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34O <br /> <br />Presentation re: <br />Petition against <br />Permit Parking <br />on Edgewood Lane <br /> <br />Presentation re: <br />School Budget <br /> <br />Presentation re: <br />City Budget <br /> <br />Staff Report - <br />Single Family <br />demonstration <br />homes & high <br />rise <br /> <br />Appropriation - <br />$3,200 - Juvenile <br />Court <br /> <br />Appropriation re: <br />$30,000 - Trans- <br />portation Study <br /> <br /> Mr. W. R. Yeatts addressed the Council and presented a <br />petition from some of the property owners on Edgewood Lane requesting <br />that Edgewood Lane not be designated as limited to permit parking. <br /> Dr. Richard Jennings, Chairman of the School Board, addressed <br />the Council and presented the proposed School Budget for Fiscal <br />Year beginning July 1, 1978. <br /> <br /> The City Manager presented the proposed City Budget for <br /> <br />Fiscal Year beginning July 1, 1978, He stated that no funds <br />from the carry-over balance are used to supplement current <br />revenues and no new taxes or increases in any existing tax rate <br />is proposed in the budget. <br /> The first work session on the budgets was set for 8:15 p.m. <br /> Monday, March 13th and the public hearing on the budgets was <br /> set for March 27th at %:30 p.m. <br /> <br /> The City Manager gave a report on where we stand with the <br /> <br /> High Rise for the Elderly on the Midway Site and also the <br /> home ownership project in Garrett Street. He stated that the <br /> Section 8 funding for the High Rise for the Elderly is not <br /> available for private developers, the only funds availabl'e <br /> are Section 202 funds which ar~ funds that can only be utilized <br /> by non-profit roganizations. He stated that due to this change <br /> the Steingold and Miller firm will not ba able to build the <br /> High Rise for the Elderly as planned. He stated that the staff <br /> was now holding some discussions with non-profit groups to <br /> determine if they want to develop_ such a project. <br /> <br /> The City Manager reported that there is a developer who <br /> <br /> wishes to develop some of the Garrett Street Project under the <br /> 235 Program and that he wishes to purchase two of the lots <br /> which the City owns under the Land Lease Program on which he <br /> wishes to build two homes to determine what the cost will be <br /> and recommended that Council approve the sale of two lots and <br /> suggested that a deadline of June 1st be placed for start of <br /> construction. Mr. Eugene Williams addressed the Council and <br /> objected to the sale of the lot at Ridge Street and Cherry Avenue <br /> and asked that action be deferred until the program is discussed <br /> with the neighborhood. A motion by Mr. Barbour, seconded by Mr. <br /> Fife that action on this be postponed for two weeks and that the <br /> contractor be contacted about other sites, was adopted by the _~ <br /> following vote. Ayes: Mr. Barbour, Mr. Fife, Mr.Gatewood and <br /> Mrs. O'Brien. Noes: Mr. Brunton. <br /> The resolution appropriating $3,200 for the Juvenile and <br /> Domestic Relations Court, which was offered at the meeting of the <br /> Council on February 21, 1978, was adopted by the following <br /> recorded .vote. Ayes: Mr. Barbour, Mr. Brunton, Mr. Fife, Mr. <br /> Gatewood and Mrs. O'Brien. Noes: None. <br /> <br /> The resolution appropriating $30,000 for Transportation <br /> Restudy, which was offered at the meeting of the Council on February <br /> 21, 1978, was adopted by the following recorded vote~.~ Ayes. Mr. <br /> Barbour, Mr. Brunton, Mr. Fife, Mr. Gatewood and Mrs. O'Brien. <br /> <br />Noes: None <br /> <br /> <br />