Here are some of the items...

Here are some of the items on the agenda for tonight’s meeting of

the Newport Beach City Council.

CORONA DEL MAR CROSSWALKS

In response to outcry over a pedestrian struck by a vehicle in a

crosswalk last month, city staff will give council members and the

public a report on what the city is doing to improve crosswalk safety

in Corona del Mar. Already, $100,000 was set aside in the last budget

to study and install safety features. Though any action depends on

whether Caltrans will relinquish that section of Coast Highway to the

city, local officials are optimistic that they can make its

intersections safer.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

This is just an “FYI,” but expect a communitywide sigh of relief

that the accident last month that to some appeared likely to be

fatal, instead left the 19-year-old victim with a broken arm, cuts

and bruises. The man was hit on Sept. 26 at the intersection of Coast

Highway and Iris Avenue.

ARTS COMMISSION:

Two vacancies on the city’s arts commission could be filled

tonight when council members select from four nominees: Dennis Baker,

Wendy Brooks, Ellen Liefer and Kirwin Rockefeller. The two selected

will replace Pamela Nestande and Jeffrey Gould, who had stepped down

before the end of their terms.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

Whichever are selected, the two new commissioners will serve out

Nestande and Gould’s unfinished terms, which expire June 30, 2005.

FINGERPRINT EQUIPMENT:

Council members will consider a request by the Police and Fire

departments to buy a $57,000 fingerprinting system.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

The item is on the consent calendar, which means council members

are likely to approve it. If they do, it will allow the city’s public

safety officials to use advanced technologies they say are much

better than the equipment they bought in 1995.