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478 Staff reported this action was necessary because of the parcels of unincorporated property which abut Woodside Road adjacent to City Limits and which must be included in the undergrounding of utilities during the improvement of Woodside Road . Motion carried on roll call vote , Mayor Bury noted being absent . Councilman Rosselli moved to adopt RESOLUTION NO , 6122 FORMALLY ACKNOWLEDGING REDWOOD CITY EMPLOYEES ' ASSOCIATION AND REDWOOD CITY POLICE OFFICERS ' ASSOCIATION AS EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY , seconded by Councilman Henderson . Staff reported City Employees ' Association and the Police Officers Association recently held elections to indicate their desire to have formal recognition by the Council for purpose of negotiating personnel matters . City Manager advised it is required that individual employee organizations request formal recognition and that Fire Fighters held their election but that request had not yet been delivered but would probably be on Agenda next week . Since other two groups had requested recognition , Staff felt action should be taken on these two at this time . Motion carried on roll call vote , Mayor Bury being noted absent . Request of Chamber of Commerce to conduct a Christmas Festival on November 28-29 -30 , — 19 h9 . . . Jerry Chandler , Retail Department Manager of Chamber of Commerce , advised of the major promotion package for a Christmas Season Kickoff which would involve closing a number of streets for varying periods of time , date of which had changed slightly from that requested and now proposed starting on November 26 and carrying over for five days . He described events planned for carnival rides to be furnished by Fun Fair (Foley and Burke , of Redwood City ) , 20 concessions to be manned by local groups for fund raising purposes , official Christmas lighting ceremony for first time in Redwood City history , with hope of a Christmas concert by local band and singing organizations , with a community sing thereafter and a giant balloon parade . He advised the site for the proposed carnival is Hamilton and Theater Street area . He discussed parade formation grounds , and hours proposed for the parade and their request for closing these areas during the activities proposed , and removal of some 35 parking meters which would be paid for by the Chamber of Commerce . He mentioned one possible flaw had already been noted in that transformers for lighting Christmas decorations might not be installed in time , according to Director of Public Works . Council questioned traffic problems which might be caused by this proposal , to which City Manager stated some discussion had been held with Staff , but awaiting Council reaction before proceeding further to make a full report and recommendation . Police Chief advised their Department would police anything approved by Council and would estimate cost of $ 3000 to $ 5000 for police personnel , and that traffic routes would have to be studied . Council questioned further details on carnival rides proposed and problems which might be created . Mr . Chandler stated only eight types of rides proposed , con- sisting of ferr is wheel , merry-go -round , etc . , as faced with lack of space for larger type rides . He also noted that Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Association would collect 10% of receipts which they estimated would be S3000 to $ 3500 . He stated the Fun Fair rides would be an integral part of attracting people to the downtown area . se V