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education and we are close to being last in the nation. All we are receiving is the"gap" between what were supposed to get and what we received last year. Our problems are not over in 2020-2021." Trustee Bowser added, "These are not new monies, nor new dollars, these are partial restorations of the programs which have been devastated. We are beginning to restore programs." Councilmember Cook-Kalio commented, in regards to facilities and say that $3.20 is inadequate is an understatement, particularly in areas where you have seen aging schools, plus keeping up with the number of schools in classrooms. We are also seeing unsafe schools, asbestos, roofs which are leaking, there's no money to fix that. It's great the Board is advocating for increased funding but that's what everyone who cares about education ought to be doing and at every opportunity you have to see your Assemblymember or State Senator should be drilled home, for it's not just Pleasanton but throughout the State." Councilmember Brown inquired, "What was the top ADA that we in the "boom" years?" Superintendent Ahmadi responded, 2007- 2008 was our best year"$7,975." Councilmember Brown asked, "You aren't going to get back to that until 2020-20217 Ms. Ahmadi replied, "That's correct. Each year they are closing that gap. If the economy gets better they will close that gap sooner." Trustee Laursen commented, "The State Legislature and the State have a choice to continue to close that gap to get us to that full level funding sooner or they can choose to spend those dollars on other projects and needs. One of the proposed ways to use funds is to expand Transitional Kindergarten and Kindergarten to all four year olds. There's a lot of moving parts still and will depend how quickly we get to that 2020-2021 level or not plus Prop 30 expires in two years." Councilmember Narum asked, "In regards to the Faciliites Master Plan and the question what do students need to succeed? Do you differienate between elemenatary and secondard levels for the needs would be different." Superintendent Ahmadi replied, "We have met with students and they have told us. The number one comment we have heard is the connection with students. The fact that student's succeed when they feel a connection to school and to an adult support systems in place. Access to technology and rigorius curriculum." President Hintzke asked Councilmember Brown if her question was answered. Councilmember Brown replied, "I did get my question answered. My question was how can we work together to make sure the schools are funded and ne of the only ways we have to influence is through new projects and new developments." Mayor Thome opened and closed the public hearing. There were no public comments. 6. STATUS UPDATE REGARDING HOUSING ELEMENT PROCESS AND EAST SIDE SPECIFIC PLANNING PROCESS City Manager Nelson Fialho introduced the item and stated, "We had a general plan that we adopted a few years back consistent with land use laws in the State of California. Every seven years the City has to adopt a housing plan or a housing element to accommodate a thing called "RHNA" (Regional Housing Needs Allocations). During the last RHNA cycle which ran through 2007-2013, we were required to rezone approximately 70 acres of land to accommodate high density housing. It was a very lengthy citizen engagement process, with committees and settled on land for rezoning. We were late in that process. We adopted a housing element in 2012 near the conclusion of the recession. In reviewing those 70 acres and one minor exception, none of that land resulted in real live construction in the community partly because we were late in the adoption of the housing development plus the economy was still recovering, especially the housing market. The next RHNA cycle runs from 2014-2022? The State informed us that we get to count all of the land that we rezoned towards your RHNA allocation. We get to credit the work we did in the previous RHNA cycle in the present RHNA cycle. We anticipate that through the end of the calendar year, when the housing element needs to be adopted our housing element update will be relevantly easy." About 18 months ago we assembled a task force to plan the East Side for Pleasanton and saw an opportunity to accommodate the housing mandates imposed by the State and combine the East Side Specific Plan project and the Housing Element. Given the new information we have this will no Joint City Council Page 6 of 11 March 17, 2014 PUSD Board Minutes