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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Monday, November 18, 2019 Page 13 Council President Saponaro stated, al we are talking about is this piece of property. We are not talking about anything else. So if you have a question regarding this property, please address it and if you don't you can address that elsewhere. Mr. McDowell asked, so, there's no other purposes in the arrangement for the rezoning of this property? Mr. Coyne replied, it's just a rezoning on the property. Council President Saponaro stated, it's just a rezoning of the property. The School Board can't use it. No one can tear it down because it's a historic building so we are trying to have the building have a use because it can't be used for the children as the School Board has stated. Mr. McDowell asked, so there's not an agreement for a 3 property swap? Council President Saponaro stated, no. We are just talking about this building. I am not sure where you are getting your information, but at this meeting, we are talking about this building. If you have an issue regarding this particular proposal, regarding this building, then that's fine. If you want to address anything you want with administration, you certainly can or any one of our Council, absolutely. But not at this public meeting. That's fair afield for what our purposes are. Mr. McDowell stated, my question is, I read an article — Council President Saponaro stated, I understand that, but it has nothing to do with what we are doing tonight. We have to stick to the public hearing. The public hearing is about this building. So that's really what we have to talk about. Mr. McDowell stated, okay. All right. Council President Saponaro stated, but you also have open portions of Council meetings that you are more than welcome to come to. Talk to any of your Council members about that, you certainly can. Or you can address it with Administration directly. You have got a lot of options, absolutely. Mr. McDowell stated, okay. Sure. So my other issue with this is as noted in the diagram, Center School is losing parking spaces. I was at an event earlier this year. I overheard a man talk to a police officer about how he was having trouble crossing the street. There wasn't enough parking spaces and he wanted to get to the event at the school. My concern is about parking spaces. At the Community Room, there's about 121 spaces. We lost about 10% of the spots. This will again take about 10% of the parking spots away when we turn it over to a private business. If you have ever been at an event at Center School, there's tons of people parking across the street, walking over, parking here, walking over. I am just wondering long term, that's the concerns. That area right there that's highlighted is the parent drop-off and pick-up. If this gets rezoned and passed what's the goal with the parking?