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fields available to the community. The Council Liaison members have a meeting this week with the School Board committee members to discuss one school where the City might be able to obtain three additional baseball diamonds and some soccer fields. The Committee will also be discussing ways in which it can bring the existing fields up to a higher caliber. X~qnile the School District may have land, its primary charge is to teaching children and not to provide the best sports fields that the community wants. He was hopeful that additional fields could be on the Neal Elementary School. He thanked his colleagues for helping to obtain the infrastructure so that the school could actually be built, but pointed out that the actual building of the school would probably be held up due to the litigation with Signature Properties. He believed there had been some confusion with regard to the lighted sports fields for the Bernal property. The lighted sports fields would be included in the design competition. He believed the outcome of this would be available for review at the Bemal Block Party to be held on May 15. Council would be working with the designers so that they could come up with some plans that would show how some of these active and passive uses could be integrated together on a single piece of land. The land that is in the center of the Bemal property is about 108 acres, and he believed a good designer could actually integrate both active and passive uses so that lighted sports fields could be located on the property. The City needs lighted sports fields and the Bemal property was the appropriate place for them. Once the design competition beings and Council finds out the results of it by the end of the summer, Council could g~ve the approval to beg~n designing the lighted sports fields that are needed in this community, which he was committed to doing. Again, he understood the need for additional fields for practice time and league play. The School District has been very cooperative in trying to find property at the schools to make this work. 2. ROLLCALL City Clerk Dawn Abrahamson called the roll, which is recorded as follows: Councilmembers present were Kay Ayala, Steve Brozosky, Matt Campbell, Jennifer Hosterman, and Mayor Tom Pico. Staffmembers present were: Deborah McKeehan, City Manager; Michael Roush, City Attorney; Dawn Abrahamson, City Clerk; Nelson Fialho, Deputy City Manager; Steven Bocian, Deputy City Manager; Brian Swift, Director of Planning and Community Development; and Rob Wilson, Director of Public Works. 3. AGENDA AMENDMENTS Ms. McKeehan mentioned that an addendum to the agenda identified the presentation to the winners of the California State "We the People" competition. Staff has also received a request from the applicant concerning item 6e, the development review process for Kotfinger Hills, PUD-33, to continue this item indefinitely. Staff also has received an email today pertaining to agenda item 6d, consideration to support Senate Bill x 43 (Poochigan) and Assembly Bill x41 (Maldonado) proposing broad reforms to the Workers' Compensation System. She reported that the Chamber of Commerce did take a position supporting SB x43 and AB x41. Pleasanton City Council 2 02/17/04 Minutes