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Special Council Meeting 3-9-98 Page 7 Typically, an assessment is for your frontage. They say the road has no intrinsic value and we say au contraire-having this road helps keep traffic off of S.O.M. and provides other functions. Dr. Parker said they wanted to keep it away from their parking so they could get more parking spaces there. Mr. Marquardt said there was frontage on the origina.l diagram. Mayor Rinker said they saw that would be all wetlarid mitigated. Mr. Buckholtz said originally we had an intent to do a project and had signed a general letter of intent and agreement... Mayor Rinker said which we a11 agreed was not binding on either side. N1r. Buckholtz said then once we got into it and began negotiation, we had a 20,000 square foot fitness center with a 2-lane lap pool and a jacuzzi and a partnership on building a pool-possibly approaching the million dollar pr-ice range. First we went in there with a 12 million dollar plan. They were shocked and let us know 6 million dollars was not wliat they had in mind. From then, he and a small group (BiII Marquardt, Mayor Rinker, Chuck Chokel and Lou Bloomfield) tried to find something agreeable in the middle. We all shook hands that night and walked away. When we got outside, we realized we were lower than we were previously. We were at a 15,000 square foot fitness center with no lap pool or jacuzzi, a million dollars for the pool and some extras. There is no clarity as to how usage wili be charged for the fitnesS center. The fitness center was scaled back, we never got to the cooperative plan, we saw the million dollars as their fmal offer and took it. Then, we realized it was not enough. Mayor Rinker said he can't believe we are going over that again. Mr. Buckholtz said he won't revisit that again. Let them pay all the cost for half the road from the south end of the property to the north end. Council President Fixler said from the information he was able to get, don't expect Progressive to fund all these different partnerships. It is their facility, they are paying the bill. If they want to make it 10,000 feet, that is their prerogative; it is not for us to say. We do have a say in the pool. Mr. Buckholtz said it is changing the deai. Mayor Rinker disagreed. We did revisit this. From the beginning, the understanding was to the extent we talked about a recreation facility, it was a 50-50 deal. They were interested in the Fitness Center portion of it; we talked about a pool. Mr. Chokel said they will build a fitness center and we will build a pool.