2010-03-22 Regular City Council Agenda

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taken earlier from the tax revenue by administration, the City Manager is returning. She noted that she has always felt it was improperly taken. On the Wilson flooding Ms. Ricci wanted Mr. Burn to know that Mr. Glickert spoke to Russ Carnahan’s office and wants to initiate a citizen’s sit down to see where we are. She thought that maybe we can combine all the forces and see where we are at the local and federal level. She thanked Mr. Davoli for his ideas and stated that many of his questions are questions she also has. Ms. Ricci said that she would be one interested in using the youths for work she had which would be paid with her dollars instead of City dollars and felt many other citizens would be interested in doing that also. Ms. Ricci suggested Mr. Price and Mr. Davoli sit down and combine their ideas and craft a more rounded and encompassing program. She asked that her hand-out become part of the record. Ms. Ricci reminded everyone of the Mayor candidates’ debate on March 15. Mr. Sharpe said he was very pleased with Mr. Price youth job concept and thought it was going to work very well. He asked Ms Feier if she would revisit concepts for Olive that citizens said they would like to have so they can have an idea of what residents are looking for. Mr. Sharpe said that the MML gave Mayor Adams great acclaim for all the things he has done for the league and were sad that he is leaving his realm. Mr. Sharp stated he would give Ms. Feier literature on the Town and Gown Association and would certainly like for us to be a part of this association and glean ideas from other towns with colleges and universities within their jurisdiction. Mr. Crow hoped that everyone had an opportunity to experience the double-decker bus in the Loop. He asked Ms. Feier to keep everyone abreast with the Kingsbury and Washington noise disturbance from the students of Wash U. Ms. Feier said in response to Mr. Burns that Senator McCaskill’s office as well as Congressman Clay and Ms. Irby have been working with U City. In terms of a face to face, she said McCaskill’s office has been able to secure FEMA representatives to come for a meeting. Ms. Feier stated she would also follow up on Mr. Glickert’s work with Mr. Carnahan. With Council’s permission she would like to transition the name of the Youth Job Corp program which anachronism is YJC to Youth Employment program which is YEP which can be used more positively in promotion. Lastly Ms. Feier said in answer to Mr. Davoli’s questions primarily the pilot project is that we have so much litter and clean-up with River DesPeres and the alleys, the City will be focusing on clean-up and the youth will not be going into homes during the pilot phase. She said in terms of training, the City will be training them; in terms of liability, they are City employees and will be covered by the City’s insurance. In response to Ms. Ricci saying the City Manager reallocated money from the Economic Development Retail Sales Tax, she wanted to make it clear that she could not reallocate money from the Economic Development Sales Tax. What they had was a discussion about how much salary is set aside for administration with focus on things like economic development, planning and zoning which months ago was over a million dollars but wanted to see where they were with the reallocation based on how vacancies and what-not and the Board indicated they were. From her understanding of the minutes the Board indicated they were comfortable with the reallocation but the budget transfer would have to come back to Council for approval which would be in the next budget amendment. Ms. Ricci stated the she has been attending the Economic Development Sales Tax Board meetings and up until February 1, the Board did not know this money would be made available to them. The Board adjusted their budget last time based on the reduction of $100,000 that 7