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Special Council Meeting Minutes <br />December 7, 2009 <br />Page 11 - <br />Mayor Rinker, replied, absolutely, yes. It's public record, so we will get it out. <br />Mr. Triner said, great. Thank you. <br />Council President Buckholtz asked if there was anyone else. <br />A inember of the audience stated he lives -on Bonnieview and he wanted to know where the <br />permit process is at Bonnieview. Is there any last ditch effort, any loophole, anything that could <br />stop it or hold it up. <br />Mayor Rinker replied, no. <br />A member of the audience asked if the Mayors and Managers have ever considered suing on the <br />basis of public safety and some of the issues that have come up and getting some of this language <br />and the whole process of taking away home rule into the courts to determine whether or not this <br />legislation has gone too far. Mandatory pooling being one of them because that is a taking of <br />somebody's rights without in many respects due process. It seems to him that the Mayors and <br />Managers have the ability and the legal talent to institute some sort of action on behalf of the <br />whole County that would at least put a hold on things and maybe answer some of the questions <br />that haven't yet been answered legally. Mayor Rinker replied the short answer is no, that hasn't been done. Mayor Rinker would suspect <br />that any number of Mayors, if you were to inquire individually, they've questioned that of their <br />own law departments, they've looked at it tliemselves and Mayor Rinker is sure that that isn't <br />something that would be contemplated later on. Mayor Rinker thinks this is one process from <br />the Mayors and Managers Association in an earlier stage of establishing what the concensus <br />would be for the whole body. As you can imagine with a11 those communities, the challenge is to <br />hy to get that kind of concensus. Mayor Rinker knows anecdotally there are a lot of Mayors that <br />would be right there. It's very frustrating and they are very upset. <br />Tlie audience member asked if there is any set of communities outside of the Mayors and <br />Managers, for example, Mayfield Village,. Gates Mills perhaps, Bainbridge perhaps, Highland <br />Heights perhaps that can get together through their Councils and Mayors to institute a lawsuit <br />rather than waiting for 60 Mayors and Managers, maybe they could sue on behalf of the citizens <br />of their community? <br />Mayor Rinker replied, he can't say that hasn't been discussed. It has, but from the feedback he <br />has gotten, he can't tell you that that's something that's imminent, but it has been broached. It's <br />a b'ig step for any community to take.