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as I know, one, that we are approaching it in a reasonable way, with reasonable standards and reasonable goals, and acting reasonably." In response to Council questions, Mayor Hartnett sununarized and clarified by saying, "The Code Enforcement committee is not a Council Committee. Councilman Ruskin is the Council liaison appointed by me to the staff group who has worked on code enforcement issues. There hasn't been a charge to them to make recommendations to us in connection with changing the Codes. Councilman Ruskin has been attempting to monitor, encourage, and cajole at times, staff people involved with code enforcement, and to keep us informed.... When we had the Study Session some time ago relating to code enforcement, part of that included a discussion of existing Codes, and questions to Mr. Schnell and others as to whether or not, for effective code enforcement and beautification in the City, we needed to have more laws or different laws. At that time the guidance to us was, it appears that what we have on the books is sufficient. It is simply a question of how you go about enforcing the Codes, both in terms of the timeliness and the aggressiveness in that regard." Council Members further discussed this issue and its financial impacts. Mayor Hartnett said it may be premature to discuss the financial aspects, "Perhaps we need to come up with a mechanism for more planning before we go too far forward." Councilman Claire suggested that at some point the Council should get together with the Planning Commission and move forward with an El Camino Plan that could be put in place as a guideline for future development. Councilman Ruskin asked for his colleague's positions on these issues. "Let's say that there are those three elements of El Camino: the code enforcement, we will move ahead as fast as we can on that; the landscaping of entry ways and median strips, planting trees, that's the second element; and then the overall plan for the use of the land on El Camino... Does the Council then want not to proceed with further landscaping until an overall plan is worked out with the Planning Commission... or proceed with landscaping of median strips, planting trees, entry features and consult the Planning Commission in terms of an overall land use?" Mayor Hartnett said, "we all want code enforcement to continue along El Camino Real That has started and we are going to get a report back on what the status is, and the results.... That will continue." Councilman Claire asked that reasonable code enforcement of reasonable Codes be enforced. ADJOURNED REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 55 JUNE 23,1997 MINUTES Page No. 424 PAGE 22