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Home My WebLink About06021975Regular Meeting June 2, 1975 ITEM Minutes of April 28, 1975 Oral Communications Resignation of Glen Schofield - Human Relations Commission Consent Calendar - Action Items Ordinance Changing Classification of Zoning of All Properties Located East of Bayshore Freeway Ordinance Changing Zoning Classification Property at 2450 East Bayshore Road Garden Terrace Annexation No, 4 Reroofing Certain City Structures: Award of Bid Consent Calendar -- Referral Items Rental of City -Owned Residential Properties and Power Parcels 620-626 Loma Verde Avenue, Appeal of John B. Dougherty for a Miscellaneous Division of Land (3 Lets) 919 Oregon Avenue, Miscellaneous Division of Land (2, lots) Appeal of Willir,m S. and Beverly B. Crowell AR 1672 - Residential Landlord aid Tenant Act AB 175 - To Limit Fees Charged by th State of California to Day Care Centers 625 El Canino Real (Holiday Inn) Application of Pacific Hotel Development Ventura to Amend P -C Development Plan Squire Bouae Preservation: Award of Bid Sale of Parking District Land - San Francisco Federal Savings Eleanor Pardee Park Expansion Assembly Bill 1754 (Metropolitan Transportation Commission: West Bay Corridor) PAGDAB/Narconon Oral Communications Adjournment 1293 6/2/73 1 PAGE 1 2 9 6 1296 1 2 9 6 1 2 9 6 1 2 9 6 1 2 9 7 1 2 9 7 1 2 9 7 1 2 9 7 1 2 9 7 1 2 9 7 1298 1 2 9 8 1 2 9 8 1 2 9 9 1299 1 3 0 0 1 3 0 1. 1301 1 3 0 2 1 3 3 3 1 /1 A 8 1 T 1 June 2, 1975 The City Council of the City of Palo Alto met on this date at 7:40 p.m. in a regular meeting with Vice Mayor Henderson presiding. Present: Beahrs, Berwald, Comstock, Henderson, Pearson, Norton, Clay (arrived 7:55 p.m.) Absent: Rosenbaum, Sher %Minutes of Aril 28. /975, MOTION: Councilman Berwald moved, seconded by Comstock, that the minutes of the Council meeting of April 28, 1975 be approved as submitted. The motion passed on a unanimous vote. (Clay net arrived) Oral Communications mmommmiummemamommmmmemedi None. Resignation of Glen Schofield a Vice Mayor Henderson reported that a request had been received from Glen Schofield that Council accept his resignation from the Palo Alto Human Relations Commission effective May 31, 1975. Mr. Schofield is roving out of the city. MOTION: Councilman Comstock moved, seconded by Berwald, that the resignation of Glen Schofield from the Aenran Relation_ rammdscion be accepted with regret. The motion noosed on a tan__fg.nn* '"te. (Clay not arrived) c onaa.nt C& r - Act1 It Vice Mayor Henderson asked if Council were ready to vote on the Consent Calendar. Vice Mayor Henderson asked that Item 3 of the Consent Calendar be removed to become 11-A on the agenda. Itesr� 1, 2, 4, and 5 were left for approval on the Consent Calendar. G , East 0 • _ye re eeay, . ' .OBOIBAIMME )1i0. 2856 entitled "ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO AMENDING SECTION 18.08.040 OF TSB PALO ALTO 1N ICIPAL CODE TO CHANGE THE ZONING 1296 6/2/75 CLASSIFICATION OF ALL PROPERTIES LOCATED EAST OF DAYSHORL FREEWAY FROM C -3-S AND P -F TO C -3 -S -D AND P -F -D" aainance Ch ica�• ::;: roperty at East B� yshore Road ORDINANCE NO. 2857 entitled "ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO AMENDING SECTION 18.08.040 OF THE PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE TO CHANGE THE ZONING CLASSIFICATION OF CERTAIN PROPERTY KNOWN AS 2450 EAST BAYSHORE ROAD FROM L -M -D TO P -C, SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS" Garden Terrace Annexation No ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF TIiF CITY OF PALO ALTO APPROVING THE ANNEXATION OF CERTAIN UNINHABITED TERRITORY DESIGNATED AS GARDEN TERRACE ANNEXATION NO. 4 (first reading) oofing Certain City Structu Staff recommends that the Mayor be authorized to execute a contract with Shelton Roofing Company on behalf of the City of Palo Alto. The Consent Calendar was adopted on a unanimous vote, (Clay not arrived.) Consent Calendar -Referral tam tai of city --C •� eia 3 nt s _ronerriaa and Ptr. r Pam;i �CMR:332:5) Staff recommends that the rental charges and implementation processes for rental of city -owned residential. properties (Webster Block, Downtown Park North Block) end power percale be referred to the Policy and Procedures Committee. The Consent Calendar referral item passed on a unanimous vote. (Clay not arrived.) west to Table As I as 7 Vice Mayor Henderson moved, seconded by Comstock, that Item 7 concerning the Policy and Procedures Committee recommendation regarding PACDAB7Narconan Le tabled. The motion passed on a unanimous vote. (Clay not arrived.) ((;.C{-) _______Vic*_ mayor Sanderson stated that a matter had bssn received stating that Mr. Dougherty via out -of -tows and would appreciate it if this itsn could be continued until his return. 1267 612175 The Planning Commiseipn,..by-a vote of six in favor (one absent), recommends denial. of-tI appeal of John B. Dougherty for a Miscellaneous Division of Laud (3 lots) for property located at 620-626 Lone Verde Avenue. MOTION: Councilman Comstock moves seconded by Berwald, that this matter be continued unti/ the first Council meeting in August. The motion to continue passed on the following vote: AYES: Beahrs, Bert:ald, Comstock, Henderson, Pearson NOES: Horton 9 venue cell :l=o Division of Land of Wild = S . a ANINIMIr 2 lots A eal ever y rowel. Vice Mayor Henderson read a letter that had been received requesting that this matter be continued. MOTION: Councilman Comstock moved, seconded by Beahrs, that this agenda item be continued for one week. The motion to continue passed on a unanimous vote. (Clay not arrived.) #,B 1672 -- The Residential Landlord and Tenant Act Vice Mayor Henderson stated that the Human Relations Commission unanimously recommended that Council support AB 1672 - The Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. `` MOTION: Councilman Beahrs moved, seconded by Comstock, that Council support AB 1672 and that this action be communicated to appropriate state legislators. The motion passed on the following vote: AYES: Beahrs, Berwald, Comstock, Henderson;, Pearson NOES: Norton (Clay not arrived.) t 75 ----To i--i m{ t pees Charted ' by the Tate of California to Dav Care Centera Vice Mayor Henderson stated that the Human Relations Commission unanimously recommended that Council support AB 175 which will limit fees charged by the State of California to day care centers. MOTION: Councilman Beaters moved, seconded by Comstock, that Council support AB 175 and that this support be communicated to appropriate state legislators and.o Governor Brown. The motion parsed on the following vote: AYES: Beahrs, Berwald, Comstock, Henderson, Pearson ABSTAIN: Norton (Clay not arrived.) L29$ 6/2/75 625 El Camino Real (Holiday Inn) A pp ),ication of Pacific Hotel Development Venture to Amend P -C Development Plan ' • r T Vice Mayor Henderson s'cated that the 1. 4.ng Commission, by a vote of five in favor (one abstaining and oc.c absent), adopts ReLolution No. 190 recommending denial of the application of Pacific Hotel Development Venture to amend the P -C District Development Plan applying to 625 El Camino Real (holiday Inn) to allow signs, tennis courts and other changes. Mr. Clement Chen of the Holiday Inn requested by letter that this matter be continued until some time after the end of June. Councilman Comstock asked staff if Council's continuing the matter would in any way undermine the city's position, on items that were being held until Council's position was known, for subsequently enforcing those if the Planning Commission recommendation were eventually upheld. George Sipel, City Manager, responded that this would create no problem. MOTION: Councilman Beahrs moved, seconded by Berwald, that this matter be continued until the first meeting in August. The motion passed on a unanimous vote. (Clay not arrived.) Squire House Preservation: Award of Bid Vice Mayor Henderson stated that Council had before it the award of bid and the ordinance to amend the budget to provide additional funds for the project. Councilman Beahrs asked if reorganizing the building structurally would destroy the pose:hility of its being used in the future for public purposes. Mr. Sipel said he did not think so. Councilman Beahra wondered whether it would be feasible to provide materials and have the labor done on Squire House on a sweat equity arrangement. Mr. Sipel responded this approach was nit out of the question. The contract under consideration will provide for the basic improvements; but if someone wanted to bring the building up to living standards, a sweat equity program could be worked out. Paul Kerr, 360 Forest Avenue, said that at last there is a matting between the bids that have been submitted and the requirements that have been established by the staff; and this laid the groundwork for mandatory repairs. Mr. Kerr thought those mandatory repairs ought to be made promptly regardless of what is finally done with Squire House. Once the basic improvements are completed, suggestions can be considered as to just what the best use would be for the property. Mr. Kerr felt the project was a worthwhile one, and it should be carried out. MOT/ON: Councilman Berwald introduced the following ordinance and moved, seconded by Beahrs, that it be approved for first reading; ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE C1TY OF PALO ALTO AMENDING THE WNW FOR FISCAL YEAR 1974-7, TO PROVIDE Ann/Timm. IMINTIS mit p!GJ!CT71-92 SQUIEm loess BISARILITATION i 1 1 1299_ 6/2/73 and that the recor.rended staff alterratee be approved. Councilman Berwald recalled that ha had stated in the past that Council needed to be careful that it did not invest a great amount of money into this property and possibly take a loss on it if it were to be sold. It was incumbent upon this Council and the succeeding; one to resolve this question at the earliest possible time in either providing the use of the Squire House to those who had voluntarily donated their funds to it or in disposing of the property at the appropriate time and putting the .money into trust for those who had made the contributions. Councilman Berwald thought the former course would be the one desired by those who, with the help of the city, provided funds for an historical hoagie, to protect the building and grounds and have an asset that could be used by senior citizens. He hoped that could be done without the expenditure of a large amount of money. Vice Mayor Henderson said he would be voting against this motion. A budget of $70,000 was being talked about for the rehabilitation of Squire House. This action would be adding $48,000 to it, making a total of $118,000 which would take care of only the most basic repairs. If the property were, indeed, to be used as a center for senior citizens, the total cost would be something on the order of $400,000. Vice Mayor Henderson felt from the beginning that this was rot the way he wanted to spend city funds, and he would continue to vote "no" on the subject. The ordinance, to amend the budget, requiring six votes, failed on the following vote: AYES: Beahrs, Berwald, Clay, Comstock, Norton NOES: Henderson, Pearson MOTION: Councilman Comstock moved, seconded by Clay, that the matter be reconsidered for purposes of continuance. AYES: Beahrs, Berwald, Clay, Comstock, Norton NOES: Henderson, Pearson MOTION: Councilman Comstock moved, secondea by Norton, that consideration of Squire House preservation be continued for one week. The motion to continue passed on the following vote: AYES: Beware, Berwald, Clay, Comstock, Norton NOES; Henderson, Pearson Sale of Parking District Land - San Pranciaco Federal Savings (CMR:336:5) MOTION: Councilman Comstock introduced the following resolution and moved, seconded by Berwald, its adoption: RESOLUTION N0. 5092 entitled "A RESOLUTION OF ormsnom TO MAKE CAGES AND MODIFICATIONS - CALIFORNIA AVENUE DISTRICT OFFSTHBET PARKING PROJECT NO. 60-8"(aatting data of July 7th for baarin) a a -v -v 6/2/75 re r.e:;olutfon was adopted on a unanimous vote. MOTION: Councilman Comstock moved, seconded by Norton, that staff be directed to prepare an agreement with San Francisco Federal regerding the sale of city -owned property and the realignment of the alley at the expense of San Francisco Federal. The proceeds from the sale of the property and compensation for the lost parking spaces should be allocated to a parking project in the assessment district area. This agreement would be placed on the Council agenda for action at the same meeting that the public hearing to abandon the parking spaces is held. The motion passed on a unanimous -vote. Eleanor Pardee Park Expansion (CMR:330:5) Vice Mayor Henderson stated that Council had before it an ordinance to amend the budget and a recommendation from staff that this matter might appropriately be referred to the Finance and Public Works Committee. He invited members of the audience to addree Council on this subject. Gordon Hayward, 1040 Channing Avenue, was surprised to see that the cost of the plan had almost douSled; and he thought the plan wa.s a disservice to the people of the park neighborhood, as well as to the City of Palo Alto, in that everyone was being asked to share the estimated cost of $335,000 for a neighborhood park. John Fredrich, 157 Bryant Street, urged Council to refer this matter to the Finance and Public Works Committee for over-all review of the Parks and Recreation Capital Improvements Program. He pointed out there were other definite needs in this area, Ruch as a downtown park. MOTION: Councilman Berwald moved, seconded by Beahrs, that the matter of the expansion of Eleanor Pardee Park be referred to the Finance and Public Works Committee. Councilman Berwald realized that this subject has been through the Finance and Public Works Committee and has received a tremendous amount of discussion. Normally, he would not move to have it sent back to that Committee; but in view of the fact that the budget was presently being evaluated, Councilman Berwald thought it would be appropriate to have the Finance and Public Works Committee examine this particular proposal in conjunction with examining the budget. The referral motion passed on a unanimous vote. itrzatiiv 4±11 1754 (Metropolitan TranannrttaHnti ssion: Nest Bay Corridor) MOTION: Councilman Beahrs saved, seconded by Comstock, that Council endorse AB 1754 and authorize the Mayor to write to appropr{mot legislators and local and regional officials expressing Palo Alto's support. The motion passed on the following vote: AYES: Beahrs, Clay, Comstock Henderson, Pearson ABSTAIN: Berwald (Norton out.) 1301 6/2/75 Re ueat to Remove Item 7 from the T&_ble_ MOTION: Vice Mayor Henderson moved, ser:onded by Beahrs, &.hat Agenda Item 7 be removed from the table. The motion passed on a unanimous vote. PACDAB/Narconon (CYR:338:5) emeneememmemeemeeme Vice Mayor Henderson retorted that since the Policy and Procedures Committee discussed this subject a staff report had been received from Mr. Walker and Mr. Sipel, a recommendation from the Youth Advisory Council, a letter from John H. Zenger, a letter from The Bridge, and a large packet of letters all of which appeared to be in support of the present program. Councilwoman Pearson, Chairwoman of the Policy and Procedures Committee, stated that the recommendation before Council was that which came out of the Committee. Councilmembers also had an evaluation of the PACDAB program, an evaluation of Narconon, and a eerie of recommended actions. The Policy and Procedures Committee heard resumes of these reports, and they heard from the public for several hours. Councilwoman Pearson noted that at the Committee meeting, only those persons in favor of the program were heard from even though there were many members in the audience who vociferously worked against the program for the last few months. She hoped that those pereons would stand up tonight and give their convictions. Councilwoman Pearson also noted in the PACDAB report that The Collective had met all the goals of its contract with the city and had even exceeded some of them. This was accomplished during a period when The Collective had to move from downtown Ramona to its present location on Emerson Street. The Collective also had to endure remodeling of the inside of the building, which was a deterrent to the program; but they still performed their expected duties. The Committee was aware that it was difficult to evaluate the Narconon proposal, and staff had to rely on Narconon's own evaluation as to its effectiveness. With regard to PACDAB, staff relied upon the J. F. Kennedy Institute evaluation. The Policy and Procedures Committee failed to determine whether or not PACDAB should be refunded, and the Committee was not able to negotiate