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Mayor Hosterman replied that discussion of the contract with the Pleasanton Employees Association will be on the Council agenda in two weeks, and any reportable action is publicly announced. Chris Mosier addressed Council concerning vacancy rates in retail and office space, replacement of downtown restaurants with massage parlors, high unemployment, budget cuts, analysis of the housing collapse, removal of government controls from the housing market, lobbying the County to provide refunds back to financially strapped homeowners, proactively reducing costs and provide rate decreases to homeowners for water and trash services, upholding the Constitution, and serving the people. Bart Hughes urged the Council to meet with staff and understand in union negotiations the differences between AVA valuation versus MVA evaluation, stated the new contract in June /July timeframe was based on pararneters set before the new CaIPERS information came out which was substantially higher than planned, and asked for collective sacrifice. Mayor Hosterman reiterated the ability for public interaction in the budget process which is held several times throughout the year. Richard Endean requested that information be provided to the public prior to the January 18, 2011 Council meeting on unfunded liabilities, that the Council organize and support a public workshop to help citizens understand the City's financial situation, unfunded liabilities, pension and benefits, cited a Wall Street Journal article entitled, "When States Default — 2011" and read a quote from historian John Wallace. PUBLIC HEARINGS AND OTHER MATTERS 11. Public Hearing: PRZ -55. City of Pleasanton — Consider the introduction of an ordinance to amend the Pleasanton Municipal Code to reference the California Green Building Standards (CalGreen) Code, with local amendments to address specific green building issues, and other related green building amendments Community Development Director Brian Dolan said the State of California adopted statewide green building regulations which the City is required to enforce which went into effect January 1, 2011. They are similar in content to what the City has, are part of the overall Building Code, and are procedural changes that allow the City to apply green building regulations. Instead of trying to tackle the complexities of enforcing and implementing the new green building code regulations on top of and next to its own green building ordinance, staff decided that for ease of implementation and understanding by public users, staff would combine the content of the two, adopt the CalGreen building code as required by the State, and make local amendments so that it matches as much as possible their current level of requirement. Currently two systems are used; one for commercial and public buildings which is the Leadership, Energy, and Environmental Design system (LEED), and guidelines provided by Build It Green for residential development. If the new approach is adopted under CalGreen, this distinction would not be in place. Both systems are point- based. There are various measures with which to implement projects to receive a certain number of points. There are also various checklists that describe the number of points achieved for each measure. CalGreen is not a point system. It is different in that they City Council Minutes Page 3 of 15 January 4, 2011