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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: May 21, 2012 <br />Staff Report <br />File Number: 12 -178 Agenda Section: CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number: 8.1. <br />TO: City Council <br />FROM: Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY: Lianne Marshall <br />Assistant City Manager <br />FINANCE REVIEW: Not Applicable <br />TITLE: Staff Report for Resolution Repealing and Reenacting Title 1, Chapter 8 of the <br />San Leandro Administrative Code Regarding the City's Banner Policy <br />III]Jihyi /e1 :rail 011 1N; Ks] LyiILyiI; 10 1I7e ,II[a]06"] <br />It is recommended that Title 1, Chapter 8 of the San Leandro Administrative Code, the City's <br />Banner Policy, be repealed and reenacted to incorporate changes to permit commercial <br />interests to place decorative banners on City streets in celebration of a special milestone, <br />award or other accomplishment. <br />- Tits] life] Yell] 01 W7 <br />The City's original Banner Policy was adopted into the Administrative Code in 1998. At that <br />time, commercial interests were prohibited from installing decorative banners on City streets, <br />except as a minor part of a banner announcing an event or program by a non - profit <br />organization. <br />In an effort to celebrate a local business's accomplishment, such as a milestone anniversary <br />of business in San Leandro, or receipt of an outstanding award or other accomplishment, it is <br />recommended that the Administrative Code be amended to permit commercial interests to <br />install celebratory banners on City streets. Any commercial interest desiring to install such <br />decorative banners would be fully responsible for all costs associated with design, fabrication, <br />installation and maintenance of their banners. Permission for the installations and approval of <br />banner designs by the City Manager would be required. <br />These celebratory banners would be in addition to or in place of the City's existing banners <br />and would be attached to existing utility poles along City streets, just as the Welcome and <br />other design banners are in place now. The only banners that would not be replaced are <br />those specifically designed for the downtown and for Bancroft Avenue, since those utility <br />poles are shorter and would not accommodate the full street banners. <br />City of San Leandro Page 1 Printed on 511512012 <br />