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Votes at a glance: Coffeyville commission approves routine contracts, infrastructure spending and appointments
Summary
At its April 22 meeting the Coffeyville City Commission approved consent items, multiple construction and purchase contracts, a fund transfer, and made a library board appointment; several small appropriations and foundation disbursements were also approved.
The Coffeyville City Commission on April 22 approved a package of routine spending, contracts and appointments, including consent-agenda appropriations, construction contracts for water and street work, vehicle purchases, an equipment purchase for the electric utility and a reallocation of community-foundation funds.
Votes at a glance
- Consent agenda (minutes, special meeting minutes, and 2025 appropriation ordinance AO-25-08): Approved. The appropriation ordinance AO-25-08 was listed at $2,239,323.43. (Motion: Mayor Maples; second: Vice Mayor Van Oster; roll-call: Van Oster—Aye, Maples—Aye, Edwards—Aye, Hendricks—Aye.)
- Consent item 4 (separate appropriation noted in the consent packet): Approved; Vice Mayor Van Oster recorded an abstention on that item. (Motion: Commissioner Edwards; second: Commissioner Hendricks; roll-call: Maples—Aye, Edwards—Aye, Hendricks—Aye, Van Oster—Abstain.)
- Library board appointment: Nicole Nee was appointed to the Coffeyville Public Library Board of Trustees for a term April 30, 2025–April 30, 2029. (Motion: Commissioner Edwards; second: Mayor Maples; roll-call: Edwards—Aye, Hendricks—Aye, Van Oster—Aye, Maples—Aye.)
- Resolution R-25-39: Authorize purchase order to Graybar for primary underground wire (electric utility): Approved (motion by Vice Mayor Van Oster; second by Commissioner Hendricks; unanimous vote recorded).
- Resolution R-25-40: Award construction contract to TC Underground for replacement and upsizing of a water main on Sunflower Street (approximately 400 feet, upsize from 8" to 12"): Approved (motion by Vice Mayor Van Oster; second by Commissioner Edwards; unanimous vote recorded). Funding: depreciation fund.
- Resolution R-25-41: Award bid to Shawnee Mission Ford for a 2025 dump-bed truck for the stormwater department ($68,664; under a $75,000 budget): Approved (motion by Commissioner Hendricks; second by Mayor Maples; unanimous vote recorded).
- Resolution R-25-42: Authorize transfer of $4,300,000 from Fund 520 to Fund 500 to separate transportation sales-tax accounting from general reserves: Approved (motion by Vice Mayor Van Oster; second by Commissioner Edwards; unanimous vote recorded). Staff said the change is intended to improve transparency in accounting for transportation sales-tax balances.
- Resolution R-25-43: Contract with BG Consultants for engineering work on Gibson Street extension and Grandview Avenue (to support a grant application for an estimated $22.5 million infrastructure project): Approved (motion by Mayor Maples; second by Commissioner Hendricks; unanimous vote recorded).
Foundation and equipment approvals (Coffeyville Community Enhancement Foundation)
- Foundation officer designations (Resolution R-25-01): Approved (chair, vice chair and officers appointed).
- Resolution R-25-02: Reallocate $1,330.22 set aside for the PD Explorers program (program has ceased) for general police department use and authorize disbursement to help cover vehicle purchase shortfalls; combined with other foundation funds the total available for the police vehicle purchase was $9,458.22: Approved.
- Resolution R-25-03: Authorize disbursement of $5,655.62 toward fire-department mobile responder tablet purchases (combined with grant funds for the balance): Approved.
- Resolution R-25-04: Foundation subscription to QuickBooks Online not to exceed $500/year: Approved (one dissenting vote reported in foundation roll call).
What was informational or discussed but not voted on
- Fire department mutual/automatic aid and membership in Kansas Task Force 4 (USAR): Fire Chief Mike O'Connor presented background on automatic aid, mutual aid contracts and the benefits and costs of task-force membership; no formal commission action was required for the informational briefing.
Meeting context and votes
The meeting included an amended agenda (the commission removed Ordinance S-25-02 from old business and added two executive-session items) and an executive-session recess for attorney–client and confidential financial discussions. Commissioner Faulkner was absent. The meeting included both the city commission session and a subsequent Coffeyville Community Enhancement Foundation board meeting that approved the foundation items listed above.
Speakers and presentations that led each action
- Melissa Carter, City Clerk, presented the library-board vacancy and applications. - Thomas Osborne, Deputy Director of Public Works, presented the Sunflower Street water-main replacement contract. - Chris Weiner, Executive Director of Electric, presented the Graybar wire purchase. - Martin Cummings, Director of Finance, presented the fund-transfer request and foundation financial items.
For details on the electric-rate ordinance discussion and the KDHE water-loan ordinance (both of which received substantive debate), see the separate articles in this package.
