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Ms. Ayala mentioned that she had found some paperwork that discussed Phase I and Phase II of the Bernal property. She found comments made by the Mayor in January of 2001that stated "this should be a public plan with much interaction between the Community Park Task Force, Phase I and Phase II group." She believed Council failed to follow up with some of the concepts that were provided, which has resulted in a political situation. She believed that finding fields that would be available in other parts of the community could solve this problem. She indicated that the sports community wanted additional fields and do not necessarily care if it is on the Bernal property. Ms. Hosterman pointed out that Council had already approved this process when she was not in attendance. Subsequent to that, she had asked for reconsideration so that she could be a part of the argument, debate and discussion about the design competition. Unfortunately, she was not given that chance. She pointed out that Council went through a very lengthy and thorough public process. She indicated that she probably would have been more supportive of conducting a design competition three years ago, but at this point in time, she believed that by embarking in this new direction, Council was ignoring a very thorough and public process that has already been accomplished. It concerned her that Council is delaying the oppommity to expand fields in Pleasanton, for which there is a real need in this community. She was realistic in knowing that the City will never be able to fully serve the needs of all of the sports uses in Pleasanton. She believed Council could do a better job than it is doing now. She noted that comments had been made during the public process that professional consultants were not involved, and that it was just a community process. She stated that was not mae, as RRM Design Group was hired, which has been in business since 1974, to assist with the process. She noted that the City had already spent $204,000 during this public process and already hired the best designers in the State to look at the Bernal property. She believed that a great plan already existed and to scrap it at this point and go in a different direction made no sense. She encouraged Council to think in terms of setting aside the park space for additional sports fields as previously discussed, and to get started on building the sports fields. She pointed out that Council told the community it would do it, and she believed Council owed it to the community to do so. She stated that she would rather spend the money for the groundbreaking of the sports fields instead of on the design competition. She did not believe that by offering $5,000 to someone who is unknown to the community would give the City anything better than what it already had. She was hopeful Council would be in favor of doing what it could to alleviate overcrowded and overused fields in town. Mr. Brozosky disagreed with Ms. Hosterman's comments. Mr. Liskamm clarified that the outcome of the ideas that had been produced from the public workshops were not mutually exclusive from what the design competition would embark on. He believed the outcome would be a culmination of the results and ideas fi'om prior workshops, to which now a designer will give physical form. The designs will take into account the ideas and outcome of the workshops as requirements for what the community wants. Pleasanton City Council 33 02/03/04 Minutes