At its June 7 meeting, the council approved budgetary increases of $52,000 to the Los Gatos Public Library, $6,000 to the Los Gatos Museum Association and $3,130 to A Place for Teens for the 2004­05 fiscal year.

Council members had asked town staff to consider those restorations May 17, citing the extreme effect cutting library hours and acquisitions would have had and the relatively modest cost of restoring the other two organizations' funding to the requested amounts.

Finance Director Steve Conway said the funding for the programs came from some police grants that the town did not expect to receive, but may now be able to expect.

Conway said the town is also in talks with a family interested in funding a Los Gatos­Monte Sereno Police Department canine unit that had been eliminated under the proposed budget.

Thanks to the budget increase, the library will now work with a $165,000 acquisitions budget rather than the proposed $130,000. The town's 2003­04 budget allotted $200,000 to the library.

The facility will also be able to remain open until 8 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays rather than 6 p.m. as proposed.

Council members thanked town staff for their work on the budget.

"We asked you to go back without going into the reserves," Councilman Joe Pirzynski said. "You did that."

Mayor Steve Glickman, too, was appreciative.

"I'm surprised but pleased that we've been able to navigate these fiscal rapids without having to go into our reserves," he said.

At the Monday night meeting, the council also approved the inclusion of several neighborhoods in town landscaping and lighting assessment districts, restructured the elected town clerk and staff clerk administrator positions and authorized staff to seek bids for installing sidewalks on Winchester and Los Gatos boulevards and Roberts Road.

Mayor Glickman recused himself from a discussion about the placement of political signs, saying that he would be seeking re-election this fall.