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Wichita previews Feb. 11 agenda with Brewer Center change-order authorization, stadium sculpture loan and multiple grant applications

2945823 · January 31, 2025
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Wichita City staff on Friday previewed a slate of items for the Feb. 11 City Council meeting, highlighting a change order and a request to increase staff authorization for future change orders on the Brewer Center construction contract, a one-year loan agreement for a sculpture at the Delano entrance to Equity Bank Stadium, an amendment to the Crown Uptown Theater PUD and several grant applications including the Community Services Block Grant and Kansas Arts Commission requests.

Wichita City staff on Friday previewed a slate of items for the Feb. 11 City Council meeting, highlighting a change order and a request to increase staff authorization for future change orders on the Brewer Center construction contract, a one-year loan agreement for a sculpture at the Delano entrance to Equity Bank Stadium, an amendment to the Crown Uptown Theater planned unit development (PUD) and several grant applications including the Community Services Block Grant and Kansas Arts Commission requests.

City Manager (staff) told the council that “Page 4, number 1 would amend the Crown Uptown Uptown Theater PUD. You have valid protest petitions, so this would require 6 votes for approval.” The same agenda review noted a one-year loan agreement for the stadium sculpture at the Delano entrance and explained the city’s past loan payments could be credited toward a future purchase: “The loan payments that we have made over the last few years will actually be credited to us if we decide to buy it.”

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