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C. Councilman Ruskin congratulated "Dick Dodge as the owner of Office City, a business in Redwood City, which recently won an award and a recognition... Office City was recently named to the San Francisco Business Times Book as one of the top 100 fastest growing privately owned businesses in the Bay Area; and, last week, won the San Mateo County Economic Development Association award for business excellence." D. Vice Mayor Howard said she had just learned "that the League of California Cities has awarded Redwood City 'The Healthy City Award for Excellence." She explained that it was awarded for the City's work with Redwood City 2000 and Healthy Start. The League will present the award to the City shortly. E. Vice Mayor Howard presented an update from the Council Committee on the Traffic Advisory Committee and said she will distribute a status report to Council members and ask for their input. She said that after she received Council comments the Committee would prepare a full report, with recommendations, and submit it to the entire Council for Council action. (209) MEMO 10/7/97 F. Councilman Leipzig reported on his attendance at the Airport Roundtable Committee meeting last night, stating that Redwood City was not an official member. He asked that anyone who had concerns about noise from SFO Airport to please contact him or City staff. He said the current topic of discussion at the Roundtable to reduce noise from the Airport is "expanding the runways. Opening up two landing runways and closing existing one. That would require going out into the Bay a little bit, and there was some discussion that night." Councilman Leipzig said a Redwood City resident had been quoted in the paper as wanting "a private business here in Redwood City and Fremont to just give up their land so that we could fill in part of the Bay and put the runways in.... I assured the Committee that that was not an official policy of Redwood City." (209) MEMO 10/7/97 G. Mayor Hartnett referred to a "recent editorial in the Redwood City Tribune" which spoke about a strategy "behind the Mayor to postpone... meetings until after the election... and to bury issues." He said the editorial referred to "apparent strategies to delay the Planning Commission Joint Study Session, and to delay for months the Police staffing study." He said he did playa significant role in setting Council agendas based on what Council Members tell him and tell staff, such as "the Cultural Commission matter that we dealt with tonight. Two Council Members wanted to make sure that we dealt with (it) expeditiously, and it was put on the agenda. And since I am not aware of the strategy that was described nor has that strategy been mentioned to me privately by any Council Member nor brought up publicly at a Council rneeting, I need to know or would like to know if any Council Member feels we have such a strategy... Is there any Council Member who feels that we as a Councilor a majority of the Council is intentionally delaying such things as the Planning Commission Joint Study Session or... the results of the Police Staffing Study... It is not my intention to have those things delayed. But if any REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 55 OCTOBER6,1997 MINUTES Page No. 560 PAGE 13