A lifetime registration fee for pets was approved at the Unified Government Commission meeting on March 10.
The lifetime registration fee will be offered as an alternative to the annual registration fee for dogs and cats, which will still be available.
The lifetime pet fee amount had been discussed previously in the neighborhood of $75, but no amount was listed in the resolution passed Thursday night. It was left open for the administrator to set it.
Also approved at the March 10 meeting:
• A list of capital maintenance improvement projects throughout the community.
• Transportation project applications.
• A resolution that will allow Schlitterbahn Vacation Village LLC to assign a portion of benefits to Security Holdings Inc. in connection with a development, the Legends Auto Plaza, near 98th and Parallel Parkway. Security Holdings is proposing to use $30 million in industrial revenue bonds to finance the construction of a Nissan auto dealership and related site improvements.
• Karen Jones was appointed to the Planning Commission.
• An agreement was approved, 8-0, with Laborers Local 1290, for Jan. 1, 2016 through Dec. 31, 2017. It is the ninth of 13 labor contracts to be ratified, according to UG officials. The hourly wage rate listed in the agreement is $24.50 for Jan. 1, 2016; $24.86 for July 1, 2016; and $25.36 for Jan. 1, 2017, according to the agenda document. Not voting on this were Commissioners Mike Kane and Brian McKiernan.
On the list of capital maintenance improvement projects were force main improvements; priority bridge repairs; Riverview Avenue bridge replacement; Center City traffic signal and 7th Street improvements; priority traffic signal replacement; Wyandotte County Lake waterline study and repair; Edison School-Friendship Heights; Hutton Road, Georgia to Leavenworth Road; Turkey Creek improvements and Stonehaven storm sewer.
The application for the federal transportation grant, which will be sent in to the Mid-America Regional Council, which will evaluate them, lists seven projects, including Leavenworth Road, 63rd to 78th; 7th and Central Avenue intersection improvements; Safe Routes to School for William Allen White, West Middle School and Frances Willard Elementary, sidewalk and traffic; Metropolitan Avenue area bikeway improvements including connections to Merriam Lane and 12th Street; Roe Boulevard improvements from County Line to I-35 in coordination with Roeland Park; Ride KC Regional Transit System Upgrades; and Transit Accessibility Improvements.
Also at the meeting, 2015 AAA Kansas Community Traffic Safety Gold Awards were presented to the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office and the Kansas City, Kan., Police Department.
In addition, on March 10 the UG Commission heard updates about the Convention and Visitors Bureau, the K-32 Quiet Zone study, and the administrator’s quarterly report.
The UG Commission also held a discussion with the Planning Commission at the 5 p.m. special session and heard an end-of-the-year financial report then. No votes were taken.