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90.B. CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS <br /> <br />Councilmember Franklin: <br /> <br />- suggested residents donate to charitable organizations serving the homeless <br /> rather than directly give to homeless persons; <br /> <br />- commended the Sandpointe Neighborhood Association for its excellent <br /> newsletter, "The Sandpiper"; <br /> <br />- related suggestions from an article on how to solve the problem of abandoned <br /> shopping carts proliferating in neighborhood areas; <br /> <br />expressed concern that Santa Ana residents were paying higher cable television <br />prices than residents of other Orange County cities and suggested cable television <br />rates be reviewed by the Cable Television Advisory Board and an independent <br />audit be conducted; and <br /> <br />- asked City staff to be proactive in preventing the proliferation of billboards in <br /> Santa Ana. <br /> <br />Councilmember Lutz: <br /> <br />- suggested Library Executive Director Rob Richard meet with Roy Russell on a <br /> program to provide Library computer links to Santa Ana schools; <br /> <br />- provided an update on the remodelihg of the former Weight Watchers building <br /> on N. Main street; and <br /> <br />commended Santa Ana 9th grader Hiep Nguyen, the only Californian among 18 <br />students nationwide, to be awarded an Icahn scholarship to attend Choate <br />Rosemary Hall in Connecticut. <br /> <br />Councilmember McGuigan congratulated MANA, a national Latina women's organization, and <br />Western Medical Center on the occasion of their joint inauguration of a medical clinic on Bristol <br />and 17th Street, and commended Santa Ana Recreation and Parks Board member Jim Kendricks <br />on his election to the California Parks and Recreation Society. <br /> <br />Mayor Pro Tem Richardson requested staffadd the issue of banners and signs to the list of policy <br />issues developed at the March 12 Council meeting for subsequent Code Enforcement discussions. <br /> <br />Councilmember Espinoza noted Orange County and numerous cities had their own web sites to <br />promote business and other municipal services on the Internet, suggested Santa Ana consider <br />creating its own web site, and wished everyone a happy St. Patrick's Day. (Mayor Pulido asked <br />staffto provide the Council with a report on Santa Ana's web site plans.) <br /> <br />CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 92 MARCH 17, 1997 <br /> <br /> <br />