Notes from the Chair, Scott Hasson, re the meeting on January 8, 2008:

I wanted to send this out as a reminder of the plan for tonight's meeting on how the meeting will be conducted.

It is my intention to ensure that everyone gets an equal opportunity to participate in the discussions and still meet our deadline to provide the TCC our top two recommendations for use of the city-owned land near the Clairemont Mesa Blvd/Interstate 15 intersection before the Jan 16 meeting.

We will not do any approval of any minutes tonight, all the minutes from november, december and this meeting in January will be approved in February to save time.

After our pledge of allegiance and quorum call, I will ask for all of you to submit a list of pros and cons for each of the five listed alternatives in writing. Each of you will then have 5 minutes (one minute per option) to explain your reasons for the public record.  With 16 people, this should take no more than 1.5 hours. You can certainly decline the opportunity to speak and simply submit your written reasons.

At the end of this discussion, I will ask all voting members to rank the five options, with “1” being most preferred and “5” being least preferred.  We will tally all the votes, and the top two most preferred options will be our committee’s recommendation to the TCC. We’ll confirm this with a motion at the end of the meeting, then adjourn soon afterwards.  I expect this to take no more than 30 minutes.

Following the meeting, I will ensure a packet is given to the TCC that will include all unedited, written comments of pros and cons presented by committee members as well as the unofficial meeting minutes and the results of both the ranking of alternatives by voting members and the results of the motion.  This packet will be discussed tonight at the end of the meeting so we can agree on what to include.

Everyone got a copy of the agenda via previous email, I will have copies for the meeting tonight.

Remember this is the only item on the agenda.  We also will have a meeting On Feb 12, 2008 to discuss the outcome of the TCC meeting, and discuss our next items to work on.  I will be sending out requests for agenda items for the meeting in february, in late January.

Thank you all again for your sacrifice and dedication to this process. You are making a significant and positive difference for Tierrasanta, and consider it a privilege to work with all of you.