transferred from the Police Department to the City Manager’s Office. Parking meter collection is moved from Public Works & Utilities.

Transit operations have been stabilized. A portion of the proceeds from the City of Wichita selling the Hyatt Regency Hotel ($4 million) will be used to implement the four-year sustainability plan that aims to stabilize the system by building ridership, use data to refine the fixed route system, develop alternative modes, and leverage partnerships.

The Advanced Learning Library will open in 2018. The 2018 Proposed Budget adds five full-time and six part-time positions (8 FTE) to supplement staffing at the new Advanced Learning Library. Staffing will allow summer Sunday hours at that facility and provide additional technology capabilities, including expanded digital collections.

Street maintenance improvements continue. The Capital Improvement Program andrestored, and the injection of water into reactors one, two and three had resumed.

However, some monitoring systems had been knocked out by the quake.

Emergency crews at the nuclear plant, which was crippled by the March 11 quake and tsunami, have been pumping in water to cool overheating reactors that have already caused several explosions.

Radiation has leaked into the air, soil and sea, forcing local residents to evacuate their homes and leading several countries to restrict the import of food products from Japan.

The latest quake was given an initial magnitude of 7.1 by the US Geological Survey, which later revised it downward to 6.6.

It hit 81 kilometres south of Fukushima city and 163 kilometres north-east of Tokyo and at a depth of 10 kilometres, causing buildings in the capital