By Clarence Cromwell
The city of Monte Sereno is shopping for contractors to finish some improvement projects at City Hall.
In December, the council's mid-year budget report revealed that the city has enough money to finish repair and maintenance work that it put off during last summer's budget sessions.
Most of the $35,000 cost will go to repairing and restriping the parking lot. The job could cost as much as $19,500, but City Manager Gay Strand said she can get a deal by getting a neighboring city to include the work in a bigger paving project.
At the top of the city's list are $3,500 in electrical improvements and repairs, including some new light fixtures and wall plugs.
City officials also want to hang sheetrock in the garage that contains most of the town's records. It would offer 20 minutes to one hour of protection if a fire starts in an adjacent room. The job was estimated at $2,000.
Strand added that although the planning documents in the garage need protection, the most important contracts and papers are already stored in a fireproof filing cabinet.
"It isn't as though we are completely exposed," she said.
City Hall will get a $700 touch-up paint job, and the sign in front of City Hall is to get a $1,500 repainting and sealing.
A $300 kitchen exhaust fan will go in the city staff's kitchen area, where there's no exhaust fan now.
A $2,500 air conditioner will replace the oldest of three in the building, the one that blows fuses whenever it's turned on.
Finally, the plan-checker who examines blueprints in the back of City Hall will get a $1,450 skylight to brighten up his work area, and he'll get a $1,000 repair job to replace loose and cracked floor tiles in the same area.
This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, February 5, 1997.
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