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Mayor Gee took comment on the issue of the proposed committee. Council Member Pierce noted that she had to recuse herself on the Farm Hill topic. Mayor Gee asked speakers who wanted to speak on the Complete Streets Committee to come forward. Ms. Thompson, City Attorney, said Council Member Pierce is not conflicted on this item. Mayor Gee welcomed speakers on the topic of Complete Streets Committee. Public Comment Emma Shales, from Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, mentioned the benefits of this committee and shared what other cities (where this committee is already in place) are doing. She spoke in support of a Complete Streets Committee as a way to ensure transparency and community involvement. Andrew Boone spoke about his experience in attending the informal group meetings and he values these meetings to change streets to make them more accessible and safer for bicycling and for pedestrians. He spoke in favor of having a more informal format for future meetings to allow everyone to talk. Adina Levin spoke about her experience with this type of committee and how she would prefer it report directly to the Council. She was very appreciative of the Council action and the report which would include all multimodal users. Ty Tyson spoke in regards to the issue of tracking the employment, including people who live in unincorporated Emerald Hills, and who also use our roads, and incorporating engineers on this committee. Mathew Self lives in Emerald Hills, outside of city limits, and he would like to see people who are in sphere of influence or work in this city be included on the committee. Bob Page recently relocated from Woodside to Redwood City and spoke in support of having seven members on the committee instead of five members in order to have representation over a broad range of users and neighborhoods. Mayor Gee asked if there was anyone else who wanted to speak on this issue and one Council Member said he is glad to see this moving forward and provided some historical perspective sharing his excitement on getting so much public input. M/S Pierce/Aguirre to approve the staff resolution and have staff review if Emerald Hills should be included and then if staff does not think this is a good idea to come back and the Council can decide. One Council Member inquired if this limits the number of people being from outside the city and this Councit Member would support this if we limit to only one member being from outside the City limits. The maker accepted this modification as stated because input can be provided in other ways from stakeholders and people from outside the City. The second agreed with this modification so that it is only one person. One Council Member wanted to leave it open to appoint seven if the Council found richness in the pool of applicants, but either way this Council Member will support the JOINT CITY COUNCIL/SUCCESSOR AGENCY BOARD January 26, 2015 MEETING MINUTES PAGE 7 MINUTE BOOK NO. 65 Page No. 316