The Liberal City Commission met Tuesday evening at 5:30pm for their regularly scheduled meeting. Among the items on the agenda, the Commission set a date for a public hearing on the condemnation of 616 W. 1st Street. This is the second time this property has been before the Commission, but due to a clerical error in the published notice and the letter that went out to the owners, the condemnation proceedings had to be restarted. The new date of the public hearing will be July 12, 2016 at 5:30pm.

The Commissioners approved Resolution 2235 which allows for improvements to Centennial Blvd, for the soon to start construction of a hotel and restaurant. The improvements will be paid for by the by Pinnacle Developments, LLC, Terra, LLc, Liberal Property, LLC and the City of Liberal. The City's participation is to build the section of road the crosses City owned right of way on Kansas Avenue.

The Commission then approved water and sewer improvements at Centennial Blvd. and U.S. 83 for the same project. Cost of these improvements will be shared by Pinnacle Developments LLC, Terra LLC, and James Bruno.

Commissioners approved an agreement with Conestoga and the Liberal Country Club to allow Conestoga to lease space on the water tower to expand their broadband service. Conestoga agrees to pay $1,200.00/month which will be split with the Country Club at a one third of the lease received. The Country Club owns the property in which the water tower is located, hence the split.

Chrysler Corner of Liberal was awarded the bid for a new Tradesman pick up for the Solid Waste Department. Bid amount was $20, 451.00

The City Commission the approved two requests from the Police Department. The first one was to purchase equipment to outfit the new Ford Interceptor vehicle in the amount of $17,218.00. The Commission the approved the purchase of practice and duty ammunition for the .45 caliber handguns in the ammount of $4,590.50.

The next meeting of the Liberal City Commission will be June 14.