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<br />public record as it is a public lawsuit. She recommended Council exercise their authority in <br />direction to the lawyers involved in this litigation. <br /> <br />Nova Felton, 8031 Noel Ct. <br />Ms. Felton extended her congratulations to the Brittany Woods robotic team. She stated <br />that the City ordinance requires that department heads be required to live in University City. <br />Ms. Felton thought this ordinance would be strictly adhered to for our safety. The Fire Chief <br />lives in O’Fallon and the Assistant Fire Chief lives s in Jefferson County. The City provides <br />vehicles for them to commute, with no personal use restrictions, at a cost to the City of more <br />than $30,000. Ms. Felton said she was told that this is required because of the mutual aide <br />agreement between the cities. She said that we have cities much closer and wanted to <br />know when St. Charles or Jefferson County responded to a fire in University City as mutual <br />aide. It is because they could not timely respond and this is a waste of tax payers’ money. <br /> <br />Richard Dockett, 6844 Crest Ave. <br />Mr. Dockett thanked the students of the robotic team from Brittany Woods School. He <br />explained the burglaries of the Roth Grove neighborhood over the weekend. He described <br />the robbery of his neighbor and also told of his confrontation with the entry of a burglar in his <br />house. He felt the Roth Grove neighborhood was being targeted and have posted a reward <br />of $100 for a lead to the capture of any of the burglars. There were a series of five <br />robberies. <br /> <br />Joe Edwards, 6504 Delmar <br />Mr. Edwards commended the Brittany Woods students and said it gave him hope for the <br />future in regards to how our school system doing and how these particular young students <br />are doing and learning regardless of what happens with the double-decker bus. Mr. <br />Edwards also wanted to praise the city administration for receiving the distinguished budget <br />presentation award for the present budget from the Finance Officers’ Association as it is <br />difficult to achieve. Lastly he thought it was good to discuss things in University City but felt <br />it was getting too divisive publicly. He stated it is so hard to build up a City’s reputation but <br />so easy to tear it down. He was not sure what the Vote of No Confidence meant as it is one <br />thing to look into why you may disagree with the administration but there are no specifics. <br />Mr. Edwards felt that the City needed to get back together and talk and agree and disagree <br />about things but go about it in an open civil way. If you talk about personnel he felt it could <br />scare off people from working for University City. He asked to get a nice tone back and <br />move forward. <br /> <br />Sarah Davoli, 7378 Milan <br />Ms. Davoli found it difficult finding that the City Manager had three votes of no confidence <br />from the Council. She is concerned that there were reasons the City is having a state audit. <br />Ms. Davoli found out from a CPA the sales tax money was included in the budget before the <br />tax even passed, that pension for City employees were included in the budget to attempt to <br />balance it and that the depreciation of a fleet of vehicles was counted as an outflow of cash <br />and no delineation in the allocation of general funds to specific departments or programs. <br />She welcomes the state audit. <br /> <br />M.COUNCIL COMMENTS <br />Mr. Price said a couple meetings ago he initiated a youth initiative. He asked for $100,000 <br />to be allocated from the budget for youth and the response he received from some is that a <br />plan is needed. He asked the City Clerk to pass out the findings produced by Charity Frost, <br />the Administrative Intern, on Youth Job Corp. He said how the plan will work is that a lot of <br /> <br />