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Special Council Meeting . 2-24-03 Page 11 yMr. Marrie said I mean without getting into a problem of being certified. Mr. Marquardt asked, for ADA? Mayor Rinker said for ADA, at very least I think that the main floor you'd have to devise a way- and I don't think that would be particularly onerous but it would be something you'd have to look at and do. If you're going to open it to the public, there's no question you have to meet ADA. That's why we're here. ) Council President Buckholtz said if I may, I'm going to make a recommendation in a minute or two. I wanted to just hear some more comments from some other people. But I think that Mr. Marquardt has touched on-but maybe I'll make it right now and then we can take it from there. Either I'll kind of carve something out here or I'll butcher it; one of the two, but I think that we do need to discuss this plan. I think we need to, you know, throw our opinions out there, argue it, change it, I mean to discuss the placement of the building I think you came up with an excellent point and there's no reason why-and I don't know any real estate deals that aren't done with clauses that like in the event of this, this, or this, they could have these contingencies contingent upon future-I mean he can't force us 20 years from now to keep a house standing there that we can't use, I would imagine a deal could be written around that. But these are real specifics about the plan. And one of the things I wanted to say, talking about the plan, which I know maybe some people have exception with or some people just don't have-or maybe some of us have a concept in our heads, some of us have no concept, some of us have different concepts, and maybe Mr. MarquardYs right, we haven't really hammered it out in a Caucus or-typically with the planned, with the zoning we had a special night just dedicated to talk with it. On the other hand, from the Mayor's perspective, I've heard him speak endlessly on portions, pieces, parts, ideas, concepts at great length. So, yes, you know, you'd have to kind of be blind not to see that something's being pieced together; I don't think that we're questioning that a project is being pieced together. We're questioning: is the system of governments being used properly in terms of looking at the whole picture. Now one thing I want to relate to that I was just in a discussion in a seminar for, like you are talking about the midtown corridor and also the Woodlane Avenue corridor which I don't know how many people here are familiar with. And it has nothing to do with S.O.M. Center other than it was not done in a linear fashion. It's like you weren't aware of what was happening until like, boom, like some buildings were dropped and then you went, wow, when did they build those over there and when did that happen over there? And I see S.O.M. Center evolving the same way. I mean I don't think that anything was done, like we're going to do this arid then we're going to move here. I mean things come available at different times. My suggestion is, then I would still like to hear more comments from the floor but I'm just trying to direct that we don't talk, get into the finest or minutia of details of what we would be using a specific building for; instead talking about the major thing of like are we committing to buy a property here and I can honestly say, and I wanted to ask Mrs. Mills because S.O.M. Widening, I know that Mike Burgess specifically said concerning the funding of the underpass, just the thought of us buying some land on the other side and creating a park, he is close to guaranteeing that O.D.O.T. would commit to those funds; now I know that as close to guaranteeing is a real absolute in any business--- Mayor Rinker said he's not O.D.O.T.