Chamber Seeks $3,000 Increase in Funding

The Chamber of Commerce is requesting that the city increase what it pays the business group to promote and advertise the city through various services and activities.

According to a city staff report, the additional money would allow the chamber to continue existing programs as well as respond to all calls and correspondence relating to business, industrial and residential benefits and opportunities in the city.

The chamber will ask the City Council tonight to raise its annual payment to $18,000 for fiscal 1996-97. That would be a $3,000 increase.

Separately, the council will consider allowing Coast Yellow Cab Cooperative Inc. to operate a taxi service in the city. The Police Department has reviewed the company’s application, and the city staff is recommending that the council issue a permit.

Also, the council will consider a proposal to install an automated teller machine in the Police Department lobby.

Citing safety concerns because of an increasing number of night robberies of ATM customers across Southern California, acting Police Chief Daryll Thomann is recommending the lease and installation of the machine.

ATM Marketing Network in Tustin has offered to install the machine at no cost to the city. ATM users would be charged $1.50 a transaction, with 30 cents of that returned to the city.

That revenue, estimated to range from $300 to $1,800 a year, would be used for the city’s anti-drug program in schools and other community projects.

The council will meet at 7:30 p.m. in council chambers, 401 E. Chapman Ave. Information: (714) 993-8231.