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<br />residents and citizens benefit. We have a great team put together, and we are going to go
<br />through this very seriously.
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<br />16. If I understand correctly, the City will give us a clean site environmentally?
<br />Yes, at the moment let's do it this way. Assume that you are all working on a clean site,
<br />if that turns out not to be the case, then we will come back and work with you as team
<br />members.
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<br />17. Do you want to have it in a PDF format as well, and is there a proposed operator for the
<br />facility?
<br />No, please don't submit the PDF format, just a hard copy bound with a clip. We don't
<br />go for the fluff, don't spend a lot of time on eloquent pros, get to the point. What are
<br />you offering, how are you going to offer it, what is the plan, what are the numbers, cut to
<br />the chase. Usually we don't want the colored pictures, but in this case because it is an
<br />idea that you are also bringing to us, something that we need to be able to perceive, so if
<br />you have pretty pictures, include them. But focus on the issues, focus on the project, give
<br />us the bottom line so we would have the sense of what we would be doing, and the more
<br />specific you can be the better. Do simple Xerox pages, no binder, nothing special, we
<br />have to save all of these documents for five years, and we have to store them, and we do a
<br />lot of projects. If you send us a fancy thick notebook, it will probably go to the bottom of
<br />the pile because it shows you cannot follow directions. We prefer simple Xeroxed paper,
<br />and a springy clip, and it can be stored easily. Please, no binders.
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<br />18. Is there a time period?
<br />The lease is for 99 years, and so you are responsible to figure out how you want to
<br />accommodate that process. Your proposal could offer us an alternative. Understand
<br />that the information that we gave out is a pretty good guideline. We know what we want
<br />out of this, the Commission has thought about it, they have talked about it, and this is
<br />the kind of concept that they want to follow through on. But if you come up with a
<br />better idea, they are the first people who will say that is a better idea, let's look at that.
<br />If you have something better, or you have an alternative, we are willing to look at it but
<br />if it deviates a lot from the proposed parameters and doesn't seem to benefit the City any
<br />more than the proposed parameters, we are probably not going to give it a lot of
<br />attention. If it deviates a lot but is a whole lot better project, we will probably be pretty
<br />interested.
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<br />19. From the financing plan, are we going to assume that the City will pay from its own funds for
<br />the Park, and the Parking Garage?
<br />Yes. The City will pay the successful proposer for the cost of the Parking Garage and
<br />the Park it sits on, and the shell retail space in the parking facility . We are going to look
<br />at those prices very carefully, what we don't want is that to get lost in the big package
<br />and we end up paying an unbalanced share for the Garage and the Park. We will pay
<br />for those portions, and we will also be looking at the lease every four or five years for
<br />possible lease rate adjustments, increasing or decreasing as appropriate, basing it on
<br />objective parameters, but we are looking at that starting number somewhere around
<br />$320,000.
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