Regular Meeting

BOARD OF ALDERMEN

CITY OF PARKVILLE, MISSOURI

September 4, 2001

CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order by Mayor William M. Quitmeier in the Board Room of City Hall on Tuesday, September 4, 2001, at 7:00 p.m.

ROLL CALL

Ward 1 Alderman Jack Friedman - present

Ward 1 Alderman Charlie Poole - present

Ward 2 Alderman David McCoy - present

Ward 2 Alderman Dave Rittman - present

Ward 3 Alderman Marvin Ferguson - present

Ward 3 Alderman Linda Arnold - present

Ward 4 Alderman Frank McCoy - present

Ward 4 Alderman Marc Sportsman - ABSENT WITH PRIOR NOTICE

ALSO PRESENT: City Administrator Pat Hawver

Police Chief Bill Hudson

Director of Public Works Jeff Rupp

Superintendent of Streets Alan Schank

Park University Director of Student Development Cami Davey

Parkville Chamber of Commerce President Deborah Butcher

Tom Hutsler for Parkville River Festivals, Inc., and for downtown merchants

Jim Grisham

MEDIA PRESENT: Nancy Jack

Marte Zirschky

Ed Gault and Shan Johnson for Channel 2

FOCUS GROUPS

Ms. Davey distributed copies of a status report on the focus group meetings (copy is attached to these minutes); she said a full report would be in aldermen=s boxes Monday of next week. She offered to come to the next meeting to discuss the final report, but Mayor Quitmeier asked her to hold off until the October 2^nd meeting, as he might be absent from the September 18^th meeting. She agreed. She said there were delays in getting information from key people so the focus group program is about two weeks behind schedule.

Mrs. Arnold thanked her for all her work on this project, and Mayor Quitmeier did as well.

TOM HUTSLER FOR PARKVILLE RIVER FESTIVALS, INC., AND DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS

Mr. Hutsler said they were finally in the green. They had a pretty successful July 4^th and Parkville Days. Everyone said very nice things about this year=s events; they liked having it in the park. They are actually showing a profit. They were able to pay off the debt of $8,200 from last year. They also have a net balance of about $8,000. He would like to make a full final accounting of the entire year to have in aldermen=s packets prior to the next meeting. He suggested they take the next two weeks to look at things regarding to festivals and then he will come back to the Board at the next meeting to seek approval for both dates for next year. (4^th of July from July 3^rd to 6^th, and Parkville Days from August 23^rd to 25^th). Mayor Quitmeier asked if he could come back in a month instead so they=d have the benefit of the focus group report before they consider these events.

Mr. Hutsler said he=d like to make one correction: the focus group survey is a function of the Chamber but not the Main Street Parkville Association. Main Street acknowledges but doesn=t sponsor the focus group survey.

Mrs. Arnold said she was with Main Street when the focus group program was initiated, and Main Street was indeed a part of the program. She said Main Street=s Amother@ institution is the Parkville Community Development Corporation, and Gary Worden is acting head of that group. She said Mr. Hutsler was there when it was discussed, and he was in complete agreement.

Mr. Hutsler said he attended all the Main Street meetings. The focus group survey is not a part of the Main Street program. Mrs. Arnold said yes, it is. She said it may not be a part of the present Main Street Association, but it was part of it when she was the Main Street director. She said Mr. Hutsler is on the board now of the Main Street Association and there are other people, but the original Main Street Parkville Association was in favor of the focus groups.

Mr. Hutsler said he was at the August 15^th meeting of the Main Street Steering Committee. Gary Worden is still secretary of the PCDC (Parkville Community Development Corporation); he is trying to have a meeting within the next two weeks to figure out where they=re going. In the meantime Main Street has met and is going forward. The survey was specifically started by the Chamber of Commerce and has never been acknowledged as a Main Street function, even prior to his involvement, he said.

Mr. David McCoy said the report from Ms. Davey said the survey is being conducted for Main Street and the Parkville Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Arnold said it was conducted for the whole city, not just for one group. No-one is trying to undo anything. All received an invitation to come. Mrs. Butcher said the City, civic organizations and committees were supposed to be in a separate focus group.

