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CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT/CODE ENFORCEMENT Special Meeting Minutes August 16, 2006 CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at 5:45 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 22 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana. ATTENDANCE The following Council members were present: Lisa Bist, Alberta Christy and Carlos Bustamante Staff present were: Jay Trevino, Executive Director Planning and Building Agency; Kenneth Adams, Assistant Director Planning and Building Agency; Ben Kaufman, Chief Assistant City Attorney; Bruce DU!lams, Community. Preservation Manager; and, Will Hayes, Project < _,_ ," i . - .' . _, . , ; Manager, PUblic WRrksAgency. AGENDA ITEMS 1. SHOPPING CART ORDINANCE Bruce Dunams provided an overview of the previous abandoned shopping cart discussion that has occurred at previous NIICE Council Committee meetings. He summarized the staff proposal to the committee which includes both a containment and retrieval element. He summarized the meeting with Santa Ana merchants in a separate meeting. He stated the markets were generally concerned about imposing both containment and retrieval system. He indicated that markets preferred to work with a retrieval system as base system from which to operate. , 2. PUBLIC COMMENTS ON AGENDA ITEM The following neighborhood residents spoke in favor of shopping cart legislation: Joh'n Bowery, Julie Stroud, Lolita Inez, Barbara Muirhead, Debbie McEwen, T.C. Bradford, Judy Edge, George Collins, Vicki Yammamoto, Desi Reyes, Evangeline Gawronski, Steve McGuigan, Manny Pinion, Tish Leon, Bernadette Urman, Michael Macres, Glen Stroud and Mary Guzman The following market and cart use vendors provided input from a merchant perspective: Jennifer Forkish. Shawn Thompson, Steve Garcia, Joe Cabrera and Joe Greene 13B-4