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3O5 to comment on that particular line item on the agenda. At that point the ob- jections were raised and Mr. Pico left the room at the time when he would have been able to speak to that agenda item. The committee did not vote on that line item, they simply voted on one particular aspect of it which was the dif- ference between allowing the agency to have the same power that they have now or expand their powers to condemn residential property and they agreed that was one item that they did not want to do, they wanted to leave the agency with their restricted abilities. They continued with that line item and then the public had input at the end. The expansion of the Committee didnot come to the committee as a directive, it came thru Chandler Lee who said that Jim Walker requested that the members vote on whether or not they wanted to expand ..... the committee, so he put that out to the committee members and they voted not to expand. Mr. Pico differed with the interpretation Mr. Clauser provided; in fact with respect to the discussion on the power to condemn properties and curbing that power there were a couple of alternatives that staff had provided that the committee discussed solely among themselves and they were ready to take a vote - he interrupted and asked whether the public would be able to have some comment before the committee took the vote, Mr. Clauser indicated no. He stated other people are in the audience that witnessed this matter. C) Councilmember Brandes stated the intent of the committee is to accomplish (ZXZ) some things and there are some who believe there is organized interference to keep the committee from doing anything. Somewhere in the process the propo- CY} nents and opponents of any potential CDA must realize that these committees ~ that are being formed in conformance with the CDA law and there are legal ~ steps that must be gone through but they can make no decisions that are bind- ~ ing; all those decisions come before the appropriate steps in the Redevelop- ment Agency of which there is a full and complete public hearing. If some- where in the system the public should feel limited to speak they will have many opportunities before the Redevelopment Agency to air any objections or complaints or suggestions they may have. If this occasionally happens in a subcommittee it will not prevent citizens from participating with the Re- development Agency body, who will make the ultimate decision. He stated he personally feels Council should consider that maybe the appropriate way to -- handle this redevelopment issue might be to let the entire community vote on it in November. He added that the committees would still need to continue in order to present it to the public. Mr. Thurman Caudill, Augustine Street, stated he has been a resident of the community for 46 years and is against a redevelopment agency. He stated he was at the meeting last week and Mr. Pico is telling the truth about what happened; the disrespect was unforgiveable. He advised that twelve years ago the City tried to form a redevelopment agency but it failed. The various im- provements such as Bernal Avenue extention to Main Street, Peters Avenue, un- derpass, library and Del Valle Parkway all were completed without a redevelop- ment agency. He feels the agency should be dissolved or go the voters in November. Mayor Mercer stated that two opponents have expressed a lot of concern regarding the redevelopment agency and there is a citizens advisory committee that is studying the redevelopment agency, if it should be formed and how it should be formed. He thought the Council went on record that the citizens advisory committee should be expanded to include the two opponents; somehow that was not passed properly down to the citizens advisory committee. He - 8 5-3-88