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ORDINANCE 1976-014 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING AMUSEMENT DEVICES; AME17DING CHAPTER IV (Section 400) OF THE 1973 CODE OF ORDINANCES BY ADDING SFCTION 450 THERETO Motion carried unanimously. A memorandum from the City I:anager regarding the costs of furnishing bus transportation for the Golden F:eirs was then adopted as an addendum to the agenda. Insurance costs, purchase prices and rental rates quoted by Columbia Transit Corporation were discussed with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sroga, Sr., representing the senior citizens group. The PRanager then questioned where the City would find the $5,000 which might be re- quired for the project in view of an anticipated loss of from $40,000 to $50,000 in liquor revenues. He then mentioned as an al- ternative the possibility of the Kiwanis Club, on which he serves, undertaking the subsidization of the project as one of its service activities and invited 11r. Sroga or some other board member to attend the January 7th meeting of that group to discuss this eventuality. Mr. Dulgar also said he understood. that School District 282 was not too receptive to securing a bus for this purpose since they would need at least two buses for athletic events or four buses to serve all the groups who might use them and this would result in their "going into the bus business", and they didn't feel they could or should take on additional ranagement responsibilities. Councilman Stauffer wondered if it would not be more desirable for the City to find a way of subsidizing the costs of transportation for those senior citizens who could not afford to pay their share of such costs, and wanted an investigation of the availability of out- side funding for such service to low income persons. Mr. Sroga then said his group had become disturbed when no specific room had yet been designated for the senior citizens center, a de- cision which they understood might not be made until spring, and felt even though he agreed that it would be foolish to spend the amount of money necessary for a bus which would only serve the senior citizens, "the old people were getting kicked around like an old shirt". Council members and staff disagreed with this assess- ment citing the $6,000 of Community Development Block Grant Funds which were to be spent on the center and telling r"r. Sroga the de- cision as to which room was to become the center was to be rade soon by the school officials, as far as the City knew. The Mayor then opened. the Public Hearing on the 1.977 Community De- velopment Grant Program at 8-.00 P.M. Mrs. Florence Marks was the only resident to offer a suggestion for the use of these funds which Mr. Fornell said will probably amount to $29,238. She wanted some of the funds spent on a plaque for the St. Anthony Cemetery which would designate that spot on Stinson (2)