Mr. Hutsler distributed information to the Board of Aldermen; copy is attached to these minutes.

Mr. Rittman asked if the 501C3 was still the same. Mrs. Arnold said the mother group (PCDC) holds the 501C3. Mr. Rittman said they are rebuilding Main Street, and it would be helpful to him to have a Asnapshot@ of the present status, who are the new members, etc.

Mrs. Arnold asked Mr. Hutsler how it=s going at the depot, and asked how many hours Mrs. Montgomery is working. She recalled that Mr. Hutsler wanted someone there every day because he wanted to have the phone answered by a person rather than an answering machine.

Mr. Hutsler said at the last meeting Angelo Gangai was re-elected chairman of Main Street. He didn=t have a copy of the attendance with him, but he believed there were about twenty people present. Most were predominantly merchants and a couple of property owners.

They had their first official meeting last week. He gave aldermen a copy of the agenda for that meeting. At that meeting attendance was a lot less than they anticipated. Karen Montgomery was elected acting director of volunteers. She is the one handling the phones down there. Mrs. Arnold asked how often she was there. Mr. Hutsler said he had no idea. They are getting Mrs. Montgomery a cell phone so calls can be forwarded to her.

Main Street meetings are open to the public, Mr. Hutsler said. The next one will be next Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at the Power Plant in the banquet room. Eventually he would like to move the meetings back to the Train Depot.

On festivals, Mr. Hutsler said, he would like to take this two-week period and have something in their packets prior to the next meeting. Mayor Quitmeier said the Board should review the focus group information before they assess these festivals. For the 4^th of July the carnival takes up all the parking. Prologis (the Riverside Industrial Park on Highway 9) no longer allows us to use parking there. The carnival takes up all the parking for a week. His opinion was that the 4^th should be a one-day event on the 4^th, and have a parade but not a carnival. He would like to hear what the focus groups think. He thinks we should wait until the first meeting in October.

Mr. Hutsler said he was not so sure the focus groups are going to tell us anything along that line. They didn=t focus specifically on festivals when he attended. Ms. Davey said one group did deal directly with the festivals. That information will be included in the final report. Mr. Rittman said several of them on the Board didn=t get invitations to the focus groups. Mrs. Arnold said they all got something by e-mail. Mr. Frank McCoy said he got one at work but it made no sense to him. Mr. David McCoy agreed. Mr. Rittman said before Ms. Davey closes it out they probably need a little more feedback. Ms. Davey agreed, but said she would still have information for them on Monday.

Mrs. Arnold said she would favor limiting all events to two days. She asked other aldermen to consider that before approving future events.

Mayor Quitmeier suggested a special work session for aldermen. Mr. Hawver said he thought the Board was going to have a special focus group meeting. Mr. Poole said he would like to wait until they hear from the focus groups before considering any events, and before Mr. Hutsler makes his presentation.

Mr. Hutsler said he didn=t want anyone to have the false impression that Main Street doesn=t like what Ms. Davey is doing; they actually supported it 100% B they thought doing the focus group survey was a great idea. They just didn=t want to hold up the business of Main Street and Parkville River Festivals while this was going on. Former Main Street Director Linda Graham returned to town recently and pointed out to him and to Karen Montgomery that the focus groups were not a new issue. Mr. Hutsler said he thought the Chamber of Commerce wanted to do this for two or three years now. He said you have to find out what people want but you don=t want to reinvent the wheel. He said we have four great events, all different. The only reason the 4^th of July is a four-day event is because we do have a carnival. This community tells him they thoroughly enjoy the carnival.

Mayor Quitmeier asked if they could put the carnival behind their buildings (English Landing Center)? People park illegally on Highway 9. Mr. Friedman said he=s had totally different feedback than Mr. Hutsler gets on the carnival. The mayor said we have to solve the parking problem. We can=t use the parking lot at 9/45 (Parkville Heights Shopping Center), and we can=t park in Riverside any more.

