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Ms. Ayala said the plan would include what was in the initiative. Mayor Pico said he did not want to change the wording of the initiative. Ms. Ayala said she was hoping that Council and the proponents o~'the initiative would get together and tweak the initiative so that Council could include additional property and uses when it goes to a vote. Hopefully, the cultural arts people would feel comfortable about it. Mayor Pico said that a design plan that includes all of the additional uses would not be ready in time for the November election. He noted that the time line does not provide for it. Ms. Ayala said there would not have to be a design and that Council could incorporate all of the additional uses into the initiative. Mayor Pico said he would rather move forward with the design competition and come up with a design that ultimately gets approved by the voters rather than just saying that those elements would be included in it. He said that a design competition is being conducted because Council wanted to come up with a design. Ms. Ayala said she understood what the sports groups are looking for and that is to make sure that the issue of sports fields are voted on by the people so that a council could not change it at~er November. Because the sports groups are looking for that, she thought that the best way to include the rest of the community in that vote is to include those other uses that Council has already listed in the design competition. Council has already committed to including an agricultural club, childcare center, a civic arts facilities, and open space. The initiative would include all of those uses that Council is asking the designers come up with, but it will give the security to the sports people that the community park couldn't be changed by anything other than a vote of the people. Ms. Hosterman said she was not sure that it will really go far enough to make the sports people involved in the initiative feel any better than they did before tonight. While the design competition sounds like a wonderful idea, if Council thought this was such a good idea, it should have embarked on this process three years ago, but it did not. What Council did embark upon was a series of task forces, which included a significant segment of the population. She chaired one of those task forces, and the task forces worked very, very hard. She did not have an issue with looking at different types of design concepts for the remaining 270 acres out of the 320 that Council is talking about. But the troth of the matter is that there are a number of people who have created a nice plan, which included the lighted sports fields that this community needs and wants. She supported the initiative and supported the way it was written. Maybe she was wrong, but she found it difficult to believe that for an award of $7,500, Council would come up with a design that looks like it spent over $200,000 on. She believed it was time to move forward with this part of the park. She would not support the design competition. She Pleasanton City Council 18 03/02/04 Minutes