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Mayor Hosterman was concerned about detracting from the signs if temporary lighting was installed. She asked if there was Council support to move forward with installing the initial four signs as soon as possible and direct staff to return to Council with realistic costs to illuminate the signs. Council concurred with Mayor Hosterman's direction. Mr. Brozosky asked when the signs would be installed. Ms. Ott said the PDA's goal is to install the signs during the holiday season or by the beginning of next year. 6d ADDroval of a contract with M.D. Fotherinaham. LandscaDe Architects lMDFl to DreDare the Bernal Community Park Master Plan. (SR 05:274) Mr. Brozosky recalled Council's first direction regarding the community park began with Phase I of the Bernal Community Park, which is the lighted sports fields and part of the initiative To Save Our Community Park that placed the development of the first phase of the Community Park as the highest reasonable priority in the development of the Bernal site. He noted that Council has not decided in which direction it wished to proceed with the goal of ultimately bringing the matter to the voters. Mr. Fialho said Council approved a PUD for Phase I that authorized staff to initiate the design and construction of this project. Council also authorized staff to proceed with a specific plan process that captured the entire 318-acres of the Bernal property which plans the property from not only a community park perspective but also from the perspective of what all the various elements are within the site that would eventually be built out. The Community Park Master Plan compliments the Specific Plan and it is part of the initiative To Save Our Community Park adopted by the previous Council which included an element that said the City would initiate a master plan of the community park to compliment the development in the future. Staff has taken this mandate and the specific plan process, which is two separate processes, and is intending to blend them together into one document. The Specific Plan will specifically address the potential uses for the site and the Master Plan will focus specifically on the 50-acre park and various architectural features on the site. He has instructed staff to keep this as flexible as possible in order to avoid Council buying into a PUD. This is basically a master plan subject to modification at some point in the future depending on how Council wished to phase the project over time. Again, he noted that the Specific Plan and the Master Plan would be compiled together into one document which satisfied the initiative that Council previously adopted as well allowing Council to move forward with the Specific Plan process with the hope that this process, including the EIR, would be completed by May 17, 2006 with the ability to put the matter on the November 2006 ballot in the form of a measure. Mr. Brozosky recalled the previous Council discussed the initiative and wanted to ensure that the wording did not tie the Council's hands for the remainder of the project. He noted that the initiative To Save Our Community Park specifically slated that the development of the first phase of the Community Park shall be given the highest priority. He saw no reason to prepare a Master Plan for the 50-acre park until Council knows what is being done for the property and how everything interacts. Pleasanton City Council 29 10/18/05 Minutes