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95 973 15th Avenue; V. M. Domer, 3530 Page Street; Ed Wilson, 975 15th Avenue and V. L. Peterson, 961 15th Avenue. Chief Lodi spoke against allowing a cul-de-sac for Rose Avenue, The Majority of the people living in the area want a cul-de-sac for Rose Avenue. The majority of the people living in the area want a cul- de -sac rather than purchase Mr. Dcmer's property. This was followed by a lengtby discussion in which Council- man Britschgi suggested the possibility of the City purchasing Mr. Domer's house and ptopertyp moving the house and selling it and charge the cost involved after selling the house to the people facing on Rose 6W Avenue. This was followed by discussion in which City Attorney Currie stated that technically it could be done. Councilman Royer moved to close the public hearing, seconded by Councilman Spillers and carried. Councilman Royer moved to refer this matter back to the Planning Commission to consider as soon as possible and to continue this matter on the agenda, seconded by Councilman Britschgi. Councilman Jones stated that pool he did not want to go on record of approving a cul-de-sac. Councilman Granger wanted to know what benefit 6 the City would derive from putting this street through. His thinking in regard to this was that the proper authorities take into consideration the matter of the City purchasing the house as suggested above. Motion carried. REPORT ON BID OPENING,,POPLAR-HESS-EBENER IMPROVEMENTS. The bids received are summarized as follows: Douglass & Woodhouse, Redwood City $67,097.15 E. T. Haas Company, Belmont 692733.10 The City Engineer's preliminary estimate on this project, for contract items only, was $77,317.05. The low bid is approximately 11.5% under the Engineer's estimate. It is the Engineer's recommendation that the base bid of Douglas & Woodhouse be accepted, and that all other bids be rejected. Councilman Stout moved that the low bid be accepted according to the Engineer's recommendation, seconded by Councilman Jones. City Attorney Currie stated that before the bid was accepted that the City has to transfer money to pay for the pow street assessments charged to the City. These are assessments #6, $1,2511.53; #10, $1,283.27; #30,$3,042.16 and #50, $1,233.22 or a total of $9,813.18. Councilman Stout withdrew his motion with the consent of the 1..r seconded and offered RESOLUTION 1996-A TRANSFERRING $9,813.18 FROM UNBUDGETED RESERVE TO POPLAR-HESS-EBENER ASSESSMENT DISTRICT, and moved its adoption, seconded by Councilman Jones and carried on roll call* Councilman Spillers offered RESOLUTION 1997 AWARDING CONTRACT TO DOUGLASS AND WOODHOUSE, POPLAR - HESS - EBENER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, and moved its adoption, seconded by Councilman Royer and carried on roll call. POLICE CHIEF REPORT ON PIN BALL MACHINE MEETING. In his report, Chief Faulstich reported that all the Chiefs present at the meeting were unanimously agreed that pin ball machines were not a problem, that they did not contribute to crime and were not operated by anyone connected with a syndicate. The Chiefs were in accord that there was no justification for banning the machines at this time. Chief Faulstich again recommended more stringent enforcement to determine if perhaps it would adequately solve the problem. If such enforce- ment does not adequately solve the problem, he would then recommend banning of such amusement devices. Councilman Britschgi was of the opinion that the Grand Jury was taking this under advisement and he thought that the Council should wait for their report. Councilman Stout was of the opinion that the matter of i.r pinball machines had not been fully investigated and he felt that if the need is there then perhaps the City should allow money for an.investigation and vaving a plain -clothes man make an investigation. This was followed by discussion after which Councilman Royer moved that they consider the report and make it a Pon part of the record and the Police Department be given an opportunity to report back to the Council, seconded by Councilman Britschgi. This was followed by a heated and lenthy discussion regarding payoffs, legality of pinball machines and whether or not this created a threat to miners. James Gleeson, Jerry Wagstaffe, Reverend Edgeworth, Dennis Woodman and Horace Wheller all spoke on the subject* the motion carried. STATE RECOMMENDATION REGARDING THREE PHASE SIGNALS AT WHIPPLE AND EL CAMINO REAL. The State reported that a review of the operation of this intersection had been made in order to determine the feasibility of altering the traffic signal system so as to provide three-phase operation with each leg of Whipple Avenue moving on