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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Monday, November 7, 2016 Page 6 residential zoning and that did not work too well because of all the hoops we would have to jump. It was difficult at that time, so we let it go. In about 2008, we joined University Hospitals, a major healthcare facility system in Cleveland. We have basically brought in excellent and state of the art medical care for Mayfield Village. We have grown. We work with a lot of our citizens here, residents of Mayfield Village. We have a lot of patients from the coininunity. We have been good members of the commmunity. We live in the community. We work for the community. We try to do the best we can for our patients, for the well-being of our patient's healthcare. As an extension, we have those conversations with our patients at all times. We see at least once or twice a month families that have issues with caring for their loved ones. It's a difficult issue. What do we do with them? We have a patient that needs help. They are frail. They are not exactly nursing home patients. They can care for themselves. They live a good quality of life, good quality of living. But they are not safe at home alone. They are not. The question becomes what do we do with our loved one? They will either have to leave the community, or do we keep them in our community? It is important to realize that those are difficult issues. I thought as an extension to our practice of medicine, it was a wise decision at least to think about a nursing home, not that concept, but an assisted living which is a much lower level of care. It's a care in which we help the community, community members, our loved ones, our moms, our dads and our residents, our citizens. We thought it would be a very good concept, a wonderful concept and an extension of our medical care. It would help keep our loved ones here in the community. As you well know, there are other communities around here that are all building a resident home, nursing home or assisted living. The last thing we want to do is have our citizens here leave our community to go to other communities, especially our family members, our patients that we care for and see every day. It's very important we keep our care with our patients, with their doctors in our community. Not other communities. An assisted living will enhance our community, enhance the care we give our patients and family members. And that's important. Council President Saponaro asked, Dr. Moyal, who else is involved in this? Because you are talking in the collective "we" and I want to understand. Dr. Moyal replied, the "we" is Dr. Petroff. He is my partner. He could not be here tonight. He had a meeting with his landscaper. Council President Saponaro asked, so just you and Dr. Petroff are partners? Dr. Moyal replied, right. Council President Saponaro stated, thank you. We appreciate you getting up and speaking.