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Ms. EIIgas looked forward to the changing of the sport seasons in a sports park with multi-use fields. She liked going from soccer to baseball to football. She believed multi-use fields were more practical. Mr. Rasmussen confirmed the direction was for a minimum of eight fields. He then referred to item #5, the potential need and location for lighted or unlighted tennis courts. Mayor Hosterman believed Council would be hearing a couple of issues related to tennis courts next week and felt it would make sense to hold off further discussion until after those issues are heard. Mr. Rasmussen said that was not a problem. Mr. Brozosky said he would like the Parks and Recreation Commission to review the status of courts in the entire city. He felt there would not be enough data available next week to consider what should be on the Bernal property. He preferred to give direction to the Commission to do a city survey of needs. Mr. Fialho said the staff recommendation is to direct the Parks and Recreation Commission to have further studies. He felt a recommendation could be developed over the next couple of months and then if there is a need for tennis courts, the Bernal process could include the findings. Ms. McGovern also believed that at next weeks' meeting there should be direction to continue to work with the School District to discover the cost of lighting and resurfacing the two tennis courts to raise them to a high quality. Ms. McGovern asked if that could be accomplished in time for the review of the City's capital improvement projects? Mr, Fialho did not think so. Council would review the CIP and budget at the beginning of June. He believed the Parks and Recreation Commission could fast track the study and if the project were approved, there could be a mid-year budget adjustment to get funding in place. Mr. Kummer noted there is a major effect on noise from the wind. That needs to be taken into account. If the wind is blowing west to east, one can hear the freeway clearly, but could not hear the train. At certain times of the day, or certain seasons, 700 or 800 feet clearance may be good for sound and at other times not good enough. Ms, Narum indicated there is a Sports Council meeting next week and wondered if the issue of all weather fields should be included on that agenda? There should be discussion of which fields would be candidates for all weather tur~ and which should be grass. Mr. Fialho stated staff was supportive of all weather fields and they could be integrated well with the ultimate design of the park. However, it is a little early to get Joint Workshop City Council and Parks and Recreation Commission 17 05/12/05