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Votes at a glance: Derby Council approves agenda, consent items, appointments and moves to executive session
Summary
At its April 8 meeting the Derby City Council approved the meeting agenda and consent agenda, confirmed board and commission appointments, authorized the well-field test contract and a road design contract, and recessed for an executive session; multiple motions passed 8-0.
The Derby City Council recorded the following formal actions during its April 8 meeting. All listed motions passed by voice vote unless noted otherwise.
Votes at a glance
- Approve meeting agenda as presented. Moved by Council member Engel. Outcome: approved, voice vote 8-0.
- Approve consent agenda (minutes of March 25, 2025; street-closure request for American Legion car show April 26). Moved by Council member Engel. Outcome: approved, voice vote 8-0.
- Approve mayoral appointments and reappointments to boards and commissions (list of appointments included in council packet). Motion made from the bench; outcome: approved, voice vote 8-0.
- Authorize execution of professional-services agreement with Professional Engineering Consultants (PEC) for future well-field testing, amount not to exceed $169,390. Moved by Council member Coleman. Outcome: approved, voice vote 8-0. (See separate article on water testing.)
- Authorize execution of design contract with Boffman Company for Woodlawn Boulevard reconstruction design, amount not to exceed $280,000. Moved by Council member Coleman. Outcome: approved, voice vote 8-0. (See separate article on Woodlawn Boulevard.)
- Receive and file the 2024 financial report. Moved by Council member Webster. Outcome: approved, voice vote 8-0. (See separate article on 2024 financial review.)
- Recessed to executive session for preliminary discussions about acquisition of real property related to future city projects under KSA 75-4319(b)(6). Motion to recess carried; council appointed staff and consultants to attend the session. Outcome: motion approved, voice vote 8-0.
The council took no final land-acquisition votes in open session; the executive-session motion cited KSA 75-4319(b)(6) as the statutory authority for a closed deliberation on real-property acquisition.
