Larned City Council meeting at a glance
Here is a look at what the Larned City Council did Monday night:
• Approved a consent agenda containing: recertification of City Manager Brad Eilts to the Kansas Municipal Energy Agency Board of Directors; contribution to the Ministerial Alliance-Helping Hands Utility offset fund for $4,000; and an agreement between the city, Pawnee County and Sunflower Diversified Services, Great Bend, for recycling services.
• Approved Appropriations Ordinance No. 10 in the amount of $619,502.38 plus transfers.
• Approved a proposal to submit a CCLIP application for resurfacing Broadway between Eighth Street to 13th to the Kansas Department of Transportation for the 2025 fiscal year. Estimated cost for the project is $447,298.13, with the city’s share of $48,236.26 coming from the Special Highways Fund.
LARNED — The Larned City Council Monday night voted to approve applying for a Kansas Department of Transportation CCLIP matching grant that would extend a proposed resurfacing of Broadway in downtown Larned to a midpoint between 12th and 13th Streets.
Plans are already underway to resurface the roadway from the south city limits to Eighth Street.
The current application extends the project from Eighth Street to the midpoint between 12th and 13th. The project is defined by CCLIP’s matching cap of $400,000, where KDOT funds 95% of the $400,00, with the city’s share at 5%.
According to Benesch & Company project estimator Michael Heigert, the total project cost of the extension is $420,000, with an additional design engineering cost of $27,233.
The city’s share of the project as presented would be $48,238.28, with a projected start date of July 1, 2025. The city’s share would come from the Special Highways Fund.
City Manager Brad Eilts noted that the city’s list of recent successful projects include:
• A KLINK project in 2018 repaving SW Trail Street from Main to Broadway at a cost of $280,000.
• A CCLIP project in 2020 repaving SW Trail Street from the Arkansas River approximately 890 feet northeast at a cost of $761,000.
At the meeting, Larned Street Superintendent Allen Taylor noted that 18 handicap ramps between Fourth Street and the north end of the project currently do not meet code and will have to be replaced. Taylor’s recommendation to the council would be that the ramps be replaced by city crews at a projected cost to the city of $50,000, included in the KDOT match portion.
After a short discussion about securing enough funding to stretch the project to 14th Street, Taylor noted that the engineers were skeptical that any more funding would be available from the CCLIP program at the present time.
A motion to apply for the project funding was then approved unanimously by the council members present.
