Except for public hearings on Frank Dutra
’s goats and a fence height amendment (from six to seven feet),
the City Council will have a light agenda at Wednesday night’s
meeting.
Except for public hearings on Frank Dutra’s goats and a fence height amendment (from six to seven feet), the City Council will have a light agenda at Wednesday night’s meeting.
A discussion of the most effective ways to use council advisory boards, committees and commissions and another on council goals will round out the meeting that will start with a pat on the back and a city citation for Jon Maxey, Jim Tarp and Robert Foster.
The three men are responsible for the festive string of lights running along the Gavilan College and community center building eaves from the Christmas holidays until the plug was pulled on Friday. Foster, chairman of Hometown Holidays staged at the center, suggested that the lights would enhance the holiday season; Maxey and Tarp volunteered for the electrical work, valued by the city staff report at $15,000.
The lights are best seen from the west side of Monterey Road at West Dunne Avenue; council could decide to make the lighting year-long.
The pet goats were banished in October after a neighbor complained to the city that the animals were damaging a common fence between their seven-acre pasture on Diana Avenue east of Butterfield Boulevard and the neighbor’s back yard.
Since city ordinances had restricted the number of animals in the city limits since the 1960s, far earlier than the goats’ taking up residence, the goats had to go.
The new ordinance allows up to two adult livestock and their immature offspring for every 40,000-square-feet (nine-tenths of an acre), in a secure corral located at least 50-feet from the property line.
The city is looking for citizens to serve on the Library and Parks and Recreation commissions. Applications are available from the City Clerk’s office.
At the meeting of Feb. 23, council approved spending $102,000 from two funds, one an outside grant, that would allow sculptor Marlene Amerian to begin work on “Waiting for the Train” so it will be finished by the city’s centennial, November 2006.
The clay model of Hiram Morgan Hill, his wife Diana and daughter Diane at the train station will be enlarged – several times to life-size – bronzed and installed at the little station where Depot Street meets East Third Street.
City Council and/or the Redevelopment Agency meets at 7 p.m. most Wednesdays in City Hall Chambers, 17555 Peak Ave. Details: www.morgan hill.ca.gov or 779-7271.
Carol Holzgrafe covers City Hall for The Times. She can be reached by e-mail at ch********@*************es.com or phoning (408) 779-4106 Ext. 201
