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BACKGROUND In 1993 the City of Pleasanton prepared a Community Trails Master Plan to serve as a guide for future trail development in Pleasanton, and to be used as a long-range planning tool to assist the City during development review. The Master Plan located conceptual trail opportunities, set standards, and identified potential trail projects and costs. Since the Community Trails Master Plan was completed in 1993, the City has produced several Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plans, but the focus of those plans has been on transit and cycling, not trails. With the significant amount of development within Pleasanton over the years, and the identification of trails in other various plans (Specific Plans, Master Plans, Design Guidelines, etc.), it has become apparent that a new trails master plan is required. The Trails Master Plan is necessary to identify and improve the trail system within the City, establish standards for existing and proposed trails, identify and rank priority projects, identify grant funding sources for those projects, show connections and identify opportunities with the regional trail system, and serve as the basis for all future trail development. The plan will serve as an addendum to the Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan and will replace the 1993 Community Trails Master Plan. Staff expects that the process will be similar to the Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan process and include a great deal of community outreach and several public meetings. The need for the Trails Master Plan was identified as a priority in the 2016 City Council Work Plan. Funds were budgeted for the project under CIP project no. 16734. Through a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) selection process the City selection committee chose TrailPeople as the most qualified firm to prepare the Trails Master Plan. DISCUSSION Three trail design firms each submitted a Statement of Qualifications (SOQs) in response to the advertised RFQ. City staff reviewed the SOQs and invited all firms for an interview. A panel of five City staff members (two representatives from Community Development, one from Community Services, one from Operations Services, and one from Engineering) along with a representative from the East Bay Regional Park District conducted the interviews. The three firms were: 1. Alta Planning + Design 2. Questa Engineering Corp. (Fehr & Peers as a sub-consultant) 3. TrailPeople, Landscape Architects and Planners (Fehr & Peers as a sub-consultant) Based on ratings of the SOQs and interviews staff recommends awarding the contract to TrailPeople. It is anticipated that the Plan will be completed by the fall of 2018. Page2of3