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<br />. With a capable City Manger, the necessity of an Assistant City Manager is not <br />needed <br />. With a capable Fire Chief, the necessity of an Assistant Chief is not needed <br />. No need for Lieutenants now since not present in 1960 <br />. Merge Fire and Police administrative assistants <br />. Part-time PR department produced more in 1960 <br />. Director of Parks needs to have office at Centennial Commons <br />. Stop raising recreation fees <br />. Save by using individual roll-out-carts in alleys now serviced by large dumpsters <br />. Negotiate with U.City School District to lease the Natatorium for $1.00 and develop <br />a worth while water recreation program <br />. Eliminate designer water bottles for Councilmembers <br />. Develop an "image ad" for Community Development advertising U.City's central <br />suburban location with our logo and telephone number. Advertise in literature from <br />Stages, Channel Nine Magazine, the symphony, the opera theater, the Rep Theater <br />and a sporting event <br /> <br />Anne Marie Kiddon, 7348 Wellington - relinquished her time to allow Ms. Glickert to <br />continue past allotted five minutes. <br /> <br />Ed McCarthy, 7101 Princeton <br />. Would not use full time equivalents, instead have rates and dollars spelled out for <br />each department, thereby distinguishing the fire and police personnel from the rest <br />. Budget and all financial statements need to be available on the web <br />. Revenue recommendations <br />1. Solicit business from the private subdivisions and bid jobs for their tree <br />trimming, street paving, snow plowing, recycling, and trash and leaves pick-up <br />2. Combine the University City Public Library with St. Louis County library which is <br />charging 17 cents per hundred where University City's library is charging 22 <br />cents per hundred plus services the City provides for the library at no charge <br />3. Pension plan should not have been changed from 0 cents per 100 to 14.4 cents <br />per 100. Mr. McCarthy felt it should have gone up in smaller increments. <br />4. The price of services provided at pool should be raised. Cannot afford to offer <br />much lower prices which the poor can afford, or the City will go broke. They <br />have to be supplemented some other way or the City needs to get out of the <br />business <br />5. Need to start to move quicker in merging with other cities and or services. The <br />City cannot continue raising revenues as the expenses keep increasing <br /> <br />Jeff Martin 7423 Delmar <br />. Concerned over possible cuts in police department as he was just robbed along <br />with five of his immediate neighbors. He felt if the accreditation dollars were taken <br />away, the police department would loose good personnel <br />. Cut SUV vehicles filled with gas for City employees <br />. Felt the web site was inadequate to cities he has previously lived in and suggested <br />decreasing the cost of the IT department by outsourcing it <br /> <br />Robert Kuhlman, 8670 West Kingsbury <br />. Agreed with the Mayor that people bring in more money than "big box" stores <br />