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Mayor Hartnett thanked former Foster City Council Member Chinn for his offer of assistance. Mayor Hartnett advised that Councilman Leipzig was the City's representative to the Airport/Roundtable, and also advised that the City had only received a few calls regarding noise ITom San Francisco Airport over the past several years. B. Don Frohlich, 491 Topaz, told Council Members he thought they "were a little too eager to close the public hearing" on 2150 Roosevelt held last Monday night as it reached the 11 :00 p.m. hour; and, after the last speaker's card had been announced, he did not hear the Mayor ask if there were any other speakers. He said there should have been a detailed map projected. Mr. FroWich asked if there would be another public hearing to allow the public to critique the planned development proposal. C. Manuel Sotomayor, 12 Riviera Circle, said "in reading the draft Minutes of last week's meeting, I noticed something that wasn't quite accurate. It stated that I had requested that you hold a community meeting. That was not quite what I meant. To clarify, that is my purpose here. (He distributed a letter/report to the Council which is on file in the City Clerk Department.)... In the course of dialog on this issue of a connector road and a need as an emergency access in the event of a catastrophic event, I have learned and added to my understanding of the problem better. I have come to the conclusion that the only thing the community should ask at this time, is that Number 1, you evaluate the need as some of us perceive it, to see whether or not it's a valid need. So that you can take a sensible course of action based on that. But in order to do that, maybe a community informational meeting could be a step in that process of evaluation. . .. As I view the responsibilities of the City Council, it is to perceive the things that are good and bad about the situation of its constituency. In our case, some of us believe that the lack of an adequate emergency access and egress road is very significant. Not everyone is agreed on this, and therefore, some effort should be going to find out what the state of mind is of that community, and I'm not talking only about the residential community, I'm talking about the business community.... I'm going to promote a community meeting at which all voices that are relevant to the issue can be heard. I would hope that... some of you members might participate, as well as City staff, and all of the interested residents and those who are representing the business community can also participate... I hope something can get moving on this." D. Councilman Leipzig commented on Mr. Frohlich's statement regarding closing the public hearing at last Monday's Council meeting shortly after 11:00 p.m. (Council must vote unanimously to extend the meeting past 11 :00 p.m.) rather than extending the meeting or public hearing: "I am generally the one that does that, and there is a good reason for it. By 10 or 11 o'clock at night after most of us put in a good 10 or 12 hour day, we are not too sharp up here. That's the reality of it. I have no intention ever of preventing anyone from speaking at a public hearing, or any Council Meeting, who wants to speak on an issue. That is not my goal. If we would have had to carry the public hearing over to tonight, I would have been happy with that.... I kept checking with the Mayor on how many cards we had to make sure we finished up and allowed everyone to speak who REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINU~E BOOK NO. 55 MAY 12, 1997 MINUTES Page No. 308 PAGE 2