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• Minutes - San Leandro City Council Meeting - April 6, 1992 Page - 22 - PUBLIC HEARINGS (continued) ) Council Member Glaze asked if the City Council would be required to impose a mitigation program if the School District did not develop a plan with Citation. Steve Meyers, City Attorney, said, yes, the Conditions required that if no resolution of this issue is accomplished between the School District and the City, the City Council cannot approve the project, or, it can approve the project and determine the level of mitigation in excess of statutory fees. Council Member Polvorosa asked if all of the students would attend San Leandro Unified School District. Mr. Tubbs said San Lorenzo Unified School District had indicated it did not want to take students from the development. Council Member Perry asked questions regarding the need to provide auxiliary staff, such as crossing guards, and at playgrounds. Mr. Tubbs said they already had crossing guards but they knew that buses would be needed to transport students. Martin Vitz, East Bay Regional Park District, Advance Planning Manager, noted the District's April 3 letter. He said the District recognizes the regional value of the site as open space and the shoreline trail and the national significance of the site as a wetland area. He said they are willing to take on management of the site and referred to his letter. He said they did require that there be a fully integrated management plan, a formal management agreement, a means of funding the operations of the site, and the assurance that the discovery of toxics would not undo any of the above. Council Member Santos said many people felt the District should have taken more of a leadership role in development of the site. He said it sounds like the Park District wants to come away with a program for which it has no financial liability and no cost to the District. He said funding sources are to come from other agencies. Mr. Vitz said they realized they cannot avoid all costs but they want to find a way to fund the Park, the basic management costs, such as through an assessment district. Council Member Faria asked if the District wanted to be able to form its own assessment district. Mr. Vitz said, although they are legally empowered to do so, they would prefer to participate in a City-formed assessment district. Council Member Faria asked what assurance there was that the State Lands Commission would give East Bay Regional Park District the authority to operate the site.