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ROUGHDRAFT - NOT REVIEWED OR ~4PPROVED BY COUNCIL 10-20-03 Regular Council Meeting '~ Page 12 Mrs. Mills said it is not to exceed $24,000; it is in Section 2. We discussed this in Finance; we had the dollar amount there; it is in Section 2 of the Ordinance. Council President Buckholtz asked if there was any discussion. Mr. Marquardt said I believe proceeding with this without having a comprehensive plan of the trails in the Village as requested by the residents is putting the cart before the horse. I think we should have that plan in place prior to going any further with this. Council President Buckholtz asked, isn't this to put the plans--- Mr. Marquardt said a comprehensive plan throughout the Village as requested by our residents as far as having other trails------considering the fact that this---area has only 2% of the population or less. Council President Buckholtz said Mr. Marquardt is referencing a conversation we had at Caucus. For the record, if I may, there are other trail systems and other access points that people have requested and we've looked at. This is one that would have been considered a main spine from the center of town towards the north on the west side of S.O.M. and acknowledging that it is not the only trail system that we would be looking at. Any other comments? Dr. Parker asked, do we have any idea how much additional cost it would be-I know this is ~~ ~ something we need to address soon anyway-but how much additional cost it would be to add on URS looking at other parts of the Village as far as how they relate to these trails or how additional trails would be. I guess maybe we do need a comprehensive study. Maybe we don't want to hold up this project with the other but maybe that should be part of the whole package in terms of long-term packaging. Mayor Rinker said if I may respond, I think that's a fair question. What I suggested and part of what this is doing (of course each area is going to be a little bit different) but we should get an idea from the way in which this evolves on this particular segment to get a sense of what kind of expenditure--- --I don't know if anyone can really answer---the first part of your question. The second, I think it's an excellent idea to look throughout the Village. We are looking at a trail here and it is running virtually at least 3/ of the entire length of the Village from north to south, exclusive of the area that's south of Wilson Mills. It certainly does not incorporate anything east of Hanover Woods which was the last project that you had walked door to door on to make that connection--on the south of Wilson Mills, nor does it address what it would be on the north side-although we looked and I think . everyone agreed that the north side of Wilson Mills Road poses a whole different set of problems. But my view is I would welcome doing that all over. But I think what we are trying to do is take it a step at a time-do it incrementally. And this way we have cost management. And I would remind everyone that one of the features of the S.O.M. Greenway Project-an extension which we have been able to dovetail parallel projects. And both north and south and east and west, while the trail runs north and south it involves various properties that cut into 3 and as many as 4 drainages. That opens up an opportunity for leveraging dollars through Issue One-an Ohio fund money-that you don't necessarily have to know the locations. But we've been able to look at land acquisition costs which we've been able to apportion rather well between the County, the State as well as our own