1995/11/17CITY OF ANAHEI~ C,~IFORNIA - COUNCIL ~INUTES
ADJOURNED RE~.I~'LAR ~EETING
NOVEMBER l? ~ 1995
The City Council of the City of Anaheim met in Adjourned Regular Session.
PRESENT:
PRESENT:
ABSENT:
PRESENT=
Mayor, Tom Daly
Council Members, Tom Tait, Lou Lopez, Frank Feldhaus
Council Member, Bob Zemel
City Manager, James Ruth
Assistant City Manager, Dave Morgan
Deputy City Manager, Tom Wood
Intergovernmental Relations Officer, Kristine Thalman
Assistant City Clerk, Ann Sauvageau
GUEST:
'Assemblyman Richard Ackerman, Seventy-Second District
Mayor Daly called the Adjourned Regular Meeting of November 14, 1995 to order at
8:00 a.m. in the City Manager's Conference Room, 7th Floor, City Hall, 200 S.
Anaheim Boulevard. He welcomed newly elected Assemblyman Ackerman to the meeting
to discuss his 1996 legislative agenda.
Assemblyman Dick Ackerman, Seventy-Second District (District Office, 305 N.
Harbor, Suite 303, Fullerton, CA 92632). In his opening remarks, he noted his
main objectives are to reinvigorate business in California, to bring back local
control and less government.
Council Members and staff then presented State issues of interest to the City of
Anaheim: A. State Budget - Protection of City Revenues; B. Implementation of
Federal Budget Changes; C. Public Utility Revenues - Protect Local Control; D.
Proposition 62 Supreme Court Decision; E. Telephone Company use of Public Right-
of-Way. The issues and impacts to Anaheim were discussed. Other issues
addressed germane to the City of Anaheim: (1) The need for freeway signs,
especially from the Costa Mesa area, directing motorists to Anaheim. The 55
Freeway northbound signs should say, to Anaheim, and not to Riverside since the
55 terminates, to the north, in Anaheim. Also needed is at least one freeway
sign directing motorists to the Convention Center since it is a main destination
point.
Another major issue is consideration of a sound wall on the Santa Fe rail line
along the Orangethorpe corridor and specifically, in Anaheim, the area east of
Imperial Highway on Orangethorpe/Esparanza adjacent to the Northfield residential
area. The problem is due to increasing freight traffic, commuter rail traffic
the addition of another track and the grade separation. Mayor Daly noted that
this matter is a top priority for Yorba Linda as well, part of which is in
Assemblyman Ackerman's district.
Assemblyman Ackerman reported that his Chief of Staff in his local office is
Wendy Lee (former assistant to Congressman Dannemeyer); his assistant in
Sacramento is Terry Bogert.
Mayor Daly and Council Members expressed their pleasure in having the opportunity
to meet with Mr. Ackerman and look forward to working with him in the future on
Anaheim issues.
ADJOURNMENT: By General Council consent, the Adjourned Regular Meeting of
11/14/95 (held 11/17/95) was adjourned to Saturday, November 18, 1995 at 8:00
a.m. at the Anaheim Convention Center, 800 West Katella Avenue, Anaheim, Room A8
for a City Council Budget Workshop.
LEONORA N. SOHL, CITY CLERK