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  • CALL TO ORDER(view video)

    ROLL CALL

    6:30 CLOSED SESSION

    Conference with Legal Counsel - Anticipated Litigation {Government Code Section 54956.9(b)}: One Potential Case

    7:30 P.M. REGULAR SESSION

    REPORT FROM CLOSED SESSION

    PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

    COMMUNICATIONS

    Persons wishing to address the Council on any matter not on the posted agenda are invited to do so. Please note, however, that the Council is not able to undertake extended discussion or to act on non-agendized items. Such items can be referred to staff for appropriate action, which may include placement on a future agenda. This communication period is limited to five persons, three minutes each. Any additional persons wishing to be heard will be scheduled at the end of Regular Business.

    CONSENT CALENDAR

    All items on the Consent Calendar are considered to be routine and will be approved by one roll call motion unless a request is made at the beginning of the meeting that an item be withdrawn or transferred to the regular agenda.
    1. Approval of Waiver of Full Reading of Ordinances, per Government Code Section 36934.
    2. Approval of Minutes: Regular Meeting of September 9, 2008.

    NEW BUSINESS

    3. Introduction of an Ordinance Amending the Designation of Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones in the Town of Woodside.
    4. Discussion of Requests for “No Parking” Designations along Woodside Road and Other Roads in the Vicinity of the Woodside Elementary School.
    5. Town Manager’s Report to Town Council.
    6. Presentation by the Woodside Landscape Committee of a Proposal to Commission an Equine Statue for Installation on Village Hill and Provision of Council Direction to the Committee. (There is no staff report for this item.)

    APPOINTMENTS

    7. Report and Recommendation from the Town Council Committees Appointments Subcommittee:
    a. Bicycle Committee

    REPORTS
    8. Mayor and Councilmember Communications.

    COMMUNICATIONS

    ADJOURNMENT

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