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13 OTHER BUSINESS Mr. Taliaferro clarified that he was not talking about the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice when he made his comments about the proposed impeachment resolution. Ms. Hamilton said that the request of Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP) seems to go along with the Sustainability Committee. She said the County has said it will give ASAP $25,000 and they are asking the City for $15,000. She said that if Council agrees to give them the money then the City should be at the table. She suggested that the issue be forwarded to the Sustainability Committee to make a recommendation. Mr. Lynch said the question is who pays for the resources. He said his concern is that the goal is good but not the tactics. Ms. Hamilton said her concern is if the City is going to provide funding then we should be involved with planning and represented. Dr. Brown said if we agree to the study he does not see waiting and referring it to the Sustainability Committee, instead we should go on and do it. He said unfettered growth in the County affects the City. He said he would just as soon give the money conditioned on City staff contributing to the study. Mr. Taliaferro said he is supportive if the City is at the table. Mr. O’Connell said we should make sure the charge benefits the City, and said that currently it only benefits the County. Mr. Norris said growth in the County affects the City. He said he is not prepared to vote on the matter to tonight, but would prefer to have staff review the request. He said it is ultimately a rather expensive undertaking. Mr. Lynch said he is not against the goals of ASAP, but said the goal to enforce numbers is counterproductive. He cautioned spending money to do that. Ms. Hamilton expressed concern that the memorandum outlining a solution for th the bus route to 10 and Page changes the route of a bus that primarily serves the Rose Hill neighborhood. She said Rose Hill neighborhood needs to be at the table, and asked that staff get the neighborhood together to discuss it. She said it may also be good to have a couple of Councilors at the table. Mr. Norris said there is a Rose Hill meeting tomorrow about the bus route and he plans to attend. Mr. Lynch said he thinks it is time to think about radical changes to the bus system. He said we have an opportunity to improve performance and for $500,000 more we could have a really useful system. Ms. Hamilton said when changes are made we have to look at the people who use the system. Mr. Lynch said we should have a system of backbone routes and feeder routes, and said we should sit down and talk about what to do next year. Dr. Brown said he thinks it would cost a lot of money to convert the bus system. Mr. Norris said his preference would be to have the proposed regional transit authority flesh this issue out. The meeting was adjourned.