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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council September 25, 2006 Page 15 Council President Buckholtz asked if it was lighting for the median and the side. Mayor Rinker i stated it would be a combination. Mr. Saponaro asked if this was in phases. Mr. Metzung passed around the drawings. Mayor Rinker added that for general understanding, the phases would be primarily from Wilson Mills up to White Road. They have also included going from S.O.M. to Seneca and Aintree. The options would be not only for lighting but including track improvements, the same ones that we have now elsewhere on S.O.M: Additional would be the traffic lightpoles and booms at S.O.M. and Wilson Mills and Seneca. The other component of the package is that we have planned to put in plant material for the irrigation. This would include a package for irrigation. Those are the main components. Irrigation would be through the medians from Wilson. Mills up to the north end of White Road. Those are the biggest things. Mr. Saponaro added that financing was also discussed in terms of the dollars through the S.O.M. Center project and through T.I.F. Mr. Brett explained that to the Finance Committee, but it is worth repeating. Mr. Brett stated that we would be doing a combination of existing funds and then would phase it in next year. We have already got one transfer scheduled for this year for $100,000.00 that would add to that. We would work on transfers or short-term borrowing until we get the T.I.F. revenue on-line on Campus III. Mayor Rinker added that ultimately the underwriting is through T.I.F. Mr. Brett agreed, stating that it has been a component of all T.I.F.s that we do in the Village. Dr. Parker asked if the monies we expend would be reimbursed on the T.I.F.s. Mr. Brett indicated that it would be. Mr. Saponaro asked if it comes from the General Fund. Mr. Brett indicated that a portion of it does. $100,000.00 this year. It was in the budget. We would look at next year in relationship to all other transfers because we are going to be doing $200,000.00 to sewer relief, maybe even more. When we look at that, we take the transfers as a package deal. Last year we did $800,000 for this building. We are not doing that this year, so you look at transferring about $1 million a year and then you break it out into the various projects to see where we want to defray costs. Dr. Parker asked if when we get that, will we get breakdown as to what will be specifically from our funds versus T.I.F. monies? Mr. Brett indicated that we would. Council President Buckholtz indicated that even though it was deferred in Finance, do we have a comprehensive plan for it yet in terms of lighting. Mayor Rinker stated that it is pretty complete. Mr. Metzung added that the plans are pretty complete, consisting of the center of town area having lights separated by 130 intervals that are 20 foot high on each side of the streets and then once you get past Thornapple, you have lights on the medians and on the sides where there is no median. Those are separated at 200 foot intervals. The lights in the median will be 25 foot high as opposed to the 20 for the more pedestrian area. The lights will be referred to as a semi-cut off. 200 for the 25 footers, 130 for the 20 footers. The lights will have cut off shields on them. They are a downward facing light as opposed to the lights we have at North Commons. The project is laid out in the areas where we have. We have the basic lighting package from Wilson Mills to White Road and then we have redoing the signals at Wilson Mills and S.O.M. and at Seneca and S.O.M. When he says redoing them, we talked about going to the decorative mast arms that will match the rest of the S.O.M. Center Road mast arms and then taking the lighting from Wilson Mills up to Seneca and completing all of the lighting that we would be doing on S.O.M. Center Road as one package. The other part of that package would be irrigation.