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ROUGHDRAFT -NOT REVIEWED OR APPROVED BY COUNCIL 10-20-03 Regular Council Meeting Page 19 circumvent people's wishes. I sat in on those meetings and people said well it would be nice if I could get in and out of my driveway, if it looks good. I'm not sure what it's going to be like. We .are in the middle of a road widening project. Processes change. Things change. We own considerable more land on S.O.M. Center than we did at one time. I think the effort here is to put in the best possible road; the safest, the nicest looking, the least impact or the nicest impact to the residential nature of it. That is the intention here. I am going to say that I don't think the actual residential drawings are, no pun intended: etched in stone. I think that they are pretty much the Engineer's recommendations but exactly where curb cuts go, how large they are or what the landscaping is going to be is all, I believe, open for negotiation, or at least to some degree. So again, it is never a closed door policy and it is never done in secret that I'm aware of. I would like to say that and as far as moving the open portions; that's not a problem. Donna, make a note that the open portions should come before-I guess Old Business should be before Old Business and New Business Open Portion should be before New Business. Mrs. Roman said okay; so you don't want them before and after each? You are just going to do them before? Council President Buckholtz said just as a matter of policy people can talk about anything at the front of the meeting, make comments about Old Business prior to us discussing it and make comments on New Business prior to the voting. Mrs. Roman said okay Council President Buckholtz said as far as I am concerned, that covers it. If you have something new to add, please share it with us. . Mr. Christian said one more thought. Nobody on S.O.M. Center knows that you've changed this. Everybody is under the assumption-that lives on that. street that the median is going to stop at the Church. No one on the road that lives down there knows that you are going to continue that median except the people in this room. Council President Buckholtz said I don't know that. Do you know that? Mr. Christian asked, did you go out and tell anybody? Did you tell anybody else other than the people in this room? Has anybody been notified that you changed your mind and you're going to continue this median---- Mr. Riter asked, can Service drop a note. Mayor Rinker said I've said it so many times, I'm not-I disagree with you. I don't think you speak for too many people other than yourself. Mr. Marquardt said but the truth is---