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Franklin: We resolved that. The fence will be on his property and that will be away from the sidewalk. Howard moved that Council approve the request by Mr. Johnson for the exception to the Louisville Design Guidelines policy for a 6 ft. California chain link fence on his property against the City open space. Seconded by Mayer. All in favor except Lathrop. DISCUSSION/DIRECTION - RECODIFICATION PROPOSALS Susan Griffiths, City Attorney, explained that earlier this year Council authorized her to contact the principle code companies providing services in Colorado to provide proposals for recodifying the City's ordinances. The last recodification of the ordinances occurred in the mid 1970's. The four (4) major code companies contacted were, along with the current codifier of the City Code, were Municipal Code, Colorado Code, and Sterling Codifiers. She requested proposals for recodification and supplied the Council with charts that included a summary of the proposals that were received from each one of the code companies. The lowest proposal came from Sterling Codifiers in the amount of $4,850.00. She also provided material to Council of summaries of telephone calls made to cities who use each one of the four (4) code companies, which summarized the comments of each one of those with respect to services that they're receiving from their current codifiers. She stated that she doesn't have any special experience with any of the four (4) companies, but based on the proposals that they have made Sterling Codifiers seemed to stand out in terms of cost and satisfaction by the cities served. Sterling serves a number of municipalities of some size and each of them spoke very highly of Sterling's services. Sterling's cost was about $3,000.00 below the other lowest cost of the codifiers. Each one of the codifiers provides various software packages to make the code compatible with computer equipment and usable for word searches and so forth, which would be very beneficial to the City. She felt that even with the enhanced software program at the cost of $2,000.00, if the City chose to do that, the cost would still be about $1,000.00 below the other code companies. Included within the basic cost was WordPerfect 5.1 and there are some search capabilities in that, which could be used. John H. Huisjen, Colorado Code Publishing Company, 305 West Magnolia Street, Ft. Collins, CO was curious about what happens in the proposal process. He stated that as far as pricing, most of the codes are bid almost on a per page basis. He felt that if Council looked at the cost of supplementation as to replace the pages over the years, the cost from Sterling Codifiers is $20.00 per page, from the others it's $18.00 per page. If you guessed at the number of pages, they guessed that there would be 419 pages in the Code, it normally turns out that the bid is almost the same as the page rate. Sterling normally out bids CCPC. He stated that 19