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VII. Community Input <br /> <br /> John Dempsey stated two important areas of consideration to be 1)transportation - asking that <br /> the budget include staff time to put a plan together and 2)housing - a Council committee could <br /> focus on the issue. <br /> <br /> Rudy Luca stated two areas for consideration: 1)transportation for seniors that might include <br /> shuttles and 2) housing for seniors and others. He stated these should move forward and be the <br /> number one priority. <br /> <br /> Pat Taviss, Library Board Vice Chair, stated six items as priorities: Literacy, transportation, <br /> library media center access, continuance of Jan Lepowski's position, Literature/Art and a <br /> Redwood Shores Library. <br /> <br /> Bonnie Miller restated the Quality of Life issue and asked that seniors be remembered. <br /> <br /> Judy Buchan stated areas of priority to be that the Downtown businesspeople be included in the <br /> oversight and Middlefield Road discussion <br /> <br /> Francis Ludwig, Library Board Member, spoke about programs with the school districts. <br /> <br /> James Jonas gave various comments specific to each priority: <br /> · Youth and Education - sailing as a youth activity <br /> · Housing - guidelines needed for building height and for the floating home community <br /> · Transportation - create waterfront walkways and a Bayfi'ont waterway <br /> · Infrastructure - seek State level grants <br /> · Culture - a waterway wine festival <br /> · Downtown - walk downtown to waterways <br /> · Efficient Business - free wireless Intemet, initiate business incubators - web based City <br /> services <br /> <br /> Steven Howard stated the priorities to be Youth, Transportation and Housing. He commented <br /> that at risk medical studies show the greatest impact on a child is the first three years. <br /> Transportation should include train and bus coordination Downtown for safe theatre access and <br /> the Middlefield Road development is important. Housing considerations should include study of <br /> residential zoning to determine which areas are appropriate for building. <br /> <br /> John Seybert, in the area of Youth and Education, suggested the City should support a program <br /> to develop civic leaders and a youth interest commission. <br /> <br />SPECIAL MEETING January 264 2002 <br />MINUTES PAGE 4 <br /> <br /> <br />