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No. 2, Project '4005, storL~ drains, to contract with a. Vella Construction' Company, increasing $1, 185. ? 9. SOUTH MAIN The request from the South Main Improvement A ssoc'iation ~that a Land Use Study be made of the South Main Street area was referred to Staff for study and cost estimates, on motion of Councilman Brooks, seconded bY Councilman Villa and unanimously carried. AMBULANCE SERVICE Council considered a letter from Schaefer's Ambulance Service re- questing that Wind Ambulance Service be removed from the rotation call list. In' view of the fact that a letter from Wind Ambulance Service had been subsequently received requesting re- moval from the list, it was moved by Councilman Herrin, seconded by Councilman Villa and unanimously carried~ to remove Wind Ambulance Service from the rotation call list. RECESS Council members present. At 3:00 P. M., a ten minute"recess was declared. The Council l'econ- vened at 3:10 P. M., with the same Councilman Patterson arrived at the meeting at 3:10 P.M. INTER-AMERICAN MUNICIPAL ORGANIZATION The request from the NatiOnal League of Cities for Santa Aha t° become a member of the Inter-Ameri%an Munic- ipal Organization was considered by Council. Councilman Villa'S~ated that he had attended for two days the Sister City Program with the City' of Fullerton and its sister city, the City of Moralia, and that it was very gratifying to him to see the friendship being established between those two cities. He said that it did take effort and leadership on the part of the City government to get something going. Councilman Villa felt that it is the City's responsibility if we are going to be effective in 'a people- to-people program; he stated that he would like to see this Council act as people in a program of this sort and not as some far off entity or machine, that the Council is people and that the Council can have this cordiality and this rappOrt with people and officials of a city in another country. He exPressed the opinion that this can work and we do have to get involved and take on our own program; he also stated that nothing has been done with our people-to-people program for the last year or 'year .and a half because it had been left to someone else. Councilman Herrin stated that he felt that the people-to-people program had come to a stalemate because it has come to be one which is supported entirely by public funds between various cities and that there is a different feeling between two cities if the people know it i~ on a voluntary basis where people are giving of their own money and services rather than compulsory use of public funds~~ ~' CITY COUNCIL -262- July 7, 1969