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Mr. Brozosky supported expanding the wi-fi to public areas throughout the city, such as parks. He cited Program 26.10 and indicated he did not know what it meant. Was it to expand diversity and to make certain a facility met the widest range of diversity? Ms. Stern felt that might be a good wording. Ms. McGovern felt it meant diverse needs of the community, not the diversity of a person. Mr. Brozosky then commented on Program 28.4 and felt the word "sufficienf should be removed. He agreed the items regarding the School District should be reviewed by the School Board and further review of the land use should be done before the District develops demographics tables. Ms. Stern indicated staff planned to give the School Board the preliminary preferred plan for review. She indicated the demographic projections are slightly different than what the city is doing. The School Board is looking at changes in generation rates of units when there are fewer units being built and there are replacements of families in older tracts. That is where the changes take place rather than in terms of where the homes are or how many. Mr. Sullivan believed one of the action items from the joint meeting with the School Board was to do another demographic study based on the Land Use Plan. Mr. Fialho said staff would provide the Preferred Land Use and the two alternatives and they would give input regarding their preference. The District would confirm the student generation based on the preferred alternative. Even though one may disagree with some conclusions of the demographer's report, it provides good background information in terms of what is happening to the population. Ms. McGovern felt that section should be a little more generic and should let the community know the School District does demographic statistics yearly and sets their priorities for schools based on those figures. Mr. Brozosky felt the General Plan should reference the District study and not include it in the General Plan. Mr. Fialho felt it depended on what Council felt the General Plan should be. For someone new to the community, it gave a snapshot of what is happening in the community from a demographic standpoint. Mr. Brozosky pointed out the District updated the demographics more often than the city does its General Plan. That is why he did not want the document as part of the Plan. Ms. McGovern felt when the city talks about smaller units, more condominiums or rental apartments, it definitely affects the demographer's report. Mr. Brozosky referred to discussion about adding a Water Element and believed the direction has been set for the General Plan and it has taken a long time to get to this point. He did not support changing the process or adding more review cycles that would increase the time to get the General Plan. He agreed and disagreed with various parts of the Ahwanhee General Plan Workshop City Council 12 OS/23/06