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compliance with their permit. We will continue to take additional steps to assist in erosion control as needed. Shaping and clearing of the site has occurred and we are now and awaiting drainage installation. Netting, lighting and irrigation will be installed once the site is fully prepared. Conditions have not allowed for the construction of the range tee or the new number 8 tees. The range building has been ordered as well as all of the equipment and supplies. City staff will install the footings and foundation for the building. Instead of an early summer opening, we are now looking at mid summer and hoping for drier weather to speed up the completion process. Upon follow up with the DNR they indicated our grant dollars could be used to implement any remediation efforts for the range, but did not feel they could amend the grant to accommodate the hydrological study request in a timely manner. Based on Council’s directive to complete the study I will proceed with an internal funding source, unless I hear differently from a majority of Council Members by April 15. The Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department is conducting a survey as part of a Park Master Plan public input process . Below is a link to the survey website. Please feel free to copy this link and distribute it to your e-mail contacts as we want as much feedback as possible. Results of the survey will be used, in conjunction with public meetings to help in the drafting of a master plan to guide in the management of our system of parks and recreation lands. Thank you for your assistance. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Ocos4zxWcxsK_2bhxYXkb4Uw_3d_3d Requests for Proposal (RFPs) Community Development staff prepared two for Olive Boulevard development along this past winter. In October 2007, requests for development proposals went out for the Value City site and in December 2007 for the Shur Sav site north of Vernon Avenue. Each document was distributed to over fifty known developers and posted on the City’s website. Neither RFP received a formal response. Based on regional market trends and anecdotal information, staff determined that developers are decreasing investments in commercial and residential development. That trend, coupled with a number of vacancies along the Olive Boulevard commercial corridor, may contribute to the perception that there is a weak demand for new commercial (or residential) space along the corridor. We should consider re-issuing the RFPs when market conditions improve. In the meantime, Washington University has offered to work with the City to identify a suitable development use. In the interim, to help reduce the number of vacancies along Olive Boulevard, staff markets vacant properties through the Available Commercial Properties List. This list is updated quarterly and is available in the Community Development office, on the City’s webpage, and included in the economic development packet. Last week Council Members Brot and Price requested information on how much money is saved through recycling. The City has fixed costs for collecting trash and recyclables. We recently reduced the fixed costs by going to automated single stream recycling. recycling as a mandated service The County now requires . What we have already done for years would have been considered an extra service in other cities and by providers in unincorporated St. Louis County. Now it is the standard in those places in order to achieve the County's waste diversion goal of 50% by 2010, to preserve limited landfill space in Missouri and reduce our overall environmental impact. Collection costs aside, the largest savings comes with the disposal costs. We are one of the only cities in the County that operates our own transfer station in order to reduce hauling costs.