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Pamela Ott referenced The Mirador View report, which is an overview of high -performing companies in the Tri -Valley and particularly highlights information and medical technology companies in Pleasanton; overall the Tri -Valley is outperforming the greater Bay Area. Pamela recognized Shareef Mandavi and Steve Van Dorn for their effort and support for an event hosted at Foothill High School connecting local life science companies with curriculum being offered at the high schools. The event was designed to create connections between companies and the students as the next generation workforce, to strengthen Pleasanton's reputation as an excellent location life science companies, and help to secure funding for a new state of the art biomedical facility at Foothill High school. Pamela also shared that Veeva Systems will again host the Tri -Valley Life Sciences Summit later in 2019. It was mentioned that Workday opened its new headquarters building on Stoneridge Mall Road, further reflecting the company's commitment to Pleasanton. PUBLIC HEARINGS AND OTHER MATTERS City Council Liaison Report Councilmember Julie Testa reported on the Downtown Specific Plan discussion from the May 7 City Council meeting, noting that the Council affirmed much of its April 16 direction regarding with the exceptions of: • Limiting residential districts to 2 -stories and a 30 -foot maximum with the ability to consider additional height through a Planned Unit Development (PUD) • Property -owner initiated requests for change in land use as part of the DSP Update process: 0 4212 First Street (Shell station) — Council voted 4-1 to retain existing Downtown Commercial land use designation, with a map annotation t potential for a future residential -only project subject to approval of a PUD 0 475/493 St. John Street (Barones) — Council voted 3-2 to retain existing Downtown Commercial use designation, with a map annotation to note potential for a Mixed -Use Transitional designation to be applied to the property, subject to approval of a PUD. Councilmember Testa noted her perspective these two properties should not be changed as part of specific plan update, and should go through the City's regular review process. Steve Baker asked for EVC input on matters to be discussed and voted on at the upcoming final DSP Task Force meeting. Steve commented the original process was for the task force to finalize a draft plan, after which Planning would review it and forward for Planning Commission and City Council consideration. Instead, based on public comments made prior to the task force's completion, the City Council felt it necessary on certain issues to provide direction to the task force. Some members of the Task Force feel this undercut the work of the task force and did a disservice to the process, such that there is no need for additional task force meetings. Councilmember Testa noted that she disagrees that misinformation was given and that there was one person expressly influencing the process. Steve Baker would like EVC input on items to be (re)addressed by the task force at its May 28 meeting: 0 Ground floor residential — Council did not support on Main Street