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Prescott City Council Joint Special Meeting/ Study Session — October 21, 2008 Page 14 challenging economic times, he would come down on Option 3 as best, to delay the imposition of the fees. He said that they could adopt the fees, but delay implementation to July 11, 2009 to give them a chance to recover. Councilwoman Suttles said that they have talked about this many times. The contractors wanted more time to delve into this and find other types of funding. They have always look at impact fees to take care of growth and there are other options available; she believes they need to try to work through this with both groups and come up with something. She then referred to Attachment A of the packet. Mr. Mcconnell said that Attachment A is a summary of capital projects. It is not that they can't be changed, but if the City is going to accomplish that package of projects in the time frames, and that total amount of money consists of two components, as required by law, the first is the rehab needs to fix existing deficiencies, that cannot be recovered by impact fees. The new growth needs are covered by impact fees and the two components make up the program. Councilwoman Suttles said that if they do not get into some funding, then they reduce funding to a lot of different projects they have. Mr. McConnell said that one other point is that what is not in the CIP are specific projects with the annexation areas. They have major annexations coming in with State Land properties, Cavan, Deep Well Ranch and the CIP costs do not include the infrastructure needed within those lands because they do not have the land use established for them. He said that a lot of that infrastructure cost is the responsibility of the contractor, but there is still responsibility of the City. Councilwoman Suttles said that she would like to see what others have to say, but she thinks the study stands on its own. Councilman Lamerson thanked Mr. Jackson for the report, and said he thought it was very good, the information was accurate, and he did exactly what was asked of him by the City. He said that there may be other areas which they could be looking at, but he feels that growth should pay for growth. It is not only law, it is the charter of the City of Prescott. Councilman Roecker asked why they could not delve into the other hybrid solutions. Mr. McConnell said that it depends on how they define "hybrid." There are alternatives, different variations on impact fees per se, but it would not be their recommendation that the Council attempt to create hybrids at this point of impact fees without a substantial and extensive