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City Manager Everett reported that department head informational memos were included as background information as to current ongoing projects included in the two year budget set by Council priorities. Council proceeded to present their opening comments and discussion ensued regarding regional transportation oversight process, current Council committee and Board effectiveness, future land use visioning process, code enforcement, budget review, a municipal facility replacement/maintenance plan, sewage bill variable rate structure, review of Port Operations, land use. Council Member Jordan submitted a memo to Council regarding her recommendations for committee/task force considerations in the areas of regional transportation, land use visioning and budget review. It was the consensus of Council to reaffirm the six current Council priorities and presented questions to City staff, of which City Manager Everett noted some replies will be answered in future memo's, due to the current meeting's time constraints with staff replies shortly. Public Comment Hilary Paulson, 3733 Country Club, expressed her appreciation for last year's Council priority with Parks and is seeing many results, and urged Council to keep Parks as a priority as there are many older parks in need of updated equipment. She also expressed the need for affordable housing in Redwood City and to also keep that priority. Clem Malone, 525 Seaport Blvd., stated that any housing development planning should be transit orientated rather than sprawl type. Barbara Pierce, 1028 Eden Bower Lane, urged cooperative facility use such as sharing school sites, County facilities and the private business sector, in order to serve the community better and utilize available resources. Pete Hughes, 18 Admiralty Lane, stated we need to amend current regulations to allow dogs on leashes with waste control measures, as Redwood City is the only City which does not allow walking of dogs on public property, and noted affordable housing should be top priority. John Murphy, commented we should not tamper with the separateness of the Port Robert Slusser, 540 Pringle Drive, stated that long range planning should address the issue of whether or not the Port should be autonomous. Bobbie Miller, urged more traffic calming in neighborhoods. REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING MINUTES BOOK NO. 57 JANUARY 23, 1999 CITY COUNCIL ~' · Page No. 241 PAGE 3