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Minutes of the Organizational Meeting of Council Monday, January 14, 2013 Page 3 ANY OTHER MATTER TAAT MAY COME BEFORE COUNCIL Council President Buckholtz asked if there were any other matters to come before Council. Mayor Rinker stated, everyone should have received Diane's memo in packets concerning Committee assignments. We have two additional residents for the Activities Committee, Mary Singer and Donna Kless. For Architectural Review Board, Ron Dinardo and Carmen Miozzi are up and expected to return. There shouldn't be a change there. Joe Prcella is also coming back to the Board of Zoning Appeals. There is no change expected with Citizen's Advisory. In Planning and Zoning, Paul Fikaris is coming back. Casey Kucharson moved out of the Village, so Vetus Syracuse has been appointed to take his place on P&Z. Vetus was on the Boazd of Zoning Appeals in Mayfield Heights for a number of years, so he comes with some well-rounded experience there. Joe Doran agreed to serve on Civil Service Commission in place of Eric Jochum. On some of these, there are specific limits on the number of inembers, such as Citizen's Advisory and Activities, but in times past, if someone has really expressed an interest to a Council representative or us to serve on a specific committee, we try to encourage inclusion as opposed to exclusion. If you have any thoughts on additional Committee members, let us know. Otherwise, letters went out some time ago and everyone is expected to come here next Tuesday to be administered their oaths of office. Mr. Delguyd stressed that just because they are not on a committee, it doesn't mean they can't attend meetings. Mayor Rinker agreed. They are all public meetings. Council President Buckholtz added, and it's well stated on our website. We promote it all of the time. Echoing the Mayor, Council President Buckholtz stated, don't be afraid to talk to your neighbors about getting involved. Encourage them to get involved with Council. We get a trickle of people. The more people that come out, the better. One of the questions I had for the Mayor is we have a cleax difference between Mayoral committees and Council committees, is that correct? Mayor Rinker replied, Diane provided a memo about 6 months ago. There are some that are set up either under the Charter or by ordinances. Those are Council committees. For example, there used to be a Recreation Board that was stand alone. When we created Parks and Recreation, we modified somewhat the structure of the Rec Board which really is much more into the aegis of Parks and Recreation. Council's own standing committees, that's always Council's business, such as Finance or Safety and Service. Council always has the discretion to make modifications to those. Council Committees are usually what