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The Ruby Hill Traffic and Safety Committee supports and encourages the City of Pleasanton to allow the Pleasanton Police Department to issue citations for any moving violations within our community, as they do elsewhere in Pleasanton. This recommendation comes after careful consideration of all possible solutions to calm the traffic within our gates, including speed bumps, private patrols and traffic cameras. We met with our local police department, city traffic engineers, private traffic consultants and leaders of other similar gated communities. For the past seven or more years our monthly newsletter, The Grapevine, has pleaded with residents to drive within the speed limit and to stop at stop signs. Many ignore these requests, and our streets have become progressively more dangerous. We currently have no way to enforce our traffic rules. We cannot ignore the simple behavioral principle that most two-year-olds clearly understand: a rule is not a rule unless it's enforced. Anyone who blows through a stop sign or races around the community at 40 or 50 MPH knows that. Our traffic issue tonight has nothing to do with enforcing drunk driving laws. We all know that drunk driving is a crime that police can already enforce in private gated communities. As the City considers our petition tonight and next month at the City Council meeting, please remember that we have over 1,000 children living here. They play in their front yards and driveways, walk along our streets because most areas do not have sidewalks, and drive in their parent's cars. Our committee asks that you choose safety over resident's concern of getting a ticket. The only thing we are asking our residents to do is to drive within the speed limits and stop at all stop signs just like everyone else in Pleasanton. It's that simple. We ask our City leaders and staff to help make Ruby Hill a safe community for our families. Tom McMahon, Co-chair, Traffic and Safety Committee May 30, 2007 ATTACHMENT