Mr. Hutsler said their major concern is the merchants and tenants. All of our merchants and tenants, he said, enjoy the carnival. The mayor said he would rather hear that directly from the merchants. He said he thinks that is one of the things focus groups do. Mr. Hutsler said he, Dave Williams and Danny Tinsley own 70% of the leasable square feet of the property downtown and they talk to the tenants all the time. Mayor Quitmeier said all we=re saying is let=s talk about it in a month.

Mr. Hutsler said these people didn=t attend the focus groups. None of the restaurant owners attended a focus group meeting. They were probably all too busy, he said. We=re not turning away customers, he added. The majority of people park on other streets or at Park University. Even during Christmas on the River half the parking lot is used for the stage. The stage is set up early in the week before. Mrs. Arnold said it takes only a day to set it up, and she thanked Mr. Hutsler for his help in doing that. The mayor said to have that parking lot closed for a week -- Mr. Hutsler said the Christmas on the River stage was set up for five days. The merchants didn=t have a problem. Mrs. Arnold disagreed with him on the length of time the stage was up, but said she didn=t want to debate the issue; she thought they were going to discuss this later.

Mr. Rittman said in considering Main Street being built back up and being controlled by PCDC he really needs to know the membership, minutes and what we can do to help.

The mayor asked for citizen input. There was none.

REVIEW OF MINUTES

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED THAT THE MINUTES OF AUGUST 21^ST BE APPROVED AS PUBLISHED; ALDERMAN POOLE SECONDED; ALL AYE; MOTION CARRIED.

MAYOR=S REPORT

TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT 9/45: Mayor Quitmeier said he has MoDOT looking at the signal there. It used to be that the mechanism would turn the arrow back on for a left turn, now you have to wait for the whole cycle.

DRUG TESTING: The mayor said he has always been a strong supporter of the Constitution of the United States, and that is why he became a lawyer. He would like everyone to keep the Constitution in mind when considering drug testing. Our city attorney is of the opinion that there is a limited number of people we can do testing for. The Preamble to the Bill of Rights says:

The conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the government will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution.

The mayor quoted the Fourth Amendment against Unreasonable Search and Seizure.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or thing to be seized. (Emphasis added.)

Mayor Quitmeier alluded to comments that Athey do it in private business so we can do it in government.@ If a private business ransacks his business or his home that doesn=t violate his Constitutional rights, he said, but if the Internal Revenue Service did it that would violate his Constitutional rights. He read the following quotations from conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia:

$ The government asserts it can demand that employees perform an excretory function traditionally shielded by great privacy.

$ The Court agrees that this constitutes a search for purposes of the Fourth Amendment B and I think it obvious that it is a type of search particularly destructive of privacy and offensive to personal liberty.

$ To be sure, there is only a slight chance that it will prevent some serious public harm resulting from Service employee drug use, but it will show to the world that the Service is >clean,= and B most important of all B will demonstrate the determination of the Government to eliminate this scourge of society! I think it obvious that this justification is unacceptable; that the impairment of individual liberties cannot be the means of making a point; that symbolism, even symbolism for so worthy a cause as the abolition of unlawful drugs, cannot validate an otherwise unreasonable search.

$ It is ....immaterial that the intrusion was in aid of law enforcement. Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government=s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by mean of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. (Scalia quoting Justice Louis Brandeis.)

$ Those who lose because of the lack of understanding that begot the present exercise in symbolism are not just the Custom Service employees, whose dignity is thus offended, but all of us B who suffer a coarsening of our national manners that ultimately give the Fourth Amendment its content, and who become subject to the administration of federal officials whose respect for our privacy can hardly be greater than the small respect they have been taught to have for their own.

BU.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissenting opinion in National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab, 489 U.S. 656 (1989).

The mayor said we need to be on our toes and be alert that we don=t trample on the 4^th Amendment. The more important message is that we respect the Constitution.

CITY ADMINISTRATOR

WALL STREET: Mr. Hawver said the Wall Street job is completed. We are now the owner of those five lots. Mayor Quitmeier said he was asked if the City was going to become a dues-paying member of the Riverchase Homeowners Association. We need to adopt a parkland zoning designation and rezone that property so it stays parkland, and that would exempt us from paying dues. He asked for any thoughts on that. None were voiced.

