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j. Approved an Amendment to Consultant Services Contract with Lamb Surveying, Inc. for certain work associated with the South Pleasanton golf course. (SR 03:042) k. Commended Billie Dancy as Pleasanton's first Municipal Librarian. The roll call vote was as follows: AYES: Councilmembers - Ayala, Brozosky, Campbell, Hosterman, and Mayor Pico NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None 5. MEETING OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Ms. Hosterman presented the fi'amed commendation to Billie Dancy. Ms. Dancy thanked Council for the commendation. She expressed her appreciation for all the support she has received since she started working in the Pleasanton Library. This has been an exceptional part of her career. She was allowed to build the best staff she has eve~ had and to be creative in building Library programs. She indicated the Library will be in good hands and will continue to move forward. Pete Snyder, BART Director, introduced the staff members who would be making a presentation on future BART plans for the Tri-Valley area. Supervisor Scott Haggerty indicated there will be thought provoking issues raised in this presentation. Four years ago it was believed an extension of BART to Livermore was not possible. Things have changed such as land use policies in Livermore, BART's policies towards extensions, etc. We also need to change the way we think about extensions. Mayor Pico has been a strong representative for Pleasanton. The extension is not just to Livermore or Tracy, but is planned to be a way to alleviate cut-through traffic through Pleasanton. If commuters can be transferred off the Altamont and into effective transportation to work, then the traffic will come offofI-580 and City streets. Tom Matoff, LTK Engineering, indicated Phase I of the BART extension study consisted of an evaluation of BART to the east. As a follow-up to that, his firm was engaged to find less expensive ways of providing rail service to Livermore. BART has engaged a group of consultants, including his firm, to look at that in greater detail. This presentation will review travel markets, kinds of trips anticipated in the Tri-Valley area, goals of the study, overview of transit technologies, alternatives being considered, transit oriented development and the next steps to be taken. One of the assumptions being used is there will be 225,800 week day trips on 1-580 by the year 2020. He said about 40% of the trips were within the Th-Valley area. He described the destinations of the remaining trips. The goals of the study are to develop rapid transit modes that connect Tracy and Livermore, Hacienda Business Park with the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station, with Bishop Ranch and potentially with the Walnut Creek BART station. He reviewed the technologies being studied. One is the diesel multiple unit Pleasanton City Council 3 02/18/03 Minutes