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BACKGROUND The 2014 Parks and Recreation Master Plan recommended the City continue cooperative efforts with youth sports organizations to provide safe and accessible programs. Cricket was specifically mentioned as one of those programs and a dedicated cricket field was identified as a need for the community. When the Parks and Recreation Commission prioritized projects for the CIP work plan at its meeting in January 2021, a significant number of Pleasanton residents who supported the construction of a cricket field attended the meeting. Subsequently, based on support by the Parks and Recreation Commission, the City Council budgeted $250,000 for the research, design, and construction of a cricket field as CIP Project No. 22795 in the FY 2021/22 CIP work plan. Staff researched locations within Pleasanton that could accommodate a cricket field and in April 2022, the City Council selected the Ken Mercer Sports Park at the location to accommodate a cricket field. In June 2022, the City Council allocated an additional $250,000 for the cricket field project during the Fiscal Year 2022/23 Mid-Term Operating and Capital Improvement Program process. Staff identified three potential cricket field locations at the Ken Mercer Sports Park, conducted outreach with the public and sports user groups, and in September 2022 the City Council selected the existing Hardball Field B as the site for a cricket field. Following this, staff contracted with one of the City's on-call landscape architecture firms, Gates + Associates, to design the cricket field; the design was completed in May 2023. On June 6, 2023, City Council allocated an additional $50,000 for the cricket field project as part of the FY 2023/24 CIP work plan based on the estimated project costs. DISCUSSION The Ken Mercer Cricket Field Project comprises the installation of the City's first dedicated cricket field, an oval grass field approximately 360 feet wide by 390 feet long, including a 90-foot-by-10-foot synthetic turf cricket pitch in the center of the oval. The existing Hardball Field B baseball backstop will be removed, and the infield mix will be removed and replaced with grass to match the existing grass adjacent to the infield. The irrigation will be modified to accommodate the changes, a storage area will be provided for cricket equipment, and the existing soccer goal storage area will be relocated closer to the existing soccer fields at the park. Bids Sealed bids for this project were opened on June 14, 2023. Six bids were received, ranging from the low bid of $414,430 from ELLA to $619,505. The low bid is five percent lower than the Engineer's Estimate of$438,000 (see Attachment 2). Past work performed by ELLA was verified to be satisfactory. Staff recommends awarding the construction contract to the lowest responsible bidder, ELLA. Page 2 of 3