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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council ,September 25, 2006 Page 17 photo metrics. We will have to combine plan drawings with it. They can do that. Dr. Parker stated that then if people living along there start having questions, we could be able to answer them. Mr. Metzung added that we are also going with a lower watt bulb to soften the effect. Mr. Marquardt asked what qualifies this project for funding under T.I.F. when projects such as Mrs. Eisenberg's does not qualify for it. Mr. Brett explained that the streets that are in question with Mrs. Eisenberg's, although they meet the criteria for public funds or a public project, do not benefit the site from which the T.I.F. revenues are generated whereas improvements to S.O.M. Center Road benefits the improvements from which the T.I.F. revenues are generated, namely Skoda Minotti, Altercate, Governor's Village and Progressive all get their primary ingress and egress via S.O.M. Center Road. That has always been one of the things we have put as a public improvement for all of those tax. incremental financing plans, improvements to S.O.M. Center Road. It is adjacent to the properties providing the T.I.F.s so it benefits. You have to have two criteria, it has to be a public improvement and it has to benefit the project in question with whom you are doing the T.I.F. agreement. For each of those properties we have a T.I.F. agreement as well as a development agreement. The T.I.F. agreements basically say we will redirect these payments in lieu of taxes in exchange for the Village's agreement to provide improvements to infrastructure that will benefit our particular company. Council President Buckholtz asked for clarification with regard to the fact that the more monies we can use for the T.I.F. to do projects we need to do free up other monies we have coming from the General Fund. So, when addressing Mrs. Eisenberg's comments about the streets in that area, do we have a timetable? Mr. Metzung indicated that every year we evaluate all of our roadways. Internally in discussions with Mr. Brett and the Mayor we decide where those road dollars are going. We typically spend $3.5-400,000.00. Those dollars are allocated to where we feel that they need to be spent in that particular year. Running parallel to that, Mr. Brett reported the discussion we have been having all along is to sewer improvements between Eastgate and Meadowwood which we have applied for Issue II funding for easily the last 8 years and Highland Road, Metropark and Zorn. We decided last year before we met with these people that we were committed to doing one of those projects because we met with them, saying we are going to try Issue II funding, this way or that way. Finally it was determined that we had to deliver on something whether we had funding or not, so the decision then to go with sewer projects in that particular case obviously tore apart Highland Road, Metropark and Zorn Lane. They immediately went to the top of the list because you are basically destroying them to get to your sewers. Mayor Rinker added as a reminder that when we go in to do Beech Hill, Seneca and Glenview, we also presume that we are going to have to go in and do the water. The City of Cleveland which will maintain it does not do the underlying improvement. We know just from the experience on Metropark, when we dug up Metropark, we found a $600,000 surprise there. We can pretty well anticipate that we are going to run into not only the expenditure we face for replacing the existing water line system when we do the roads, in all likelihood we will be looking at their stormwater. That is a ticket item we will be looking at. Mr. Marquardt asked if the $600,000 surprise will impact next year's road construction. Mr. Brett stated it would not, but it would certainly impact the sewer relief fund. As stated in a