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Special Meeting June 7, 2005 that is when all the arguments are going to start. Ms. Welsch said that many of these recommendations are already in the Plan; all she wants to do is to get a consensus from the Council on the recommendations that she doesn’t see in the Plan. Mr. Ollendorff continued with number three and suggested that there should be economic development forums; four - provide ways to provide technical assistance; five – continue the policy for local procurement policy, which we already have in there; six – is already in the plan. Ms. Brot said that we are only trying to pick out the ones that aren’t in there. Ms. Welsch would really like to have a sense of the Council. Ms. Brot thought that the purpose of Council was to take the ABEP report and try to find what the Council thought what might have been left out and to suggest adding it – not telling the city manager, staff or the commission how to do things, but only to say that these concepts were developed by ABEP and the Council would like to see it inserted. Mr. Ollendorff said that all he was saying was that the Council can probably agree, in general, that you would like to see some attention paid to one, two, three, and four. Ms. Welsch repeated that this is exactly what she is attempting to accomplish. Ms. Brot said again that they only need to spend time on the items that were not in the Plan. Mr. Ollendorff is just trying to help Council through the first group. Ms. Welsch understands what Mr. Ollendorff is trying to do; she just wants to make sure that a majority of the Council supports the concepts before they are suggested to be added to the Plan. She doesn’t want to assume that the entire Council supports everything in the ABEP report. She is very pleased to have everything in the ABEP section A in some way conveyed in the Plan. Mr. Wagner asked where recommendation number two was in the Plan. Ms. Brot suggested pages 42 through 43. Section A of the ABEP Report: Ms. Welsch says that the only items under Section A that aren’t in the Plan are one and four. She is asking for a verbal consensus to add some gist of these two recommendations in the Plan. Ms. Brot was ok with it. The Mayor was alright with adding four, but was not alright with number one. Ms. Brungardt was alright with both, and was strongly supportive of number one, so much so that she would be interested in developing a profile for the position. Mr. Wagner agrees with Mr. Ollendorff to look at these recommendations very broadly at this point and leave the details to future discussions, but otherwise, he was alright with them. Ms. Welsch reported that there seemed to be agreement on one and two. Ms. Welsch continued that number four dealt with technical assistance for businesses and business associations – which is being done currently with LSBD and the OBA. Ms. Welsch reported that there was a consensus on this item and that Council could move on to section B of the ABEP report. Page 9