INSIDE CITY HALL Here are some decisions...

INSIDE CITY HALL

Here are some decisions coming out of Tuesday’s Newport Beach City

Council meeting.

ANNEXATION AND TREE POLICY

Two of the most anticipated of Tuesday’s council agenda items will

have to be anticipated some more. As Tuesday’s City Council meeting

stretched into the early morning hours, two issues were postponed.

Council members had planned to vote on annexing unincorporated West

Santa Ana Heights, the neighborhood south of Mesa Drive and the Santa

Ana Country Club. They had also planned to consider overhauling the

city’s rules for dealing with its trees -- everything from trimming

to when to remove and plant new trees. Both items were continued, and

will most likely be taken up again at the March 11 meeting.

BALBOA ISLAND REPAVEMENT

Council members approved plans and a $135,565 contract with Sully

Miller Contracting Co. for a second phase of a project to repave

areas on Balboa Island. Sully’s was the lowest of 12 bids for the

job, which will reconstruct concrete roadways, curbs, access ramps

and alleys on Pearl Avenue from Park Avenue to South Bay Front and

also on Park from Grand Canal to East Bay Front.

-- Compiled by June Casagrande