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31 <br />Special Council Meeting <br />1/24/94 <br />Page 9 <br />Finally, we must all recognize the few one time chances we are given to preserve and <br />cherish special places like the Upper Forty, and in this case, right here in Mayfield <br />Village. ?-_ <br />Thank you." <br />? <br />? Mr. Fixler, seconded by Mr. Stephens, made a motion to adjourn into executive session <br />? to discuss pending litigation. <br />z ROLL CALL: AYES: All <br />C NAYS: None Motion Carried <br />G ' <br />Council went into- Executive Session at 7:42 p.m. <br />Council reconvened at 8:50 p.m. <br />Mrs. Cinco: We're all back. I woulcf like to ask Mayor Rinker for his comments at this <br />time. <br />Mayor Rinker: First of all, let me just say in case you have observed our Law Director is <br />not here, he had another meeting tonight and at the outset we were aware that he was <br />pressed for time. We were able to consult with him beforehand, and I am going to try <br />to summarize a number of points; probably not very well. You have articulated very <br />eloquently your position; you have done so all along. I have been mindful of other <br />situations where we have had residents who are affected adversely by conditions, real <br />and imagined, and we don't question that yours is a very real concern; it's a real <br />problem. And there is no easy answer for us to say that we are sympathetic to it. But <br />our actions, obvio.usly, speak louder than our words. And, I just want to say that I <br />appreciate the way that you have pressed your points; you try to present them as <br />succinctly and directly as possible. You have certainly been heard by us, whether it <br />3 seems that way or not. Mrs. Peirce, I would suggest to you that we have not taken the <br />advice of but one engineer. We have looked to a number of engineers and other experts <br />as well. The initral study commissioned of Burgess and Niple was back in 1988. It did <br />not look simply at this drainage problem but at a number of problems, because we in <br />the Village are we11 aware of the facts of history that have been visited upon us. There <br />is not a person here that would dispute that there have been decisions of the past that <br />were not well made. Hindsight is 20-20. There were people back them who probably <br />could have foreseen some of the problems that we are now facing. Laying blame, <br />discussing some philosophical points about what is valuable or not, unfortunately, I <br />think is something we cannot address now. We have studied this very carefully. We <br />have engaged a number of different people of different professions to assist us in that