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CASSELBERRY CITY COMMISSION Minutes and Verbatim TranscrIpt of November 8, 2005 Workshop Page 13 of 17 269 COMMISSIONER DOERNER: ...for the record that I, I think this is inappropriate. We've had very lax 270 policies in terms of speaking. We've had people speak from the audience. We've had many processes that 271 were not by the letter, one hundred percent, and it is a five member board. It is not a one member board. 272 We all equally share and we should always have discussions and we should never have someone leave the 273 podium. Its inappropriate. Even if they want to stay and say they don't want to be here, so for the record, 274 Mr. Goffhas left and is sitting in the audience. And I find that to be extremely inappropriate. 275 LEE MAHER: So, do you want me to sit down? 276 VICE MAYOR HART: But, no. I, those of us that want to hear it, go ahead and... 277 COMMISSIONER DOERNER: Okay. 278 LEE MAHER: Do you know; and we'll give you two minutes... 279 VICE MAYOR HART: ...(INAUDIBLE)... 280 LEE MAHER: And I, I; let me start by saying I really believe John is doing a good job and I really believe 281 that Tony's done a good job, and I really believe this is a very difficult board to get approvals on because 282 there's so many moving target on only the, the civic center. And they're fifteen thousand foot, thirty 283 thousand foot, twenty-five thousand foot, whatever. We propose, and I really, really thought that this 284 meeting was an open ended meeting that we could talk to the Mayor and the Commissioners direct; we 285 propose and, and, and ifit is a public meeting, we, Unicorp, proposes; this thing's taken so long. You've got 286 an updated appraisal. If you want to get another updated appraisal, you can. We don't care. We, we, we 287 are losing tenants. I think I was standing here ninety days ago saying that we've signed letter of intents. We 288 haven't signed leases. I had leases. I have commitments, I have drawings, etcetera, trying to get this project 289 going. My recommendation; I would hope that somebody could pull it up on a board, but; can anybody; does 290 anybody know how to turn this on and show the site plan? Our recommendation, the only thing I was going 291 to make to you and the Mayor was simply to carve out the land area that is associated with the community 292 center, sell the rest for the appraised value so we can get going. I don't believe in my heart that this 293 Commission will approve a certain size and a certain price and a certain whatever, because there are, there 294 are so many moving targets. You may find out that a thirty-three thousand foot returns you, the City, more 295 money than a fifteen thousand foot that the Mayor wants, or whatever. And we don't really care. And we 296 really truly on a buyable, don't care at this stage if we do it or not. And, and I would only tell you as a 297 Commission, I promise you; I mean we will; the part that we're frustrated with is we've, we've been here. 298 Maybe not the Mayor or whatever, but we've been here every single time. We've gone through every single