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Mayor Frank Pagliaro convened the special
Burlingame city Council on the above date
Burlingame city HalI at 5:02 p.m.
study session of thein Conference Room B of
PRESENT: COUNCfLMEMBERS AMSTRUP, BARTON, LEMBf, MANGfNT, PAGTIARO
STAFF PRESENT: ARGYRES, KIRKUP, MONROE
1. REVIEW PRELIMINARY SAN MATEO COUNTY SALES TAX PROPOSALS--
JOINT CITY COUNTY TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE.
ounc]-Iman Amstrup questioned Mayor Pagliaro about the proposed
composition of the seven member transportation authority being dis-cussed as the administrative body for the sales tax money by theJoint City/County Transportation Committee. Mayor Pagliaro, chair-
man of the Joint city/County Transportatj-on Cornmittee, indicatedthat the current proposals are for a seven member authority made upof five city representatives selected by the City Selection Com-mittee and two members of the Board of Supervisors. The five city
members \^tould be chosen as follows: three from judicial districts,
one at large, and one city representative from the SamTrans Board.
No city could have two representatives . The authorityrs powerswould include whether or not to use sales tax funds to issue bonds
and the ability to shift funds between the projects in the proposed
transportation funding plan.
Councilman Amstrup indicated that he had discussed with a SamTransstaff member the amount of funds currently avail-able from the ex-isting one-hal-f cent sales tax which SamTrans receives. He statedthat SamTrans has programmed $75 million for calTrain and up to
$240 million for the BART extension to the airport. He questioned
hrhether the priorities for the existing SamTrans half-cent funds
are correct. Mayor Pagliaro agreed statj-ng he al-so felt that there
was not currently enough money in the County to do both the BART tothe airport project and support the expansion and continuation of
CaITrain.
Councilwoman Barton felt that Burlingamers posj-tion should be to
use SamTransr BART to the airport funds for CalTrain and that we
needed to pressure SamTrans. Mayor Pagliaro indicated that he
could support this position but the key meeting concerning theCalTrain extension to downtown San Francisco was the upcomingMetropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) meeting of January 27.
He believed that $re need to fight the SamTrans battle on their cur-rent priorities at another time.
Councilwoman Barton indicated that she !,ras pleased with the JointCity/county Transportation Committee's work and complimented theMayor. Mayor Pagliaro asked for Council- support concerningflexibility on the authorityrs membership indicating that he feltit may be better to have t\"ro representatives at Iarge. The Council
supported this position.
Councilman Amstrup reviewed with the Council his idea that the termof the sales tax should be reduced if projects on the list are
found not to be feasible. He suggested some type of sunset clause
where if projects are dropped, the number of years of taxation are
reduced. Council supported this idea but noted that there are cur-rently more projects on the list than dollars available, and forthat reason it might be difficult to secure approval of the sunset
concept from the whole coNnittee. Mayor Pagliaro agreed to review
the item with the corunittee.
Council then discussed the timetable for approval of the tax expen-
diture plan given the upcoming MTc meeting. CounciLman Amstrup
asked if there would be adequate time to review the plan if MTC
does not support the downtown San Francisco extension. Mayor
C]TY OF BURLINGAME
CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL STUDY MEETING
January 13, 1988, 5:00 p.m.
City HaIl Conference Room B
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Pagliaro felt that this would be possible, although the timetable
to make the June ballot was very tight. The general consensus of
the Council was to support the Joint City/County Transportation
Committee's proposed expenditure plan at the upcoming meetings.
2. LAFCo APPOINTMENT.theffiitssupportfortheappointmentofGaryortonof Belmont at the City Selection Committee meeting of January 22.
3. COUNCIL COMMENTS.counffiicatedthattheo1dPoIicestationwaSCur-rently on the market for $1.3 million.
6. FROIVI THE FLOOR.
There were no public comments from the floor.
ADJOURNMENT
meffiy meeting was adj ourned at 5 : 5 5 p. m.
Judith A. Mal
City Clerk
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