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Mr. Kraft stated that what Council was being asked to do was to accept this plan for consideration, so why not just consider it and vote on it? How do you accept something for consideration, because that is what the plan was here for tonight, to vote yes or no. What does it mean to accept it for consideration? Does that mean twelve years from now or two weeks from now? Ms. Carr stated that she had provided Council with a packet that addressed what happened in 2005 and 2006. Mayor Welsch was instrumental in forming a special committee on economic progress. That special committee produced a report and the report was not universally accepted. However Council accepted it for consideration, looked at it sentence by sentence, and said to the Plan Commission we will accept this, put it here. There were 58 insertion points. This plan may be simpler, because we are dealing with streets and sidewalks, so most of this may go in under streets and sidewalks. Ms. Carr stated that what she is asking was for Council do a little bit of work, because she does not get the feeling that they have actually looked at this. It is very easy to brush her off and say oh, she was being an alarmist, but she really was not. She was trying to get the very best that we can get. Ms. Carr noted that some of these things are absolutely fabulous and should be done immediately, and that’s why she wanted staff to address the implementation plan. But if we want this in the 2005 Comprehensive Plan we don’t just tag it at the end. She noted that has never been done, although Ms. Riganti did tell her today that it had been done. If she would look at the 1990 plan and said that be done. She stated that the neighborhood plans were requested, because there were no neighborhood plans for that, so the precedent was there for handling the plan this way. Mayor Welsch was the one who established the precedent. It worked beautifully for this Comprehensive Plan and she would like to see it done again. That way council can feel that we have looked at this, because some of you don’t want to spend any time at it, but she did. She did want to make this work. Mayor Welsch stated that she appreciates the reminder of the Advisory Board for Economic Progress, but would like to clarify that that report was very different than a Master Plan for Bike and Walk. It was a report. We did not set out specific plans. And quite frankly, Council did not go to the Plan Commission and say do this or do that. It was a very good report and the Mayor said she was proud of it, but it is very different from what we are being asked to do tonight. Mayor Welsch informed Council that five minutes ago she had stated that she would support the majority on this motion. However hearing the City Clerk rereading the motion she would not be able to support something that does not say that we adopt the plan; that we just accept for consideration. She said she agrees with Mr. Kraft, that this is what the amendment. Mayor Welsch said let for the original resolution that accepts the plan, and if you don’t want to accept it vote against the resolution. Mr. Crow and Mr. Price both stated that Council needed to vote on the amendment that was on the floor. Mayor Welsch advised all Councilmembers that they had one more time to speak on the motion that was on the floor. Mr. Price announced that after his vote he was going to make an amendment. Ms. Carr asked the Mayor if there was a way to amend the amendment to adopt the plan, considering that there are some parts of this plan that she found objectionable. She then asked Mayor Welsch how she believed this should be worded so that they are not just adopting something that transfers Council’s policymaking authority to the administration. We would not work as a Council to do this and just simply sign-off on it. Ms. Carr noted the report was very much like this, and Mayor Welsch and Mr. Wagner submitted 58 or 59 points to be inserted, which were printed int the packet she earlier provided. Ms. Carr 26