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Regular Council Minutes 6-28-04 Page 6 Mr. Marrelli said they will be receiving full occupancy thereafter. Mr. Diemert said I, too, would like to echo the sentiments of my fellow directors and chiefs. My 30-some years of municipal work has always found that when we have a team of directors and professionals who work well together, it makes the town turn out better. I think that we have that nice teamwork here among the departments and it is because of people like Steve and his ability to put his input into a winning combination for everything that makes Mayfield Village become Number One. You don't see this in a lot of communities-actually very few-do you see all department heads work together as you have in your community. Again, I echo the citizen's sentiments: that comes from the top down. And the reflection that Steve has had on everyone here makes us all look good. And, I've enjoyed working with you, Steve. Along those lines, Steve's appointment was passed by Resolution in 2004. Personally, it names Steve Hovancsek as our Engineer. Council should probably have an interim appointment until the new Ordinance is brought in after the end of Steve's term-which I guess would be June 30. If that's the case, at next meeting or whatever, we would have an Ordinance brought in that that's the Mayor and Council's desire. But in the meantime, the Mayor should probably nominate an acting or interim engineer who will be the named person for that interim time period. Mr. Diemert said you are going to be addressing two Ordinances this evening which are unusual in nature. Ordinance numbers 2004-31 and 32. These are initiative petitions which you don't see in very many communities or very frequently. But your Charter gives the citizens of this community the right to put issues on the ballot for consideration by the voters. This is a way of bypassing the Council and the Administration when the citizens feel as though they want to do something that Council has not decided to do or thought about doing. That is what we have in this situation. We did receive petitions from a group of citizens-5 citizens who circulated the petitions. We reviewed them after they were initially filed. They were legally done and correctly done. After they were submitted in bound form, they were given to the Board of Elections to verify. Approximately 524 voters in the Village of Mayfield signed these petitions. When this happens and they have met all the criteria which the Board of Elections has now verified to my office, the Council and the Mayor really have no further choice on this matter. These are two decisions how that must go on the ballot in November. You can give it 3 readings if you so choose, but it really doesn't matter what any further citizens say to you, or you're your personal feelings are, or what anyone cares about. These 2 Ordinances now must go to the Board of Elections and there is a deadline I've given you in prior memos--that require it to go down. They had more than double, close to triple the number of signatures they needed. Again, the Board of Elections verified this. No one in the Village did, and I know that no one on Council nor has the Mayor endorsed this process or asked us to do anything for it. At this point of time, it is really within the hands of the voters of the Village of Mayfield to address the issue. If there are any questions, I would be happy to answer it. But that's all I have to say on those two issues. Council President Buckholtz said so in other words, like the zoning referendum and so forth, it is our responsibility to pass it in terms of approving it to go to the ballot. We are not approving it that as individuals-our acknowledgement or support of it just passing it along onto the voters. ? ? Mr. Diemert said that's right. That's why it is called an Initiative Petition. And you can choose to amend the Charter by adopting your own Ordinances if you want to amend the Charter in some other way and then let the voters decide on it. But this is a way where voters themselves can