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Show Council delikratas on BillPBilarftetihg Agent " Convince us that you are the best man for the job and we'll sign a contract right now. That's what Councilman Coun-cilman Bradshaw told Bob Norton, of Norton and Associates, As-sociates, Monday, as the Council attempted to determine deter-mine what their options are, and who is the best firm to handle marketing and sales for the Milford Industrial Park. 5 after all costs are paid, In-1 In-1 eluding a 10 realtors fee. s They have better offers, but don't know which is the best - deal. i The problem accrues over ; the $48,000 which the city , must come up with. As originally ori-ginally proposed it was to come out of the project cost. But Attorney Kanell says the 1 city can't use grant money for marketing and would 1 lose the grant If they did. 1 The City does have an af-.' af-.' inity for Norton who has made several trips to Mll-; Mll-; ford, and helped with the park design. His Interest has been enthusiastic and unso-( unso-( licited, while others have shown only a modicum of 1 interest after being contact-1 contact-1 ed. Kanell ran through the options op-tions that were available, and ; ln 'iid the Mayor were in-kI in-kI : I'd to draw a proposal -i rr consulting with each ) C"'!' iiman, to be approved ; June 15, and sent to Norton. The special meeting wa: held to finalize a proposa that Attorney Kanell wa: supposed to have drawn up But Instead, Kanell present ed the Council with an updat( on the project and the option; the Council could consider before he drew the proposal Advertised as a special meeting so the Council coulc itake some affirmative action, ac-tion, Norton showed up, anc he and the Council jostlec for advantage. Norton showed show-ed he was not a little perturbed per-turbed with the Council, as they were considering othei marketing agents, after he had worked in good faith, without a contract to redesign rede-sign the industrial park, anc made several trips to Mi ford to work out an agreement. agree-ment. The Norton proposal asks $48,000 I'ront mor.py nvn the first nine months, tc market the property, anrl GC percent of tl"j sales price |