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Votes at a glance: key actions from Wichita City Council meeting, Feb. 15, 2025
Summary
A compact list of the meeting’s formal actions, including contract awards, grant submissions and zoning decisions recorded Feb. 15.
Below are the formal actions the Wichita City Council recorded on Feb. 15, 2025. This list reflects motions, vote tallies and any conditions noted on the record at the meeting.
1) Approve minutes of the Feb. 4, 2025 regular meeting — Motion passed 7–0.
2) Approve Consent Agenda (Items 1–19) except item 18 initially pulled; after recusal and roll call, consent agenda approved 7–0; Item 18 required an individual motion and passed 6–1 due to Council Member Tuttle’s abstention on the item (personal conflict of interest).
3) Board of Bids & Contracts items (Feb. 10): Approved (engineering and construction purchases, professional services, AV and software licenses) — Motion passed 7–0 (staff recommended; specific vendor and amounts were presented in the meeting record).
4) 2025 Community Services Block Grant application (CSBG) — Approve submission and authorize signatures for $1,104,352.03 application — Motion passed 7–0.
5) Police policy management (Lexipol contract) — Approve contract (one‑time $108,000 implementation; $127,253 annual) and authorize signatures — Motion passed 7–0.
6) Real Time Information Center operating system (Axon/Fusus) — Approve selection, IT agreement, and authorize signatures; enterprise package $150,000/year (1,500 streams) — Motion passed 7–0.
7) Protect grant application (core area drainage improvements) — Authorize submission, acceptance upon award, budget adjustments and signatures; estimated project cost ~$48 million, federal request just over $38 million, local match ~ $9.5 million — Motion passed 7–0.
8) CUP amendment (Parcel 3B) to allow entertainment and alcohol associated with events — Approved with additional condition requiring property owner to communicate parking protocols to event organizers and attendees — Motion passed 7–0.
9) CUP amendment (DP 86) to allow an off‑site billboard (max 35 feet) north of I‑235 — After split advisory votes, council adopted MAPC findings and approved the CUP amendment — Motion passed 4–3.
10) Zone change request (LI to MF‑18) — Applicant requested and council granted a deferral to May 13, 2025 to allow time to resolve water‑service and infrastructure questions — Motion passed 7–0.
11) Airport streets and parking‑lot rehabilitation design contract — Approve the design contract (not‑to‑exceed $206,000) and project budget; project funded with airport revenues — Motion passed 7–0.
12) Multiple routine contract authorizations and purchasing items presented under Board of Bids & Contracts and Airport Authority were approved on the record (see meeting minutes for vendor names and amounts).
These actions were recorded in roll calls and the printed meeting record; items requiring follow up include implementation of Lexipol and Fusus systems, grant application submittal and design phases for the Protect project, and zoning publication and permitting steps for approved CUP amendments.
