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<br />'"-' <br /> <br />CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON <br />NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT/CODE ENFORCEMENT <br />Adjourned Meeting Minutes <br />March 22, 2005 <br /> <br />CALL TO ORDER <br /> <br />The meeting was called to order at 5:40 p.m. in Room 831 of City Hall. <br /> <br />ATTENDANCE <br /> <br />The following Councilmembers were present: Lisa Bist and Alberta Christy <br /> <br />Council member Carlos Bustamante was an excused absence <br /> <br />Staff present were: Stephen Harding, Executive Director/Planning & Building Agency; Kenneth <br />Adams, Assistant Director/Planning and Building Agency; Jim Ross, Executive Director/Public <br />Works Agency; Ben Kaufman, Chief Assistant City Attorney; Bruce Dunams, Community <br />Preservation Manager; George Alvarez, City Engineer; T.C. Sutaria, City Traffic Engineer; and <br />Monica Suter, Senior Civil Engineer. <br /> <br />AGENDA ITEMS <br /> <br />1. <br /> <br />APPROVAL OF MINUTES - FEBRUARY 15, 2005 REGULAR MEETING <br /> <br />'"-' <br /> <br />Approved by a vote of 2:0 (Bustamante absent) <br /> <br />2. <br /> <br />UPDATE ON PERMIT PARKING <br /> <br />Jim Ross offered opening comments on the subject and provided a brief summary of the <br />item. Monica Suter provided a comprehensive overview of the history of the program <br />and provided summary sheets to the council committee outlining permit parking <br />programs rapid growth. <br /> <br />Committee comments recommended a formal appeal process to ET AC for final <br />decisions for neighborhood associations who may be aggrieved by the staff <br />determination whether their neighborhoods meet criteria for mandating permit parking. <br /> <br />3. UPDATE ON VENDING TRUCK ORDINANCE AND PHASE II ORDINANCE PLAN <br /> <br />Bruce Dunams gave a status report of the mobile vending program. He highlighted <br />several meetings that staff had with the vendor association to outline the intentions of <br />the council in adapting the vendor ordinance. Many of the overt problems have been <br />curtailed by the adoption of the ordinance by the Council. He indicated that the vendor <br />association was supportive of a stronger local program if it provided a fair opportunity for <br />them to continue to do business in manner that was cooperative with the community. <br /> <br />'- <br /> <br />Council committee directed staff to ask the association to prepare a letter to the City <br />Manager outlining its proposal. <br />