Lana (staff member) told the board that the MIH ARPA apartment project on Palace Drive has completed document submissions to the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation and the city and should begin construction within about a month as building permits and the RHID process are finalized.

She said the project's general contractor is from Iowa and will be in town to interview local subcontractors. "They will be in town on Thursday doing some interviews for some local subcontractors," she said, adding staff had freed up office space for those meetings.

Lana said ICON Cinema and adjacent projects had been temporarily slowed earlier while the city completed a "global traffic impact study" for the northeast region. With that study now done, she said the cinema project can resume planning; staff paused earlier because the cinema, as the first large project on that property, would otherwise have borne much of the initial roadway and utility improvement costs.

On projects outside Garden City limits, Lana said a housing project on the Pappas Ag property east of the city (now incorporated into city limits) is moving forward and that staff are working with developers and the city on the RHID process and standard development reviews. She also described a proposed greenfield housing development in the county that would require a rezone, an addition to the local RHID and state-level RHID action by the secretary of commerce before it could proceed.

Staff reported participation in Saint Catherine Hospital CEO interviews and said the hospital has hired a new foundation director; Lana said staff planned to meet with that director in September to discuss community engagement and fundraising.

Lana noted a joint city-county meeting is scheduled for Sept. 16 prior to a city commission meeting and encouraged board members to attend. No formal votes were taken on these updates during the meeting.

Ending: Staff said they will continue to coordinate with developers, the city and state agencies on permitting, RHID processing and traffic-mitigation planning; no formal actions were taken during the update.