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Regular Council Minutes 6-28-04 Page 3 ; t Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Marrie, made a motion to approve the minutes of March 22, 2004 as supplemented. ROLL CALL: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Minutes Approved (as supplemented) Reguflar Council 1Vleeting - May 24, 2004 - Mrs. Mills, seconded by Dr. Parker, made a motion to approve the minutes. Roll Call: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Minutes Approved Special Council Meeting -June 7, 2004 - Mr. Marquardt, seconded by Mrs. Mills, made a motion to approve the minutes. Ro11 Call: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Minutes Approved COMMENTS FROM MAYOR RINKER Mayor Rinker said it is kind of a bittersweet moment. We've had a number of these in the past couple of years where we've had some of our old guards, so to speak, who've decided that time is catching up with them and it is time to move on. And I am speaking tonight of Steve Hovancsek, the Village Engineer. In typical fashion, Steve has always liked to keep things low key. But we are not going to quite let him get away with a quiet exit. I understand that people at your office were all set to have a nice big bash and that just kind of went a different way. It is my pleasure to read a resolution that we've put together. It's a small recognition of all of the years that Steve has provided to us and frankly, to a lot of communities on the east side of Cleveland. Allow me to read this in anticipation of Council's approval of it. Because, Steve, we want to recognize what you've contributed to Mayfield Village. Mayor Rinker read Resolution 2004-16. Mayor Rinker said there is one thing I would like to add. I was on Council maybe about a year and then Mayor Carmen had come to us and was just trying to get a straw vote, an idea, of how we might want to look to the introduction of garden style apartments that were being proposed on--I think it was the Goldberg property-either that or at that time Associated Estates had a property right smack dab in the middle of the Northwest Quadrant. I had no idea then what density meant-other than I felt kind of dense when we were talking about it. Steve intervened and very quietly but very pointedly gave us a very quick lesson on some of the realities of what we were contemplating. Because we were looking at density of probably 6 to 8 units an acre; which on that property alone probably could have taken Mayfield Village's population up over the 5,000 mark. In many respects, for me that was a turning point and it kind of emblazoned in my mind the notion that as a Village where we stay under 5,000, it's a goal worth accomplishing