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162 <br />COUNCIL RECESSED AT 9:00 P.M. AND RECONVENED AT 9:10 P.M. WITH THE <br />SAME COUNCILMEMBERS PRESENT <br />Joyce Amerson, Transportation Manager presented a summary of the <br />proposed $32.7 million Capital Improvement Program including funding <br />requests for park improvements, city facilities, infrastructure <br />improvements, traffic improvements, arterial improvements, and <br />neighborhood improvements. Ms. Amerson gave a brief summary of the <br />major projects within each category. <br />In the course of the budget presentation, Councilmembers raised the <br />following "Issue Bin" items that require more detail to be provided at a <br />later date: <br />• Chamber of Commerce request for funding of the Santa Ana <br />Advantage project <br />• History of Property Tax revenues <br />• Deletion of one Recreation Leader position in the Parks, Recreation <br />and Community Services Agency <br />• Impact of the proposed Inmate Transport program on the Patrol <br />Officer complement <br />• Responsibility regarding public trees damaging sewer pipes <br />• Santa Ana Stadium Bleacher Renovation Project analysis <br />• Needs assessment for proposed signal on Flower and Wilshire <br />• Status of signal on Raitt and Glenwood <br />• Status of Newhope Street improvements <br />• Status of Wilshire/Bouchard/Elder/Laverne Street Improvements <br />• Status of traffic mitigation measures on Newhope and Kent. <br />City Manager Dave Ream summarized the budget presentation and <br />stated that the City is operating very lean with a downsized work force <br />and compressed supervision ranks. He noted that the three key <br />elements of the budget for 2000-01 included the Detention Facility, <br />Library position restructuring, and the Water Enterprise program <br />proposals. <br />COMMENTS <br />90.A. PUBLIC COMMENTS <br />Dave Lopez thanked the Council for resolving the signage issue at <br />Home Depot and encouraged Council to budget for more code <br />enforcement inspectors to clean up the City. <br />Desi Reyes raised the issue of repaving Newhope and inquired about <br />the use of State Bond Park Funds to transform the vacant acre parcel at <br />Patricia Lane into a park similar to the one at Eldridge Park. <br />CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 160 MAY 15, 2000 <br />