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. . , . . B. Vice Mayor Howard reminded everyone that May 17 was the deadline for application to the Pride and Beautification Awards program. She encouraged City employees out and about in the City to encourage people with outstanding achievements in any of the many '--' categories to submit an application to the awards program. Vice Mayor Howard reminded her colleagues that Redwood City 2000 needed the name of the Council Member or hislher representative to the Action Team. She advised that the first brain storming session of the Action Team would be June 8, from 9 am. to 3 p.m. Vice Mayor Howard said she was looking forward to attending Julie Foley's 1O0th birthday party on May 14th at Casa de Redwood and would bring greetings from the Council through a letter of congratulations from the Mayor. _000000______-______00__----___00____00000000______---------------__000000______------------------------------------------ Mayor Hartnett declared a recess at 8:53 p.m. Meeting reconvened at 9:05 p.m. ----______00______-----------------------______0000_____-___n______----______nn__________nnnn____________nU--__n 8. STAFF REPORTS A. Council Streets Committee Recommendations for Design concepts for the Reconstruction of Sidewalks on Broadway. Council will discuss and take action on this item which was continued from May 6,1996. (209) REPORT: Council Streets Committee, May 6,1996 '----' Councilman Ruskin referred everyone to the subject report and the list of options and their pros and cons. Option I, Replace 28 of the existing planter boxes with new planters and save all the trees; Option 2, Remove all 45 planter boxes and replace with ground level planting of all new trees; and Option 3, Replace about half of the planter boxes and remove half the trees in planter boxes and replant new trees at ground level with eventual goal of removing all the planter boxes in a gradual manner. Councilman Ruskin said "the choice is clearly between keeping the old growth trees or not." Councilman Ruskin said that due to the choice of interlocking sidewalk pavers made last week any "damage that.... tree roots will do to the sidewalks will be very minimal, and if it does occur will be easily fixed." He said "the question is, how important are these old beautiful trees?" Councilman Ruskin added that the money required to keep replacing planters could be used for ground level trees and the surplus for new street furniture. Councilman Ruskin said the "official recommendation of the Committee is to move toward long term replacement of the trees, but to do it gradually." Councilman Ruskin paraphrased the ideas of the architect, Mr. Bottomley, who could not attend the meeting: "His first instinct when he saw the trees in the planters was to keep them, because he --- MINUTE BOOK NO. 54 Regular Meeting Minutes Page No. 233 May 13. 1996 Page 10