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Ms. McKeehan indicated it takes about a year to get detailed information from the Cellsus. Ms. Ayala asked if the demographic information compiled by the School District could be used. Mr. Swift indicated the demographics gathered by the School District is excellent with respect to school aged demographics, but is totally lacking in income information for housing in Pleasanton, which is a key component. It will be next year before that is available from the census, which is why a consultant is necessary at this time. For instance, Pleasanton used to have 15% of its households qualified for lower-income households. We intend to retain that as it grows and it cannot be tracked until next year. The policy base for the housing element has been established with strong support of the Housing Commission, Planning Commission and the City Council. He felt staff could move forward fairly quickly in terms of getting a policy in place. Ms. Ayala indicated the citizens had voted for a 29,000 unit cap on housing units and Mr. Neely has indicated there are 1,400 units left to build before that is reached. ABAG is asking for more than that. She asked staffto comment. Mr. Swift said in reality there are about 4,500 units left. If you count all units approved, that number gets smaller. If you built out every project at the midpoint of the General Plan, there would probably only be about 27,500 to 28,000 units built. There could be increased densities or new locations and still stay significantly below the cap. Ms. Dennis referred to the Land Use Element Update and this Housing Element Update and inquired if they had to be consistent. Mr. Swift said the law requires the General Plan to be internally consistent and that includes all elements. Under the existing General Plan, there is an ability to incorporate all the units required under the ABAG Fair Share Needs and still stay under the housing cap. An inventory of potential sites that are available for housing is necessary. Some properties may have to develop at greater than the midpoint, but would still be consistent with the Land Use Element of the General Plan. Staffwould look at policy language that would direct staff to find suitable locations for many different types of housing in order to accomplish the Housing Element goals. That is similar to what was in the last Housing Element and that was found satisfactory by the State. Mayor Pico invited public testimony. Jack Dove, 5250 Case Avenue #110, urged Council to appoint one member from the Housing Commission and one from the Planning Commission with five citizens appointed by Councilmembers. He did not think there were a lot of advocates for affordable housing around and suggested that one of the Councilmembers appoint Pat Belding to the task force. Jack Hovingh, 4250 Muirwood Drive, expressed his opposition to having a Commissioner or Councilmember on the task force. He felt they would become vested in the Pleasanton City Council 14 Minutes 05/08/01