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Mr. Cusenza said that two years ago the City changed from the calendar year to the fiscal year because of DSRSD going to the tax bills for the singie-family residences within DSRSD. This is basically a fixed rate similar to the City of Pleesanton. This is something the City wanted to look at, but City staff thinks the bi-monthly charge, especially if done with water rates, will be at a higher cost. Since it is are a combined bill, staff thinks the rates will go up or the cost for it would go up. Mayor Pico invited public testimony. Jeff Renholts noted that the public workshop was last night and tonight is the vote to take action on the proposed rate increase. His concern is that the City should not be doing thc workshops if the rates are going to be considered the following night. He felt there should be at least a couple of weeks for the process to work its way through. He understands the processing involved, but thought the timeline was rather rushed on this item. Rosalin Rogoff, 9913 Mangos Drive, San Ramon, attended the rate hearing at the Dublin San Ramon Services District at its regular meeting on July 3. She tailed about an issue affecting San Ramon in the last year and one-half. Central Contra Costa Sanitary Sewer will be running a line underneath Mangos and Estero Streets in a few weeks. This is port of DSRSD and Central Sanitary putting the sewer underneath the street. She has bean told that this is happening because of the City of Pleasanton. Pleasanton did not want DSRSD to get Dougherty Valley sewer service. There was some litigation that took place. Because of this, DSRSD was prevented from taking sewage from Dougherty Valley. LAFCo assigned it to Central Sanitary. She expressed her displeasure with the entire plan and its impact on her neighborhood. She felt there were other more reasonable solutions. She said she was bringing this up at this time because once Dougherty Valley becomes part of DSRSD, there then exists "economies of scale". There will be many more rate payers, more recyclable water that they can earn some money off of, the rates will go down, or at least be kept down and not likely to go up. The advantages are all there to have DSRSD take the sewer service for Dougherty Valley and she can see no advantages for Central Sanitary to take it. She is asking Pleasanton to reconsider the restriction against DSRSD taking Dougherty Valley sewage. Mr. Pico commented it is his understanding that part of the restriction Pleasanton has, where the City does not want DSRSD to serve the Dougherty Valley, is part of the sewer expansion agreement. In order to change that agreement, since that agreement was ratified by the vote of the people of Pleasanton, it would have to go to a vote of the people. This would not be able to take place until sometime in 2002 at the earliest. There are significant limitations and problems with respect to whether the capacity of the sewer plant and the LAVMA pipeline if Dougherty Valley were served by DSRSD. He knows everyone is interested in recycling as much water as they can. Hopefully we will be able to recycle most, if not all, oftbe Pleasanton water. When the Council looks at the issues of the expanded LAVMA pipeline reaching its capacity in less than 20 years, without taking into consideration the additional capacity that we would be getting from Dublin, we create some significant additional issues and concerns. He cautioned that Pl~asanton City Council 31 07/17/01 Minutes