with PACDAB regarding the so-called politics that particular evening. The staff and the Policy and Procedures Committee recommendations are the same as Items (a) and (b) on the agenda and different for (c) and (d). Item (c) cans for funding a drug program at the same level as present, and :his does not allow for arly inflation at all or for new expenses. Item (d) suggests that simultaneously the staff search for other contractors in addition to, or instead of PACDAB, and that staff and PACDAB determine whether a position regarding political involvement by PACDAB acceptable to City Council could be reached. This motion cones to Council on a two -to -one vote. Councilwoman Pearson did not support the motion because she thought Council should determine first whether or not it wants to fund PACDAB; and if it does not, then seek new contractors. She read the motion as follows from the Committee: a) That the Council indicate the types of drug services that it wishes to provide during 1975-76 and that these be counseling, detoxification, crisis intervention, hotline and education and prevention activities; 1 3 0 2 6/2/75 b) That the maximum amount of the funding for a total program for 1975 -?6 fiscal year be the name as, rather than similar to, 1974-75 contract figures; c) That the Council seriously consider other contractors either in addition to or instead of PACDAB within the total amount of funding indicated and that a request for proposals be circu- lated in the manner suggested by staff; d) That the contract with PACDAB be continued on a month -to -month basis at the current monthly rate until the Council selects a contractor or contractors, but that no new contract with PACDAB be executed until there is substantially improved understanding with the Council as to the manner and extent of the Collective's political involvement. Vice Mayor Henderson invited Mr. Seedman to make a statement for the Youth Advisory Council. Tory Seedman said that before he made the recommendations of the Youth Advisory Council, he wanted to make an observation regarding the atmosphere in which the City Council's decision will he made on the fate of the Drug Abuse Program. It is unfortunate, and yet it must be recognized, that the debate concerning the Drug Abuse Program has been focused predominantly on political and ideological matters rather than on the need of those who require the services of an effective Drug Abuse Program. Because the Youth Advisory Council considers the main objective to be that of insuring the continuation of useful and effective anti- drug abuse services, the YAC has mace a careful effort to take an objective view in formulating its recommendations. These recommendations do not ignore the validity of the community's concern with what has been termed "political statements" on behalf of the Drug Abuse Program. YAC.offered the following recommendations in the interest of the young people of Palo Alto and the entire community, as well. Mr. Seedman stated that YAC adopted the recommendations unanimously et its meeting held on May 29th when it heard presentations by Gary Fazzino, city staff liaison to the Drug Abuse Program; Bruce Bernstein, a staff member of The Collective; and Mr. Nate Jessup, Administrative Director of Narconon. The recommendations are as follows: 1. The City Council should maintain the same services as in 1974-75, and that these should be counseling, detoxification, crisis intervention, hotline,education, and prevention. YAC feels that these services are legitimate and very necessary for a good drug abuse program. 2. The amount of looney budgeted should remain basically the same as in 1974-75, taking into account the inflation factor; but some adjustment should be made because of last year's inflation. 3. It would be well for City Council to acknowledge- that PACDAB has met its 1974-75 contractual obligations. This conclusion has been reached by the city staff, and this kind of acknowledgement is vital if Council is to separate the so-called 1,ot i t;1l _issse 4, ---ale _City- Council should contract with PACDAB for services noted in the first recommendation, incorporating into the contract the following standards: (m) All public statements made on behalf of the Drug Abuse Program shall be approved by PACDAB, (b) Public statements by the Palo Alto Drug Abuse Program shall be limited to the causes, treatment, and prevention of drug abuse, (c) Printed 1303 6/2/75 e 1 material circulated or provided by the Drug Abuse Program shall first be approved by PACDAB, and (d) None of these standards shall be applied to individual members of the Palo Alto Drug Abuse Board or its employees when such members make statements as individuals provided that they indicate they are not acting in an official capacity, either as members or employees of PACDAB or the City of Palo Alto. YAC felt that recommendation No. 4 would provide the City Council with a responsible group to whom it can express its desires and yet preserve an independence of the program from political pressures it pus upon itself. 5. MC believes that first the City Council should decide the fate of the PACDAB program; and if it decides not to cont°ict with PACDAB for the next year, it should seek other programs to be evaluated by staff or independent agencies. It was YAC's hope that the program would be refunded, and they felt it etas in the beat interests of the entire community to have an effective program es has been demonstrated by the J. P. Kennedy report that relates to PACDAB. Carleen Bedvell, Director of Social and Community Services, reported that staff took the discussion at the Policy and Procedures Committee, the comments made by the Council members and representatives of the Corporation, and met with PACDAB and The Collective to develop political guidelines that would address issues such as those in the past that had been troublesome in the community. Council members had before them the material that came out of those diacussious, and it is contract language suggested by PACDAB. Members of the Corporation and staff would speak to it and explore it with Council. Mrs. Bedweli wanted Council to know that from staff's point of view, the concep�s in the document are those which staff can support although some of the specific language needs more work. She explained that the reason this was brought before Council this evening and the reason staff was agreeable about supporting it was that this material representa the best effort thus far of the Corporation and staff to address the concerns heard from the community and Council. The contract language needs amplification, and the Corporation would probably do that at this meeting. Beyond that, it would be useful for staff to know if this were the sort of material Council had been looking for and represented :he action*% Council felt wen' necessary in order for the city to continue to do business with PACDAB. If this information is not sufficient, then Mrs. Bedvell felt staff and PACDAB should have more direction from Council. The staff supports the statement and the intent behind it, and it represents an operational way to address what staff understood to be some of the problems. Vice Mayor Henderson read the proposed amendment to the City-PACDAB contract as follows: "Pursuant to the Corporation's By -Laws, its Board of Directors has responsibility for all policies, actions and activities of the Corporation. In exercising that responsibility: (a) The Corporation shall undertake to research and provide to the community responsible information in the following areas: (1) The extent, scope and nature of drug abuse in this community and society. (2) The availability of particular drugs. (3) Where these drugs coat's from. 1304 6/2173 (4) The effects of drugs on individuals and society. (5? Why people use drugs. r (6) Practical suggestions for drug abuse education, prevention and treatment. Any proposed formal statement or major action in the above six areas shall be submitted to the Board for consideration prior to issuance or other action. The Board shall direct the staff not to issue such a statement or take such an action which it believes is inappropriate under the terms of this agreement. (b) The Corporation may undertake to research and provide to the community responsible information in other areas which are directly related to drug abuse. Any proposed formal statement or major action in such areas shall be approved by the Board prior to issuance rr other action." Vice Mayor Henderson stated that a full public hearing was held on this subject at the May 20th meeting of the Policy and Procedures Committee, and Councilmembers had receivers complete minutes of that meeting. The purpose of Committee meetings is to allow full discussions on individual subjects. The Council reads the discussions, seeks any new information from staff and public, and then has time to deliberate and rke a decision. Obviously many people wanted to speak again; this was their right, and they would be given that opportunity. Since so very many people wanted to address Council, Vice Mayor Henderson asked each person to be as brief as possible and to avoid repetition. He thought that everyone was aware that the big question related to the present program was the political statements made by The Collective. Vice Mayor Henderson pointed out that it was to everyone's advantage that Council have time to discuss the subject and reach a decision tonight, and he hoped that goal would be kept in mind so that Council could come to a conclusion before too late an hour. Councilman Norton said that in making his motion in Committee, he had no idea that there would be an effort at this meeting to negotiate or discuss the terms of the so-called political involvement part of the contract. He did not think it would be realistic for Council to attempt to address the suggestions contained in PACDAB's memorandum that was at Councilmembers' places tonight. There had been no time to read it and think about it seriously, and he was adverse to trying to wrestle with thz matter at this meeting. Councilman Norton supported Vice Mayor Henderson's reminder to the audience that this matter was discussed for four hours in Committee, and the Committee's recommendation was made after consideration of many hours of testimony. It was his hope that Council would not have to hear all of those again word for word because Councilmembers had the complete Committee minutes, and everyone was quite familiar with the issues involved. Vice Mayor Henderson asked, in terms of handling the budget hearings, if a decision is not made in relation to the program, what Councilman Norton would expect the Finance and Public Works Committee to do in terms of a budget recommendation. Councilman Norton responded that the Policy and Procedures Committee had recommended a level of funding, and the Finance and Public Works Committee would respond to that. NOTION: Councilman Clay moved, seconded by Beahrs, that debate on this subject be limited to the e t nt that the, subject would be brought back to Council for deliberation uo latex Vial 10;30 p.m. 1305 6/2/75 The motion failed on the following vote: AYES: Beahrs, Clay, Norton NOES: Berwald, Comstock, Henderson, Pearson 1 Councilwoman Pearson, referring to the proposed amendment to the PACDAB contract, said she was prepared at this meeting to accept what staff and PACDAB have presented. The Collective has stated that it is williog to have whatever they do go through PACDAB and were willing to accept some controls on public political statements. Councilwoman Pearson was willing to believe them, and she was willing to fund the program on that basis. She said the decision should be made tonight. Councilman Beahrs had a question in his mind about this belated action when Council had been pleading and insisting for years that PACD1 comae up with a proposed action. This has been typical of the conduct of the entire program, and Councilman Beahrs was a bit indignant at this type of approach. Lincoln Mitchell, Chairman of PACDAB, stated that in response to the recommendations of a citizens' Task Force in this community, the Palo Alto Drug Abuse Board was incorporated three years ago tonight; and PACDAB was grateful that Council had invited PACDAB to celebrate its birthday with them. Mr. Mitchell thanked Council in advance for their expressions of best wishes, good hea:'.th, and prosperity during the coming year. In his more than two years with the program, Mr. Mitchell said that certain things had gone on with which he had not personally approved; and certai:l thiugt happened which he wished had not occurred at all. But in comparing those events against the high level of service delivery which the program has provided, Mr. Mitchell stood before Council with no apologies and with considerable confidence in the work and the capacity of future work of this program. The motions before Council were threefold. One is to continue the program on a south to month basis while two things occur, and the second part of the motion is that staff and the program attempt to determine a basis for an improved understanding concerning what is referred to as the political involvement of the program. The third segment is that the Council, during the month to month continuation, consider other contractors. As far as the month to month continuation aspect was concerned, Mr. Mitchell said this would be an extremely difficult, if not impossible, thing for PACDAB to live with for some very pragmatic reasons. The first one is the facility situation. A lot of time was lost last year in moving from one building to another. There is now an option to lease the present building for an additional year, and the lease expires the end of July, 1975. The option must be exercised by June 30th, 1975, and that option could not be exercised if PACDAB did not have an agreement with the city prior to June 30th. Mr. Mitchell explained that the option in the lease was ne otiate.0 with a view to the refunding process and set up with that in mind. Por that one reason alone, Mr. Mitchell urged that Council deal with the program one way or another before the end of June. The second reason - and it was a critical one - was that the program could not undertake the detoxification of heroin addicts on a monthly basis. PACDAB had to know where it stood so that when an addict's admission to a hospital is suggested, it could be stated whether the addict could be involved in the program or not; and that could obviously not be done on a monthly basis. Tha more subjective factors are the morale of the clients and of the staff. As far as the Board was concerned, Mr. Mitchell did not fatal he could ask people to fill a vacancy on the Board and undertake a commitment to learn about the work and participate on a monthly basis. Tor all of tress reasons, Mr. Mitchell hoped Council 1 3 0 6 , 6/2/75 `' G would give a good indication tonight of what its final decision would be. Another issue before Council was the consideration of other contractors to do the work of this program. Mr. Mitchell was convinced, and he thought Council was convinced, that the citizens of Palo Alto want a comprehensive drug abuse program. In his own experience, the concerns of the community have not been with the fact of whether there should be a comprehensive drug abuse program, but with the so-called political issue. Assuming that as a fact, if there were serious concerns about that, PACDAB would like to have the opportunity to deal with them with Council. Mr. Mitchell commented that the question of the day to day work of the program r=3s intimately involved; and he suggested that Council had to accept a., a fact that the Palo Alto Community Drug Abuse Board has been and is providing a comprehensive program in an effective and meaningful way. Council had before it an incredible wealth of material which was the outpouring of the feelings and the experiences of the people in this community. Council had the views of hospital administrators at Stanford and El Camino, school administrators, various health administrators, and a number of the clients of the program. They are universally in favor of the work of the program. They say the work is effective; and the staff is principled, knowledgeable, dedicated, and get the job done. In addition to these, Council had the report of the John F. Kennedy Institute which evaluated the program for a year on a daily basis, participated in all staff and Board meetings, and looked at the program from top to bottom. There also was the evaluation of city staff which, in effect, reached the same conclusions as those of the John F. Kennedy study; namely, that the program is meeting its goals and objectives, meeting its contractual obligations with the