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water. We had way more water because we didn't have Harper, etc. and all our reservoir storage was full." "We had water that we had nothing to do with. We simply leased it out for minimum costs." "It was simply a matter of the construction was behind schedule. We couldn't put the water we had on line through the plant." "To term this a water crisis is simply wrong. There was no water shortage and there has not been since the early '70s when I started working for the City." Mohr stated that there are agreements, not signed by this Council, with several developers -- using the Homart agreement as an example signed in 1984 -- wherein approximately 300 acres were deeded to the City as open space land. Mohr stated that the City has an agreement with Homart that if the City cannot, for any reason, live up to those agreements, those lands will go back to Homart. Mohr stated that on the subject of the whole open space issue, open space buffers between citites, this petition seems to "fly in the face that goal." In summary, Mohr stated that the Superintendent of Schools assures the residents of Louisville that this District is in the top 1-2 districts in the state and that Louisville is very healthy in that regard. Williamson has assured the citizens of Louisville that the City does not have a water crises, does not project a water crises, has a 40~ surplus, and in fact never had a water crises including 1984 which was a filtration/admin- istration problem. In referring to the initiative, Mohr stated, "I don't find a whole lot that I can see that makes a lot of sense. I might add, in addition to that, if developers that already have agreements with the City are not allowed to take those agreements through as agreed upon in good faith, there are other consequences. Consequences like repaying prepaid fees immediately. All of the debt that we are involved in at this time to try bring the kinds of services...to this area, would be called into ques- tion. There would be a great question as to how we would pay for them." "I feel that the question of whether we should hold a public hearing or not relates to reasonableness of the topic involved. This initiative in my opinion is clearly unreasonable given the goals that you claim you want to make. It flies in the face of what we consider good government. I was elected by...over two-thirds of the voters in Ward II to represent the system of government that Iran for and I took an oath to represent that government. It seems to me to adopt this ordinance would be to violate that oath. I think this ordinance implicitly calls for a change in the structure of city government. It says we have no confidence in the mayoral-council form of government, and we wish to run this government by referendum. Therefore, I do not support it." Anderson asked if the third petitioner was present. It was determined that he had a conflict, but that Judson was the spokesperson for COPE and could answer Anderson's questions. Anderson asked if anyone in the group had spoken to Mr. Hager with regard to their concerns about classroom size. Judson responded that he had not but thought that there may be members who had. Margaret Hornbostel responded that she had and has been at school improvement meetings. She stated that she brought this Council information last March regarding crowding in the schools and was "laughed out of here when you guys told us that there was no problem. Picking at us and picking us apart is very 11