All right. Hello, everyone. Thank you all for coming in tonight. My name is Ryan
Ossenton. I'm the project manager from the Public Works division here at the city.
A couple of administrative people that are here just to point them out to you. We
have Rachelle Bedell. Hi, Rachelle. We have John Dowdy, who's our director of
Public Works, and our new city administrator, Matt Morley. This is
Matt's first month on the job. He's on week three, I think, so I'm glad he
was able to find council chambers and be here on time.
So we did a couple of introductions real quick.
So tonight's meeting, just so you all know, tonight's meeting is being recorded.
It's not being broadcast live, but it's being recorded and we'll be posting it on the city's
YouTube page by the end of the week.
If you want to go back, check it out or if you want to send it to anyone else to
review so they can see all the information.
We'll also be putting these slides up on our city website, city of Gilroy.org back
CCMP. Civic Center Master Plan, CCMP. All the information from the project is on there.
I am going to ask two favors of you. This is a semi-long presentation. I'm going to
talk for about 30, maybe 35 minutes. I'm going to ask that you hold all of your questions
until the end of it. The reason for that, a lot of what I say rolls into the next
slide and will answer most of your questions before we ask them. If you do have a question
that doesn't get answered by at the end of my presentation. When you come up and ask
your question, I bring you the mic to ask the question, please clearly state your first
and last name. The reason for that, we have to track all comments and questions around
the project and submit them to our partners. And we need to know the names of the people
that ask the questions so we can tie it back within the report if there's a follow-up
report. So I'm going to ask, if you have a question at the end, please clearly
state your first and last name before asking the question.
So this is our agenda for tonight.
We're going to run through, we have four areas to focus on.
The first one is the Civic Center master plan and the background and the why we have a
master plan.
The second point will be a review of our master plan and then we will review the draft
environmental impact report as well.
After those are done, we'll have a brief Q&A.
I might not have the answers to all of your questions.
So if I say I'm not sure it's not because I'm trying to avoid your question
It's because we haven't gotten to that point yet. This project is about a seven eight nine phase long project
And we are still in the beginning steps of phase one
So there's a lot of information that we just don't know yet because we haven't crossed that bridge
So if you have a question, we'll track it and I'll do my best to answer what we can
So what is the Civic Center Master Plan?
In short, it's a long-range planning document that helps guide the development and design
of our core public facilities and our civic campus.
Our civic campus is considered from Church Street to Doughty between 6th and 7th.
So to give you a visual of that, this is a Google view, aerial view of our campus.
So, you can see at the top of the screen, you have Church Street between 6th and 7th
all the way down to Doughty.
That area is considered the civic campus.
Within our campus, we have the senior center, the police station, the library, City Hall,
Wheeler Auditorium, and the Annex, which is the old police station, and we have our
surface level parking lots.
So, why do we need a master plan?
What is the point behind the development of a master plan?
A master plan is our guiding document for managing our Civic Center plaza.
All the decisions we make around, you know, how the parking is set up, what buildings
go where, what flagpoles go where, how you connect between the two buildings.
All of that is designed and decided within a master plan.
Our most recent master plan for our Civic Center was adopted in 2002.
So we're about 24 years into the current plan that we're on.
That previous plan gave us the library and the police station.
So just to give you some idea of how long it can take to develop buildings within that master plan.
Since 2002 when that plan was adopted, the population of Guillory has increased by 42%.
So we have seen a very large jump in the last 20 plus years within our community.
And a part of that, the issues behind that is much of our infrastructure is aging and rapidly outdating.
We are outgrowing it from a staff perspective and a lot of our buildings are in need of
major renovations or complete new construction to get us up to speed to where we need to
be.
So just to give you an idea of how old some of our campus is, Wheeler Auditorium
was built in the 1940s.