SEWAGE THAT ENTERED RISS LAKE: Mr. Hawver said Kansas City took the problem very seriously. They tested every other day. Those tests were submitted to him, and he saw enormous improvement. The water has finally returned to normal, and is no longer contaminated. Mayor Quitmeier asked if Kansas City=s alarm phone could be set to ring Al Kennedy=s phone. Mr. Hawver said probably; he will look into it.

CYCLE CROSS RACE IN ENGLISH LANDING PARK: The Park Committee had a request to hold a cycle cross race in English Landing Park November 4^th. They asked Jeff Rupp to make further inquiry about the details. Mr. Rupp said the group is part of the U.S. Cycling Association. They didn=t know the exact number of cyclists, but said there would probably be about 50 but not more than 70. They would like to use the park from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. They indicated they would like to use the grass areas as well, but are willing to stay on the running path. They have a million dollar insurance policy. They have also contacted the South Platte Fire Protection District for emergencies. In answer to a question, he said he didn=t believe the race benefited any charity. There will be no heavy equipment; the race will be set up out of the back of a pickup. The actual race will last 50 minutes. The entire parking lot down there will probably be filled up. They would work with some kind of car pool system. The Park Committee said it would be in favor of it if we found out more information. Mrs. Arnold asked if they would put up a deposit in case of damage to the trail or park. Mr. Rupp said that could be done. He said we=d have to designate what they could do. They would be closing off the trail so people couldn=t walk there that day. They would rather get off on the grass. He told them they couldn=t get on the new baseball field.

Mrs. Arnold said she thought we needed more information. Mr. Poole said the weather prior to that date would be a big factor. The mayor said we do have a lot of bikes on that trail on a daily basis. He reminded them not to forget the deposit. Mr. Hawver said he would also get a recommendation from the River Trail Committee.

PROPOSED CHANGES IN ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES: Mr. Hawver said with the exception of the addition of a public works director and a second building inspector there has been little change in personnel over the last ten years, although our population and our size have doubled, and our operating budget has tripled. He suggested consolidating the financial accounting procedures; changing job descriptions and titles of certain employees; changing the status of the administrative assistant position from full-time to part-time; creating a Community Development Department and establishing the position of Director of Community Development; and separating the Parks and Recreation Department from the Street Department and creating the position of Parks and Recreation Director. A copy of the city administrator=s report is attached to these minutes.

Mayor Quitmeier asked for a change in the proposed organization chart Mr. Hawver provided, pointing out that the municipal judge is not under the mayor and Board of Aldermen.

Mr. David McCoy asked if he envisioned the new director of community development to be a professional planner. Mr. Hawver said the person would fulfill that function, but we don=t need a full-time professional planner. We contract with Shafer Kline & Warren now for that job. This person might be someone with a professional planning background.

Mr. Friedman asked what the Park Department supervisor and the two park laborers would be doing in the winter months. Mr. Hawver said the two laborers would work in public works. The Park Department supervisor would work individually on grant applications and numerous other things. He would probably be asked to plow snow. He will also be working with new water compliance laws.

Mayor Quitmeier asked who would do the clerical work done by former employee Barbara Bailey. Mr. Hawver said the status of that position would be changed from 40 hours a week to 20; he is pretty confident that would work. The mayor asked if the new director of community development wouldn=t need the administrative assistant some of the time. Mr. Hawver said the part-time person would work as a clerical assistant to the public works director, the community development director, and to himself, with the emphasis on work for the community development director. The mayor asked if one person working part-time could handle the clerical work of three people. Mr. Hawver said he and Mr. Rupp write their own letters on their computers.

Mr. Friedman asked who does the grant writing that Barbara Bailey did? Mr. Hawver said rather than have one person focusing on all kinds of grants we could possibly have the parks director write the parks grants, with assistance from Mr. Rupp and himself. Most of the work in the grant application is having preliminary engineering plans, getting cost estimates, etc.

Mrs. Arnold asked why he wanted a part-time person in that job. Mr. Hawver said he thought that was all that was needed. Mrs. Arnold said maybe later down the road it would become full-time. Mr. Hawver agreed.

