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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 5-18-09 Page 18 Council President Buckholtz replied, customarily we send out our agendas or we post them on the website. Council President Buckholtz can speak for everybody, but if gets into deep water, then he will turn it over to the big tough guys like attorney-type people like the Mayor and the guy sitting next to him, Joe Diemert. He would imagine that we would be foolish not to very very aggressively and actively notify. As Council President Buckholtz earlier said, he is going to be doing in Worton Park, even though there's nothing on our agenda, he is going to be letting people know about all of the meetings and all of the informational sources that we have accumulated and that are out there and urge the people to go there and let them know in no uncertain terms. Whether they care about it, somebody could be knocking on their neighbor's door or their own door and bringing this up. As far as the Village and public lands go, we pretty much heard from this point from the community. Council President Buckholtz does not see that as an issue. Again, if Joe wants to comment, we just don't feel like, we need to get it off the agenda. That's the most expeditious way to get it off the agenda. Mrs. Triner said, thanks. She appreciates that. With regard to the Hejcl property, Mrs. Triner asked, it wasn't clear, they couldn't get the deal together? What has happened? Mayor Rinker replied, that basically has not been to our knowledge even a gleam in anyone's eye for months now because what was understood by us as the likely drilling unit we learned in the Fall from Mr. Miller and Judge Krenzler that they had not, contrary to earlier representations, agreed to any non-drilling lease document. They hadn't signed anything. Franlcly they were deferring to us. We knew that that was a pivotal piece. We were also made aware, again secondhand, that Whitehaven Cemetery, a large contiguous property, had no intention of entering into any kind of a lease agreement on any basis. At the end of the day, unless there are other residents or property owners, and when we had the meeting with you and the Kenwood group, we got no impression that there was anyone there. So we included the discussion because we felt historically that had been broached and we wanted at least people to be aware of kind of the pieces and parts of it. But otherwise, that's it. You were here when the representative from Seagull withdrew the offer. Mayor Rinker would be surprised if we had any driller come baclc and approach us, but if it were to happen, it would certainly be public record. We would discuss it here and Mayor Rinker is more than confident that this time your Council representative would be sure to speak up and let you know as well. Mayor Rinker just does not see it happening. He does not think it is practical. The last point for clarification, Mrs. Triner asked about Aintree having a meeting here. Mayor Rinker replied we understand that Aintree Park, because they have communicated as much to us, they have set up a drilling committee. They had at least one meeting on this in the last few weeks. Kim Price is the contact person there. She indicated that they want to have some type of panel discussion. They are inviting a number of the drillers to that. Other than that, he understands that's what they are proposing, and that the date is set for June 2 "a. That's about as