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meeting was in Fremont, but there wasn't any mention about wanting BART to continue to San Jose in the competition. She thinks that the appropriate thing is to use the Union Pacific tracks down to San Jose and have the job done within three years. This puts a question as to the appropriateness of spending $165.5 million in this package for BART, simply to go to Wem~s Springs. The Measure B package should go back to the Board of Supervisors and maybe the funds should be put into the Union City rail hub where we can have a train into Palo Alto and Menlo Park. This would connect with the Altamont Express and BART would be there. She had some transparencies to show how the rail network could be done for the price of a BART extension to Warm Springs. She felt that the expensive parts of rail should be reconsidered before they are put to the voters in the light of present information. The Governor is going along with the proposal that connects the Altamont Express coming down as a San Jose train and then the Capital can go over to Santa Clara and people can take all these kinds of choices, instead of putting the Capitals in the same route as the Altamont Express to Santa Clara and nothing down through Milpitas and Warm Springs. She believes a much better package could be made for the next 20 years. She felt that a big ticket item such as this should have an environmental impact report and a systems impact for these projects, not just a project impact. There were no further speakers. Ms. Dennis said she appreciated all of the work that has gone into this matter and the emphasis on transit and trails development. She felt that the people really appreciate this but it is a very high hurdle to get the 66% and is probably one of the things that could go against us in keeping the tax. The ACE train is a tremendously popular investment that people in Pleasanton speak very positively about and the more people who unders'tand what we need to do to keep our quality of life and to support the economy from locally to the Federal level. Mr. Pico stated that he felt this is an essential investment in Pleasanton's future that needs to be made. As heard ea~ier, it is not going to solve all of the problems, but it is a critical step that needs to lake place. The projects that we are going to get money for and the operating subsidies are essential to continuing the ACE train and to solving some of our immediate congestion problems. He said this is a local tax and local control. It was moved by Ms. Michelotti, seconded by Ms. Dennis, to approve Resolution 00-076 adopting the new 20-Year Alameda County Transportation Expenditure Plan and requesting the Board of Supervisors to place a proposition on the November 2000 ballot to authorize the extension nf the Countywide one-half percent sales/use tax according to the new Alameda County Transportation Expenditure Plan. Pleasanton City Council 16 06/20/00 Minutes