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example that LAFTA showed that subscription busses really work, they provide a good commute service and are able to get people where they want to go without having to be stuck in traffic. They are hopeful that more of these kinds of services will be able to be put into place with this funding. He wanted to talk about the need to get 2/3 of the vote, When Measure B goes in front of the voters in November 2000 it is going to require a 2/3 majority to pass. That is going to be very difficult to do. Pleasanton came in with 62.5% in 1998. If it comes in at the same percentage this November, the plan will not pass. He is going to be very involved in helping nm the ~Yes on B" campaign and try to make sure as many people find out about the benefits of Measure B. He is hopeful that each councilmember will become personally involved in support of Measure B and also that members of the public, watching on cable access, will get involved as ,,veil. He said that Supervisor Haggetty. Supervisor Carson and several local assembly people are going to be very involved in this can~paign and they would appreciate support of this measure. He had "Yes on B" buttons for members of the Cotmall, endorsement cards that he hoped would be filled out by councilmembers and donations envelopes provided by the "Yes on B" campaign. Dr. Nancy Jewell Cross, 1327 Kruger Avenue, Fremont, spoke for Clean Air Transport Systems as Chief Executive Officer. which is a non-govemmantal organization that is over 25 years old and endeavors to get a regionally coordinated transportation system, rather than little segments. She is also a southern Alameda County elected director for Newark, Fremont and West Hayward in AC Transit and has been in that role for almost 1½ years. She has had a long career in transportation and is very concerned to have a really workable transportation set up for the people, rather than separate projects that may be sponsored by this or that agency. The Clean Air Transport Systems is the founding party for the Altamont Commuter Express. l'hey have a concept of a network between the Bay Area m~d Sacramento which was presented to the Calilbrnia Transportation Commission on several occasions. On one of these occasions, the Transportation Director, Dora Lee Bowles, from San Joaquin County was them and she understood the plan. Dr. Cross said she showed her plan and she took it back to her Board of Supervisors and that was the beginning of the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission. This took several years to get all of the pieces together to make it work and it is not yet fulfilled in its original concept. They need to connect with BART at Union City. The Stockton population is trying to get Stockton people down to Silicon Valley. Fhey didn't get the network concept that would have made it better. Now they arc moving in the fight direction for this concept. The next step is to lmvc a rail hub at Union City. It will take the Altamont Express a few miles off of its present mute, but it will connect with BART in Union City. With light rail across the Dumbarton Bridge into Palo Alto and Menlo Park, people won't have to go up to BayPair and come down to do things. This plan is very popular among those who know it. BART to San Jose from Fremont disappears in the competition. She attended a meeting the previous night at the Fremont Library with a couple of hundred citizens. They are planning to institute a light train between Union City and San Jose within a l~w years. BART has nothing to offer in place of that and it is only partially funded through this measure. It does not make sense to spend that kind of money when them is going to be a comparable route much sooner and within the price that we can pay. We need to reconsider BART from San Jose. This Pleasanmn City Council 15 06/20/00 Minutes