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moving things around to do the least damage to the cash flow analysis. It is clear to him that three high schools are needed. He understands that the District needs to study the situation and the District needs to know if it can operate the schools. He said there are a lot of other cities that are operating schools of less than 600 students at elementary schools and less than 1800 students in high schools and they are doing quite well. He wanted to move the elementary school construction forward and discuss a third high school. Developers should be notified that there is a potential shortfall in the year 2000 if State funds are not received. He agreed that an audit is necessary. He did not know if the $12 million is part of the 80/20 split on rehabilitation or whether it is the 50/50 split on new development and it is not clear to him that anyone knows. An 80/20 split, with the State paying 80% of rehabilitation, and Pleasanton has a $50 million rehabilitation bond, is a substantial amotmt of money. He has not seen where it is. He is tired of all these studies. We keep moving the improvements out into the future so there is no cash flow shortfall and the schools are suffering as a result with terrible overcrowding. Ms. Ayala indicated the Committee will study all the altematives including a third high school. She believed the Committee was successful in moving all of the high school improvements back to where they placed last year. Mr. Tarver did not think anything significant was accomplished by moving one or two million dollars forward a year. If you put in a third high school, see what that does to the cash flow. What happens to the cash flow if you move the $4.5 million and $4.8 million for the Vineyard Corridor into 2000 and 2001 ? Ms. Ayala said $3 million was moved into 1999 for the purchase of the land for the school in the area. Because Council just approved the Specific Plan for the area and tied the road improvements to the school, it did not seem likely that anything would be built in 2000. Ms. Michelotti indicated the Committee had worked hard to get things accomplished. While the committee meetings were in progress, there was a School Board meeting where all the Board members expressed concem about expanding each high school to 2500 students. Therefore, the high school improvements were moved forward to give the flexibility to the School Board. The community has indicated the School Board is moving in the right direction. The Committee and School Board did determine a shortfall in 2001 and 2002. Council's job tonight is to concur that there is a cash flow shortfall in 2001. The other thing that happened throughout this process was that Brian Swift and Buster McCurtain conferred and produced a comprehensive report for the Committee. The School Board is going forward with a Task Force to review all the alternatives presented. She believed the Committee recommendations were good and urged Council to accept them. She indicated there was a letter from the State confirming the funding allocations. It was not the duty of the Committee to tell the School Board when to build a high school. It was moved by Mr. Pico, and seconded by Mayor Tarver, to adopt the staff recommendations 1, 2 and 3 and add a 4th item expressing to the School Board the Pleasanton City Council 10 06/22/99 Minutes