Ms. McCracken asked if this committee could suggest people to attend that meeting. Mr. Newton replied that it would be unfair not to allow the City and County Managers to meet and talk on a project of which they ultimately will have responsibility. When someone is given the responsibility of managing a project they at least have to have a chance to talk the project over before they come back to the public. The purpose of the meeting is not to make a decision about what the project is going to be. The purpose of this preliminary meeting is to discuss paying for the study and to decide which recommendations should be included in the study or brought to this committee.
Preliminary work has to be done.
Mr. Kolman stated that this committee unanimously approved a motion by Henry Levy stating that this issue should be in the forefront of transportation planning and activity on everything else should be suspended so that attention can be placed on this issue. Mr. Newton replied that each of the initial alternatives was recommended by interested citizens. Those ideas deserve to be reviewed. The purpose of the study was to look at the ideas that the citizens of this community had recommended. There are certain staff functions that need to be completed before those decisions are made.