city, and doing an effective job. Lastly, Council had a memorandum from the City Manager and the Assistant City Manager; and Mr. Mitchell read from it for benefit of those citizens who had not seen it. "During the years of our association with the program, we came to respect and appreciate the work of the people involved in the program -- board, staff, and volunteers. We have found them to be capable, hardworking, and committed to the ideals of helping other people. Based on our knowledge of the program and a close review and involvement with the various audita that have been made of it, we are also convinced that the program is providing a valuable service to the community and that a sizeable clientele is dependent upon the program for help. For these reasons, we believe it is important for the work of the program to continue. We recognize that the political activism of the program's participants is viewed by PACDAB as a vital part of its operating philosophy, and we are also aware that this activism has limited the program's effectiveness in the eyes of the Council and a large segment of the community. In pursuing an agreement to continue the work of the drug program, we therefore believe that it is important for the Council and PACDAB to develop a clear understanding relative to the manner and extent of PACDAB's political activity. We believe that - the value of the program justifies whatever efforts might be neceesary to achieve spch an understanding, and we encourage both the Council and PACDAB to approach the task in a positive and open way." In view of the record Council had before it, Mr. Mitchell thought it would sees logical Ind reasonable that there was no reason to consider any program other than the present, three -year -long, well -studied, well - documented, and successful program unless the so-called political issue could not be resolved. For that reason, members of the staff, members of the community who believe in the program, and aembers'of the board in conjunction with the city staff have spent a great many hours since the Policy and Procedures Committee meeting trying to deal with the political issue and develop a basis for understanding with the Council. A proposed amendment to the contract has been submitted which involves a substantial compromise insofar as the views of the staff are concerned. In considering the amendment, and in considering the Board's activities, Mr. !Mitchell asked Council to underetaad that 1 3) 7 6/2/15 the Board itself is not a monolith. There are people of differing views. There are those who have believed over the past several years that the staff is entitled to take its political stand in the exercising of its right to free speech. There are others who believed that that right existed for individuals but not for the staff as a whole. There are people who believed in the ideas of the staff in the so-called political area, and there are people who did not. Mr. Mitchell said that the proposed amendment before Council reaffirms the Board's responsibility for all activities of the program. There had never been any doubt in Mr. Mitchell's mind that he, as a Board member, had that responsibility; and that what the staff may do in the name of the program, he was responsible and accountable to Council for it. There were times when Mr. Mitchell regretted that responsibility; but he did not, in any way, regret the over-all performance of the program. He explained that the agreement provides that the program shall research and provide to the community responsible information in nix specific areas. It provides that any proposed formal statement or major action in those areas - all of which are clearly and closely defined to the drug &Luse and prevention field - shall be submitted to the Board prior to the time that any action is taken. -If the Board feels that any proposed action or formal statement is inappropriate, it is responsible for directing the staff to not proceed with it. Similarly, in other areas that are directly related to drug abuse but are not so clearly defined, the Board must give prior approval to formal statements and major actions. Mr. Mitchell felt there were certainly some things that this agreement might not, in theory at least, encompass; but he asked the staff in considering this issue to come back only with somethini they could live with in substance as well as in form. From his contact with them over the past two and one-half years, Mr. Mitche U had no hesitation in representing to Council that if The Collective is committed to something they will do it. Claire Smith, member of The Collective staff, assured City Council that should the proposal be accepted and The Collective put its name to it, it would in all aspects be honored. Ross Thompson, 555 Forest Avenue, felt that the stand The Collective took on political ideas was an ungrateful one; and they were biting the hand that feeds them. He said he was against that but for drug control. Tony Searcy, 480 Bell Street, East Palo Alto, represented Prank Satterwhite, 'lice Chairman and Councilmea<ber of the East Palo Alto Municipal Council. Mr. Searcy read a letter from Mr. Satterwhite commending the positive and productive community participation of several staff members of The Collective. The Collective had demonstrated an effective level of involvement in East Palo Alto's local struggle to design and offer a higher quality of human services to its residents. East Palo Alto was most satisfied with the level of involvement and general sustaining support that has come from the entire staff of The Collective. Mr. Satterwhite expressed in his letter concern giver the possibility of the termination of the program, and he asked that any such determination be based on an objective assessment of the degree to which the program aims had been met. If the objective evidence substantiates that the program has fulfilled its legal charge, then every considerat{.on should be given -to c^ntinued funding 0:17 -he program. Mr. Satterwhite concluded his letter by saying that The Collective has offered a higher and more productive level of service to East Palo Alto than has any other comparable drug abuse program in recent years. - Sharon Roberts, 1025 Biraada Avenue, Mountain View, asked Council to overcome any feeling that it had that might have a negative effect in their deliberations as far as people in The Collective being "differs vas concerned. Ohs thought it vas iapertsat for everyone to recognise -'`-' the importance of criticism, and The Collective valued criticise very highly. People's lives mere being dealt vith, end Xs. Roberts asked Council to give The Collective an open .Lnded and fair decision. 1308 6/2/75 Dr. Donald Goldmacher, Assistant to the Director for Program Planning and Evaluation, California State Health Department, read the following letter from Dr. Jerome A. Lackner, Director of Health for the State of California: "In recent weeks I have had the opportunity to meet with staff members of the Collective Drug Program in Palo Alto. In addition, they have been kind enough to send me the John F. Kennedy report evaluating the program as well as many laudatory letters of support. I am impressed with the work that they have been doing in the few short years of their existence, as reflected in the letters of commendation and the John F. Kennedy report. As you know, the State Department of Health is deeply concerned with the problem of drug abuse, especially the preventive and educational aspects. The efforts of The Collective in this regard should be encouraged. In closing, let me express my hope that you will be able to continue your support of this needed program." David Alford, 16735 Sheldon Road, Los Gatos, expressed dismay that Councilmen Clay and Norton had left the room since that seemed a bit discourteous and somewhat opposed to the interest of dialogue. Mr. Alford said he taught social studies at Palo Alto High School and sociology at the College of San Mateo. He was not interested in talking about the effectiveness of The Collective as far as drug abuse is concerned because the data speaks for itself on that. He also would not talk about the right of The Collective to address itself to political matters. Mr. Alford thought it was extremely difficult for a person to make a non-political statement since politics to him included all of the decisions that people make in their lives, and to ask The Collective not to talk about politics is essentially asking them to not speak at all. What he did want to talk about was the effect The Collective had on young people in Palo Alto, and he considered that the essential point to be looked at. Mr. Alford had observed that many young people had evolved to quite severe alienation from the political prccess, cynicism about authority, and considerable use of drugs of various kinds in the process of developing that alienation. He said his students had spoken to him for years about their feeling of powerlessness in their ability to bring about changes in the quality of their lives in this country. They also have spoken about the fact that po?ftIcal leaders are unresponsive to people's needs, serve only their own self interests, and lie to the people with regard to their intentions and actions. Studies show that the two things students are most concerned about are the lack of power to effect change and the lack of affection and caring from people they genuinely trust. It is difficult to teach under these conditions, to convince students that anyone cares, or that anything makes any difference. There are `few people who are the kind whom others will look up to and will not let citizens gc to sleep in the kind of psychic death that this society creates. Mr. Alford had been personally revitalized in his contacts with several members of The Collective, and he had seen students get involved in serious work for the city because of them. There are workshops in the high school and music and physical education because of their stimulation, and they have insisted that basic democratic processes be observed when sometimes it had been tempting to adopt a bureaucratic "out". Students feel they can really relate to members of The Collective, and they have trust in them. _Thej;ollectivf.„,etaff ewtai gixn,m4Jdels to the students of what. it is possible to be in our"society. Mr. Alford wanted to he able to continue to teach in Palo Alto, he wanted young people to be able to believe that he cared about them, he wanted young people to feel a sense of power through an involvement in our society, he wanted young people to know there are adults who tell the truth about thine , and he wanted young people to believe that democracy is not dead in this country. Mr. Alford believed in his heart that the people who woshsd at The Collective were people who 1309 6/2/75 shared these values. He thanked Council for making it possible for The Collective to work in the community over the past several years and urged Council to refund them fully so they could continue to work. Wayne Dowling, 1661 West San Carlos Avenue, San Jose, drug specialist with the California Youth Authority, stated that The Collective has been a very effective agency in working with many of the clients he had dealt with personally. Mr. Dowling web very thankful that The Collective was in existence, and he commended everyone involved for providing a very viable resource for young people in the north county area. Dave Milne, stOent at Cubberley High School, thought it would be unfair if Council made its decision regarding the fate of The Collective because of the staff's political views. His teacher and some students from Cubberley had sent a letter to Council stating support for continued funding of The Collective. Richard Gambetese, Rehabilitation Counselor at the Mountain View Methadone Clinic, read the following letter which he had sent to The Palo Alto Times: "I have worked in drug rehabilitation for almost five years and feel I have achieved some personal insight into the problem of drug abuse and efforts towards rehabilitation. I believe most professionals working with drug abusers will agree that the causes of drug addiction are numerous and complex. They encompass the political/economic aspects of our society, as well as the pshycho/ social problems of the individual. I feel it is impossible for one drug program to provide all the services necessary to effectively deal with an addict's immediate needs, in addition to the extensive underlying causes for his of her addiction. Although The Collective has frequently criticized the use of methadone maintenance, 1 feel our recent joint efforts in treating heroin addicts have helped to improve our understanding of each program's approach to drug treatment. This cooperation has certainly benefited individuals served by both programs. I support The Collective's efforts in providing crisis intervention, individual counseling for various drug abuse problems and serving as liaison to local hospitals for heroin detoxification and follow-up. These are services which are essential to those for whom other forms of treatment are not currently appropriate. I firmly believe that no one treatment modality has the final answer to the difficult problem of drug abuse. However, our community can greatly benefit from drug rehabilitation programs which provide varied services and different approaches to the prcblem, while working together towards a common goal -- to help eliminate drug abuse in our society" Mr. Gambetese stated he would be very distressed to see The Collective's funding eliminated. Dr. Robert Pearl, physician at Stanford University Hospital and member of PACDAB, said he did not believe that prevention and treatment of drug abuse could be separated; and he did not believe that agency that attempts to provide prevention will be believed if it is not there when someone needs treatment. Further, Dr. Pearl did not believe that anyone would come for treatment unless the agency had been among the people, gained the confidence of the people, and had been found to be honest and trustworthy by the people. It was Dr. Pearl's opinion that The Collective has done all of these things. This all needed to be kept very much in mind in relation to the children of the community 'ho were: using drugs. Also, adults turned to drugs because of inability to find jobs and because no one cared. Dr. Pearl believed the staff members of The Collective cared about people and listened to them. The Collective was capable of doing both prevention and treatment of drug abuse. He asked that ten seconds be used, riot for applauding, but for thinking about the consequences to the people of Palo Alto if The Collective were not refunded. 