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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 2-16-09 Page 33 signals and pointed statements. He apologizes to anyone for lecturing, but he meant what he said. He can't believe that nobody was at least alerted to this in that neighborhood that they wouldn't even just pick up the phone and call you. These things have been publicized in so many different ways. The fact is, we had a lot of people who said sincerely they didn't know. Dr. Parker said we have tried very hard to disseminate information. Perhaps in retrospect when the drilling option became an option on that site, that site being located in proximity to at least five Hanover Woods lots. Council President Buckholtz said that's not really what's written here. Mayor Rinker said the fact of the matter is that he thought when Mr. Coughlin was there, when Mr. Schiemann was there at that meeting in the auditorium and he remembers saying we will get this information out. He had every intention of doing it. The fact that we didn't just assert more control over that, he is sorry that we didn't. On the other hand, he felt they had been apprised. There was connectivity. All of these meetings that we have had, Mayor Rinker candidly thought there was at least some kind of communication and he figured somewhere the Homeowner's Association had discussed it. His only point is one of the strategies should be this Homeowner's Association, they can sign a petition. They ought to look at some kind of an agreement within their neighborhood that they would want to block it. There are safety in numbers. As you know, one neighborhood has done that. The more the residents ban together. That's one of the things that Planning and Zoning has discussed, is some of the strategies of trying to pull a lot of people together where it becomes harder is you can't force people to join a consortium. Unless people are willing to say now, you can't stop the one who says, you know what, I could use the money or this could be a good deal. That's where the mischief comes in because there are enough people for whom this is a proposition that they think this could be a good thing and how bad can it really be? How do you answer that question? Council President Buckholtz said this is the same thing we went through with water flooding years ago. Didn't we just go through this whole exercise with a slightly different neighborhood and those people are not here. They are either satisfied with the results or what has been discussed or how it's going to work and you said or mumbled at a meeting or said, it's just going to move the problem over to Hanover. We all talked about it. Now, there we are. It's what I went through with handling the flooding problem at Worton Park and it moves downstream. Mayor Rinker said the big difference is the strategy here is that if we put it on 10 acres you have a built in buffer unlike any other. Mayor Rinker was thinking less that putting it on Bonnieview was problematic for people on Hanover Woods as much as it was moving it closer and then there would be 10 acres freed up that would end up somewhere closer to that neighborhood. That's where we wanted to find out where else could we drill? It could be on Andrews Lane. Mr. Marquardt has asked that question, just about everyone here and we said we would not, Mayor Rinker just can't imagine Council would ratify that would have some exclusion in there where we could be satisfied that we are not freeing up 10 acres to cause