merchandise pick-up occasion on July 18. Town deployed three metropolis crews, and stuffed eight dumpsters with outdated mattresses, furnishings and different cumbersome objects collected from 128 addresses in simply two days. Bacon thanked the parks and recreation employees and stormwater division for his or her laborious work.
• KANSAS OXFORD HOUSE – Govt Director at Mates of Restoration Leigh Anne Larson shared some data with the fee and residents in regards to the Kansas Oxford Homes, and addressed questions and issues. Oxford Home is a clear and sober residing facility for these recovering from substance points.

Metropolis Fee Conferences:

The Pittsburg Metropolis Fee meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 5:30 pm, contained in the Beard-Shanks Legislation Enforcement Middle courtroom. Members of the general public are inspired to attend. To be taught extra in regards to the Pittsburg metropolis authorities, metropolis commissioners, or to view assembly agendas and minutes go to pittks.org/city-government/city-commission.

Metropolis fee conferences are broadcast stay each second and fourth Tuesday on the Metropolis’s native authorities entry channel (Cox channel 6) and on YouTube. To subscribe to the Metropolis’s YouTube channel, go to www.pittks.org/youtube.

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