LINDSBORG, Kan. — The Lindsborg City Council Monday authorized city staff to pursue the disposal of a piece of city owned property it no longer has use for. This lot along Columbus Street was at one time the site of a city electric substation.
City Administrator Tanner Faust said there is an access restriction due to utility easements, on the east and north sides of the tract, because of which the property is only accessible to the city through one of the easements. In the past there has been interest shown in the property by one of the adjacent landowners, and Mayor Clark Shultz said he’s been approached by a landowner about purchasing it.
Staff was authorized to make contact with the adjoining landowners to see if any of them would be interested in submitting an offer to purchase the lot, with any sale proposal returning to the Council for their approval.
The Council deferred action on a proposal to move the city’s financial software program from a hosted server to a cloud-based server. The Tyler system is also utilized for utility billing, payroll and Municipal Court, with the Police Department coming onto the system later this year.
Finance Director David Hay said with the current setup there are issues with doing updates due to the type of security utilized, which makes updating a very time-consuming process. Hay said while it would cost an additional ten thousand dollars or so a year, there would be a savings in staff time and equipment costs. Council members indicated they wanted more information on what those savings would be. This will be brought up at a future meeting. Hay noted the quote they have from Tyler is good through July 1.
The council was informed Lindsborg has been recognized for the 41st consecutive year as a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation. Parks Director Noah Flores said the recognition is based on the four standards of having a tree board of department, a public tree care ordinance, a community forestry program, and an annual observance of Arbor Day.
For Lindsborg that celebration will be held April 25th in conjunction with Lindsborg in Bloom, when the Tree Board, Park Department and Kansas Forest Service will have an informational booth set up in Lucia Park.
Later in the meeting the Council gave approval to the city’s annual tree care maintenance plan, which the Tree Board reviews annually.
The Council gave their approval for this year’s Farmers Market on the southwest corner of Swensson Park, which will be on Saturdays starting May 2 through October.
