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BACKGROUND In April 1999, the City Council approved a consultant agreement with the firm of Pattillo Garrett & Associates (now PGA Design) to develop a Master Plan for the Alviso Adobe Community Park. As proposed, Alviso Adobe Community Park would represent a unique addition to Pleasanton's extensive parks system. The project would include restoration of a historic structure (the Alviso Adobe), construction of new structures (milking barn, bunkhouse) as well as development of amuseum-quality interpretive program for three distinct periods of history; that is, Native American (Ohlone), early American (Californio), and the more contemporary agricultural/dairy. In November 2002, following adoption of the Master Plan, PGA Design began preparing construction documents for the park, completing that work in 2003. Due to insufficient funding, the project was placed on hold until April of 2007, when the Council authorized staff to put the project out for competitive bidding. On May 17, 2007, a formal bid opening was held, and two sealed bids were received. The low base bid of $3,721,468 was submitted by the firm of JFC Construction, Inc. of Martinez. The recommended Add Alternate bid items totaled $673,417, and included the complete interpretive program for the park, site furnishings, perimeter fencing, HVAC system, and creek plantings/landscaping. The total contract awarded to JFC Construction, including base bid plus selected bid alternates, was $4,394,885. Construction began in July 2007, and the project is now ready for acceptance by City Council. DISCUSSION Budget In June 2007, the City Council approved a project construction budget of $5,344,536. Included in the budget were construction services, special inspection and consulting services and architectural services for construction related activities. City staff assumed the role of construction management for the entire construction project. During the course of construction, staff authorized contingency expenditures totaling $361,889 of the total $439,490 project contingency. Some of those items included additional structural work at the Adobe building, remediation of natural groundwater seepage adjacent to the bridge structure, additional erosion control and modification to the irrigation and landscaping at the request of Parks Division staff, as well as two additional activity carts requested by Parks staff. Also, a security guard for evening patrol was added after the site was burglarized twice, with the burglars looking for copper pipes and wiring. Included in the project expenditures (see Attachment 1 for a project funding and expenditure summary) is the reimbursement agreement negotiated with the developer of the small, proposed eight-lot Austin subdivision (Meadowlark Estates) that is located immediately south of the park site. The private development and park share an entrance roadway and other site improvements. Due to the construction timing of the Page 2 of 3