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Thereupon:
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start with...
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Why don't we
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Administrator.
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Development Director.
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for Brooksville.
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Firm.
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Firm.
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I'm sorry.
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problems.
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well-planned.
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litigation.
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there.
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meaningful discussion.
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counsels.
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gets us anywhere.
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ground on it.
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a municipality to grow.
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Legos or something.
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remedied.
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merely aspirational.
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statute.
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That's my understanding.
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Right.
What we would
you set up your next utility project, you can fill in the
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governmental efforts.
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in error.
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engineer.
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attended.
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forward but --
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all of the county's positions with him, and that he, from
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discussion.
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everybody's time.
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opportunity.
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Okay, Section 7.
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that action until, you know, some future date at the end
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remain at a stalemate.
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problem.
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that litigation.
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Garth.
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-- the tenor of responses.
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circles.
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planning requires.
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old wounds?
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annex those.
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the City.
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Luther King.
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recent process.
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contamination.
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George Foster.
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State, yeah.
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intent was.
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hey, City, you need to take, you know, these areas because
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regards to Section 7.
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or why.
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of this.
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easier.
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No problem.
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City to grow.
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direction.
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make sure we say, whoa, think about it, you need to plan
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planning.
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to have them.
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interlocal agreement.
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it, you made it very pointed and very clear, and so now
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concern is.
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continuity.
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And the draft became -Languished.
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the meeting with Mr. Manuel, and we felt that, okay, we're
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Thursday.
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client felt like, well, why didn't somebody say that, why
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which is money.
billed a lot of time for this JPA account, and our client
coming up, and I always hate those few weeks, and want to
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Our next meeting is the 28th.
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proceeding.
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I'll be on
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