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WARRANTS: Bills, in the amount of SEVEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE DOLLARS ,lND Sixty -Six CentO (87,5$3.66), for payment, Were submitted by Councilman Fowle. ACTION: That the bills, as presented, be approved; that the Clerk be authorized to draw the appropriate warrants. MOTION: Fowle; SECOND: Davey; ROLL CALL: AYES: Aiken, Davey, Fowle, Mayor Henley NOES: None ABSENT: None OTHER BUSINESS: 1. Councilman Davey announced she would attend the meeting of Association of Lay Area Governments on Friday, February 24, 1967- 2. Mayor Henley announced there would be an open Path Committee meeting held on Thursday, February 23, 1967 at the Town Hall to discuss proposed recommendations by the Path Committee. Everyone is invited to attend, suggesting that the Council members attend. 3. Councilman Aiken commented relative to clarification of the Council's policy to sewer the Town. He stated, "While we may not have formalized such a policy with a resolution, we have on several occasions definitely led subdividers and others to believe that this was the case. In the Minutes of October 25, 1966, the Council passed Resolution 365 requesting the County Health Officer to recommend proceedings necessary for the Council to impose a sewer district on a part of the Town. In answer to a question from the Floor if this was a start toward sewers in all the Town, a member of the Council said, ' . . this will indicate the present conviction of this Council to provide sanitary sewers to developed areas within the City limits, be it now or fifteen years to come to pass . . . . I submit that this is a clear statement of a policy to sewer the Town. We may take credit for agreeing to the Los Altos Hills Association's request for a study of sewers, but should not leave ourselves open to a charge of misleading anyone." Councilman Fowle spoke to the statement --that the Town would make sewers available to the citizens where needed. The Mayor commented that if there are alternatives to sewers, for the Town, the Council should find out what they are; that at the time the report of the Sewer Study Committee is submitted, or prior to that time, it might advisable to formulate a statement of policy. He requested Councilman Aiken to draft the statement. The Council agreed .there is a question of public health, but that the real problem is how to arrive at a solution to the problem. Councilman Davey questioned whether a policy could be made for the entire Town, for sewers, due to the differences of lots and areas in the Town. -7-