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City Council Minutes . Monday, September 24, 2007 Page 16 of 24 3. All tenants shall remove themselves from the premises within 60 days from the first day of posting of this Order revoking the license as held by License Holder. Q. Adopt Resolution No. 2007-191 being a resolution for rental housing license revocation at 4600 Polk Street N.E. -Removed Nawrocki stated that he was glad to see 4644 Washington was cleaned up. He stated that Circle Terrace looked cleaner today, with only two TV's next to the street. There is progress on community the clean up. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS Report of the City Manager • Activity Center -Council met with the ACAC last Monday night and discussed the summary of their July Open House. There was a report submitted with the background and alternatives that the committee will show at the third open house. The recommended rooms and sizes were listed. These were downsized from the original size because the committee was made aware of funding issues. At this point, the projected capital cost is about $14,457,000. Of that, approximately $10,000,000 is construction costs. If the City approved funds that are set aside are used, the amount financed would have to be $10,557,000. The average cost to a $194,000 median valued house would be $107 per year. That same day we received the study/report from the YMCA. They will meet with us on October 15 to discuss if they are interested in participating with us. A preliminary look at the report indicates they would be interested if a pool were included. If that is the case, their contribution would make a difference. The third public hearing will be held sometime in November. Nawrocki read a prepared statement regarding his personal opinion on any type of community center. He stated that his comments did not reflect other Councilmembers feelings. He referred to the YMCA study consideration, to consider working with the School District, listed project cost estimates, indicated that a public referendum should be held, questioned competition by facilities for residents, and indicated that we have had an activity center in Murzyn Hall since 1938. Newsletter Nawrocki referred to last year's newsletter, stating that we need to improve the budget information, being more factual than using a sales approach. If we talk about LGA losses, we should talk about the increases we have had, including the HRA levy and County HRA levy that was approved. He indicated the overall effect would be about a 10 percent increase. He referred to the newspaper article indicating the cities not participating in the County HRA levy. We need information in the newsletter about appliance pickup. Fehst stated that information was in the last several newsletters. We also left information at resident's homes to explain this. Williams requested an explanation regarding when the State would have funded our improvements. Fehst referred to the time period of local government revenue sharing called Local Government Aid. He explained the advantage of that time was to'fund through General Obligation Bonds when five-eights of very dollar were paid by the State. Had we done projects then, such as road improvements, there would have been a substantial savings. Nawrocki stated that information was not accurate. We were one of the better beneficiaries of LGA, but thergwere limitations. We tried to maximize usage and receivecLSrtore from LGA 23