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TUESDAY, NOVM~BER 8, 1988 maintenance, and operation of the property being leased will be under the City's supervision and.control, including responsibility for pavement maintenance, lighting, snow removal, and parking enforcement. In connection with the proposed hotel project nearby, City Manager Brown informed Council that, insofar as he knows, there are no changes in the developer's plans for the project development. City Manger Brown informed Council that, because of unsuccessful efforts to obtain State financing aid toward the construction of an access road off Route 58 East (East Church Street) to Dorn-Will Corporation's proposed nursing home facility and because of increased project cost (estimated total cost to be'S9 million), Dorn-Will is now asking the City to construct, at City expense, 335 feet of the 1,850-foot long roadway, with an estimated cost to the City of $42,370.00, not including cost of grading. Under the City's agreement with Dorn-Will for the project, City Manager Brown pointed out that the City is to provide (for) the required utilities, at City expense, whereas Dorn-Will is required to pay the entire access road cost in accordance with the terms of the City's Subdivision Ordinance. If the Council agrees to Dorn-Will's request, Mr. Brown indicated that the City's cost could be charged to the Industrial Park Fund, inasmuch as the project, although not classified as an industry, will represent a sizeable capital investment and will create sixty-five new jobs, an economic development consideration on which Mr. Brown recommended that Council grant Dorn-Will's request. Mr. Brown indicated, too, that, without the City's participating in the roadway development, the roadway--as constructed by the developer--might not be up to the standards the City would employ. In the ensuing discussion of this proposition by members of Council, Councilman McClain pointed out that no mention heretofore has been made as to the City's