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businesses and ways to keep them in the city and prosperous. She had not heard anything further and asked if that was still a viable process? Pamela Ott said she and several organizations are working on that. It takes baby steps. There are many partnerships being considered including the Tri-Valley Technology Enterprise Center and Valley Care about creating opportunities for small incubator space. They are pursuing that in bits and pieces along with other network opportunities. Mr. Brozosky referred to bio-med and how to create incubator space for businesses in that field. Cindy McGovern appreciated the report by Bay Area Economics. She asked why the consultants used the ABAG regional needs numbers (32,180) instead of Pleasanton's housing cap (29,OOO)? Mr. Stern said it was used to maintain consistency, since they were also relying on ABAG for the jobs projections. There were caveats in the text saying this is what ABAG projects for Pleasanton, but not necessarily what will happen. Ms. McGovern said she would like to see projections based on the housing cap, but understood why the consultants used the numbers they did. She then referred to the economic fiscal goals, policies and programs for the General Plan. She submitted 22 questions to the City Manager; such as what is the city's bond rating; does the city have a percentage reserve based on the debt ration, etc. She referred to Policy 1, Program 1.1, and wished to keep the last section of the program ("identify needs and constraints to current business operations and to acknowledge the contributions and importance of existing business"). She said she could not find that in the current policy and felt it was important to keep that policy for recognizing the contributions of businesses in the community. When she compared this to the 1996 General Plan, she noticed the word "established" was used frequently and felt many of those things had been done. As an example, in Program 9.2 or 9.3 it states, "establish reserves". Those have been done and she felt the programs should be reviewed for wherever it says to establish and if those things have been done, then change the wording to say, "maintain and implement" thereby recognizing the work done since 1996. Under Policy C, which says ''focus city efforts on making Pleasanton businesses successful." She did not think the city can make businesses successful, but she thought the wording could say ''focus city efforts on supporting and assisting Pleasanton businesses to be successful." The business has to make itself successful, but the city can assist and support those endeavors. She believed Goal 2 should be maintained, which is "to capitalize on the use of the city's existing public facilities and to develop additional revenue generating public facilities." Perhaps that should be put in the General Plan under public facilities so that concept is not lost. She then referred to Program 4.2 under old Goal 3, it says investigate potential new revenue sources particularly those which will not add to the tax burden of residents or local businesses. She asked for an example or list of those Joint Workshop City Council/Economic Vitality Committee 7 02/28/06