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3. The minutes of May 13, 2013, City Council Regular session were moved for approval by Mr. Sharpe and was seconded by Mr. Kraft. Ms. Carr asked the City Clerk if all amendments she made were included and the City Clerk noted they were. The minutes of May 13, 2013, City Council Regular session carried unanimously. 4. The minutes of May 13, 2013, City Council Special/Study session were moved for approval by Mr. Glickert, seconded by Mr. Crow and carried unanimously. F. APPOINTMENTS 1. Edmund Acosta was nominated to be appointed to the Library Board replacing David Stokes by Mayor Welsch, seconded by Mr. Crow and carried unanimously. Mr. Kraft stated as liaison to the Library Commission, he complimented Mr. Stokes as an exemplary member who really worked hard and thanked him for what he did. 2. Nancy Baglan was nominated to be reappointed to the Urban Forestry Commission by Mr. Kraft, seconded by Mr. Glickert and carried unanimously. G. SWEARING IN H. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION (Total of 15 minutes allowed) Jen Jenson, 706 Pennsylvania Ms. Jenson noted in 2011, Mayor Welsch started a Regional Initiative on Youth, RIY, brought together people from around St. Louis Metropolitan region to work collaboratively to benefit the young. She said 150 people committed to be involved and to share ideas on moving forward. Mayor Welsch organized an interim executive board to bring regional leaders together to insure they could all buy into a regional approach and would support the effort with their dollars. Ms. Jensen said the Mayor’s project has been successful in reaching an agreement on working towards implementing a collective impact model for working with the region’s young. The Mayor’s efforts caught the attention of the St. Louis Beacon in an unrelated story by Robert Joiner, which Ms. Jensen read for the record, “News seldom occurs in a vacuum; it often grows out of indirect events that, when recalled, can add context and give readers deeper understanding of why something happened. An example is Monday’s story of a new city-county organization of the St. Louis Initiative to Reduce Violence, or SIRV, to address, among other things, unseemly behavior among youth. It is worth remembering how this issue caught the public’s eye for at least a couple of summers in the wake of crowds and kids in the Delmar Loop and unprovoked so-called knockout attacks by teens in south St. Louis. While it might appear that SIRV came out of nowhere, something like it was waiting to be born. One indirect birther was probably University City’s Mayor Shelley Welsch, who has been working on the problem on her own, but has been pleading for at least two summers for a group to address issues involving youth, not only in the Loop but in the metropolitan area. This initiative is beginning as a pilot for focusing on Jennings and the 6th Police District in north St. Louis. But in time, it is possible that Welsch’s Community will be well-served too”. Ms. Jensen thanked Mayor Welsch. I. PUBLIC HEARINGS 3