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Minutes of the Council Meeting October 22, 2007 Page 14 those funds. We will approve our matches. We do it as we approve it. The obligations are basically those that we outlined back in March which is primarily the matching funds and the deliverables. Mr. Marquardt advised that he would like to see a whole package on this so that he understands what is going on. This is all fragmented. We don't have documentation of things we are agreeing to that have not been presented yet. He is not clear on this whole thing. Mr. Brett.advised that they have not been presented in their final form, but we can certainly get the grant agreement to Council and take it up at the next meeting. Council President Buckholtz advised that he does not have a problem with the numbers, but the numbers being attached would make it clearer. Mayor Rinker asked if this has any bearing on the development of the business plan that is part of the first step. Mr. Brett replied that that is going forward. Gouncil President Buckholtz asked, the $20,000.00/10,000.00? Mr. Brett responded that the funds are coming forward. We are proceeding with doing the business plan. Mayor Rinker suggested we wrap this all up in one package for the next Council meeting. The fact that it has been attenuated, in response to Mr. Marquardt, what Mr. Brett is saying is that this thing happened if you recall, pretty quickly. We had a window of less than one week to respond to this. Phil was able to pick it up. We responded. Of the four applicants, we are one of two communities, Beachwood being the other, that the County recognized would be able to receive the benefit of this pilot program. It has been such a fluid situation that i,t was not until afterward that even the County recognized that in order to have the appropriate mechanism for the funds we could not be a for-profit entity. We approached the Mayfield School Business Community Alliance which has been in existence now for about 10 years. Its function is to interface between government, the school district and the communities as a way to promote all three of those entities to mutual benefit. There are a lot of work-study programs, for example. It is a way to communicate between the school district, the businesses and the communities on anything that has long-term economic development impact. As a conduit for a program like this that seeks to promote future economic development from our perspective and in many ways will benefit the community, the tax base and the school district in terms of a better workforce, all of those things come into play. So it would be an appropriate conduit. But understandably because this has been taking place over the last several months we will pull this all together and do a nice synopsis because the next step will be through the development of this business plan how we plan to take advantage of.these funds that are being made available and to which we would be also dedicating monies for our long-term growth. Council President Buckholtz would like a message sent to the County and the Business Alliance that this.is a great thing and we had every intention of going forwaxd with it. It is just important for Council to see the numbers and the package. Council President Buckholtz asked Mr. Diemert what he recommends as far as getting it off the table. Mr. Diemert stated that we can withdraw the motion.