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professional services agreement with Moore, Icafano, and Goltsman, Inc. (MIG) is to provide landscape architectural services and participate in public outreach necessary to update and finalize the master plan to reflect the new concept for Kottinger Creek. RECOMMENDATION Review and approve the draft conceptual design for Lions Wayside and Delucchi Parks and approve and authorize Amendment No. 4 to the professional services agreement with Moore, lacofano and Goltsman, Inc. for the not-to-exceed amount of $28,770 for landscape architectural services and to participate in public outreach efforts necessary to update and finalize the Lions Wayside and Delucchi Parks Master Plan. FINANCIAL STATEMENT The Lions Wayside and Delucchi Parks project is funded through CIP Project No. 06716. Approximately $1.96 million is budgeted for the project. Current funding is sufficient to cover the proposed MIG contract amendment of$28,770. Expenditures to complete design services through bid documents are estimated to be approximately $1 million, leaving approximately $1 million for construction. BACKGROUND Design During Preparation of Master Plan In 2002, the Downtown Parks and Trails System Master Plan and Downtown Specific Plan recommended that Lions Wayside and Delucchi Parks be considered in conjunction with the Main Street Green (now Rotary Park), Fire Station No. 1 (now the Firehouse Arts Center), the Main Street Bridge, the Regional Trail Corridor, and portions of the Arroyo Del Valle, to be designed to serve as one contiguous park area. The plans intended that the combined facility of Lions Wayside and Delucchi Parks serve the immediate neighborhood as well as the city as a whole. Following the completion of the Firehouse Arts Center and the City's acquisition of the Regional Trail Corridor, the Lions Wayside and Delucchi Parks Master Plan process commenced, and CIP No. 06716 was assigned to the project. In December 2008, City Council approved a consultant agreement with the firm of Richard Larson & Associates, to develop the master plan. The firm's principal, Mr. Richard Larson, was the landscape architect for the Firehouse Arts Center project and was also the principal consultant for the Downtown Parks and Trails System Master Plan. On April 9, 2009, the Parks and Recreation Commission held a public hearing to review two schematic designs prepared by Mr. Larson. The major difference between the two schemes was the disposition of the creek that runs through the site and whether it should be piped and "undergrounded" or remain open, enhanced, and embraced as a park feature. The Commission overwhelmingly supported undergrounding the creek. Later that same year, in August 2009, the Civic Arts Commission also reviewed the same two schematic plans that were considered by the Parks and Recreation Commission. The Civic Arts Commission also supported undergrounding the creek, citing the improved and enlarged audience area that it would afford the Concert in the Page 2 of 8