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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 2-16-09 Page 16 Mayor Rinker said, understood. We are in agreement there. Council President Buckholtz said these are the things that have been going on at these little meetings that happen twice a month, at least twice a month. Mr. Yarbrough said they are on your website. Mayor Rinker said we are not arguing with you. What we are trying to say is that we deal as much as anyone else in a perception business. We have to be conscious of the fact that despite what I think have been very good efforts, he disputes the characterization that we have been stonewalling because we have not done that all. We know the more we do it, the more we are a lightening rod one way or the other. There's a point at which everyone shares a certain amount of exasperation. Mr. Yarbrough stated he understands. But every time he comes they are supposed to vote. They were supposed to vote in December. They were supposed to vote in January. Every time they have said they are going to vote on this for the last several months, they take it from November to December, from December to January, from January, they say, you know we are going to have one more meeting with Finance, the second special meeting which he showed up to. Council President Buckholtz stated but then a significant group of residents come forward. Mr. Yarbrough said then another neighborhood association will come forward next month. Mayor Rinker said if you have not seen the movie Groundhog Day, he commends him to watch it. Council President Buckholtz said to Mr. Yarbrough, once again, your patience is noted. Mr. Yarbrough said there are some other properties that you have that he has properties around that would be advantageous to the city also. He was going to include you all in. Why go through this when he can just go ahead and drill it? It's much easier to deal with a city, he has dealt with the City of Solon, he has drilled their properties, he has drilled municipality's properties prior to then. He would just as soon work with you and make you all some money because that's what it is all about. Council President Buckholtz said we know that. As patient as you have been and as non- transparent as you have made appearances, Mr. Blecher, it's not always the people that come to Council, it's the people that are at home and then if we pass something it's in the paper and then 50 people show up at a meeting and say, what did you do? To his credit, Mr. Blecher represents the somewhat invisible constituency that says, well, I am not going to go to a meeting, the gas wells are okay. We are living off the land. We have natural resources here in Mayfield Village. We are living off of it. If everybody is real careful about how it is done, that would be great. When there's 30 people sitting on this side of the room with this opinion and 30 people sitting on that side of the room with the opposite opinion just short of any fist fights, then we will have a