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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Page 3 your request. All of the departments are doing that. I also mentioned to you that, you know when you ask for something it may be in different departments and with different people. The Village is a small community. In order to make sure you have all of the information, we have to go to each of those departments. We are doing that. I hope to have any additional information for you shortly. Dr. Eadie stated, it's sfiill your responsibility to keep decent records and if there are - Ms. Calta stated, and I take issue with that because I believe that the Village does maintain their records. Dr. Eadie asked, how come you can't produce Caucus minutes from 1992-1995? Ms. Calta replied, my understanding is back in 1994, there were not Caucus minutes that were transcribed. Dr. Eadie asked, then why even have the meetings if you're not going to keep minutes? Council President Buckholtz replied, Caucus meetings were not required to have minutes. We chose. to do that at one point Dr. Eadie stated, that's crazy. This is crazy. Council President Buckholtz asked, thank you for your comments. Do we have anybody else that would like to address Council? Ms. Galta asked, Mr. President? I will give everyone copies.of what was delivered to Dr. Eadie for your information. Council President Buckholtz replied, yes. I am impressed with the number of certifications he has, clearly one is Fire Marshall, one is Fire Inspector. Chief Mohr stated, I can assure you he's State certified. He's nationally certified. He has the same _ qualifications as Mr. Mairelli plus additional certification and sprinkler review and alarm review. We're covered. Council President Buckholtz asked Mrs. Betsa, you have taken numerous classes and training sessions and seminars. Caucus is an informal conversation that is public. Everybody's welcome to attend, but we only started taking minutes maybe 8-10 years ago. Mrs. Betsa replied, since 1997. Most of your municipalities didn't take Caucus minutes in years past. Now, however, they are taking minutes of Caucus and any other open meetings. Back then, it wasn't as stringent. Council President Buckholtz stated, I think some of that too is having special meetings mixed in with Caucuses. A lot of things come out in the Caucus and then when we get to the meeting, we have already been through it several times so people that would attend a meeting wouldn't know that