When construction starts to convert the Besse Hotel into low-to-moderate income housing, the city of Pittsburg will have done its part.
At 5:30 p.m. tonight at the Beard-Shanks Law Enforcement Center, Pittsburg City Commissioners will vote on a forgivable loan in the amount of $200,000 to the Downtown Pittsburg Partners LP to help with the hotel’s renovation.
Commissioners will also vote on a 50-year parking lot lease with the group to help with the renovation.
In other business, Pittsburg City Commissioners will vote on:
• A staff recommendation to join the Southwest Missouri Development Alliance.
• Whether to award the bid for the Meadowbrook Mall Lift Station Replacement Project to the low bidder, Sprouls Construction, Inc., of Lamar, Mo., based on their bid of $310,678.
• Resolution No. 1096, approving the issuance by the city of Wichita, of certain Hospital Facilities Refunding Revenue Bonds in an aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $95,000,000 for the purposes of refunding certain outstanding 1999 Hospital Facilities Improvement and Refunding Revenue Bonds. The bonds had to do with financing Mt. Carmel Regional Medical Center.
• The bid for the SE Pump Station Improvements Project, submitted by LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc., of Parsons, with a low base bid of $677,000, Alternate #1 (Sluice Gate Replacement) in the amount of $95,000 and Alternate #2 (Flow Monitor Installation) in the amount of $43,000 for a total project bid of $815,000. Staff is also recommending that the bid for Alternate #3 (Air Release Valves), in the amount of $55,000, be rejected.
• A five-year tax exemption to Progressive Products for a 20,000-square-foot addition to their manufacturing facility located in the Pittsburg Airport Business Park.
• Whether to increase certain Building Permit, Planning-Inspection-Engineering, Nuisance Abatement and Airport fees and to leave fuel sales at the Atkinson Municipal Airport at the current amounts.
• Recommendations by the Parks and Recreation Department to increase the fees for the usage of the Four Oaks RV Park and at Mt. Olive Cemetery.
• The removal of the traffic signal at Rose and Broadway streets.
• A request submitted by Habitat for Humanity of Crawford County for the city to waive the building permit, sewer tap and water tap fees for the next project at 1006 E. 14th St. for an estimated total of $952.
• A staff request to reappoint Gary Falcetto and Laura Klusener to the Planning and Zoning Commission for second terms to expire December 31, 2012 and appoint one additional member for a new term also to expire December 31, 2012.
• A staff request to reappoint Cliff Hix to the Airport Advisory Committee for a second term to expire December 31, 2012 and appoint two additional members for new terms also to expire December 31, 2012.
• the reappointment of Christy Watt to a second four-year term on the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board effective January 1, 2010 and to expire on December 31, 2013.
• the reappointment of Tim Bailey to a second three-year term as a member of the Board of Zoning Appeals effective January 1, 2010 and to expire December 31, 2012.
