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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 6-15-09 Page 6 CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES : Regular Council Meeting - May 18, 2009 Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mrs. Cinco, made a motion to approve the minutes as written. ROLL CALL: AYES: All Motion Carried NAYS: None Minutes Approved COMIVIENTS FROM MAYOR RINKER: In addition to the matters that we have been handling on a regular course, it's worth commending everybody for a wonderful 50's Night. Thank you for delivering nice weather, keeping it South of us. Mayor Rinker thinks we dodged the proverbial on that one to say the least, looking at the storm clouds that were raging through Macedonia, we lucked out. But really, a very good time. It's always a lot of fun. Mayor Rinker appreciates all of the input and work from everybody who volunteered. Those who don't volunteer get to deal with all of the motorists.. Actually it seemed more manageable this year on the highway, all things being equal. A couple of things, of course we have an order of business tonight. Ron Wynne is with us waiting with baited breath. Mayor Rinker believes Council is going to be going into an Executive Session at the close of the meeting and then hopefully we have a favorable resolution following that. A few other matters. Tomorrow night, kind of a kick-off ineeting for the panel that will be reviewing all of the bid applications for the police department. Previous to all of this as really has been our practice, John Marrelli, Doug Metzung and Chief Deaxden have gone over all of these. We have asked a number of people, getting a good cross-section of our Boards and Commissions and Council, to stand as the reviewing panel. Our goal will be tomorrow night really to consolidate the information, get on the same page and establish the criteria that will lead to the point where this group will probably interview anywhere from three to four live presentations. That's the discretion of this panel. And then following that, be in a position ultimately to make a recommendation following those. Mayor Rinker kind of anticipates two, maybe three meetings of this group to be able to make a recommendation to Council. Hopefully we will be able to ' move on this within several weeks. Things are looking pretty good. As everyone understands, we are going back to a very different approach in order to make sure that we make the budget. That would clearly be an important goal in the process. We are ready to move forward. . One other thing Mayor Rinker should report, we really had a very good week last week. QED as you know has done very very well on Beta Drive. Mayor Rinker was able to provide a guided