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- - - - Wildlife Refuge. We feel that Bair Island is critical to the health of the Bay.... POST is currently under contract with Redwood Shores Properties, the owner of the property. Our agreement with Redwood Shores Properties requires that we maintain confidentiality and ~ thus cannot disclose any of the issues related to the property, until after our close of escrow in the rust week of June. I think it is an important first step before too much time and money is spent, (that) POST meet with City representatives to discuss any and all the issues that will come up related to this issue as soon as we close escrow." In answer to Mayor Hartnett's questions regarding the issues he listed above, Mr. Moore said POST is "prohibited under the terms of contract to discuss any of these types of issues. There is a sincere concern about confidentiality in the contract expressed by the current owners, and as you probably all well know, as part of acquiring a property of this size and location, there are many issues related to its development and use that understandably the owners are very concerned about maintaining confidentially. . . until it is transferred to POST." In response to Mayor Hartnett's questions based on published reports, Mr. Moore agreed that after title was transferred to POST, they would be seeking about $10 million in funds ITom the Land and Water Acquisition Federal Fund, and matching it with $5 million of local public support. After that, title would be transferred to the Wildlife Refuge, part of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Mr. Moore said "the only time table at present is the time table for acquiring or trying to line up the Federal funding through the Land and Water Conservation fund. Typically that is a two to three year process.... We are eye level deep in acquiring the property, and so we haven't made the transition about when, how or - by what mechanism we would transfer to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is a simple matter of POST being an eight person staff dealing with multiple projects and we have to focus our resources right now on acquisition and getting the property transferred into our hands. So no, we haven't made a formal analysis of when and how that will be done." In response to Councilman Leipzig's comments, Mr. Moore said that after the property is transferred to POST, then POST will be able to publicly discuss Bair Island, but "understandably since we will be transferring it to the Fish and Wildlife Service, we will be deferring to them on many issues." Don Saye, Member of the Redwood City-County Chamber of Commerce Economic Advisory Committee, said, "I am here to request that you consider finding a way for the Economic Advisory Committee to be a part of the feasibility study for a connector road to Redwood Shores, and be incorporated in any discussion or plans." MEMO 4/8/97 Nita Spangler, 970 Edgewood, described her long, long time interest in Bair Island, and said she was "on the dredger, Mallard, when she set up many of the dikes that are out there." Mrs. Spangler described her efforts to save Bair Island as a natural habitat and expressed her joy that POST had arranged to acquire the area to preserve it. She advised ~ that "last Thursday I was part of a County discussion on the future of that land, and they are worried about a trail." She discussed some Supervisors' concerns about a bay trail, and REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 55 APRIL 7,1997 MINUTES Page No. 243 PAGE 21