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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 2-16-09 Page 30 At the risk of talking about gas and oil wells, Mr. Marquardt was caught up in the discussion on the authorization for negotiation. He does not particularly like the wording in here. It is sayirig that we are authorizing the Mayor to negotiate in accordance with the Seagull lease. It ought to be authorizing him to negotiate from our position, not from the Seagull lease position. Ms. Calta agreed. The lease that's attached is a lease that they have provided to the Village. She took it and included the recommendations of the Planning Commission. It is not at a point that she would say that it has included everything that has been discussed since that point, but it does include everything that was included in the Planning Commission's recommendation, that laundry list of items that they had included that came before Council. Council President Buckholtz stated it is really a Seagull/Mayfield Village lease as recommended by Planning and Zoning. Ms. Calta stated it includes the Planning Commission's recommendations. Dr. Parker said he does not know that you need to say that. Does it really need to be attached to the Ordinance? It might be kind of - Mayor Rinker asked, misleads? Dr. Parker said yes, he thinks there is a little bit of - Ms. Calta said if you think it's cleaner to put together just an ordinance that would authorize negotiations attached to nothing, you can certainly do that. Mr. Marquardt said he is just trying to get an understanding. Council President Buckholtz said the big issue is what came out on the floor. Are we authorizing the Mayor to go out and negotiate with whatever company is out there that comes forth to suggest gas? That was picked up in the audience. Dr. Parker said at some point we discussed this. Mayor Rinker said Bass has approached us. Dr. Parker said he has a problem with just restricting it just to them. Maybe them and others. Mayor Rinker said that's where his slip up may have been, only because he is thinking the same thing. He does not feel this has to be exclusive, but we have to recognize the risk is always, and not that he would accuse Mr. Yarbrough of not being subtle.