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Special Council Meeting 1/2/95 Page Four year, Dr. Abbott had mentioned it, he is going to give us an annual report--at the end of the year this is what we have done with $100,000. The Historical Society has done that when they first got off the ground, a lot of people were skeptical. It is a different program with the same idea. People dedicated to a project have regularly reported back. Each year, before we put $2,500 in there or whatever special expenditures, there , is some understanding of where the money is going to go. This, he sees as the same. Council could, annually, come back and say, "we don't like this, we don't want to spend that money" and would have the power--it would be breaking its commitment, but there is nothing that would prohibit Council from doing that. He thinks it would generate controversy. We might get a lawsuit out of it. He does not see that it would accomplish anything except be non-productive, but the power is there. What is the problem (and I am open, because I frankly think 15 years is the commitment and I would stick with this.) I have suggested it. He knows Wally and Sandy had concerns. They have come a long way and have talked to their own neighbors about how responsible, how we can control the money. His thought was we shouldn't be afraid of this; we should look at this negatively, but he thinks it is a very positive thing. We will impose certain criteria and expect that they will stick by it. The presumption being that we will renew this for the additional years. It will go for the life of the 15 year abatement barring some major problem. That is what he proposed this legislation should read as. That is generally the reason. Mr. Ferrante said the only comment he has is that the people he has spoken to are coneerned that money is coming from Mayfield Village but is not going to be totally spent on Mayfield Village residents. That is where most of the objections are that have come to him. If we could spend all that money at Mayfield Center School, that would be one thing. He knows that is not possible, but he thinks we need to have from them where they have spend the money. That is the commitment he wants to see in writing from them periodically. Mayor Rinker said we make expenditures all the time that benefit people other than Mayfield Village residents. Our entire Recreation program, anything we have put on the highways, we spend those dollars for public highways. Mr. Ferrante said it is not the same thing. Mayor Rinker said there is a point beyond which he thinks we don't operate the school. It seemed a logical dividing line to say we are looking at Center School and the High School, which are both physically in our borders. After all, the teachers that work in that school system pay our taxes. There are a lot of things to be derived directly back from those facilities. So, by limiting it at least to those facilities, whether the students at