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Mr. Fialho said he wanted to create every incentive for the Cultural Arts Foundation to raise the funds. The question remains, can the City come up with difference in the event the fund raising activities were not successful? He believed there was a way to move resources around and cancel some minor projects that are not a Council priority and close out some old projects that have existing fund balances that would probably fund the entire project. He mentioned that the projects with existing fund balances would not include the Kottinger Creek and Bernal property projects, basically the five Council priority projects that currently constitute its list of Capital projects. While the Alviso Adobe project has some revenue available, staff is attempting to augment this project with State and Federal grants and School District involvement. Mr. Sullivan believed three bids were necessary: one related to Scenario #1 and one related to Scenario #2 and one related to the improvements to Lions Wayside Park. Mr. Fialho said staff provided Council Scenario #1 as way to explain and illustrate the cost of the actual structure versus all of the other associated programmatic costs. He recommended that Council select Scenario #2 which included the construction of the shell and theater which would allow Council to decide the fate of the gallery and classrooms at a later date. He believed Scenario #2 provided Council the most flexibility which provided additional time for the community to fundraise and allowed Council time in the fall to match City funding with the fund raising dollars which would allow Council to decide at the time whether it wished to proceed with Phase I or Phase II, or not doing anything. Mr. Sullivan concurred with Ms. McGovern's comments and agreed that a real total cost, including capital and operating costs, be provided to paint a complete picture. Mr. Fialho pointed out that Council could decide at that time to bifurcate the improvements to Lions Wayside Park and the complex in order to avoid doing the entire project simultaneously depending upon the resources available. There were no public comments. It was moved by Mr. Brozosky, seconded by Mr. Thorne, to approve design documents for Scenario #2 as outlined in the staff report and prior to authorization to bid this project, the total cost analysis, including the capital and operating costs, shall be provided to Council. In response to an inquiry by Ms. McGovern, Mr. Schindler said the project consultant's process would include the various review processes with the City over the next several months, and the actual preparation of the construction documents would be prepared in five months which would leave two months for the bidding process. Ms. McGovern asked if there were a way to accelerate the process? Mr. Schindler said the process could be accelerated but it was at the City's discretion. Ms. McGovern asked if Mr. Brozosky's motion allowed Council the best opportunity to do alternative bids when this project is ready to constructed? Pleasanton City Council Minutes 20 01/17/06