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Pat Murray, 4470 Mirador Drive, thanked Council and staff for enacting the discount for low income residents for the water and sewer charges. It was a creative way to offset the costs of the bond measure, if it is adopted. Betty Dimmick, 4007 Peregrine Way, expressed her concern about the cancellation of Next Steps and the Heritage Program. This was done without advance notice to the City or families of participants. Adult daycare is extremely important for seniors and their caregivers. She described the many benefits of the programs and activities and urged Council to continue this service. Scott Wade, 5808 San Juan Way, expressed his concern regarding the all night lighting near the Greenbriar sales office and asked Council to address the situation. Paulette Salisbury, 6170 Corte Trancas, announced a meeting of the Regional Water Quality Control Board in Oakland on February 16. She asked Council to authorize a City representative from staff to attend and reiterate the City' s objection to the injection of reverse osmosis treated water into the groundwater basin. She asked that the representative invite the Regional Water Quality Control Board to hold another hearing in Pleasanton. She said there were many in attendance at the last meeting at Pleasanton Middle School and she thanked those who spoke. She asked the citizens to attend the meeting in Oakland and urged residents to vote no on Measure J. Mike Moran, 2321 Sandpiper Way, presented a visual demonstration of how the School District Board and staff is organized and how he believed it operates. He believed it was a delicate balance of all its pans and should not be meddled with from outside. He was also concerned about the School Board members who try to directly give orders to School District staff. Peter MacDonald, 5258 Crestline Way, Co-Chair of the Yes on J Committee, indicated Pleasanton residents are currently drinking treated wastewater from Sacramento, Stockton, Tracy, and agricultural runoff which goes into the delta and comes back out the taps in Pleasanton within five days. The reverse osmosis treated water would be purified to distilled water quality, pumped into the underground aquifer and would not get to the tap for five years. He said there is no comparison in the quality of the two waters. Delta water has nine times the impurities as reverse osmosis treated water. Anti-recycling is an environmentally damaging policy and has a negative impact on our children's futures. He believed new water sources would have to come from damming pristine mountain canyons, outbidding the Central Valley farmers, or withdrawing water from stream flows and depriving riparian species of water. He felt the opponents of recycling water were mostly the same people who sponsored the CAPP Initiative and they would not stop until there is no water, no roads and no homes for the children of the future. Reverse osmosis treated water is far better than what Zone 7 is giving the citizens today. Recycling and resource conservation is the only way Californians can maintain the natural environment and preserve the standard of living. He urged citizens to vote yes on Measure J Pleasanton City Council 4 02/15/00 Minutes