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i would say we need it but we know

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um

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you're ready

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good evening everyone welcome to eustis

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city hall this is a community

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redevelopment agency meeting it is 5 15

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thursday september the 8th

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2022.

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christine sarah porn proper notice been

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given yes thank you so much uh before us

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we have the approval of minutes from our

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july 21st

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2022 community redevelopment agency

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meeting what's the will of our meeting

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our agency

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thank you a second thank you any

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discussion

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not hearing any roll call please vice

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mayor lee aye commissioner hoop smith

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aye commissioner cobb aye commissioner

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hawkins mayor holland all right all

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right and then we've got cra items with

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board discussion tom is that you or yes

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all right well thank you um

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this need this evening we have for you

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kind of the next step in the former

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waterman site rfq process

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so a little bit about where we are

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we did issue a request for

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qualifications

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as you know

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the city or the cra purchased this

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property in september of 2020. we

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initially did an rfp process and opted

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not to move forward with that process

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and then issued the request for

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qualifications

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this through this process interested

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parties were asked to submit

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information on their experience past

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projects and their general

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qualifications

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um

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the the difference between the rfp and

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rfq process is rfq really is about

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qualifications and selecting the best

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team it is not about site specific

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information

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and so

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we did not ask for site specific

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information and the solely uh the

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selection uh is solely based on the team

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and their qualifications and then the

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goal is um the next step is to turn the

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best team loose on the design

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uh and the engagement and so

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we asked as part of the rfq we asked for

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a detailed description of the responding

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development team's qualifications and

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experience

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a description of at least three

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representative projects

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that the development team has worked on

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a demonstration of the responding team's

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ability to secure financing and a

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description of the proposed process

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where the team will develop the concept

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so we did form an evaluation committee

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that consisted of myself

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the economic development director

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development services director public

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works director finance director and it

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was facilitated by the purchasing

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manager

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the evaluation committee met in a public

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meeting on august 22nd 2022

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to discuss the responses

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you do have hard copies of both the

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g3 c2 response and the kagan response

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uh you should have also received a link

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everybody

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but you should have received an email

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with electronic copies and now you have

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hard copies

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overall

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the

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evaluation committee felt that the g3 c2

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proposal more fully responded to the rfq

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especially in the process for designing

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the concept

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both teams

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had put together

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qualified teams had experience with

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previous projects

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but the g3 c2 project really went above

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and beyond related to describing the

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process to engage stakeholders engage

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the commission

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and develop a concept that everybody

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could be proud of

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selection

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or evaluation committee unanimously

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recommended moving forward with g3 c2

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and so what are our next steps we're

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looking

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for

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consensus from the cra board to allow

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staff to negotiate a master plan

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agreement

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with g3c2

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in parentheses there i wanted to point

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out we had gotten direction from the cra

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board in the city commission previously

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to involve uh outside counsel in that

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negotiation and so i just wanted to

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remind you i think the discussion was

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that we would

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engage gunster who were using for some

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land use items

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so the um

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everything though has to come back to

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the cra board in the city commission and

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so what you're authorizing uh us to do

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is to negotiate an agreement that will

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then come back to you for review

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uh definitely to the cra board and then

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potentially to the city commission

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uh if the city commission or if the city

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is involved in that agreement at all and

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that's i think that's still to be

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determined if the city has a role in

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that agreement or if it's purely with

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the cra

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after that g3 c2 engages with the

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commission staff the public and

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stakeholders to develop a concept

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and then after that we would move toward

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a purchase or potential lease agreements

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and that's all to be determined and

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negotiated as a separate agreement

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following concept development

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so the recommendation would be to

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authorize staff to negotiate a master

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plan agreement with g3c2

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and i'd be happy to answer any questions

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you might have

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any questions was there any discussion

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about only receiving two

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responses

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i know the big deal with the last one

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was that we only received one okay we

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doubled it but was there any discussion

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with the committee on that

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there wasn't i mean there was extensive

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discussion on

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the content of the two proposals but

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i don't think we had any substantive

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discussion on the fact that it was two

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proposals

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was there any discussion that

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that g3

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c2

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name was only done in july of this year

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has an extensive history and background

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as does c2 or construct 2

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but the two partnered and created their

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entity uh very recently and

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i again i don't think there was a lot of

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substantive discussion about the

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partnership having just been formed

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um because the the two principal

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components of the partnership

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have have a long history

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so um i think the answer to your

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the committee did not have substantive

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discussion about how recently created

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the partnership was

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anything else that's my recollection

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anything else vice mayor anything

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do we have any idea how long this this

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process will end up taking

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just because we need to we need to

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engage them and we haven't been able to

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do that

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because the the rfq process is very

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strict on

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communication

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once the rfq process begins the

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evaluation committee members can't even

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discuss the project outside of a public

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meeting

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and so we've not engaged with g3c2

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on their their

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expectations moving forward because we

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resolve this rfq process first

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will again will the plan is to engage uh

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outside counsel

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um they are pretty responsive

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i it would be unrealistic for me to tell

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you this is exactly how long i think

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it's going to take

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a clarification

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the g3 2 c2 that's the two comma that's

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their combined name

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correct it is it is um g3

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and construct2 okay

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anything else willie

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i'm ready to proceed will you proceed

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tom anything else from you no that's it

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anybody in the public like to speak on

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this

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not singing i'm looking for a motion

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from the cra board um to authorize and

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to to negotiate a master plan agreement

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with g3c uh g3 c2 and llc regarding the

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former waterman's site

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so moved thank you

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thank you ma'am any further discussion

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not hearing any roll call please vice

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mayor lee aye commissioner the hope

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commissioner cobb hi commissioner

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hawkins aye

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mayor holland aye

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thank you tom anything else

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the the only other thing would be um

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related to horace jones previous

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presentation there was some discussion

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about pulling together some cra

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financials

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i will share that with the i've pulled

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that together

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i just want to make some finishing

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touches and then i'll get it out to

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commission tonight or tomorrow morning

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beautiful thank you okay thank you all

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not hearing anything else we'll go ahead

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and adjourn the cra meeting for now and

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then we'll come back at six o'clock with

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our regular city commission meeting

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you