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.., . PUBLIC COMM........iTS NONE REGULAR BUSINESS MAYORAL APPOINTMENT - PLANNING COMMISSION VACANCY Mayor Fauson appointed Ronald Weber to the Planning commission vacancy (1 vacancy - completion of 6 year term - January 1994). REQUEST FOR SUPPORT OF "MAC" (METRO AREA CONNECTION LIGHT RAIL PROJECT) Bill Womack, Director of Transportation. Womack: Bill Jorgensen gave presentation at your work session. This is a project that basically I feel we should support. We are going to spend about $250 million. Since about 75% of the people in the area support a light rail system, we have to put in one somewhere where we think it will work. We feel the MAC project will work. We have the funds for it. The MAC project is a very short project. It will help all of the area. We are asking for a resolution supporting this project. Howard: Are we going to see a rate increase from this? Womack: The situation is, RTD has a policy that we do not increase rates more than inflation every year. Sackett: The request for support, at the DRCOG meeting it is such that if they (the Council) vote in favor of this project that I will be obligated to follow the vote. I have heard that this particular project doesn't take people anywhere. It would be much better if you could go from the Tech. Center to downtown. Is there another place that other people think is a better place for this project? Womack: We have 67 million dollars to do this with. People are saying why don't you build down at the southeast corner. That's 800 million, so we are a little bit short. We think we should build what we can afford, we don't need any more taxes at this time. Mayor Fauson: The route from Boulder, Louisville, Superior and Broomfield, they tell me at the rush hour there is standing room only on the buses. People from RTD tell me you are short of buses, if you are short of buses why not buy buses instead? Womack: We buy buses with Federal grants. If we had to 2