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C are curing this with the expenditures. If it is in an economic development district, you need to show there is an economic development purpose that is going to be accomplished. Example: Wastewater Treatment Plant you need to show that by buying more capacity the general community will benefit though the economic development benefits from that. Chairman Kollmeyer asked Mike Shaver if Carmel still had the nine individual districts? Mike Shaver said there were a lot of misunderstandings in their original plan so a lot of people can to hearings so for example they created an economic development area to support a corridor to easily get people down to 96th Street where most of the retail was located, without this there was a fear that developers would come in and say we need retail smack in the middle of a residential area when two miles away there is a huge retail development already established and if they would build a new one in the middle of a residential area they would draw retail out of the huge development to there and create vacancies in the huge development and then suddenly they had a lot more interest in new retail along 96th Street. One of the things Carmel wants to do is to build a major community activity function in the old downtown. They are talking about having a 50 million dollar performing arts center. They wanted to use the revenue from 96th Street for the performing arts center. They put an integrated economic development plan and amended plan and every one of the nine original plans in a huge binder and cross- referenced each plan. Mike Shaver said the Mooresville Plan would not be as involved or as expensive as Carmel because they had just two areas to combine and a population of 10,000 as opposed to 50,000. They wanted one document that said this is what we are trying to do and if you have an objection to it come forward and tell us your objection. Your purpose here is to be able to have one area help the other. In the end you have $750,000 to use to lower the cost of living for residents. Your board needs to get all of your ideas listed and go from there. The purchase of land can be made by the Town as long as it is for a public purpose, the school system can purchase the land and perhaps the best thing for the commission to do if they buy land with T1F money, to try to work meticously work it out, but if it works out the school could get hold of the land with less controversy than the commission trying to buy it, then figure out a way to reimburse the school system as opposed to you buying and then transferring the title to the school. Lauren Matthes commented the Redevelopment Commission could also purchase land and resell it. Mike Shaver said sure, but if you condemn property from a company and try to give it to another company, that is a dicey situation. He said if we reopen the planning process in order to try to integrate it to see what you accomplished from the original plan, what not has been accomplished, and are the things you did not accomplish still relevant. Then we go to the list of what other things should we be doing. Helen Humes said any project that requires 100 acres we are really hurting to be able to submit on that project. Mike Shaver told the commission they were limited by the fact that any kind of expansion on the south end would require some kind of annexation, and that doesn't mean you couldn't plan for it. You cam plan for everything three miles out but you can't do anything with it until it is annexed. Carmel went thru and annexed a bunch of property making people angry. Your Town Council has been very delicate about it's annexation. This is a Town Council decision on that issue. Chairman Kollmeyer said we would let the Town Council make the people angry.