So it's pushing over 80 years of age for our recreational center.
city hall was built in the 1960s so it's over 60 years old and it has not
received hardly any renovation since it opened the senior center was built in
the 50s and it's gotten two renovations but the last one of those came in 2002 so
it's pushing 25 years without any updates and the annex which is our
former police headquarters was built in the 60s as well and it got one
renovation in 1986 just for reference I was born in 1989 so it's been a
minute there. So as a part of our process, in November of 2024, the City Council awarded
a contract to help develop our master plan to ELS, Urban Architecture and Design. And
in early 2025, City staff and ELS held some public forums. Some of you, anybody attend
any of those, show of hands? A good bunch of you, yeah. So we started in that process
us with kind of an idea of what we wanted to do.
And we used those meetings last March, April, and May in
your feedback to develop the plan that we're going to show
you guys today, and that most of you have probably reviewed
within the documents online.
So the feedback from those meetings led directly to
the development of the master plan that we are moving
forward with here.
So let's jump into that master plan.
Couple of things I want to touch on before
we dive into it.
Our police station was built in 2010, and it is not a part of the Civic Center Master Plan update.
We will not be doing any renovations or spending any money on the police station.
It will exist as it is under the new master plan that we are moving forward on.
The library is in the same situation. It was built in 2012,
so we will not be doing any updates to it as a part of the master plan.
However, we do have leftover bonds from when the library was built,
And we are in progress right now on some design renovations to the library.
And we are expecting construction to start on the library for those updates in the fall of 2026.
So we are headed towards it and I'm very excited for it.
It's going to be awesome what we end up doing over at the library.
So under our new plan, we would demolish four buildings within our footprint.
That would be City Hall, the Annex, Wheeler Auditorium, and Senior Center.
And those four buildings would be replaced with a new City Hall, a new multi-generational facility,
a recreational facility with an aquatic center, and a newly created Civic Park.
So let's jump into, this is a rendering of what the new master plan would look like.
So for reference, at the bottom of the screen, you have Church Street, the top of the screen
is Doughty Street.
This building at the top, that is the police station, again that one will remain unchanged,
that is its current location, that is where it will stay.
This is the library, same thing there.
No renovations to it, it will stay exactly where it is unchanged.
This would be the location for the new City Hall.
This would be our multi-generational facility.
This would be our Aquatics and Recreation Center, and then finally our new Civic Park.
So let's start with the Civic Park.
Our newly created Civic Park would be approximately the size of a football field.
So about 100 yards in length, about 53 yards wide, which is a very good size public park
in a place where we don't have public park in immediate walking access.
I think the closest is down by Brown L.
That's several blocks away. That's a long walk from here.
So this new civic park would create a new downtown area
that's in an immediate walking distance to Gourmet Alley
and the downtown area, which we are actively working to develop.
This would feature a shaded paseo for community events,
farmers markets, Saturday morning outings for groups.
It would have an outdoor walking loop,
an interactive water feature and dedicated bike parking.
We're also expecting it to, we're tracking, excuse me,
towards 425 available parking spots
with the ability to convert part of a surface lot
into a two to three story garage
that would match the aesthetic of the buildings
and the height of the buildings around it
and it would allow us to add up
to 180 additional parking spots,
which I'm not great at math,
but that's right around 600 spots.
So that would be a sizable increase compared to what we currently have.
So this is an illustrative site plan for the Paseo and the outdoor park.
So this is a reference just to show you the size of the football field park that we have.
It's a pretty good size green space in a downtown strip.
This would be your shaded Paseo, so it would serve as the walking connector path
from the police station to City Hall, City Hall to the library, City Hall to the
Aquatic Center. And it would create a nice outdoor shaded space for people to
come and enjoy the park and everything within our footprint. This is the
outdoor walking track that you can see here. It would be, I think they said
it's almost a half mile loop, so a couple of loops gets your steps in,
which would be nice. You have an interactive water feature here. This
would be something that would be like water spouts out of the ground,
on something for kids to play in on a hot day out
without having to actually jump in a pool.
