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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 4-20-09 Page 2 authority to negotiate to enter into a drilling or non-drilling lease in or about residential areas in Mayfield Village or to be against pledging all Village-owned property. Mrs. Triner is going to be entering into the records a copy of that petition, unless you already have that. We were just really flabbergasted that the Mayor and the members of Mayfield Village Council had not mailed out a little bit more complete and accurate information early on about the seriousness of this problem. Yes, we got a flier inviting us to an informal meeting. We looked at the information on that flier. We did not really think it pertained to us. We are owners of our own business. Time is of the essence for us and we try to choose how we spend it wisely. For the past three weeks, we really neglected our own business and worked night and day with our concerned neighbors and friends to get up to speed on this. Mrs. Triner recognizes looking around the room that time is scarce for most everybody in Mayfield Village. There are working couples with or without young children. There are grandparents raising grandchildren. There are people doing wonderful volunteer work. There are young people, like one you are going to hear from tonight, who are early in their careers. One of the things we are going to ask you is after this meeting to join with us to give even just an hour of your time to help protect your property, your health and your safety. The Mayor had pointed out to us in a previous meeting that some of us are late to the party. That is not true for others such as Joanne Cinco who helped organize people early on to fight this in her Echo Drive area. It's also not true for Hanover Woods resident John Fadel who is very concerned and has talked to the Mayor on a number of occasions. It is also not true for Hanover Woods residents Bill Coughlin, who is here tonight, Helen and Dick Davis who are here and Jeff Schiemann who cannot attend tonight, but has been at other meetings and has done his homework. Those folks have expressed their views to no avail. Even though some of us are late to the pariy, we are hying to make up for our lost time. A number of us walked around the last week to 17 streets in Mayfield Village distributing a green flier. We will submit that flier also for the record. If you did not get one, there's one at the back table. The reason we did that was we felt the flier contained well-documented information about the devastating effects of drilling. We heard from others as we walked around and they were just as shocked as we were to learn more about what's really going on. Some of the drillers are targeting elderly people, people who are moving and people from other countries who may not fully understand the implications of signing. Some of the drillers, not all Mrs. Triner knows, are very aggressive, some of them are using unfair tactics. Some are tunung neighbors against neighbor and trying to pit neighborhoods against neighborhoods and we are not going to let that happen. The economy is taking values of properties down already. Some of the drillers are taking advantage of people who are having a difficult time paying taxes and bills. They are targeting and sometimes intimidating people who during these tough times mistakenly think the money they'll receive will be greater than the potential losses that they're going to face given the drop in value of their property once drilling goes into their area. They may also have no knowledge of the potential huge cost to the