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Altos Hills and it was important to promote cultural events in Town. Councilmember O'Malley expressed that he was comfortable with a $5,000.00 commitment. Council consensus was that this was not a charitable donation and should not be included in the grant process. MOTION SECONDED AND CARRIED: Moved by Mordo, seconded by Jones and passed unanimously (5-0) to approve the request for $10,000 as the "Presenting Sponsor" for the 2007 Summer Concert Series. 9.2 Consideration of Authorization for Seeking Bid for Public Opinion Survey Firm to Conduct Resident Survey in Regards to Resident Opinion on Various Residential Development Issues—Mayor Pro Tem Jones and Councilmember Mordo Planning Director Debbie Pedro introduced this item to Council. Council had before them a request for authorization to contract professional services for a community preference survey on site development and zoning standards. Pedro reported that staff had been working with Mayor Pro Tem Jones and Councilmember Mordo to develop a community opinion survey. Several of the questions had been based on a previous survey conducted in 2001. Categories in the current survey included: grading, outdoor lighting, estate homes, and open space easements. Following completion of the final draft, a professional consultant would be engaged to review the questions to ensure that they were objective and to conduct the telephone survey of residents. Council discussed the option of returning the survey questions to Council for their review. Mayor Pro Tem Jones offered that the option of a postcard survey or a professionally conducted survey needed to be resolved. Both Jones and Mordo supported the professional survey noting that it was the most representative and the results would have more validity. Councilmember O'Malley expressed an interest in reviewing the questions. Kerr offered that he preferred polling that retained objectivity. He feared that the survey would become politicized if the questions were made public before the survey was conducted. Jones commented that the subjects were not new and he did not believe that a review of the questions would be detrimental to the survey. Mayor Warshawsky questioned if the request for funding was adequate for the survey. Pedro explained that she had received a quote for approximately $15,000.00 and believed the allocation was adequate. MOTION SECONDED AND CARRIED: Moved by Jones, seconded by Mordo and passed unanimously to authorize staff to seek bids for and hire a firm to assist in the evaluation of resident attitudes towards various development issues as identified in the staff memo and to return to the City Council a draft of the survey questions for their review. 10. PRESENTATIONS FROM THE FLOOR None 12 City Council Meeting Minutes February 8,2007