And this is a example of the parking.
So does everybody see the number 224 right there?
That section of the parking lot directly beneath it,
those two sections would be the areas converted
into a garage if we go that route
to add the extra 180 stalls.
So that is where a parking garage would go.
All the rest would be surface level lots
and we would be adding street parking
pretty much to the entire perimeter
all the way from the corner at 6th and Doughty, all the way down 6th, all the way down church,
and all the way up 7th back to Doughty.
We would not be adding street parking on Doughty, though.
It would stay between 6th, 7th, and Church.
For our multi-generational facility, this would be the new home for the senior center.
It would also serve for a newly created auditorium and theater for the performing
arts with balcony seating.
We would have an updated dining facility with indoor-outdoor seating, a dedicated
They had half gymnasiums for activities, events, and parties.
Parks and Rec would receive new office space within this building.
It would also serve for a newly created teen center, as well as an art studio and an art
multi-purpose room.
We expect this building to be just over 41,600 square feet.
That's the estimation for right now.
So this is what that floor plan would look like.
This is an overlay of it.
But this would be our senior center with the lounge and dedicated activity room.
Down in the bottom left corner is our auditorium with auditorium style seating and an elevated
stage.
You have your indoor-outdoor multi-purpose dining room with a new commercial kitchen.
You have your dedicated half gym as well as the office space for the first floor.
On the second floor of the building, you would see the youth lounge and the youth activity
center as well as the art studio and the art multi-purpose room.
And then you have the balcony seating and your control booth control panel for the
performing arts center.
And this is a breakdown of the square footage.
I understand that it's hard to read.
If you want to look at it in a little more detail, just check out the PowerPoint when we
post it on the website so you can see that and look at it a little bit closer.
This is a rendering of what we would expect the exterior of the building to look like.
So a lot of glass, the aesthetic of it would match the existing aesthetic of the police
station and the library.
So if you're trying to think in your head of what it would look like, just picture
the library and then this layout, maybe a little bit bigger, that's what our multi
a generational facility would look like.
For our Recreations and Aquatic Center,
it would feature a dedicated lap and activity pool,
dedicated pool locker rooms.
You would have a full-size indoor basketball court
with the ability to host two full court games simultaneously.
You would have three multi-purpose rooms,
more parks and recreation office space,
a indoor weight room with dedicated fitness classrooms,
dedicated gym locker rooms,
and an indoor elevated walking track
that goes above the basketball court.
And this building would be 42,600 square feet.
That's our estimation there.
So this is what the floor plan would look like.
As you can see, that is where the lap pool
and all of the pool equipment would go.
And for reference,
if you keep going left of the pool,
you would run right into the library.
So where the pool is,
is where the parking lot currently exists
between Wheeler and the library.
That's a good reference point for you.
These would be the dedicated pool locker rooms, men's and women's locker rooms.
This is the first floor, so this is the gymnasium in the basketball court.
As you can see, you'd have full court options both north and south and east and west
if you needed multiple games going.
You would have dedicated multi-purpose rooms, staff office space.
And then on the second floor, you would have more staff off the space, another multi-purpose
room, so three total, two on the first floor, one on the second floor.
A dedicated fitness space, has anybody been to the Morgan Hill CRC before?
This gym would be almost the exact same square footage and layout of the Morgan Hill CRC,
so that's a good reference point if you've ever been over there.
A dedicated fitness classroom for spin classes and workout classes.
And then, then again,
Located gym locker rooms for men and women. This would be upstairs right next to where the
gymnasium or where the weight room would be located. And then your elevated indoor walking
track for the days where you need to get your steps in but it's raining and you can't like
last week. You can come here and walk on the elevated track. Or if you want to watch
a kid's basketball game but you can't sit still because you're a pacer like me, this
is a perfect spot to do that. And again, another breakout of the square footage.
This
This is what the exterior would look like.
