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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 2-16-09 Page 11 That business alone has also brought in two other similar businesses dealing with medical imaging. What we are finding is there is a real favorable response that we are getting both in the marketplace and in our relationship with Case Western Reserve University. One of the things that we have been working with the Lieutenant Governor in follow-up from that meeting two weeks ago is promoting getting grant monies that will help further enhance this type of investment. Mayfield Village is really positioning itself well. The fact that we are installing fiber. The last report he received from Tom and Doug is that OneCommunity is going to be able to start moving forward within the next few weeks with the initial work in bringing fiber down into Beta. The goal is that by mid-year at the latest, we will have created this fiber ring. We are going to get the benefits of a high fiber diet, Mayor Rinker hopes. - What we are seeing is that there are a lot of businesses, private and governmental both, you should see Mayor Rinker's slideshow, where this concentration of dollars is going to have immediate positive results. We have already seen the $50,000.00 we invested just in those two companies alone, we have already had three times a return on that investment in as many years. We are starting to get some attention out there. We are looking at a couple of properties where the space has been vacant for a long time. Planning and Zoning has seen this. Mayor Rinker has made mention before and he hopes by the time we have our next Caucus meeting that he will be able to go into more detail about some of the structural changes we are trying to initiate in terms of overall Mayfield Village government operations inclusive of bringing on a planner at least on some form of an hourly basis who can help enhance the kind of work that Ted Esborn has been doing pretty well in focusing on Beta alone. These are nuts and bolts things, but we are seeing very very positive early returns in the near term on this investment that could have some long-term benefits. Planning Development started about a year ago. What we are seeing is we are really going to start coordinating things. For 2009, Mayor Rinker expects it is going to be a very positive year, a building year. We are looking around. There are a lot budgetary issues. This is an endeavor that will definitely bear fruit. Stay tuned. Thanks. Information & Technolo2v - Council President Buckholtz reported that the Committee is in the stage of having virtual meetings more or less. There's a lot going on. Chief Mohr has indicated that we are out of room in our phone systems. They have some ideas, quotes and bids on the phone system. There is something new coming around that is in the planning stages. We will be able to talk about that hopefully by next Caucus. Real high tech. Really ties into this fiber ring and what's going on on Beta. These are some very very exciting things. There's a lot of grants out there. There is a lot of interest in Mayfield Village generated by this initial infrastructure that is not quite out in the open yet. Just in terms of whether it is Federal infrastructure dollars and County expansion dollars. Stay tuned to that. We will bringing more exciting projects from inside Mayfield Village. Records Commission - Mrs. Mills reported that the next meeting is on the 25th of this month at 12:30 in this room. We will be further discussing a second shred day which will be May 16 t" for