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Session 1846 July 22, 2002 Mayor Adams said that the City has a very long history of aiding citizens with home repairs. He is getting the sense that people feel like the City isn't doing anything or enough, which is really not true. Ms. Felton would like to see a report of whatever we have done. Mr. Ollendorff stated that the loans are not based on a citizen's ability to repay. The payments are based on the ability to pay. The lower income the less we expect you to pay. The higher the income, the more we expect you to pay. About a 1/3 of the money goes out in grants and the citizens do not have to pay anything. This goes to the poorest of our seniors. The payments that are received go into a fund to be able to provide assistance to the next generation of Iow income seniors trying to keep their homes. That is the path that the Mayor and Councilmember Lieberman got the City on and the fund is now close to $700,000 built up over the years. This is what makes this program available today. Mr. Sharpe stated that he remembered that Mr. Ollendorff stated that this application must be approved tonight, because there is a deadline that we must meet. The deadline is at the end of this month and the Council doesn't meet again until mid- August. Mr. Ollendorff suggested that the Council approve the application tonight and then amend it afterwards. Mr. Munkel asked for more information about the proposed work on Sutter. Mr. Ollendorff replied that regular City funds had been budgeted to repair the eastern end of the Etzel alley. There is another alley near Sutter that is also going to be repaired. These will be repaired this year. He did not put those into the CDBG, because that is money for next year and we want to repair these alleys this year with regular City money. The City has been trying to get Suffer paved for twenty years. It is in horrible condition. The City paved portions of Sutter in U. City and have been trying to get the rest of Sutter paved by the other municipalities and the County. Ten days ago the County agreed, in a meeting with the Mayor, that they would agree to kick in $175,000. The total cost is going to be $350,000. The County does not own Sutter. $utter belongs to U. City, Pagedale and Wellston. Wellston will kick in $25,000, which is a big percentage of their community development budget. Pagedale will pay $100,000. Our contribution to this project, which benefits all of us, is $50,000. He thinks that this is a bargain for our City. Most of the concrete will go into another city's boundaries; however, it still benefits us since it is a gateway to our City. Ms. Colquitt asked when the repairs to the Etzel and Crest alleys would occur this year. Mr. Ollendorff stated that one is scheduled for August and the other will be done this fall. Elsie Glickert, 6712 Etzel, stated that it doesn't surprise her that the County is being so benevolent with fixing Sutter, because that is the home of the St. Louis County Police