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CITY COUNCIL GOALS FOR 2002 Each summer the City Council establishes goals they wish • Continue work on an intergovernmental effort with the to pursue in the upcoming year. Some priority City Council Town of Superior to improve the US 36/ goals for 2002 are as follows: McCaslin Boulevard Interchange. • Maintain Louisville as a safe city. I • Adopt a new Open Space Master Plan for acquisition, • Continue a proactive style of law maintenance,management,preservation, and use of •. open space. enforcement and crime prevention. • Place a question on the November 2002 ballot to • Maintain a highly effective school resource officer program in 1 BCD m • extend the Open Space Sales Tax. • Conduct building facility assessments and cost Louisville schools. g • Redistrict City Council wards using 2000 Census estimates for the expansion of the Library and the information. Recreation/Senior Center. • Adopt an Historic Preservation Ordinance conforming • Implement an adopted site plan for City facilities on the to the Colorado Historical Society's Office of City owned 15 acre parcel at Via Appia and McCaslin Boulevard,including a new police station and an inline Archeology and Historic Preservation requirements and skate rink. appoint an Historic Preservation Board. • Continue to participate in the regional The City is currently preparing its 2002 budget with the intergovernmental effort to secure a plan for capacity described goals and policies as guidelines.City Council will improvements to US 36. conduct a public hearing on the budget at a regular City • Continue to acquire water rights in accordance with the Council meeting in November or December. Please look City's adopted Raw Water Master Plan. for further information later this fall. LEAF COLLECTION PROGRAM HOME RULE CHARTER COMMISSION In an effort to reduce landfill waste, the City began a Continued from page 1 leaf collection program in 1999. The program will Article 12:Municipal Borrowing& Taxation - continue this year and includes curbside pick up of Addresses city policy on debts and taxation. bagged leaves for residents. The program will begin in Article 13: City-Owned Utilities -Addresses city mid-October and continue until mid-November. policy on city-owned utilities. Interested residents will be asked to collect leaves in Article 14:Franchises and Permits - Establishes sturdy bags and set them out by the street curb for procedures for new franchises and renewals, and pickup. Please be sure that no revocable permits or licenses. other materials are mixed with Article 15: Open Space - Establishes management x ^� the leaves. Bags with grass standards for City-owned open space lands. '� clippings, trash sticks, etc. will Article 16:Miscellaneous Provisions 11►) , w not be accepted. The collected Article 17: Transitional Provisions leaves will be mixed with the These articles reflect the proposed charter document as City's biosolids and composted of August 1. The Commission was scheduled to take a at the Wastewater Treatment final vote on the language on August 9, 2001. The entire Facility. Once composting is complete, the end product draft charter compilation, along with other charter will be made available to the public for reuse in gardens, commission information can be viewed on the City's flowerbeds, or other landscaped areas. website at www.ci.louisville.co.us. In addition,hard Volunteers are needed to break open and discard the copies of the draft charter compilation as well as all bags once all the leaves are collected. This will be agendas, minutes, and email correspondence of the scheduled for a Saturday morning in late November. If Charter Commission are available at the Louisville Public you are interested in helping or would like more Library and the City Administrator's Office in City Hall. information,please call Ken Mason,Wastewater Lastly, if you would like to contact a member of the Superintendent, at 303-665-7452. Further information Charter Commission,please visit the website for will be posted this fall on government access Channel 16 information or contact the City Administrator's Office at and on the City website at www.ci.louisville.co.us. 303-666-6565, ext. 162. Autumn 2001