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Regular Council Meeting <br />8-18-08 <br />Page 5 <br />Mrs. Mills said no one maintained it after it was put up. She has told them that since they don't <br />have a homeowner's association over there, they are going to have to get someone to maintain it. <br />Mr. Saponaro suggested they come together with Kenwood. They are all part of the same <br />neighborhood. Mrs. Mills stated that is the Eastgate subdivision there. <br />With regard to this evening's comments, Mayor Rinker is a little bit defensive. From our <br />standpoint, we have tried to provide a lot of information and we have tried to get a lot of <br />information on this matter with gas wells. , <br />Mayor Rinker hopes all agree that it is not an easy issue for any of us. It has been a steady effort <br />on not just Council's part or the administration's part. Planning and Zoning has looked at it. Mr. <br />Hehr had dialogue with Garry Regan the other night at P&Z. He has thrown out some ideas. It <br />is hard because it is an issue that from the beginning has been so provocative for a lot of people <br />that even talking about it has been a challenge. <br />Mayor Rinker would venture to say that in the last two months collectively as a community, he <br />would like to think that we have done a lot more constructively than many other communities <br />have done on the issue. No, we are not perfect. Mayor Rinker does not think we are done. <br />Council is not voting tonight. This is on a second reading. We still need information that we <br />identified in previous public meetings from this group to make sure that we have the details. We <br />know that when you talk to ODNR and you talk to other entities, there is a mixed message to <br />some extent on what you can and what you can't do. At the end of the day we don't intend to <br />enter into any kind of an agreement where we don't feel we have done our due diligence. We are <br />still doing that. <br />One of the suggestions was whether we could create some type of cooperative Village-wide. It <br />comes back to individual property owners being approached as to whether or not they would sign <br />on to some kind of an agreement, some kind of a consortium. As a public entity, it is hard for us <br />to be able to enter into any kind of an agreement where public dollars are put into any kind of a <br />venture and one can argue that every one of these contracts is a private deal. We are looking at a <br />leaseback arrangement because we feel that this is something that is moving forward. If we can <br />guide it to some extent, if we can steer it and generate some revenue; some benefit that we can <br />then return to the community, we would like to think that is being responsible. <br />Mayor Rinker hardly would say that what we are doing is perfect. It is fair to say we are open to <br />ideas. A lot of ideas have been shared, but Mayor Rinker does not think anyone has come up <br />with a quick or clear solution. <br />Mayor Rinker is not shutting the door on any of this discussion. He does not think Council is <br />either. That is one of the reasons we have tried to move through slowly. If there is a concrete <br />proposal, there were some questions that were raised to the Law Department, the Law <br />Department responded by researching these, trying to understand what the law is and it is an area <br />that for all communities has been somewhat vexatious.