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Regular Council Meeting <br />2-16-04 <br />Page 5 <br />? Mr. Metzung said we do not. It was received by URS last Wednesday. It is not in a format that <br />we can use. They have some type of software that is very expensive. He will talk to Doug Dillon <br />about this. <br />Wage Negotiations/Health Care Task Force Committee - Mrs. Mills said we are still in <br />negotiations (wage.) Everyone should have received a memo about the meeting dated February <br />16. She hopes everyone has read it over; it is very informative. We will be voting on the Agent <br />of Record this evening. <br />2020 Vision Committee - Mrs. Mills said we received final draft in the mail for 2020. <br />Mr. Marquardt and Mr. Saponaro said they didn't receive one. <br />Mrs. Roman will check. D.B. Hartt had sent out most of them. [Mr. Marquardt later advised he <br />had received it.] <br />Information & Technologv - Mr. Buckholtz said we will need to schedule a meeting. I have <br />been emailing back and forth with Chief Mohr, had an excellent conversation with the IT <br />department of the Public Library; they also have plans of their own. All their libraries are wi-fi <br />operated and they have been looking at this one as well. <br />VL;1,,15u?J11,?I;-L+ rJr7:; <br />OPEN PORTION <br />Jeff Garvis, 9821 Firestone Lane, Macedonia, said I am the founding President of the non- <br />profit organization he created in 1999 called Ohioans for Concealed Carry. Today we enjoy <br />significant support of some 75,000 Ohioans. I am speaking in opposition to Ordinance 2004-06. I <br />am here today because our organization is one of many parties that sued the City of Cincinnati, <br />Hamilton County and the State of Ohio over the current existing law that prohibits concealed <br />carry. That case resulted in some precedent that I think needs to be considered by Council before <br />this ordinance is enacted. I am not a lawyer and I wouldn't claim to be one. But our <br />interpretation of what the Supreme Court says is that since the State of Ohio does not prohibit <br />openly carrying a firearm, then concealed carry prohibitions are not unconstitutional. Because in <br />our State Constitution we have an individual fundamental right which was referred to in that <br />language by that Court just last year. The reason I am here is because I believe (and I have been <br />here since the beginning tonight and I heard the swearing in of the officers where the oath to <br />uphold the Constitution was sworn to) and I think the counselor needs to think of the <br />ramifications of this ordinance and of the Ohio Constitution. In addition to that, for the <br />Concealed Carry law that is being enacted, there is a section of that bill that says that no local <br />government may enact legislation that is in direct opposition to that law. There are aspects of that <br />law that mandate openly carrying a firearm. This ordinance would prohibit that. It would prohibit <br />carrying a firearm on a motorcycle, in a vehicle, in a public place and it basically violates the <br />precedent that a fundamental, individual right cannot be completely prohibited-it can only be <br />restricted. The reason I am here tonight-because I tried to make a couple of calls and never <br />? received any return calls last week-if I did and if I missed a message, I apologize, but I have