Mr. Poole asked how many additional people he would be adding to the staff. Mr. Hawver said he would be replacing one full-time person with a part-time person, adding one new person, and promoting one person. An additional street laborer is proposed for 2002, anyway, because of the annexation plan.

Mr. Rittman asked if he was looking for approval that night, or as part of the budget process. Mr. Hawver said he will be looking for approval at the next Board meeting. Job descriptions are included with his city administrator=s report. He will have more detail about what=s proposed at the next meeting, along with the cost of computer software, etc. Mayor Quitmeier asked if he would have the impact on the budget at the next meeting. Mr. Hawver said yes.

Mr. Dave McCoy asked when they would have information on the budget for next year. Mr. Hawver said actually the public works budget is already in. He will be attending committee meetings and getting input from all committees. Mr. McCoy said it was hard to make decisions when they didn=t know how much it would affect our ability to do our capital improvements. He would like to do it all at the same time if they could. Mr. Hawver said we could address it at the next meeting.

FALL CLEANUP: Mrs. Arnold asked for the date of the fall cleanup. Mr. Rupp said October 20-21. Mrs. Arnold asked if there would be curbside pickup. Mr. Rupp said no.

POLICE CHIEF=S REPORT

Chief Hudson said they all had copies of his reports. He added that on the morning of August 24^th, Officer Jon Jordan saw a fellow at the gas station at Please Stop. He wasn=t pumping any gas. Officer Jordan watched him go down the street and pick up someone. The passenger was shoving something under the seat B it was a pellet gun, not a real gun, but it looked like a real one. The passenger was wanted on a warrant. It was good preventive police work.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

CHANNEL 2 AND WEBSITE: No report.

FARMERS MARKET: Mr. Friedman said it is still going strong. He asked now that the painting is done when will the gutters go up? Mr. Hawver said we=ve spent $9,200 on the painting, which was pretty reasonable. We=ll find out where we are with gutters.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION: Mr. Ferguson said the semi-annual financial report through June was in packets.

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED TO APPROVE PUBLICATION OF THE SEMI-ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT; ALDERMAN RITTMAN SECONDED; ALL AYE; MOTION CARRIED.

MAIN STREET/PARKVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Mrs. Arnold said she talked with Jane Watson, chairman of the Christmas on the River Committee. Mrs. Watson said the Christmas on the River Golf Tournament at The National went very well. All 72 slots were filled. Mrs. Arnold thanked all who assisted with this successful fund-raising.

NATURE SANCTUARY: No report.

PARKS: Mr. Poole said things are moving along very nicely, thanks to Mr. Rupp. There were three contracts ready that night for park projects. KCP&L has donated a new pole and also installed a transformer and lights. Mr. Rupp said one light will be a regular street light. Mr. Poole said there will be some at the court. Mr. Rupp said it looks like around $10,000 for all the work being done.

TREE BOARD: No report.

BILLS AND ORDINANCES

None this meeting.

CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED TO APPROVE BILL C/A 32, CONTRACTING WITH McCONNELL & ASSOCIATES FOR ASPHALT CURB PAVING AT THE FARMERS MARKET: ALDERMAN POOLE SECONDED; ALL AYE; MOTION CARRIED.

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED THAT BILL C/A 32 BE APPROVED ON FIRST READING AND PASSED TO SECOND READING BY TITLE ONLY; ALDERMAN POOLE SECONDED; ALL AYE; MOTION CARRIED.

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED THAT BILL C/A 32 BE APPROVED ON SECOND READING TO BECOME ORDINANCE C/A 32; ALDERMAN POOLE SECONDED; ALL AYE BY ROLL CALL; MOTION CARRIED 7-0.

Above bill was posted 8/29/01.

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED THAT BILL C/A 33, CONTRACTING WITH McCONNELL & ASSOCIATES FOR ASPHALT PAVING AND RELATED WORK IN WATKINS PARK, BE APPROVED FOR FIRST READING; ALDERMAN POOLE SECONDED; ALL AYE; MOTION CARRIED.

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED THAT BILL C/A 33 BE APPROVED ON FIRST READING AND PASSED TO SECOND READING BY TITLE ONLY; ALDERMAN POOLE SECONDED; ALL AYE; MOTION CARRIED.

