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Memo • To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: March 10, 1997 City Council Meeting Date: March 7, 1997 Y Here's more about some of the items on the agenda for Monday evening: Consent Agenda Items: The Council will note Item 8B, a resolution authorizing the purchase of the new squad car that was discussed with the Council last Monday. 8C is again the hiring of the recreation programer. While I realize this item has had lots of discussion, and perhaps will have some more,I have had this placed on the consent agenda because that is where personnel items usually go. As always, Council members can request items be removed from the Consent Agenda. As for the recommendation, this is my recommendation for the position as it was last week. If the Council chooses to not hire or make other changes,I would like clear direction as to the objectives to be met both in terms of pay,the job description and the amount of programming to be done. The rest of the Consent Agenda items are routine. Council Business Items:Pam Sheldon will cover the ordinance amendment relating to group homes. • Item 11B - Advisory Election regarding the CommunityCenter: Resolution No. 5081 gives authorization to set and conduct an advisory election for the Bel Rae. Two things to go with this are what the question will be and when to conduct the election. I have enclosed a draft question for the Council's consideration. While not much discussion about this has taken place, there have been comments about the question being a matter of whether to keep or sell the Bel Rae. While that will be the decision to make on the outcome of the election, the project concept presented to the Council on February 13 and reviewed briefly again on March 3 is the question for the ballot. Therefore that is how it was drafted. The most difficult thing about this, at least from my standpoint, is to draft a question that is satisfactorily objective to the Council,hence the form presented. Having the question based on a general premise or set of conditions seems to me to be the most neutral but informative way a question can be considered. Asking to keep or sell the property does not give definition to the project, and that decision will have to be made later anyway, so I drafted the question based on the work done to date by two Councils, staffthe Community Center Task Force, our possible two tenants, VB Digs and our architect. Whether a second question regarding keeping or selling should be added is debatable, but not present the Council will a clearer understanding of what the community wants, and perhaps at worst suggest the City sell the project without due consideration to marketability of the project, something that staff has not been directed to work on to date. As for a schedule for the election, I was hoping to recommend a date for late March, but the last week is Easter week and provides some problems. I am proposing the election be scheduled for 41, Saturday, April 5 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Also, the ballots will be simple paper ballots to avoid the mechanized costs and staffing for the election will still have to be determined. I would expect this