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regarding the need for and staging of community playfields. The answers regarding how much of that need can be met with present facilities — and, maybe, some of the neighborhood parks would come a bit later in the park planning process. I see the Commission's primary (or even exclusive) task on February 22 to be a recommendation to the City Council as to which of the following strategic options should be adopted by the City regarding the resources to complete the park plan up date: 1. Continue with the 2006 CIP assumption that the staff will complete most of the work with the with Commission guidance. This strategy minimizes the cash cost of the project (essentially limited to $5,000 of contract work for graphics and publishing), but will result in a lengthy time line to complete the project due to limited staff resources — even with a second staff planner budgeted for some time in 2006. 2. Increase the CIP allocation to $25,000 and hire a consulting firm to complete the Park Plan update work. This option increases the cost of the task significantly, but will shorten the production period by half or more. While the additional resources are available in the Park Dedication Fund, an amendment to the CIP would be required along with City Council approval of the change in strategy. The Commission will recall that we faced a similar choice with the Trails Plan. While consultant contracts can be frustrating to manage, I think the Commission ended up malting the right call there. I fear we would other wise still be at the Trails Plan. I strongly suggest to the Commission that, no matter how tempting the instant Oakdale proposal be as a "hot subject", the Commission stay away from discussions of that specific proposal . Those discussions will be a waste of your time and energies at this point., and not go to what the City Council is really asking you to do. .