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366 CAPITAL BUDGET MR. VAN YAHRES, STATED HE HAD TAKEN THE PROJECTED FIGURES FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, PROJECT AN INFLATION FACTOR, KNOWING THAT THE FIGURES WE HAVE NOW ARE PRESENT DAY FIGURES AND IN THE FUTURE THEY WOULD BE OBVIOUSLY HIGHER. HE USED AN INFLATION FIGURE OF $1.3 MILLION. HE SAID HE WOULD PRoPosE TO CUST THE BUDGET BY $3 MILLION WITH THIS INFLATION FACTOR AND ALLOWING FOR OTHER THINGS NOT COVERED. HE SUGGESTED THAT MAYBE ONE RECREATION CENTER COMPLEX BE PUT AT LANE HIGH SCHOOL, AND THE LIBRARY BE PUT AT THE MCGUFFEY SITE OR EVEN USING THE BUILDING THERE ITSELF. HE DISCUSSED THE POSSIBLITIES FOR THE THREE SURPLUS BUILDINGS IN CONNECTION WITH PROJECTS IN THE CAPITAL BUDGET. MR. BARBOUR EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER THE LOSS OF ONE RECREATION CENTER AS PROPOSED BY MR. VAN YAHRES. MRS. RINEHART STATED THAT SHE FELT THE CENTRAL CITY PROJECT SHOULD NOT BE CUT AND THAT THE THREE POOLS WOULD BE AN ASSET TO THE CITY AND ALSO SHOULD NOT BE CUT. SHE SUGGESTED CUTTING PEN PARK IMMEDIATELY AND STOPPING THE GOLF COURSE AND CLUBHOUSE PROJECTS. SHE FELT THAT MELBOURNE ROAD, THE ARMORY, URBAN RENEWAL AND THE JOINT SECURITY COMPLEX WERE PROJECTS TRAT COULD NOT BE TOUCHED. SHE FELT THAT HOUSING SHOULD NOT BE TOUCHED AND THAT THE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS' FIGURE WAS JUST AN ESTIMA~. MR. FIFE CLARIFIED THE $1 MILLION SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS FIGURE AS NOT COVERING THE SURPLUS BUILDINGS AT ALL. MR. GILLIAM SPOKE ON BEHALF OF THE AIRPORT SOUTH TAXIWAY IN THE AMOUNT OF $100,000. HE POINTED OUT THAT IT HAD BEEN IN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS BUDGET FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND HE FELT IT WAS A VER~ BADLY NEEDED IMPROVEMENT AT THE AIRPORT. ~R. FIFE TOLD THE COUNCIL THAT HE WOULD GO ALONG WITH MR. VAN YAHRES' PROPOSAL WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE CUTTING OF THE CENTRAL CITY PROJECT. HE ADDED THAT MR. GILLIAM HAD MADE A STRONG POINT ON THE AIRPORT SOUTH TAXIWAY. HE SAID THAT THE CENTRAL CITY PROJECT COULD INDEED BE CUT BACK, BUT THAT THE COUNCIL HAD STATED IT WAS A HIGHLY PRIORITY ITEM. HE EXPRESSED SOME CONCERN OVER THE AMOUNT OF MONEY SLATED FOR RECREATIONAL PROJECTS. ~4R. EWERT STATED THAT WITH THE PEN PARK PROGRAM, THERE WERE A LOT OF BEGINNING ONE-TIME COSTS AND FOR $1-1/2 MILLION WE WOULD HAVE JUST BUILT A GOLF COURSE~ BUT THAT FOR AN ADDITIONAL $750,000, WE COULD GET 8 TENNIS COURTS, A BASEBALL PARK, A LAGOON, A BAND SHELL, AN ENCLOSED AREA FOR WILD ANIMALS, TOT LOTS, PICNIC AREAS AND MAINTENANCE SHOPS. ~RS. RINEHART ADDED THAT SHE FELT WE HAD MOVED TOO QUICKLY ON THE PEN PARK PROJECT, BUT FELT WE WOULD HAVE THE LAND AND COULD ALWAYS USE IT FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. MR. VAN YAHRES SAID BY USING A BASE OF $23,978, HE WOULD MAKE A MOTION TO REDUCE THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS BUDGET BY A TOTAL OF $3,750,000 BY DELETING OR REDUCING THE FOLLOWING I.TEMS~ CENTRAL CITY PROJECT TO BE CUT $1MILLIONI AIRPORT SOUTH TAXIWAY TO BE CUT $100,000~ HEALTH DEPARTMENT ADDITION TO BE CUT $100,000; PEN PARK TO BE CUT $800,000~ I RECREATION CENTER IN THE AMOUNT OF $1MILLIONI AND THE PUBLIC WORKS HEAD- QUARTERS TO BE CUT $750,000. MR. BARBDUR SECONDED THE MOTION. MRS. RINEHART DFFERED A SUBSTITUTE MOTION TO GO OVER ALL THE ITEMS IN THE BUDGET AND DISCUSS EACH ONE AND THEN VOTE. THERE WAS NO SECOND TO HER MOTIDN. [¢lq. GILLIAM, IN THE ABSENCE OF A SECOND, OFFERED ANOTHER SUBSTITUTE MOTION TO CUT THE BUDGET BY THE FOLLOWING FOUR ITEMS~ HEALTH DEPARTMENT ADDITION - $100,000t PEN PARK - $800,0001 I RECREATION CENTER - $1MILLIONI AND THE PUBLIC WORKS HEADQUARTERS - $750,000. HE SAID IT WAS THE SAME AS MR. VAN YAHRES HAD PROPOSED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE CENTRAL CITY AND THE AIRPORT SOUTH TAXIWAY, WITH A TOTAL OF $2,650,000 IN CUTS. MR. EWERT ASKED THAT PEN PARK BE CUT TO $750,000 IN ORDER TO TIE IT BACK TOGETHER, AND ~. GILLIAM AND MR. VAN YAHRES AGREED, MAKING A NEW TOTAL OF $2,600,000. THERE WAS NO SECOND TO HIS MOTION,