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Minutes March 28, 2011 Joint Meeting of the Pleasanton City Council and the Pleasanton Unified School District Board of Trustees 1. CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by Vice Mayor Cheryl Cook-Kallio at 7:05 p.m. and Board President Valerie Arkin. Jarrod Senechal, a Junior at Amador Valley High School lead the Pledge of Allegiance. 2. ROLL CALL Present: Vice Mayor Cheryl Cook-Kallio; Councilmembers Cindy McGovern and Jerry Thorne; Board President Valerie Arkin; Clerk Jamie Hintzke; Board Members Jeff Bowser, Chris Grant and Joan Laursen. Absent: Mayor Jennifer Hosterman and Councilmember Matt Sullivan were absent. Vice Mayor Cook-Kallio noted that Mayor Hosterman was ill and Councilmember Sullivan had a loss in his family and offered her condolences to him and his family. Vice Mayor Cook-Kallio asked if agenda could be amended and agenda item #7 Overview of 2011 Youth in Government Day could be moved after Public Comment, for there were several students present that needed to go home and do homework, plus have agenda items #4 Housing Element Update and#5 Hacienda Task Force Update to be presented together. 3. PUBLIC COMMENT Jill Miller noted she received her measure ballot in the mail and thanked the board for including a special emphasis on math, science and reading, for it's so important in a global market field to have students with skills in those areas to compete. She quoted from the USA Today scores in 2009 of the International Student Assessment, showed out of 34 countries; we ranked 17th in Science, 14th in Reading and 25th in Math. 4. HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE and 5. HACIENDA TASK FORCE UPDATE City Manager Nelson Fialho introduced the items. He updated the group on a planning process that was recently completed related to the rezoning of the Hacienda Business Park or some properties within it. The process took over 12 months to complete, at the recommendations that came from the multi task force which included Board Member Arkin, Councilmember Cook-Kallio, Councilmember Sullivan and a number of other community members. It was recommended to sit down with the Board over the coming year to discuss school impacts as it relates to the rezoning of the properties in the business park. He shared that the second item that would be discussed was an update of the housing element, also known as "land use planning". The City is required by law to have a plan that explains to the community how we are going to go about planning for all various income type homes in our community, ranging from high income to low income. There's a timeline to complete this process by August 16, 2011, with a draft plan completed, reviewed by the state and hopefully adopted by the end of this calendar year. The impact of those zoning projects has impacts of our school infrastructures and is the reason we want to have a discussion with the district about what that plan might look like. As we're starting the discussion today and over the coming months how to accommodate growth from a school impact perspective. Mr. Fialho introduced Mr. Brian Dolan, Director of Community Development who reiterated that both of these items are related with a common thread between them and both involve rezoning. He briefly went over the Hacienda Rezonings, which he stated was a left over obligation from our last housing element that was adopted in 2003. A housing element is a component of your general plan, in which Joint City Council and PUSD Board Minutes Page 1 of 7 March 28, 2011