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compassionate. He stated he is a property owner for a Section Eight tenant. He cited a hypothetical scenario with a rent amount at $1,700 per month; the tenant pays $86 and the Alameda County sends the landlord a check for $1,614 per month. Rounding the numbers, the County pays a total of $20,000 per year. The tenant has been in the program for 10 years and in today's dollars the tenant has previously received $200,000 in subsidized housing. The tenant is 35 years old; his life expectancy is an additional 47 years. In today's dollars Alameda County will pay an additional $1,000,000 in the next 47 years for a total lifetime benefit of $1,200,000. This is for one household and this scenario is repeated 5,000 times every month in Alameda County. In Pleasanton, Alameda County will pay $2,445 for a four bedroom - two bath home. Them are 97 Section Eight homes in Pleasanton. In California 29% of every tax dollar goes to the Department of Health and Human Services. Some Health and Human Services programs are medical; Health Families Program; Access for Infants and Mothers; HIV and AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment; Breast Cancer Early Detection Program; and Affordable Housing Projects for Developmentally Disabled People. Some programs in the Department of Housing and Community Development are Down Payment Assistance for Teachers; Multi-Family Housing; Farm Worker Housing; Migrant Worker Housing; Self Help Housing; Housing Preservation; Cold Weather Shelter; and Housing Tax Credits. In the Federal Budget 25% of every tax dollar goes towards these compassionate causes: 12% of every dollar goes towards Medicare; 7% goes to Medicaid; 6% goes to Food Stamps and Food Aid to Puerto Rico Child Nutrition and Supplemental Security Income. The 25% Health and Welfare figure does not include the 23% that is spent on Social Security. In summary, the residents of Pleasanton have demonstrated their compassion by contributing 25% of their Federal tax dollar for health, welfare, and housing and by contributing 29% of the California State tax dollar for health, welfare, and housing and by contributing approximately 30% of their Alameda County tax dollar for social programs, which include over 5,000 Section Eight homes. In addition, the City of Pleasanton residents provide over 6.4 out of every 100 households in Pleasanton below market housing. In his opinion this is compassion with a capital C. He proposes that the City Council reward good citizens of Pleasanton who have given so generously to health, welfare, and housing programs at all levels of government by providing a magnificent park for them to enjoy that would include the 581 houses that were originally approved. Robert Cordtz, 262 West Angela Street, stated his concerns regarding Highway 84 funding. He is concerned about the Alameda County Management Agency scuttling Highway 84 improvements for 1-580 and that HOV lanes would be given serious consideration. He asked if this item would be on a future City Council agenda. He stated that Mr. Jeff Knowles had delivered his professional opinion about HOV lanes on 1-580 and recalled that opinion to exacerbate Pleasanton's cut through traffic crisis. He asked if the Council supported his professional opinion and would this be City policy. If Mr. Knowles opinion is City policy, is the Council prepared to asked Mayor Pico not to mis- represent Pleasanton's position at the CMA? Would the Council conduct its own air quality studies before Mayor Pico discusses Pleasanton's position on HOV lanes and air quality at future CMA meetings? When will the East Pleasanton Study be complete and will it address the issue of Stoneridge to E1 Charro and then onto the Livermore Airport? Will it address E1 Charro to Stanley? Will it address the proposed West Las Positas Pleasanton City Council 4 06/04/02 Minutes