The middle picture, item number three to the right here, that big black box with windows
looking out of it, that would be the weight room that looks over the pool and the Aquatic
Center.
And then for City Hall, we would have a new council chambers with the view of Civic
Park, an improved lobby with public counters for services, and dedicated office space
for city staff.
And we expect this to be about 47,500 square feet.
I have gotten this asked to me a couple of times.
If the staff number is not changing, why is the square footage of City Hall going up?
The reason behind that is we have staff that works for the city that doesn't work in City Hall.
In this new plan, almost all of our employees would be under City Hall.
So it helps bring our organization under one roof
without having to have multiple places that people are located throughout.
So this is what the layout of the new city hall would look like.
As you can see, this is where the council chambers and the lobby area would be.
The council chambers would have a view into the civic park from this angle.
These would be your public counter spaces to do your permits or ask questions,
pay your water bills, whatever it may be. We'd have dedicated public counters, as well
as private office staff area. Second floor is going to be the same thing. You have your
public counters and receptions area, and then more office. And that is a breakout of how
the square footage works out.
So what is an environmental impact report? The EIR is
a public document that is required under CEQA, which is the California Environmental
Mental Qualities Act, it's required to review your project and identify any potential items
that could create an impact on the surrounding environments, right?
So it tells you what it could cause and how can you reduce it.
ELS has partnered with EMC Planning Group to help produce our draft EIR.
So we worked with ELS to create the master plan and then EMC is reviewing it and creating
creating the impact report off of that.
So they highlighted items that could be impacted by the development of our master plan.
There's four topics that an item can fall into.
It's either no impact, less than significant impact, potentially significant impact, or
significant and unavoidable impact.
So those are the four areas that you could qualify for.
We had six that were no impact, ten that were less than significant, and one that
was significant and unavoidable.
Quick Jeopardy question, can anyone guess what the one significant and unavoidable item was?
No, it was Wheeler.
Yeah. Bingo.
So just an example of some of the things they identify.
Construction would create odors that adversely affect people.
Yes, that's what happens when you knock down buildings or building things, right?
There'd be no effect on wetlands or native fish or wildlife, things like that.
So they just go through the entire document and highlight anything they think could be
an issue.
So some of the less than significant impact items.
I'm not going to read all of these.
If you guys want to read them, I'll leave the slide up for a moment and you can read
through them.
But almost all of them are things such as potential adverse effect on special status
wildlife species because we're knocking down trees that would be within the footprint.
We can't clearly identify what specific birds live in, what specific trees.
So, there is a chance we could do something, but it would be minimal.
So those are some of the things that they've identified here.
They had 10 of those minimal items.
Really the main point of the EIR that we took from it was the significant and unavoidable
impact item, which would be the loss of Wheeler Auditorium.
And they have given us a clear path to going that route if we need to.
And that would be the proposed mitigation steps, which indicate that prior to issuing
any demolition permits. We would have a historian architecture. They would document Wheeler in
accordance with guidelines that have been established already by the Historic American
Building Survey. That's going to cover a couple of different items, but the main things would
be the drawing and floor plan sketches, photographs, extensive photographs. Like
you think it's a lot of photographs? Like double that. They're going to take pictures
of everything within that building and then all of the written data associated with Wheeler
from those 80 plus years that we've operated on it.
And then a historian would submit all those documents to the California Historical Resources
Information System, which is managed by the state, and they would log that along
with all the other buildings that existed in there.
So what do the next steps look like?
Our current focus right now is on developing and finalizing the master plan.
Once that gets finalized, we will take it in front of City Council, present it,
and they will vote to either reject it or formally adopt it as the plan that we will use
to manage the Civic Plaza moving forward.
So, when I said earlier that there's lots of phases to this, that is phase one,
have this plan get adopted.
Once that plan gets adopted, we will shift our focus into phase two, which is financing and phasing.
We don't have a solid idea of what it's going to cost.
