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t 8.1.4 La Paloma Drainage 7/ The City Manager reported that the PG&E issues were getting resolved but an issue had been raised concerning one of the easements necessary for the drainage project. All of the required easements had been obtained; however, one of the easements had been obtained from a previous owner of the property. Since the property had changed hands, it would be necessay to get an easement from the new owner for this project to move forward. The City Manager noted that he planned to meet with the new owners. 8.2 City Attorney 8.2.1 FPPC Regulation 18703.1 The City Attorney reported that she and Councilmember Siegel had attended a hearing on July 2' in Sacramento on the Town's request for administrative exemption from FPPC Regulation 18703.1. This regulation allows public officials in small jurisdictions who wish to participate in governmental decisions affecting their principal residence to do so if the residence is situated on a parcel of land not more than one acre in size. Also requesting an exemption were Portola Valley and Atherton. The Fair Political Practices Commission agreed to modify this regulation and directed staff to prepare new language and bring it back to the Commission in September. 8.3 City Clerk 8.3.1 Report on Council Correspondence 8.4 Public Works Manager 8.4.1 Report on FEMA funding The Public Works Manager reported that he had been meeting with FEMA representatives and the Town should be receiving about $80,000 in funding. There was some discussion about the slide on Natoma and mediation will take place on this issue. 8.4.2 Emergency Access Roads The Public Works Manager noted that he had sent a letter to Marilyn Halliday, Chairman of the Los Altos Hills County Fire District, with a status on the emergency access roads in Town. 8.4.3 Letter from B. Evans and A. Neves concerning sprinkler damage The Public Works Manager gave a status report on the letter received from B. Evans and A. Neves concerning damage done to their sprinkler by the Town's crew while working on a Town path. The Public Works Manager noted that he crew had been working in the Town's right-of- way and the sprinker had been located in this right-of-way. Hubbard suggested paying for the damage ($14.05) because it was such a small amount. The City Manager, however, did not agree with this believing that it would set a bad precedent. Dauber suggesting notifying the neighbors when such pathway work was going to be done as a good neighbor gesture. The City Manager did not concur commenting that it would take a lot of staff time to undertake the notification, other projects would have to be deferred and the Town's crew was working in the public right- of-way on these paths. It was agreed that the Public Works Manager and the Mayor would visit the site and absolutely determine the location of the sprinkler before the Mayor responded to the {; residents. iI July 15, 1998 Regular City Council Meeting