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356 RESOLUTION NO. 7404 AUTHORIZING EXCHANGE OF REAL PROPERTY IN CONNECTION WITH LEVEE ALIGNMENT IN VICINITY OF SHELL PARKWAY AND PENINSULA PARKWAY The resolution was adopted unanimously by roll call vote. Aft Proposed policy re smoking ., at City Council meetings Councilman Norris referred to his memorandum of April 28 to members of the City Council requesting consideration of establishment of a policy regarding smoking at City Council meetings. Councilman Norris observed that the decision of the Board of Supervisors with regard to smoking in the Chambers was to permit those who meet in the Chambers to make their own regulations. Councilman Norris advised that the Transit District Board of Directors has established a policy which per- mits smoking on one side of the Chambers only and sug- gested that the City Council might make the same rule. Discussion followed concerning enforcement of the regu- lation proposed by Councilman Norris; whether the smoke problem for non-smokers can be effectively alleviated if smoking is permitted at all; and the practices of other governmental agencies with regard to prohibitions on smoking. Lee Ann Pearce, 10 Northumberland, stated that she be- lieves that in a relatively small room smoking must be stopped entirely if the problem is to be alleviated. MOTION: Councilman Rhodes moved, seconded by Council- man Henderson (see below) , that no smoking at all be permitted at all public City Council meetings. CLARIFICATION : At the request of Councilman Henderson, the motion was clarified as follows : No person shall smoke in any room within any building in which a meeting of the Council of the City of Redwood City or one of its agencies is held to which the general public is admitted while such a meeting is being held and at which more than ten persons are present, or if any person present objects. Councilman Rhodes agreed with the clarification of his motion, and Councilman Henderson then seconded the motion. City Attorney Schricker advised that Council has empowered Boards and Commissions to regulate their own conduct of meetings, and suggested that the subject motion should apply only to City Council meetings . MOTION RESTATED : Councilman Rhodes, with the consent of mos his second, then restated the motion as follows : No person shall smoke in any room within any building in woo which a meeting of the Council of the City of Redwood City is held to which the general public is admitted while such a meeting is being held and at which more than ten persons are present, or if any person present objects. -4- Reg.Mtg. 5/5/75