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Item 6a(2) Approval of Midterm Update of 2002-03 Operating Budget and Capital Improvement Program (SR 02:143) Ms. McKeehan presented opening comments. Ms. Rossi presented the staff report regarding the Operating Budget. Mr. Bocian presented the report regarding the Capital Improvement Program. Ms. Michelotti asked when the Alviso Park project will come before Council for discussion. Ms. McKeehan responded that it is scheduled for the August 20 meeting. Ms. Ayala inquired whether the School District was proceeding with removal of the tennis courts on First Street. Mr. Wolfe said the tennis courts on First Street are expected to be removed as part of the day care facility project. With the removal of those two courts (which the City has always maintained), the plan is to provide another facility, by expanding the courts at Pleasanton Middle School and bringing them up to City standards. Ms. Ayala referred to the Bernal Community Park and asked for an update on the design of the Park and how the public can participate in that process. Mr. Wolfe explained that when Council approved the development plans for Phase I, it authorized a fifty acre community park. There was a Task Force formed which developed a plan. At the point when the work was completed and ready to go to the Parks and Recreation Commission, the focus for the public land on the Bemal property changed. At that time, Council directed the Task Force to focus on thirty acres of lighted sports fields. There will be an item on the next Council agenda to modify the agreement with the consulting firm to allow staff to reconvene the Task Force and focus on the lighted sports fields. He felt there was a plan that could be modified rather than starting the process from the beginning. Ms. Ayala was concerned that the lighted sports fields would not be in before the housing is occupied. Ms. Michelotti asked if it were necessary to go back to the Task Force, rather than starting the process at the Parks and Recreation Commission. Mr. Wolfe said the focus had been on property near the proposed train station and school site. Now with discussion about moving the train station farther south, there has been consideration of moving the lighted sports fields farther east abutting the property line. It seems more logical to put the lighted fields against the eastern property line with a cultural facility to the west of them. That would provide as much distance as possible from the homes that are being built in the central parcel. It is believed that there is a configuration for the fields that can Pleasanton City Council 6 06/18/02 Minutes