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City Clerk Joyce Pumm stated that Public Hearings are not Council meetings and do not <br />require minutes to be taken as there was not any discussion involving Council. Secondly the <br />City clerk explained that Mr. Kraft, Ms. Ricci and Mayor Welsch were the only members of <br />Council present, which did not warrant a quorum, another reason why minutes would not be <br />required. The City Clerk said she would make a copy recording of the meeting and send it to <br />Mr. Price. <br /> <br />Mr. Walker said in respect to the calendar; the City is working with this year’s low bidder and <br />part of one of the zip codes was missed. The company said the remaining calendars were <br />mailed on Friday. Several calendars were reprinted and this issue is being referred to legal <br />counsel to deal with the additional charge. Mr. Walker said in respect to the budget reductions, <br />he noted that he had forwarded to members of Council in respect to the estimated savings and <br />projected savings for Information Technology, Human Resources, Finance, etc. Mr. Walker <br />said he could provide more detailed information for Councilmember Price. <br /> <br />Mr. Price said he needed a compare and contrast, here is what the previous organizational <br />chart cost here is what the proposed chart will cost. <br /> <br />Mr. Walker stated he will provide that and said there were substantial savings. <br /> <br />Mr. Crow piggy-backed on the calendars and thought it generated the most traffic to him. He <br />noted that everyone at the dinner party he attended there were people from Olivette, Ladue and <br />Clayton and they received a U City calendar and he did not. He felt it would require a little <br />more examination as to how this all came about. He also requested an update on the grant <br />issue concerning the use of the pool. Mr. Crow asked for a comparison of University City to <br />surrounding cities of the ordinances on the City’s books for Pay-Day loans. He also asked to <br />have the Council Rules posted on the web-site. <br /> <br />Mr. Walker noted that some residents in the zip code 63130 did receive the calendar and why <br />we changed vendors was a matter of cost. The City went with the lowest bidder. <br /> <br />Mr. Kraft noted he ran for City Council because things needed to be changed; the City faced <br />large deficits and could not come up with coherent solutions. Citizens were told that absence <br />of service cuts a tax increase was the only way to balance the budget. The brochure for <br />Proposition S threatened reductions in fire department staffing, ambulance response and <br />Heman Park pool closure. The Fleet Management report described expenses that were forty <br />percent more than comparable cities. Consultants described the Information Technology <br />department “in a state of un-needed chaos and down-time” and went on to describe a list of <br />problems in the IT department including implementation, purchasing, reporting issues, security <br />and disaster recovery. Data on individual employees computers were never backed up and the <br />central server back-up tapes were stored in the basement of an IT department employee. The <br />City has redundant inefficient data bases that don’t talk to each other. Mr. Kraft said that upon <br />examination he found the budget book to be disorganized, misleading and opaque. He sought <br />advice from management consultants from the University and Corporate world and by the fall <br />2009, it was his opinion, that City management was inefficient and top heavy with too many <br />high- paid managers for the size of the work force. He found the computer and financial <br />reporting system was unable to provide timely, useful and accurate information. That was his <br />view over a year ago and now being on the City Council nothing has changed his mind. Mr. <br />Kraft said that organizations have learned to more with less. Businesses that were successful <br />in making changes, continue to thrive. He said cities don’t go bankrupt but rather citizens <br /> <br /> 7 <br /> <br />
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