Mayor's breakfast May 6, 2010.
HI to all – this is a small report from the mayor's breakfast that I attended this morning ( I gues I am taking Kathy's place). The Mayor is out of town, so the meeting was hosted by Rick Graham the Director of Public Services.
There were the usual reports on gang reduction and the like. Of more importance to us was 1) a report by the Downtown Community Council's chair Christian Harrison. Again of interest to us that the Farmer's market will extend its days to Tuesday once they start again, and that there will be a community yard sale at Pioneer Park, which he though would take place on May 29. All are invited to participate and if you want to sell you need to buy a 10'X15' plot of $25.00—an d then you can sell whatever you want (almost). I guess you would need to have at least $25.00 worth of things to sell to break even. Christian also talked at length about how to make the downtown area more pedestrian friendly and the problems involved in overcoming the unfriendly aspects of parking lots, big blocks and wide streets.
2) the historic preservation push is not really even in the "on deck" circle given the lack of money in the City's coffers. As you know considerable money is needed just to conduct the survey of the area in determining the desire or lack thereof of its inhabitants to become a historic district. And , if you read this morning's papers, the Yalecrest area seems to be far from settled on this question. 3) There was a presentation by Gina Coria who is the director of Utahns Against Hunger. I will include her documents and how to donate with this
After the meeting I talked to Graham about reservoir park—which for the time being will stay just as it is, with no significant changes. One of his concerns was that the new grassy area seems not to be integrated into the rest of the park, given the steep bank that separates it from the other area. There was no solution to that problem envisioned at this point, however.
It seems that the sidewalk along 100 South is done now, and plans for extending the sidewalk around onto 13th East seem to be on hold, and might happen sometime in the future. He seemed to know little about the progress in restoring the lights on the wall on the West side of the park.
That's about it for now.
Gene Fitzgerald
