CCMIN111495 - Laserfiche WebLink

Ms. Micheloff believed this was to be an individual survey. Ms. Acosta commented that she has not agcndized that issue yet. She is on a committee state-wide that will make recommendations to the Commission on behalf of all cities. Once she gets further on that matter, it will be agendized. Mayor Tarver said he would like to see Council take a position about the Constitutional Revision's Commission's recommendations. Ms. Michelotti asked if he would like to bring his questions before Council? Mayor Tarver felt that what ABAG is trying to do is get a sense of where the people are standing on issues. He doesn't care where other people are standing, he wants to represent Pleasanton. Ms. Acosta stated she was an officer of the City Managers division of the League of California Cities and the group will be developing some recommendations. Ms. Dennis did not feel comfortable filling out the survey, because every time them has been a conversation about this subject she learns something new and the product from Council -- discussion is much better than what she had to offer individually. The issues are complex and she questioned the purpose of the survey. Ms. Michelotti stated at the ABAG meeting they discussed how community charters could be created. This is a problem area with many people because it is so nebulous. Is this supposed to get things more simplified or does it make it more complicated. Basically, the feeling was there needs to be more information. Ms. Acosta stated the focus of her group's discussions was defining what it is and what it isn't. The answers that the Commission is given at this point is ~yes~ to anything you say you think it could be, because it is permissive. As this is explored, the idea is that while it is intended to be cooperative, many folks won't cooperate unless forced to. People are doing things because there is not enough money to go around or there is a *super environment* including discussions on regional planning, etc. There might be some incentives in the first few years that might create the cooperation to bring a process together. After a period of time those incentives might not be there. This is an approach that has been used in the past that can be fairly effective in trying to stimulate the cooperation. Mayor Tarver wanted to be prepared because if this goes forward they will need to do a community charter because once established you cannot be threatened by other charters. 11/14/95 -19-