City Council Announcements
March 22, 2011
H. For Your Information
1. Salt Lake City Fire Department is interested in having the City Council adopt a joint resolution with the Mayor in recognition of “Cares Enough to Wear Pink Days” and to recognize that the Pink Heals Tour will stop in Salt Lake City on June 10th.
Does the Council support having a resolution scheduled for your consideration on Tuesday, June 7? Council Members were in favor of the resolution.
The
Salt Lake City Fire Department plans to participate in the “Pink Heals Tour”
that carries the campaign slogan “Cares Enough to Wear Pink.” Pink Fire Trucks
travel across the country every year to spread awareness of this campaign to
support women in their fight against cancer. October 24-29 is the week
designated for “The Cares Enough to Wear Pink” campaign; however, the pink fire
trucks will be arriving through Salt Lake City on Friday, June 10, and will be
parked at the Huntsman Cancer Institute for four hours in the morning. The SLC
Fire Department plans to hold a fundraiser on the morning of June 10th and the
money will go to the Huntsman Cancer Institute to help women in their fight
against cancer. Pink will be worn as a symbol of this cause. Survivors of cancer
will have the opportunity to sign the pink fire trucks at the Huntsman Cancer
Institute. These plans are preliminary at this time and may change accordingly
to participant schedules and the National Pink Heals Tour group availability.
West Jordan is taking the lead on this event, partnering with Salt Lake City.
Last year, West Jordan adopted a proclamation to proclaim October 25-30 as
“Cares Enough to Wear Pink Days” and asked the community to join the effort by
wearing pink.
Adoption of a City joint resolution will be a component
of a broader “healthy City
initiative” (official name to be determined) which
will kick off this spring/summer. The Administration is in the process of
planning a City employee campaign awareness month to encourage City employees to
have a friendly competition to get their cancer screenings done. As plans
evolve, more information will be provided to the Council.
2. Council Leadership (Council Members Love, Penfold, and Garrott) is scheduled to meet with the School Board for their next quarterly meeting for Friday, April 1st in the afternoon.
Are there specific topics Council Members would like to include as part of their agenda? Councilmember Christensen said to add to redistricting the parameters of redistricting. Councilmember Simonsen said there was a lot of interest in looking at how the Capital Improvement funds could potentially be used for safe route to school projects throughout the districts.
4. Cori Dawn Petersen, one of the City Council appointees for the Citizen Compensation Advisory Committee (CCAC), has finished her second term of service on the CCAC and needs to be replaced. David Salazar in Human Resources has provided the resume of Paul Jones as a potential Citizens’ Compensation Advisory Committee appointee.
Mr. Jones has expressed interest in serving as a Committee member and is personally known by the CCAC’s current Chair, Allen Miller. Mr. Jones has considerable human resource experience, including in the area of compensation, and is currently serving as the Vice-President of Human Resource for USANA Health Sciences here in Salt Lake City.
Is the Council interested in interviewing Mr. Jones, or know of any other individuals who might be interested in serving on the committee? She said this appointment was from the Council side. She asked if Council Members had any suggestions or to let the Council staff know if they were interested in this individual.
ADDITIONAL
City Council Announcements
March 22, 2011
A. For Your Information
1. The Council Chair and Vice Chair would like to know if the Council is comfortable with the Chair sending out fact based letters without obtaining the entire Council’s approval.
Does the Council support this approach? All Council Members supported this approach.
2. The ULCT Mid-Year Convention in St. George will be held Wednesday, April 13, 2011 to Friday, April 15, 2011. Council Members Christensen, Martin and Simonsen have already responded.
Would any of the Council Members like to attend? No others were intending to attend.
3. During the March 8th budget amendment discussion, the Council requested that the Administration transmit documents to follow-up on the discussion of the legislative intent regarding the new City Arts Grants category of Arts Learning. The transmittal was received and is attached.
Would the Council like to receive a briefing on the attached transmittal? Cindy Gust-Jenson said the information the Council requested was attached and she said they would be happy to schedule a briefing.
4. Council Members Christensen, Turner, and Penfold are hosting a Prescription Drug Summit next Thursday evening, March 30th. They would like to request that the IMS video team tape the event for playback on Channel 17. The last time the Council discussed this, it was decided that for individual (or smaller Council events), it would be requested on announcements for a majority of Council Members to indicate support, since this uses IMS resources. For the Council’s information, another event that will be filmed is the Sunnyside Avenue Complete Streets workshop this coming Thursday evening. The Administration has requested that the event be filmed by IMS as well.
On a side note, the filming of additional events throughout the year might be an issue to discuss during the annual budget, since the number of items for IMS to film has grown considerably. Ms. Gust-Jenson said the resources of IMS was small and during the upcoming budget they would need to address the significant increase in volume. She said the prescription drug summit was next Thursday evening. Council Members were in favor of having the summit filmed. Ms. Gust-Jenson said they would come back with a couple of alternatives based on the different feedback.