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Minutes of the Council Meeting October 22, 2007 Page I1 Mayor Rinker added that this is one of the projects that used to be called Issue II but is now Issue 1. The way that the funding works is you either get a grant or some low interest loan, some kind of assistance through the program. You cannot commit to the project until the funding starts which is July 1, 2008. We advised residents we wanted to tear down the house. Rather than have someone stay there any further, the former tenant relocated to Mayor Rinker's neighborhood. The goal would be to tear down the house, clean up the lot and leave it pretty static until such time as we commence the proj ect. If we get the funding, great. If not, we plan to go ahead with the work because we have talked about this before as reported previously. We have had a series of neighborhood meetings. Residents ultimately voted on a particular format for redoing this so that we have a four-way intersection instead of that double staggered light at Raleigh and Beta that drives anyone to distraction, not a great set-up. Everyone agrees that with 16,000 vehicles running through there every day, to be able to improve the traffic movements to reduce it to one four-way intersection, this is going to help out. We look forward to doing that. Ms. Leppla asked from the audience if you asked the resident to move. Mayor Rinker responded that we did this over a period of a year to a year and a half. We approached the landlord of the property and indicated what we would like to do. He said he had a good tenant in there who did not want to move too quickly so we said fine and we let them finish out that term. She actually ultimately loolced around and found a house in the Worton Park neighborhood and talked him into purchasing that so the deal that we were able to provide him allowed him to transfer the money to the other home. Our understanding is that she plans to rent to buy. It worked out very well for everyone. With the neighbors next door we were able to work things out too. It's a good example of how we are able to move rather slowly taking into consideration everyone's special needs and in the long run everyone comes out ahead. We feel pretty good about it. Mrs. Mills stated that Mr. Marrelli will be sending notifications of the exact demolition date of this property and the next property to the residents so that they are kept updated. Roll Call: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Expenditure Authorized Motion to authorize expenditure in an arnount not to exceed $10,000.00 to King Excavating Co. for demolition of the house located at 6685 Seneca Drive Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Marrie, made a motion to authorize expenditure in an amount not to exceed $10,000.00 to King Excavating Co. for demolition of the house located at 6685 Seneca Drive. Council President Buckholtz asked if there was any discussion. Mayor Rinker stated that this is the first house on the north side of Seneca just east of where the Carney Building is. The background on this goes back over a couple of years. As part of the 2020 planning in looking at the four quadrants, there was a concern at the southeast quadrant of the intersection of Wilson Mills and S.O.M. in trying to create some kind of a buffer between the residential area and the beginning of the business district. If you have all seen Dr. Eadie's