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agreement is approved, the city looks at CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) to ensure things have not substantially changed. She would like to have childcare facilities as soon as possible for the benefit of the community and employees; large construction jobs for people living in the Bay Area; and a street car feasibility study on the Broadway reconfiguration with a focus on how to get it done and being really invested as a way to help decrease traffic. She appreciates her Council colleagues' comments and had hoped for more funds to support education, and challenges both the City and Stanford to think about how we can work together through partnerships such as with Redwood City 2020, John Gardner Center, and the Redwood City Education Foundation, to benefit the education system for elementary schools and our diverse community and their employees. She also spoke in favor of commemorating the history of the site before and after AMPEX, Option B, and suggested looking at the existing historic signs downtown. Vice Mayor Gee thanked Stanford, Staff, the Planning Commission, Council Subcommittee Members Ira and Foust, and the neighborhood associations for their hard work that include a lot of community engagement and planning for over five to seven years with various community partners. He spoke positively about Stanford's world-wide reputation for academic achievement, facilities, vision, architecture, quality of materials, sustainability, 40 percent drive alone rate, sustainability with water usage, and how they will bring assets well beyond the monetary portion for the area. He spoke about looking at the context of this Project and a number of other things beyond, such as looking at a resolution or contract for the design team to look at replacing US Highway 101 at Woodside Road that will make a difference well beyond the city. He also commented that agenda item 6.1.A, the Moffat and Nichol agreement that was approved earlier further addresses the Bayfront flooding issue and they hope to have a solution to the flooding issues that plague the Bayfront and Friendly Acres with great partner like Stanford to help. He also spoke about "being present" and said this will bring a lot of intrinsic, indirect value with international visitors coming and seeing how business is done in Redwood City that goes well beyond numbers. He noted that this is a true partnership with an explicit development disposition agreement (DDA) that has amazing, time-bound performance metrics that must be met with associated with consequences and benefits. He spoke in favor of Option B as it pertains to historic elements. Mayor Aguirre thanked the Stanford community, Council Members Foust and Ira, the Staff who worked on this for many years and also in light of all the details, and the work done that goes above and beyond, as well as thanking the community surrounding this area that has been most affected and hopefully will also benefit the most. She said that she had lived on the Stanford campus, knows it is a great community, and this City also has a great community. She noted that Council received letters from the community with both concerns and in support of this Project, and she wants to remind people that this Project started years ago with the EIR (Environmental Impact Report) studied since 2008 with a lot of scoping sessions for public comment. She thanked the team and said she thinks the City and Stanford will benefit from this by learning from each other and CITY COUNCIL September 9, 2013 MEETING MINUTES PAGE 12 MINUTE BOOK NO. 64 Page No. 431