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January 22, 2007 recreation department be permanently transferred from City Hall to Centennial Commons. Arthur Carter, 1127 Burch Lane Mr. Carter came before the Council to call attention to the cable franchise price increase. Mayor Adams said that the cable industry is controlled by the Federal Congress and the Communication Acts; the City is prohibited from controlling any such rate changes by the Federal legislation. COUNCIL COMMENTS Ms. Brot reminded Council of the Big Read program pizza lunch and program on February 17. She said Councilmembers should have received their copy of the book Farenhheit 451. She again asked for help from the Council furthermore, she encouraged everyone to check at the library where there will be many Big Read events going on in February. Mr. Glickert, in response to the request from Ms. Elsie Glickert, asked the City Manager to find the money to pay for half of the cost of the replacement steps for the Natatorium. Mayor Adams said that he would like to see the source for this money. Ms. Feier said she would look at the budget and present some ideas to the Council for approval. Mr. Price reminded everyone of the necessity to keep Ameren UE under scrutiny. He suggested writing a collective letter to the PSC encouraging Ameren UE to plan for future electrical outages now. He also reminded everyone of the street light outages that University City has experienced, one light being out for 600 days before Ameren UE was able to fix it. Such action indicates Ameren UE does not have a workable maintenance plan. Ms. Brot asked if Ms. Feier had received a response regarding her written request for Ameren CEO to talk to our Council about the problems, a copy of their maintenance schedule, and their plans to handle future catastrophic emergencies. Ms. Feier said that she did receive a letter, but it had not addressed all of her requests. She said that she would draft a Resolution for the next Council meeting to send to the Public Service Commission. Ms. Brot also commented that the City leaders should be ashamed to say that we cannot pay one-half of the cost to replace the needed steps for handicapped at the Natatorium. She said that the Council should be sure of its values and obligations to our citizens at the next budget study. She thanked Ms. Glickert for bringing these issues to the Council. Mayor Adams moved to go into Executive session dealing with 610.021(1), (2) and 610.021(12) and (15) and was seconded by Mr. Wagner. Roll Call vote was as follows: AYES: Ms. Ricci, Mr. Glickert, Ms. Brot, and Mr. Price, Mr. Wagner, Mr. Sharpe, Jr., and Mayor Adams Meeting was adjourned at 8:05 to reconvene on the second floor conference room for the Executive session. 7