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Session 1105, l~inutes June 16, 1975 Page 19 received, estimated about a 95% spending of the current year and ~r. Ellman thinks it will be 97% or slightly over - the picture is somewhat incomplete at the moment and it is a little difficult to make any sizeable judgments. He said he would have the information on Friday. There was some general discussion and questions. Councilman Lieberman asked how much has been budgeted for the Community Schools Program in this particular budget and the City ~nager said it is $12,600o00. I{e asked whether the City Planager has any recommendations to make based on the presentations made this evening and City ~anager Henry said he has no recommendations at this point. Councilman Lieberman said that during the past few weeks since the Council has been talking about budgetary items, there have been some questions raised by Council members pertaining to the matter of the Police Budget and Chief Damos' request for additional policemen. Councilman Lieberman said last week he had explained what he thought would be the budgetary impact. lie said Council members have asked about the impact on response time to the citizens, the Police Cadet program, and the budgetary impact of hiring the number of persons that Chief Damos had recommended, lie said he has not re- ceived any of that material and he thinks it is urgent that the Council re- ceive this information without delay. With regard to budgets and uniforms, Councilman Glickert said that she would like to suggest the possibility of a uniform allowance (particularly, the Police) rather than buying the uniforms outright as the City has done in the past. She felt this might work out better both budget-wise and in the fitting. FORSYTH SCHOOL: Councilman Glickert asked whether the Forsyth School will be off the tax rolls and said she would like this information at the July meeting. This will be checked into. LITTER - U. CITY IN THE SQUAP~: Councilman Lieberman referred to a memo from I~. Dieckgraefe, Director of Planning, and said this is the second or third item which has to do with U. City in the Square. 1.1r. Dieckgraefe's memo deals with clean-up problems and Councilman Lieberman said he concurs in ~r. Dieckgraefe's recommendation that conditions be established by the City prior to the next U. City in the Square event. He said the mmtter of control of U. City in the Square seems to be "off in thirteen different directions" and this is not wise. He said the City must insist that a committee or a group be established who would be in control and who would assure the City that its concerns will be met. Fi{ALO~ - U. CITY BUSINESS t~i~: Councilman Glickert said that last week she mentioned a situation with HUD in the Third Ward and would like to report that Senator Eagleton's office was successful in getting an ~h% loan approved for a business man of Univer- sity City, in a very short time. BI~ RIDE tLESCHEDULED: Councilman Glickert invited members of the Council, and the public, to join in a rescheduled BIKE RIDE on this coming Sunday. ~%e ride last week had been rained out.