Friday, October 19, 2012
Federal grant money will provide for a new roadway; curbs and guttering and 5-foot sidewalks in both directions.
The City of Olivette and Volz Engineering held an informational meeting at the Community Center Wednesday night in order to lay out the particulars of the Old Bonhomme Road rebuild project commencing sometime next summer. The 2 mile arterial road, stretching from the city limits of University City to Olive Boulevard will be reconstructed for $2.4 million dollars. Two million comes in the form of a federal grant and Olivette will make up the difference. Some 100 homes and two schools (Logos and Old Bonhomme) front onto the roadway. The project is calling for 5-foot sidewalks to replace broken ones, two and three feet wide, or in some cases, where sidewalks don’t exist at all. Like us on the Olivette Facebook page today. City Engineer …
Friday, July 13, 2012
20,000 square feet will provide adequate space for police department, administrative offices, courts, council chamber and other needs of a modern city.
On August 7, voters will go to the polls in Olivette to decide the future of the city. They will be voting on two bond issues, totaling more than $12 million dollars for Public Safety and for Parks. They are known as propositions "S" and "P." Mike McDowell, city manager, and Rick Knox, police chief walked through the proposed facility at 1101 Executive Parkway (adjacent to Olive Street) to explain exactly how the space will be used should the voters approve these issues. The existing City Hall at 9473 Olive Street, just 12,000 square feet and purchased in the 1950s has long outlived its useful purpose. That building is far too small for the existing fire house, does not meet many ADA requirements and is not earth quake proof and sprinklers…
Monday, July 2, 2012
Two referendums to create new city hall, fire house and ball fields for Warson Park.
Picture it this way: You have five pre-teen and teen-aged children and you live in a two-bedroom house. Furthermore, the roof leaks and the kitchen is a wreck. What would you do? Naturally, you’d put a for sale sign in the yard and move out ASAP. The City of Olivette has rapidly become the Little Old Woman in the Shoe. She has so many children, she doesn’t know what to do. The present government building at 9473 Olive Blvd. purchased by the city in 1950 is woefully inadequate for today’s needs. The building is only some 12,000 square feet, and it houses a cramped fire department; a squeezed in police department, administrative offices, court space and a meager council chamber. Something has to give. In August, Olivette will go to the …
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Rate increased to countermand drop in property values.
By decree of the Olivette City Council, the real estate tax rates have increased to make up for the overall drop in assessments. Personal property tax rates will remain the same. Residential property tax rates will go from the 2010 rate of $0.614 per $100 dollars of assessed valuation to $0.636, meaning an increase of 3.8 percent. The commercial property tax rate will rise from the 2010 rate of $0.664 per $100 of assessed valuation to $0.699, an increase of 5.3 percent. "This not a tax hike," said Mike McDowell, city manager. "When assessed valuations of properties go down, then there's a roll back of the rates under the Hancock Amendment. This way, the city gets the same amount of money that it received the previous year." Basically, this…
James name
8:45 am on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Its actually cheaper and much much more effictive to have our own police and fire department and this would have been enough of an upgrade that we would go 30 to 50 years before they start asking for some minor upgrades more ›