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Ms. Porter stated that she is the secretary of Citizens for Restoring Transparency and wished to express her dissatisfaction with the division and unsafe environment created by the Mayor’s response to the comments and actions of Councilmembers Jennings and Kraft. Ms. Porter requested that her written comments be attached to the minutes. Jan Adams, 7150 Cambridge Avenue, University City, MO Ms. Adams spoke on Councilmember Crows negative comments. She noted the only attacks on Dr. Carr were the direct consequence of the lies told both in chambers and videos, posted on social media by th Councilmembers Crow and Carr. She stated that on August 11 she proposed a resolution that prohibits outright lies by members of Council while performing their public duties and would like to renew that request this evening. Ms. Adams expressed concern for the reason why the demand to have Ms. Hummels written statement attached to the minutes. Ms. Adams urged Council to call a truce, focus on governing and leave the political vindictiveness outside the doors of these chambers. Ms. Adams stated that she would submit comments to be attached to the minutes. O. COUNCIL REPORTS/BUSINESS 1. Boards and Commission appointments needed Mayor Welsch read the appointments that were needed. Dr. Carr noted the corrections that were needed. Mayor Welsch stated that staff would send out the corrected list of appointments. 2. Council liaison reports on Boards and Commissions Mr. Glickert stated that he participated in the Plan Commission meeting last Wednesday and while his opinion is that both staff and Ameren UE did a good job with respect to the Conditional Use Permit discussion, there were some concerns raised about the public hearing for this particular CUP being held at 5 p.m. Residents concluded that the hearing might have been more effective if it had been held a little bit later. Mr. Glickert moved that future CUP public hearings commence at 6 p.m. and was seconded by Mr. Jennings. Dr. Carr stated that since this item was not placed on the agenda and asked that the vote be postponed until the next meeting. Mr. Crow stated that he was more than happy to change the time, but believed that Council should provide staff with an opportunity to weigh-in prior to making a change since it could impact them as well. Mr. Walker concurred with the suggestion of Councilmember Crow. Mr. Glickert rescinded his motion and agreed to postpone the vote until the next meeting. Dr. Carr stated that she is the liaison for the Urban Forestry Commission and would like to ask Mr. Sharpe if he was aware of the circumstances surrounding an appeal and reversal of the Urban Forestry Commission’s decision regarding a tree located at 7100 Willow Tree Lane? Mr. Sharpe stated that two of his long-time constituents had approached him regarding the issues they had been having as result of this tree. He stated that he felt very strongly in favor of the tree’s removal and made a personal request that the tree be removed. Mr. Sharpe stated that once the tree is removed it will be replaced by another tree, so the City will not be losing a tree, just replacing the older tree with a smaller one. Dr. Carr stated it is a little problematic when the code states that the Urban Forestry Commission is the final decision-maker and then, several days later the code is changed. She stated that these types of complaints happen frequently, but since there is a process that all of this has to go through. Mr. Sharpe asked Dr. Carr what was more important, people or trees? He stated that he loved trees, but people were more important to him than trees. 7