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and said she felt like she "was leaving one family to get reacquainted with another. This has been my family for so long...but it was time to make this move when we could finish the Red Morton Center and open it....it was a tremendous success and I felt a great sense of worth." Sally thanked everyone, especially her department colleagues, for making her career with the City such a tremendous experience and so fulfilling. Mayor Pro Tern Howard invited everyone to Sally's retirement party, Friday night at the Villa Hotel, and "warned" her of the many surprises her friends and co-workers had planned. She expressed the sentiments of everyone who had ever had the pleasure of working with Sally when she said what a wonderful and valuable employee Sally has been over the years, and how very, very much the everyone in the City would miss her. B. Proclamation in honor of Arbor Day in Redwood City, April 27, 1996; (207) Mayor Pro Tern Howard introduced the members of the Pride and Beautification Committee in attendance, Rene White, Jeanne Roehm, Bonnie Miller, Roxanne and Terry Dragan, Don Saye and Marilee Robinson, and read the proclamation proclaiming Arbor Day in Redwood City. She thanked the Pride and Beautification Committee members for their efforts and especially City Arborist Gordon Mann for the grants he and the committee secured for the City to plant trees and shrubs. Mayor Pro Tern Howard announced that the City would be planting some of those trees and shrubs this Saturday, April 27, 1996 in conjunction with the City's annual Spring clean-up. Rene White, member of the Pride and Beautification Committee, accepted the proclamation and invited everyone to join in the annual Spring clean-up, April 27, 1996 beginning at 8:30 a.m., 1400 Broadway, Redwood City. Mayor Hartnett arrived at this time, 7:47 p.m. C. Proclamation in honor of Letter Carrier's Food Day, May 11, 1996; (207) Vice Mayor Howard introduced Claude Butler from the United States Postal Service. Mr. Butler described how one day each year the postal service workers collect non- perishable food items along their routes to help feed the hungry in San Mateo County. Mr. Butler said the food is delivered to the Second Harvest Food Bank. He said this was the fourth annual food drive, and last year Redwood City donated 50,000 pounds offood. Vice Mayor Howard read the proclamation and presented it to Mr. Butler who urged everyone to participate in feeding the hungry by donating what they could on May II, 1996. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MINUTE BOOK NO. 54 Page No. 200 Regular Meeting Minutes April 22, 1996 Page 2