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7. MATTERS INITIATED BY COUNCIL Mr. Sullivan clarified that Proposition 76 was never discussed nor did this Council provide a recommendation to the League of California Cities to vote on this matter. He believed the vote of the General Assembly to support Proposition 76 was not overwhelmingly in the affirmative. Mr. Thorne said he was the City's representative and he voted to support Proposition 76. He asked if Council needed to follow a process for representation at the Annual League Conference? Mr. Roush said typically the only time direction is given to councilmembers with respect to these types of votes are when a councilmember serves on a regional committee or commission and in these instances, often times Council will provide direction as to how it expects its representatives to vote on a particular matter. With respect to League matters, he did not believe Council's rules addressed it and it is up to the person appointed by the Council to serve as the League voting representative to weigh the issues pros and cons and vote as he or she sees fit. Mr. Thorne believed Council needed to discuss this further. Mr. Roush said that when staff is aware of an item that it knew would be controversial, staff would place the matter before Council to give direction or at least a suggestion as to how that representative ought to vote. Mr. Sullivan said his point was in the way it was presented which sounded like Proposition 76 was endorsed by the Council, which it was not. 8. COUNCIL COMMITTEE REPORTS There were none. 9. CLOSED SESSION The Closed Session was held prior to the meeting. 10 ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to come before the Council, the meeting was adjourned at 11 :50 p.m. to meet again in a regular meeting to be held on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers located at 200 Old Bernal Avenue. ~v.~n; wn G. Abr:h son, C~ City Clerk Pleasanton City Council 26 11/01/05 Minutes