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Principal Planner Janice Stern said the Draft Subregional Planning Element was an option element of the General Plan, its purpose is to facilitate Pleasanton’s involvement in planning in the Tri-Valley, it was first prepared in 1996 as part of a grant-funded subregional planning strategy which was a joint effort between seven Tri-Valley jurisdictions; Pleasanton, Livermore, Dublin, Danville, San Ramon, and Counties of Alameda and Contra Costa; however, Pleasanton was the only jurisdiction that adopted the whole strategy subregional planning element. She presented the boundary and jurisdictions involved, topics include housing, economic development, water, sewer, other infrastructure, open space, natural resources and for transportation, staff will await full discussion prior to updating policies on the circulation element. Ms. Stern reviewed element changes from the original plan and changes to the goals, policies and programs, which were included in the staff report, noted on pages 14-3 and 14-4 additional information was added about ABAG’s Focus Program as a result of Planning Commission feedback, they updated numbers on new sub-regional housing initiatives, and page 14-7 was amended to make clear that no funding was committed as part of the endorsement of the Everyone Home Plan. Staff suggests the City Council may want to reword the Tri-Valley Business Council’s Working Landscape plan to support agri-tourism, land preservation and agricultural enterprise enhancement programs without referencing the Business Council’s plan which gives the Council the option of supporting programs but without limiting the Council to the working landscape plan. She said under Policy 12, the Planning Commission added a program related to the Altamonte Landfill Open Space Advisory Committee and a program related to the creation of community separators. She discussed public safety programs and economic development projects. The follow-up memo discusses making some amendments to Program 16.1 to make it more generic in terms of working with regional partners to implement programs to sustain the Tri-Valley’s innovation economy without specifically referencing the Preserving Prosperity Project, and a small change to Program 17.4 to have it read, “Participate in the Tri-Valley Business Council’s process” rather than any specific programs. Mayor Hosterman referred to Program 17.4, and confirmed with the City Manager there were specifically three programs the City was going to be looking at; one dealt with entrepreneurial incubation and providing an on-line framework to facilitate that type of interaction between businesses in the Valley, as well as two others which were endorsed for funding for the coming year. Mayor Hosterman said there was also some discussion regarding some of those programs the City did not want to be involved in, and they will be asking the Executive Director to make a presentation to the Council to identify where the TVBC is today and how they can best partner with the City to make some of the programs happen. City Manager Fialho noted the City will not be looking at simply funding the organization operationally; that much time was spent about funding specific projects that the City could support as a community, as sometimes the Business Council takes political positions which may be contrary to the Council’s collective position and where the City wants to be as a community. Councilmember McGovern said she has received emails from the new Executive Director about how TVBC is changing, and said they would be coming before the Council to discuss this. Councilmember Thorne noted he was on the Agricultural Lands and Open Space Committee and they did not hold their last meeting due to the re-organization. City Council Minutes 13 June 19, 2007