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Minutes - City of San Leandro City Council and Page - 10 - Redevelopment Agency Meeting - August 5, 1996 4.9 Lou Filipovich, 15376 Laverne Drive: Take into consideration Item 5.3, Resolution approving contractual services agreement with the Chamber of Commerce for the Leadership Program. I would like to see that put off. That should be further discussed for the simple reason based on the City Charter. The Charter specifies that the City is run on a non - partisan basis, and this type of program clearly has an appearance of partisanship. It should be non - partisan and is partisan, and is not apply or giving all people a chance to participate. That is a statement not an argument. We are talking about the budget. I want to address debt. It is going to be astronomical the minute we add another $21 million from Residence Inn. We are going to be something like $73 million. One paper referred to it as a town meeting, the other as a community meeting. The meeting itself didn't get anything resolved. What I would like to suggest, in -house financing, and would like to suggest that we add another amount to the bond, rounding off based on the City population. The other $72 million, you give one million to every San Leandro citizen, we will put the money up in a fund. We will put it into an investment and then they can pay all the bills and all the taxes that will accumulate to pay off our debt. That should be given some serious thought. If in -house financing, I have talked to some in the financing business and it is staggering. We are not thinking the $91 million bomb, we are going to have oodles of sales tax money; we will be able to pay for it all. So we will raise from $21 to $90 million. However, if we don't do something about the debt, you are not going to get nothing done in this City because the base for revenue earning is not compensatory for the majority of people. 6. CONSENT CALENDAR Consent Calendar items are typically routine in nature and are considered for approval by the City Council with one single action. The City Council may remove items from the Consent Calendar for purposes of discussion. Items listed on the Consent Calendar are deemed to have been read by title. Items 5.3 and 5.7 were removed from the Consent Calendar to New Business, and the remaining items on the Consent Calendar were approved as follows: M /5 /C Polvorosa and Galvan. Ayes: 7; Noes: 0 5.1 Minutes of the Meetings of June 3, 10, 19, and 26, 1996. Approved as submitted. 5.2 Minutes of the San Leandro Redevelopment Agency Meeting of June 17, 1996. Approved as submitted. 5.3 Approving Contractual Services Agreement with San Leandro Chamber of Commerce for Leadership San Leandro Program (provides funding for Chamber of Commerce to conduct "Leadership San Leandro Program" to educate emerging community leaders about current and future community needs and concerns). Removed from the Consent Calendar to New Business.