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$40M. She reviewed the years of sales tax which reached its peak in 2000-01 and 2006-07 of$22M and is expected to reach $15M or more for 2010-11. The Hotel Motel Tax reached its peak in 2000-01 and dropped after 911 and was at $2.7M last year and is expected to go beyond this figure this year. Mr. Wagner shared the Development Operating Fees which were generated from planning, building and engineering fees. The highest was in 2003-04 at $4.5M and these fees have not increased since the 80's. Last year because of the economy, those fees decreased to a low of $1.5M and will increase slightly this year due to revenues of a couple of projects: Safeway and Ponderosa Senior Project. Ms. Wagner summarized that since 2007-08 their General Fund Revenues have decreased $21M. To date the City has not had to utilize their emergency reserves to balance the General Fund Budget. The General Fund revenues are not expected to return to 2007/08FY level of $94M until 2014 or maybe even 2015. Future General Fund budgets will need to continue to balance with new and existing service demands with limited resources. President Arkin asked if the Hotel Motel Tax rate had remained the same over the past year or changed. Ms. Wagner responded that the rate was currently at 8% and had been since 1983. Councilmember McGovern shared how they had discussed raising the rate to help fund the Bernal Project, but with the current economy it didn't make sense to do so. Trustee Bowser complimented the City, through Leadership Pleasanton, he was able to ride along with both Police and Fire and the level of community engagement was fabulous. He shared his experiences and topics with both units. Shared his thoughts on the trends of the Hotel Motel Tax, Sales Tax and Development Operating Fees and thanked the City for a great job. Councilmember Thorne commented on the contrast between the City and the School District and through the League of California Cities, we have been very successful in stopping the state from taking money from them through Prop 1A and 22. Superintendent Ahmadi agreed with Trustee Bowser in taking advantage of being in Pleasanton and thanked the City on behalf of the District for the Police Department and all of the work they do with our school district, which is critical and for the City Liaison meetings that take place on a monthly basis, where issues are discussed that need to be addressed as a community that we are working on and thanked them for their support, for example today Youth in Government Day. Trustee Hintzke thanked the City for the partnership between the District and the SRO's and the amazing services they provide to have Police present on school campuses, keeping relationships going, enabling the students to know who the SRO's are and to rely on them for help or if they have questions. This is a great program and hoped that we don't ever have to give this up. Trustee Grant also commented on the collaboration between the City and the District, such as the Joint Youth Commission, County and Mental Health Services, Joint City Liaison meetings. Thanked the Councilmembers for endorsing Measure E. Congratulated Chris Moore, who was recently sworn in as the Police Chief of San Jose. Vice Mayor Cook-Kallio also thanked the District and the City for their partnerships/relationship and valued it on so many levels. Her children received a wonderful education from Pleasanton and hopes that everyone's children will also benefit from this school district. Encouraged PUSD to elect/place a student board member on the board which would be so valuable and complementary to have students involved in the decision making. Mr. Fialho expressed that it's really hard to operate a City and experience over a three year period a reduction of revenues of over$21 M, stated they have put community first as much as they could, and maintained the philosophy over the next two years not to reduce service loans and to accomplish this, you need to innovative, find areas where you can cut and don't have an impact on the community and Joint City Council and PUSD Board Minutes Page 6 of 7 March 28, 2011