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Ralph Bowser, 8050 Teasdale, asked the City Council to consider setting aside money in the budget to restore the Mayoral pictures on the Chambers wall and to digitize them to be put onto the website. They are the only existing photographs of one or two of the former mayors. If anything happens they will be lost forever. He shared his ideas about what needed to be done to preserve these photographs. He wants this need considered for the budget. Ms. Welsch asked him if someone on the Historical Preservation Commission could obtain cost estimates and Mr. Bowser explained how restoration was a difficult and costly process. Ms. Welsch thanked him. Richard Dockett, 6844 Crest Avenue, came to thank the mayor and the city council and the city manager for implementing the first plan for the northeast section of University City. He said he came tonight to encourage additional action on this plan. He mentioned a progress report relating to the plan which he brought with him tonight to share with the City Council. He mentioned specific areas which he wanted the Council to address. He also shared copies of the area's newsletter "North East News." Elsie Glickert, 6712 Etzel Avenue, first endorsed Ralph Bowser's comments about the photographs of former mayors and city managers on the first floor of City Hall, noting that with construction underway, they should be moved. Next she brought attention to the logo located at all of the streets which enter the City, but commented that the bases were very bare, and she suggested that miniature crabapple trees, costing $130 apiece, should be purchased to fill in the gaps at the base of the pole. She said enhancement lights on Epstein Plaza should be reintroduced. Her next suggestion was half-price admission to the swimming pool for school employees and members of the Board of Education, which was dropped last year. She would like to see it re-installed. Her next comment related to nine people needing to share a refuse box in her alley. She regards this as unfair and asked that refuse taxes not be increased, but that people who are not paying their bills should be pursued. She asked that the boxes be moved to the other side of the alley. Ed McCarthy, 71 Princeton, asked if the Council would consider citizen comments during the budget study sessions coming up. The public hearing was closed at 7:27 p.m. AGENDA ITEM #4 – CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT -8041-8081 Olive The City Manager explained that the Council was considering a Conditional Use Permit for 8041-8081 Olive, at the corner of Hafner, and said he recommended that it be approved with a number of conditions: that the site coverage allowance be set at 79 per cent, that there be installed an improved storm drainage facility and that it be approved by MSD and the City engineering force, that there be a shared-access driveway design, screened loading areas and utilities, and approval of a permitted parking variance to 170 spaces. Plan has been improved by deleting ingress/egress from Hafner. With those changes and conditions, he recommended approval of the Conditional Use Permit. Mr. Wagner moved approval and Ms. Brot seconded. Herman Slade, 8077 Hafner Court, identified himself as living adjacent to the parking lot of the business named in the Conditional Use Permit, and he said that before further development occurs, the troubled flood plain needs to be