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lune 22, 1998 Council/Plan Commission the Plan. Mr. Wagner felt it could be added without being too specific to any one particular alignment. City Services: Mr. Ollendorff said that there were several sections dealing with City Services, which he suggests should be dropped. He does not think the Comprehensive Plan is the right place to have the goals for the Police Department or refuse collection, etc. They were included last time because we were looking at this document as more of a future for the community as a whole, which was well beyond just a land use plan. He suggests deleting them. Sense of Council and the Commission was to agree. Mr. Solodar asked about the tax base part. Mr. Ollendorff said that the tax base will definitely remain and will be updated. Economic Based Analysis: Mr. Ollendorff said that Council had directed that staff prepare a report, as a goal for the next year, that showed the revenue tax benefits for each development district. This study will be separate, but co-dependent with the Comprehensive Plan. Mr. Solodar asked if increasing tax revenue in the City would drive the Council's development objectives. Mr. Solodar believes this information is germane to how the Plan is to be developed. Mr. Ollendorff clarified that when this economic study is completed, it will be brought to the Comprehensive Plan people. Quality of Life/Community Values: Mr. Ollendorff said that he has heard arguments both ways on this item. Some say that quality of life issues do not belong in a land use document. Others say that there is not a community unless the quality of life issues are brought in. The answer is probably in between. His idea is that the information about the schools should be deleted, as does Ms. Glassman. The schools are not the City's direct concern. Mr. Schoomer said the school system was the single driving element for attracting property owners to the community. Mr. Lieberman said that out of all of the County school districts, University City is one of the very few that has a school district that is almost contiguous with the City, which makes us unique. Possibly this relationship could be brought out in some manner instead of describing what each individual school does. Mr. Self asked if it was a process of the public hearing to act as a forum to bring out quality of life issues. He was not sure how these would be analyzed, but we would hear a lot about what people were interested in. Ms. Glassman agreed with Mr. Ollendorff, and feels similarly about cultural resources, in the sense that it would be important to have a study or plan about the City's cultural resources. In order to do this right, however, somebody would have to have really focus on this particular issue. It should be a serious, separate study and not something that is just pinned to the Plan. The Mayor said that cultural issues change, which makes it hard to spell them out in the Plan. Mr. Wagner agrees. City government has no control over the school system. A statement on cost sharing