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Mr. Wolfe said staff is continually looking at opportunities for grant writing. He believed there was a proposal making its way through the State legislature to add another Park Bond Act. Ms. McGovern wanted to ensure the Cultural Arts Foundation that the City would be looking to help augment funding any way it possibly could. She mentioned the possibility of recycling monies and different types of strategies used for the Golf Course. Mr. Wolfe said this couid potentially be another source of funding that could be considered. Mayor Hosterman recalled that staff mentioned the estimated cost of approximately $1.48 million dollars would include improvement such as grading, undergrounding the existing drainage channel. irrigation, and turf seeding and not costs related to the actual acquisition of the Alameda County Transportation Corridor and parking. She asked what the costs would be related to the parking and the acquisition of the Alameda County Transportation Corridor? Mr. Fialho said staff took the approach of identifying basic improvements. If Council wished staff to pursue the costs of parking and the acquisition of the Corridor, staff would need to return to Council with a revised estimate. Mr. Sullivan asked if it was reasonable to believe that the City could come up with $7.5 million dollars between now and November? Mr. Fialho said he wanted to create every incentive for the Cultural Arts Foundation to raise the funds. The question remains, can the City come up with difference in the event the fundraising activities were not successful? He believed there was a way to move resources around and cancel some minor projects that are not a Council priority and close out some old projects that have existing fund balances that would probably fund the entire project. He mentioned that the projects with existing fund balances would not include the Kottinger Creek and Bernal property projects, basically the five Council priority projects that currently constitute its list of Capital projects. While the Alviso Adobe project has some revenue available, staff is attempting to augment this project with State and Federal grants and School District involvement. Mr. Sullivan believed three bids were necessary: one related to Scenario #1 and one related to Scenario #2 and one related to the improvements to Lions Wayside Park. Mr. Fialho said staff provided Council Scenario #1 as way to explain and illustrate the cost of the actual structure versus all of the other associated programmatic costs. He recommended that Council select Scenario #2 which included the construction of the shell and theater which would allow Council to decide the fate of the gallery and classrooms at a later date. He believed Scenario #2 provided Council the most flexibility which provided additional time for the community to fundraise and allowed Council time in the fall to match City funding with the fundraising dollars which would allow Council to decide at the time whether it wished to proceed with Phase I or Phase II, or not doing anything. Mr. Sullivan concurred with Ms. McGovern's comments and agreed that a real total cost, including capital and operating costs, be provided to paint a complete picture. EXCERPTS: CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES, January 17,2006 Page 4 of6