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Session 1913 March 15, 2004 were reversed; 2) Section Eight Funding will be eligible for rehabilitation of Section Eight rental units; which can pose a problem of a preponderance of St. Louis County Section Eight housing in University City. Otherwise, it is a good proposal. Some discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of the proposal followed, and the consensus was that the proposal should be added to the City Manager's agenda for the Regular Meeting for a Council vote. The Study Session adjourned at 6:12 p.m. to go into executive session. The study session will reconvene before the regular session if there is time to discuss the Gay Field issue. Mayor Adams declared the scheduled Executive Session Meeting open at 6:15 p.m. (The Council voted to adjourn to this executive session at the this time at the February 23rd regular session) The executive session was postponed at 7:24 p.m., to be finished following tonight's regular and study sessions. The Study Session reconvened at 7:25 p.m. A.qenda Item #4 - Gay Park Councilmember Wagner discussed briefly the letters he and Councilmember Lieberman sent to the government of the City of Clayton and to the Clayton School District in respect of proposed changes to Gay Park and how those changes may impact citizens of University City. The consensus was to add this issue to the agenda of the Regular Meeting The Study Session ended at 7:35 p.m. to be reconvened at 8:15 p.m., which followed the Regular Meeting. A,qenda Item # 1 - Refuse Collection Mr. Ollendorff informed the Council on the recent pilot roll out cart programs, noting that one or two in condo areas were successes, whereas the program failed to garner citizen support in residential alley areas that were used to using dumpsters. Discussion ensued about recycling, fee increases, comments against citizen's purchasing their own containers, because the trash collectors destroy them when collecting the refuse. Dumpster lids are a problem, as are squirrels. All options need to be studied; fees need to be increased to cover the actual costs, Mr. Ollendorff said. Providing refuse collecting service to Pagedale as a money making enterprise was suggested. The consensus was that these issues need to be discussed further at a later study session, in order to determine the desirable balance between cost and good service.