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February 19, 2025
Kenai City Council - Regular Meeting
February 19, 2025 ꟷ 6:00 PM
Kenai City Council Chambers
210 Fidalgo Avenue, Kenai, Alaska
www.kenai.city
**Telephonic/Virtual Information on Page 3**
Action Agenda
A. CALL TO ORDER
1. Pledge of Allegiance
2. Roll Call
3. Approval of the Agenda and Consent Agenda (Public comments on Consent Agenda Items
limited to three (3) minutes per speaker; thirty (30) minutes aggregated)
*All items listed with an asterisk (*) are considered to be routine and non-controversial by the council
and will be approved by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a
council member so requests, in which case the item will be removed from the consent agenda and
considered in its normal sequence on the agenda as part of the General Orders.
B. SCHEDULED ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS
C. SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENTS (Public comments limited to ten (10) minutes per speaker)
1. Project Homeless Connect 2025, Executive Director of Love INC Leslie Rohr.
D. UNSCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENTS (Public comments limited to three (3) minutes per speaker;
thirty (30) minutes aggregated)
E. PUBLIC HEARINGS
1. ENACTED UNANIMOUSLY. Ordinance No. 3449-2025 - Increasing Estimated Revenues and
Appropriations in the General Fund – Police Department and Accepting Grants from the United
States Department of Justice and Alaska Municipal League Joint Insurance Association for the
Purchase of Ballistic Vests. (Administration)
2. ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY. Ordinance No. 3450-2025 - Amending Sections of Kenai
Municipal Code Title 23 - Personnel Regulations, Sections 23.05.070 - Definitions, 23.25.080 -
Promotion, 23.30.030 - Probationary Period for Employees in the Classified Service, and
23.55.020 - Compensation Structure by Grade for Employees in the Classified Service, to
Ensure a Consistent Approach to Pay Adjustments for City Employees. (Administration)
3. ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY. Resolution No. 2025-15 - Authorizing the City Manager to
Execute a Lease of Airport Reserve Lands Between the City of Kenai and ENA, Limited Liability
Corporation for Lots 5A and 5B, FBO Subdivision No. 10, to be Described as Lot 5C, FBO
Subdivision 2024 Addition Upon Approval of Final Plat. (Administration)
F. MINUTES
1. *Regular Meeting of February 5, 2025. (City Clerk)
G. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
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H. NEW BUSINESS
1. *Action/Approval - Bills to be Ratified. (Administration)
2. *Action/Approval - First Extension to the Agreement with Guardian Security Systems, Inc. for
Security Guard Services at the Kenai Municipal Airport. (Administration)
3. *Action/Approval - Council Confirmation of Mayoral Nomination of Gina Kuntzman to the
Council on Aging Commission. (Gabriel)
4. *Ordinance No. 3451-2025 - Accepting and Appropriating Donations to the Kenai Community
Library for Library Materials, Equipment, Furniture, and Programming. (Administration)
5. *Ordinance No. 3452-2025 - Accepting and Appropriating a Polar Bear and Brown Bear
Taxidermy Donation from the Warren E Johnson Estate for Display in the Kenai Municipal
Airport Terminal. (Administration)
6. *Ordinance No. 3453-2025 - Amending Kenai Municipal Code Chapter 7.15 – Purchases and
Sales, Sections 7.15.060 – Procurement of Professional Services and 7.15.070 – Innovative
Procurements and Other Exceptions, to Allow Insurance Coverages to be Procured by Direct
Negotiation and Authorize Other Procurement Exceptions Subject to City Council Approval by
Resolution. (Knackstedt)
7. *Ordinance No. 3454-2025 - Amending Kenai Municipal Code 23.35.032 - Arbitration Panel to
Amend the Member Terms from Indefinite Terms to Three-Year Terms. (City Clerk)
8. *Ordinance No. 3455-2025 - Authorizing the Purchase of a Used Ventrac Tractor and
Attachments from KNC Golf, Inc., that Deviates from Procurement Procedures Authorized by
Kenai Municipal Code Chapter 7.15 Purchases and Sales. (Administration)
9. APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY. Action/Approval - Authorizing the City Manager to Modify the
Agreement with the Kenai Peninsula Borough for Accepting Landfill Leachate at the Waste
Water Treatment Plant. (Administration)
10. SUPPORTED UNANIMOUSLY. Discussion/Action - Digester Blowers Standardization.
(Administration)
11. Discussion - Grants to Other Agencies - Annual Reports. (Douthit)
I. COMMISSION REPORTS
1. Council on Aging Commission
2. Airport Commission
3. Harbor Commission
4. Parks and Recreation Commission
5. Planning and Zoning Commission
6. Beautification Commission
J. REPORT OF THE MAYOR
K. ADMINISTRATION REPORTS
1. City Manager
2. City Attorney
3. City Clerk
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L. ADDITIONAL PUBLIC COMMENTS
1. Citizens Comments (Public comments limited to five (5) minutes per speaker)
2. Council Comments
M. EXECUTIVE SESSION
N. PENDING ITEMS
O. ADJOURNMENT
P. INFORMATION ITEMS
The agenda and supporting documents are posted on the City’s website at www.kenai.city. Copies of
resolutions and ordinances are available at the City Clerk’s Office or outside the Council Chamber prior
to the meeting. For additional information, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 907-283-8231.
Registration is required to join the meeting remotely through Zoom. Please use the following link to
register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/J1If0VUzTm63fb5URHsT4w