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DEC 2® 1988 800K 75 PGE 4.39 taking into consideration the cost of running 3 campaigns, inflation, etc. William Koolage, interested citizen, pointed out that any time you project into the future, the farther out you go, the less accurate you are, and he personally would prefer to see increments of 4 years. He also felt the Committee should take another look at the Courthouse and what is proposed to be done downtown as he believed it will be necessary to have a 3 -story building with parking in it. Mr. Koolage did not feel the present Courthouse facility should be torn down and believed it is more a City problem than County problem. Chairman Scurlock advised that the Board has directed our people to do everything they can to save the central core of the old Courthouse. Mr. Koolage continued to emphasize the need to be conserva- tive and his strong feeling that the downtown property owners should be doing something themselves. The Chairman felt that is a separate issue. If we have to build five courtrooms and more offices, and the Commission decides it wants to have them in the downtown area, if it has some benefit for redevelopment, so be it, but we are really building courtrooms and offices for our own purposes rather than having to rent outside space. Mr. Koolage reiterated the importance of readdressing what is needed in shorter increments because of the way various factors continually change. Commissioner Bird expressed his desire to see some funds for Recreation included in the first phase, at least for land acqui- sition in the South County area, as he felt it might make it more palatable to the voters if they could have something they might like to have in addition to the things we must have. He asked if we are talking about going to the voters with a 15 year 14 sales tax with an initial shopping list for the first 5 years and then additional shopping lists for the second two 5 year increments. 39 GIP