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Mayor Corbett: I'd just like to ask a question of Council Member Galvan - as you know and Bob knows, this process on this sale of this excess capacity has been going on 10 years, at least. And, whenever you have a negotiation that takes that long, you know there are the ideas that were put forward at that time -things have changed along Lewelling in those 10 years. And, you know we want to react to what's happening now on Lewelling. And, Gordon, you also know that this is a very - as you know -this is a very delicate issue because you have to have five yeses on this. So, is it your opinion - there are two things I want to ask -one is would making changes at this state jeopardize the five votes -getting the five votes to allow this process to go forward; and, I guess the other question is do you believe if we did not interject it as part of the negotiation for the actual agreement as it stands and we interjected our mitigation concerns as part of the EIR process and as part of the encroachment permit -that would not put us at risk to not achieve the mitigation? I know that's not an easy question to answer because we've been going down this road based on negotiations that happened several years ago and tried to respect those negotiations and also understand that Hayward did what it did during its EIR process and we did not because of the time period 10 years ago - it was not felt that it would be the right thing to do. The Council did vote on that. But, we do want to protect the concerns that Councilman Glaze is speaking to. So, how do we - it's very complicated -how do we deal with that? Council Member Galvan: I think, for one, I would love to go back to, I' m not sure who was on the Council then, but I would love to go back to the Council that made the determination..... (break in tape) we shouldn't go after - we shouldn't look at this as a October 20, 1997 -Verbatim Transcript, Item 6.A 12