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The Town currently has three retirees who receive a health benefit or three percent of the number of employees who had been enrolled. Retirees must enroll in a CalPERS • Medicare plan when they are qualified to do so. These plans have a lower premium than the basic health plan. The City Council thanked Joiner for her excellent report and noted that the benefit and post retirement health insurance costs were modest in comparison to other agencies. 5.3 Consideration of Letter to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Agency Regarding their long Term Transit Capital Investment Program Mayor Pro Tem Kerr requested that the language in the draft letter be amended to reflect the possibility of future consideration and compromise while confirnling the Council's desire to encourage the VTA to develop a credible "no sales tax" increase alternative Capital Investment Program to permit the Town and voters to assess the appropriateness of any sales tax increase. Council briefly discussed the different revision options to the draft letter. They agreed to add the language "at this time" to the second paragraph and to amend the first paragraph to leave room for future discussion. Staff was directed to make the modifications and forward the revised letter to Mayor Pro Tem Kerr and Councilmember Jones for their review and comment. MOTION SECONDED AND CARRIED: Moved by Kerr, seconded by Warshawsky and . passed unanimously to send a revised letter to the VTA that incorporated modifications as identified by Mayor Pro Tem Kerr and Councilmember Jones. 5.4w A and of Contracts for Emergency Communication Antenna Facility at the La Cresta Water Tower Site-Approval of an Agreement with Cotton, Shires and Associates,Inc. for Geotechnical Investigation of Pavement Distress on Elena Road-Resolution No. 38-05 Former City Engineer Dave Ross introduced this item to Council. He reported that the item before Council was a solution to thero osed tower improvements on the Purissima P p P Hills Water District property which would provide a repeater antenna that would assist in the collection and transmission of information in the field for Town staff in the Emergency Operations Center. The proposed project would complete the radio communications facility for the Town's emergency communications. Ross believed it was a good solution at a reasonable price. Dru Anderson, Emergency Communications Committee Chair, explained that her Committee had worked closely with Town staff and the Water District to develop the proposal that would locate the repeater antenna facility at a permanent site on the La Cresta water tank site. She acknowledged that the Committee was in concurrence with the proposal. Anderson introduced Committee members Scott Overstreet and Jim Abraham who had participated in the development of the proposal. • 6 City Council Meeting Minutes May 5,2005