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Regular Council Meeting 5/15/95 Page Six Mrs. Kovacevic asked if we shouldn't have been given one ballpark figure so funding could have been gone after for the whole project. Mayor Rinker said it is a fair question, but all you get are very rough estimates. There are rough estimates for those areas but they are exceptionally rough. There has been no surveying; the grades have not been shot. That work isn't being done now because engineering costs money. We will get reimbursed for the engineering fees because the County has engaged the engineer. Highland Heights and Mayfield Village agreed. The recommendation was that Steve Hovancsek's office do it. Since he is the engineer in both communities, he is familiar with the lay of the land et cetera. There is so much complicated work just to do the North County Trunk pipeline that the rest just has to wait. Discussion was held. Mrs. Scasny said when Council President Fixler talked to their group, it was a turning point. There was an amenable attitude and it makes all the difference in the world where we should've been in the beginning. Because we could sit there and make sense of all of our energies, we got to what is now most of what we've proposed, we see in the minutes of this meeting. One thing needs to be clarified-- because there are phases to this, we are not going to say that all of what we are doing now to go along and move ahead to be where we are is just going to slide into the next phase. We have not decided that when we get past this initial phase of reducing assessments the best we can, we're not just going to slip into the next phase and this association will be quiet or be disbanded. We will expect the same commitments from this Council, this President and this Mayor that we are getting on this phase of the project. If we don't, we will have to do what we did to begin with and find out what has to be done to be heard. Mayor Rinker said he would expect more from the committee in the next phases and looks forward to their energies to find monies that are out there. Mr. Scasny asked how they can keep these commitments as Council members change. Mayor Rinker said anything that is committed, that does not change. Apart from that, it definitely will take commitments from residents. It takes neighborhoods getting together. That involvement alone is an insurance policy. He knows what she is asking--can Council make a commitment--are there certain things that will bind over time--like a contract. In some things, yes; in other things no.