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impact and created an inconvenience to Town residents in general, besides the property <br /> owner. <br /> Council Questions and Comments: <br /> Councilmember O'Malley congratulated the representatives on their efforts during the <br /> last storm. He suggested that their emergency number to report outages be better <br /> publicized. <br /> Councilmember Kerr concurred and noted that PG&E had been actively working in Town <br /> over the course of the past several years to trim trees that affected power lines. He <br /> suggested that residents often prefer to trim their trees themselves rather than have PG&E <br /> contractors perform the work. <br /> Mayor Jones suggested that it was critical to restore power in Los Altos Hills as quickly <br /> as possible given the nature of the Town's topography and demographics and thanked <br /> them for their service. <br /> Council consensus was to schedule for their discussion a review of the current ordinance <br /> to determine if it was appropriate to amend the ordinance to include trees that jeopardize <br /> primary power lines to the ordinance. Staff was directed to invite a representative from <br /> PG&E's vegetation management program to participate in the discussion. <br /> Councilmember Kerr added as a "sidebar" that the Environmental Initiatives Committee <br /> • had been tasked by the City Council with the investigation of different energy and <br /> resource conservation strategies. Currently the committee was focusing on a program that <br /> would involve voluntary participation by residents that could potentially reduce the <br /> energy consumption of the Town as a whole by 15%. He asked Defiier to contact him <br /> regarding their potential partnership with the Town on the effort and perhaps assisting <br /> with a pilot program, Defner acknowledged the Town's leadership in energy programs <br /> and suggested that they would be pleased to work with the Town on the project. <br /> OPENED PUBLIC COMMENT <br /> Jitze Couperus, Page Mill Road, commented that trees that impinge on power lines are a <br /> threat in the summer during fire season as well as the winter. He encouraged the Council <br /> to revisit the issue. <br /> CLOSED PUBLIC COMMENT <br /> Council thanked the PG&E representatives for their presentation. <br /> CONSENT CALENDAR <br /> MOTIONED SECONDED AND CARRIED: Moved by Mordo, seconded by O'Malley <br /> and passed unanimously to approve the items on the consent calendar; specifically: <br /> • 3. Approval of Meeting Minutes: Regular City Council Meeting January 10, 2008 <br /> 4 Regular City Meeting Minutes <br /> January 24,2008 <br />