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Council Minutes of 12/16/97 F_ Mr. Lind, Chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) 1) The Finance Committee met on December 9. Present were committee members McKay, Musial and Lind; Council Members Nashar and Limpert; Safety Director Kasler; Councilman-elect Gareau; Finance Director-elect Copfer; Police Chief Viola; Building Commissioner Conway; Finance Director Burns. Ordinance 97-117, the transfer ordinance for the year end fund balances, was discussed at length. The bulk of the discussion centered around whether or not the reductions in the individual line items within the Safety Department are going to have any impact on the funding for salaries, overtime and so on for the Police Department. Through the discussion, it was indicated that Mr. Burns had taken the last two pays in December into account and there should be enough funds left in there after the transfer is made to effect the final phase. The Building Department asked to leave a $2,000 figure in their appropriations for 1997 so they could replace an older computer with a new one that is capable of running other software that is required. To accommodate this, the line item in the hospitalization transfer, which is an estimate anyway, was changed by $2,000 to cover the cost of the computers. All of the other items were considered to be correct, and the committee recommended approval and passage under suspension. Mrs. Saringer, Chairperson of the Recreation, Public Parks & Buildings Committee: 1) She attended the Recreation Commission meeting on December 10. The first item discussed was the fencing on the south line of Barton/Bradley Park. A brief survey was distributed to 12 of the residents directly adjacent to the south property line of BartonBradley Park. Overall, 4 residents indicated that they would favor placing the fencing along this property line while a majority of 8 indicated they would not be in favor of the fencing. Mr. Dolansky recommended that no permanent fencing be installed. Also, at present we do not have the available funds. It was recommended that snow fencing be temporarily installed for the large soccer tournament games. 2) Also discussed was the Recreation Center concession. Over the past two years, there has been a growing concern about the concession operations due to the disturbing trend of decreasing profitability margins and some inconsistencies in the food service quality. A special advisory committee was formed to carefully evaluate the current concession operations. The advisory committee consisted of Tim Smith, Park and Recreation Board member; Dave Smith, Springvale food supervisor; Recreation Commissioner Mike Dolansky. There were two recommendations that will offer the possibility of improving these current trends and improved service and quality to our customers in 1998. One is internal operation modification; namely, hiring a fi,-ll-time supervisor who is committed to managing the supplies, service and personnel with attention to detail and hands-on approach. The second proposal is to lease the space to an outside vendor. Both of these proposals will be formally presented at a meeting of Council's Recreation Committee. 3) There are a number of improvements that have to be addressed with regard to the ice rink. But overall, the facility was $102,000 over last year's net. Mr. Nashar, Chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: 1) The committee met last month to discuss the Clague Road and Virginia Avenue intersection where the curve on the road has caused several accidents. The area residents have voiced ~" concern about the accidents. Larry Griffith, the Assistant City Engineer, was asked to take 4 .. .~~... _r. ~ ~ . ~.