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Hartnett agreed. Council Member Hartnett referred to Council Priority No.4, playing fields and parks improvements, working with the College District and SBSA to establish an additional playing field, listed on Page 153, and said it was a great goal. He said the City's efforts towards that goal also include working with the County and the Elementary School District. Council Member Hartnett asked for clarification on the Quality of Life Priority on Page 166, initiation of new Middle School After School Sports programs. Superintendent Centeno said this goal reflected the desire to put all youth sports together. She said there was a half time position of Middle School Sports Coordinator in the Budget, and the other half they hope to have funded by the Police Activities League, which has been managing Elementary Sports programs. She said there were five Middle Schools and each wanted different programs, so PRCS needed to put more emphasis on coordinating efforts. Council Member Hartnett said there were so many good things in all of the Department Budgets, but he just had to mention how important this issue was to him and how happy he was to see stated Objectives of better and closer coordination with PAL, "so that we not only, (eliminate) duplication, but we have better delivery of services to the youth where they are. I think this is excellent." Council Member Claire asked that other leagues impacted by PAL be included in the process, such as Senior League and some of the basketball and soccer leagues. He said he is somewhat concerned that PAL recruits at the same time Senior League and others were recruiting. Superintendent Centeno said this position is in a unit supervised by PRCS Supervisor Bill Wooten who also coordinates all the League use of the fields. She said they had purposely put all the sports programs together which should improve coordination of effort. In response to Council Member Bain's questions regarding a Skateboard park, City Manager Everett advised that this issue was located in the CIP which would be discussed next Monday night. Council Member Ira requested that Council pull the funding for the Fox Theatre, and suggested that he and "the Mayor could put together a 'strings attached' deal to see if we can get some more use out of the Fox Theatre." Council Member Ira said he would like to see if a more definitive arrangement could be made to open it up more to the public. BUDGET STUDY SESSION MINUTE BOOK NO. 57 JUNE29,1998 MINUTES Page No. 026 PAGE 22