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8. PU$LIC COMMENTS (Cont'd Mr. Soltesz agreed Ms. Derbeck has 'a fine point here of responsibility, and "not taking a slice at anybody, but surely all of the people sitting in this room that are in the employ of somebody -- either for themselves or some other person - -has a responsibility to do a specific job for a payday, whenever it comes, whether once a month or whatever. This same area of government responsibility is attributable to someone in this community. It shouldn't be for Mr. Soltesz; Mr. Chairman, or somebody to jump up and down in one of these meetings to find out whether the pools are going to be fixed, or to make recommendations as to materials to be used, [such as the material I suggested for the fountain gratings at the old post office building, that was returned]. Now we are getting to a point of being asinine. We have people that we employ to do this. Now, surely... somewhere, somehow ... we have to find the guy that is responsible, or persons that are responsible, for finding out why these things aren't being done, and I think the time of the commedy of saying, 'well, Soltesz, Ms. Derbeck, Kagel, or whoever it may be that bring up a point, thanks for your telling about it here' ... and that's the end of it. I sat here as a part of the group of people who said 'we want the job completed.' We were assured as the public ... we were assured that it would be com- pleted...and here we are from April to August, and we can't get two (2) doggoned drinking fountains fixed, because...now... we are still passing the buck as to who is responsible and who is not. All we want is the fountains fixed; all we want is to have them work. Mr. Chair- man, just being in the way, wouldn't it be just as simple to have whatever we have to do to get something operating and get that done, and then take care of all this legal paraphernalia, and go through '16,000 committee meetings' to decide who is going to make that expeditious; let's give that kid a drink of water out there on the Plaza." "No more than four (4) hours after the drinking fountains were in- stalled, they did not work, and I think the public is due something on this, and not expeditious -type of meetings and all kinds of committee meetings that go down the line to get anything done. The public could care less on what you have to do; all they care about is what they have coming." If nothing is done, the other alternative Mr. Soltesz suggested, "remove the drinking fountains that are not working so that they will not be a point of object there. Let's take the two of them off, and not have them stand out there like a sore thumb." President Nimtz said, "Now, here again, that would be the Board of Public Works that would have to remove those. We don't have the authority to remove them." Ms. Derbeck questioned why this would come under the Board of Public Works responsibility as it is her understanding that the Plaza has not been formally turned over to the City. Mr. Brownell advised that we have turned over the completed portions of the Plaza and the Board of Public Works has accepted those portions. The Hickey Company has certified that they have completed their contract, but we are still keeping the block that is not completed and we will have a contractor build that. The formal part has not be entirely completed--technically speaking- -but the Board of Public Works has taken over the lighting, maintenance, cleaning, etc. They have actually taken over officially and are paying for it, and the people that are doing the work are working for the Board of Public Works and have control over it. The Hickey Company - 13 -