1966 373-394 _ 12-1 to 12-12-1966

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373 Minutes of Adjourned Regular Meeting Redwood City Council December 1, 1966 7:30 P.M. Meeting called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Mayor Herkner. ON ROLL CALL the following were noted present: Councilman Robert.H. Bury Floyd D. Granger, Mary W. Henderson, Paul C. Keckley, (entered meeting at 7: 45 p.m.) John S. Rosselli, Mayor Sidney D. Herkner, and City Clerk Helen C. Moore. Also noted present were City Manager Howard C. Ullrich, City Attorney Richard E. Gar - della, Assistant City Manager Henry V. Burget, Police Chief William Faulstich, Director of Public Works J. Louis Scherer and Deputy City Clerk Marian McCrindle. City Manager stated meeting called for primary purpose of Council hearing presentation by Mr. John Jenks and Paul Adamson, City's consulting engineers, of a review and analysis of long range sewage plans, a very crucial problem which must be resolved with some decisions in the immediate future in view of "cease and desist" obder imposed on Redwood City by Water Quality Control Board last year and extended to end of this year awaiting outcome of a regional study. He advised study which had been prepared by the County, acting as a Coordinating Agent, has been com- pleted for a Regional Plan covering sewage disposal for all of County. He stated at this point it was necessary for presentation to be made of comparable costs of joining the Regional District proposed under County plan; possibility of creating sub -districts in view of fact it was now almost certain all of cities in San Mateo County would not be willing to participate in a County -wide system because of distance sewage would have to be transported to a control treatment plant, or a "go -it -alone" alternative. City Manager discussed the logical alternative if this Regional County -wide sewage disposal plan did not materialize, of a "strategic consolidation" of adjacent cities in southern part of County, namely, Redwood City, including Redwood Shores, San Carlos, Belmont, Woodside (of necessity) and possibly Menlo Park, which could form a joint participation program. He advised this last con- clusion had been drawn at Staff level only and presentation would be made by Mr. Jenks, covering not only County -wide plan proposed, but also merits of adjacent southern city grouping for a combined program. Mr. Jenks reviewed history of Redwood City's waste disposal practices since beginning in 1949 when waste discharged raw and untreated, and the constant gradual steps upgrading the system which had transpired throughout the years with growth of the City, to the present facilities. He felt it particularly noteworthy that in 1958 the sewage plant in Redwood City, with its secondary treatment of waste, exceeded any other operation in San Mateo County, all of which had been done by the City under its own initiative and expense as a matter of civic res- ponsibility without any coercion or requirements being imposed. Mr. Jenks then reviewed the requirements and standards which had been first imposed by the Water Quality Control Board and studies made by their firm which made apparent the need for long rangeplans with continuing increasingly stringent