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Page 4 September 11, 1995 1 Ms. Hankner stated she feels does not feel councilmembers were "offended" as Ms. Trude stated, at 2 the request of an interview with her. She noted that no other resident has access to that channel. If 3 this policy is passed, councilmember's participation will be based upon a majority of the council 4 deciding whether or not a member should go on there. Residents do, however, have access to another 5 channel and she feels it is strictly a "fairness issue". 6 7 Ms. Trude stated Channel 15 is not a simple alternative. This channel is open for people who can get 8 a volunteer to interview and someone who can operate the cable cameras, etc. She feels this is 9 overkill to limit the free speech rights of people who are in office. 10 11 Ms. Blanchard stated she does not see this as inhibiting the councilmember from speaking. All it does 1-2 —is-requ embers-be bers-intent-to-go on cable-to-discuss-an 13 issue. That way other members will know about it prior to the interview. 14 15 Mayor Linke stated he feels the policy asks that a few days notice be given to other council members to 16 give everyone an opportunity to talk about it. 17 18 MOTION/SECOND: Hankner/Quick to approve Resolution 4810, but changing the word "consensus" 19 to "majority". 20 21 VOTE: 4 ayes 1 nay (Trude) Motion Carried 22 23 Discussion of Removal of Item D: 24 25 Ms. Hankner stated she had some questions in regard to the slurry sealing at Silver View Park that she 26 would like answered. She wondered if this was an unforeseen expense and also if this was included in 27 the budget. 28 29 Mary Saarion, Director of Parks, Recreation and Forestry was present to discuss this request with the 30 Council members. She stated during the budgeting process, there was no intent in slurry sealing Silver 31 View Park this year. There is a budget however for maintenance of parks and grounds. Staff has 32 approached her with the request for Silver View Park. She noted the city could wait a year or two, 33 however the lot will only continue to deteriorate. Since there was sealcoating going on in the city, it 34 seemed an opportune time to complete the Silver View Park. 35 36 Ms. Hankner asked if it was critical that this lot be slurry sealed this year. She wondered why it was 37 not put into the budget for this year. 38 39 Ms. Saarion stated it was her feelings that some of the contractual work at Woodcrest Park building 40 would probably not be done as originally planned and that there are other improvements this money 41 could be used for, such as Silver View parking lot. Rather than hiring contractors to complete some 42 of the improvements at the Woodcrest building, it was felt many of these could be done "in house" 43 over a longer period of time,putting the money instead toward the Silver View parking lot. The 44 funds are in the budget, they were merely earmarked for another improvement. 45 46 Ms. Hankner stated she only raised the issue because she was wondering what will not be done as a 47 result of adding this item. She stated she feels staff really needs to be looking into the budget and 48 including these types of items. She is not convinced that this work was more important than some 49 other improvements. 50 51