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e e Ehrman then brought up the issue of the Fairgrounds. She said that she wants to be sure that the City is involved in any decisions regarding the Fair- grounds, and that the county cannot assume that their decisions about the Fairgrounds are final. Gleason agreed that the City needs to be involved in the Fairground issue and suggested that the Council have a meeting with the Fair Board on Fairground issues. He also suggested that the Council may wish to consider naming a liaison with the Fair Board. He also suggested that a goal might be to direct staff to make a recommendation regarding the Fairground and that another goal might be to direct staff to come back with more information on the proposed LTD move. Miller proposed that the goal statement around transportation be to have in place in 1989 a work plan which includes and agreed upon sight for the new LTD downtown transfer station. The group agreed to this statement and finished with the transportation topic. The next topic they discussed was urban transition. Ehrman noted that urban transition ties into citizen relations. Boles commented that he felt that a part of the resistance to annexation was the perception that the neighborhoods, especially River Road/Santa Clara, would be greatly changed. He felt that if the people in those areas were assured that the character of the neighborhood would not change, they might be more interes- ted in annexation. Rutan said that the City needs to explore other options around the annexation issue. Miller suggested as a goal that the City have in place a process to provide urban services in those areas. He also said that the City does not have the option to do nothing about this issue in the next year. Bennett said that the City needs an aggressive annexation policy and that he is at the point where he is ready to fight the issue, but does not know exactly what would be involved in such a fight. Boles wanted to know if there was some way to work with the county the leverage the service issue, and suggested that there may be ways to work the issue of duel jurisdiction around annexation issues. Holmer suggested that the City could annex all of Beltline and then use the island method to annex the remainder of the area. Green wanted to know if a septic tank tax could be imposed as a means to get River Road/Santa Clara people to hook up to the sewer. Holmer said that he also wants to discuss the joint provision of urban services and supported Miller's efforts in this regard as he feels it is one way to reduce costs. He wondered where other Councilors were with this issue. DRAFT COUNCIL GOAL SESSION PAGE 15