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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, August 18, 2014 Page 5 PLANNING DEPARTMENT -Ted Esborn Mr. Esborn stated, I was so thrilled to see that Councilman Jerome met with Ray Leach from Jump Start. I actually met with Ray here in the Village many years ago when we were looking to find an industry focus for Beta Drive through the Cuyahoga County Innovation Zone program. At that tune, Ray and Jump Start were invested in a Mayfield Village company called Embrace Pet Insurance. They were a gazelle at that time. With Jump Start funding, they outgrew their space and wound up moving to Beachwood which we were sad about but they were a successful company. What Jump Start was willing to do for us at that time was share with us data about proposals they were getting from companies, where those proposals were coming from and what the proposals were and it was through using that information that we started looking at medical imaging. At that time, we had this very young company called Quality Electrodynamics that had three people. Now we have 4 medical imaging companies, QED, BioInVision, Toshiba Medical Research Institute and Surgical Theater. That makes up about 150 employees. Seeing you got to meet Ray and touch base with Jump Start reminds me of the work they did with us back then and how it has come to fruition. I am grateful for that part of the presentation. Mr. Jerome asked, do you still work with them at all or talk to them anymore? Mr. Esborn replied, I see Ray from time to time at development events. I would love to see another gazelle company come out of the Village. I always have my eye open for that. I think Embrace was the last one, but they do a lot of great work. ADMINISTRATI®N -Diane Wol~amuth Ms. Wolgamuth reported, now that the trail is completed, we are looking to schedule a ribbon cutting for Wednesday, September 24t1i at 6:00 p.m. We selected that date because that evening at 7:00 p.m. there is a public meeting being held here for the Eastside Greenway so we thought that the two events would tie together well. That Friday is the Appreciation Dinner at 700 Beta Conference Center. Invitations will be going out this week. STANDING C®MMITTEE RED®I2TS; Activities Committee -Mrs. Mills reported, our next meeting is September 16t''. Doug, did you hear from Urban Growers today? Mr. Metzung replied, no. Mrs. Mills stated, before I left the house, Jean Britton called me. John will be in the Village tomorrow some time to look at our baskets. Jean and I were in Burton earlier and took a ride over to Urban Growers and talked to one of the employees. Jolni got back to Jean about this. We don't know why the baskets are not doing what they should. It's one of those things. Other communities' baskets are beautiful. What we are doing or not doing I don't know. The girl we talked to said we are doing one of four things -watering too much, not enough, too much