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Regular meeting <br />June 27, 2005 <br /> <br />and that communication would happen between the two board of alderman than <br />anything else. He said that he would talk to those two individuals first before <br />proceeding; since there is only two aldermanic wards of the City of St. Louis that border <br />U. City. Ms. Brungardt asked if this meant that the Mayor would be taking St. Louis <br />himself. Mayor Adams replied that this isn’t necessarily true; it would just be held to a <br />later time. <br /> <br />Ms. Welsch appreciates the inclination behind this and she doesn’t have any problem <br />with it. Her only concern is what kind of timeline the Mayor is thinking about for reports. <br />Her schedule is not very open currently due to her many engagements. She sees that <br />th <br />the Mayor would like for the Council to choose cities by the 18. Mayor Adams hoped <br />to have the entire Council build a timeline at a regular study session in the near future. <br />Mayor Adams said that he could see the Council making these relationships as soon as <br />possible; meeting with these individuals; finding out what’s going on in their location and <br />trying to figure out needs and whatever else. It is totally open ended. As far as making <br />definitions – he would see the entire Council doing it and not just himself. <br /> <br />Mr. Wagner accepted the Mayor’s challenge and will take on Olivette. <br /> <br />Ms. Brungardt asked the Mayor what his desired outcomes were in this assignment. <br />Mayor Adams said that his desired outcome is to move forward on Action Item D of the <br />Advisory Board on Economic Progress’ report, which the Council has said that they <br />were in support of, and establish a relationship with the cities on the U. City border <br />which we will be constantly in contact with; finding out what is going on and trying to <br />figure out where we can work with each other. This is what the report said we should <br />be doing and as he read it, he decided that we should move forward with it. <br /> <br />Ms. Brungardt still has many questions. Mayor Adams replied that he is sure and this <br />will need to be fleshed out by Council in a study meeting – he reiterated that it is a <br />totally open process and he encourages the Council to flesh it out. Ms. Brungardt <br />asked if the Missouri Municipal League didn’t already offer any number of opportunities <br />for us to establish relationships with bordering municipalities. Mayor Adams said not <br />like he was envisioning, no. Ms. Brungardt asked if he was seeing this as a pilot <br />program for other municipalities in building relationships with their neighbors. Mayor <br />Adams said not necessarily, though the economic report suggested that. Ms. Brungardt <br />said that if we are going to undertake something like this, then it would behoove us to <br />document it in such a way that we could present it to the Missouri Municipal League as <br />a study conducted by the entire City Council. She personally would not like to spend <br />the time and energy that this is going to require unless it actually produces something of <br />value that can go beyond busy work. Mayor Adams does not consider this busy work. <br />He considers this a recommendation from the Advisory Board for Economic Progress, <br />and he assumed that the Council would consider this a worthy task. Perhaps he made <br />the wrong assumption. <br /> <br />Page 22 <br /> <br />