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED THAT BILL C/A 33 BE APPROVED ON SECOND READING TO BECOME ORDINANCE C/A 33; ALDERMAN POOLE SECONDED; ALL AYE BY ROLL CALL; MOTION CARRIED 7-0.

Above bill was posted 8/29/01.

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED THAT BILL C/A 34, CONTRACTING WITH K&M CONCRETE FOR A BASKETBALL COURT IN WATKINS PARK, BE APPROVED FOR FIRST READING; ALDERMAN ARNOLD SECONDED; ALL AYE; MOTION CARRIED.

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED THAT BILL C/A 34 BE APPROVED ON FIRST READING AND PASSED TO SECOND READING BY TITLE ONLY; ALDERMAN FRIEDMAN SECONDED; ALL AYE; MOTION CARRIED.

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED THAT BILL C/A 34 BE APPROVED ON SECOND READING TO BECOME ORDINANCE C/A 34; ALDERMAN POOLE SECONDED; ALL AYE BY ROLL CALL; MOTION CARRIED 7-0.

Above bill was posted 8/29/01.

OTHER BUSINESS

SIDEWALK ALONG HIGHWAY 9 BRIDGE: Mr. Friedman asked that when paving is being done (pursuant to contracts shown above) we ask if we could reasonably resurface the walks along the bridge on Highway 9, because the surface is very bad. Mr. Hawver will do that, but will first check with MoDOT to see if they could do anything about it. Also, Mr. Rupp said, if you do work on highway property, you become liable for the entire structure.

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED THAT BILL A-677, TO PAY LISTED SALARIES AND ACCOUNTS, BE APPROVED FOR FIRST READING; ALDERMAN POOLE SECONDED; ALL AYE; MOTION CARRIED.

Mr. Hawver explained that the fifty checks for sewer deposit refunds were necessitated by the fact that the new system does not allow for deposits; Missouri American doesn=t collect deposits, so we=re refunding the deposits of existing sewer customers.

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED THAT BILL A-677 BE APPROVED ON FIRST READING AND PASSED TO SECOND READING BY TITLE ONLY; ALDERMAN POOLE SECONDED; ALL AYE; MOTION CARRIED.

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED THAT BILL A-677 BE APPROVED ON SECOND READING TO BECOME ORDINANCE A-677; ALDERMAN POOLE SECONDED; ALL AYE; MOTION CARRIED.

Above bill was posted 8/31/01.

OTHER BUSINESS (resumed)

WIDENING OF WEST STREET: Mr. Poole asked the time frame for this. Mr. Hawver said we have been working on acquiring property. He met with the owners and came to an agreement. A small amount of compensation is involved, probably not more than $600.

Mayor Quitmeier asked if anyone on the Board objected to this amount. No-one did.

ANNEXATION OF SELF-STORAGE UNITS (PART OF COMMERCIAL ANNEXATION): Mr. Friedman asked the status of this annexation. Mr. Hawver said talks were successful and he believes the owners will withdraw their objection to annexation.

ANNEXATION OF OTHER LANDS TO WEST AND NORTHWEST OF CITY LIMITS: Mayor Quitmeier said we are also making some agreements with the Barth brothers so they will withdraw their objection to that annexation. We are going to change our zoning ordinances to accommodate them to allow them to continue building out there with the same setbacks they are using now. He will get that information to aldermen.

TIF FOR RIVER NORTH (PARKVILLE COMMONS - PARKVILLE HEIGHTS SHOPPING CENTER): Mr. Friedman asked the status of this. Mayor Quitmeier said about two and one-half weeks ago he met with Jim Allen of River North, who said it was very close. We are waiting for them to get a final plan to show the TIF Commission. Then they will send out RFP=s (requests for proposal).

The mayor asked for any other old or new business. There was none.

ALDERMAN FERGUSON MOVED TO ADJOURN; ALDERMAN POOLE SECONDED; ALL AYE; MOTION CARRIED.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:21 p.m.

Submitted by ______________________________________

City Clerk Barbara J. Lance - September 7, 2001