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until now. Mr. Wall said the reason it is being done in Ms. Owens District she wants the support because this project is so critical right now to them. She has offered all of her money for about three and one-half years of eight million dollars of her discretionary funds toward that project if the Commission will Come up with the other thirteen million. Mr. Wall said they do have a new category and they have a Commission meeting internally with TxDot. The emphasis of the Commission now is corridor closings and corridor completions, not new projects. The Commission has said that 271 and 19/24 fit in those categories perfectly. Mr. Wall said the two men in the Tyler District are on that committee and they are using those two projects in every one of their committee meetings because they are perfect projects for the direction the Commission wants to go. Mr. Wall said they have a Commissioner, Rick Williams, that got on the Commission last fall and he said that with the Governor's new plan of Tran-Texas Corridors may follow where we want to go, and we have one running across north Texas, south of Paris, then we may not need to fund 271. He said they were hitting that with everything they can because he is talking about something that will be built 40 years from now, and 271 still needs to be completed now. The Highway Department does not think that the funding for 271 will go at this time. Mr. Vest passed out a professional proposal to do the design work on the Industrial Park from Grabber, Simmons & Cowan from Austin. Their proposal is in five sections. The first is the overall master plan at a cost of $8,000. The second section would be the development of the standards, writing the greenbelt ordinance and developing standards for all buildings and structures in the park, at a cost of $5,000. The third section would be for phasing the plans and getting them implemented for $3,500. The fourth would be for obtaining permits at a cost of $2,500. And the final is for the design of the entryway, including the design of a logo, at a cost of $16,800. The total contract is $35,800.00. Mr. Vest stated that he would like to work with this firm. He has seen several parks that this finn has done as well as the assistance that they give the economic- development corporation in marketing. They do a first class job.