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Special Council Meeting 2-24-03 Page 27 -? Mr. Riter said no it's just a motion. Council President Buckholtz said okay. Any discussion? Mr. Marquardt said yes. I won't support this for the following reasons: First of all I don't think it's necessary to go after Issue 2 funding. Second of all, I am opposed to special meetings to pass something that must be passed by Friday without having previous discussion on it in any kind of formal session. And I think it's evidenced by what we've seen here tonight in discussion and points that were brought out that were valid points that they should have had a longer point of discussion and it has been in the works for some time. And I think that we should have another review on this at the point in time when the final decision has to be made. Because there may be other-what we brought up tonight may be the tip of the iceberg of things that-or may not-or maybe other issues though that should be brought up and I think the collective wisdom of Council is important rather than just passing the thing in one night consideration with a one- sheet explanation for 3 issues. So, I'm opposed to this and won't support it. Mr. Riter said Mr. President, I agree with what Mr. Marquardt said from the collective wisdom of Council coming forth on this and obviously this will happen again. This motion just simply ? states our intent and our support of moving forward on this project. This doesn't authorize the purchase of any projects. It doesn't authorize any blank check for the Finance Director or the ? Mayor. They have to bring everything back to us for review. We'll be able to go through every piece of paper line by line so that complete review will come back to us for complete scrutiny _ and discussion. I think this is just our intent. We're telling the Issue One people this is what we want to do as a Village. Our Mayor has stated it. This is our Council stating the same intent. It's not a commitment to spend a penny. It's not a commitment to write a blank check to purchase these properties and that's why I made the motion. Council President Buckholtz said thank you, Mr. Riter. I would like to ask you a question, Mr. Marquardt. And I think you know from previous discussions that we've had that we genuinely support and welcome your position. But I really have this question. You're failing to support- you're saying you're failing to support this motion. I want to know if you're failing to support the purchase of the properties or the potential purchase of the properties-it's sounding to me like you're not supporting the process with which we've arrived at this moment. Mr. Marquardt said well my first statement is I don't think the resolution is necessary. What you have here already commits us. I think we've established that. You have to have a purchase agreement in place so you've already shown the commitment for the thing. So I really don't think the second resolution is necessary. And yes, I guess my statement is that I don't think the process has been the most constructive way of going about this. So, yes, that is my statement. Council President Buckholtz said I would like to respond to that just saying I agree in part. And again, I said it earlier. I think we've talked about it in all kinds of forums. We've talked about it in S.O.M. Widening, we've talked about them in different kinds of the original North Chagrin ; Commons Rec Committee that we had. I mean we talked about property acquisition here, we've talked about it there. But, yes, there is a formal process of going through Caucus. If it's too