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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Tuesda.y, January 17, 2012 Page 2 there's a memorandum dated 1993 and there's nothing in between that and when it was voted in 1995. There were no Council Caucus minutes that I could get when I requested this stuff. It's almost as if somebody's intentionally burying this stuff. I ha.ve asked in 2007 for this information and never got it I can't find the letter that I dropped off at Mary Beth's office in 2007. I don't have a copy of it It may be on a computer, but I can't find it right now. It's immaterial. John Marrelli also asked me the same thing in 2007 because he was curious as to the process and he never got anything either. We went to Ordinance Review. It went nowhere. It got ta.bled. Chief Mohr comes in and gives this dog and pony powerpoint presentation to show us how scary fires aze and I think all of us already lrnow that No one wants to be involved in a fire. Everyone wants public safety but I think this is misguided. You would think that by putting sprinklers in a 2500 square foot building you aze protecting people. You are protecting a building. The Fire Code was written to protect people not buildings. You aze misguided. You need to go back and revisit tlus and you cannot rely on the Fire Chief as your sole expert when you revisit this. There are Code experts out there that lnow the Code back and forth and understand it The Codes, as I am talldng about it, the Sta.te Fire Code is based on the National and International Fire Codes that were well thought out and promulgated over years and years of experience. One of the things that's brought up, well, you can start looking at NFDA statistics, National Fire Protective Association statistics. Last time I looked at it, I think it was 2005 was the most recent year because it was 2007 when this was under consideration. How many people died in house fires in 2005? The number's something like 77,000. The number of people who died in commercial fires, be it coal mines, refineries, dental offices, et cetera, was something like 45. There's a disparity there. People die in homes because they are sleeping. I think, and because you don't have tlus information or haven't provided it to me, I have a problem with the fact or how this came abolrt. I don't think this is a law. And the other reason why I don't think it's a law because your own city plans examiner commented to me in 2007 that it's very poorly thought out that you have three or four pages of Code that keeps referencing the Ohio Fire Code. He says that what you need to do as a Village if you're going to rewrite the Code is to sit down and rewrite the entire Code from top to bottom, all 3 400 pages of it You can't keep referencing something that sa.ys that what you're asking for isn't necessary. It's a legal conundrum. Mayor Rinker asked, what do you expect us to do? Mr. Eadie replied, I'd like you to rescind it. I think you are a little misguided with this whole thing. Mayor Rinker stated, without belaboring the issue, when it was tabled in 2005, was there a reason given? Mr. Eadie clarified, 2007. Mayor Rinker replied, 2007, excuse me. Nlr. Eadie stated, tabled, no.