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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />MAY 19, 2015 <br />TITLE: <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />❑ As Recommended <br />© As Amended <br />171 Ordinance on 1" Reading <br />lI Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />0 Implementing Resolution <br />0 Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />1. Review the roles and responsibilities recommended by staff of the Environmental and <br />Transportation Advisory Committee. <br />2. Direct staff to coordinate with the City Attorney's Office the development of appropriate legal <br />codes to ensure the Environmental and Transportation Advisory Committee role is clear and <br />follows the direction provided by the City Council. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The City's Environmental and Transportation Advisory Committee (ETAC) has served the City <br />Council as an advisory body on issues related to trees in the public right -of -way, as well as <br />transportation, solid waste, and water resources. The responsibilities were formed and updated <br />by Council resolutions over the last four decades, Recently, however, the City Attorney's Office <br />informed Public Works staff that a 1999 ordinance limited ETAC duties to acting in an advisory <br />capacity relative to street tree removal and planting only, <br />After informing ETAC on the limitations of their responsibilities, the Public Works Director and City <br />Engineer held meetings in recent months with an ETAC ad -hoc committee to discuss redefining <br />ETAC roles. The ad -hoc committee agreed to send City staff its suggestions (Exhibit 1). The <br />roles suggested by the ad -hoc committee are similar to and a little more expansive than the <br />traditional roles described in Resolution 91 -112, prior to the 1999 Ordinance referenced above. <br />Because some of these issues have become highly regulated and complex, including intricate <br />solid waste, water resources and environmental matters, staff recommends ETAC roles and <br />responsibilities be focused on street tree related matters and major transportation issues. The <br />relatively recent establishment of the City Council committees and their routine and frequent <br />60A -1 <br />