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The Pleasanton City Council is set to consider signing off on the proposed Alviso Adobe Community Park Implementation Plan on Tuesday evening.
The eight-page draft plan features more than 25 action steps within key strategy areas to fulfill the goals of preserving and enhancing the park as a historical site, maintaining and interpreting historical land-uses, enhancing park program and special events, and increasing community outreach and support.
“The implementation plan identifies tasks that are related to each strategy included in the (2015) strategic plan. The implementation plan also indicates the resources that are needed, and the priority and timeframe projected to complete each task,” community services director Susan Andrade-Wax wrote in her staff report to the council.
The 7-acre city park opened in October 2008 at 3465 Old Foothill Road, right off Foothill Road just south of the high school. The centerpiece is the Francisco Solano Alviso Adobe House, built in 1854 and now registered as a California historical landmark.
“The park serves both as a historical and environmental resource, offering interpretive and interactive programs to city of Pleasanton residents and visitors,” Andrade-Wax said.
After the park’s first five years, city officials and residents worked to develop a strategic plan to provide the blueprint for enhancing the park going forward. The Alviso Adobe Community Park Strategic Plan was formally adopted two years ago this Friday.
A follow-up to the strategic plan, the proposed implementation plan lays out the action steps to help the city’s key strategies and goals for Alviso Adobe come to fruition. It features a mix of completed, ongoing and planned future improvement efforts, of varying scales and costs.
Smaller projects include more storage space for program materials, adding an outdoor sink to the north side of the bunkhouse, putting in more display beehives, installing more off-site directional signage, creating new programing for teens and adults, refining the docent program and exploring the formation of a nonprofit foundation to manage sponsorships and partnerships.
Larger-scale efforts include redesigning landscape and signage at the Foothill Road entryway and connecting Laguna Oaks Trail to the adobe with signalized pedestrian crossing at Foothill Road.
The implementation plan was drafted by the Alviso Adobe Strategic Plan Task Force and city staff and endorsed by the Parks and Recreation Commission in May. It heads to the City Council for final approval Tuesday night.
The Alviso Adobe plan is the only discussion item scheduled for the regular meeting, set to begin at 7 p.m. inside the council chambers at the Pleasanton Civic Center, 200 Old Bernal Ave.
The council’s agenda also includes a 15-item consent calendar, a collection of items deemed routine and voted upon all at once unless pulled for separate consideration.
The council is also scheduled to meet in closed session earlier Tuesday, beginning at 6 p.m., to discuss ongoing labor negotiations with the Pleasanton Police Officers Association and to talk with legal counsel about an existing civil case involving the city.
