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City Council takes a summer recess

The summer may be nearing an end for most Saratoga students, but the break is just beginning for the Saratoga City Council. The council will begin a two-week summer recess next week, and will return Wednesday, Sept. 3. Meetings are conducted on the first and third Wednesdays and alternate Tuesdays, when needed, of each month at 7:30 p.m.

Commission to try a change in venue

The Saratoga Planning Commission will not be meeting in the regular council chambers in the theater this week, but will be trying out the large multipurpose room of the Community Center instead at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

The City Council gave the room a one-night try at its meeting last week, and Interim City Manager Larry Perlin said he thought it worked out well. "I'd be very surprised if the council doesn't want to move there on a permanent basis in the future," he said, but stressed that both the council and the commission have made no definite plans to change locations permanently.

Council members ask county to stop work at the library

Red paint on the walls of the Saratoga Community Library had the Saratoga City Council seeing red at its meeting last week. The council has asked the county to cease work at the library until the issue can be discussed between both parties. Santa Clara County Library officials had arranged for the library, located on the corner of Fruitvale and Saratoga avenues, to get a new coat of stain, but city officials are upset by what they call a lack of communication on the county's part. The color of the thick, paintlike stain--a dark, brick red--is nothing the city would have approved, they said. And, they added, it covers the natural wood siding of the building, a feature that was important in the design.

Interim City Manager Larry Perlin, who said he has received numerous calls about the color from residents, said the council was upset that they weren't involved in the process of what would be done to the library. " 'Our library has been defaced' is the general attitude," he said.

Although the county library system leases the Saratoga Community Library, the city of Saratoga owns the building.

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