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Special Council Meeting 3-9-98 Page 4 be part of it. He knows when he gets burned. The first time is bad, the second time is worse and the third time he can't take it. He does not want to get involved. He is not in favor of the original plan but wants to be a team player. Mr. Busa said he is not in favor of any of this and he wants the minutes to reflect this. Mr. Busa said on occasions, his comments do not even appear in the minutes. Before and after his comments, there are all kinds of minutes. Everyone has comments in the minutes, but his do not even appear. Mr. Busa said he thinks the minutes are censored. He censored them for 4 years. He would like everything he says reported. Mr. Marquardt.said he thinks it begs the question, "or wha.t?" Kiss the one million dollars for the pool goodbye? There is nothing that puts a condition on what happens if we don't [complete the road] by December 31St for whatever reason. Since it is unbounded, he guesses it means the deal is off. Mayor Rinker said his feeling is they want to get them building. To answer Steve's eornment about what leverage we have, once they start investing heavily into that site, where are they going to go? Will they just stop and go somewhere else? Mr. Marquardt said he is not disagreeing but he sees the opportunity for them to say, "you didn't make December 31S" so you won't get your million dollars for the pool. " Council President Fixler said it has happened that people don't get what they want and abandon a site. Mayor Rinker said he suggests we write the language to reflect that we will put forth a good faith efFort to have the road done by December, 1998. If the verbiage is such that there is that kind of flex in there, if we end up going 3, 4, or 5 months over because of circumstances beyond our control, but those aren't used arbitrarily against us. Mr. Cappello asked if they were tallcing about the portion off of S.O.M. and all the way to White Road? Mayor Rinker said he thinks it is just to get ingress and egress off of S.O.M. to service their site. To the extent that Progressive plans to have its facility operational (they have to be able to put 600 employees in there for certain monies to come through.) Dr. Parker asked why they need a second outlet so fast. Mayor Rinker said there is mutual incentive for both sides to work in a cooperative way. This plan is designed to work in that way. We need to say they have raised the point, this is the language we want in there so they don't come back to squelch this deal; we want everything to work out well.