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Prescott City Council Study Session—September 19,2006 Page 5 recreation impact fees and could not be used on streets and some cash money was involved because the plan could not all be attributed to new growth. Councilman Roecker noted the city hired consultants for everything and asked Mr. McCasland if his department had the time and expertise to do this project and Mr. McCasland responded they had neither the time nor expertise to do a project of this size. Diane Simpson Colebank was asked to explain the project and she said the City of Prescott was their very first client 16 years ago and they had worked on the previous study and on the design of improvements to Willow and Watson Lakes;this would be a community plan—not what her company thought Prescott should have;there would be a lot of input from the public, citizens committees, stakeholders, special interest groups, etc. and the first thing to be done was a survey. Councilman Blair asked what a stakeholder was and what benchmarking meant and Ms. Colebank replied it was anyone who felt they had an interest in the process, such as the Little League groups, soccer groups, the equestrian community, the trails groups, and bicycle groups just to name a few and to benchmark meant to look 5 to 10 years in the future and what the future needs might be; Phase I would be gathering input to understand the citizens' vision and what perceived needs were; Phase II would be to come up with three alternatives to present to the community; then the Preliminary Master Plan would be prepared; then look at the Capital Improvement Plan and how to fund it because you didn't want to have a plan that couldn't be implemented; the implementation would be accomplished over a 5 to 10 year period,just as the last plan was; and would be funded through grants and other funding mechanisms. Councilman Blair remarked this was not just a parks master plan,but a full recreational plan and he asked to see the scope of work Logan Simpson Design would provide. Mr. McCasland clarified there was a misconception when special interest groups are mentioned; the community was made up of many special interest groups - fishing, trails, boating, Little League, soccer, aquatics, any group interested in a specific activity was a special interest group; citizens would be able to participate in coming up with what they wanted to build and have here in 10 years; it took 9 months just to plan for the lakes; and the plan had to mesh with all the different city plans.