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is voted to either be taken out or not built, or voted to be built, there is always the opportunity for someone to come up and say I’m going to put something on the ballot to have this vote of the people. But, she hoped through pro-action and through working hard and showing the Council is making an effort and asks its citizens to help us get these jobs down, maybe we can move forward in a positive way and feel we are all headed down the same path. Mayor Hosterman felt some Councilmembers have had to make huge leaps, but she personally must have assurances and be able to tell the entire community that she believes this council is doing the right thing. So, for her, it is critical that we find some way of leaving Stoneridge Drive extension in the General Plan, to help use that as a leverage for moving forward with regional improvements. However, this said, she is also very interested in some of the other issues, but is willing to move if fellow Councilmembers were equally willing to move. She was hearing from Councilmembers an interest in keeping the extension in the General Plan for a future Council to decide, with input from the community. She is also hearing that it is important to craft and create a way that we can ensure that regional improvements move forward and that we have an opportunity to see and identify a reduction in congestion on 580, 680 and 84 prior to extending our local roadways. She is not hearing support for the ratification as important as it is to her, so she would be wiling to move away from that if we can get Council support to craft it a way to ensure that Stoneridge Drive extension does not come before getting these regional improvements built. She questioned whether or not as part of the strategy is to get regional partners back to the table in order for the Council to craft some strong language, not necessarily tied specifically to Stoneridge, but including Jack London, Dublin Boulevard and Portola because these are city streets that also impact us as part of the discussion in conjunction with improving State Route 84, 580 and 680. She felt good neighbors work both ways and these things are important to them as well, and we think these need to be in place in order to move forward. She entertained setting up a motion to say that this is what we think needs to happen. Councilmember Thorne said he would characterize this as a policy statement. Mayor Hosterman felt we could look at some sort of framework, a funding mechanism for not only regional improvements but also for a local street network included in the mix, and including the County’s money. Councilmember Sullivan felt it should be more than a policy statement because that can’t be ignored. The key thing is if Stoneridge is built, it needs to be built at the right time and in the right sequence. If it isn’t, it will cause a lot of problems and the traffic model demonstrates this. The build-out traffic model shows Stoneridge being built after several things happen and this needs to be the Council’s approach. He was not sure how to work through this process, but he must have some assurance that this is the approach that this Council will take. The vote is important to him, but to get him where he is comfortable he needs to understand the middle piece better and policy statements do not do this. Councilmember McGovern said she ran on the issue of not putting Stoneridge Drive through because of regional problems. The whole objective is to keep regional traffic on regional roadways and having improvements allow Stoneridge to be a local street with minimal cut-through traffic. She was concerned to tying things to Dublin Boulevard, Portola and others because the Council told people Stoneridge is a local issue, but she City Council Minutes 22 May 1, 2007