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I Commissioner Hansen questioned why, when the City for years had 2 found it impossible to communicate at all with the center owners • 3 regarding signage for the center, they had all of a sudden come up 4 with a $1 , 500.00 mural instead of the uniform signage the center 5 really needed. He said he would rather see the $1 , 500. 00 saved for 6 that purpose. 7 Mr. Johnson told him the center owners had never realized relations 8 with the City had deteriorated to the extent they had until after Joe 9 DiSanto replaced Irene Drummin New York last August. Since then ties 10 with the City had been renewed and $125 ,000 had been spent in 11 improvements . The Eberhardt manager reiterated information he had 12 given at another meeting regarding the center owners' intent to 13 overfinance a Dallas property by $300 ,000.00 to pay for upgrading the 14 St. Anthony center to include standardized signage. Mr. Johnson said 15 store owners are currently responsible for paying for their own 16 signs and two of them, Don Leary and the owner of Kelly's Tots and 17 Teens are examples of store owners who want to keep the signage they 18 have. 19 The center manager added that one indication that standard signage is 20 a real possibility is the fact that the prospective renters of half 21 of the vacant Penny's Supermarket space have indicated they wouldn't 22 sign any lease which didn't guaranty uniform signage would be 23 forthcoming. He conceded that the center managers were still waiting 24 for the go ahead on the standard signage which they had originally 25 thought would be given by this time. • 26 Staff Requested to Provide Tax Increment Financing for Uniform 27 Signaue 28 When the proponent reported his company's request, Mr. Childs 29 indicated his doubts whether new state legislation related to this 30 type of funding would allow the City to do this. He said the City 31 wants to help get the center upgraded and confirmed that there had 32 been more communication between the City in the last eight months 33 since Mr. DiSanto had taken over in New York than there had been in 34 the preceding 8 years. The Manager said he perceived Mr. DiSanto 35 seemed more than willing to do something to upgrade the center. 36 However, Mr. Childs agreed with Commissioner Hansen that standardized 37 signage would accomplish that better than a mural on the back of the 38 center. 39 The Manager agreed with Commission concerns about how the mural might 40 look after it was up and its maintenance after a few years. He- said 41 he knew murals had been used effectively in other municipalities but 42 felt that the decision of just how professional the proposed mural 43 would , look or how well it would fit into that area once it is up 44 should be made by the Commission and City Council. 45 Johnson Answers Some Concerns • 3.