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Council Minutes of 4-5-77 -5- responsible City you must plan what you are going to do in the future: Mr. Beaty's objections of some of the streets may be well taken but would say that in the past we haven't planned any streets to be repaired and as a consequence we end up either short or some of the streets that need it net-er get repaired and-that is why the list is getting fuller each year: thinks it is well within the prerogative of Council to outline the streets that should be repaired and set the price. Mr. Beaty stated he does not know where Mr. Fairfield gets the notion that this is the first time there has been any program to set prioritise; this has always been done: As a matter of feet in the past the Streets ~ Drainage Committee has gone out and physically looked at these atreats and made recomteenda- tions: Will grant that they have made rec lotions which Quite often tisane not been followed but it is the first time in which Council has triad to exert its power and say these are the streets we are going to pave: Would like to definitely sustain the Mayor's veto; thinks it is a very legitimate veto; until we actually look at these in equitable fashion and select streets or let the Administration select the streets with the racoma~iatiot~s of the Committee. Mrs. Sharpe stated before Council votes oat Ord. No. 77-42 she has comments regarding the street resurfacing: After much thought and consideration it is her feeling that as a Councilmatn at i.arge she would be doing a disservice to the residents of the City if she singled out only two wards in the City to receive sgecial priorities for the bulk of the street resurfac ng program: We have streets in every ward that are in a bad state of repair and feels to be fair considering the amount of funds wa have to work with on a street resurfacing program that repairs should be equally divided: Would like to suggest that the Finance Committee and the Streets & Drainage Committee go back to~the dranring board and come up with a fair and equitable priority list. Mr. Boehmer stated he feels the same way Mrs. Sharpe does: on Sunday he went over all of the streets ran the priority list and oracle his own priorities: the point is as a Councilman at Large he feels everything should be divided up equally in the four wards. Mrs. Beringer stated she would like to comment that in previous years serving on the Streets & Drainage Com®ittae she recall explicitly suggesting things to be equal and fair - that ~ divide it equally and on that comaaat she waes just laughed at at the time: If Mr. Beaty would recall just how many streets in Ward 4 were resurfaced last year and hcyw marry streets were resurfaced in Ward 2 or Ward 1 she does not think there is any question. Roll Call on motion to override the Mayor's veto: Affirmative vote: Fairfield, Beringer, Sharpe, Wilamosky. Negative vote: Beaty, Boehmer. 4 Yeas - 2 Nays - lotion defeated. (Mayor's veto sustained.) Mr. Wilamosky moved to amend Ord. No. 77-42, Page 5, Street Maintenance Fund line item Repair by Contract to strike out the sum of $35,Ot'83. and insert in its place - $32,900.; in line item Labor in the Street Maintenance Fund to strike the sum of $165,000. and insert in its place - $166,000.; in line item Material to strike out the sum of $59,000. and insert in its glace - $60,100.; on Page 5 A to strike out 'West 230th St. and cost figure of $1,840. and insert in its place 'Birch Lane with a cost figure of $1,695.; to strike out the street "Tarim Circle and cost figure of $2,300. and insert the Warne of the street "Bailey and a cost figure of $4,520.; to strike the figure of $82,878. and insert in its place the figure of $84,951.00. Motion seconded by Mrs. Sharpe. Mr. Beaty asked if we can amemd an ordnance once it has passed.