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City Manager Everett described the meeting he and Engineering Manager Patterson had with Mr. Atherly and Mrs. Ford and their discussion of perhaps using the remaining funds for capital projects rather than paying off the bonds. He said they discussed "a task force be cast to try to determine that question. If there is a desire to do something else with those monies, and we see that with broad base support, then I think we would want to start discussion with the developer" to change that last option for remaining funds. City Manager Everett said, "You won't find a big concern on our part, we just want to make sure that, we don't want to change it and then have a group of people come in and say 'that's not how we want it.' " In response to Councilwoman La Berge's questions regarding the City's membership on the committee, City Manager Everett advised that he, Senior Engineer Chang and Senior Account Weinstock are voting members, but different staff members sit in at different times depending on the subject. When parks are considered, Parks, Recreation and Community Services Director Griffiths is always there. Mayor Hartnett said that "given that this was a trilateral agreement, in respect to a bilateral one that can't be extended unless it is mutually agreed to, and I think we all agree that it is important to extend it for a whole host of reasons, in terms of a public participation whereby people would have a meaningful opportunity to give advice and recommendations either to the committee itself, or to the Council sitting as the GID 1- 64 Board, when it is time for us to exercise discretion, is there a practical way of doing that so a committee would not just be window dressing?" City Manager Everett said the first question to be answered is, do the residents want to payoff the bonds or do capital improvement projects with any remaining funds. "If the decision is to do projects with that money and not pay off the bonds early, then it seems to me, within the constraints the City Attorney mentioned, the citizens ought to be the ones to articulate what those issues are, not us or Mr. Warren or anyone else." City Manager Everett said it was his hope that that decision could be made, and priorities set, and articulated by the residents to the City and the Committee. He said the committee met quarterly, a little more around budget time, and he would see to it that the committee meetings were open to public participation and in an accessible place. He said a great deal of engineering work and financial talk is done with City and Developer's counterparts before the meetings, but all the issues are debated and decided upon at the meetings. City Manager Everett said, "All the projects that the City has in the GID 1-64 at this point in time, we have reserve money for." He said the levee system might need additional funding since so much of the funds were spent on the review process. Mayor Hartnett said, "As a practical matter it is difficult to craft a system of public input tonight that might make practical sense. Also, we need to get the Development Agreement, both as a practical and a legal matter, we need to get it extended. I wonder if it might be reasonable to extend the Development Agreement as is, but with us as a REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 55 WLY 14, 1997 MINUTES Page No. 464 PAGE 27