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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 4-20-09 Page 9 drilling. They have no means of doing proper due diligence and they are at the mercy of whoever is telling the information that this is okay, that there's not going to be any harm to come to it. Mr. Kahn just wants to convey that our city needs to be educating its citizens that there are risks associated with drilling. They can affect property values. They can affect the environment. Letting these slide under the table unrecognized will just let people say, that's the way it's going to go: Mr. Kahn would not like to see that. He's just calling for information advocacy. - Amy Feren Highland Heights Amy Feren is a member of LOGS, Love our Greenspace. They ha.ve been dialoging with their city government for about 18 months or so about this very issue. Amy Feren understands that one of the reasons that the city is contemplating getting involved in leased drilling is to save the residential neighborhood Ms. Feren wants to caution you that what you are doing is opening a Pandora's Box. What you will be signaling to the drilling companies is, "Come on down, we're open for business." If you really, really want to protect your residential neighborhoods, you need to give them real information about what their rights are, what's going on with the drilling, what the leases entail. Ms. Feren means not the information, not the happy sunshine talk from the ODNR website. These leases, she is an attorney, these leases are written by and for drilling companies. They are not about protecting property owners or residential rights. There are many, many holes in these leases and people don't understand that. People.don't understand that just because they get a letter from a drilling company that says so and so at this address has signed a drilling lease, that does not mean it's a done dea1. They have to get 20 acres in order to drill. If residents around the first person who signs a lease say no, there will be no drilling in neighborhoods. So if you want to stop drilling in neighborhoods, you need to start telling residents to say no and you need to give them good information to help them understand why they need to say no. $37.00 a month royalty? People are beirig told by drilling companies, they throw around these figures about how much a well will produce. It never dawns on them that the drilling companies get to deduct whatever expenses they want, that they are really going to get a very small slice of the pie and that there's no guarantee that they'll get that slice of the pie. You are in a position where you can communicate valuable information. You want to save your neighborhoods? You need to start telling people the truth. Thanks. Bill Coughlin 806 Hanover Mr.Coughlin said, good to see you again. He is also one of the elected Trustees of the Hanover Woods' Homeowner's Association. He has been asked to address two topics which came up in their discussion and maybe you can give us some feedback on it. First is with respect to proposed