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3. Allow the trapping to begin in cooperation with the Bay Area Coalition of Animal Protection Organizations who have agreed to relocate feral cats, skunks and raccoons 4. Hire a law firm to look at all of the pertinent permits 5. Conduct a lobbying campaign with fellow mayors, council members and other cities that front the bay that have public recreation or access areas on the bay 6. Not start the process for the placement of gates The motion did not receive a second. The motion failed. Council Member Hartnett stated it would be fair to say that every Council Member does not want access to the levees cut off to people and they don't want any of the people living in Redwood Shores to be harmed by flooding due to inadequate levees. Additionally, Council does not want the people in Redwood Shores to pay additional money for flood insurance as part oftheir required homeowners' insurance if the levee project is not completed. Council does not want the endangered species obliterated and does not want the City to be sued or criminally liable. Council Member Hartnett stated the question is what is the best way to maintain access both in the immediate future and in the long term and is it better for us to begin a new negotiation process with a vote tonight that includes acceptance of the bid for the gates. He followed with a multi-part motion. MIS Hartnett/Claire to take the following action: 1. Adopt RESOLUTION 13819 ACCEPTING BID FOR REDWOOD SHORES LEVEE FENCING AND GATES PROJECT; AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF AGREEMENT FOR SAID WORK; AND DIRECTING RETURN OF SECURITY DEPOSITS Instruct the City Manager to communicate through all offices available and the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, immediately, as well as the Office ofFish and Wildlife as to the reasons why the conditions of the permit related to access should be changed so that access would be allowed. Authorize and direct the City Manager to create a program whereby people access would be allowed every day on the levee during daylight hours except during high tides and that the program include appropriate enforcement personnel such that the relevant restrictions on access during daylight hours could be enforced so that people do not wander off the levee into the habitat areas so that animals are not allowed during daylight while the gates might be open. Authorize the City Manager to create a program whereby expenditures would be made to collect every single piece of additional data that may be necessary to create a very persuasive case based upon new facts and circumstances and legal interpretation as to why the access provisions of the permit ought to be changed to accommodate the aforementioned. Signs to be put back up and regularly monitored. Trapping to begin within the guidelines of the compromises worked out with the animal protection organizations. No dogs will be accepted during the day. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES JANUARY 24, 2000 PAGE 8 ....---_. '~--..'r