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Regular Council Minutes 6-16-03 Page 14 apply again for Issue One grants for those. This lot splits out the parcel and those respective sizes to facilitate applying for additional funding for those. They are essentially one agreement to purchase a114 properties. Council President Buckholtz asked if there was any additional discussion. There were no comments. Roll Call: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Ordinance Enacted First Reading of Ordinance No. 2003-25, entitled; "An emergency ordinance authorizing the Mayor to enter into a purchase agreement with John J. Palermo, as and for the acquisition of real estate located at 596 S.O.M. Center Road." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole. Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mrs. Cinco, made a motion to suspend the rules of Council requiring an ordinance to be read on three separate occasions. Roll Call: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Rules Suspended Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mrs. Cinco, made a motion to enact Ordinance No. 2003-25. Council President Buckholtz asked if there were any comments. Mr. Brett said this is the Palermo property which is a part of the Issue One grant from last year. This involves rehabilitating the stream in and around the Service Department and we were originally going to eliminate one ball diamond and we will still do that. What this does is provide us additional acreage much closer to S.O.M. Center Road which actually is a better place to have it. What we will do is lower the land in and around the stream bed and really widen it. This will have the effect of slowing down the volume and the velocity of the water and the heavy rainfall. The best comparison I can think is if you took garden hose and slit it; water would not come out as fast at the nozzle and that's what we're trying to do is lower the stream bed, increasing the amount of retention or detention that's possible during a heavy storm and take it a lot closer to where the water goes underneath S.O.M. Center Road and that will actually leave the park where the current ball diamond is less susceptible to heavy water and it won't get as much. Sothis will essentially start to address the issue of the Upper 40 that we've been kind of battling with for the last 10 years. Mayor Rinker said, again, I think this is something that is good for all Council representatives to take note of really with their constituents. Because, it's the proverbial killing two birds with one stone. As Phil pointed out with Upper 40, we are actually going to be able, we think, with the engineering design that this gives us by adding Palermo to Wiley, slowing down by 50% the flow that now goes through Aintree North into the Upper 40 area. I would say in 1976 that that