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RES 1997-2433 - Revise 1998 budget by adding Upland Park rehabilitation 1 _ OMAHA CITY COUNCIL LORMONG LO pMAHA,nr�, PRESIDENT �i f - ` 0 , 11,eq,� FRANK BROWN { �� ' s OMAHA/DOUGLAS CIVIC CENTER VICE PRESIDENT '' c,j►1�� � OMAHA, NEBRASKA 68183 SUBBYANZALDO r gap %� "� CLIFF HERD z ��<'�_ N Telephone (402) 444-5520 PAULKONECK �®� '� Telefax (402) 444-5263 a� MARC KRAFT 9 p' ry LEE TERRY o '� P A�TPD FEBR � August 26, 1997 Mayor Hal Daub Honorable President and Members of the City Council Attached hereto is a Resolution prepared by the City Finance Department at the request of Councilmember Paul Koneck which would delete Seymour Smith Picnicking and Landscaping in the amount of $100,000 and Riverfront Development/Asarco in the amount of $100,000 from the 19 9 6 Recreation and Culture Bonds for a total of $200,000. This Resolution would add Upland Park Rehabilitation to the 19 9 6 Recreation and Culture Bonds portion of the Parks, Recreation and Public Property Department budget in the amount of $200,000. At least four (4) affirmative votes are required to adopt this Resolution. Respectfully bmi ed, J. Austin Council Staff Assistant RA/wk • DRUG USE `" IS ABUSE 1 RECEIVED s • oM AxA,N�6 0 ��'� '�� 97 ��� 3�J FM September 4,1997 1819OFa�miam ce of the SMa3oo ® or ,'�r � •. � Omaha,Nebraska 68183-0300 CITY C L E R I( (402)444-5000 ikeigpti AOp4rF FEB D RVr4yry �( . �( , )( FAX (402)444-6059 City of Omaha Hal Daub,Mayor Honorable President and Members of the City Council, I am today returning Council Budget Resolution#2360 with my veto stamp. The decision to delete funds planned for the rehabilitation of Seymour Smith Park and the riverfront redevelopment of ASARCO, in order to hasten the rehabilitation of Upland Park, disregards many important considerations. Most importantly, it should be noted that the Citizens of the City of Omaha have voted in favor of using bond money to rehabilitate Seymour Smith Park in 1998. To delay renovations at Seymour Smith is to deliberately ignore the vote of the majority of citizens who supported the City of Omaha's Capital Improvement Plan for the Park. Secondly, delaying plans to develop the ASARCO property disregards important components of this line-item. The funds slated for ASARCO in the 1998. budget are primarily to be used to dredge a channel at Freedom Park. This project is crucial if Freedom Park is to become compliant with Federal Emergency Management Association standards. The dirt from this dredging project can then be used for on-site fill at ASARCO. Delaying these projects ignores crucial timing for Freedom Park and the future of remediation and reuse of the ASARCO property,which in turn affects the ability to begin other projects in the area. Finally,the Administration is prepared to offer to the Council an additional source of revenue from within the Parks and Recreation Department. This funding, recently made available through savings from Clarkson Hospital's generous land donation for the planned "Clarkson Park," is to be immediately slated for the rehabilitation of Upland Park. In this way, the required consulting and design work can be expedited now(in 1997),completed in 1998,. and remaining, unfinished construction or installation completed in the Spring of 1999,. well ahead of schedule. Upland Park is a priority of this Administration. That is why it was scheduled for 1999.. But the completion of its design and rehabilitation, like Mandan Park, for example, should be done in a planned and orderly way,with Parks and Recreation Board approval and neighborhood-citizen involvement, as has been true for every one of our Administration's park improvement projects. This commitment is made to expedite Upland Park improvements, without sacrificing other long-planned and needed projects and would be finished at the latest in the Spring of 1999,for use that summer, instead of completion in the year 2000. I hope that this alternative, as well as the above considerations are reasonable and acceptable to the Council. incere y, 7. Hal Daub Mayor MEMORANDUM DATE: September 3, 1997 TO: Mayor Hal Daub FROM: Jim Cleary, Director, PR&PP Dept. RE: Budget Items This is to clarify a few issues on the 1998 City Budget. • The elimination of a Secretary I in the Recreation Division. Re-organization in this division in the last year or so has made this position unnecessary. The work load is currently being handled by the Recreation Coordinators and Supervisors. • The addition of a full-time AEO I at Rosenblatt Stadium. This is unnecessary, as the attached memo from Jesse Cuevas will explain. • The moving up of Upland Park improvements. This change in scheduling took money away from the planned improvements to the baseball field at Seymour Smith Park. We have a solution that should satisfy both needs. Because of the donation of the Clarkson Hospital parking lot to our parks. system, we have $40,000 that can now be devoted to the beginning of the preliminary work for Upland Park in 1998; not needing to wait until 1999. This would allow the baseball improvements to proceed, while still moving the Upland Park project up on the schedule. dkj (-2 or , • NAME c) I ti c'\kI 'N. '; \:\ ,t,to a c(r.CC.a.I.d)t<t-r-ij 4 . 00. rt `C. u) r tft < •► oo c;2sA • CITY OF OMAHA • �. S t, LEGISLATIVE*CHAMBER :51Omaha,Nebr Augu.st.26 1997 RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OMAHA: WHEREAS, Section 5.06 of the Home Rule Charter of the City of Omaha, 1956, as ; amended, provides that after a public hearing on the Budget, the City Council may revise the r-1 appropriations of the Budget by increasing, decreasing, inserting or deleting appropriated items, except that it shall not reduce appropriations for debt service; and, WHEREAS, it is the intent of the City Council to make revisions to the appropriations of the 1998 Recommended Budget of the City of Omaha, Nebraska, by increasing, decreasing, inserting or deleting items in certain budgetary accounts which are funded by various City funds. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OMAHA: THAT,the appropriations in the Recommended 1998 Budget be revised by increasing and decreasing appropriations as indicated in the schedule below: Account Increase Budgetary Accounts Number (Decrease) Appropriation Adjustments: 1996 Parks and Recreation Culture Bonds Seymour Smith Picnicking and Landscaping 1295 ($100,000) Riverfront Development/ASARCO 1295 ( 100,000) Upland Park Rehabilitation 1295 200.000 Total Appropriation Adjustments $ -0- APPROVED AS TO FORM: A SISTA ATI' Y ATE P:\FIN\6630.SKZ By RA4 Ct9 .117L-eloCk, Councilmember AUG 2 6 1997 SEP s 9 1997 /dam Adopted /6 /114 o/I �-t ash City Clerk ( _ �,v /6,00 ik 0 i° D Approved / / 7 S .44 9 7-eir • Mayor . CO • 1,1 . . . ' ' w .- "CI 74 7, • • ,N , .•>, . c's: 1 . 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