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It was moved by Mayor Pico, seconded by Ms. Hosterman, to take direct staff to (1) take no action or to spend any money that would facilitate the building of the West Las Positas interchange, and (2) plan for the elimination of the West Las Positas interchange as part of an update to the General Plan as outlined in Option 4. Mr. Campbell said the interchange was in the General Plan and he did not want to see the public taken out of the process. He did not want Council to manipulate the process where the public does not have the final say. Two members of Council were elected on a platform to eliminate the interchange, but he did not feel that was necessarily a mandate for the Council to find some sort of creative way to eliminate the interchange from the General Plan. Ultimately, the public needs to weigh in on the decision. Mayor Pico agreed, but before the public can do that, Council has to take an action to amend the General Plan. It may be more than a couple of years to do that and he did not think this Council could bind a future Council to having a vote on it. As part of the 1996 update, any action Council takes with respect to the West Las Positas interchange would provide that the public has one year within which to referend the action. He agreed with Mr. Campbell and if it were possible to guarantee that at the time there is an amendment to the General Plan that there would be the ability to ratify the action by a vote of the people, he would want to do that. He did not think there was a way now until the next General Plan update is complete and ratified. At that point in time, Council can do what it did with the urban growth boundary and housing cap and decide if it wanted to put something on the ballot. Ms. Ayala pointed out that the voters did not vote on the General Plan update as a whole, only on elements of it. The majority of the committee for the 1996 General Plan update wanted to take the interchange out of the General Plan. The only reason it was not done was because staff said if it is taken out the City would lose all the funding for it. In fact, there is no money to build this interchange and she felt she had been misled in 1996. She agreed with Mr. Campbell that she did not want to be manipulative, but she wanted the interchange removed. She would like to start the General Plan update as soon as possible. When the first meeting on the update occurs, she wanted to make it clear that removing the interchange is one of the major priorities for the update. She hoped to get through the update in a timely manner. Ms. Hosterman liked the suggestion that nothing be done towards the funding of the interchange. That would give some assurance to the neighborhood of the Council's intent. She would like to do this quickly. Ms. Ayala would also like staffto take the West Las Positas interchange out of any traffic model from now to the completion of the General Plan review. Mayor Pico accepted that as a friendly amendment to his motion. It was moved by Mayor Pico, seconded by Ms. Hosterman, to direct staff (a) not to take any action or expend any money that would facilitate the building of the West Las Positas interchange, (b) to plan for the elimination of the West Las Positas interchange as Pleasanton City Council 26 03/18/03 Minutes