Pleasanton Parks and Recreation Master Plan

P a g e | 1 A P P E N D I X B APPENDIX B City of Pleasanton Assessment of Current Maintenance Conditions and Recommendations for: Existing Park and Recreation Facilities Prepared by: RJM Design Group, Inc. Timothy Gallagher, Senior Associate November 2012 Executive Summary Overall Park and Recreation facilities within the City of Pleasanton were found to be well maintained, visually attractive and safe with little to no deferred maintenance within park grounds and landscaping. Substantial deferred maintenance needs were found within park structures, facilities, and buildings. Based on observations and discussions with staff it appears that the level of maintenance is currently at a Level 2 maintenance mode established by the National Recreation and Park Association which is considered an acceptable operating standard for municipal parks and recreation systems the size of City of Pleasanton. However, given the projected population growth at build- out and development of new parks and recreation facilities including future phases at Bernal Park, the current resources may prove to be strained and/or inadequate to fully fund both operation/maintenance and long-term capital upgrades and development. Currently, the Operations Services Department with the City of Pleasanton in conjunction with contract labor is currently able to deliver on all elements of park maintenance. Since the Great Recession started in late 2007 the City of Pleasanton has added several new park and recreation facilities. These include:  Alviso Adobe—October 2008  Bernal Community Park, Phase I—September 2009  Marilyn Murphy Kane Trail—October 2009  Firehouse Arts Center—September 2010 During the same time the “parks budget” has suffered a dramatic 19% reduction in funding in actual expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 2008 compared with fiscal year ending in June 2012. Table 1 displays the five previous fiscal years in budgeted dollars and actual expenditures. Tennis and Community Park