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General (continued) This required putting in a 12" fill over the entire dump, digging ditches, and removing some of the refuse and hauling it to another dump. To finance the work, the District sold all equipment and put the proceeds into their general fund, and after several months, Menlo Park approved the work. Further obstacles encountered were requirement of the State that to dissolve a district requires affirmative vote of all seven members, or a special election; that disposition of remaining assets must be determined by the Local Agency Formation Commission and not the District Board; the matter of liability in the event of toxic material at the site; referral of the Board's recommendations to LAFCo; the fact that recent legislation requiring every dump site, open or closed requires monitoring, and if found to be contaminating the environment the property owner is liable; that LAFCo has learned from the Water Quality Control Board that the District at one time operated a dump site in Belmont which closed in 1957; that under the law the assets of the District may not be disbursed until provision is made for monitoring the Belmont site, as well as the Menlo Park site. He believes that ultimately LAFCo will decide that Menlo Park, will be the successor for any remaining assets, and they in turn will pay Belmont, with the remaining members of the District to be held harmless, and that he expects to be at the October meeting of LAFCo, when the matter may be decided. Mayor Claire thanked Mr. Rhodes on behalf of the Council for his excellent report. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - -- ORAL COMMUNICATIONS (see page 9 ) MATTERS OF COUNCIL INTEREST 1. Councilman Greenalch, Council representative to the Regional Planning Committee of San Mateo County, distributed to Council copies of a letter from Jack Morris, Committee President, to the Board of Supervisors, to which were attached three resolutions relating to concerns of the RPC regarding transportation and transit. He asked that Council review the information and at some later time, if Council agrees with the concerns of the Committee, that it express support for the proposals to ask the County to take a leader- ship role in formation of a Joint Powers Agency to establish a permanent mass transit system in the San Francisco -San Jose urban corridor; urging the County to sponsor an inventory of potential rights of way and to develop programs for rights of way preservation. He advised that he has been requested to bring back to the Committee's next meeting later this week any information regarding action taken by this or previous Councils to protect possible rights of way in the City relating to transportation issues, and would obtain this information from the Community Development Department. Councilman Stangel offered to discuss the matter with SamTrans and work with Councilman Greenalch with regard to bringing a report back to Council. Reg.Mtg. 9/22/86 MINUTE BOOK NO. 46 Page 5 Page No. 403