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Board of Aldermen 12-28-2021 Page 27

Alderman Clemons

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The Planning and Economic Development Committee - they only had four members in attendance. One of them
abstained and the vote was 2 to 1. So it was not a unanimous vote there either. So | appreciate and | agree with you that
work should be done in the committee and we ought to respect the committee's work but we still have a right to look at it.
We don't have to accept what they vote, especially a close vote like that at the Planning and Economic Development
Committee meeting.

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postponed. So things have happened. Obviously parts of Greeley have been either sold off or roaded. The original will
talked about 168, more or less, acres. Now we know that when | looked at the three parcels of what was considered
Greeley Park, | didn't really even quite come up to | think maybe 126 acres of it.

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to request this and verified by legal. | would say maybe this is a practice for some of us to aspire to in connecting with our
residents and addressing these needs instead of talking about addressing these needs now where they haven't all been
given the same amount of attention, or airing, or Support over the past terms.

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Alderwoman Lu
Can you could read minds?

Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel

...because of the meetings that they had missed and that was the subject of the communication.
Alderwoman Lu
| didn’t Know you could read minds.

Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel

| read the communication.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you.

Alderman O'Brien

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if | can get the money that's still going to be put in there but at least they know it's the will of the Board and so on that it's
worth negotiating over it. If they came back and said $5 million or $1.5 million, it’s going to be different and then the next
Board will have to talk about that and look at it.

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actually given their property to the city for $1. That kind of thing does happen and if this is that valuable to the city, there's
no reason why we can't give the Mayor the right to at least negotiate or speak with some authority on the issue.