1310 6/2/75 Dr. John Antel, 98 Linda Vista Avenue, Atherton, Ditectcr of Psychiatry, El Camino Hospital, read the following letter which he had sent to staff: "As has been the cane in the past few years at this time of the year I am concerned about the tenure of The Collective in its efforts at coping with the harJ drug problem in the Mid -Peninsula. As Ptrector of Psychiatric Services at El Camino Hospital, I have seen the response to the addicts' needs had been fragmentary and disappointing for many years. There was little community support and very little knowledgeable capability in the Medical Community. After the enlightened and foresighted establishment of the Palo Alto Drug Abuse Program with its personally responsible local staff and freedom from the usual Federal and State constraints, the response to medical management of the addict in a community hospital setting could solidify into a viable program. Thus, with limited funds, usually Medi-Cal, candidates for gradual withdrawal (Detoxification)'could be screened by a skilled community group. This was to better define the motivated addict and not someone who was escaping the pressures of the law or the suppliers. While hospitalized under the direct care of members of the El Canino Hospital Staff, the addict would be visited seven days a week by the screening tea of The Collective for purposes of support, firm encouragement, and reaffirmation of the strict hospital rules on leaving the ward or seeing visitors. Any infraction of the rules of the contract on admission resulted in summary discharge. After 5-7 days of the withdrawal the candidate is picked up at the hospital by The Collective personally, thus avoiding the critically vulnerable time when there is sudden appearance on the streets after a protective interval in the hospital. The follow-up program of The Collective is very active and structured for a significant length of time. While in the hospital, the patient receives a complete evaluation of his physical needs as well as having the usual exposure to the sophisticated psychotherapies. Since this program has evolved at El Camino, many other general hospitals began to meet their responsibilities to this problem including Stanford Medical Center. Also, there has been much publicized literature of the value of this model, There can be little effectiveness without the community support of professional community workers in collaboration with the Health Care Providers. It would at this time in the continued state of hard drug abuse be unfortunate to lose this service. At present El Casino Hospital treats about three addicts per week. About two of these are clients of The Collective, the others being supervised in a similar program by the East Side Drug Abuts: Program of San Jose. Thus currently we accommodate between eighty-five to one hundred addicts per year. It is clear that the problem has not gone away. A more detailed documentation or discussion of these issues can be supplied upon request, including a visit to our facility to observe and participate in the program". Edwin Carr, 341 Carolina Lane, stated that the J. F. Kennedy evaluation was highly favorable to The Collective program. Secondly, the city staff has determined that The Collective has reached all its goals for thtpast year and has exceeded many of them. The conditions presented to the staff tonight under which The Collective program would operate during the coming year are certainly within reason. Given these three facts, Mr. Carr could not see, if the Palo Alto City Council alts at all, objectively, that the program should not be continued for this crmiug year. Finally, as a parent with school -age children still at hoses, Mr. Carr was hihly gratified that there is The Collective to go to in time of difficulty. He expressed the hope that it would be still operating in the community next year. Phil. Bliss, 588 Barron Avenue, said The Collective was really needed in the School District; and he wade use of their services every week. This group cares about young puopls, and young people respect them. 1311 6/2175 The work of The Collective is really unbelievable, and Mr. Bliss stated that he would be very upset if their program were not continued. Secondly, Mr. Bliss thought the whole issue of volitics should be looked at in perspective. He felt The Collective had been offering an analysis that had been found tough to swallow because it meant a lot of people would have to change their lives. However, Mr. Bliss was sure that'Palo Alto was big enough to have .i gadfly around; and throwing the baby out with the bath water would be a real mistake. Sonny Martin, 121 Kipling Street, expressed the opinion that the City of Palo Alto would be foolish not to refund a working and successful program such as The Collective. Hr. Martin had started using heroin in the Republic of Viet Nam where he had been a Staff Sergeant with the Green Berets. He said he used heroin to an unbelievable extent trying to deal with his own deep and confusing feelings of what was right and wrong. When he returned from Viet Nam, Hr. Martin found it was impossible to keep up the kind of habit he had; and he began looking for a helping hand. The government provided methadone treatment. This meant that he had been on heroin four years in Viet Nam and on methadone for three years in the United States. Mr. Martin had been employed by The Collective for eighteen months while he was kicking the legal methadone addiction. Finding it impossible to cope with other people's problems as well as his methadone addiction, Mr. Martin resigned his position with The Collective; and he found himself addicted to heroin again. The Collective gave him the help he needed three different times until he was finally successful in getting rid of his addiction. At present, Hz. Martin works at the Veterans' Hospital in Palo Alto and attends Foothill College. His own feeling was that drug problems stem from a social, political, and economic stress; and the way to handle th;: problem is to deal with people's needs on an individual basis. The Collective understands the different problems and needs, and they help the addicts help themselves, Mr. Martin asked Council to please vote in favor of The Collective. Susan Friedman, 274 Corte Madera, Fortola Valley, represented Fort Help and read the following letter fro. Dr. Joel Fort: "As one who has specialized in social and health problems including drug abuse for more than testy years, started in 1965 the first public program for those with drug problems from alcohol to heroin, taught special courses on the subject since 1962 in the School of Criminology at the Univesity of California at Berkeley, and written many books and as:ticlss on drugs, the staff of The Collective has asked me to write you on the issue of further city support of their program. There is so much to be done in combating drug abuse that any program providing constructive help should be maintained and encouraged. I personally favor independent, private, non-profit, self-supporting programs but since' government has a responsibility tin this area, its funding should go to a number of private programs who want it and can provide an alternative apprc.ach to the expansive bureaucracies of mental health and public health. From my discussion with two staff members of The Collective and reeding reports on their work, I believe they are providing needed services and should coating to get your support, at least at the present level of $138,000 a year. Evaluations of their work by relevant observers is desirable, and I am impressed that The Collective received favorable evaluations in both 1974-73 and 1972-73. I do not agree with some of the political views of the staff but we should certainly tolerate freedom of speech and judge the value of their program in terms of its reduction in serious drug problems. The social causes of alcoholism, heroin addiction, etc. are important to alleviate if we ever bops to solve drug problems; and among these is the enormous distribution of heroin from Thailand and Southeast Asia which I first brought to public attention in 1963 after serving as Consultant to, the World Health Organisation in Asia. It is thus desirable for T f" 1312 6/2/73 Collective to help make this known to reduce availability of the drug in addition to treating those already addicted. They aeeure me they do not advocate ✓iolence or indoctrination of those they work with, and I feel their funding by you is desirable. Eventually I would like to see The Collective and all other drug programs serve people of all ages and backgrounds, and all types of drug problems from alcohol to heroin as we Co here at our Center. If there are other questions you would like me to respond to, please contact me at the above address". Marcia Hall, 2050 California Street, Mountain View, speaking in behalf of the Marxist/Lenin Study Groups, said that for three years the staff, Board, and many supporters of The Collective have had to defend the program from malicious attacks and slander in order to be refunded. This year the intensity of the attacks is greatly increased, and Ms. Hunt asked why► this had happened. She felt that one reason was that the right-wing coalition representing land specuiatore, businessmen, and industrial capitalists used the issue of refunding The Collective as a stepping stone to control over local city government. The conservatives created en atmosphere of hysteria in which the program and its supporters were immediately discredited as communists. Ma. Hall thought it was important to realize who these people are and what they really stand for. The programs they attempt to implement on the local level, such as superblock and Willow Expressway, have been a part of the Bay Area Master Plan put forward by the area's leading corporate and financial institutions. Palo Alto's role in this plan is key. This is the center for electronics war -related industries surrounded by Stanford University and an intense concentration of banking and financial interests. For years these interests have consistently opposed low income housing, child care for working people, and the creation of social service programs ouch as the Drug Center because these programs serve the needs of the poor, the young, and the third world people. Ms. Hall felt it was clear that the conservatives were not interested in meeting these people's needs; in fact, they are only welcome in town to either work or spend their money. During the past few years, residents of several Bay Area cities have dealt sharp blows to the plans of corporations and banks. Major development projects were stopped in Palo Alto by a communist led United Front movement; and at one point, the City Attorney was directed to investigate ways to limit war industry within the city. It .is interesting to remember that out of this movement, the center was created. Now, there is the Council making motions at midnight to politically censor the literature distributed by The Collective. The right wing has s3wept the election, discredited the liberals, and is out to smash The Collective which they believe is the last stronghold of revolutionary opposition to their plan. The Palo Alto Times printed The Collective's obituary two weeks ago. Ma. Hall said she was present to say that The Collective is not dead, and neither is the opposition. In the name of the Marxist/Lenin Group, Ms. Hall demanded that The Collective be refunded and that all attempts to politically censor the program cease. Specifically, the statements and literature issued by the'prograa should be left untouched; for historically, the statements have been proven to be factually correct and have given leadership nationally to other drug programs. Furthermore, it was demanded that the city fund social service programs that are necessary to meet the needs of low income housing, health care, and senior citizens. Frank Manfredi, 219 Addison Avenue, stated that this issue was made to order for the politicians in the last election; and it was too bad The Collective had to be in the middle of it. Everything The Collective did was for the benefit of the people, but the nit-pickers at election time had to have an issue; and they made the issue The Collective. Mr. Manfredi said that the "kept" press was responsible for the calamity the community found itself in today with regard to 3 f3 1313 6/2/75 the drug program. The Collective received commendations from all over the United Stated, and Mr. Manfredi opinion was that they should be refunded. Mr. Manfredi had been reading about the Inquisition and concluded that the times had changed, but the issues were the same. It is the poor people, the underprivileged, the people who cannot fight for themselves, and those who need help who are downtrodden for the benefit of the rich, the administration, and the thieves in government from the president down. Mr. 1',anfredi pointed out that the small amount of money involved is not half the amount spent on the parasites on University Avenue. He suggested that politics be forgotten and The Collective be supported. Joel Davidson, 2130 Harvard Avenue, member of PACDAB, said that support, strugglef and success equals the Palo Alto community and The Collective. Ron Drake, representing the street theater group of The Collective, gave a short performance of the kind of presentations made by the group to instruct young people about drug problems. He ended his performance by saying that dope was an equal opportunity exploiter and had something for everyone. Mr. Drake thought it would be a grave mistake to discontinue The Collective in the interest of the Councilmember.c' politics when there were so many people who needed the program. Carolyn Reeves, 869 Lytton Avenue, representing 0-ir Health Center, made the following statement: "We acknowledge the need in this community for a comprehensive approach to drug related problems; and as a health facility, we believe that prevention and education are as imperative to good drug treatment as they are to good medicine. The Collective fulfills these needs, and we feel that we are very fortunate to be able to refer people to The Collective knowing that they will receive responsible counseling, care, and follow-up, and that they will be treated as human beings". William Angell, 420 Florence Street, felt that since he had been a heroin addict for five years he was qualified to speak on this subject. The Collective's great asset was in being able to relate to a user no matter what the person's age. Mr. Angell said he had been in three other programs, and The Collective had been the only one which had been able to successfully help him. The Collective instilled a new spirit in him, and Mr. Angell stated that detoxification was necessary in order for the addict to relate to the human race. He pointed out that he had been "clean" for eight months, and he still received counseling and help from The Collective. Mr. Angell.'s opinion was that the program was totally necessary to the Palo Alto community because drug related problems were on the rise. He thanked publicly The Collective for saving his life, and he expressed the thanks of his wife and his five - week -old son, also. John Brown, 3669 Ramona Street, student at Cubberley High School, said that he had observed the work of The Collective over the past three years in the high schools; and it had been excellent work. The Collective has been an important force in the community, and examples of that had been given throughout the evening. Hr. Brawn thought that if the Council voted The Collective out of existence, that would be saying just one more time to young people in the community that the city did not care about them and their problems and that they just did not matter. If The Collective is not refunded, people who need the program desperately will have nowhere to turn. In Mk. Brown's opinion, it would be a crime for the Council to not support The Collective program. 1 3 1 4 6/2/73 Carla Bliss, 588 Barron Avenue, said she was speaking from three different perspectives - as one of the original Task Force members and as a PACDAB member, as a parent of teenagers, and as a mental health counselor in the ,ommunity. Mrs. Bliss had watched The Collective grow over its three year period, and she felt there would be a really great loss in the city if the program is not refunded. In her own work in the mental health field, Mr:. Bliss had discovered that trust is a very important element. Trust in The Collective staff had been building up in the community over a period of three years, and she would feel much better knowing that the would be able to continue to refer clients to that group rather than to suggest that there might be some organization in San Jose who might be willing to do something. The Collective was willing to struggle with the problems in the community, and Council needed to deal with that in an honest way. Ben Maiden, 630 Alger Drive, reported that he was taking a class at Cubberley High School led by two members of The Collective; and it was being very helpful to him. On the other hand, he did not feel that he had gotten too much aid from reading the Narconon report. Mr. Maiden commented t";ere were people in the audience who were not in favor of The Collective; and he thought if they were sincere about their beliefs, they would address Council on this matter. The City Council should support the citizens who cared, and those persons were addressing Council at this meeting. Mr. Maiden pointed out that there were many teenagers in the audience which disputed the statement that had been made to the effect that not many teenagers were involved in this issue. Howard Dykoff, Berkeley Free Clinic, said the clinic had a peer relationship with The Collective. The clinic deals with the same kind of problems that The Collective deals with, and a certain amount of freedom is needed to address the political implications of the drug work that The Collective was doing. Sometimes it is necessary to take issue with positions of institutions and etruggle together with the city and the community to help build a human environment. Mr. Dykoff thought it would be impossible to operate in a political vacuum. The Berkeley Free Clinic supports The Collective unequivocally, and it also supporta the idea that effective community work means community education - that titans activity with a political emphasis. Contrary to the position taken by Narconon, The Berkeley Free Clinic felt that all the social issues gust be dealt with in the drug work that it does. American institutions grey out of challenge and conflict, and this nation was born out of repression of opinion. It certainly would not be in the City Council's interest to assume the role of the British and repress an opinion in this