Additional City Council Announcements
August 18, 2009
A. Information Needed by Council Staff
1. To assist with the logistics for the upcoming January 4th, 2010 Induction Ceremony, it would be helpful for staff to receive direction on the preferred location for the ceremony. Please note, all ceremonies previous to 2008 were held in the Council Chamber. The 2008 joint City Council/Mayoral ceremony was held outdoors on the east steps of the City/County Building.
Would the Council like to hold a discussion as to their preference of location for the January ceremony?
Most Council Members were leaning toward an inside ceremony and would come to a decision in August.
2. The Mayor’s office is extending an invitation to the Council to join Mayor Becker on Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 12:30 for the Walk-and-Talk lunchtime activity to Pioneer Park. The Walk-and-Talk activity was started last year as a healthy multi-tasking lunchtime activity, open to all City employees.
Would Council Members be interested in attending this event with Mayor Becker?
City Council Announcements
August 18, 2009
A. Information Needed by Council Staff
1 The Council allocated $75,000 in the
current budget for a project relating to neighborhood commercial and a project
relating to small business best practices. It is staff’s understanding that
$65,000 of this was to address a proposal by Council Member Garrott to gather
information relating to the commercial nodes, and $10,000 was designated for a
project relating to locally owned small business.
Council
Member Garrott has been in conversation with the Administration on the
commercial node project. He would like to suggest that $55,000 be
designated for the door-to-door survey previously discussed. The
Administration indicates they would administer this enthusiastically as part of
their full project. The approach proposal would be submitted to the
Council for consent. Given that the issue of alcohol in neighborhood
commercial zones is going to be raised sooner rather than later, Council Member
Garrott suggests that $10,000 originally intended for the door-to-door survey be
allocated to do a City-wide telephone poll on alcohol
regulations.
That would leave the $10,000 planned for the small
business project. Staff is assuming that the Neighborhood Development
(formerly small business) Subcommittee would come back with a recommendation on
structuring that project.
Does the Council support this approach?
Most Council Member were in support of this approach.