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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, May 21, 2012 Page 12 Council President Buckholtz stated, that's what I am getting at. Mr. Metzung continued, so we want to complete that part. Plant the grass. When you go to do stages, when you go to do lighting, when you go to do all those other things, requesting what all that's going to be, then God bless you. Council President Buckholtz stated, that's where I was headed with this. I think this is what was talked about at the last meeting that this came up. We did talk about all the possibilities of what an amphitheatre could be. It can be like a miniature Cain Park or if you will a miniature Blossom. It can have lighting and sound. It can have full electricity and bathrooms. Or it can be, I think somebody used the reference, a Greek theater, just an assembly place. Because of the nature of the bowl, you can hear pretty well without adding anything, just having it be an outdoor gathering place. I think the compromise here is that before we would take one step further than this, there has to be something, I will throw it at you Diane because it's more of an Administration thing. In terms of, and I think you mentioned it, it's like we don't know what kind of programming would be available for it. We don't know what the citizens would really want to do out there. We know it's a natural amenity that exists. We have been playing with it for a long time. It hasn't cost a lot of money. We don't want to see it cost a lot of money. Ms. Wolgamuth sta.ted, I think we did mention it at a meeting not long ago that Bill and I were starting to talk to the Rec Board in starting to put this together. We discussed the kind of programming there which will determine the level of stage and lighting. We axe just beginning to develop that piece of it. I understand what you are saying. This has been being built for quite a few yeazs. It has gone very slowly so it's only now that we are realizing we are reaching the end of shaping that bowl and getting it ready. We are going to start looking at those pieces now. Council President Buckholtz stated, so not to be redundant on what you said, what I was going to ask is that I wouldn't want to put grass up, back to Doug, I wouldn't want to put grass all over the thing and then decide we are putting in seating which is what you are saying. So you thought of that and you are going to address that ahead of time. Maybe we can look at this in two stages in terms of this is sort of an infrastructure/requirement of the EPA that we finish up what we have done there, make it look nice, make it appropriate for green space and in the meantune you will move forward with our Parks and Recreation and Rec Board and decide whether we leave it simple and plain or we gradually move in to something more complex. At that time, please, let's have a detail. Keep Council apprised as we go. Ms. Wolgamuth replied, absolutely. Council President Buckholtz stated, okay. Any other comments? Mrs. Mills replied, there is a program through the Ohio Humanities that Ted and I have discussed a while back. It's through the Chautauqua Institute. What they do is they bring in these actors that portray different people. This year it's going to be in Burton and different areas in the State of Ohio. What they do is they bring in tents and most everything that you need. It's a good educational system and it's for children especially and adults. It's an interesting concept that we