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The roll call vote was taken as follows: AYES: Councilmembers -Ayala, Campell, Brozosky, Hosterman, and Mayor Pieo NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Councilmember Brozosky thanked staff for placing the General Plan Forum on line. This will allow our community to discuss the General Plan Update that is currently in progress. He noted that the General Plan Online Forum, as it currently exists, has a main discussion item of "General Plan" with no information. We expect people to register to the site and to add anything they want. He believed this is like asking people to comment on a blank piece of paper or to read the full General Plan to see what a General Plan is. To promote conversation within the community, he felt that we need to seed the discussion board with topics for people to respond to and provide the ability for people to add additional topics. He believed the most effective way to accomplish this is to set up a discussion thread for each General Plan Element (e.g., Land Use, Conservation, Circulation, etc.) and then under each of those threads, staffcould enter a new thread for each of the issues from the last action report. Although the issues can be found on the website if one knows where to look, he felt that we could stimulate conversation by entering these as discussion threads on the Forum so people can easily respond to them or add new items. In response to an inquiry by Mayor Pico, Mr. Bocian informed him that the existing General Plan is on the website and noted that staff has created a General Plan page which has a Message Forum, the General Plan itself, staff reports related to the General Plan, and also a schedule of the General Plan meetings. He reported that there are no direct links fi.om the Message Forum to the issues that Councilmember Brozosky is referring to. Essentially, staff set up the Message Forum to show one subject area or one thread that is the General Plan. Staff did so based on Council's decision that it be an open forum for conversation, meaning the public would be allowed to create the threads of the subject area that they choose to discuss and people could reply to those subject areas. He mentioned that when Councilmember Brozosky first approached staff to do this, technically staff could do it, but staffwas concerned that it was not necessarily in line with the Council's direction of creating an open forum. What we would be doing would be to create subject areas and topics for people to comment on and within specific subject areas, which are the General Plan Elements. This could potentially help to allow someone to go to a particular topic and comment on it and then create a thread. On the flip side, he believed this did not fit in with the Council's action and could be confusing to people who might want to make a comment on something without knowing where it fits. Pleasanton City Council 29 10/07/03 Minutes