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Ms. McKeehan said those details have not been discussed yet. Mayor Pico said these are the kinds of topics on which the Task Force will need guidance. With respect to issues like the 4H Club, he felt the City had the ability to have a demonstration farm on the Bemal property and could contract with a group such as the 4H Club to operate it. The demonstration farm itself would be open to the public. There are lots of ways to accommodate the public use issues within the scope of the initiative as it is written. He supported putting a measure on the ballot and establishing policies with the Task Force making recommendations on policies and a process. He still felt the policies and process need to be established. Now we have a citizens' initiative under way. The City and Task Force must come up with a potential alternative that will answer the questions that have been raised. The question before Council tonight is whether to have a ballot measure regarding the Bernal property. If we do not, then we have abdicated the decision to the citizens' initiative. We have the time to make that decision. What we need to do is to give direction to the staff and Task Force as to what avenue the City Council wishes to pursue. If Council wants to draft a separate Council- sponsored initiative, then the Task Force needs to make recommendations on policies and procedures and we have time to do that. If Council does not draft an alternative initiative, then if the residents approve the citizens' initiative, we have to ask these same questions all over again. What does public access mean? We know the City cannot sell the property, but can we lease it? Ms. Michelotti clarified that Council was reconsidering the issue of a ballot measure because of the requirements of the Specific Plan. Ms. Michelotti asked if the ballot measure would be advisory or binding? Ms. McKeehan said it could be either. Staff encouraged the ballot language to be more general in order to get it on the November ballot. If it w~re specific in nature, more environmental work would be necessary and the measure could not make the November ballot. Ms. Michelotti asked if"specific" meant having a map with certain designations. She felt the Mayor was talking about putting in policies and procedures. She asked what made it so specific that environmental work was necessary? Ms. McKeehan indicated it would be if Council specified acreages for certain uses. Ms. Michelotti believed the Mayor was suggesting the Task Force be allowed to finish its work and come back to Council with recommendations reiterating the top twenty uses. When that comes back, Council would take that input and discuss it. Ms. Ayala felt the Task Force needed some guidance. The other question was whether any Councilmember wanted to change the Specific Plan. No one did. The next step is to take uses for the public land to the voters. She felt the main issue on this land since 1990 has been the amount of housing. Art Agnos, the Mayor of San Francisco, appeared before Council with a plan for 3,000 residential units. In 1995, Alameda County approved a plan for the City of San Francisco. The number of units was reduced to a range of 1,488 to 2,536. In 1995, the City of Pleasanton looked at a cooperative plan ranging from 1,600 to 1,900 units. The reason we kept doing this is because the citizens of our community were not happy with the plans. The point is Pleasanton City Council 11 04/16/02 Minutes