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<br /> ..-,. <br /> the basics in place to go forward. You won't have to <br /> tear up the sidewalks again. We did look at slides of all <br /> sorts of really spiffy downtowns and we hope eventually <br /> to have funds to accomplish a lot more romantic type <br /> treatments that makes our downtown unique. With the <br /> funding that we have now, you won't see much. You <br /> need to know that Deanna's estimates do include <br /> monies so that the sidewalks won't be ripped up again <br /> if you want to put in fancy light poles, etc. <br />Sackett: My basic impression after reading the papers is that <br /> people are expecting the fancy things. What do you <br /> need, another $500,000.00? <br />Beckmann: At least. When we started going around the room <br /> asking what everyone wanted, they wanted fancy things, <br /> they wanted pizzazz but we realized how limited the <br /> dollars were. The dollars just barely cover the basics on <br /> some streets and not all streets are represented in terms <br /> of the LafayettelLouisville Downtown Revitalization of <br /> definition of downtown. We don't even have enough <br /> funding now to provide the basic infrastructure that we <br /> need just for streets and flooding situations, much less <br /> pizzazz. <br />Sackett: Did someone put a pencil to that to say okay, what do <br /> we need to do, the infrastructure and then give people <br /> some tangible evidence that the downtown is being <br /> revitalized from a cosmetic prospective? <br />Beckmann: Yes, there will be cosmetic things that you can see on <br /> the blocks that are going to be done. Sidewalks will be <br /> widened, it can include some extensions of sidewalks <br /> into the intersection, maybe some brick treatment or <br /> something a little more fancy then we have now. <br /> Designers would need to be involved to do that. It is <br /> not a major project where we could say there will be a <br /> planter and a bench on every block at this stage of the <br /> game. <br />Carnival: Tom, I know we talked about undergrounding utilities <br /> and I heard reference this evening that what we are <br /> doing is the stuff that needs to be done so that the <br /> sidewalks don't have to be ripped up later. Have we <br /> 6 <br />