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Regular Council Meeting <br />7-15-02 <br />Page 10 <br />Mr. Ilacqua addressed Council President Buclcholtz and asked, can you summarize for me exactly <br />why we need to buy this property for the Village? <br />Council President Buckholtz replied, I guess the best way I could summarize it is--we've discussed it <br />previously, you were not present. <br />Mr. Ilacqua said it's still in a public forum; we are spending monies. <br />Council President Buckholtz said, it is an opportunity, and again, the best way I could explain it is as <br />a Master Plan, as Mr. Marquardt very adeptly pointed out it is kind of a Master Plan that is going a <br />little "bassackwards ". <br />Mr. Ilacqua said, I mean--doesn't this bother anyone--it seems that this would strategically fit into <br />the construction of a bike path on the western side of S.O.M., that we made an application for <br />funding for that project without prior approval by Council. These pieces are being put into place <br />without it being discussed in a public forum and Dr. Parker--you said, well, if this thing doesn't go <br />the right way, we can put the brakes on it. Yet, the more applications we make, the more resources <br />we commit financially, personnel-wise, the harder it's going to be to put the brakes on. If we're <br />going to move down the path of this bike path on the west side, let's get our t's crossed and our i's <br />dotted. I mean just to buy property because we can doesn't make any sense to me. (I want the <br />record to reflect that, Donna, if you will, because I've not heard a legitimate reason beyond: it's an <br />opportunity. ") <br />Council President Buckholtz said, I have some more I can say on that, Mr. Marquardt. I think it's <br />rnore than a bike path in view of certain conceptual ideas. Again, it sounds like I'm patronizing but I <br />can't agree enough with Mr. Marquardt that there's a few things--like we've got this 2020 Committee <br />that's barely got its feet off the ground. But, again, there are opportunities that tend to fit into a <br />cohesive plan up there. What that plan is, we have not 100% identified. <br />Mr. Ilacqua said yes--but we're glad to commit monies to it. <br />Mr. Marquardt said I'm assuming that we have a plan and we're moving forward toward it but we <br />haven't decided what that plan is--nor whether the merits of it really exist. <br />Council President Buckholtz replied, let me specifically address that in a way that you brought up, <br />Mr. Marquardt, at a previous situation. In the interest of keeping residential residential or green <br />space green space, I mean we can always sell that property and keep it residential. <br />Mr. Marquardt said, I never brought that up; I don't know where you're coming from. <br />Council President Buckholtz said no; you said--when we first talked about--it was another property <br />that we had the opporiunity to buy and we said we'd like to keep it residential, then you said--I <br />thought you said, then why don't we just sell it--or why don't we just let somebody buy it and build <br />a house on it or something like that.