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To: Honorable Mayor Adams and City Council From: Julie Feier, City Manager Date: March 30, 2007 Subject: Weekly Update The Great Rivers Greenway District is holding a Stakeholder’s Meeting for the Centennial East Greenway project on Wednesday, May 2 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM in the University City Council Chambers at 6801 Delmar. The purpose of the meeting is to review greenway alignment alternatives as the greenway moves north on Melville from Kingsbury to the Ackert Walkway approximately 350 feet north of Delmar Blvd. The meeting is open to the public. Adjacent landowners, businesses and residents are encouraged to attend. Tamm MODOT announced that Gateway Constructors have scheduled the Avenue Bridge for demolition April 20-22. I-64 will be closed starting that Friday night through Monday morning (before rush hour). The bridge will be imploded, once cleared, the interstate will be reopened. MODOT will be providing notice to the neighborhood at least two weeks before the demolition. SB 284 As we anticipated, the state video franchise bill, was approved by the House and Senate. Our local representatives in Jefferson City such as the MML, Joan Bray, and Barbara Fraser should be commended for their efforts to lessen the impact to local governments. While the adoption of this bill will have a long- range financial impact on the City and CALOP we have mitigated our loss in the short term by adopting the AT&T Video agreement prior to the passage of 284. By adopting the video agreement with AT&T prior to the passage of SB 284 we accomplished three things. First, rather than the 5% cap now placed on all new franchises under the legislation, we will continue to receive 9% and secondly, we secured CALOP funding from AT&T for the next three, if not six years. The unexpected positive turn was the extension of the sunset on existing franchises to six years, 2012 rather than 2009. Finally, while the control distribution boxes in