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ultimately pursue that route. We would rather do that than wait another sixty days, we have already waited 60 from the time our firm has been involved. We would rather proceed now and make our - record here today and get a decision one way or the other and then proceed with all options including the investigation of HLFI's potential request to have the property gifted to them. As you might expect if we would ever seriously consider that, we have to decide how much would you gift them, what do you do about these ingress/egress easements. We have two driveways: one is on the north side of the existing structure; one is on the south side between the building and its parking lot to the south, so there are lots of things for the company to consider. I hope I've done a good job of explaining to you our unique situation at the present time with this pending... potential offer, for lack of a better description. Notwithstanding that, I would like to address what we feel are some of the statements in the staff report which we feel are extremely conclusory, some of which we think are not supported by fact and some of which we think may not even be true. For example, with reference to the latter, the staff report states and I quote: "The city may be purchasing right-of-way from the cemetery to construct a round -about at the intersection of Portage and Lathrop. These monies could be used for", and it says, "for repair building", and I assume they mean to say: "used for the repair of the building" end -quote. With reference to that statement, we would like to refer to each of you to a map that is contained in Exhibit 1, which we are going to submit as part of the record at the present time. While she's distributing that to you,...but we going to furnish each of you a color copy of a building condition study labeled Exhibit 1 and it was prepared by Mekus Studios out of Chicago, Illinois. It's a multi -page document, with the last portion of which is a lot of colored photograph of the'structure in question. They were contracted by Alderwoods Group to evaluate the building. There's a table of contents attached. It doesn't take long... realize that this particular structure is not a mom-and-pop fixer -upper. It's going to involve considerable effort on the part of the property owner or anybody, any third party who wants to rehabilitate this building. If you would, in that particular study ... She's informed me that it's not in that... Shawn Peterson: I'd like to add, as part of the round -about discussions with the city, they have indicated that they will not be pursuing any improvements on the round -about for which funds will be given to the cemetery. Catherine Hostetler: All the activity will be on the west side and they've already purchased the property that they wanted from Highland. At the time we were writing this, it wasn't known, but we know this now. So you don't have... John Peddycord: There is a map and we're going to have it here and we will submit it as part of the record as soon as Scott finds it. It clearly shows, and you're correct. Ms. Hostetler is right ... It clearly shows that the round -about or what ever you want to call these new contraptions that the cities and counties are using now. I love'em. Don't get me wrong. I think they work quite well. It is going to be ... occupy the existing intersection and most of the land that's on the south east corner of the, Highland cemetery, which as you know is on the northwest corner of Lathrop and Portage Ave. In effect our position is: we will not realize any monies from the construction of that round -about as presently contemplated by the City. So... and now they know, and staff obviously seems to be recognizing that we will not be realizing any monies from the construction of that round -about by the city. I did not learn from the city; I wasn't even able to find the right person, to find out when that round -about might even be constructed. We were under the impression based on a reading the legal descriptions and applying those to the plot maps that the county uses that most of that triangle area at the northwest corner of Lathrop and 23 January 2006 HPC Meeting Minutes [Corrected Version]