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Council Warthen asked if Carmel gave exemptions for their agricultural use as they were annexed into the Town. Mike Shaver answered no, there are some pretty significant horse farms that have been annexed but are not part of the city. The impact hasn't hit yet so I haven't figured out what rich person will eventually be pounding on the head of some elected official. Councilman Warthen asked how much difference there was between the township tax there and Carmel's tax rate. Mike Shaver said $1.50. Chairman Kollmeyer asked what the next step would be? Mike Shaver said the commission could meet as a group and come back with what they want to do. He said the he would meet individually with the commission and town council members to go thru the old plan and identify what has been accomplished, here are the impacts, and I would like to run some numbers on how much the school system might have saved because the sewer gained a million dollars of capacity plus all the savings in sewer rates. Also to see if, like Councilman Warthen said, the two boards worked together if there could be multiplied savings. You can put more things on the list than you intend to get done fight now. Find out what each of you think is the best way to proceed and put this in an outline and bring back to another meeting. Mike Shaver said his job is to put ideas on the table and the ten individual people on the boards are going to spin the ideas in a slightly different way. Helen Humes said she thought all the things they had discussed were what Councilman C Bryant had asked the commission to do. In that original plan the word "streetscaping" was used for the downtown business area. Some of the work that is being planned for the downtown like new streetlights, trash receptacles, and decorations is being done by the Town Council or Revitalization Group or whatever. She asked what the original intent was as far as streetscaping. Randy Haymaker said the first phase of the Revitalization Group was being done at that time and they wanted to keep their options open and also was referring to the re-habilitation of the alleys, streets, etc. with the sewer project. As it turned out other monies were used for this and did not use tax increment for this. Mike Shave said the streetscape was left as a generality but it now can be refined and updated. We can include the Revitalization Group in the discussions. Councilman Warthen asked if the redevelopment money could be used for the current street lighting project in the downtown area. Attorney Tim Currens said that would probably fall within this plan. Streets aping is pretty broad. Helen Humes said the total amount of lighting installed was around $50,000 to $60,000. Attorney Currens said that could probably be done without any kind of an amendment. Councilman Warthen said the Town Council had approved the lighting project. Attorney Currens answered it had been approved by the Town Council but not by the Redevelopment Commission. Councilman Warthen said do we present that to the commission at the next meeting. Attorney Currens said yes they could present this and the commission would need numbers to approve the project. Chairman Kollmeyer said this is what the commission did as far as the warning sirens. C