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MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF COUNCIL <br />Monday, June 15, 2009 - 8:00 p.m. <br />Mayfield Village Civic Hall <br />The Council of Mayfield Village met in regular session on Monday, June 15, 2009 at <br />approximately 8:00 p.m. in the Mayfield Village Civic Hall. Council President Buckholtz called <br />the meeting to order. <br />ROLL CALL: Present: Mr. Buckholtz, Mrs. Cinco, Mr. Marrie, Mr. Marquardt, <br />Mrs. Mills, Dr. Parker and Mr. Saponaro <br />Absent: None <br />Also Present: Mayor Rinker, Mr. Miller, Ms. Calta, Mr. Cappello, <br />Sergeant Smith, Mr. Marrelli, Mr. Metzung, Chief Mohr, <br />Mr. Thomas, Mr. Dinardo and Mrs. Betsa <br />The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag was given. <br />OPEN PORTION <br />3-minute limit imposed by Chair. Those who wish to speak must first state their name and address. <br />Pat McGreew <br />6728 Walnut Drive <br />Ms. McGreevy was at Cruise Night this past Saturday when Adam Kahn put together a couple of <br />people to get signaiures for the drilling petition. Ms. McGreevy was one of those people. She wanted <br />to provide everyone with feedback. <br />She would like to thank Diane for a11 of her help and support in helping put this together. They <br />actually got 751etters signed. Just to give you a little breakdown on that, out of those 100 people, the <br />ones who did not actually sign the letters took them with them because they would kind of like to <br />read it before they signed it. But five people were actually for drilling, like, get out of here, I am <br />going to go and drill. And then the rest, it was kind of a split about a third. Approximately one-third <br />had absolutely no knowledge about the drilling. <br />The leading question was, "Are you familiar with the oil and gas drilling in residential areas in <br />Northeast Ohio?" That was our opening question. So about a third of them had no knowledge at a11. <br />About a third of them knew sometliing about it but didn't have much information and a third of them <br />were openly opposed to drilling. They were ready to sign the letters right away. Now, there was <br />some interesting things here. Ms. McGreevy would say about half of them were from Mayfield <br />Village and the other half were surrounding Mayfield Heights, Highland Heights, Gates Mills, etc. <br />There were three couples, actually one was a woman and her husband was somewhere else and two