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sr-031268-8gCi5'Y O'~ SA~iT.~ A~90vICA h Rr ~ i5 ~ ~ ~. ~ t ~ ens ~ ~. DATr,: ~ ebruary 28, 168 ?fl: Perry Scott, City P+ianager Fx~fl~: B. L. Kennedy, City Engineer i ,1~~'~ I J ~F~ `....~ ,~~ 1 ~n~'r~~, s ` rq~ L 'erg C'~ C„ ,. .; ` ~, 4 at gain Library S'c7r33EC^a: Request for Appropriation- Hand Bails The Building Officer, at the request of the City Attorney, has checked the staff drays at the iQain Library to see if the handrails thereon comply with Building Code requirements. Attached is a copy of the Building Officeras report, indicating that handrails are required at both ends and at the third points of the tvao steps from the landing at the south end of the reading room to the main floor. The City Attorney states that these railings should be installed as soon as possible to protect the City from future liability in fall and accident cases. I have >net vrith a representative of the Cochran-Izant Co., i~ietal Fabricators, the railing sub-contractors on the Library project, wno installed the anodiWed aluminum "Blum-craft" railings. T:~eir quotatior.for furnishing and installing the two end rails (vthich would be continuations of the existing rail), and the two intermediate rails, complete, is $1,027.00. Attached is a print shovring the details of the proposed railing construction. It is recommended that the City Council be requested to appropriate X1,027.00 to finance this installation. ;=' B BTLETT L. KE~Ni EDY °J City Engineer CITY OF SAtJTA MOtVICA BATE: February lo, 39&8 TO: Bartlett L. Kennedy, City Ekzgineer & Director of Public Works FROM: 1•J. C. Trude, Building Officer SUBJECT: Handrails - i~iain Library At the request of Robert Cockins, City Attorney, a reinspection was made of the handrails on the stairs to the Children's Reading Room aqd the handrails on the pair of stairs serving the balconies,7located at the south end of the reading room. Tne handrails ova the stairs to the Children°s Reading Room appear in compl}once with the Coda. `1'he stairs from the balcony are O.K. except there are no handrails on the two lower risers from the bottom landing to the main reading room floor. To comply with the Building Code handrails are required at each end and intermediate rails not more than 88 inches apart. Two intermediate rails at third points would comply. sir. Cockins indicated these rails should be installed as soon as possible to protect the City from future liability in fall and accident cases. f' 41. C. TRIIDE Building Officer ':7CTsd cc:' Robert Cockins OCHRQ-N-IZA T a eo. META6 FABRICATORS 1923 HOOPER AVENUE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017 749-5075 tai t>~' ~ SUE4 ~8 R~& l&~i~b ~r 3'~ yet Li'~e;r~ {s~'te €+3.n ~~~.€rzaz~3 ~3.t3.~t &i~3.Ta~ fns ~~cs~~ t~3.~.0 43't1~R $t'9~~.~,~ ~~d ~m 2' ~; . ^,: _ __, ~ ;\ ~.~ r .'..` i ~^ ~,, a ~j