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Ms. McGovern said it was important for the improvements at Lions Wayside Park to be done at the same time as the Firehouse Arts Theater. She asked if the estimated $1.48 million dollars was currently available for the initial improvements. Mr. Fialho said the estimated $10 to $11 million dollars to construct the entire Firehouse Arts Theater did not include the improvements to Lions Wayside Park and funds are not currently allocated for the improvements to Lions Wayside Park. Staff has not figured out a way to finance the improvements to Lions Wayside Park and the goal is to partner with the Pleasanton Cultural Arts Foundation and allow them to raise sufficient capital to match City funds to build the complete project as opposed to phases. In the event the Foundation is not able to match the funds, he believed he had a plan that he could present to Council that would allow the project to proceed either phased or completely. If Council chose to proceed with the improvements to Lions Wayside Park, staff would make this allocation as part of the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) update that it would be discussing in the spring. While staff has made plans to apply the $5 million dollars that Council allocated from the CIP to the General Fund to other projects, the decision would have to be made to pull back on some of these projects and apply some of the funding to Lions Wayside Park. Ms. McGovern asked if additional funding was available in the Parks and Community Services budget where projects have been completed and money is waiting to be reallocated? Mr. Fialho said this would be part of the analysis that staff would complete. Ms. McGovern inquired as to whether staff had investigated if the City would be eligible to apply for grants for this project? Mr. Wolfe said staff is continually looking at opportunities for grant writing. He believed there was a proposal making its way through the State legislature to add another Park Bond Act. Ms. McGovern wanted to ensure the Cultural Arts Foundation that the City would be looking to help augment funding any way it possibly could. She mentioned the possibility of recycling monies and different types of strategies used for the Golf Course. Mr. Wolfe said this could potentially be another source of funding that could be considered. Mayor Hosterman recalled that staff mentioned the estimated cost of approximately $1.48 million dollars would include improvement such as grading, undergrounding the existing drainage channel, irrigation, and turf seeding and not costs related to the actual acquisition of the Alameda County Transportation Corridor and parking. She asked what the costs would be related to the parking and the acquisition of the Alameda County Transportation Corridor? Mr. Fialho said staff took the approach of identifying basic improvements. If Council wished staff to pursue the costs of parking and the acquisition of the Corridor, staff would need to return to Council with a revised estimate. Mr. Sullivan asked if it was reasonable to believe that the City could come up with $7.5 million dollars between now and November? Pleasanton City Council Minutes 19 01/17/06