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- - - Senior Civil Engineer Chang presented a brief background of the Development -- Agreement and Facilities Fees Committee. 2) Open public hearing; Mayor Hartnett opened the public hearing at 9:53 p.m. 3) Hear public comment; A. Peter Hughes, 18 Admiralty Court, addressed the issue of the membership of the six member GID Facility Fee Committee which currently has three City staff members and three representatives of the Developer. He said this was the time to change the composition and add representation from Redwood Shores, at least one member. He discussed the Committee's discretion to schedule capital improvement projects citing a traffic project that had disappeared from the list of projects, and the need for Redwood Shores residents to have a voice at that level. He said the lack of a Redwood Shores resident voice on the Committee amounted to taxation without representation. B. LaVerne Atherly, 515 Cringle Drive, representing the Redwood Shores Homeowners Association, advised that the Board of the Association made a presentation to the Planning Commission regarding the composition of the GID ~ Facility Fee Committee. Their proposal was to keep the three City staff members and replace the Developers with "one from the Redwood Shores Owners Association, one from Redwood Shores Business Owners Association, and one from the Redwood Shores Homeowners Association." He said that was the only change they would like to see made to the Development Agreement. He said he believed the first members of the Committee were City staff and residents of Redwood Shores, and only in 1984/85 was it changed to include three members from Redwood Shores Properties. Mr. Atherly said there will probably be several million dollars left at the expiration of the Development Agreement, and the Board believes the community should determine disposition of those funds, whether to payoff the bonds or undertake other projects in Redwood Shores. He added that the Agreement could be modified by a District election. He said the Report recommended changing the make-up of the Committee at a future date, and he suggested the Council fix January 1, 1998 as that date. In response to Council questions, Mr. Atherly described the constituencies of the three groups they would like represented on the Committee, and said he did not feel the Developers needed membership on that Committee as they would have representation through the Business Owners Association and the Redwood Shores Owners Association. ~ REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 55 JULY 14, 1997 MINUTES Page No. 459 PAGE 22