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Kiewit Site and the Legacy site is that they are within the boundaries of what the general plan designates as the East Pleasanton Specific Plan Area. Trustee Bowser asked if the downtown area on the map that's highlighted a bit differently, is that the Downtown Association. He responded that it was the downtown specific plan area. President Arkin asked if the housing element task force took into consideration the areas are walk able to a store or school and has anything else been discussed regarding schools when talking about these sites. Mr. Dolan shared in the community workshops there had been additional criteria regarding this topic. Mr. Fiahlo noted if you review their general plan that they adopted last year, the goals and objectives of that plan really push housing that's required to accommodate to areas that are adjacent to transportation. He sensed that the bulk of the rezonings will be accommodated within those three areas not in the center of our town. There has also been discussion at the City Liaison monthly meetings. One of the discussions has been if we were to accommodate an additional school, where would that location be in the Hacienda Business Park. Superintendent Ahmadi added that she's very pleased that the City and the District work so close together and is critical that we continue this collaboration as we get more students because we want to house students near their schools. Vice Mayor Cook-Kallio noted that she's very fortunate for she sits on the Liaison Committee, was on the Hacienda Task Force, and is currently on the Housing Element Task Force and one of the questions that keeps being asked is, "Why Pleasanton, why are we forced to build this, when the perception is, that other cities don't have to." Mr. Dolan responded that every city in our region/state gets an assignment, some are more than others, ours are not necessarily outrageous compared to similar cities, but we do get our numbers increased based on the number of jobs we have in our City, which is a big part of the formula. Mr. Fiahlo noted that the housing cap is gone but nothing prevents us from metering growth and pacing growth like we have done for so many years. There are techniques to do this and there's a City Council subcommittee that's working hard to figure out what life after the housing cap looks like for us so we can keep up with the environmental constraints, challenges and the need to improve our infrastructure, whether that's water supply, roads or school impacts and when we know that we will share it with the district. Councilmember Thorne shared how they will continue to monitor this with the Liaison Committee and will certainly make it a priority to try and find places for schools and school property 6. UPDATE REGARDING DISTRICT AND CITY BUDGETS Overview of School District Finances: Superintendent Ahmadi introduced Ms. Cazares to present the budget for PUSD: Ms. Luz Cazares, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services reminded everyone the budget for school districts is a process that really relies on the state for so much of our funding. She referred to a slide in the power point presentation entitled, "Step One of..." and shared that we are just starting a process that is lengthy and is cumbersome and can impact our level of influence which is really tied to whatever advocacy by ourselves or by the members of the public and the governor's administration. She reviewed a few of the areas of the Governor's Budget Proposal that was released in January of this year. Revenue Limits are our primary source of funding. The Governor proposed that school districts be flat funded. Flat funding is based on an assumption of tax extensions. There are taxes that are set to expire in June and the Governor assumed those taxes would be extended for an additional five years, which equals out to $9B and built this into the budget. With these dollars we can then rely on flat funding. She highlighted Special Education in which there are services provided under AB3632, which are mental health services for some of our at risk students and disabilities. These services are very specialized and for the past 26 years have not been provided or funded by the district. If the district had to provide or fund these services, it would cost us $1.2M. She highlighted one more area: Deferrals, in which the state has a cash problem and is passing it down to school Joint City Council and PUSD Board Minutes Page 3 of 7 March 28, 2011