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i Regular Council Meeting 9-27-99 Page 8 Roll Call: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Ordinance Enacted Third Reading of Ordinance No. 99-28, entitled; "An ordinance authorizing an agreement for the purchase of real estate from the Mayfield United Methodist Church." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole. (First Reading 9-13-99; Second Reading 9-21-99) Mrs. Cinco, seconded by Mr. Ilacqua, made a motion to enact Ordinance No. 99-28. (Mr. Diemert asked Mrs. Roman to check the actual ordinance because the title on the agenda had included the word emergency. Mrs. Roman checked the ordinance and the word emergency did not appear in the ordinance title. Note: The correct title is reflected in the minutes (as shown above.) Mr. Busa said he wants to go on the record and not be misquoted. I urge my colleagues not to get involved with a Church with internal problems. Bypassing this ordinance, we are directly contributing to the misery of a divided Church congregation. I cannot support an action that subsidizes the Church, the taxpayers money. I believe it is a direct violation of my understanding of the division of Church and State. As a Councilman, I have no desire or intention to jeopardize future administrations or future Councils by performing recklessly. Mr. Busa said he urges-this body not to pass this ordinance. Mayor Rinker said we have covered the bases, but to respond to Mr. Busa's commentary: I think quite the contrary. We have, through this entire process, been very sensitive to our community as well as to the Church community. We have to deal with marketplace and the ordinance and the agreement. The agreement we have worked on for quite a long time represents, I believe, truly an arms length negotiated process that is designed to deal with a lot of issues that are important to us as a community. We look at this as a community obligation. We feel the property on that corner has such significance that it would be shirking our responsibility as the government of this community to allow that property to go way of a piece of real estate in the. marketplace, sold to the highest bidder to do with as they will after a century and a half of the history that this Church has maintained in this community. It is going to be a difficult task for us to look to where the future lies with that parcel. We don't accept this responsibility lightly but it Zs a responsibility aid t~s a~re~mepl re#lects our responsibility to our community. ROLL CALL: AYES: Mr. Buckholtz, Mrs. Cinco, Mr. Ilacqua, Mr. Marquardt, Mrs. Mills and Dr. Parker NAYS: Mr. Busa 1 Motion Carried Ordinance Enacted