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City Council Meeting Minutes January 19, 2018 Page 4 of 7 Members decided to leave this at four regular meetings and perhaps add study sessions with the Rec Board for recommendations of programming and budget. #13 Cost Recovery & Fee Structure is ok as presented. #14 Senior Issues — Councilmember Leh asked for this. He stated he is concerned with the loss of the Senior Advisory Board. He suggested we need a task force for senior issues. Councilmember Keany stated he thinks the question is do we need a city board for seniors. Councilmember Leh stated we may need a board of seniors or do we simply need seniors on many boards. How do we accomplish that? Councilmember Stolzmann stated DRCOG can work with communities to do a senior services inventory; perhaps we should start with that. Mayor Pro Tem Lipton stated this is not a priority at all for him; he does not get complaints about this. We have seniors serving on all of our boards Councilmember Leh stated the issue isn't whether we pay attention to this but how we do it and who does it. He would like a task force to do an inventory and tell Council what is needed. This is a high priority for him. Councilmember Loo liked the idea of using DRCOG to get the information as to what is available before creating a task force. Members agreed to leave this on the work plan to provide information to Council and add to title "Utilize DRCOG Tool on Aging and Identification of Services." Medium priority. CULTURAL SERVICES #15 Museum Visitor Center Polling & Funding Plan — Mayor Pro Tem Lipton stated originally this was just going to be funding for a schematic design and basic information to seek grants and donations. We need to give the History Foundation the opportunity to do that; not make this City funded or put it on the ballot We have many other things that might require a new tax; let the museum folks start fund raising. Councilmember Stolzmann stated the Histoncal Commission needs to understand what the position of Council is as there is confusion about who is paying for what. We need to be clear what Council's position is. City Manager Balser stated staff needs policy direction from Council to determine next steps Councilmember Leh stated he thought the polling was to decide if this should be a ballot question or not.