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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, August 19, 2013 Page 11 Council President Buckholtz asked about the 80% participation from NOACA. Mr. Delguyd explained, when we first did the estimates, NOACA, the funding organization, said that they would pay 80% of the full cost. They luckily did not say 80% of the engineer's estimate because that's an option they can give. By saying 80% of the full cost, we then went to them and told them that ODOT required we have vehicle-ready access over the boardwalks. They said yes, thereby reducing our liability. Council President Buckholtz asked, they came through? Mr. Delguyd replied, they came through. At the end of the day, it's $50,000. I won't say it's nothing, but the project is ready to go with some of the right of ways. We have rerouted. There's a lot of work that have gone in to this. From a finance standpoint, the money is all there. It's already set aside. 'It will probably be a little more with overruns but that is to be expected with these types of projects. Anyone else have any comments on that? Council President Buckholtz asked, they are putting up a million dollars? Mr. Delguyd replied, they are putting up a million dollars. Over a million. 80% of the $1,334,000. Council President Buckholtz stated, very good. Comments? Questions? I know there are additional expenditures down the road: The trail will be an ongoing project in terms of lighting or whatever the public use is. Certain amenities are not included? Mr. Delguyd replied, as of right now, the only ongoing maintenance will be plowing. We already have the equipment because they plow our current trails. In terms of lighting at this point, we are not planning to light it. We are not planning to encourage that type of usage. It's meant to be a daytime usage. There will be signage up that says, "Park closes". You can't enclose the whole thing in a case so nobody can use it, but there will be proper signage. Are we going to put striping on this. . Mr. Metzung replied, there is a center stripe, yes. Mr. Delguyd stated, okay, so every couple years we will have to restripe it. Council President Buckholtz asked, like many of these projects, the public will dictate usage? Mr. Delguyd replied, yes. The only foreseeable additional expense is it is a naiural connection under SOM Center Road, so at some point the Sewer District decides fix the creek erosion, but that's maybe 10 years down the road. Mayor Rinker added, a project like this does not happen overnight. In recent liistory, when we submitted the original application, the J`LCI funding which really comes out of Washington, ODOT is the conduit for those dollars, ODOT's specifications are really very exacting. Each time we have gone to these meetings at NOACA last year and this year, what struck us when the