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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 4-20-09 Page 17 on. What the Committee would love or even the Village love is to have any input on where the Community Garden could be put. Mr. Marrie kind of dated himself on this. He called it a Victory Garden, but in any case, it would be a good thing. There are a lot of communities doing this and Mr. Marrie thinks it would be good for a lot of people to have a little piece of property that they could garden. Also, personally, Mr. Marrie thinks it would be great for the kids. A member of the audience said put it on Bonnieview. Mr. Marrie said, well, he asked for suggestions and he got one. Also, Memorial Day, we could use some help from Village residents please. On Memorial Day, they are going to be placing ahead of time on the 23`d , they will be placing flags down at the cemetery and then the following day at 1:00 they will have a ceremony. We could use and would really welcome some volunteers to help put the flags out. You might not believe it but there are thousands of Veterans who are buried at the cemetery. There are thousands of flags to be put out. Also, the program is at 1:00. It's not that long and it would be nice to have people attend. Obviously, we talked about oil and gas wells at great length. We talked about the Hanover polls and covered that completely, so there's no sense in going through all of it again. We just talked about it tonight and we talked about it then. We were talking with Senator Grendell about trying to change House Bill 278. He's already committed to that. Anyone who was here at the last meeting heard his phone conversation. The only problem is Senator Niehaus who sponsored the Bill is now head of the Senate, so it might be a little bit rough, but we need to talk to them to let them know that we are not happy with this and the only way is to get to the people who are writing these laws. They are the ones that put it on the books for the State. Those are the people that we need to talk to or write or call and ask ,-, them to please stop what's going on. Comanission on Aging - Mrs. Kalina reported that the Commission will meet on May Sth to discuss their Anniversary Party. Drainage & Infrastructure/Stormwater Mgt. - There was no report. Safety and Service - Mrs. Cinco reported that Safety and Service met on Monday, April 6t'. The idea of the Community Garden was brought up by Bill Thomas at that time. There are a lot of things to be considered in cost, water availability, paxking, where they can store tools. We need some ideas for a location because there is a lot that needs to be figured out on the availability of a lot of these things. We then briefly went over items that are on the agenda tonight, the changeover for the police cars, the used police vehicles and the medical care for prisoners. Those were discussed also in Caucus and Finance. Finance Committee - Mr. Marrie reported the Finance Committee met earlier this evening. All 15 items on the Finance agenda are on tonight's meeting for a vote. Historical Societv - Mrs. Mills reported that since we have a captive audience tonight, she would like to say for those of you who do not know about our Historical Society, it's the Mayfield Township Historical Society which consists of Mayfield Village, Mayfield Heights, Highland Heights and Gates Mills. That was the original township. The Society has for many years given tours for the students in the Mayfield School District. Last year, we toured about 350 children. We are about there right now. We toured 100 in March from Millridge and we