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Session 170 I, Minutes July 7, 1997 are putting in another nursing home. The certificate of need for this project has not been approved yet at the State level. They are asking to build another nursing home based on it being used for the Jewish population. Mr. Feldman asked Council not to approve the site plan when it comes to them for approval, until Mr. Deutsch agrees to furnish some Medicaid beds for poor people. Mayor Adams said that Mr. Deutsch had already brought his site plan before Council and that it had been approved. Mr. Feldman said that he attempted to get to Council before Mr. Deutsch, but he was sorry he was too late to do anything. Mr. Jaimeson Fredericks, 7300 Westmoreland, asked that Council keep the parks safe, so she and her friends could play. Mr. Maurice IG~rzin, 814 Pennsylvania, thought Council should know that he was persuaded by one of the City's department heads not to come tonight to air his complaint. Down the street from him, his neighbors have a driveway on one side, but they also tried to construct another driveway on the other side. They had taken a conglomeration of concrete materials and used it to come across the curb and the treeline, across two slabs of the sidewalk and went to a vacant lot which runs up against their building. A couple of months ago, Mr. Karzin contacted the Public Works department and complained to Mr. Paul Hayes. One month later he caught up with Mr. Hayes, and he said he knew nothing about it, but that he would go by and take care of it. This was two months ago. Another month went by, so he contacted Mr. Hayes again. He told Mr. Karzin that it wasn't his department and proceeded to give him Frank Hill's phone number and transferred him. Mr. Hill told Mr. Karzin that he would have to see Mr. Paul Hayes. Mr. Karzin told the Council that this has been going on for three months and three weeks. Mayor Adams assured Mr. Karzin it would stop tonight and that City Manager Ollendorffwould get on it first thing' in the morning. Mr. Schoomer asked Mr. Karzin if he was the one who had called him about this problem about four or live weeks ago. Mr. Karzin said that he was. Mr. Schoomer said that he was sure he had referred the problem to Mr, Ollendorff. He asked Mr. Ollendorffto let him know what happens. Mrs. Elsie Glickert, 6712 Etzel, asked to speak about the Heman Park Swimming Pool. She would like to see it become more user friendly. Each evening at five, over a hundred people have to leave the pool because of a policy to close the pool between 5:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. No other swimming pool in St. Louis closes their pool like this. She believes it is an unnecessary closing time. The City has invested a million dollars in the Heman Park swimming pool. Thirty minutes a day translates into seven summer afternoons of swim time. The swimming season is fourteen weeks. The time permitted to swim is from noon until five p.m. The pool then reopens at 5:30 p.m. and then people swim until 7:30 p.m. or so. She does not understand the logic behind this closing time. She wants to know why this policy continues. Twelve years ago, perhaps it was necessary, but it is not necessary today. She is asking Council to waive this policy this evening. Then in October, when the Park Commission considers all the different dues pertaining to the swimming pool, they will have something to compare. Council has the authority to change it. Mrs. Thompson, addressing the City Manager, asked what the procedure would be to waive this policy, because only a half an hour is being talked about here. Some people come to the pool and have to get out right away to wait the thirty minutes. Some people do not come back or participate again in the afternoon session. She also asked why the policy was instituted in the first place. Mr. Ollendorff replied that he would get with the Park staff and commission and investigate the reasons behind the policy. These policies were adopted ten to eleven years ago and Mrs. Glickert has been opposed to them ever since. Mr. Ollendorffdoes not recall all the reasons for it. He believes it was for control of entry and use of the pool, since the evenings were for family swims and the daytime was not. He recommends against any hasty change. Mrs. Thompson said that if it has been this way for ten years, maybe the City Manager needs to relook at it, because it is possibly outdated. Mr. Wagner stated that Mrs. Glickert should take her suggestion to the next Park Commission meeting. That group has time to deal with these types of issues. Mrs. Glickert responded that this policy can easily be changed by the City Council, tonight. Mr. Wagner, again, urged Mrs. Glickert to bring her case to the next Park Commission meeting.