community, especially when it is not directly challenging the Council itself. Jean Bronstein, 814 Beaverton Court, Sunnyvale, Head Nurse of the Psychiatric Unit at Stanford Hospital, stated that it had been her experience for two 'ears that working closely with The Collective bad the result of rendering better patient care, Ms'. Bronstein said she would not like to work with drug addicts again without an organization like The Collective which has not only hrlped the Psychiatric Unit give good patient care, plan for discharge appropriately, and look to coordination of outside services, but has also taught hospital personnel s lot about how to help addicts. The Collective staff is made up of very sincere, -dedicated, and open people; and Na. Bronstein asked that the program bs continued in Palo Alto. 1 Marci McBride, 1495 King's Lane, Palo Alto Alternative High School, said that over the last year members of The Collective had come to the school -and been a part of the community there. They came to business meetings, attended workshops, led work/loops, end explained what The Collective has done. The students of the Palo Alto Alternative Sigh 1313 $/2173 School passed the following motions: (1) It is the right and the responsibility of The Collective to address itself to the underlying causer of drug abuse. (2) The Collective has the right to make political statements, and The Alternative School supports The Collective's statements on Viet Ham and the 3aby lift. Mies McBride concluded oy saying the program was a good one with good people behind it to whom high school students could relate, and she asked Council to refund The Collective. Jan Christenson, 235 Embarcadero Road, lecturer in economics, and weber of the Union of Radical Political Economists, referred to the form sponsored by The Collective which has drawn a lot of criticism from some parts of the community. He noted it is absolutely essential that The Collective deals with political and economic issues because the problems that drug addicts face come from these two areas. There is no solution on au individual basis, and it is important for The Collective to be able to tell people who face problems that the problems are not personal ones, but they come from society. This gives addicts the support they need to overcome the difficulties in which they find themaelves. Mr. Christenson thought it was especially essential that The Collective continue to operate at the present time because of the rising unemployment rate, which is one of the major issues in drug addiction. It was time for Council to squarely face the problem that results from the economic makeup of this country, and Mr. Christenson asked Council to not deny the participation of The Collective in solving the problem. Dr. Kenneth Seeman, 599 College Avenue, commented that he had been associated with The Collective in his role as a private psychiatrist, primarily to treating drug addicts of various kinds. Before Dr. Seeman knew of The Collective, he had been aware of no detoxification program in Pale Alto or the environment. The Collective is the only one in this area, and there is another group in San Jose which in no way functions as efficiently and imaginatively as the Palo Alto program. Dr. Seeman considered The Collective extremely valuable not only by virtue of providing clinical services, but: because of their educational program. He had learned a good deal about the treatment of drug abuse from The Collective and had been stimulated to learn more because of them. In Dr. Seeaan's opinion, The Collective's dealing with people on a clinical level has been remarkable. He was aware that there was concern in the community by some people about the effect of The Collective's political stsnd, but Dr. Seeman at no time found any of their political viewpoints or activities to stand in the way of their very excellent medical services. If anything, these people had given addicts a belief system to hang on to; and any kind of belief system that can be provided to an addict is invaluable. The political beliefs of The Collective had never been forced upon anybody, and they certainly had not been urged upon Dr. Soeman. He concluded by asking Council to continue to support The Collective; and he would be concerned that with their discontinuation or possible replacement by another group, equivalent service. would be viary tiifficult to tome up with. The group that is roughly equivalent t+ - The Collective and functioning in San Jose has been unable to provide the kind of leadership, devotion. and knowledge in dealing with clients that the Palo Alto program has; and Dr. Seeman doubted that it would be possible to find another group that would surpass the abilities of The Collective or even equal them. Alan Leavitt, 3885 Mulford Place, reported that recently a member of The Collective sat with the Citizens' Advisory Board of the North County Mental Health Center; and that group supports the continued support of The Collective. 2:. Leavitt wondered why there had been such a hard struggle over a long period of time about politics in The Collective. Be did not understand that, but be did knom there vi 1 3 1 6 ' 6/7/75 was a long history in this ntute of politicians using catchwords and phrases to stir up artificial issues. Nixon started that with Helen Douglas in 1946, and the same thing still goes on, Mr. Leavitt believed that a lot more public money should be spent for social programs. If there is any interest in this city in lobbying the state or federal government to return more money to the city in revenue sharing for social programs and drug programs, Mr. Leavitt said he would work for that. After a decision is made to refund The Collective, perhaps additional drug programa - such is Narconon - could be used for comparison as to the.effect of the different agencies; but The Collective really needs first funding. They have proved to be effective, and Mr. Leavitt did not see how politics could be significant enough to cause the program to be cancelled. The decision needed to be made at this meeting, and be hoped it would be to refund The Collective. Mr. Leavtt obaerved that those in The Collective were straight and clear and honest, and that is aomething that is not always so of politicians. As he saw it, Council should sake the decision and be willing to take any heat that resulted from that decision. Ditter Peschcke-Koedt, 965 Addison Avenue, stated she was an American by choice; and she had chosen our Constitution to delineate the form of government that she wanted. She had been exposed to vicious propaganda in her teenage years. It was anti-Communist, but the most vicious part was anti-American; and yet she came here as an immigrant twenty years ago. Having known democratic monarchy, fascism, totalitarianism, and communism, Mrs. Peschcke-Koedt chose the American system. Her own faith in the government created by the Constitution is so great that she wanted to invite the whole world to look at it. In her opinion, participatory democracy wam right for this country; and it was foolish of government officials to try to hide other forms of government. Young people should be encouraged to compare and choose. Mrs. Peschcke- Koedt caked how a choice could even be talked of if you hide communism, Marxism, or any "ism" in the cupboard. That is the same as telling young people that this form of government is so irresistibly good that if they get one peak at it, they will want it; and that is giving these "iais" more credit than they deserve. America's Constitution could stand up and be compared against any other system, and the First Amendment prohibits Council or anybody from trying to prevent freedom of speech. Mrs. Peschcke-Koedt said there is a man in our midst, although actually not in the city, who enjoys his freedom of speech to the extreme and exercises it often in his local paper; and that gives his an influence which is way out of proportion to his understanding. Since the windows in one of his buildings were smashed some years ago, he has been possessed by paranoid fear of young radical people. Mrs. Peschcke-Koedt asked Council to not let that frightened old man unduly influence its judgment of the staff of The Collective. Before political restrictions are put into a program which is working well by all testimonies, Council needed to remsaber that it could not be any freer than the rest of the citizens; and the citizens could be no freer than the people under fire today. The Collective's integrity should be rewarded by renewal of the contract. Nina Kulgein, 711 Gailen Avenue, feeling that it was important for the people in the community to know the extent of the support for The Collective, read the nacres of Close persons who subaritted letters to the city or The Collective: Tom Stamper, Cubberley Sigh School teacher; Mark Dawson, sizth grade teacher, Oak Grove School District; Wayne Dowling, Drug Specialist, California Youth Authority; John Gifford, resident; Bob Garner, Drug Abuse Coordinator, Santa Clara County; Ivan Gensel, Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford School of Medicine; David Vick, Main View/Sunnyvale Family Service Association; Allan C. Sidle, Psychiatrist; Mimi Farina, Jeanne hale, and Lucie Ale:ander of Bread and Boast; Dear Green, Recreation Worker, City of Palo 1317 6/2/73 Alto; Madeline Low, Program Volunteer; Aaron Fink, Physician; George Gulevitch, Director, in -Patient Psychiatric Service, Stanford Medical Center; Ron Duncan, Program Volunteer; Linda Putnam, former member J. F. Kennedy Institute evaluation teas; Carla Bliss, Nurse and Day Treatment Coordinator of Mirmaonte Mental Health, Services; Aileen and Reginald Oldershen, Parents; Brenda Herold, Teacher, Whisaan School District; Raney Hall, former Palo Alto student; Clara Johns, Physician; Ekundayc Smith, Concerned Citizen; Gail Zermeno, Nurse; William Boyle, Clinical Psychologist, El Canino Hospital; William Hall, Psychiatrist; Gordon Cruikshank, Potter; Neal Solomon, Law Student; Palo Alto High School Alternative School; Ed Carr, Program Volunteer; Michael Gold, National Runaway Switchboard, Chicago; Richard Gaebetese, Rehabilitation Counselor, Mountain View Methadone Clinic; Judy Andrews, Psychologist; Shelley Johnson, Concerned Citizen; Duncan Foley, Economics Graduate Student, Stanford University; Steyhen Myers, Teacher, Whissian School District; Rosemary Ferry, Psychiatric Worker, El Canino Hospital; Grace Sime, Concerned Citizen; Nancy Unger, Psychiatric Social Worker, former Board member; Don Slone, Training and Development Coordinator, Division of Youth Affairs, King County, Washington; Diane Rawley, Concerned Citizen; Rita Townsend, Mental Health Worker; Dave Hawkins, Program Evaluator, Division of Youth Affairs, Rig County, Washington; Fort Help, San Francisco Drug Abuse Program; Frederick Lloyd, Palo Alto Medical Clinic, Pediatrician; Jim Toole, Peer Counseling Program, Palo A.li:o Unified School District; Chloe Ann Kamprath, Family Life Educator, Palo Alto Unified School District; John J. Antel, Director of Psychiatric Services. El Camino Hospital.; and others. Tim Cullinane, 160 Webster Street, one of the Coordinators of The Bridge (Peer Counseling Center on the Stanford Campus), stated that although The Bridge was no longer working directly with heroin addicts, they were aware of the great work The Collective has been doing in alleviating that problem. From The Bridge's experience with heroin addicts, they believed The Collective to be the best drug treatment program for Palo Alto. The staff of The Collective is dedicated and effective, and they enjoy a reputation of straightforwardness and a sincere desire to help. Mr. Cullinane stated that The Bridge unanimously supports the great work done by The Collective, and he urged the Council to approve the refunding for The Collective so they can get on with the important work that they do so well. John Fredrich, 157 Bryant Street, thought that considering how much time was spent on this issue, it was amazing that the money involved was just one percent of the budget. -He had not heard anyone say that this, type of program should not be funded; and in view of that, perhaps the appropriation should be increased. A disservice to the social needs, that a program such as this is directed towards, would be done if just $13a,000 were allocated to it. Mr. Fredrich thought the money mentioned should be budgeted for The Collective, and a -ecuest for proposals should be sent out which would probably revea.i that another $100,©00 needed to be spent. John Snow, 105 Lowell Avenue, Commander of the Veterans' Council, noted that The Collective had indicated a willingness to abide by the political ruling of this Council. A drug program was very much needed in Palo Alto, and Mr. Snow said he aid not care if the staff of The Collective were politically active as long as those activities were not carried on in the drug facility and the city's name vas not connected with those activities. Dr. John,Teletsis, 1030 Harriet Street, Psychologist, personally did not think The Collective was at stake at this meeting. That group 1318 6/2/75 4 had been overwhelmingly substantiated by clients, the community -at -large, and by the professional community. Dr. Beletsis had never heard any drug progra+ae supported the way The Collective had been at this meeting. In his opinion, the. comnunity was at stake in its ability to tolerate minority groups, minority views, and dissonant opinions. The communication going on at this meeting was a wonderful thing, and Dr. Beletsis feared that such healthy communication could be completely stopped b' a negative vote. The Collective would not lose in that it had proved its point that it could do the job, but the community would be the loser. If the Council voted against The Collective, that will be a very tragic blunder for the citizens -not for The Collective. Claire Smith, 203 Bryant Street, staff member of The Collective, said that everyone present at the meeting shared a common ground. Everyone agrees there is a drug abuse problem in Palo Alto, a drug abuse program is necessary, and that The Collective is a good drug abuse program. What is in question is the politics of The Collective. Ms. Smith said the question Council had to .:vnsider was whether or not politics considered to be controversial should be a part of a program that is funded by the City Council of Palo Alto. On August 28th, 1972, Councilwoman Pearson raised the question to the City Attorney whether or not it was legal for the city to contract with a potentially controversial political drug abuse program. At that time, Peter Stone stated: "It is the law that political beliefs in terms of contracting is not germane unless it can be shown beyond question that the object of the contract cannot be carried out by '_he proposed contractor". The next logical question is whether or not tha political belief of The Collective has interfered with the staff's ability to satisfy the terms of the contract; and Ms. Smith thought that from the professional and medical opinions that had been heard, from the results of the John F. Kennedy Institute for Drug Abuse Research evaluation of The Collective, and from the city staff evaluation, it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond question, that the political beliefs not only do not interfere with staff's ability to provide drug education, treatment, and prevention, but is the most crucial aspect of those services. Ms. Smith felt there had been valid concerns about The Collective, and there had been valid criticisms. It has been said that The Collective is hotheaded, and it has been; but she wanted to know which word could be found to describe in calm language the atrocities that the staff members see every day walking in the door on.Emerson Street. She wanted to know a calm word, a patient word, and a kind word for fifteen -year -old dead bodies at Stanford Emergency Broom. If that word could be found, she and the rest cf the members of The Collective would use it. Me. Smith apologized to the community for The Collective's being hotheaded, but no apology could be made for caring about the lies in this community It has been said that The Collective uses rhetorical language, aid,ehA•__sometimes the language used offended people; and The Collective accepted that criticism. The criticism was not accepted because rhetoric was done out of malice or out of ignorance, but because rhetoric is language that obscures the simple truth of what The Collective sees. By obscuring the simple truth of what was seen and heard every day, The Collective had failed to bring home to the people in this community the urgency of life in Palo Alto. The Collective had failed to sake it clear that there is a