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Session 1851 MINUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY CITY COUNCIL September 23, 2002 At a special meeting of the City Council of University City held in Room 6, 2nd floor, of City Hall on Monday, September 23, 2002, Mayor Joseph L. Adams called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. In addition to the Mayor, the following members of the Council were present: Ms. Cassandra Colquitt Mr. Wayne Munkel Mr. Robert Wagner Mr. Larry Lieberman Ms. Shelley Welsch Mr. Arthur Sharpe, Jr. Also present was City Manager Frank Ollendorff. RESOLUTION ON PROPOSITION K: The City Council and Mr. Ollendorff discussed the Proposition K Resolution at great length. Mayor Adams stated that this really needed unanimous Council support to be effective. Mr. Ollendorff noted that the resolution lays out a schedule that delays the project in order to allow for much more citizen input. Heavy construction would possibly start in late 2003, maybe 2004. He noted that the fitness center improvements are pretty much on schedule. Mr. Ollendorff believes that the project can still move forward while still getting more citizen input. The Council discussed at what point construction drawings would be produced. Ms. Welsch and Mr. Wagner both want to make sure that definitive plans would not begin for five months, which would provide enough time for citizen input into this process. Mr. Ollendorff said that this would be fine. He would not bring final plans to the Council until early May. Councilmembers Wagner, Welsch and Lieberman stressed again the importance of a significant public consensus on this project. Mr. Ollendorff said that the preliminary work on this project was completed in December 2001 and they have retained the architect on an hourly basis only. He will make sure that the engineers/architects receive the citizen input as it comes in. Responding to Councilmember Colquitt's question, Mr. OIlendorff replied that the architect firm is EDM. They have a great deal of public facilities experience. Ms. Welsch wanted to make sure that all alternatives were considered. She doesn't want anything pre-decided. Mr. Ollendorff stated that there were many things that the Council, with citizen input, had already decided on: i.e., no computer room; no a/c in the shower room; not changing the shape of the pool, etc. Mr. Wagner said that this still should not prohibit a broad public consensus. Mr. Ollendorff said that he would like to start engineering the first seven bullet points in the resolution. Number eight still needs more citizen input.