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Council Member Howard asked if Public Works, Services Director Ingram could keep Council informed on the status of AB 1823. Council Member Ruskin responded as both the Council liaison to Bay Area Water Users Association (BAWAU) and Chair to the Committee for Reliable Water Supply. He stated that a draft letter and resolution has been prepared and each of BAWAU's 29 member agencies, including Redwood City, are being asked to pass a resolution and a letter of support for the various kinds of legislation being introduced. AB 1823 was introduced into the Assembly by Members Papan, Simitian and Dutra, and Senator Speier will bc introducing legislation. There will also be a companion legislation piece to AB 1823 that will enable the formation of a new water district that will encompass the 29 BAWAU agencies, without San Francisco. The initial purpose of that agency will be to enable the agencies to better contract for additional water supplies and wheel the water supply through the Hetch Hetchy system. He further stated that the draft resolutions and letters of support will be forthcoming and the agencies will be kept apprised of the status of the various legislation. AB 1823 is expected to be before Committee at the end of February. · Recess: 8:10- 8:20p. m. C. Discussion and Follow-Up of City Council Priorities for Fiscal Year 2002/2003 and Fiscal Year 2003/2004; Mayor Claire explained that a Council Priority Setting Session w~ held on January 26 and this topic is the follow-up to that session facilitated by Dr. Cecil Reeves. Dr. Reeves stated that this is the second step in the formation of priorities and that no priorities are set until thc collective Council dctcmfines those priorities. At the January 26 session, 41 ideas were generated as possibilities and subsequently; they were rated individually by Council Members. Those items were to be reviewed at this time and discussion of the possibilities of moving them forward to the next phase of the process. The process agreed to on January 26 was that if four Council Members (majority) gave an item an "A" ranking, that item would be considered a primary priority item. After discussion of various items, 15 new items were added to Council Priorities with the cut-off set by Council of each item having 4 or more "A' rankings. The results of the prioritizing are on file in the Office of thc City Manager and City Clerk (dated 2/8/02, "A List" and "B List" Items). City staff will develop an analysis of the ranked priorities and provide Council with the budget implications and feasibility of each of the items from the ",4 List" items at a future Council meeting. 10. WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS - None L 11. PUBLIC HEARING - None REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING FEBRUARY 4, 2002 MINUTES PAGE 5