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Ms. Mohr felt it might be wise to give the next Council an opportunity to participate if that is the direction the voters are going for. She didn't feel this had to become an issue over whether this is done during one's time in office. She did not think it is appropriate to use City money to facilitate this type of program. Ms. Michelotti stated that one of the issues to look at was the super minority. The community elects people to do the business of the City. The elected officials keep pushing off to committees, the public and the voters decisions that need to be made at this level. Mr. Pico felt it was the people' s right to vote and express their opinion. Mayor Tarver felt that public hearings would be taking place on anything that goes on the ballot. Ms. Dennis asked if staff would like help to prevent slipping of the process. Mr. Swift stated that staff could expedite what is being done by one month. The difficulty is the timing. The last couple of weeks in Deeember is a difficult time to get work done and falls right in the final editing stages. It would go quicker with a consultant because that person can be given an element or two and can write it. We don't have a consultant that anyone on staff is comfortable with, that material can be handed to and staff can say update the noise element and incorporate the revised policies. Staff will have to go through the process of selecting a person. The unknown timeframe for the review by the various bodies is far more critical to the overall processing than what you can save in terms of a month in the outset. The Council is in the position to give direction to expedite this. There is no reason why the Planning Commission or any other committee has to wait two weeks between meetings. They can meet every week or every other night, and have done so on other projects. Mayor Tarver commented that there is an accelerated timetable that gets this to the Council in mid-July. Is there anyway, without hiring the consultant, to take this back to the Planning Commission, General Plan Steering Committee and other commissions that it needs to go back to, to develop a timeline that achieves that goal and ask them to review the timeline and the processing to see if it is possible to do this? Mr. Swift replied that it all depends on how they review the plan. There are six months and with direction from Council the public hearings can take place. Mayor Tarver commented that there is a way to get this done by mid-July without putting any more money into it. If the timetable is created, you work with the commissions about how to get the information they need in a public arena so that this is completed by July 15th. He would rather have staff work with the consultant, the Commissions, the Steering Committee and subcommittees to come up with a workable plan to get this done by mid-July. 09/19/95 -20-