May 20, 2024 at 6:00 PM - City Council Regular Meeting

1. STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE WITH OPEN MEETINGS ACT AND ROLL CALL

2. PRAYER

3. NATIONAL ANTHEM AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

4. CONSENT AGENDA - The following items are considered to be routine by the city council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a city council member or citizen so requests, in which event the item will be removed from consent status and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda.

4.A. Minutes of May 6, 2024, City Council meeting.

4.B. Bid from Barcel Landscape Products, Inc. in the amount of $825 per hour for large wood waste grinding at transfer station.

4.C. Resolution No R24-54 approving Addendum No. 01 to Loup River Levee Operations and Maintenance Manual to meet Federal Emergency Management Agency floodplain map accreditation criteria.

4.D. Resolution No. R24-55 authorizing payment of various improvement projects.

4.E. Finance department report.

4.F. Payroll and bills on file.

5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES - Included in Consent Agenda

6. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS - None

7. PUBLIC HEARINGS 

7.A. Public hearing - Application from Faricuba LLC dba Faricuba for Class IB liquor license at 1520 17 Street and Richard Salvador Barredo as manager.

7.B. Public hearing - Application from Columbus Petroleum LLC dba NP Mart 26 for Class D liquor license at 771 33 Avenue and Anne Gordon as manager.

7.C. Public hearing - Application from Williams and Son House Movers, Inc. to move garage from 3670 26 Avenue to 2625 38 Street and request to exceed 18 feet height limitation as loaded height of building will be 20 feet. (Planning Commission recommends approval.)

7.D. (Not a Public hearing) - Application from Bosselman Pump & Pantry, Inc., Craig M. Foreman, Benjamin A. Foreman, and J.L.O. Properties LLC for preliminary plat of West Oak 1st Subdivision (west side of 63rd Avenue north of Howard Boulevard). (Planning Commission recommends approval.)

7.E.  Public hearing - Application from Bosselman Pump & Pantry, Inc., Craig M. Foreman, Benjamin A. Foreman, and J.L.O. Properties LLC for final plat and development agreement of West Oak 1st Subdivision (west side of 63rd Avenue north of Howard Boulevard). (Planning Commission recommends approval.)

7.E.1. Resolution No. R24-56 approving final plat and development agreement.

7.F. Public hearing - Application from Convergence LLC for final plat and development agreement of Wishbones 1st Subdivision (east side of 63rd Avenue north of Howard Boulevard). (Planning Commission recommends approval.)
*This public hearing will be continued to the June 3, 2024, meeting.

7.G. Public hearing - Application from Columbus Realty Holdings LLC for final plat and development agreement of Super Saver Subdivision (northwest corner of 23rd Street and 33rd Avenue). (Planning Commission recommends approval.)

7.G.1. Resolution No. R24-57 approving final plat and development agreement.

7.H. Public hearing - Application from Keyes Real Estate LLC for final plat and development agreement of Harriman Acres Subdivision (east side of 48th Avenue north of Howard Boulevard). (Planning Commission recommends approval.)

7.H.1. Resolution No. R24-58 approving final plat and development agreement.

7.I. Public hearing - Application from Keyes Real Estate LLC to rezone property located at 2567 48 Avenue from "R-2" (Two-Family Residential District) to "R-3" (Multi-Family Residential District) and to amend the Future Land Use Map of the Comprehensive Plan. (Planning Commission recommends approval.)

7.I.1. Ordinance No. 24-12 approving rezoning.

7.J. (Not a Public hearing) - Application from City of Columbus, on behalf of Nels Johnson, for preliminary plat of Vitality Village Subdivision (north of 8th Street and 7th Avenue). (Planning Commission recommends approval.)

7.K. Public hearing - Application from City of Columbus, on behalf of Nels Johnson, for final plat of Vitality Village Subdivision (north of 8th Street and 7th Avenue). (Planning Commission recommends approval.)

7.K.1. Resolution No. R24-59 approving final plat.

7.L. Public hearing - Application from City of Columbus, on behalf of Nels Johnson, to rezone property located north of 8th Street and 7th Avenue from "R-2" (Two-Family Residential District) to "B-2" (General Commercial District) and to amend the Future Land Use Map of the Comprehensive Plan. (Planning Commission recommends approval.)

7.L.1. Ordinance No. 24-13 approving rezoning.

8. PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS - None

9. REPORTS OF CITY OFFICES - Finance department report included in Consent Agenda

9.A. Update on Nebraska Department of Transportation 23rd Street Reconstruction Project.

10. REPORTS OF COUNCIL COMMITTEES

10.A. PUBLIC PROPERTY, SAFETY, AND WORKS COMMITTEE - May 13, 2024.

10.A.1. Request from Bosselman Pump & Pantry, Inc., Craig M. Foreman, Benjamin A. Foreman, and J.L.O. Properties LLC to vacate a portion of 63rd Avenue public right-of-way associated with the roundabout, private frontage road ingress and egress easement, and two utility easements within West Oak Addition (west of 63rd Avenue north of Howard Boulevard).

10.A.2. Request from City of Columbus to vacate a portion of 9th Street and Progress Drive and various drainage and utility easements in Vitality Village Addition (north of 8th Street and 7th Avenue).

11. REPORTS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES - None

12. REPORTS ON LEGISLATION - None

13. NEW BUSINESS

13.A. Comments from mayor and city council members.

14. RESOLUTIONS

14.A. Resolution No. R24-60 awarding contract to Watts Electric Company in the amount of $932,147.58 for Lost Creek Parkway Traffic Signals 2024.

14.B. Resolution No. R24-61 awarding contract to Gehring Construction & Ready Mix Co., Inc. in the amount of $2,115,811 for paving and infrastructure of Vitality Village Subdivision and community building south parking lot.

14.C. Resolution No. R24-62 adopting Park Maintenance Standard Operating Procedures. (Board of Parks Commissioners recommends approval.)

15. ORDINANCES ON FIRST READING

15.A. Ordinance No. 24-14 vacating a portion of 63rd Avenue right-of-way, private frontage road ingress and egress easement, and two utility easements within West Oak Addition (west of 63rd Avenue north of Howard Boulevard).

15.B. Ordinance No. 24-15 vacating a portion of 9th Street and Progress Drive and various drainage and utility easements in Vitality Village Addition (north of 8th Street and 7th Avenue).

16. ORDINANCES ON SECOND READING - None

17. ORDINANCES ON THIRD READING 

17.A. Ordinance No. 24-10 approving Text Amendments to Columbus Land Development Ordinance.

18. CONSIDERATION OF PAYROLL AND BILLS ON FILE - Included in Consent Agenda.

19. UNFINISHED BUSINESS - None

20. ADJOURNMENT