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Council Minutes of 1/7/2003 ~~: AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION ..~ : Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane. ^ Listened to Mayor's report and is curious and concerned with what he heard. He believes the major problems with employees is they don't know where they are going with their concerns in the administration because there is much fluidity and blending of the positions within the administration. The Mayor and the administration, had it done its job properly, would know that (a) Mr. Deichmann was about to leave, (b) could have asked Mr. Deichmann to conduct interviews for the position, and perhaps the selected person could have worked a short internship under Mr. Deichmann for a smooth transition rather than have this organized chaos in the administration. It concerns him because that kind of activity impacts on ail the employees. • The budget is coming up and he wants to remind Council they have a right to review it, right to call the directors and managers in from the various departments, review every line item, pick it apart, move the money around where they think it should go and vote on it whether the Mayor likes it or not. That's the power of a legislator. This is going to be a critical budget. Each Council member has a responsibility to be praactive in where the money goes and how it is allocated and what is done whether the Mayor likes it or not. The Mayor can reject it, but he better come up with a better plan at that point. Mayor Musial said he apologizes if he gave the impression that the Service Director was the one doing the interviewing for the engineer. Mr. Deichmann was involved in the interviewing process. Dan Waken 24806 Kennedy Ridge Road ^ The Park-N-Ride abuts Kennedy Ridge. When it was planned out, the city and RTA had promised ahammer-head turn-around for emergency vehicles and school buses. School buses cannot go down Kennedy Ridge because there is no way to turn around. (There is a circle at the end, but a bus cannot turn around on that radius.) He assumes a fire truck could not turn either. What is being done to solve it? Also, RTA was going to have the area. fenced off. (Originally were going to build a wall to the freeway.) They were going to put a chain link fence on the side which abuts Kennedy Ridge, which they did not do. It looks like they are done because the construction equipment has been moved away. Mr. Gareau said the scope of the project was changed. The hammer-head or turn-around was suggested when the project was going to cut across the street and they would have to create an end to the street because the cul-de-sac would have been cut off. He doesn't recall what the conclusion was as to modifying the street if they didn't actually affect it. It's the same way now as it was in years past. Mr. Waken noted that before the school buses could use the greenhouse driveways. Now that is gone. Mr. McKay said the project is not finished and will not be finished until the fence is up. That will be the last thing done. As far as the hammer-head, RTA cannot complete that as planned because they do not own the land on the north side, or I-480 side of the street. He will ask the Service Director to work on a way to allow the school buses to turn around. 13 ... ~ ~,n...~,_r . ~..._ .. ,.