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<br /> <br />UNIVERSITY CITY COUNCIL <br />STUDY SESSION <br />nd <br />City Hall, 2 Floor Conference Room <br />6801 Delmar <br />May 11, 2012. 2:30 pm <br /> <br /> <br />nd <br />The Council Study Session was held in the 2 floor Conference Room of City Hall on May 11, <br />2012. Mayor Pro-Tem Arthur Sharpe, Jr. called the Study Session to order at 2:40 p.m. Along with <br />Mayor Pro-Tem Arthur Sharpe, Jr. were: <br /> <br />Ms. Paulette Carr <br />Mr. Terry Crow <br />Mr. Byron Price <br />Mr. Michael Glickert <br />Mr. Stephen Kraft <br />Mayor Welsch arrived at 3:30 p.m. <br /> <br />Also in attendance were City Manager Lehman Walker, Director of Public Works and Parks Rich <br />Wilson and Assistant Director of Public Works/City Engineer Sinan Alpasian. <br /> <br />The Study Session on Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) Budget was asked for by Arthur Sharpe, Jr. <br />and Stephen Kraft. <br /> <br />Sinan Alpasian provided a chart showing the City pavement maintenance program and How the <br />street pavement were rated. The graph showed the decline in pavement rating that has taken <br />place with the budget cuts. He provided Council with the cost needed to bring all streets, <br />sidewalks, and curbs up to standard and the yearly ongoing maintenance cost. The categories <br />discussed were: streets, sidewalks/curbs, bike/walking trails, lights, bridges, traffic signals, Ruth <br />Park compost, parks, Public Works building and Golf Course. With all proposals, the Capital <br />Improvement Plan would be $63,060,000, with a yearly cost of $6,306,000 and the proposed FY13 <br />budget has allocated $455,000 toward this CIP. <br /> <br />Mr. Wilson estimated that the proposed CIP could be reduced to 30 to 35 million dollars. <br /> <br />Next discussed was the fact that not only did infrastructures need to be brought up to standard, <br />then the yearly maintenance cost for streets, sidewalks, trees, vehicles, golf course and parks <br />would need to be $3,128,500. The FY 13 budget proposal was for $1,260,000. <br /> <br />Other Capital Improvements mentioned were raises for City staff, renovation of the old fire house, a <br />new police station, purchasing street lights instead of renting from Ameren and funding for flood <br />prone properties. <br /> <br />The Council will have more study sessions on priorities of Capital Improvements and how they will <br />be funded. <br /> <br />Meeting was adjourned at 4:35 p.m. <br /> <br />Joyce Pumm, MRCC <br />City Clerk <br />1 <br /> <br />