Memorandum

City of Lawrence

Legal Department

TO:	David L. Corliss – City Manager Cynthia Boecker - Assistant City Manager Diane Stoddard - Assistant City Manager
FROM:	R. Scott Wagner – Management Analyst, Legal Department
CC:	Toni Wheeler, Director Mike Lawless, Asst. Director, Department of Utilities
Date:	June 16, 2009
RE:	Agenda Item – Pump Station 25 Site: Property Acquisition

Please include the following item on the City Commission Agenda for consideration at the June 23rd, 2009 meeting:

Project Description.

The 2003 Wastewater Master Plan identified improvements required to sanitary sewer Pump Station PS25 which is located in the East Hills Business Park.  The system upgrades are to provide expanded sanitary sewer capacity to the areas east of O’Connell Road and north and south of K10/23rd Street including the East Hills Business Park and the former Farmland property. These improvements include expanding the firm pumping capacity of PS25 from 0.97 MGD to 3.0 MGD with the capability to expand to 6.0 MGD in the future and the construction of a parallel forcemain. The improvements also provide for reliability and safety enhancements to the pump station. The project is included in the Department of Utilities Capital Improvements Plan and is scheduled to be completed in 2009. The additional capacity of PS25 will work in conjunction with the new Pump Station 49, which recently completed construction as part of a county benefit district to provide current, and future, areas of the City southeast of 23rd Street and O’Connell Road sanitary sewer service. PS49 will initially collect flows and pump them north to PS25 which discharges to the existing Kaw Wastewater Treatment Plant. (Project Map)

The project engineers identified land owned by the Emergent Corporation located directly north of the existing pump station site as a suitable location for the reconstruction of PS25. (Emergent Map).  Use of the City’s eminent domain authority to acquire the property was authorized by the Governing Body on January 27, 2009 with the adoption of Ordinance 8367.  The appraisers appointed by the court met on June 10, 2009 and filed their report awarding just compensation in the amount of $20,000 for the approximately 4.0 acre parcel.

Action Requested:

Authorize payment to the Clerk of the District Court in the amount of $20,000.00 for the acquisition of the Emergent Corporation property required for the construction of sanitary sewer Pump Station No. 25.