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To: Honorable Mayor Adams and Council From: Julie Feier, City Manager Date: April 17, 2009 Subject: Weekly Update Mayor Adams and I met last week with our counterparts from Olivette to discuss the joint redevelopment concepts for Olivette and University City around the Interstate 170/Olive interchange that have been floating around for several years. To that end, we agreed to schedule a joint meeting of the two City Councils to discuss Michael Mindlin of Architectural Firm mutual interests and hear a presentation from Suttle Mindlin about some redevelopment approaches. This may also be an opportunity to discuss the possibility of collaborating in the future on an indoor pool. The 7:00 PM on Monday, May 11 at Centennial Commons. meeting is scheduled for Please try to make it if at all possible. The School District asked that I alert you of a component of their proposed 2009-2010 District is school district budget that will affect the City of University City. The proposing that they close the Natatorium for the 2009-2010 school year to reduce their operating deficit. As you know, this will offset our operating deficit by $10,000. The Board of Education has asked district administration to reach out to the city government to see if perhaps the City can assist with supporting the Natatorium. The Natatorium operates at a roughly $120,000 loss for the District without accounting for the millions of dollars in needed repair. The District did not indicate what level of financial support they were seeking. In light of our extreme budget difficulties, I assume the answer is no, but wanted to confirm with you first. If you would like to provide additional funding to the District please let me know in the next week. We submitted a grant request this week for funding for six police officers through a COPS grant totaling $1,147,266.00 stimulus package . On Wednesday, The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency , announced the final Preparedness Grants Allocations for Fiscal Year 2009. The Preparedness Grants are for ten federal grant programs, totaling nearly $970 million. These grants will assist state, local and tribal governments and private industry in strengthening community preparedness. The grant funding will go to preparedness activities including transit, intercity bus, trucking and port security and toward bolstering interoperable communications and emergency operations centers. To learn more about the grants and allocations, click here. (Mitchel Herckis, herckis@nlc.org, 202.626.3124)