HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/12/1978CITY COUNCIL
TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS
26379 Fremont Road
Los Altos Hills, California
MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING
Monday, June 12, 1978
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Mayor Luclle Hlllestad called the Special Meeting of the City Council to order at
3:40 PM In the Council Chambers of Town Hall.
ROLL CALL 8 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE:
Present: Mayor Hlllestad, Councilmembers Brown, McReynolds, Nystrom and Proft.
Absent: None.
Staff: City Manager Robert Crowe, City Attorney Frank GIIIic and Deputy City Clerk
Susan Buttler.
Press: Iver Davidson, Los Altos Town Crier and Frank Cracolice, Mercury -News.
I. Consideration of Proposal to update General Plan.
E Councilman McReynolds provided Introductory remarks reviewing the scope of work deemed
4I necessary by the Ad Hoc Committee and the Priority List established by the Consultant.
Council members concerns centered on funding with possible reductions to be found by
utilizing Staff time supplementally on certain projects.
Mr. Mader, Consultant, advised of the extensive studies made of the General Plan and
all Town ordinances for inadequacies therein, the need to obtain consistency throughout
all documents, the difficulties in splltting the re -organizing work effectively with
Staff time and the need to consider Priority A items as urgency.
Mrs. Wood, Stonebrook, questioned the annual budget amount shown for General Plan
revision.
The City Manager called attention to the aerial map and Pathways Map as two expenditures
against this account with money still available to utilize for the proposed revision.
Mrs Sobel Christopher's Lane, asked If the Town Planner could work on the revising and
updating of the General Plan and ordinances.
Council response was that, due to the vol um nous buI id Ing and subdi v ldIng occurring In the
Town at present, the Planner time was heavily expended in the day to day implementation
of Town ordinances. Per Councilman Brown's suggestion, the Council began an item by Item
review of the Priority A list.
Item I - No questions or discussion.
Item 2 - Discussion on policy consistencies and the feasibility of the Consultant pro-
viding the definition for Staff direction.
Item 3 - Consensus was to have the Consultant handle all definition Inadequacies.
Item 4 - Discussion on the need for a detailed review of our Zoning Ordinance, how to
determine expertise for calculating slope density and the necessity to expend
the number of hours allocated.
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Item 5 - Discussion on the complexities of certain portions of the Subdivision Ordinance
and the feasibility of dividing the clean-up work between Staff and the Consultant.
Item 6 - No questions or discussion.
Item 7 - No questions or discussion.
Item 8 - Discussion on the review of the Scenic Highways Element currently being made by
the Planning Comnisslon and the necessity of scheduling this Item as quickly as
possible for Council approval.
Council determined to reach final decision on the scope of Consultant services pending
completion of budget review.
2. Budget Review.
Following Introduction of his memo and revised budget pages, the City Manager stated that
Los Altos Hills had not been as adversely affected by recent property tax limitations as
other titles due to the frugal positions followed by City Councils since the Town's incor-
poratlon and the following of the tenets of Proposition 13 long before its recent inception.
Councilman Proft directed attention of Council to Page 28 of the Budget and requested
direction as to funds to be allocated this year to the Drug Abuse Program. Consensus was
In favor of an expenditure for this worthwhile cause with determination of the amount to
follow a more detailed study of the Town's budgetary position for 1978-79.
Respectfully submitted,
Susan Buttler
Deputy City Clerk
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3.
Adjournment:
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It was past the hour scheduled
for adjournment, the City Council
adjourned at 5:25 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Susan Buttler
Deputy City Clerk
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