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--,' Since then, the Louisville Development Corporation, the Downtown Design Committee and the Downtown Improvements Design Committee, among others, have all addressed this Issue and made vanous recommendations. Unfortunately, none of these efforts have been implemented and observable changes to downtown have not been made in the last two decades while the rest of the community had grown. Lack of funding and failure to reach a consensus are some of the reasons there has been so much talk and little action. Because of this history, the primary objective of this task force has been to actually GET SOMETHING DONE rather than just talk about it one more time. The issue of downtown redevelopment was raised again at this summer's Louisville Futures Conference. A number of suggestions were made to improve downtown Louisville, including the need for drainage, streetscape/beautification, curb and gutter work, better sidewalks and lighting. This committee is made up of participants from the Futures Conference who expressed as their primary interest participating III the planning process for downtown redevelopment. We were asked to study the Issue of improvements and to formulate a recommendation to the City Council by mid-December. Financing our first priorities is limited to $400,000.00 of the capital improvement fund derived from revenues resulting from the 1989 1 % sales tax election. Our task force gathered information from a variety of sources. We were presented an infrastructure needs assessment by the city engineer's office. We toured the downtown area collectively and individually. And we received input from interested citizens and downtown merchants during our regular weekly meeting and our November 20th public meeting. Generally the input has been very supportive of our "LETS GET SOMETHING DONE" priority. It became obvious to the entire task force that the most 3 --