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NAYS: none Bill 8958 became Ordinance 6713 K. NEW BUSINESS BILLS Introduced by Mr. Sharpe, Jr. BILL 8959 — An ordinance approving a settlement agreement with Verizon wireless and assigning a percentage of the settlement proceeds to the St. Louis County Municipal League. Ms. Ricci suggested to modify and amend this ordinance to remove language addressing assigning any percentage of this settlement to St. Louis County Municipal League. She felt there was no need to approve the settlement with Verizon Wireless and secondly the designated amount of University City’s settlement to be given to the St. Louis County Municipal League for their assistance in the litigation. The Council has the right to approve the settlement with Verizon and at a later date approve or choose to provide St. Louis County Municipal; League with certain sums for their assistance. Ms. Ricci moved to modify the ordinance to remove the last “whereas” clause and delete section three and was seconded by Mr. Wagner. The motion did not pass by a majority: two Ayes from Ms. Ricci and Mr. Wagner and the remaining were five Nays which defeated the motion to amend. Ms. Brot moved to introduce the bill with the addition of $20,833 in the blank provided in the ordinance under section three that University City assigns to the St. Louis County Municipal League.. Ms. Ricci questioned Ms. Brot’s motion not being seconded. Mayor Adams stated that the ordinance was just being introduced and did not need a second. Since Ms. Brot’s remarks to put a dollar amount on the blank line in the ordinance occurred prior to its first reading. L. CITIZENS’ COMMENTS M. COUNCIL COMMENTS Strategic Item number 5 Mr. Price asked City Manger to have a strategic meeting with the University City School Board in connection with the status of the homeless children attending U. City’s public schools. He also wanted to know if homeless people living in University City at the time of the census taking counted as residents of University City. He also asked the City Manager to ascertain from the Chief of Police if there is some correlation between individuals who claim they are homeless and their amount of criminal activity in our community. Ms. Brot suggested Council have 15 minutes set aside after Council meetings in order to discuss existing work issues facing the Council, as it is difficult to work out problems and conflicts by email or phone. She used as an example the assignment of appointing citizens to the Boards and Commissions. Mayor Adams said that topic on the Commissions’ appointments would be better for a study session rather than a 15 minute time slot. Ms. Feier suggested that items in work in process could be brought up during Council Comments time at the end of Council’s meetings; at this time, such issues could