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CHERYL GREENE: What you would want to do is have your legal council involved with any contract negotiations and provide direction as to what the commission exactly would like. What type of services would you like this organization to provide to you and with the dollar amount that they have put into this contract I think you have the right to ask them on what is that fee based and also ask for an itemized accounting. Again, I look at this as an agreement that has been presented to you and this is only the open dialogue. You should negotiate whatever terms are most favorable to you and whether or not you need all of these services or whether you need less. I mean it is entirely what the commission's preference is. If you set a price do you want to then provide the opportunity for a renewal for the following year without having to renegotiate an agreement with a agreed upon increase in that contract. Another way you can look at things is do you want to break things down so that there is an incentive to either reduce costs for the commission or to provide the additional services for which they ought to get an amount. As legal council I would say to you this just opens your discussion and that before you go to agree on a contract you certainly ought to have in your own mind how much you want to budget towards something like this and what type of services you want. You can then provide your legal council with the authority to negotiate favorable terms. Commission members decide to wait until their legal council, Mr. Livingston, came back from his trip before they set up a date to meet with HLFI and Bob Yapp to go over the terms of the proposed contract. VI. HEARING OF VISITORS Don Sporleder mentioned that the commission should act quickly to include an underpass for the Leeper Park Bridge for a bike trail. On March 151 there is going to be a meeting in Elkhart about the St. Joseph Valley River Trail. There will also be a charette in June about Northern Indiana Greenways. VII. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS Leeper Park/George Kessler in upcoming HLFI newsletter LYNN PATRICK: I would also like to inform you that the commission is invited for coffee and light refreshments at Tippecanoe Restaurant on Thursday, March 10, between the hours of 5-6:30 pm. We hope to meet with members of the school board corporation. VIII. ADJOURNMENT JOHN OXIAN: I move that we adjourn the meeting. MARY JANE CHASE: Seconds the motion and it passes unanimously. Meeting ended at 9:13 pm. Historic Preservation Commission Minutes: February 28`h, 2005 ATTEST: , Secretary