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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, March 19, 2012 Page 13 have been access directly off of SOM. There may not have been a roadway and it was not contemplated to be the length that it is designed at now. There's going to be another ordinance with regard to the access easement. There's been one small change. Everyone should have received in their packets a replacement Exhibit D. What it did is it shrank the size of this parking easement. It didn't shrink the size of the parking or anything that was in it, but if you look at the Exhibit D that was attached to the revision from March 2"d, the map that says Easement 2, you will see that the trail goes through the hatched area. This replacement exhibit does not go through that trail area right here, so that's being excluded. This is Tom's map. I will give him credit for it. URS is in the process of putting together their map and their legal description that will go with the easement. Council President Buckholtz stated, there's a little background on how these things get voted on and a couple different, facts and details of this. It's been a very good exercise. Everyone has weighed in on this. I have had numerous individual conversations and lots of . subcommittee meetings and a lot of conferences over the phone. In the past, many many many times we have passed development agreements, resolutions and ordinances in title development agreements and they usually have a line in there like we are giving the administration authority and the Law Department authority to negotiate. I want to thank all of the work that Mr. Marquardt did. All the historical facts to the best of my knowledge that are in his statement in one form or another are true and Mr. Delguyd giving the new perspective on coming on board not knowing some of the back story. You brought to light some very good things. A couple things I want to point out is the document we have in front of us today and the map and everything is what it is. This was part of the problem before. There were too many documents floating around for whatever reason. We have the stuf£ This is why we went through the whole exercise to redo it. The $175,000, while it is considerably more, some of that had to do with the Library took a long time to present the site plan to us for whatever their reasons are. This is not unusual. Again, the price went up. I have talked to all of Council, $175,000 as a not to exceed is, as the Finance Director pointed out, affordable. It's a very new news item as of today that our Law Department has met with the various people from the Library and opened that door of opportunity and hope that they recognize that the easement for parking, the better road, some of the suggestions from P&Z to make a sidewalk, safer road, well-lit. We wouldn't do something that isn't safe but could run into cost overruns. They are at least willing to enter into conversations about participating in the dollars that are spent. A couple other things again that were not understood is the road is on our property. There is another significant piece of land behind the Library that many of us know and some may not was going to be Campus 3 of Progressive. It's still a mystery on whether it will be or whether it will become some other commercial enterprise, whether it's sold or leased. The