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Chairman Ginn called a 5-minute recess at 10:40 a.m. The Meeting was reconvened at 10:48 a.m. 13.E. COMMISSIONER KENNETH R. MACHT – LAND ACQUISITION ADVISORY COMMITTEE UPDATE – RESULTS OF VOTER OPINION SURVEY BY THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND Commissioner Macht listed the properties acquired under the current land acquisition bond issue and specified that a total of 5,456 residential units were taken out of development by purchases using the previous LAAC bond issue funds. This indicates that it does have a significant effect on development and densities. Chief of Environmental & Code Enforcement and LAAC advisor Chief Roland DeBlois recounted the Board’s direction to have LAAC review the concept of going to voters in November on a bond referendum for additional funds. Since then, there have been two public workshops, an informal questionnaire in the local newspaper for public response, and the Trust for Public Land’s opinion poll which the BCC has accepted as statistically valid. Their results were reported to the LAAC at its last meeting. The poll was just one tool for the Board to utilize in making their decision about putting this on the ballot in November. LAAC has looked at various draft ballot language and we need to finalize the ballot language for the Supervisor of Elections this month. The LAAC has considered this and staff has refined some aspects of the language. Staff was looking for a direction from the Board how to finalize the ballot language. Staff would come back in the near future with a formal resolution to send over to the Supervisor of Elections. Mr. DeBlois displayed a ballot question on the overhead that had been approved by the LAAC. Mr. Will Abberger of the Trust for Public Land has recommended inclusion of certain points on the ballot based on the results from the poll. One of the main areas of LAAC’s discussion was the appropriateness of the language “over-development prevention” being on the June 8, 2004 32