XCC Special Session Meeting Minutes, 01-28-10, Page 4 that made their list. Three people who are working to bring retailers into the community asked for copies of the study and are actively using it to try to attract different retailers. ‘The study is not only being used by the City to attract folks; it is also being used by others to attract retailers to the community, Councilman Caupp said when he was in San Antonio he spoke with Chip Rodgers for quite a while. He thought a lot of people are expecting immediate results from the $55,000 spent on the study. Even Buxton is struggling to get a whole lot of results right now, not only in our community, but in all communities, due to the economy. Mr. Percival said the great thing is that those numbers are for the long term. Even if the economy does not improve in 2010, they can still use the data. Councilman Caupp agreed it was a good investment, Councilman Louderback said it was probably a five- to ten-year window [to see results]. Councilman Caupp said right now everything is soft, even for companies that want to expand. Mr. Percival noted CNN recently did a story on Wilmington, Ohio. He was astounded to hear that a huge percentage of businesses closed in Wilmington in the last 12 months. Councilman Miller stated Ohio is still going forward with a bypass across St. Rt. 68, which will bypass Wilmington, Once that happens, he feels that town will die. President Felton said Wilmington also just lost their big Walmart. Mr. Percival said the bypass was done for the airpark. Councilman Miller agreed, but they are still building the bypass even though the airpark has zero air traffic right now. Mr. Percival noted DHL just donated that land to Clinton County, which will make it easy for them to do economic development because they got 800 acres of free land that they can give away. Image of Xenia: + Citizens were asked if they believed the City of Xenia has a problem with its image. fall the responses, Mr. Percival said he was concerned the most about the response to Xenia’s image. It indicates we need to work on marketing and promotion of the community. In a few minutes they will discuss a positive way to address that. ‘The responses came from people who have lived here the longest and it was homeowners that said we have an issue. That perception needs to be addressed in both the long and short term. If over half the people say we have an issue, then we need to take a good, hard look at how we can address the image problem. Councilman Louderback said part of that image is due to the fact that Xenia cannot avoid being the county seat, which means they will have jails, bail bonds and cash advance companies. It is hard to overcome that since Xenia is the county seat. He was also disturbed by the responses.