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condemnation of the "Green Space" along Forest Park Parkway, east of Big Bend Blvd., in connection with the MetroLink construction project. Several University City employees have been subpoenaed to testify regarding documents and past maintenance. University City Council and The second joint brown bag lunch meeting of the School Board was held on Wednesday.The meeting was held at the School District's administration building at 8136 Groby Road and began at 12:05 p.m. In attendance was elected officials Stephanie Brot, Ellen Bern, Bob Elgin, and Kristin Sobotka. Also present were Tom Peters, Julie Feier, Mike Mueller, and James Victory. Ms. Brot discussed the Big Read program and asked for ideas to boost attendance at future student events. Several ideas were discussed. The lack of attendance at the Brown Bag Meeting was discussed. Ms. Bern and Ms. Brot will meet to plan a cocktail mixer for the elected officials. Other issues discussed included the growing vacancy rate in U. City, affordable housing issues, and recreation issues. The meeting adjourned at 1:15 p.m. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 21, at noon at City Hall. David Harris, a University City High School graduate (class of 1976), will share his craft in student workshops at University City High School (UCHS) and other Arts and Letters U. City schools on March 21, 22 and 23 as a part of the Commission’s Returning Artist Series . Harris is a highly successful international musician of many genres. I have attached a schedule of Harris’ classroom visits in the hope that Council may be able to sit in on some of the classroom presentations. A reception for Harris will be held from 7-9 pm, Thursday, March 22 in City Hall, 6801 Delmar. new State senators endorsed legislation Tuesday to fix a glitch in Missouri's minimum wage law that otherwise could put police and fire departments on the hook for millions of dollars of unexpected overtime costs. Voters last fall overwhelmingly passed a ballot measure raising Missouri's minimum wage to $6.50 an hour, instead of the federal minimum of $5.15. That increase kicked in Jan. 1. Afterward, supporters of the ballot measure acknowledged that its language had inadvertently deleted a reference to federal overtime rules that had allowed some people to work more than 40 hours a week without triggering overtime pay. Cities and fire departments complained that the change wreaked havoc on their scheduling and budgets. Fire departments often use 24-hour shifts that may result in employees working more than 40 hours in a particular week. The state previously followed a federal wage law that lets police work up to 171 hours and firefighters up to 212 hours in a 28-day work period without earning overtime. But the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said the ballot measure requires all employees to get overtime after 40 hours, with no exceptions. That would mean a firefighter on a 24-hour shift could not work two days in the same week without triggering overtime. A survey of just two dozen law enforcement agencies, including the state Highway Patrol and local police, projected the overtime change could cost those agencies more than $15 million.