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, . �95I _ Mayor Hilton ordered placed on the a.genda of the next meeting diecuasion in • � regard to the amendment to procedure code ordinance, City Manager Blom advised that the Penineula Celebration Asaociation has voted to dedicate �500,Yor the purchase of a new kiln the pottery claes in the Recreation Department, They made a eimilar donation last year, hoauever, the ' pottery clase le a popular activity and tne,present kiln is too small. This year'e donation will provide a much larger kiln. City Manager Hlom asked the authority of the Council to buy the kiln when the donation ie received. Councilman Werder moved, seconded bq Councilman Swift, that the City Manager be_authorized to purchase the kiln upon receipt of the donation and that he ' also be instructed to write the Penineula Celebration Aesociation thanking them for their generous donation. Motion passed unanimously. City Attorney McCarthy that in regard to the condemnation suit pending for the recreation center, the Peninsula Celebration Association was ginen permieaion to conatruct equipment on trie grounda for the 4th of July Rodeo by the Bairds. This permiasion expired on July 21, 1946, and the attorney for the • Bairds had indicated that rie is going t,o make a motion to remove the improve- ments. It was the City Attorney's opinion�that the proper procedure would be to obtain authority to a.mend the complaint and seek to condemn the land and a.lso the improvements on the property He stated the improvements donot belong to the Hairde but that the attorney contends they do inasmuch as they were not removed before the expiration date of the permit, It was the ' opinion of tne ma�ority of the Council that the improvemente ehould be re- moved inasmucn as tney are dangerous and unattractive. After more diacus- sion, Councilman Werder moved, seconded by Councilman Britschgi, that the City Manager be instructed to confer witri the Asaociation on the ways and means of cleaning up as soon as possible the recreation grounds as far as the temporary improvements are concerned and to bring back a report, Motion passed unanimously, Oouneilman Granger, seconded by Councilman Britschgi, offered resolution autriori- • zing amendment to Baird complaint. On roll call, resolution wae unanimously adopted. � RE90LUT ION No. 397 AUTHORIZING CONCEMNATION OF 3TRUCTURE9 FOR RECREATIONAL PARR PURP09E9 R�30LVED, by the City Council of the City of Redwood City, California, ' that it finde and determines and hereby declarea; �� Tnat public intereat anci neceseitq require the acquisition, conetruc- s tion and completion "by the City of Redwood City of puDlic improvements, namely, a recreational park and such structure8 as now on the property here- inafter described; ;, That the use of said structures ie a public use authorized by law; 1 Tnat tne taking of such atructures in addition to taking of the land upon wnich said atructures stand is neceseary to and for suoh public uae, and that it ie necessary that all of said etructures now on said land be so taken; That said recreational park, including such struCtures as now stand there on are planned and locat in a manner whicri will be most compatible with the greatest public good and trie leaet private injury; � FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Manager of thia City be and is hereby I authorized and empowered: • �'� To acquire in the name of this City the etructures upon trie real � '