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. . . - Committee which is already designated; and 4) The Environmental Scan will take a look at where we are now, and where do we want to be in five or ten years. The results will be --- published in an annual quality of life report to reflect that, and map the progress. F. Closing remarks by Richard Gordon Richard Gordon, Executive Director of Youth and Family Services, Trustee of the San Mateo County Board of Education, summarized the presentations and the proposals before the Council and Boards. Director Gordon, representing the Redwood City 2000 twenty- five member Coordinating Committee, assured everyone that the process "it is not having someone else telling us what to do. This process is about our own decision-making process. Redwood City 2000 is not some big government scheme, but it is local government organizing more effectively to use our resources. This is not someone else's prescription for our health, but developing our own definitions of quality of life for our community." Director Gordon said that everyone wants a viable economy, to live in safe and secure homes and neighborhoods, quality schools, and to live in a community that cares, and alluded to a modern day community spirited "barn raising." Director Gordon asked the Council and the Boards to "endorse the concept that we will work together as a community, to endorse the planning process that has been proposed and to endorse the selection process so that we can generate the community action team and the broad based planning group so we can move forward and create the kind of community we all want Redwood City to be in the year 2000 and beyond." ----------______nn______-----------------------------------------------------------------------------___n-------------- '- 6. PUBLIC COMMENT Chairperson Devincenzi introduced speakers in support of Redwood City 2000. A. Sterling Sperin, Director Peninsula Community Foundation, addressed everyone saying he knew them all by the goods work they do. Director Sperin said the Peninsula Community Foundation had over $112 million in assets and every year it gives at least $2.5 million to exciting projects on the Peninsula. Director Sperin said the best ideas and most zealous advocates trying to change and improve communities come to them first, and cited the countless number of grants operating in the Redwood City School District. He named many non-profit organizations operating in Redwood City, including the $80,000 grant to Sequoia High School, and said it was an honor for the Peninsula Community Foundation to support them. Director Sperin congratulated the individual agencies on their good works and Redwood City 2000 on its progress, and said "I hope that the Foundation will have an opportunity to support your good works collectively, because there is something special in Redwood City that I don't see anywhere else on the Peninsula in terms of an Elementary District, a High School District, a City and a County all coming together in one community." Director Sperin said his organization's middle name was "Community", and rarely did they have a request for a grant to build a '--- community. He said that 2.5 years ago the Foundation created "The Peninsula Partnership for Children, Youth and Family," with the hope that people would come Special Joint Council Meeting Minutes MINUTE BOOK NO. 54 March 18,1996 Page 6 Page No .127