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Regular Council Meeting 8-18-08 Page 13 Ms. Calta replied that September 2°a will be a Caucus meeting. There will be no voting on any legislation. Ms. Leone asked if they are able to talk at that. Mr. Marrie said they are. Ms. Leone asked if the highlighted areas on the map are where they are going in. Ms. Calta replied that what has been highlighted are leases that have been acquired. The cross-hatching is the Stonecreek area which has been approved. Ms. Leone pointed to the area in question on the map which is the Village property. Ms. Calta said that is correct. Ms. Leone asked if we have any input at all. Ms. Calta replied that that is what we have been referring to throughout this evening's meeting. We are still conducting due diligence and will have another report at the next meeting. Ms. Leone said we talked about beautification at this meeting and here we are doing this. She really hopes Council takes into consideration that we live here. A lot of us do not want it. Mayor Rinker replied that the thrust of this is we know a lot of people don't want it. The problem is how do we manage it. We certainly want to try to do it in a way that will be as advantageous as possible. Landscaping is one of the issues and overall operations. These are some things we feel we can negotiate into the lease. At least with a lease we have an opportunity to enter into some kind of contractual relationship instead of simply saying we don't like it and then it gets forced and then we just get bitter about something we don't control at all. Whether they get drilled or not is not Council's decision. Ms. Leone is talking about if you continue that drilling process. Mayor Rinker stated he does not understand what is meant by continuing that drilling process. Ms. Calta replied that the lease that is proposed is a non-drilling lease. Mayor Rinker added we are not drilling on Village property. Ms. Leone asked what exactly that parcel will be used for. Ms. Calta said it would be included in the acreage necessary for them to drill the one drill site identified on the map. There is only one drilling site. There is only one well head. Ms. Leone asked what exactly this parcel will be utilized for. Ms. Calta replied that there won't be anything located physically on this property. At the risk of confounding it, Mayor Rinker stated to think of a checkerboard. You have so many squares on a checkerboard. It takes a checkerboard to drill one well. Our property would represent a number of those squares, but for one well. The location is shown on the map as an "x". They drill down and that's it. Another well can't be drilled any closer than 600 feet. There has to be a different checkerboard of properties assembled to support that well. One of the questions is if we don't participate to allow that board to be compiled for this well, what other properties would get aggregated in order to drill that well? Ms. Leone said they are drawing in from that property. Mayor Rinker clarified that all they are doing is it is a mathematical number. They need to collect acres on the surface to justify being able to drill. They have to purchase agreements from property owners as to whether or not their drilling rights can be aggregated because the state has created this equation. The state has set the