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denial of freedom of speech and an invasion of private property. He urged the City to take action against the persons responsible. He cited recent hate crime incidents and felt the preservation of freedom of speech was very important. He also objected to the proposal to move the Meeting Open to the Public comments to the end of the agenda. (He was assured that would not happen.) Kris Kumaran, 6450 Calle Esperanza, presented three points in favor of Measure D. He believed there is a Council majority that continues to vote in favor of development projects and residents have been forced to invoke the referendum process. The residents have to deal with the impacts of traffic. school overcrowding. diminishing open space and continual degradation of their quality of life. He believed the CAPP Initiative will insure that the residents will have a say in the remaining 12% of open space in the city. Secondly, he believed the basic arguments against the CAPP Initiative are fallacious. It will not take away authority from the Planning Commission and City Council. He believes Pleasanton has an informed electorate and can make informed decisions. The CAPP Initiative insures that power rests with the people. It is no wonder anti-CAPP spending exceeds $500.000. Thirdly, this Initiative will provide a different focus. He believed approving more growth is like getting a new credit card to pay off an old one. Existing residents have a fight to live. work and do business with uncongested roads. The City Council and Planning Commission should focus on ways to mitigate growth rather than add to it. We should focus on traffic mitigation measures; creating additional open space: building an infrastructure that exceeds demands: ameliorate traffic noise: reduce airport impacts by restricting building in certain corridors: and enforcing restrictions on building on the ridge and protecting the environment. Seven thousand residents helped put this Initiative on the ballot and he urged residents to join them and vote yes on Measure D. Julie Testa. 3494 Torlano Court, requested an opportunity to discuss the audit report of developer fees that was presented at the School Board meeting last Tuesday. No questions or discussion were allowed at that meeting. After reviewing the audit. she and other members of ROCA believe there are questions that need to be asked. She realized this is a busy season and requested Council to put this on a future agenda for discussion. She reminded Council the reason the audit was requested was to identify any money that was unallocated for facilities. The ROCA group reviewed all documents that were made available to them to try and find additional funds. In reviewing those documents, multiple discrepancies were discovered and no answers to their questions were forthcoming. At the last School Board meeting. it was stated the cost of the audit was unreasonable and was taking funding from programs for the children. She also stated her group had discovered a sum of $500~000 that was not collected from a developer since 1995. They pointed this out to the District and that sum was collected. She felt the $80.000 in interest on that sum far exceeds the cost of the audit. They think the audit was money well-spent and there were many other discrepancies. Since the Council/School Liaison Committee had agreed the audit could be funded out of the developer fee fund. she asked that Council support that request. ROCA does not want to take money from the Districtls general fund. Pleasanton City Council Minutes 6 10/05/99