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Parking Lot Renovation No funds are currently allocated for any renovation or reconfiguration of the parking lot at Gingerbread. The existing lot includes 45 parking spaces, two of which are handicapped spaces. Consideration has previously been given to reconfiguring the parking lot to provide improved circulation and drop-off, convenient disabled parking, separate employee parking, new bicycle parking and improved connections to exiting sidewalks. In October 2007, City engineering staff assessed the current parking lot configuration and agreed that the safety and traffic flow needed improvement. Suggestions included widening the entrance/exit to accommodate emergency vehicles; adding additional stalls adjacent to Black Avenue; and restriping the parking lot to add additional stalls, a walkway for pedestrians and convenient disabled parking. These proposed Improvements would add an additional 32 parking stalls, for a total of 62 public, two handicapped, one bus and 12 staff spaces. The preliminary estimate for this improvement is $605,000. (See Attachment 5.) Given the significant financial investment for the proposed play yard and facility improvements, staff recommends that we defer parking lot improvements to a later time. Though the parking improvement should be completed at some point in the future, staff believes the building improvements are of a higher priority and should be performed concurrently with the play yard upgrades to limit disruption and confine construction to three months this summer. Program Impacts Staff has considered various scenarios in an effort to reduce the impact to the preschool program and the families we serve. As stated, the project calls for athree-month construction period and would result in the following schedule: 2007/2008 school year -end early (May 23 instead of June 6, 2008) 2008/2009 school year -begin late (September 29 instead of September 8, 2008) 2008/2009 school year -end late (June 12 instead of June 5, 2009) This schedule results in the least impact to Gingerbread programs and services by allowing renovation work to be conducted in the summer months. Loss of program time would be a net of four weeks. Regarding the summer program, staff is working with the Pleasanton Unified School District to hold the Gingerbread Summer Camp Program at an elementary school site for four weeks. Attachment 6 sets forth the proposed timeline for the play yard renovation project; construction of the building renovation will be completed in the same timeframe. CONCLUSION Should Council support the play yard renovations, it would be necessary to amend the existing agreement with Keller Mitchell & Co. to develop construction documents and provide site visits during the installation phase. These services are estimated to not exceed $40,000, and would be allocated from the CIPR. (See Attachment 7.) Page 4 of 5