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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 12-21-09 Page 7 COMMENTS FROM MAYOR RINKER: Apart from wishing everyone the best of the season, Mayor Rinker thinks it is important that we observe our MIPOD group last Sunday that delivered doses, one of three sites that the Cuyahoga County Board of Health designated. We have talked about this before, but really under the aegis of our Fire Department and other safety forces and a lot of volunteers and the other municipalities in the area, Mayor Rinker would say we have a total of about 350 volunteers now between medical professional personnel, doctors, nurses, EMT's from our own departmemts and then a lot of volunteers, bus drivers, you name it, residents, to Mayor Rinker it was alxnost as gratifying for the people volunteering as for the people getting the shots, but the H1N1 delivery was over 2,300 doses in about a three, three and a half hour period which is pretty commendable. We have set up MIl'OD in order to deal with a lot of different kinds of emergencies. This is a great example of how people can mobilize, how our community really could provide a community services for its own. Everyone involved is to be commended. It was really very gratifying. Mayor Rinker thinks they are going to do it again probably sometime in tYxe latter part of January. Chief Mohr confumed that is what they aze leaning towards. If the public wants the shots, they will bring us back up probably towards the latter part of January. Mayor Rinker continued, fundamentally the goal of the vaccine is to be preventative, not just for ?--?' individuals but frankly for a mass population as well. The more people who get the vaccine the better off everyone else is as well. It is encouraging. COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT BUCKHOLTZ: There were no comments. DEPARTMENT HEAD REPORTS: SERVICE - Douglas Metzung There was no report. BUILDING - John Marrelli There was no report. ENGINEERING - Tom Capnello There was no report. z? )