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19 MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MELTING OF THE REDWOOD CITY PARK & RECRE.A'IiI Or~ C()~l~IISSION OF SEPT. 2', 1953 . A dinner meeting was held prior to the regular meeting at "Eugene's" 2R26 El C~ino Real. This get-to-gether was arranged for the purpose of a round table discussion of current problems. Mr. E. A. Rolison,. City Manager and the members of the council who are on the Recreation Committee, were asked. to attend this meeting. Our regular meeting was called to order at 8:4S P.M. by Chaiman Stout. Those present were Commissioners \¥m. H,anley, Fred Gector, Catherine Brennan and Elouise Campbell; Superintendent of Parks Pasco Balzarini. Absent were Commissioners Ralph Case and Irving Gold; Superintendent of Recreation Alfred Morton. MINUTES - of the previous meeting were read and approved as corrected. SECRETARY APPOI,NTED - Chairman Stout appointed Commissioner Elouise Campbell to take over the duties of the Secretary for the balance of the year due to the resignation of Commissioner Hector, who has accepted a position with the County of Santa Barbara, as Superintend- , ent of Parks. PERSONAL APPEARANCES - Mr. S. M. Clair from the Friendly Acres area was a visitor at this meeting and made the complaint that the people in pis district felt that they were being forgotten with respect to recrea- tion parks. He pointed out that parks that were started the same time as theirs, elsewhere in the city were nearly completed. A motion was made, seconded and carried by Commissioners Hanley & Hector that a . letter be sent to the City Council asking them the status of our agreement with Elementary School District. + . COMMUNICATIONS - A letter from the Council suggesting that the time might be right for installing lights at the baseball grounds at Community Park. A motion was made, seconded and carried by Commissioners Hector and Catherine Brennan that we hold this matter on the B.genda unti 1 our Superintendent of, Recreation Alfred Morton has had a chance to get the cost of same. Another letter from the Council suggesting the possibility of fencing the Howland Street entrance to Menzes Playground, to eleminate chance of accide.nts to children entering the park at this point. Motion made, seconded B,nd carried 1)y Commissioners Hanley & Elouise Campbell that we delay action on this until further investigation be made as the Commission has be.en considering the 'advisability of fencing the entire park. ' COMMITTEE REPORT ON WESTWOOD PARK DEDICATION - With Commissioner Fred Ee ctor acting as master of ceremonies, \Vestwood PA.rk was formerly opened to the public on Saturday August 22,1953. Principal Speakers were Mayor Floyd Granger and Hiram Stout, Chairman of the Park & Rec-~ reation Commission. Other members of the Council present were Robert ¡ SpilJ~ers and \fi lliam Royer.