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lighted fields and an amplified public address system. It includes lighted football fields and it includes lighted soccer fields with an amplified public address system. She asked Ms. Ayala if she were saying that she would be willing not to request people go out and collect signatures, and then place this acreage outside of the design competition process and move forward with getting those additional fields built? Ms. Ayala said no. What she would suggest is that Council try to keep it as generic as possible and provide the designers some latitude for putting originality into its designs, notwithstanding that Council would probably be provided with both designs. Any of the information that the Task Force has already gone through, Council would provide to all of the designers, and Council could include up to eight lighted sports fields. The minutes prove that the only reason the community park was set back was because Council wanted to see lighted sports fields move faster, and Council sent it back to the Parks and Recreation Commission and asked for a 30 to 35 acre area that only included the fields so that Council could move on it quickly. Never has anybody fluctuated from that. It could be done and she believed Council could work with the makers of the initiative to incorporate what they are looking for, plus the other organizations in the City that are looking to make sure that their interests are met without actually mapping out where anything is going to go. Mr. Brozosky said he was not implying that the 800-foot setback be mapped out. Ms. Hosterman asked Ms. Ayala if she were saying that she was willing to set aside the acreage necessary to build the community park, and set it aside from the design competition? Ms. Ayala said no. Mayor Pico believed that Council wanted to make sure that at least one design submitted by any of the design competitors incorporates those issues in it. Ms. Ayala agreed. Mayor Pico said if the initiative goes forward and it passes, it would mandate that a design include the components that the initiative proponents want to see in it. If the initiative fails, Council would have the ability to adopt any other design. It was his sense that Council would see an initiative that is successful and hopefully it would include some alternatives in which Council would have an opportunity to have some dialogue on it before the election. He noted that there may very well be another plan that comes out of some other concept that everybody says is so much better and we want to see it happen. What he would like to see is for Council to work together with the initiative proponents to come up with a plan that works and be able to put this on the ballot in November, and be able to continue with the design competition and not slow down the future process for development of this park anymore than it has been. He pointed out that Council needed to let people speak, but he wanted to make sure that the public had the benefit of the Council's thoughts before it spoke. If the public wants to go ahead and Pleasanton City Council 10 03/02/04 Minutes