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Session 1783 - Budget Meeting <br />May 17, 2000 <br /> <br />Mr. Ollendorff said that the U. City in Bloom budget report and request has still not made it <br />in. Council said that the matter of approving extra funds for them would remain on hold <br />until this report is received and reviewed. Mr. Ollendorff will contact Jane Schaeffer about <br />getting a request in. <br /> <br />Mr. Ollendorff said that the County recommends a five year cycle for sealcoating streets, <br />especially older ones. Kirkwood uses a five year cycle, for either sealcoat or microsurface. <br />Responding to Mr. Schoomer, Mr. Ollendorff stated that he did not know if we would be <br />able to achieve this goal with this level of funding. The budgeted funds will cover 3.2 <br />miles. <br /> <br />Mr. Ollendorff said that our City Hall maintenance staff will repaint the second floor of 630 <br />Trinity. <br /> <br />$1,000 has been included in the Council budget for blotters and a sofa. Money has been <br />included to buy a new, high quality conference table for the second floor conference room. <br /> <br />We have 84 police officers on the force currently. This year's budget has 83, but since we <br />received money from Wash U, we have added another one. The police department actually <br />has just hired another officer, bringing the total up to 85. <br /> <br />In the Planning budget under 725.03, Telephone, the total should be $10,270, not <br />$17,270. <br /> <br />Mr. Ollendorff talked with Superintendent Beckwith and PR Manager Lori Willis and could <br />discover no problems that they were having with our PR department. They would like to <br />have the front page of the CityScape, but we do not want that since it is a city wide <br />newspaper. <br /> <br />Mr. Schoomer brought up the problem with keeping the Loop sidewalks clean and how this <br />should be dealt with. He would like to recommend that the Loop SBD, the Arts District <br />and the City acquire one of the sidewalk scrubbing machines and operate it regularly. Mr. <br />Munkel said that this should be combined with more frequent trash pickup. Mr. Ollendorff <br />suggested that we should put this on the June 3rd study session. <br /> <br />Mr. Lieberman asked that there be some thought on how to keep cars off the narrower <br />streets during leaf collection. He gets many complaints on this problem. People rake their <br />leaves out and then someone parks right on top of them. <br /> <br />LIFE INSURANCE: <br /> <br /> <br />