poverty in the quality of life in this cou.iinity, that young people in Palo Alto schools are drinking themselves to death, that old people are dying of tranquilizer overdoses, and that the major cause of death for people between the ages of eighteen and thirty- five is heroin related. The young people are killing themselves. The Palo Alto Times reported that between one and two thousand children between the ages of six and ten successfully commit auicida every 1 3 1 0 6/2/73 year in this country. Two-thirds of the drug abuse in America, exclusive of alcohol, involves legally produced drugs, barbituates, amphetamines, and tranquilizers. One hundred and thirty thousand people die every year in hospitals du* to the adverse reactions of those drugs. Valium accounts for the second highest incidents of drug overdose at Stanford University Medical Center. The Council was asking what drugs had to do with politics and economics when they were inseparable. Unemployment, inflation, racism, and wars of aggression lead to the kind of desperation, frustration, and confusion that people find comfort from in drugs. There is not enough health care in America, but there is enough Valium. There is not enough truthful education in America, but there are enough barbituates. There are not enough paved streets and decent housing in America, but there it enough heroin. There is not enough significant and meaningful work in America, but there is enough methadone. Ms. Smith asked the Council why this was :he case. If Council spoke out on those issues and if Council did something about them, The Collective would not have to. All of those who worked at The Collective agree on one thing - they would like to put themselves out of a job and live in a community where a drug abuse program is not necessary. In their lifetime, they would like to live in a country where drug abuse programs were not necessary, where there would be better things to do with their lives, where there would be culture, meaningful work, and some peace and comfort. The staff did not work at The Collective to win popularity contests. The staff did not work for the money - file clerks in the City Hall were paid more than they were. They worked there because of their politics, because of their ideas, and because of their principles which are simply that they are dedicated to the preservation of human life. That dedication is not limited to the city boundaries of Palo Alto or to the boundaries of the United States of America. Me. Smith stated that if Council closed The Collective, it would be because some people are offended by what is said by otaff members. She asked who these people were and why they did not come forward and state what they objected to. If Council closed The Collective it would be because people were offended by what The Collective presented as a visible example of how it is possible to live. Black people, brown people, and white people are able to live and work together in cooperation effectively, without competition; and people sharing each other's lives and working in a common effort is possible in the most racist, most competitive, and the most brutal empire the history of the world has ever known. The Collective is an example that such living is possible. In concluding, Ms. Smith thanked people on the Council, in the City Manager's Office, and thoughout the community who bad supported The Collective based an their own conscience, their experience, and the objective reality of the truth and the good work that the program has done. She presented to the City Clerk petitions eigned by two thousand people in the community who supported refunding of The Collective and evaluations that have been done of The Collective by people in the community. Nate Jessup, 1850 Middlefield Road, representative of Narconon, stated that a Narconon presentation would not be made at this meeting. Rather than have Narconon appear to be the "enemy" or the opposition, Mr. Jessup thought it would be well for Council to devote this meeting to The Collective. Vice Mayor Henderson turned the oat4ar over to Council for consideration. Councilwoman Pearson felt she probably should be angry about the recent events. She had searched for someone to blame, including herself, and thought perhaps she should blame The Collective for not being political enough. Her decision was that no one had ever been able to combat Joe McCarthyism tactics of the 1950'e, and Councilwoman 1320 6/2/73 Pearson remembered when dozenc of good American lives were literally ruined because they chose to be critical of a government that they loved eeough to want to improve that government and make it work for all people in the United States. Councilwoman Pearson found that she had not been able to combat the incredible barrage of "Pirko -Communist" labels which she got during the recent campaign. She said she chose to speak out on whatever she believed in; and she would continue to do so regardless of how she: is treated, or what she is called (and the list is very long), or whatever the results. Councilwoman Pearson stated that she believed in her eovernment. It is a government that is not perfect, and it does need upgrading. It is a government that guarantees her the right to do whatever she can to institute changes that will be for the betterment of all people and especially those who because of political, economic, or social reasons cannot help themselves; and there were people in the room at this meeting whom Councilwoman Pearson had helped for those very reasons. She would continue to be as helpful as she could, and she would continue to be political. It is now known that The Collective accepts the fact that if they make political statements, they will get the help of The Palo Alto Times to terrorize the public and discredit the program. PACDAB has now agreed to be political and include an amendment regarding their political statements in their contract. Councilwoman Pearson believed they were honest, and they would honor the amendment. PACDAB is an effective program as testified to by seven hours of input from those who knew about the work of the program, and they have met every goal in tra contract ant have even gone beyond that. There is absolutely no doubt that there is a drug problem in the United States, and there are very few effective drug programs. Councilwoman Pearson said this was the night to make the decision. If you put aside all the politics, Council knew that it must fund this program; and that decision could not be postponed any longer. SUBSTITUTE MOTION: Councilwoman Pearson moved, seconded by Henderson, a) That the Council indicate the types of drug services that it wishes to provide during 1975-76 and that these be counseling, detoxification, crisis intervention, hotline and education and prevention activities; bj' That the maximum amount of the funding for a total program for 1975-76 fiscal year be similar to the 1974-75 contract f1 211raa c) That the Council accept the principle of the statement regarding political involvement and that the City Attorney be directed to include the proper language in the PACDAB contract; d) That the Council thereupon refund the PAS program for 1975-76. Councilmen Beabrs stated that the most illustrious Chief Justice John Marshall once said that a good judge was one who could look a lawyer in the face for at least two hours and not hear one thing ht said. Be wanted to say he had listened not only tonigbt,_but he listened throughout the presentations before the Planning and Procedures Committee. The problems before Council at this posting are not new. The use of drugs in one fora or another,:trs an old social phenomenon: although ;, { =my would like tbi citissas to bellow this is new problem. The 1321 6/3/73 problem goes back as far as the stone age; and primitives today chew on cocoa leaves, for example. Obviously, this is an age-old problem of broadest social implication and involvement. As such, it should have the support of the broadest tax base possible. This had always been Councilman Beahrs' contention in opposition to a municipal service, such as that the city has provided. This, in his opinion, was more izportant than the political question which had been so thoroughly discussed. He said he could not within allowable time sketch out his concerns and reservations about The Collective, which is a costly service not reaching the full spectrum of all needs. Councilman Berwald asked if Palo Alto could forever satisfy all regional social needs. No one has told the Palo Alto taxpayer how he could increasinly do this. He asked who, in fact, was being ripped off. Municipal services in Palo Alto today cost $287.00 per capita, and that is the highest governmental cost in the region. For comparison, Councilman Beahrs noted that Redwood City operates at a cost of $178.00 per capita; Mountain View, $182.00; Cupertino, $80.00; Los Altos, $106.00; Los Altos Hills, $63.00; and Saratoga, $x+2.00. It would be good to do a lot of things in this life, but Palo Alto would not be able to do a thing if it went bankrupt as New York City had. If The Collective is so generally praised, Councilman Beahrs wanted to know why their program was not adopted universally. Their techniques should be documented and given scholarly study and distribution. From what he had heard and seen, Councilman Beahrs concluded that the approaches to the treatment of the addict were substantially equivalent; despite all the guff that had been heard. Tonight, Council had heard from no less a person than the Director of Public Health of the State of California. Also, representatives from several counties and many cities had spoken; but just one person had offered to help Palo Alto approach higher levels of government to seek assistance with funding. When this program was undertaken by Palo Alto some yeara ago, it was done so with the belief that the city would provide seed money to help The Collective get started. As usual, once the polit{.ciao stuck his neck out, he got it lopped off; and Palo Alto had received no help from anyone. Efforts should be directed to forcing the hotshots in the Legislature, if not the Boards of Supervisors, to have them re -order their priorities for allocation of funds needed for general and ancient social needs. Councilman Beahrs wanted it understood that Palo Alto could not forever be the "good guy". Councilman Comstock noted that Council had expended over the past number of years in excess of $100,000 per year in support of a contract for the purpose of drug abuse control, and he was happy that he had voted for those expenditures of funds each year. Councilman Comstock considered this an appropriate municipal expenditure and an appropriate amount of expenditure for Palo Alto. The number is somewhere around $3.00 per capita, and he considered that.to be reasonable. Councilman Comstock thanked this Council and previou, .;ones who voted for then#e funds. The matter is under consideration iri this year's budget, and he still felt this was an appropriate municipal activity and the level of funding was appropriate. It was his intention to continue to support those. Several speakers had mentioned the need for a gadfly in the community; but on* thing Councilman Comstock had learned in the twelve years be had cpent on Council was that Palo Alto was a large moving collection of gedflys. They come from all across the political spectrum. The crowd at this meeting is not accidental, and there have been other subjects which drew similar turnouts. Councilman Comstock did not think anyone wanted to get Into the position of feeling that the program and the contract had to be justified because gadfly* were needed, because there were plenty of those in the community. Those who support the program are aware of that, and there are plenty of gadfly. around 1322 6/2/75 ,' who do not support the program. Palo Alto has taken the lead in ms.ny areas in past year and has seen other cities emulate its example. Some of these areas were child care, bike lanes, parks, street plantings and trees, senior citizen programs, low and middle income housing, transit, etc. This subject is another example of that. Sometimes Councilmembers got a little weary of always being the cutting edge, but Councilman Comstock said he did not wind that in other matters or in this one. There is no municipal effort anywhere in the nearby midpeninsula area that approaches what Palo Alto has done in commiting city resources to the control of drug abuse. Councilman Comstock'e trope was that other rities will do that; and the only thing he could nee that approaches ?alo Alto'p efforts was the Methadone Maintenance Program operating in 'atit•.cure County. When Palo Alto's program was begun, Councilman Comstock took the position of supporting the methadone program but only as an interim step and a somewhat less undesirable alternative to heroin addiction; and he did that with the understanding that this city's program would go the next step, which_ is detoxification and a return to the most constructive possible life style. Councilman Comstock stated that he still supported that concept, and he hoped that many other cities would catch up with Palo Alto. The social programs in Palo Alto, which Councilman Comstock had mentioned, had succeeded; and they caused other cities to emulate them for three primary reasons. One of these is the commitment of the City Council to the programs. Secondly, the city is blessed with a top-flight staff; and that is another necessary ingredient. You can have a lot of Council commitment; but if you do not have the proper administration for carrying out the programs, they would be a mess. Finally, it is necessary to have community support or, at least, community acquiescence. Not everything Council did in any one evening made the entire community comfortable. Many of the things Council did were supported by a segment of the community and accepted by other parts of the community. It had been Councilman Comstock's experience over a long period of tine that when the community becomes actively aroused and opposed to a program, the City Council is not able to sustain it. This is so whether the program is social, the zoning policies in the city, or what have you. That is as applicable here as it was to the battles going on two years ago regarding high-rise buildings, etc. The three ingredients were essential as far as Councilman Comstock was concerned. He stated support for municipal_ involvement, which is to say that: --,he supported part (a) of the motion. Secondly, he had spoken to the funding which is part (b) of the notion; and he supported. that. Thirdly, he thought the city should continue to look for servies; but he could not support another extension of the contract with PACDAB. Councilman Comstock explained that he felt anyone who contracted for a service to the city had to have sensitivity to the needs of the clients. There must be dedication and commitment, and Council had heard clients and staff people speak to that. There must also be sensitivity and commitment to the needs of the community, whether the contractor was actually serving them or not. Councilman Comstock pointed out that this was a missing ingredient in this case. The question had been askew why it was necessary for Tbe Collective to come down every year and fight_ for the program. Councilman Comstock's personal judgment was that sensitivity to the needs of the community had been a missing ingredient. The most recent and direct example of that is the issue that had come before Council in the matter of positions taken by the staff and by the Board, in which ultiz.ately the Councz' l took the position of requesting PACDAB to withdraw the pamphlet "Uncle Saga the Pusher Man" from further distribution over the name of Thy Collective and, in effect, over the name of PACDAB and the drug program. Councilman Comstock recalled that until Council made that direct request, the position of PACDAB was to not do that. To him that was symptomatic of the problem. There has not been sensitivity and dedications to the seeds, concerns, fears - or whatever ose wasted to cali.tbes -of other parts of the oemmosity. This is the aspect 13.23_ 6/2/73 that had undermined Councilman Cosiatock's position. He found he had not been able to explain to people why it is necessary for the City Council to go to the Board of this organization and tell them that the booklet had to be removed from circulation immediately. This had destroyed Councilman Cosnstoc;c's confidence in his ability, as a Councilmeaber, to continue to carry a contract with this organization. He realized he was saying that in the face of the testimony heard this evening. People had worked very hard, and they had made very sincere statements. The