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- - . Mayor Howard requested that staff receive as much neighborhood input on these devices as possible. - In answer to Couneilman Ira's questions regarding implementation authority, City Manager Everett said staff will bring that issue back to Council in January after the City Attorney has reviewed the legal options available to the City, as well as liability issues. He added further that staff could begin working on this issue, "this is going to take awhile, but in order to actually approve the placement, we need to come back to you first, and (the City Attorney) needs to look into that a little deeper." City Manager Everett said staff wanted to bring these proposed Policies to the Co-Chairs of the Neighborhood Boards, and that might delay bringing this issue back to the Council. He said staff is working on developing "criteria other than CalTrans wants for stop signs." MEMO 12/9/97 Couneil Member Buehan welcomed everyone to attend the Neighborhood Co-Chair meeting on January 22, 1998 at the Police Department, which will focus on the full panoply of proposed traffic policies. In response to questions by Viee Mayor Ruskin regarding the problems with speed humps in Fresno, Mr. Smith said, "I'm unaware of any adjudications that have found these speed humps a causal factor in an accident that caused an injury." He added that there are 1- literally thousands of these humps in the State of California right now. Several Couneil Members advised staff that the second Draft Report needed more work before they could consider it. Couneilman Leipzig asked what was the urgency in going forward with the Policy at this meeting, and couldn't specific requests be brought to the Council at the next meeting? City Attorney Sehrieker said, "The question is implementation. The question really is whether or not each speed hump installation should be brought back to you for approval as is the case with stop signs, for instance, where the Code requires that it come back to City Council. Or do you desire as a Policy matter to delegate that authority to the staff and establish particular criteria for that. That is the basic issue I am going to advise the staff on. There are ramifications regarding the immunity that I was talking about in that context. I do recommend that you adopt this resolution to the extent we are going to use speed humps in this City at all, because you do want to have the benefit of that design immunity which you shall get. But I can't tell you, and I won't tell you until we have a lawsuit on a question, is whether or not because you didn't approve the specific location of a street hump we would get the benefit of the design immunity. That's the main issue, and I just want to talk to staff some more, so they understand the legal perspective that we are looking at." I 1 Mayor Howard asked if anyone in the audience wished to speak to this issue. No one 1- came forward. REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 56 DECEMBER 8, 1997 MINUTES Page No. 103 PAGE 18