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Proceedings may be started by the Council on its own motion or upon receipt by the Council of a written request of two of its members or by a petition signed by at least 10% of the landowners of the proposed district. Within 40 days of receipt of the petition, the Council must adopt a resolution of intention to form the district. A public hearing must be held on the establishment of the district by the Council no less than 30 nor more than 60 days after the adoption of the resolution of intention. Notice of the hearing is by publication and may include mailed notices to each registered voter and landowner in the proposed district. Once the district is formed, the Council must submit the question of the levy of the special tax to a vote of the newly created district. The vote may be at the next general election or at a special election. The election must not be less than 90 and not more than 180 days from the end of the protest hearing. The vote is by registered voters residing within the district. The Mello-Roos district is officially formed with the ability to levy the special tax once the question of the levy is approved by two-thirds (67%) of the voters voting at the election. If such approval is not received, the Council is barred from any further action on the special tax for a period of one year from the date of the election. Both the Mello-Roos district and the issuance of the certificates of participation with the levying of a parcel tax or benefit assessment, were viewed to be very similar. Therefore, in the next section of the report, we will only analyze the funding of the capital facilities from the issuance of general obligation bonds (where the tax is levied based on assessed valuation). However, once again, if the Council determines that the levying of a parcel tax or benefit assessment is the way in which they would like to proceed, then the actual structure of the tax rate or benefit assessment would need to be studied further. Survey Results In February the City hired Fairbank, Maslin, Maulin & Associates (FMMA), a public policy- oriented research firm to assist the City with a customer satisfaction survey and a survey of the community regarding the taxpayer's willingness to raise taxes and tax themselves for any or all of the Bernal Property Improvements. Any increase in taxes to fund said improvements would require voter approval. The City's Bernal Financing Committee consisting of Council members Thorne and McGovern, the City Manager, the City Attorney, the Director of Finance, and the Economic Development Fiscal Officer worked with staff from FMMA to develop the questions for the survey. The questions were drafted to determine public opinion regarding city services, to develop a "baseline" to determine how these services compared with the results from previous customer satisfaction surveys in 1995 and 2001, to determine voters' willingness to raise taxes and tax themselves, and by how were they willing to raise taxes and tax themselves. The community satisfaction survey was conducted between March 15 and March 19, 2007, with a total of 400 Pleasanton voters being interviewed. Length of residency for respondents ranged from less than five years (17%) to more than ten years (64%). A total of 53% of the respondents were female, while 47% were male. Approximately 84% of the respondents owned their own home and 70% had annual incomes in excess of $100,000. The survey cooperation rate was viewed as being excellent for this type of survey according to FMMA. As a result of this and other 12