Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 · 10:30 AM AM · 26th Floor, Council Chamber

TL;DR

The Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee met to discuss several important ordinances affecting city development, taxes, and operations. Key items included a tax increment financing plan amendment, a regional hazard mitigation plan, and potential adjustments to zoning and parking regulations. The committee advanced most items to the full City Council for further consideration.

Key Decisions

  • Overlook Tax Increment Financing Plan Amendment Advanced to Council
  • Regional Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan Recommended for Immediate Adoption
  • 9th and Central Planned Industrial Expansion Area Held on Agenda
  • Zoning Code Amendment for Parking Areas Passed as Committee Substitute
  • TIF Revenue Transfer for Blight Remediation Advanced to Council
Agenda PDF

Agenda

  1. PUBLIC OBSERVANCE OF MEETINGS Members of the City Council may attend this meeting via videoconference. Any closed session may be held via teleconference. The public can observe this meeting at the links provided below. Applicants and citizens wishing to participate have the option of attending each meeting or they may do so through the videoconference platform ZOOM, using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84530222968 ***Public Testimony is Limited to 2 Minutes***
  2. FIRST READINGS
  3. 250433 Sponsor: City Manager’s Office Approving the Second Amendment to the Overlook Tax Increment Financing Plan.
    Ordinance
    Action: Adv and Do Pass

    Adv and Do Passto the Council due back on 7/17/2025

  4. 250514 Sponsor: City Manager’s Office RESOLUTION - Adopting the Regional Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan.
    Resolution
    Action: Immediate Adoption

    Adv and Do Pass To the Council due back on 7/17/2025

  5. 250527 Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea Approving the 9th and Central PIEA General Development Plan on an irregular shaped site consisting of 4.42 acres, not including public rights of way, generally located within the area between 8th Street and 10th Street and between Broadway and Wyandotte, and declaring said area to be an undeveloped industrial area and in need of development and rehabilitation pursuant to the Planned Industrial Expansion Law; and authorizing tax abatement.
    Ordinance
    Action: Hold on Agenda

    Hold on Agendato the Council due back on 7/22/2025

  6. 250528 Sponsor: Councilmember Wes Rogers COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE, AS AMENDED Amending Chapter 88, the Zoning and Development Code, by repealing Section 88-420-16, “Alternative Compliance Parking Plans,” and enacting in lieu thereof a new section of like number and subject matter for the purpose of establishing new alternative compliance standards for gravel parking areas.
    Ordinance
    Action: Do Pass as Committee Substitute

    Do Pass as Committee Substituteto the Council due back on 7/17/2025

  7. 250529 Sponsor: Councilmember Darrell Curls COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Estimating surplus Tax Increment Finance (TIF) revenue in the amount of $127,000.00 in the General Fund; reducing an appropriation in the Capital Improvement Sales Tax Fund in the amount of $272,000.00 and appropriating a like transfer to the General Fund; appropriating $399,000.00 from the unappropriated fund balance of the General Fund for the purpose of blight remediation in the 5th District; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
    Ordinance
    Action: Adv and Do Pass as Cmte Sub

    Adv and Do Pass as Cmte Subto the Council due back on 7/17/2025

  8. 250531 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Amending the Committee Substitute to Ordinance No. 240998, which sets the Council’s schedule for 2025, by cancelling the City Council standing committee meetings and business and legislative sessions for the weeks of August 4, 2025, August 25, 2025, September 1, 2025, September 22, 2025, October 6, 2025, November 17, 2025, November 24, 2025, December 22, 2025, and December 29, 2025; scheduling City Council standing committee meetings and business and legislative sessions for the weeks of August 11, 2025, and October 13, 2025; and moving the standing committee meetings the week of November 10, 2025, from November 11 to November 12 in observance of Veterans Day.
    Ordinance
    Action: Adv and Do Pass as Cmte Sub

    Adv and Do Pass as Cmte Subto the Council due back on 7/17/2025

  9. HELD IN COMMITTEE
  10. SEMI-ANNUAL DOCKET There will be a presentation by the City Manager's Office pursuant to Ordinance No. 250393 on the feasibility of establishing a temporary modular jail facility
  11. ADDITIONAL BUSINESS
  12. The City Clerk`s Office now has equipment for the hearing impaired for use with every meeting. To check out the equipment please see the secretary for each committee. Be prepared to leave your Driver`s License or State issued Identification Card with the secretary and she will give you the equipment. Upon returning the equipment your license will be returned.
  13. Adjournment