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1) MOTION: HARTNETT/STEINFELD APPROVE AND AUTHORIZE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS LOCAL 2400; CARRIED BY UNANIMOUS VOICE VOTE. MINUTE ORDER NO. 95-018 2) TITLE READ: MIS: HARTNETT/STEINFELD RESOLUTION NO. 12397 AMENDING SALARY AND WAGE PLAN FOR THE POSITIONS OF FIRE FIGHTER, FIRE FIGHTER-LIGHT DUTY, AND FIRE CAPTAIN OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY; AND RESCINDING RESOLUTION NO. 12246 ADOPTED BY UNANIMOUS VOICE VOTE. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D. Approve Task Order No.1 to the agreement for special legal services for the Redwood Shores Exterior Levee Improvement Project, and authorize an additional expenditure of $25,000 for additional work relating to the project's impacts on endangered species (Washburn, Briscoe and McCarthy); (304) REPORT: City Engineer, January 16, 1995 Councilwoman Steinfeld removed this item to respond to Mr. Ralph Noble's concerns, provided background on the hiring of Washburn, Briscoe and McCarthy, and asked staff for further information on this issue. City Attorney Schricker described the original agreement which incorporated some prior work, and advised that it was a policy decision by administrative staff to have outside counsel services on this project. City Manager Everett stated that he had enormous respect for Mr. Nobles and his sensitivity to the environmental community. City Manager Everett provided a detailed explanation of the City's attempts to obtain permits from the Corps of Engineers, stating that "staffis desperately trying to do what FEMA and the staff believes should be done. In fact we are required by law, by FEMA, to raise the height of our levees. We concur with those new requirements, and feel they should protect Redwood Shores. We have done that in, I think, the most environmentally sensitive way we can. We have worked with the Corps and spent huge....huge sums of money, and answered every question they have ever asked us. We have processed alternatives and spent engineering money and then the Corps has told us they really don't like that idea after all. I believe there are some internal problems within the Corps that is causing this not to be played on a fair playing field. We did not use attorneys for over three years. We have spent enormous sums of money and have neither a permit nor a promise for a permit, nor anything. So we decided that playing it fair, playing it straight without an attorney representing us is getting us nowhere, and in MINUTE BOOK NO. 53 Regular Meeting Minutes Page No. 034 January 23, 1995 Page 4