We have rough order magnitude pricing, but we do not have detail because there's a lot of variables that go into it,
and we have not spent our time and energy trying to figure out that puzzle yet.
We want to get this passed, we want to get it approved,
And then we will shift all of our focus from getting the master plan passed to figuring out how we're going to pay for it.
And our goal is to have a ballot initiative in 2028 in that election cycle with a plan in place for how we do that, okay?
All right, we're at the Q&A part, and I finished seven minutes before I thought I would, so that was solid.
Does anyone have any questions?
Clearly, my name is Bill O'Connor.
My question is that,
why is Wheeler historical? Just because it's old?
Looking at it, it doesn't seem to have any
unique design that I can see, nor
do I know of any activity of a historical nature of something happening there
as to why you wouldn't maintain it.
I mean, so it strikes me, it's just because it's old.
Lee Blatler, Wheeler Auditorium used to be,
was built by a local individual, Mr. Wheeler.
I think it was used for the purposes of military
during World War II area.
I think it was its primary purpose, so there's the historic military function.
Just to answer that, I'm not defending it, I'm just saying that.
I think originally what it was for.
Does anybody have any other?
Would it agree or disagree?
Sorry, can you say that into the mic?
So I'm sorry, my name is Dan Donovan and I'm with the Gilroy Historical Society.
So we do study these things and that's where a lot of the resistance is coming to taking that building down.
Mr. Wheeler was a pretty major influence in the history of Gilroy.
He was a, I guess he was an agricultural person.
he had a seed facility that supplied a lot of places throughout the state.
And he was
involved with a lot of the, say, more powerful people in Gilroy from, say, 1915 through the
late 1940s.
Beyond that, it was used as an armory during World War II. Yep, by the
National Guard.
Thank you all. Any other questions?
State your name first and then
ask away. Jessica Wilson. So the multi-generational building that you're
talking about and the services that will be available, will those be free to
the public or will people have to pay like it's the YMCA? So the current plan
that we are operating under would be a free model. That is our that is what
we entered into the Civic Center master plan development with the
thinking in mind that it would not be a CRC style,
like the Morgan Hill CRC is partnered with the YMCA.
We would be, my understanding as of now
is that we would be managing that moving forward.
I do wanna say things do change and models change
so I'm not, I can't say with 100% certainty
it will stay that way,
but that is the plan we are operating under now.
Okay.
The incorporation of the senior center into there
with that also the kitchen area
that's involved with the senior center
would that then be expanded? Would that be available to other citizens to use for
events? Or like rent out the kitchen to use for private events? Not rent out the
kitchen but let's say we had events for the whole public and not just seniors.
What happens with the kitchen? Is the kitchen available to others? I'm sure it
would be. We haven't gotten to that point in finding things out but I'm
sure it would operate under the same parameters that our current kitchen
does. And then the maintenance of such things as the pool which the
the city doesn't currently maintain any pools, right?
Would that be managed under the Parks and Rec Department?
We operate the Christopher pool and maintain that one.
And
we contract for the services that are run there.
I'm repeating so that the recording picks it up.
Who would maintain and operate the pool?
Who would be responsible for maintaining the pool?
Again, this would be a city-owned facility
there.
Got it.
Okay, and then one last thing. Is there already somebody in a position of the
city council who would be overseeing programming of what would be going on at
the theater? Who would be doing that? We haven't gotten to that point. Okay, so
the some of the positions don't exist yet. It's potentially or it would be an
expansion of responsibilities. Got it. So it doesn't necessarily mean that there
or would be additional hiring?
No, it does not mean that at all.
Okay, one last question.
So if the city halls expanded to that size
because there are people working outside,
would those employees then be required
to come into the office
or can they continue to work from outside?
Because some don't even live here.
So the employees I was referencing,
currently we have staff that operates
out of the senior center.
We have staff that is in the annex, we have staff that is at fire stations, and we have
staff that is at our corp yard.
