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Chairman Kollmeyer asked attorney Currens if they added just the Adams property, would they have to go thru all the steps and then a year later Mr. Hall says we want to come in to Town do we have to go thru the whole process again. Attorney Currens answered if we were not increasing by more than twenty percent we would not have to go thru all the steps. He said it had been a long time since the original plan that to run this all thru and renew it was not a bad idea and the focus will be changed in the original area and the focus you are changing is far pure of what the original intent was. Mike Shaver, Wabash Scientific, told the commission he had written the original plan and the amendments to the plan. He said one important thing to remember in a generalized way was the legislature has basically mettled with the entire taxing process to the point that people are pulling their hair out. There is an ongoing issue in the Legislature they are trying to dodge the fact things were messed up in reassessment. It has thrown everything into a huge mess. The one thing they haven't been able to mess with too much is the fact that TIF bonds are out there, even though you guys have more revenue than you have obligations, other T1F areas are barely able to cover them so they have not been messing with this too much because if they do they mess up bond ratings in New York and the entire state could end up in huge lawsuits for bonds that were defaulted upon. How that comes back to your commission, as Lauren was saying the school funding formula has been mettled with and now basically if the commission gives to the schools, then the State is going to take it away and spend it someplace else. What has happened here is seven of the eight cents you would be able to save by passing money thru comes to Town and schools is distributed $100 here and $100 there, not that this isn't significant but if they need to build a transportation facility, that gets kind of difficult to do. As Lauren pointed out, Carmel has nine economic development areas and one redevelopment area. When they began in 1995 each of those areas were separated by large areas of undeveloped land and over the course of seven to nine years, those areas which had each accomplished a purpose and had expanded they have now grown together. On one side of a street it is Area A and on the other side of the street it is Area B, but a common person could not just look there and tell, they are both TIF areas, even though they are separately identified. In Carmel's case in 2000 when it became clear these areas were going to grow together they created something called an integrated economic development plan where we reminded everybody of all the goals in which they had begun on each of these separate areas and looked at each of these goals again and integrated them into one comprehensive set of goals and projects so everybody understood that even though legally one was created in 1997 and one in 1998, they no longer functioned as separate districts and we created a plan that said here is the umbrella, we have accomplished all that we were trying to accomplish and now we are putting the community on notice that this is the way the redevelopment commission is trying to do the stuff the plan commission said was appropriate to do when they did the new comprehensive plan. We have to be very careful about the primary impact. So you need to make sure you put a specific proposal on the table and then run the impact thru so you understand what has happened to you and that the legislature hasn't somewhere inadvertently side swiped your whole intent. In Carmel when we did this integrated plan, we are now doing an amendment for 2004, and what we are specifically putting on the