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Council member Sullivan stated that ice-hockey is great and may be a great use for the site and he is not opposed to eventually putting an ice facility on this site or some other use. He is concemed about the process of the proposal. He believes the City is essentially cherry-picking a project that 3 or 4 Councilmembers have decided is a good idea and is moving the process forward without first hearing from the community as to this site. He stated concerns with creating issues in the neighborhood and added he believes the City is going about this process backwards. He believes the community should be surveyed first. He indicated he is not sure why the City needs to fast-track this. He believes everything he has heard about the financing and having them help pay makes sense, but his guess is if hockey is as popular as it really is, this opportunity will not die out tomorrow. He does not know why the Council needs to decide this today. If this does go forward, some of the issues that need to be addressed are the access issues, what changing those accesses to the park entails and would the County agree. He indicated that if this moves forward tonight, the Council would be cementing an expectation in the community that it would be built despite what is found through the EIR process. He believes this is not a good process and cannot support the direction. He would support a direction where this idea, along with the idea from the soccer people and other ideas from the community, comes back to a Parks and Recreation workshop to funnel these ideas up in order to come up with a recommendation. Mayor Hosterman indicated her support for the idea conceptually and stated she also appreciates Vice-Mayor Sullivan's comments. She believes he made a good point and there ought to be a planning process that includes the entire community. She indicated while raising her children, she had envisioned for Pleasanton that parks would be "green grass" and when this opportunity came up it occurred to her that the City could provide recreational activities for the youth and adults in the community that doesn't necessarily focus on "green grass" activities. She indicated she will support staff's recommended direction and asked that the second to the motion include sending a message to staff that when this goes to the Parks and Recreation Commission that the City first begin with a visioning opportunity for the community. She wants to hear what the community would like to see. She believes if there are members of the community who are supportive of looking at what this would look like, the City could then move forward with that concept. Councilmember Brozosky indicated that part of the motion was to involve the community to a very high degree. He assumed that means if the community decides it does not want an ice facility then that will be the message sent to the Parks and Recreation Commission. Council discussion ensued indicating this is not being fast-tracked. There is a process in place now and staff is asking that this proposal be integrated into that process. Staff indicated that the "fast-tracking" is only that staff is currently not working on that 17 acre site. Part of this coming forward is the City has an opportunity to move this project along with the programming for the rest of the site to the Parks and Recreation Commission. City Council Minutes 9 October 3, 2006