CITY MANAGER’S REPORT

Week ending July 28, 2016

Sports Pavilion Court Issue

On July 21-24, Sports Pavilion Lawrence hosted the Hardwood Classic Basketball tournament, a tournament previously held in Kansas City.  See attached staff memo for more information.   Staff Report on SPL Economic Impact - Added 08/02/16

Article regarding incentives for opening grocery stores in food desert

The City of Dallas has announced it has at least $3 million available to anyone willing to develop or build a high quality grocery store in a southern Dallas food desert.  Please see attached article for more information.

City services regarding move in/out season

Staff from Utility Billing, Solid Waste and Code Enforcement are working together to promote and educate residents preparing to move this month.  The end of July/first of August is the peak season for utility billing and solid waste.  Upwards of 500+ service requests are processed to start, stop and transfer services for utilities.  We work to encourage residents to go online early to complete an online service request forms since preferred dates for service requests fill up quickly.  For Solid Waste, the main focus is on education/outreach to encourage reuse, donation, recycling, disposal of household hazardous waste, bulky item pick-up and other services available.  This year, we completed a tweet-a-long with Solid Waste crews on July 28 which had very good live engagement and post-production engagement on social media. The city created a centralized landing page on the website for a bulk of the information available about move out services.  Later this fall, we will complete the Move Out educational campaign with information about good neighbor ordinances and the Rental Licensing and Inspection Program.

Transit Update

Attached is an update on Transit happenings.

Future Agenda Items

Attached please find a summary of future agenda items.

Future Work Session Items

Attached please find a summary of future work session items.