Weather Looks Great! Fairfax Festival, Thurs, Oct 12 3:30-6:30pm

The weather forecast looks great for the festival! Please remember to bring (1) your ticket or receipt if you purchased tickets on-line, (2) id and (3) lawn chairs.

The famous Peter May’s House of Kielbasa will be grilling up burgers and kielbasas! The funnel cake truck will be frying up the yummiest funnel cakes fresh and hot!

The beer and wine garden will be ready to serve! The raffle prizes are awesome! You can still buy some additional raffle tickets online to increase your chances of winning at fiakck.org!

The lawn game tourney is booked and ready for fun! Who is going to be the 2017 champion?

Chapter 5 Band is ready to entertain with some fun music you will be singing along to!

Healthy Rivers is ready for historical boat tours….if you haven’t already booked your boat tour, there are still some seats available…you can book online at fiakck.org. If you haven’t taken this boat tour, you don’t want to miss out!

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Project Timeline

Project

Streets, Sidewalks, Curbing & medians
Kindleberger/McCormick Rd / Study on flooding issue
Monument Entrance Signage for 4 Fairfax entrances.
Landscaping / Fencing / Codes - Develop education & enforcement plan that is business friendly.
603 Sunshine vacant building
Codes - Open property, who owns - city, UP or FDD?
Codes - International Paper 530 Sunshine Rd
Codes - Shostack/Flying J Property Kindlerberger & 7th St
Lighting: Study on all Fairfax lighting.
Police night patrol make list of lights night working.
FDD Drainage Issues / Fairfax Tfwy south of FDD flooding during rain.
Harvester Rd - no sewers
Replace aging corrugated metal pipe sewers.
Railroad Crossings:

Crossing #: 814983G - Sunshine Rd, east of 7th St.

Crossing #: 814992F - Kindleberger Rd., west of 7th St.

Crossing #: 814982A - Sunshine Rd, west of Fiberglass Rd.

Crossing #: 814980L - Sunshine Rd, west of Chrysler Rd.

Crossing #: 814976W - Funston Rd., west of Chrysler Rd.

Crossing #: 814973B - Funston Rd., east of 7th St.

Donovan east of Fairfax Trfwy - added in
Compile list of all railroad crossings and note any maintenance needs.
Restaurants, Convenience Shops, Gas Stations.
Hike & Bike Trails
Downtown KCK on 7th, cut over to Brinkerhoff, connect to US69
Kaw Point Connector to Fairfax Tfwy to Kindleberger to US69.
B25 Bomber/Landing Craft Tanks/Other History

B25 Bomber Museum or Memorial, possibly include Landing Craft Tanks and other history.
Kaw Point Park
Kaw Point Park Steps to river edge
Request no special use permits, etc for residential zoning.
Limit amount can be increased in a year.
Reducing Mill Levee
Fairfax Workforce Training Proposal

Estimated Length of Project

5+ years
1 - 2 years
3 - 4 years
1 year, ongoing
ongoing
2 months
6 months
ongoing
1 - 2 years
2 months
1 year
1 - 3 years
5+ years
5+ years
3 - 5 years
3 - 5 years
5 years
2 - 3 months
6 months
6 months
1 year

as of 11/25/18

Status

Study being conducted by UG. Follow-up will be 1/19.
Part of the Storm Water Master Plant Study. Est. completion is 1/19.
11/27/18: Steering committee meeting with Gould Evans
11/18 Codes Ambassadors to visit Fairfax business with Codes Education flyer.
11/18 Property owner is maintaining their property
11/18 Need to determine who owns various property in Fairfax that is UG, UP or FDD
11/18 Codes paperwork to be filed
11/18 Fencing has been removed, Greg Talkin will follow-up on other code issue.
UG conducting study / will be ready on 12/18
9/18 all lights repaired.
9/18 Inlet 031-742-ns was inspected and is in a state of collapse and that a work order will be issued to construction for repair.
Study being conducted. Will be completed by 1/2019.
FDD will have report provided along w/ funding plan in 12/18.
12/2018 being reviewed between UG and UPRR
6/2018 UG conducting study to be completed by 12/2018.
1/2019 to be discussed.
6/2018 UG researching and will report back 1/2019.
To be discussed with committee. Follow up 1/2019
9/2018 will discuss ideas and others to involve in discussion. Follow-up 1/2019.
6/2018 UG will look at having steps installed.
Completed 9/2018. This is now part of the Northeast Master Plan
Work with KCK Legislative Committee and lobbyist to propose new legislation to protect property owners from more than 10% property tax increase in a given year
City reduced mill by 2, need to look at how to encourage others to reduce or hold.
6/2018 presented at FIA June luncheon. Will contact FIA businesses individually for feedback.