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June 8, 2005 Thank you Mayor and City Council for inviting me here to speak before you today. I'm here to give you an update regarding the status of a potential property acquisition near Dillard Road and Nectar Way. This property has been called by several names. Some have been calling it by the personal names of the past or present property owner; others have been calling it the Dillard- Nectar Forest. When staff brought this before Council in 2001 as a part of the Stream Corridor Acquisition Study we called it the East Fork of Amazon Creek Headwaters. This site was listed as a Tier 3 site and was number 11. By whichever name you prefer — this property is shown in your packet on Exhibit `B" and is highlighted in yellow. For people in the audience the large map on the wall also shows this property highlighted in the same manner. I think the agenda summary gives a good accounting for background so I will just give an abbreviated account of the actions. This was initially a 90 -plus- acre parcel. We purchased the southerly 54 acres of this property in 2001. This purchase was in support of the Ridgeline Trail and Stream Corridor acquisition programs. We have been undergoing continuing efforts to buy a portion of the remaining property as a part of the Stream Acquisition Program since that time. You can see in your packets on Exhibit "C" the configuration of the approximate 10 acre portion of the property containing the Stream Corridors which we were attempting to buy. In August of 2003, staff thought we had an agreement with the previous property owner on the 10 acre acquisition. However, in January of 2004 the property owner asked us to instead consider purchase of the whole 39 acres at a price discounted from what it's listed price. The property was listed on the market at that time for $798,000.