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7. NEW BUSINESS (Cont'd Commissioner Wiggins said another aspect of this is that we should give some consideration to the fact that the money to do this lighting is probably going to have to come from another source, and the major probable source would be revenue sharing, and it would be done by the city. When you get into the revenue sharing dollar, you are in competition with a great many other desires and some require a lot of public support, a lot of public clamor, and a lot of screaming, frankly, to get it. He believed they would scream more about the lights than they would about any other single thing. So, this may be the best leverage to get it done that way. He stated we have to face the plain facts that we have just so much money, and we've got a project. We don't have enough money to do it all the way we want to do it, and this apparently from the experts' view, is the only thing that can reasonably be pulled out and done at a later time -- within some kind of economic. sense, because if we pull some of it out, it would cost a fortune to come back and do it later. The fact that they are putting in all of the electrical underground work, so all that is required is just actually to put the fixtures in, would make i even easier to make this happen. Commissioner Wiggins said he agrees with the other Commissioners wholeheartedly. He doesn't like it either. He would much rather see this completely done the way it was planned - -the way we had hoped it would be done - -and he will be one of those "screaming for the lights." In reference to Mrs. Janet Allen's question on how lighted would the Park be and the general lighting, after getting across the bridge, Mr. Brownell advised there are no lights on that side of the river where the bridge comes in- -none on the east side of the river. Mr. Lawson advised the path actually comes down ir front of the Park Department office, past the maintenance area. The total package does call for lighting on our portion of the ramp, which goes down from the east end of the bridge down to the street level - -by the Park Department office - -that would be lighted. All these post tops were included. There would be no lights on the east side of the river, and on Mrs. Allen's addi- tional comment,this was correct. My. Fred Helmen stated, he feels very keenly about the lighting. HE feels this is a must:: We came this far with the pedestrian way and bridge and the lighting is very, very essential for the Success of the Green Belt. Until we can come up with a solution, hE suggested the Commission defer any action on this today until a conclusion is reached that the architects specifications call f r. He agrees on providing lighting and the success depends on t at. "I repeat, lighting for the success of that is necessary. Lighting is No. 1. 11