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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, March 19, 2012 Page 9 Mr. Delguyd replied, that is going before the Board of Appeals tomorrow night. Council President Buckholtz asked, you are planning on attending that? Mr. Delguyd replied, I am going to plan on attending. Council President Buckholtz stated, we have some interesting ideas. I don't know if you had a chance to go over those or if the developers are aware of those, but see you tomorrow night. And just to restate, the other part of that is, from time to time many communities are offering economic incentives to foster new businesses and attract new businesses. It's difficult to come up with a standard method for that because every case is different and you want to be fair but you want to base it on something substantial that helps the community and the tax base. There's a lot of background and research that's been going on of what other communities like ours or different than ours axe offering. Mr. TDelguyd stated, also some significant investment on our part in terms of what we offer. It's not so much what we give out as incentives, but broadcasting what we already have to bring people to the Village. ?OLD`BUSINESS '? • Third Reading of Ordinance No. 2012-06, entitled, "An emergency ordinance amending Ordinance 2010-38 relating to the agreement with the Board of Trustees of the Cuyahoga County Public Library." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole. (First Reading - 2/21/12; Second Reading - 3/5/12) Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mrs. Cinco, made a motion to enact Ordinance No. 2012-06. Council President Buckholtz opened the floor for discussion. Mr. Marquardt stated, Council President, as discussed over the last six weeks with members of Council, the administration and the legal department, I will not be supporting the Library issues on the agenda tonight for the following reasons. Ordinance 2012-06 is titled as an amendment to the 2010-38 Agreement with the Library. When the Library Agreement Ordinance was presented to Council for a vote in September of 2010, it stated and was emphasized by the Law Director at that Council meeting that some minor procedural changes would be made to the wording but the final agreement would be substantially similar to what Council was voting on that night. The signed Agreement, however, contains two substantial additions, namely committing the Village to a roadway into the Library and a traffic signal on SOM Center if needed. These substantial additions were neither brought to Council for approval nor even brought to Council's attention until January of this year. Due to these unapproved additions, the validity of the existing Library Agreement is questionable. The amendment Ordinance on the agenda tonight attempts to legitimatize these unapproved additions and add funding.