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Airport safety easements appropriation stays in committee after council fails to suspend rules
Summary
A proposed $100,000 appropriation to create mandated safety easements at the Lawrence airport could not be taken up; the council failed to secure the votes needed to pull the item from committee and it remains under old business.
A proposed transfer of $100,000 from an airport account to a new project fund for mandated safety easements at the Lawrence airport was not taken up at the Feb. 18 Lawrence City Council meeting after an effort to suspend council rules failed.
Council President Rodriguez explained the item (40-25) had been discussed in a three-member committee the week before and that a recusal by one member left the group without quorum. Rodriguez asked the council to suspend Rule 6 to pull the item out of committee for full-council consideration.
A motion to suspend the rules was made and seconded, but councilors noted they lacked the six votes required to pull the item from committee. “We don’t even have 6 votes,” one councilor said during the exchange. The motion failed and Rodriguez said the appropriation would remain under old business and be returned at a later meeting.
Airport manager Francisco Urena was present and identified as the item’s presenter; council discussion did not address substantive details of the easements or project scope before the suspension motion failed. The council did not vote on the appropriation itself and no appropriation was adopted at the meeting.
