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Commissioner McGlone stated we are not there yet with our internal person. This deal has worked with this person and he did not have a problem on a case -by -case basis expanding Mr. Lazan's role to get this project over the finish line. Let's put this under one umbrella. Commissioner Look stated we generally gave about $25,000 per job created in subsidy. We currently do not have a training facility for our Police Officers — this is something that will benefit them. This is land that we own that as a City we can carve out a chunk and say to Sergio this is our land — you carve it out and get it done Why do we think we have to hire someone for this. You have the rights to this property if the deal is completed. Now we have more in it than just the land. He should be coming to the Planning Commission and approving the designing — he should bring his own development manager. Commissioner Elvig stated he would like to know what we are getting for our Police Department with the land we are giving. He added we have to compensate Mr Lazan with something; he has been working with this guy for a long time. We owe Mr. Lazan some hours of effort in some capacity. Chairperson Dehen stated he disagrees with the compensation thing. Mr. Lazan stated he thought Sergio would be paying for the land and we will work on something. He stated he did do a lot of work in good faith that the work done would be honored. Commissioner McGlone stated that if the economic person was on staff today and up to speed and it was not otherwise special that it fall under the realm of that individual's job to get that work — fine — but we are not there yet. This management deal has kept this business here and has made sure it has not gone anywhere else. Commissioner Ramsey agreed that if Mr. Lazan had not shepherded that deal it would have been gone and he needs to be compensated. Commissioner Look stated this is the reason he was against hiring the individual we hired as there will be a conflict Commissioner Elvig stated he agreed the problem can and likely persists bur right now we do not have the option of someone in- house. He agreed if Mr. Lazan had not been there, this deal would have fallen off. In a month or two that will change as we will have a person on board. There will need to be some sort of compensation for this but he expressed concern about double dipping Motion by Commissioner Ramsey and seconded by Commissioner Wise to approve the extension of the DM contract terms to the parcel described as the NE Quadrant of Ramsey Boulevard and BNSF Railroad and direct the Development Team to prepare contract documents reflecting the summary deal structure of consideration by the HRA. Further Discussion: Commissioner Look asked what are we talking about with Sergio's project alone. Mr. Lazan stated that when we negotiated, we went through the process for ability to Housing and Redevelopment Authority / October 5, 2010 Page 8 of 11