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Special Council Meeting 2-24-03 Page 5 ? ? Council President Buckholtz said Friday; okay. It has to have purchase agreement attached to it. Council doesn't need to vote on purchasing the property just yet. To purchase, there is a grace period? Mayor Rinker said I would call it that because it gives Council a chance to think about it. Council President Buckholtz asked, when do we get the word back on Issue One, roughly? Are we talking 6 months; 3 months? Mr. Brett said I'm going to guess 3 to 4 months. Council President Buckholtz said okay. When would we have to vote or act on the purchase of the property. In other words, I think what Mr. Marquardt might be going for here is, I understand the use of the property in the interest of-do we have the opporiunity to-if we don't win the grant, if we don't win the money, the Issue One money, is there potential to back out of the purchase agreement? Or, would it cost us money? Or? Mayor Rinker said well the quick answer I give you, the quick answer is yeah but I don't recommend it. On the contrary I am advocating that we commit to it because the other argument that we are making with O.D.O.T. is we are buying this land; we're creating a park. ? Council President Buckholtz asked is the O.D.O.T. money separate money from what we are talking about here? Mayor Rinker said yeah, it is. But we are talking about the underpass. There are 2 things here. There's the property and the underpass. The underpass we've had in our plans for at least 2, if not 3 years. Mr. Marquardt asked in whose plans? Mayor Rinker said we Mayfield Village. It's been in the engineering plans, it's been part of the discussion but O.D.O.T. ultimately has to go through, in their amenable fashion, through their bureaucracy. And starting about 3-4 months ago, the feedback we got through Kevin Kehres, whose been handling that part of our connection with O.D.O.T., with U.R.S., who deals with straight engineering issues is letting Doug know, well, you know O.D.O.T. hasn't committed; I don't know; they don't know that there's a park there and I'm going what does it take. We've got drawings that we've had in place, engineer drawings; we have another, a schematic, that shows that in terms of the administration's position since the Fall of 1999 we have been promoting the bilateral trail system. We've shown where different locations like Wiley Park, at the Pool and in the southern portion have been trying to promote the idea that we can enhance green space area, aka parkland area. Why doesn't O.D.O.T. get it; I don't know why O.D.O.T. doesn't get it. We have consistently represented what we wanted to do there. We've tried just the other evening I got the drawings together to show everybody; our residents, Council, P&Z, O.D.O.T., NOACA, anybody out there ` who cares to look at what we are doing, we mean what we say. We are looking to create this greenway corridor, not just widen the road. Therefore if all you want to know is if there is going to