Laserfiche WebLink
Regular Council Meeting Minutes <br />2-16-09 <br />Page 6 <br />years back that we are seeing in our neighborhood because we happen to be in a geologically <br />advantageous place that's residentially disadvantageous. <br />Mayor Rinker will stop there. All he is saying is he was prepared to say Council, vote your <br />conscience, but Mayor Rinker thinks at the request of the one Council representative here and <br />given your petition, we would say, we would be happy to meet with you. Mayor Rinker does <br />want to try to make this something where the dialogue is as fact-based as possible because he <br />would think you will agree when we put all those facts out there, there's not a whole lot of <br />wiggle room on this. Ultimately it is a policy decision we can make. <br />Bill Coughlin <br />806 Hanover <br />We appreciate what you are doing and think that is a good idea. We should have a meeting just <br />by way of some of the comments made for purposes of making sure the record is clear. He <br />addressed a couple of those so that when we do have this meeting and we do have the facts laid <br />out you can get a more detailed response from us. <br />First, Mr. Coughlin recalls vividly the meeting Mayor Rinker is talking about. He was there <br />from the start of the meeting. Mayor Rinker said, he remembers Mr. Coughlin coming in. Mr. <br />Coughlin said it was an energetic meeting. We understood the point you made then, that the <br />Village's hands are tied because we are talking about a state statute. We understood what would <br />be happening then. He is not quite sure it did happen. That might be the source of a failure of <br />communication here which we are happy to agree occurred, was that we would be hearing <br />further by way of things dropped off at the mailbox or mimeographed such that we would have a <br />sense of what was happening next. Mr. Coughlin did not hear anything further. What was new <br />and different from what we were hearing last and he sees was first proposed in December, Mayor <br />Rinker said, the drilling lease, Mr. Coughlin said was the fact that there would be a drilling lease <br />which is something that changed from the standpoint of what we were hearing at the summer <br />meeting. <br />Mr. Coughlin suggests that anyone from the neighborhood is certainly welcome to attend, but at <br />least with respect to the Homeowners' Association trustees and officers that we get together and <br />heax exactly what the plan is because the notion that that would not be a drilling location is <br />substantially different from what we heard before and raises substantial concerns. Thank you for <br />your consideration. <br />Mayor Rinker apologized that we did not send out these mailings. Candidly, we have had so <br />much dialogue and this has been so extensive in terms of documentation we have provided <br />between, Citizen's Advisory, Planning and Zoning, our Council meetings, newspaper coverage. <br />Unfortunately, we have become so aware of all of the information that is being disseminated that <br />we thought this was something that was getting out more .in the public. We did not mail each of <br />these items to be sure, but these are all public record. We tried to develop a, pretty substantial <br />record. We would be happy to share that and try to get everyone back on the same track.