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REGULAR MEETING October 8, 2018 here it didn't take too long. Once we came up with the clear answers,they were ready to go. These kinds of things should not be done on a Thursday afternoon when I am just getting my packet for an Area Plan meeting or for Council, you can't do that with zoning issues. It really should be that way for any issues. Councilmember Oliver Davis continued, You have to go back to neighborhood organizations,you have to go back to people and talk to everybody. All the farmers were upset with each other and they said the City came to them. I had an idea tonight of the agreement and when we heard the agreement, we were good. That's what I'm saying that it takes on zoning things but you have to work with me, I have to work you, I have to work with the Mayor. We can't be at meetings and, this City is growing. You saw the paper and we've got so much development, this is kind of a fun discussion. This is one (1) of the first (1St) few years on Committee and Council that I can fuss about zoning wearing me out because we have so much development coming, ok? It is a good problem to be worn out with from development. Trust me. Ok? So know we have all that development coming, how are we going to manage it? When you have a company and a lot of good things coming, you can almost lose your company if you don't have a plan to manage it. That's all I'm talking about. So the idea of us being able to appropriate dollars down the road, I think we can do that really quickly. My thing is I was surprised the ordinance hadn't come and it was already budget season. So by the time we got down to it, my very first (1St) question in this whole budget thing was to Stephanie Steele. You can go back and check. I asked how are we going to do the legal standpoint. How are we going to set it up? I had not heard anything about the process. So that was my concern. We need to work together and I think we can. With all this development coming here and everything else, it won't take long. Mishawaka has a model from their standpoint and we have other models we can look at and we already have that and those kinds of things. So the pressure that my colleagues have said to put me on a time clock,I'm very grateful to do that publicly in front of them and work with you. We could eat, clear up all the misconceptions and we could move forward. Councilmember Tim Scott stated, Don't make best be the enemy of better. I think what we could get into is why can't we set up the zoning laws we have set up for the County that are working for the City as City? Then, we could go about the improvements and changes. We can continue with business as usual and then once you have your allocations and everything, then we would look at making the improvements and changes. I think trying to come up with a whole new department and a whole new zoning and running it through this Council might be a little daunting. I think adopting what we already have and then making changes as we go throughout the year is probably going to be easier than what is being proposed to be done. I do have to agree with a lot of what Oliver said. Some of the biggest issues have to deal with zoning and what we are doing. We've had nothing but, what I feel like are,messes come through with development that include zoning. Councilmember Gavin Ferlic asked, Is there a way to make an appropriation prior to 2019 for 2019? Council Attorney Bob Palmer replied, I do not believe so because it would come out of the 2018 budget. Councilmember Oliver Davis interjected, In terms of the deadline, I understand the need that the Administration wants to start in the summertime. So if that is a viable option, we have to move quick, ok? I understand that. If we are seeing that we need to have that delayed then we need to have a decent reason to delay that from that standpoint. I don't know of one (1)right now, ok? So, therefore, I recognize we have the quarterly appropriations. When I was thinking about that I was not thinking personally as that being a part of that. It can be a part of that but I thought about this being separate and not waiting on that. Councilmember Gavin Ferlic stated, What I'm hearing from the Administration is that they need the staff to help them finalize the ordinance. Would it be ok with you, Councilmember Davis, if we looked at an early appropriation even if the ordinance wasn't complete but if we had a few more of those discussions? Would that be something that might keep things moving forward? Councilmember Oliver Davis replied, I'm open. I understand all that. That makes a lot of sense. Because you have to have some seed money to roll with something anyway. I understand that, ok? And so, therefore, seed money is a whole different ball game than having a whole program, you 20