Additional City Council Announcements
March 18, 2008
A. Information Needed by Council Staff
1. The Bing Kong Tong Association has invited all Council Members and their spouses to attend the Annual Chinese New Year Banquet Sunday, March 23rd beginning at 6 p.m. The banquet will be held at the Five Star Cuisine Restaurant at 3361 South Redwood Road in West Valley City. The Council Office needs to respond back to Margaret Yee with the number of attendees. Which Council Members (and spouses) will attend?
Councilmember Turner asked Council Member to let him know and would talk with Margaret Yee.
2. Council staff drafted
the attached letters from the Council Chair, returning donations to O.C. Tanner
and Rocky Mountain Power. These donations were made towards former Council
Member Nancy Saxton’s Olympic Legacy Project and the funds need to be
returned.
Do Council Members approve of the letters?
Ms. Gust-Jenson said she had received some budget priorities for Council. She asked that Council Members give Jennifer changes or additions
Ms. Gust-Jenson said Human Resource had invited Council Members to attend the Orientation for new employees. She said that was every two weeks on a Monday morning. She asked if a small part of the video should be the City Council or would members like to share the meetings. Council Members were in favor of sharing meetings.
March 18, 2008
City Council Announcements
March 18, 2008
Ms. Gust-Jenson asked Council Members if it was acceptable to state the April 1, 2008 City Council meeting early due to the full calendar. All Council Members present were in favor of starting early.
Ms. Gust-Jenson said the April 15, 2008 meeting could be a tour of the Emergency Facilities as well as a tour of the North Temple light rail line proposals and that meeting would need to start early. She said it would take approximately 2 to 21/2 hours.
Ms. Gust-Jenson said Public Utilities needed citizen names to be in the Riparian Corridor advisory group. She said they need approximately 20 names. She said the group could consist of people living along the corridor or people who have expertise.
A. Information Needed by Council Staff
1. The attached memo summarized Council Member individual budget priorities. If Council Members would like to add to or alter their priorities, please contact staff. Staff will be transmitting these to the Administration as soon as possible.
Memorandum
DATE: March 18, 2008
TO: City Council Members
FROM: Jennifer Bruno, Budget & Policy Analyst
RE: Council Budget Priorities
This memo summarizes Council Members individual budget priorities. If Council Members would like to change or add to their priorities, please contact staff. Staff will plan to send these to the Administration by April 1.
Council Member Christensen
Planning for the Folsom Street/900 S corridors
Completion of the Jordan River Parkway, north of Rose Park Golf Course
Emergency management resources
Electronic Waste Recycling (Ongoing drop off location – probably at the Landfill)
Any additional resources needed to finish the NW Quadrant Master plan
Council Member Garrott
Downtown – pedestrian improvements and bikeways
Transportation – downtown circulator
Environment –
o Incentives for green building
o Recycling program expansion, incentives
Public Safety – additional staff in Police and Fire (maintaining four-handed crews)
Council Member Jergensen
Creation of City General Plan (some refer to this as the Sustainability Plan) and updating of relevant Master Plans.
Strengthening of City's Planning staff and Boards/Commissions (training, additional personnel, etc.) to more clearly follow procedural and intent expectations of the Council and community.
Creation of a downtown circulator transportation system (possibly explore this idea in conjunction with RDA) to decrease downtown congestion.
NW Quadrant including exploration of incentives/programs to allow families to purchase homes in SLC - keep families in SLC.
Funding CERT training and exploring ways to promote CERT training and neighborhood/individual Emergency Preparedness
Council Member Love
Additional police
Additional planning staff
Salary adjustments as needed for Planning Director (attraction/retention)
Transportation projects - Downtown circulator and completion of Sugarhouse rail spur
CIP funding for the Tracy Aviary
Council Member Martin
Incentives ($ or other) for expanded recycling services
Street replacement/rebuilding in District 6
Council Member Simonsen
East Bench Master Plan needs updating. Possibly need consultant.
Need to address urban design/design capabilities on our planning staff.
Follow up on our last budget opening request to expand recycling bins in commercial districts beyond Downtown and Sugar House.
Master plan and design (possibly need consultant) for the Folsom Street /City Creek trail corridor from Gateway to the Jordan River.
Possible funding/staffing to address transportation security/air quality/peak oil issues.
Council Member Turner
Additional budget for emergency preparedness (including additional staff for CERT training/community coordination, AND budget for community emergency materials)
North Temple Light Rail improvements
Planning the Northwest Quadrant
Development of Downtown Cultural District
The following was provided previously. It is provided again for reference.
This memo pertains to the Council’s recently discussed top priorities, and possible budget implications they may have.
The Council may wish to identify individual top priorities in order to communicate these to the Administration as they put together their budget recommendations. The Chair and Vice Chair of the Council have recommended that each Council Member choose 4 top budget priorities. These would be due by the March 13th Council Meeting, as the Administration is already well underway with their budget preparations.
The following were the areas of interest that were identified by the Council during their recent annual retreat – staff has listed example items below these priorities, that have been discussed by the Council previously that may have budget implications:
Planning
o Master plan updates (possible use of consultants)
o Riparian and Conditional Use Ordinances (use of consultant)
o Northwest Quadrant
Downtown
o Historic Preservation incentives
o Development of cultural district/incentives
o Pedestrian improvements
Transportation
o North Temple Improvements
o Other Light Rail issues
o Trail development (Daylighting City Creek, Jordan River, etc)
o Downtown circulator
Environment
o Incentives for green building (possible fee reductions, expedited permitting, etc)
o Recycling program expansion, incentives
o Parley’s Historic Nature Park (possible use of consultant)
Small Business Issues
o Historic Preservation incentives
o Encouraging Neighborhood business
Emergency Preparedness
o Additional staff in Police and Fire
o Additional staff for CERT training/community coordination
o Budget for community emergency materials