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191. Public Hearing 11/16/92 Page Five Mr. Friedman said he would also like to add, in response to Mr. Rinker's comments about timing because he does not want it to be perceived that he is coming in on the eve of the final reading when he had all of this time he refened to in his opening comments Mr. Rinker said more than once, "for some time now", he believes the ordinance was introduced for its first reading at their September meeting. They found out about it (not being notified in any way) by an interested party in the community, some time between the first reading and the second reading. At which time he contacted representatives from the Council and the Village to set up a time to discuss their interest in working something out to avoid very cosdy lirigation. He believes they sat down on the day of or day following the second reading; they have been scurrying around since that meeting to try to come to this Council with a specific plan to discuss in more detail what they talked about and what they had in mind. It was just physically, pracrically impossible to prepare anything of any consequence in the last 20 or so days. Not only that, they made an attempt to hire. Mr. Hill to represent them because of his reputation and because of his prior involvement with the Village and the potential appearance of a conflict, it was determined that it would not be in the best interest of the Village for Mr. Hill to represent them. They found that out a week or 10 days ago and hired someone else and aze working with them. Mr. Friedman said he is here to say he thinks they are close; they too would like to avoid protracted and cosdy litigation which inevitably they will be involved in if this ordinance is passed in its current form. He said he cannot tell them how important it is to give them the time to try to work something out so that they can at least come to the voters of this Village with a plan that hopefully they can all agree to something that is workable and that they will not challenge. He will answer questions if they would like. Mr. Rinker asked if Mr. Friedman has an idea of a target date. Mr. Friedman said he understands that they would like to be on the February ballot. He lrnows that they have until the first part of December in which to norify the Board of Elecrions and take the appropriate actions to be on the ballot. They were trying to avoid getting out too far in this process and then bacldng off. He appreciates the Village's posirion on that. Whether or not they will have a formal plan by the first week in December, he cannot tell them at this point. He can tell them they will be close and he understands the problems relating to being on the ballot. He would say they are probably two-three weeks away from being able to sit down on a preliminary basis with something they are comfortable with and then the time necessary to tallc about the specif'ics with the building departrnent and the engineer would take another couple of weeks to develop an ordinance. They are talking in terms of weeks as opposed to months. Mr. Rinker thanked Mr. Friedman for his comments. There being no additional comments, Mr. Rinker asked for a motion to adjourn. Mr. Basile, seconded by Mr. Fixler, made a motion to adjourn. ROLL CALL: AYES: All NAYS: None Morion Carried The meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m.