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Mr. Kraft asked for a Point of Clarification, if there was another motion if it is amended or was this amending the original motion. Mr. Crow said that would be his amendment to his original motion. The voice vote approving the amendment to the original motion as presented by Mr. Crow, carried by a majority, with a Nay vote from Mayor Welsch and an abstention from Mr. Glickert. City Clerk was asked to read the motion as amended - The City Manager and the City Attorney were to work with the Human Relations Commission to discuss their Charter and charges. Ms. Welsch asked if everyone was clear on the motion that the motion was for the City Manager to set up a meeting with the Human Relations Commission and the City Attorney to discuss and clarify the mission and the duties of the Human Relations Commission and to further instruct members of the Human Relations Commission to cancel any scheduled meeting with Schnucks and prohibit them from any further meetings with Schnucks or any other businesses in University City until such time the review has been completed. Voice vote on the amended motion carried by a majority with Nay votes from Mr. Glickert and Mayor Welsch. 3. Boards, Commissions and Task Force Minutes 4. Other Discussions/Business Street sweeping requested by Ms. Carr and Mr. Price  Ms. Carr had the City Clerk hand out a map to which she would refer to. She noted that sometime in November Mr. Kraft and Mr. Glickert brought forward a resolution to sweep the private streets. At the time it was recommended not to sweep the privately owned streets because the City Attorney said that there was a prohibition on using public funds for a private entity. She said based on that she did not see the feasibility of doing it. She noted the cost estimate for sweeping private streets was minimal, from $15,000 - $40,000, which included snow blowing. Ms. Carr said although she voted against it, she thought there had to be a solution and thought if you paid a fee then that requirement of not using funds for a private entity would be circumvented. She said she has over 1,000 residences that live in a private subdivision on private streets, which pay their taxes and do not get the services the rest get in paying their taxes. She could not justify when other private entities are given the go-ahead as the City did for Sutter Meyer. Ms. Carr provided a schedule of the street sweeping policy procedures, that for most residences street sweeping is three times a year and for certain streets heavily used and major arteries, it is once a month. Ms. Carr said it was twice a week for some streets and some streets it was four times a week and are mostly in the commercial district and in front of City Hall. She said the map she just provided showed the streets that are swept twice a week. She noted the pink area represented buildings owned by Washington University who does not pay taxes. She said it can be seen that many of the streets that are swept twice a week coincide with a large number of properties owned by Washington University and her subdivision constituents subsidize 13