So not all, like the guys and gals that operate out of the corp yard, some of them would stay,
but some people would end up moving into here.
So we would be bringing in employees from other facilities that work for the city
under one roof.
Does that make sense?
Yep.
Great.
My name's Wells Wadley.
And I'm here thinking of this as a patron of the library but you said there's still money available.
But when I look at the plan, what I see first of all is there's a swimming pool on parking
which is very close to the entrance to the library.
So my question is are you planning to shift the entrance of the library to the other side of the building?
because that pool is taking away parking places which are very close to the main
entrance to a library. And also, and related to that, is there will be
competition between pool users and library users for those parking spaces,
and I suspect that people will stay in the pool longer than people will stay
in the library. So that's my question about, I mean, a solution might be to shift the entrance
to the, what would that be, the west side of the library. But it's now...
So there are two entrances to the library currently. There is one right about at the
T on street at 6, if you take it right up to the building, that's where one entrance
is. The second one is on the plaza side, the exact same entrance is up.
And they're opposite each other.
Yes, right. So we would not change their main entrance. The only thing that would change is rather than having, because currently, this is, this will give you a good view of what the current is. Let me back up and find it.
So current...
Finally, parking is along 6th Street in front of the library. That's the primary library parking.
The parking lot between Wheeler and the library is used both for the library and for Wheeler.
And then you have the parking strip in Hannah right up along the back of the library.
What we would be doing is expanding the parking on Hannah.
So we would take the parking that's between Wheeler and the library,
and move it to the other side of Hanna and then double or triple it. It would be
significantly bigger in this setup. Sorry, I have a lot of slides to click
through. So it might be a tiny bit like it might be like 15 more steps to get to
the library coming from the Hanna side versus the Wheeler side. It's a slight
alteration to the plan but the expanded parking that you would get on the
would increase the number of parking stalls available, and we're not touching the parking stalls
that are currently by the main entrance of the library.
But where are the pool users parking in your imagination?
Somewhere in the parking lot.
Right by the library, I think.
I'm sure everybody that comes would try to do that.
But I think there is room to find dedicated library parking
or reserve for library user parking within that area.
But again, that's one of those things that we haven't finalized yet.
Sorry, I saw a hand in the back, so I'm going to go to her first.
I'm Margaret Aaron, and I live pretty much right across the street from the library.
I have used the CRC up in Morgan Hill.
Love it, it's a wonderful thing.
My main concern at this point is actually traffic in the area.
We have two lane roads.
They're pretty stuffed already.
The CRC has four lanes.
They have Monterey and that's dedicated.
and they're not surrounded by residential.
So I've not really seen anything in this plan that addresses increased traffic,
which 6th Street, since they opened the overpass, is pretty packed already.
So is there anything that in the ER?
So we have initiated a traffic impact study.
ELS is overseeing that.
And the return on that was that the change in traffic patterns would be minimal,
given what the current footprint already is and the current usage.
You ever
mentioned the on-street parking?
I did.
And
to John's point,
but did I already pass it?
You just passed it. You had it on.
It's so many slides.
That's my fault.
Oh no, I went the wrong way again.
See what happens when I get to clicking?
So can you guys see these orange dots
kind of that run along here?
Those would be the dedicated street parking that John is referencing.
Your question, ma'am?
I believe you had referenced Lee.
You had mentioned earlier in your presentation about the increased number of parking space,
what the total would be.
So what is it now and what would it would be?
Secondly, I think some of you visited Wheeler Auditorium this morning
and saw some pickleball being played.
So I don't know if that pickleball pickleballers will be able to play at the new basketball courts
That's parts of park and rec
Third I remember when the police station was built it was supposed to park
It was supposed to be underground and then you know there wasn't the moneys and now it's elevated
So that's just you know, and you don't financing isn't available yet. So, you know, what's gonna?
I don't know that just putting that out there and
And for right now, that's all that comes to mind.
Just because you were showing this square footage
for the buildings being just over 40,000,
my quick math says that's 200 by 200.
