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Organizational Meeting Minutes 1-5-04 Page 2 Mayor Rinker said this is the last time Mr. Saponaro gets to sit in the audience. Mayor Rinker administered the oath of office to Joseph M. Saponaro as At Large Council Member. Mr. Saponaro took his seat with Council. Everyone expressed congratulations to all. Mayor Rinker said first of all, it is great to be looking at the beginning of a new year. I was struck by the fact as I was looking back over some minutes-and it is amazing how time flies. It is not always so much fun but it is always a challenge. Really-I think we have a lot to be thankful for and a lot to look forward to. I am looking at minutes from January 25, 1999 when we were talking early on about the expansion of S.O.M. Center Road and at the time I noted that I thought it would have profound impact on our Village. I think that to put it mildly it is proving to be every bit of that. Not only has it been a challenge, we hoped that it would be an opportunity and I am reasonably confident as I sit here tonight and as I look literally and figuratively down the road ahead that we are going to find in the next year to year and a half, S.O.M. will have a very profound and positive impact on the community. I think it has done a lot, frankly, to pull the community together after some initial period of a lot of concern, a fair amount of stress, and we still have some decisions to make. I have found, really, across the board and the community people who have been drawn into making decisions, policy decisions, being excited at looking at the physical change. As I say this year alone, just the changes that we see along S.O.M. itself are going to be huge. But in conjunction with that, we have looked at planning issues, the 2020 Planning Vision Group has turned its report over to the Planning Commission, eventually Council will look at it. All along this is a process that will continue to be one that I think embraces all of our community so all of us here on Council, within the Administration and a few of you in the audience tonight, volunteers who take their time throughout the year. All of us, I think, share in what I think is going to be a very exciting year. So I welcome everyone on board, welcome you for being here tonight and look forward to a very productive year. Mayor Rinker said with that, we have to open up the nominations for the election of the President of Council. This is Council's Organizational Meeting. Council first elects its President and then the President Pro Tem and after that I can't promise that I won't talk anymore-but..... Are there any nominations for President of Council? Mrs. Mills addressed Mayor Rinker and nominated William Buckholtz for President. Dr. Parker seconded the nomination. Mayor Rinker asked if there were any other nominations. There were none and nominations were closed. ROLL CALL: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried William Buckholtz to seNVe as 2004 Pt•esident of Council.