booklet concluded with the statement that the only -way to solve the real problem was to essentially destroy the soctal and economic structure of this country. This, to councilman Comstock, smacked of the statement made by the military in Viet Nam that the only way to save a village was to destroy it. He wanted to know how anyone could tell an addict who had been detoxified and gone through the entire process that his problems would be solved only when this takes place. It seemed to Councilman Comstock that the addict would simply be returned to the scenes of the frustrations which The Collective stated had led him to the involvement with drugs in the first place. He had not been able to deal with that himself or with members of the community. Councilman Comstock was prepared' to support funding for the program and the city's continued commitment to it, :gut he was not prepared to support a contract renewal with PACDAB. He stated he was ready to support the search for another contractor. Councilman Borwald had no problem with part (a) of the motion. He also could agree with part (b) if the words "the same as" were used instead of "similar to". Councilman Berwald was in support of (c) as it appeared in the original motion, rather than the substitute motion, and he would speak to (d) later. Someone had made the comment that The Collective had been straight, clear, and honest; and politicians were not always that way. Councilman Berwald said he was going to try to be straight, clear, and honest. He had heard all of the statements about The Collective, and there was no doubt that they had done much good. It was imps- ible for Councilman Berwald to accept the fact that an organization that has the approach of The Collective would be successful in long term drug abuse rehabilitation. He had been involved in drug abuse matters for many years, and he was presently on the County Drug Commission. Councilman Berwald had seen a great number of programs around the country, and he had yet to see a program that seemed to have the kind of ideology that had been expressed earlier by Councilman Comstock. Councilman Berwald could not accept that an edict would be told hie condition was not his responsibility but society's; and that no matter what wee done with the addict, the society in which he lived would have to be overcome. Some comments were made that Council was trying to_suppress free speech and that ft did not possess the ability to tolerate dissent or difference. Councilman Berwald did not feel that was what was being said. As fans he was concerned, he was saying there were people in the community ;rho do not accept -the one-sided approach which The Collective has. When the program began, one of the objectives was to have a broadly-based, community -led group. Perhaps within The Collective there ought to be more representatives from a broader segment of the community, thus retaining the support of many people in Palo Alto who do not agree with the approach that had been taken. Resistance to cooperating with PACDAB began when The Collective bad Unity House. One of the first contacts Councilman Betveld had with the program was through a young man who was a resident of Unity House, where drugs had been brought in. This person vas in trouble, his clothing and some valuables had been otolen, and be needed help. Councilman Borwald concerned himself with the immediate needs of the situation; and subsequently, this young man got the care at the Veteran's Bospital which he did not 1 3 2(464 v 6/2/73 get at Unity House. PACDAB wisely gave up Unity House and limited itself to this services provided by The Collective. The staff would have been better off now, and even months ago, if it had been more cooperative with PACDAB; rather than have PACDAB report to Council that The Collective had bean told what was wanted, and they were not listening. Tonight, The Collective cppeared to be quite a bit more conciliatory; and it seemed to accept the fact that it should not dabble in a one-sided ideology without approval from the Board. Councilman Berwald thought the staff of The Collective might make these statements in order to get the contract, but he felt it would be rather difficult for them to accept that kind of control. Councilman Berwald was not able, at least at the present time, to recontract with a contractor that takes the positions taken by The Collective, made statements that The Collective has made, and had lost the support of a good segment of the community. He explained that he was not saying that was a lasting statement, and he was not stuck with that as a permanent view. Coming back to his major point, Councilman Berwald thought it would be good for the community to have a variety of approaches to the drug problem. Even PACDAB working side by side with one or more other programs would be better than the present situation. Councilman Berwald stated he would oppose the substitute motion, and he would accept the original motion with some changes he planned to introduce later in the meeting. Vice Mayor Henderson stated that on May 10th and 11th, the last weekend prior to the election, two flyers were distributed to every home in Palo Alto; and they contained a number of statements that were anything but true. He did not want to go through all of them at this meeting; but using one for an example, Vice Mayor Henderson asked members present to illustrate the question included in the flyer "Big Brother Politics of ABC": 'Do you like intrusion of drug abuse staff personnel into the City Recreation Program and into the schools as part of the Outreach Program? One result - last month a teacher in a Palo Alto High School called for police help to have three of these drug abuse staff members removed from his class'. Vice Mayor Eenderson asked if there were members of The Collective, the drug abuse staff, who were removed from a high school in Palo Alto. I-incoln Mitchell responded negatively. Vice Mayor Henderson said it was really very difficult for him to speak again about the drug abuse program because he had just endured the frustration of having his performance during four years of Council service judged totally on the basis of supporting e program that constitutes less than one percent of the city's operating budget. Thanks to the local newspaper, one group of candidates was able to make the drug abuse program "the" issue of the campaign; in fact, it was just about the only issue of the campaign. Vice Mayor Henderson stated that his support of the program was well documented, and he disclaimed it in no way. However, there are some key points which his critics convanientla overlooked. Each year, Vice Mayor Henderson was the one member of the Pinanee and Public Works Committee who hacked away at the PACDAB budget; and he was responsible each time for the only dollar reductions that were made. When the Residential Treatment Center was found to be dirty for a second time, Vice Mayor Henderson was the one Councilmember who attended the key PACDAB meeting on the subject and urged the Board to close Unity House. It is interesting to note that Pearson, Rosenbaum, and Henderson voted for the closure; and it is also interesting to note which Councilmembera.voted against the closure. Whoa the news came out about the Leniniat/Marxist Ecoonaic Forum co-sponsorship, Vice Mayor Henderson wrote immediately to Lincoln Mitchell about his concern. When the Viet Nara baby lift statement came out, Vice Mayor Menders= asked to wt with PACDAB immediately to stets that the Connell and the public mid mot support the program 1325 6/2/75 further unless political statements were ended. The criticism of the drug abuse program went far beyond the subject of politics. There were letters, statements, and campaign speeches all telling of the ineffectiveness of the program and the waste of city funds. How strange it WAS that now the election is over and the chips are down, no such criticism is heard and no one came before Council tonight to speak about these things. Vice Mayor Henderson thought that Council needed to decide at this meeting whether to go on with PACDAB, and it could not be in a halfway form. Council had received a statement worked out by The Collective, PACDAB, and the city staff; and they should judge that to be okay or not okay and not string people along. Vice Mayor lenderson was satisfied with the guarantee regarding political statements that Council had been asking for. There had never beer any question in his wind about the success of the drug program. He had been close to the program from the beginning, he knew what it had accomplished, he knew the people involved. These people cared in a way that no other group cared that Vice Mayor Henderson had ever seen. He said he had been called everything in the last two years because of his support and association with PACDAB and The Collective; nevertheless, Vice Mayor Henderson continued to know that this program is right, and it must go on. The lives that have been saved are far more important than the individual political lives of anyone, and he would again vote his support. Don Kazak, staff menber of The Collective, referred to the statements made by Councilman Beahrs about the amount of money Palo Alto spends on municipal services in comparison to Redwood City, Mountain View, etc. He pointed out that the reason Palo Alto is able to afford these services has something to do with the fact that the other cities cannot. The relation there is the industry that is in this town and the fact that people who work in this town cannot afford to live here. The two are very much related. Ms. Smith noted that Councilman Comstock referred ..to "Uncle Sao, the Pusher Man" as one of the major reasons why he coul“ot continue to fund The Collective since the pamphlet encouraged what he called the destruction of the current political, economic and social system. She asked if It were not in the preface of the Declaration of Independence that citizens not only bad a right, but an obligation, to encourage revolution when the existing system no longer suits the people's purposes. - Secondly, Ms. Smith asked what specifically was in "Uncle Sam the ?umber Man" that Councilman Comstock objected to; and what exactly was printed in the pamphlet that was not true. Councilman Comstock responded that one of his concerns was the way the PACDAB and The Collective handled the issue of the pamphlet. Specifically, he had been addressing himself to. the conclusion of the document. Tha document bears the stamp of The Collective, which le the staff organization of the city -contracted drug abuse control program. His understanding of the book was that the conclusion' reached was the only way the problem could be solved would be by destroying the social, economic, and political system of this country. Councilman Comstock found that statement objectionable and, in his view, incorrect. He did not believe that kind of a statement should be made on behalf of the city, nor did hs see anything in the stated objectives that called for making that kind of a declaration First, he'disagreed - with it; secondly, he stated that he disagreed with it; and thirdly, he requested Council to ask PACDAB to remove it. Councilman Comstock informed the Chairman of the Board, by copy of the letter be had sent to Council, that hs was going to request that action. He brought that before The Collective, and Tbs Collective's Board decided not to take that action. The Council considered the matter And made the rat. The request was forwarded to the Board; and as Councilman 1 3 2 6 j 6/2/75 Comstock understood from the letter received this evening, the Board took the decision that it would take that action. His entire point in the matte: was somehow this was an issue like the kinds of things talked about one and two years ago, and the Council expressed a lot of concern about the ability of PACDAB and The Collective to be able to work together ir-a way to avoid these kinds of situations; yet, they continue to happen. Councilman Comstock was left with a feeling of no confidence in the ability of PACDAB, who are the people with whom the city has the contract, to prevent similar occurrences. These kinds of issues and these kinds of problems are the things that destroyed one of the necessary ingredients of a successful program, which is either the wholehearted support or, at least, the acquiescence of the community -at -large toward the city in carrying out such programs. Ms. Smith pointed out that the information in "Uncle Sam the Pusher Man" about the United States Government's involvement in opium traffic in Southeast Asia has been documented in The Congressional Record, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Palo Alto Tines; and Councilman Comstock was saying that because The Collective would not withdraw that information that had already been made public and based upon his personal objection to it, he was willing to close down the most effective drug program in this area of California. Ms. Smith asked what sense that made. Councilman Comstock expiaiaed that his point was that he did not have confidence in PACDAB to carry out the objectives of the program in a way in which they would have the support or acquiescence of the community. Ms. Smith did not feel that anyone in the room was satisfied with that response. Mike Fox, staff member of The Collective, thought the situation was an amazing one. He said he had to thank Councilman Berwald for being honest. Four and one-half years ago, some people in the community decided a drug program was needed; and after a year of working with no money and doing detoxification work in their own homes, they organized a drug program. These people were on the streets of this town talking to everyone about a drug program, and no one was willing to accept it. One night in downtown Palo Alto, $20,000 worth of windows were broken; and the next night there was a telephone call from members of the City Council who had finally decided the town needed a drag program. Mt. Fox said he sat in a meeting with Councilman Norton who said, "Mike, 1 am willing to support a drug program in Palo Alto as long as it is not all Veneta -smog". This was * meeting called by those working on the drug problem and by nersbers of the City Council. Mr. Fox said he and tbs others worked for twelve months to build the program. The fact of the mutter is that in the three years that The Collective had the program, it net or exceeded every single contractual obligation that it had signed. Two years ago, Councilmembers were running on the issue of Council disruptions. Councilman Comstock was liaison to the program at that time, and be did not shoe up for one Board meting until there vas a crisis. Councilman Comstock said The Collective could say whatever it wanted to, but he asked the staff to please stay out of the Council. Chambers. So the staff did not show up in tho Chsubsrs, and'it did not disrupt the meetings. When election time arrived, The Palo Alto Tires decided it needed to send a reporter into The Collective's building. He took a picture of a flyer which said, "Don't Talk to the VIII". This bad been distributed by ors of the community, and it was allowed in the building just as any other literature was allowed that was not overtly racist, sexist, or indicated any otber fora of discrimination. The Palo Alto Times took tbst picture, put it in the paper, and the conservative members 1 1i27 •/2173 of Council ran a campaign with a headline ,and a cartoon circulated around the comLunity that said, "Welcome - you are just in time for your next Venceremot meettai" :md showed a staff member walking a drug -crazed youth into the building. The other comment nn the cartoon was, "Drug Abuse Program - Play Pan for Radicals". That flyer was put out, and it had Councilman Clay's address on it. The next day the candidates - Councilman Bervald, Mr. Clay, and possibly Councilman Norton said they bad never seen that cartoon and had not authorized its circulation in the community. Everyone apologized, and this year they ran the same cartoon except about "Uncle Sam the Pusher Yen", and they were not apologizing. They were not apologizing because the people male an error in this community. Council only responds to one thing, and they had shown that at this meeting. The thing Councilmembers respond to is pressure, and to the existence of a force in the community that is stronger than what they thought they could get away with. That is the message Council was teaching people who were present at this meeting. Mr. Fax stated that The Collective people had worked for four and one-half years, sixty hours a week; and the Board members and people in the City Manager's office had worked for four and one-half years. Every