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Pleasanton Council is noted for listening to its voters end the voters have expressed support for the project. Brad Hint, 1811 Senta Rita Road #128, indicated the genesis of the current LAVWMA projected occurred in 1978, when the municipalities in the Valley had an opportunity to build an export pipeline of this same capacity at 12.5% of the current cost. The state and federal govemmants would have conUibuted to the costs. The decision to proceed was not made at that time. Thirteen years ago, this project was eommeneetl end could have been constructed for less than $50 million. Today it will cost $210 million. This is far in excess of inflation for that period. Of particular concern to him was the public health and safety issues. That pipeline is in danger of bursting. Councils have been warned of that for the last ten years. In 1972, the Regional Water Quality Control Board told DSRSD to quit discharging into the Arroyo de la Laguna, which is why the pipeline was buih in the first place. This is not about RO linkage, export pipelines, etc. It is about keeping faith with the Pleasanton voters, establishing cooperation with other member agencies, end establishing the veracity of Council. He urged Council to approve the documents per staff recommendations. Ms. Ayaia pointed out that the voters have also expressed concern about the RO issue. Mr. Hint felt RO was not the issue. Council should keep faith end build the pipeline. If Council wants to ask DSRSD not to use RO, it can, but it must do what it has said it would do since 1978. What really matters is to finish the job that was started end protect the environment of the Valley end the area the pipeline WaveIs through. Peter MacDonald, 400 Main Slreet, Suite 210, urged Council to support the LA VWMA export pipeline project end the staff recommendations. He did not went a linkage with the RO project as part of the approval. He felt that would be unacceptable to DSRSD and Livermore and we are at a point in time where the project would not proceed if the linkage was included. When Council enters into agreements such as the Principles of Agreement and the LAVWMA Joint Powers Agreement, it has to keep its word. If, because of political reasons, Council is forced to back away from a part of that, such as RO, it still should keep its word on the rest of the agreement to show good faith, and then deal with RO issues. He felt that was the only way there could be a LAVWMA project. There are many reasons to proceed with the project. The poet laureate referred to dreams end the COmmlmity has a dream, which is the Pleasanton General Plen. Approval of this project will allow us to implement the Pleasanton General Plen. Meny business in the Valley also have dreams to grow with the economy end the pipeline will allow the business of the area to fulfill their dreams. Most imponan~y meny children have dreams to live in the Valley and Council is responsible to make certain that is possible. Otis Nostrand, 2654 Vista Diablo Court, indicated he was speaking as a Chamber member, Board member, businessman and a resident: end felt there were many reasons to approve the pipeline project. The first is that the voters approved Measure U authorizing proceeding with the pipeline. Council has talked a lot about installing infrastructure Pleasanlon City Council Minutes 16 12/05/00