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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 12-21-09 Page 5 Mr. Triner asked if that means that they would have to go back and get people's signatures all over again. Mr. Marrelli replied that. he does not know that for sure. He surmises that is the case. He does not want to speak out of turn, but he believes from the tone of the conversation that things are being checked more thoroughly. He is sure that if the same operator submitted 20 acres worth of signatures, they will be looked at with scrutiny. W. Triner stated, so it could come back and be an issue for the Village. Mr. Marrelli replieci, it can always come back. At this time, this application is denied. That does not mean they can't take out another one tomorrow. That's what they are telling us. Mayor Rinker stated, the only thing we can add to that is again, part of the discussion that is mngoing on this pending Bill is going to be whether or not there will be amendments that will address not only the health and safety issues, but also this ability for local control at some level. As we have indicated before, the prevailing view is that local control as it used to be, where zoning would be totally the municipality's. control, we are not likely to see reverting back to that. The bigger question though is whether and to what extent local governments can have a say in the permitting process. If tha.s can be an object lesson for everyone, we may take some lessons from this that our legislators could look at as faz as the better mechanism, improving the mechanism for notice, for intervention on having a say in just how a drilling unit is comprised before a pernut is issued. That's kind of the cutting edge of it W. Triner stated, he thinks also that we do have to make vigilance since there are two other active drill sites right in that area. The people living in those areas should know. Council President Buckholtz thanked Mr. Triner and asked if there was anyone else wnshing to address Council. Linda Butler 817 Hanover Road Ms. Butler reported that sometime last week they had a meeting of people from Bonnieview. Some people from Bonnieview were there, but it was mostly for people from Stonecreek. Ms. Butler put a notice in their.mailbox and about 30 people catne. What was astonishing to her is that many of the people had signed a lease believing they were going to be getting $140.00 a month to completely offset their monthly fees to Stonecreek, Most of them were living on a tenth of an acre. According to Jim's calculations that he has done looking at the 10 year output of an average well, he figured out that they would receive $2.60 a month. The lies and exaggerations were astonishing. The other thing was that the driller did not tell any of these people as the sites were being changed. Most of them believed that the drill was still going to be drilled on the Village property way at the back of the unit and way out of the way of their condominium and property. When it moved to