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VOTE: AYES: Lutz, Mills, Moreno, Norton, Pulido, Richardson, <br />Young <br />NOES: None <br />ABSENT: None <br />COMMENTS <br />90.A. PUBLIC COMMENTS <br />Cynthia Criollos, 320 W. 19th Street, expressed concern regarding increased traffic on <br />Nineteenth Street resulting from the detour plan for the Main Street Bridge Closure. The <br />Mayor requested Public Works Agency Executive Director Jim Ross prepare a response to <br />those concerns for Nineteenth Street residents. <br />Alex Vega, 3900 W. 5th Street, thanked the Council for keeping the McFadden Branch <br />Library open and reported that the Santa Ana Unified School District had recently approved <br />naming two Santa Ana schools in honor of former City Councilmember Ray Villa and farm <br />labor leader Caesar Chavez, and noted that Santa Anans of all races working together could <br />improve the City. <br />Jaime Vega, 1140 S. Birch Street, reported the Hispanic Community was lobbying for <br />publication of a postage stamp honoring Caesar Chavez and requested the Council's <br />assistance. He also indicated he was forming a Friends of the Library Group for the <br />McFadden Branch Library and encouraged members of the listening audience to volunteer <br />With the informal consent of the Council, Mayor Young instructed City staff to draft a letter <br />in support of a stamp honoring Caesar Chavez. <br />Dolores Otting, Five Star Rubbish, thanked the Council for supporting small trash haulers at <br />the last Council meeting. She expressed concerns, however, concerning continuing contract <br />negotiations with Great Western Reclamation, the five-year trash rate projections, and the <br />basis for annual adjustments to hauling and processing charges. <br />Madeline Arakalian, South Coast Rubbish, expressed concern that the directions from the <br />Council to develop a process involving the Chamber of Commerce, Great Western and small <br />trash haulers would be interpreted as collusion among the City's trash haulers. <br />Florence Leach, 2025 W. Tenth Street, encouraged members of the listening audience to <br />attend the May 18, 1993 Council Meeting concerning the proposed citywide redevelopment <br />plan and requested that the start time for the meeting be rescheduled to a later hour than <br />5:30 p.m. <br />CITY COUNCEL MIIVO 187 MAY 3, 1"3 <br />