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<br />Mr. Kraft agreed with Mr. Sharpe that signing the pledge is not going to change the <br />world. He would go along with waiting until all can feel that they can support it. <br /> <br />Mayor Welsch stated that she hopes they can get a revision that a majority of the <br />Council can sign on to. She believes there is a majority of the Council that believes <br />there is a certain way we should treat each other and it should become the Council’s <br />practice. <br /> <br />BILLS <br />INTRODUCED BY Mr. Glickert <br />1. <br />BILL 9094 – An ordinance approving a final subdivision plat of a tract of land to be <br />known as “7104—06 Dartmouth Condominiums” located at 7104—06 Dartmouth <br />Avenue. <br /> <br />O. CITIZEN COMMENTS <br />Edward McCarthy, 7101 Princeton Ave. <br />Mr. McCarthy first discussed first City information. He said if you work for the City and you take <br />his tax dollars everything you do is open to the public to look at. There is no way he could look <br />at information unless he is given some information to make a decision on whether you are <br />doing a good job or not. Except for Federal rules and some State rules, he understands those <br />and he thought everybody did, everything in the City’s personnel records, checks to <br />contractors, time records should be open to any citizen, not just you seven, but to any citizen <br />who wants that information because it is their tax dollars the City is utilizing. Therefore he <br />would want all information, as much as possible, not what is restricted, but as much as possible <br />available to all of us. Secondly he wanted to talk about budget items. He noted that the <br />Enterprise Fund, the trash collection discussion is taking on racial overtones and he did not <br />think that was the purpose of looking at the budget itself. Mr. McCarthy thought the Council <br />was just trying to analyze whether it was a good business decision. He said Mr. Solodar stated <br />to him that if you fix everything in the Enterprise Fund and made it to make money and if it did <br />make money, it would not fix the General Fund. Mr. McCarthy addressed Mr. Crow since he <br />talked about dumping fees, and encourage him to pursue additional revenue sources with any <br />unused capacity in the Enterprise Fund. He did not think the City was utilizing their assets to <br />their best abilities. Mr. McCarthy addressed Mr. Price since he has talked about the importance <br />of recycling, the idea of giving residents a larger recycling container to send the message that <br />this container is twice as big and is twice as important. Lastly, he does not believe there is <br />anyone on the Council that gets up in the morning and says is there anyway we can fire <br />someone in the City. It is not what is being tried, but rather it is trying to run an efficient City <br />and get the best value for the dollars that the City can get. He wanted to be sure it does not go <br />off track and he sees it doing that and it is not good. Mr. McCarthy asked Mr. Price why he <br />wanted to float a bond now when the reserves presently has additional funds. He looks at it as <br />the City has not spent the money it has wisely. <br /> <br />P. COUNCIL COMMENTS <br />Mr. Glickert talked about nuisance houses in University City and again emphasized the HOT <br /> 863 7333. <br />LINE NUMBER for anyone to call with anonymous tips,He said that it is important <br /> <br />to keep getting this phone number out.Mr. Glickert said in the trash collection talk, maybe the <br />City can get the School District’s business back. He said let’s get University City to take <br />advantage of our services. <br /> <br /> <br /> 10 <br /> <br />