11 Request an update on Casa Bonita

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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING SHEET Submittal Date: Originating Department: Presented By: Agenda Item No.: 6/18/08 Community Lisa A. Wright, Director 11. Council Date: Development 6/23/08 RECOMMENDED MOTiON: Not an action item. POLICY ISSUE(S): Requested by Council BACKGROUND: At the June 9 meeting Council requested that an update on Casa Bonita be on every agenda. Since that meeting research on what other cities have done has been initiated. So far no new sources of funding have been found as the projects noted were either developer driven or a pilot project by a regulatory agency to allow an alternative demolition process. One of the specific projects mentioned during the June 9 meeting was the demolition of an apartment complex in Ft. Worth, Texas. I spoke Dave Bary of the Environmental Protection Agency who was mentioned in the article, and he advised that this was a pilot project to determine if there were other safe methods for demolishing buildings containing asbestos. For funding questions, he directed me to David Eppler, also of the EPA. He advised that, during the Clinton administration, grants were made available under Project XL for the purposes of finding alternati.ve asbestos control methods. Those grants were provided to municipalities who developed alternative methods of demolition that creatively complied with federal law in an effort to help develop more cost effective demolition methods. He stated that this funding was used for three projects and was now depleted, but again could only have been used for pilot project to test alternative asbestos control methods. He stated there was no other funding available for demolition projects like ours. The request for proposal period is still open and bids will be opened on July 8 for presentarion to the City Council on July 14. BOARD/COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: EXHIBITS: Requests for public funding chart; Ft. Worth Star Telegram article of 12/18/07 re: demolition of an office building in the Oak Hollow apartments in Ft. Worth, Texas ACTION: BUDGET INFO: ~ Financial Report ❑ Minute Order Expense $ ~ Department Report ❑ Resolution Budgeted Amt. $ ❑ Presentation ❑ Ordinance y'TD Actual $ ❑ Public Hearing ❑ Other Acct. Name Acct. Number FISCAL NOTES: REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY: ~ Administration E City Clerk E Community Development ❑ EMS/IT ❑ Finance ❑ Fire ❑ Municipal Court ❑ Legal ❑ Library ❑ Police ❑ Eng./Public Works ❑ Utilities City of Paris Revised 2/04/08 _ 0~~~~15.~