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CITY COUNCIL MINUTES - June 15, 1983 D. SPECIAL REPORTS: e 3. Reports from the Planning Commission: Planning Commissioner lachenbruch commented on the role of the Planning Commission during the budget process and suggested that the Commission be consulted when major fiscal and or personnel changes were being decided. Iachenbruch also commented on the Commission's review of the landscape policy and the issue of how to enforce it. 4. Comments from the Council: a) Mayor van Tamelen - Intergovernmental Council van Tamelen reported that as a result of the IGC meeting she had referred two matters to staff for reports, i.e. amendments to the Solid Waste Management Plan of Santa Clara County and the BASS recommendation. These matters would be aqendized for a July meeting. van Tamelen also commented that IGC did not endorse 'Project Independence' at its meeting. b) Councilman Allison - Solid Waste Management Board Allison referred to his 6/12/83 report which was before Council (on file at Town Hall) and strongly urged attendance at the 6/29/83 seminar being held by the Solid Waste Managenent Authority. Due to some confusion the Board had not yet agendized the resolution adopted by the City Council which recaarended and urged the Board to amod the Joint Exercise of Pavers Agreement to permit withdrawal of a party upon payment of a share of project feasibility report costs. Mr. Tam Henderson stated this would agendized in the near future. PASS® BY ODRSENSUS: to authorize Councilman Allison to submit the following two alternatives (as detailedin his 6/12/83 report) to the Solid Waste Management Board for their consideration: 1) in cooperation with Mountain View, develop a resource recovery facility to service both that city and the SVM in the North Bayshore Area: and 2) develop a regional solution, to meet the needs of the whole: Peninsula and North County area, perhaps by expanding the scope of the Redwood City proposal, or by building two plants at the same tome, each of which could provide backup for the other. c) Councilman Perkins - Report on Housing Workshop, ABAG, May 25, 1983 Perkins noted that the housing issue was an important one which seemed to be in a state of flux. To date no specific instructions had been received from the Governor's office and there my be some future changes. However, it was important for the Town to continue corking on the housing element. Particular emphasis needed to be placed on the secondary dwelling matter which needed a decision by early July. Perkins commented that at the workshop there had been an excellent speaker, Ms. Straus - City Attorney of Napa, and it might be worthwhile to arrange to have her speak in the future to the Planning Commission and other appropriate groups. PASSED BY CONSENSUS: to authorize Dr. Perkins to arrange for Ms. Straus to speak to representatives of the Town at the appropriate time. -4-