year, a little more had been given up, so Councilman Comstock could go back to his constituency and apologize for these bad people. This year the program had been attacked with lies, such as the one noted by Vice Mayor Henderson. With that, Councilman Comstock retreated. Ede did not defend the program. He did not say The Collective did a good job. Councilmemabera Henderson and Pearson were using the right time to say what needed to b3 said, and Councilman Comstock retreated. What he was saying to the people in the community was that his own political future vas more important than the lives of a lot of people, and more important than the lives of the people who were brought dead out of their houses and saved and taken to Stanford Hospital, and more important than the lives of some of the people in this room, and more important than the thousands of clients who had come to the program as well as the thousands who will come to the program. Mr. Fox said that when The Collective put out a statement on Viet Nam, the statement was under attack both here and in the community. His own honest feeling was that was the first time The Collective picked a winner, and they were going to stand by it. The people in Viet Nam shored a lot of other people one thing. This tiny, underdeveloped country, with citizens living in shacks - not in fancy Eichler homes and skyscrapers, we; attacked by the United States, the most racist, the most aggressive, the most sexist country in_the world; and they said -"Listen, this is our land, this is our home„ and we are going to keep it". Mt. Tux said this was his hosts, this was the home of the people in the audience, this was their land, survival of the clients was being talked about; and he promised that Councilman Comstock was not going to take that away. Councilman Clay stated that Mr. Fox's statement that an ad had his address on it vas categorically untrue. Councilman Beahrs said h:s dents coucsrning the costs of services in Palo Alto were valid. The mare fact that sixty percent of the city's income is derived fres the incooveniwaces suffered, such as traffic, smog, noise, etc., does not obscure the fact that individual taxpayers could not go on forever increasing the level of costs. Ms. Smith thought it was important to Council and to the people it represented that Councilmembers stop giving evasive answers. She asked Councilman Coastoak to explain what politics The Collective had, what it bad said, and what it bad dais that offends the people of the comity and is dangerous and threatening; and she asked that he answer not in rhetoric, but in precise lamgm gs. Couscilsss Comstock did mot r+tspea. *;32$ 02/75 { .,�C Hr. Kazak, speaking to the coat of the program, said that this year, including the present quarter, it was projected that The Collective will have seen by the end of the year 360 people in counseling situations which included heroin detoxification and crisis intervention which would total 1,250 counseling sessions at an average cost of $18.00 per hour, and a total cost of $22,500. This would include visits to 110 school classes; 105 meetings with school counselors, teachers, and administrators; and contact with 2,800 students at a total cost of $21,000, or $13.00 per meeting and school class. The Collective staff will operate the facility 97 hours each week, 5,000 hours each year, at a cost of $4.60 per hour of operation. For this cost, the Hotline is operated, drug education, information and referral is provided, responses are made to crisis situations, and counseling and detoxification are arranged, and the building is available for groups and members oi the community to use and enjoy. Collective workers are members of twenty-five groups and community agencies which met an average of ten times. They also provide drug abuse education and trrining to sixty-five groups and institutions. The Collective's Street Theater gave performances before combined audiences of 1,300 people, and the cost was $9,000. It is very hard to translate statistics and money into the work that The Collective did. Mr. Kazak thought the numbers probably did not mean very much to some of the Councilrembere, and it was obvious that some of them were not even listening. The one thing that should be clear to everyone was that the figures Mr. Kazak read represented numbers to some people; but to those who worked in the program, the figures meant the lives of those persons they worked with. There was no way to put a cost on that. Vice Mayor Henderson said that part (a) of the substitute motion was before Council which was that the Council indicate the types of drug services that it wishes to provide during 1975-76 and that these be counseling, detoxification, crisis intervention, hotline and education and prevention activities. Councilman Berwald stated that there had been some conflict in the schools, but he was sure it was not particularly widespread. Some conflict had existed between certain activities of the city in the schools (he was not referring to The Collective) and the School District; and for that reason, he hoped that as (a) was implemented the city would recognise that education is primarily the job of the Palo Alto Unified School District. Further, the job of educating and counseling young people is not the job of any municipality under the laws of the State of California. If Palo Alto *panda money to provide counseling and education in the schools, it did so as an additional service; but there was no legal, moral, or ethical responsibility to do that. In most school districts, these responsibilities are taken care of by the district itself. Councilman Berwald realised that education did not nean simply education in schools, but this vas one of the things he would be looking at in the budget; and it had nothing to do with PACDAB, The Collective, or politics. It has to do with the degree to which the city has duplicated services that taxpayers are already paying for through property taxes. Councilwoman Pearson commented that she did not think there was duplication as far as drug education in the schools was concerned. She had talked with her own children and others who were simply not able to handle the kind of information given to them by the fcbool District until The Collective was involved. As a parent, Councilwoman Pearson felt children should get as much drug information as possible; and the rose they know, the better off they are. Teenagers tend to listen more willingly to persons who are closer to their age than to teachers or parents, for r instance. She hoped that Councilman Berwald mss not cr talking about eliminating that kind of inforastioet which the School District asked to receive from The Collective, 1329 612/72 Councilman Berwald remarked that the studen:er needed to learn about a variety of things, including a sense of responsibility. He agreed with constitsents who understood that when they sent their children to school, they do so under the guidance of the School District and administration and teachers of the school. The schools are certainly free to invite people in as resource persons. Councilman Berwald explained that there was a possibility of duplication of costs, and he did not want that to happen. Perhaps the job of the next drug contractor would be to work mote in the teacher counseling area than in direct contact with the students. Vice Mayor Henderson asked if the city bad sent any of its employees into the schools without their having been invited. Mr. Sipel responded that he had no knowledge of that ever happening. Part (a) of the substitute motion passed on the following vote: AYES: Berwald, Clay, Comatockk Henderson, Norton, Pearson NOES: Beaters Vice Mayor Henderson stated that part (b) of the substitute motion was before Council which was that the maximum amount of the funding for a total program for the 1975-76 fiscal year be similar to 1974-75 contract figures. AMENDMENT: Councilman Berwald moved, seconded by Norton, that the words "but not higher than" be added after the words "similar to". The amendment passed on the following vote: AYES: Berwald, Clay, Comstock, Norton NOES: Beahrs, Henderson, Pearson Part (b) of the substitute motion, as amended, passed on the following vote: AYES: »ecwaid, Clay, Comstock, Norton, Pearson NOES: Beahrs, Henderson Vice Mayor Henderson said that part (c) of the substitute motion was before Council which was that Council accept the principle of the statement regarding political involvement and that the City Attorney be directed to include proper language in the PACDAB contract. Part (c) of the substitute motion failed on the following vote: AYES: Henderson, Pearson NOES: Beahrs, Berwald, Clay, Comstock, Norton Vice Mayor Hender,eon placed part (d) of the substitute motion before Council which was that the Council thereupon refitUd the PACDAB program for 1975-76. 1 3 3)°n 6/2/75 Part (d) of the substitute motion failed on the following vote: AYES: Henderson, Pearson NOES: Beaters, Berwald, Clay Comstock, Norton Vice Mayor Henderson stated that part (c) of the recommendation from the Policy and Procedures Committee was before Council which was that the Council seriously consider other contractors either in addition to or instead of PACDAB within the total amount of funding indicated and that a request for proposals be circulated in the manner .suggested by staff. AMENDMENT: Councilman Clay moved, seconded by Beahrs, that the words "either in addition to or instead of PACDAB" be deleted from the recommen- dation. Councilman Comstock asked Councilman Clay to expiain the effect of the amendment. Councilman Clay responded the effect waa to delete all reference to PACDAB. The amendment failed on the following vote: AYES: Beahrs, Clay, Comstock NOES: Berwald, Henderson, Norton, Pearson Part (c) passed on the following vote: AYES: Berwald, Clay, Comstock, Norton NOES: Beaters, Henderson, Pearson Vice Mayor Henderson said that part (d) of the recommendation of the Policy and Procedures Committee was before Council which was that the contract with PACDAB be continued on a month -to -month basis at the current monthly rate until the Council selects a contractor or contractors, but that no new contract with PACDAB be executed until there is substrntially improved understanding with the Council as to the manner and extent of The Collective's political involvement. Councilwoman Pearson asked Councilman Norton what PACDAB and staff should do now since they had already made an effort and came forth with the proposed amendment regarding the last part of the language in (d). Councilman Norton thought that if part (d) passed, Council could have a chance to talk about the proposed amendment; and he did not know that the amendment as presented was an exhaustive effort. Vice Mayor Henderson asked Councilman Norton if the amendment presented did not satisfy Council, and if he would like staff and PACDAB to make another attempt at an understanding. Councilman Morton thought there could be-soas discussions over the aszt few weeks as to what political involvement on the part of The Collective would be acceptable to the Council. 1331 6/2/75 MOTION: Councilman Berwald moved, seconded by Clay, that part (c) of the Policy and Procedures Committee recommendation be reconsidered. The motion to reconsidr.e passed on the following vote: AYES: Beaters, Berwald, Clay, Norton NOES: Comstock, Henderson,Pearson AMENDMENT: Councilman Clay moved, seconded by Berwald, that the words "either in addition to or instead of PACDAB" be deleted from the recommendation. AYES: Beaters, Berwald, Clay, Comstock, Norton NOES: Henderson, Pearson Part (c) as amended passed on the following vote: AYES: Berwald, Clay, Comstock, Norton NOES: Beaters, Henderson, Pearson Vice Mayor Henderson stated that part (d) of the recommendation was before Council which was that the contrast with PACDAB be continued on a month -to -mouth basis at the curreut monthly rate until the Council selects a contractor or contractors, but that no new contact with PACDAB be executed until there is substantially improved understanding with the Council as to the manner and extent of The Collective's political involvement. Councilman Bervald said the reason he changed his vote on (c) was because the language was redundant, and that did not exclude PACDAB or include then. AMENDMENT: Councilman Berwald moved, seconded by Norton, that after the word "contractors" in (d) the following words be added: "providing that the month--to-month continuance not extend beyond August 31, 1975". Councilman Berwald explained that it was not fair to anyone to extend the contract on a monthly basis for au indefinite time, and this would insure that Council vote on the matter, by a certain date. Vice Mayor Henderson understood this ant to mean that Council was directing PACDAB and the staff to work again to develop an improved understanding of the political involvement of The Collective and make another proposal to Council. Vice Mayor Henderson received no response from other Councilmeabers. The amendment passed on a unanimous vote. Carleen Bedwell said that unless staff received additional direction from Council, she did not know what else could be provided to help settle the political difficulties. Mr. Mitchell commented that since the Policy and Procedures Committee meeting, The Collective staff, mmsbers of the community, members of PACIIAB, and members of city staff spent a great deal of time trying to put the political issue in focus so there could be a decision at 1332 6/2/73 this meeting. He suggested that the matter not be dragged out any longer, and that Council should decide to either refund or not refund the program. Mr. Mitchell tad substantial reservations as to whether the program could proceed on a monthly basis because of the tremendous practical problems involved. Those who had worked on the contract amendment had tried, in good faith, to give Council something that represented as much as could be compromised by those in the program. If Council did not want to refund PACDAB, it should say so. Councilman Comstock's candor was appreciated, because PACDAB knew where it stood with him. Mr. Mitchell asked Council to give PACDAB the courtesy of a decision. Vice Mayor Henderson said he obviously supported the program, but he could not support hanging on to them in this kind of a way. The group knows it is dead, and yet they are being asked to provide services for another three months. If they are going to be turned out, the only fair thing to do would be to turn them out tonight. Councilwoman Pearson agreed with Vice Mayor Henderson's remarks. What was going on was a little cat and mouse torture game. She thought it ,as silly, ridiculous, and inhuman; and sha did not like it. Councilwoman. Pearson thought the contract with PACDAB should be ended since they did not have the necessary support, and she was not willing to dangle them any longer. They have nothing to go on, and Councilman Norton was not able to tell them what he wanted. She thought Councilman Norton wanted them to talk some more; but when they did do something reasonable, he did not support it. Councilwoman Pearson stated she would have to vote against the monthly continuation, but it was not because she was not satisfied with the program. Councilman Berwald stated he was not playing games; and as far as he was concerned, PACDAB was neither dead nor badly injured. He thought if Council did not leave PACDAB dangling for more tilan_two months, _ the group could look at that as an opportunity to do some fence mending. Secondly, there is a new Council coning on; and he thought each member should examine all possibilities because that was the fair thing to do. When he cane into the meeting tonight, Councilman Berwald was not planning to vote for one more twenty-four hour period; and it was a tribute to leadership shown and the hard work that had been done that he still had an open ad.nd. Ms. Smith stated there vas absolutely no way that the people who work at The Collective would work there as of June 3lst unless they had a definite contract signed to the effect that the program will be continued. The Collective vas nor going to let their clients dangle. Part (d) as amended failed on the following vote: AYES: Berwald NOES: Beahrs, Clay, Comstock, Henderson, Pearson, Norton Ms. Smith thought that it needed to be made known throughout the city that The Collective was closed, not because it was a bad program, but because it had ideas that five people on the City Council found offensive in their own personal lives; and they were willing to sacrifice the lives of,people because of that. Oral Coamicatio 33 stone. 1333 6/2/75 Md journucent The meeting adjourned at 12:30 a.m. ATTEST: 1 APPROVE: Mayor Liti 1 3 3 4 6/2/75 ii2