City Council Announcements
October 2, 2012
Information Needed by Council Staff
A. 7:44:28 PM Draft of Letter to Mayor Becker
Dear Mayor Becker:
The City Council has no objection to the Department of Community & Economic Development no longer applying the ‘Pending Ordinance Doctrine’ regarding modification to the ordinance governing parking lots in the downtown.
It is the Council’s understanding that a demolition permit for the structure at 160 East South Temple Street is being considered, and that the Administration has the discretion to issue the permit as long as it honors other similar applications.
It is the Council’s understanding that the property exchange that would result from issuing the South Temple permit would in the short-term result in a private park along South Temple that would be open to the public. It is the Council’s understanding that mid- to long-term the property exchange will result in mixed-use and commercial development along both sides of South Temple and along First Avenue.
Ø Are Council Members okay with sending this letter to Mayor Becker? All Council Members were in favor of the letter.
B. 7:45:10 PM Library Performance Audit Action Plan (Attached)
Management Partners has provided a final draft of its implementation plan of recommendations the company made in its performance audit of the Salt Lake City Public Library System. Transition Director Linda Hamilton received a draft of the plan about a month ago. As indicated previously by Council staff, Ms. Hamilton has indicated she supports the recommendations and has had Library System staff working to implement the recommendations based on the action plan.
Ø Does the Council wish to have any further discussion or follow-up information? Councilmember Christensen asked if Linda Hamilton would now proceed to implement the action items that she felt were for the new Director. Russell Weeks said he would ask because it was not brought up in the conversation.
C. Reminder:
Tuesday, October 9th Working Lunch Meeting with UTA Staff.
UTA has expressed an interest to discuss next steps for Salt Lake City with Council Members.
Additional City Council Announcements
October 2, 2012
Information Needed by Council Staff
A. 7:48:12 PM General Conference
Teresa Elwood Public Affairs with the Church would like to invite Council to Saturday’s, October 6th Session of the General Conference. The Conference will be held at 10:00 am and 2:00 pm located at the Conference Center. She has 2 tickets for each Council Member with potential of getting more tickets if Council needs more.
Ø Please let staff know if any Council Members are interested in attending and which session you would like to attend. Staff can double check if more than two tickets are wanted. (Kyle and Carlton have accepted) Ms. Gust-Jenson said to let Council front office staff know if they wanted to attend the conference.
B. 7:48:26 PM Announcement re: New Performing Arts Center
The Administration has put together a “Building Committee” with representatives from various City departments, the Mayor’s Office, RDA, Arts Council, SL County, and a staff member from the Council Office, to work through the beginning design phase of the Performing Arts Center project.
This team meets every week with the project architects with the goal of identifying issues and opportunities early on in design so that all elements and comments can be incorporated and planned into the budget.
Council Staff that attends these meetings participates in the discussion when items that have been identified by the Council as priorities come up. The progress of these meetings and other issues related to the project are reviewed bi-weekly with the RDA Subcommittee (LaMalfa, Penfold and Christensen) and also with the Mayor.
In addition, the RDA Board will be updated at every board meeting. Separate but related to this process are a few votes of the City Council (such as what optional elements should be included in the project) that the project team will need before 50% Schematic Design can be achieved.
The Administration has tentatively planned on:
•a briefing October 9th and
•a vote Oct 23rd (subject to Council approval of an exception to the paperwork requirement).
Council Staff will plan on sending regular email updates to the full Council re-capping the progress of these meetings and identifying any “red flag” areas.
Ø Please let staff know if any Council Members are interested in receiving more regular updates or asking more detailed questions of the project team. A discussion was held.
8:06:36 PM Ms. Gust-Jenson said November 27th was a time listed as a tentative Council meeting. She said that would be the third meeting of the month and usually there were three meetings held in November. Council Members said they would plan on November 27th for a meeting.