So is that floor space, or is that
the footprint of the building?
That is the footprint of the total building.
So if I, yeah, total square footage.
So if you look at this when we post it online,
I'll try and zoom in here so you can see it a little bit better.
But it would show within the lower levels how many dedicated square foot is to each section
that we talk about.
So it gives you that breakout of how we get to a total building area of square foot
of 41,600.
The
question was, what is the foot
40,000?
And that's 200 by 200.
And if you have two floors, then I'm thinking, OK, well, I got 200 by 100.
It's not equal 20,000 to 20,000, but it's roughly that.
So
your hand, then, will come to you, sir.
Ruben Mediovia.
Yeah.
I was a president in some of the conversations earlier last year,
and I remember there was a lot of talk
about in the Civic Center Park area
having had a kind of like a built-in stage or space
for like performances and that kind of thing was that.
Did that, does that still exist?
And if so, where would it be?
or is it mostly gonna be up to people who program those events
to produce stages for each of those events?
We decided to eliminate the permanent stage
from the park space, and the reason for that was
there was just no real good area to put it
that worked within the footprint.
Either you're sending sound directly to houses
which we didn't wanna do,
or you're sending it directly into one of the new
buildings where it's gonna reverberate and bounce back,
which makes for bad audio.
So, our determination was if we're going to have events with concerts, we can do stage
rentals to help create a better environment.
That makes sense.
And then, I think I also asked this question before, but there, I know there's, it has,
you mentioned the ability to add a parking garage.
much,
is that included currently in the plan already as a structure and if not then why
not already include it if we're going to go after all this money might as well.
It is not currently included in the plan.
The plan currently only calls for a surface lot.
But we wanted to keep that option there in the event that we build it and then we
find out this isn't functional, it's not working properly.
we need to have an ability to add more so it's one of those things where we could
build it in now and it raised the cost of the total project or it's one that we
keep in our back pocket as a contingency so that if it's something we feel is
needed we know what the plan of action is to to pursue it okay all right if you
wouldn't actually mind passing them thank you I'm Greg Felios we have these
all these different projects going on, how did you determine which is the priority?
Because you're not going to be doing all those things all at once.
You're going to take them pretty much one at a time, aren't you?
And it's going to be spread out. They're not going to be doing all those projects.
They're not going to be turning something down and building it up.
It's a great question. We haven't figured it out yet.
It's a part of the financing and phasing plan, which we'll shift all of our focus to
once we get the master plan adopted.
decide which is the priority. What do we need first? What do we need now?
This is going to take a while. It's a lot of math and a lot of hoops
to jump through and a lot of strategic planning
and conversations that have to take place to figure out what's the priority,
what can we do, what's the best way to not disrupt city hall,
not disrupt the senior center, not disrupt the activities at Wheeler.
There's a lot of balls you've got to juggle to figure out what that plan is
and we haven't shifted our focus to it yet.
Okay, thank you.
I'm curious.
I'm sure you've done studies with the growing population.
Again, this is going to take years and years.
This is going to take years and years.
And hopefully we'll all still be here in Gilroy to appreciate it.
Right.
And a lot of this is for future for people coming in.
This is going to be a selling point, an attraction point.
And hopefully, for all that we're putting into it, hopefully it'll get the use and hopefully
you've projected how much use each one of these things is going to get.
Yeah.
I certainly hope so.
Okay.
Thank you.
Any other questions or comments?
Nothing?
Okay.
Well, thank you all again very much for being here.
Like I said, this will be posted online by the end of the week.
So if you want to check it out, go to cityofgilroy.org, backslash, ccmp, and if you have any questions
that you didn't feel comfortable asking today, you can email me, ryan.austenton, at cityofgilroy.org,
and I will add all of your questions into what we submit to ELS and EMC.
So that's it for tonight.
Thank you all again for being here, and have a great evening.
Survivors on at 8.