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SH"L+E w REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: 8-22-11 Item No.: Department Approval City Manager Approval Y Item Description: Consider Authorizing Approach, Method and Dollar Amount to Implement Step One of the Parks and Recreation Master Plan 1 BACKGROUND Aga At the June 20th, 2011 City Council meeting, Leisure Vision presented the findings of the 3 recently conducted statistically valid interest and opinion survey. The survey reported that the majority of residents are willing to support/invest between $8 and $10 a month (equating to 5 approximately $25 - $30 million dollars) for parks and recreation areas that are most important 6 to them. 8 At the June 20th, 2011 joint City Council/Parks and Recreation Commission meeting there was 9 a discussion on how to move forward with implementation of the recently adopted system 0 master plan in relation to the survey while considering other City Capital Improvement needs. 11 Taking the survey and other Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) needs into consideration, the 2 City Council asked the Citizen Organizing Team (COT) and the Parks and Recreation 13 Commission to recommend a funding and implementation approach. 15 At the July 11th, 2011 City Council meeting there was a review and discussion on the 16 proposed possible approaches, financing methods, time based full implementation and 1 7 specific project and costs for step one implementation. At this meeting there appeared to be a 18 general consensus that the preferred approach at this time was to focus primarily on existing 19 parks and facilities with the exception of time sensitive land acquisitions and to utilize a City 20 Council approved abatement bond funding method. Further work would include sharing the 2 1 specifics of the proposed plan with the community to gain additional feedback and to consider 22 refinements as suggested by the community and the Implementation Groups and to eventually 23 return back to the City Council with a resolution setting a public hearing date. 24 25 Since formulating proposed step one; the COT, Parks and Recreation Commission, 26 Implementation Work Groups and staff have been sharing the specifics of the proposal with 27 the community. Specifically, there have been 13 constellation tour occasions in various 28 neighborhoods throughout the community. They have been very well attended with average 29 attendance of 100 per neighborhood. The overall proposal has been well received. By the 30 time of your meeting on August 22nd, there will be 2 additional neighborhood gatherings which 31 will complete the entire tour of the 15 Constellations. 32 Paget of 3