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TO JEFFERSON TO APPROPRIATION FOR CROSSING PREDICTORS , BROADWAY AND JEFFERSON AVENUE RAIL CROSSINGS , seconded by Councilman Weymouth and carried on roll call vote . Staff report stated the City entered into an agreement April 21 , 1969 , with Southern Pacific to pay 50% of the costs , now itemized at S17 , 889 . 39 , but that the current project balance from the 1968 -69 Budget was only S12 , 650 . 00 and necessitated this additional sum of 35 , 239 . 39 to complete the funding due by the City . Councilman Henderson questioned the time span on this safety installation and whether it would have been possible for City to have set a time limit not only for safety , but probably increased costs , and asked , if acceptable to Council that when payment issued to Southern Pacific , Staff be requested to note these concerns . Council indicated their agreement to the sugges - tion . ( Memo 6 -13 -72 ) Report and recommendation of Ordinance Review Committee regarding request of Emerald Hills 4 -H Club . Councilman Weymouth , Chairman of. this Committee , asked that report be deferred to Councilmen Williams and Norris , since he had been unable to attend this last meeting . Councilman Williams reported of the review made of this request for an amendment to the City ' s Municipal Code to allow 4 -H Club members to keep certain types of animals and that the Committee unanimously recommended to the Council the following : 1 . Not to amend the Municipal Code to allow keeping of animals . This recommendation is based on the feeling that more problems would be created than solved . 2 . That the City not provide land for a 1t -H Club facility . 3 . That the 14--H Club attempt to locate a suitable parcel of land in a non- residential area on which a farm type of operation may be instituted ( similar to the Belmont operation) . 24 • That if the 4 -H Club locates an adequate site , the City then create a zoning district that , with adequate controls , would allow the activities desired by the 4 -H Club . Councilman Rhodes indicated his opposition to the recommendation as he felt keeping of two rabbits would be no more of a nuisance than ordin- ances presently allowing keeping of dogs or cats , and moved that an ordinance be introduced which would allow two rabbits , seconded by defeated . corrected 6 - 19-72 ) Councilman Leipzig . Motion/died - fe.r - laek -ef -a-vete . After further discussion of the review made by the Ordinance Review Committee and the reasons for the recommendations which were made indicating possibility of 4 -H Club to initiate a, farm type of operation might be possible as was being done in other cities which were cited previously by the group . 6 - 12 -72