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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 4-20-09 Page 13 Mr. Denning asked if Council President Buckholtz is suggesting that would be a better time to address this. First of a11, Mr. Denning stated he was responsible for the drill number one, that is Bill and Carol Drough, the pictures that were up. He would like to refute maybe some of the photos we just saw. Is that permissible? Council President Buckholtz replied he will allow a couple minutes refuting. Mr. Denning would like to invite anybody to talk to Becky Bartel. That's her driveway. Stop in and see Becky. Ask her if she's satisfied with the work we did or Bill and Carol Drough: That's their backyard. Council President Buckholtz said maybe he can help with this, because he was holding that comment. He knows the owner of that property quite well and she seems very happy to have a gas well. What we are talking about here is the property specifically that's owned with taxpayer's money. That's been a point that we've raised in the past and has been addressed and Council President Buckholtz thinks everyone here in the audience understands that people have the right to do with their own property as they - Mr. Denning said and that is not my point. My point here is just to introduce myself, let you know that we are not some winged monkeys flying around signing oil and gas leases. Council President Buckholtz said nobody's, we're not suggesting that. Mr. Denning said he is a geologist. He has a Master's Degree. He teaches at the University of Akron. He is pursuing his PhD in urban planning, so he just wanted to let you know that we have, by the way, one of his young ladies that would like a well in her yard, he welcomed her to stand up to be counted and tell these folks why you signed up with an evil man like me? A woman in the audience stated, she would, but she does not probably have enough for three minutes. . . Council President Buckholtz said thank you very much. We have brought that issue up before. We wouldn't be involved in this if we didn't think that or know that we, while we feel that we have attempted to be as proactive as we can, not as much as some people would like and there is no question that this body, this particular group of people have done more research and legwork, door to door knuckle-breaking work on trying to go up against which is really the State of Ohio is the legislative body that needs to address this..We do know that there are people out there that have the right, that want the right and choose the right to drill on their properly. You haven't been here before, for those meetings. We a11 know that.