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Senior Civil Engineer Vorametsanti explained the subject to be another of the conditions put on extension of an existing permit by the Army Corps of Engineers. Council Member Jordan clarified that this was an extension of a contract with the Department of Agriculture to kill the raccoons, skunks, cats and red fox out in the levees around Redwood Shores. She requested the results of the meetings with Fish and Wildlife be stated. Mayor Ruskin responded his assumption is that the results reached through the deliberations between the Federal Government and the Animal Protection Coalition will still hold, whereby, a different fate was enabled for the cats, raccoons and skunks, but unable to find a different fate for the red fox. He continued that he felt the negotiations did achieve result and that the changes will apply. Senior Civil Engineer Vorametsanti stated he had been in contact with Tonya Light and asked her to compose a memorandum of understanding for execution by the various agencies that are a party to the effort. Additionally, Ms. Kelly of the Peninsula Humane Society who is the recipient of many of these animals and both have stated they are deligently working on the memorandum of understanding and when completed, they will obtain agreement from the agencies. Council Member Jordan requested a delay until February 28 to allow enough time for the Bay Area Coalition of Animal Protection Organization to get the memorandum of understanding on the desk of Fish and Wildlife with approval of the agreement by Council to occur simultaneously. Council discussion ensued regarding postponing the item. Public Comment: Tonya Light, Bay Area Coalition of Animal Protection Organizations, clarified that the organization has not delayed in getting their understanding of the agreement together and has been operating under the assumption that there has been an agreement for well over a year and has been removing animals from that site in a humane manner since then. Recently, Fish and Wildlife staff has notified BACAPO that they have changed their opinion of what would be acceptable in the agreement, and there has been no confirmation of the understanding. This is the reason for concern about a memorandum of understanding. She further stated that the next day, BACAPO would be drafting their version of the understanding that they have been operating under for the past year and faxed to the member organizations of BACAPO for approval with the copy to work from distributed by Friday, February 18. Patricia Dixon referred to October 1998 at Sandpiper School when Ken Sanchez stated there would be no killing of the raccoons and skunks, and that they would be transported to the Humane Society. She stated she would like the issue brought up to REGULAR COUNCIL MEE'T'ING February 14, 2000 MINUTES PAGE 6 MINUTES Book No.58 Page NO.34