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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 Plan located conceptual trail opportunities, set standards, and identified potential trail projects and costs. Since the Community Trail Master Plan was completed in 1993 the City has produced several Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plans, including the recently adopted 2017 plan, but the focus of those plans has been on on-street transit and cycling, not trails. The City contracted with TrailPeople in the summer of 2017 and began working on the TMP in August. The first few months of work consisted of data gathering, research, analysis, and public outreach. The outreach included: 1. A website for the TMP (www.pleasantontrails.com) 2. Advertisement at public events such as Ignite (October 14, 2017), the Farmer's Market (October 21, 2017 and February 24, 2018), the Oracle Green Fair (April 19, 2018), and Earth Day (April 22, 2018) 3. An online survey that was open for three months (October 2017 —January 2018) 4. Monthly trail hiking events (starting in February) 5. Advertising the TMP in the local papers and on social media 6. Two public outreach meetings dedicated to discussion of the TMP (November 16, 2017 and January 18, 2018) 7. Meetings with Alameda County, Dublin, Livermore Area Recreation and Park District, Zone 7, Tri-Valley Conservancy, and the East Bay Regional Park District 8. Six Bicycle, Pedestrian, and Trail Committee (BPTC) meetings 9. One Parks and Recreation Commission (PRC) meeting (May 10, 2018) The latest input from the BPTC, received when the draft TMP was presented to them at the April 23, 2018 meeting, was focused on the project ranking criteria. The BPTC recommended that staff use a bigger point system to rank projects so that the ranking results varied more significantly. They also recommended that the City improve wayfinding for Pleasanton trails. Parks and Recreation Commission comments have not yet been received (at the time this report was written). DISCUSSION This report and accompanying presentation is intended to inform City Council on the progress to date on developing the proposed TMP, and allow City Council the opportunity to provide input regarding the draft.. The schedule for the remaining tasks leading to a final TMP is as follows: