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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, September 15, 2014 Page 3 play. They again will fill the hotels on Beta Drive and the restaurants in our community here. We need to be in a position to do this going forward. We can't be in that position if we continue to flood. In addition to the lost revenue, the other things we lose are an element of our reputation. I don't know whether the Sports Commission will contact us a second time when another event comes to town. Previously we hosted the Senior Games. I think you can understand that reliability is key in any business and when you are not reliable, are you going to be contacted again to provide the facilities? Also, with regard to our members, we lose revenue there as well. It's a heck of a thing to close down and lose revenue, but it's also unfortunate when it rams heavy and your members call and ask if you are open because they have begun to doubt whether or not the Club is able to do business following a heavy rain. In addition to that, the Club suffers physical damage. The two squash courts I mentioned were destroyed in 2011. They have been destroyed again. You just don't bring in anybody to do squash courts. We bring in a firm from New York to do this. The cost of repairing those two squash courts, redoing the hardwood floors, was around $85,000. That's a significant cost. In addition to lost revenue, there's physical damage. The tennis club surface is a rubberized mat. I know we have already had some issues with respect to this. I also know there is a settlement in the offing. That's fine. I just want to tell you that no amount of drying equipment can dry what gets under that mat. We can dry the surface, but we can't dry what's under the mat. That takes a long, long time to dry. It causes dead spots and exacerbates splits in the court surface itself. All of that is a problem for us. I wanted to mention these things to you. I hope you all understand that I believe that the Racquet Club is an asset to the community. We have a lot of members who live in Mayfield Village and Gates Mills. Additionally, we host events to bring in people from all over who spend money in this community. That's important. I know we are not going to have quite the economic impact that LeBron's probably going to have on the downtown businesses in Cleveland but we would like to think we add a little something here. A couple things I would ask is that the stream out back and the catchbasin be maintained regularly. I know you are in the process of assessing the causation for the problems we have been experiencing. We certainly appreciate that very much. I would ask that in any meetings held with Skoda Minotti and Beta Investments, and by the way, I spoke with Greg Skoda and he doesn't object to this providing you don't, I want to be present at those meetings when your engineer starts discussing causation. I don't want to hear it second-hand. I want to be in the room when that happens. I have a stake in this. So do my two partners. I would ask that that be accommodated and that I be notified of the meeting. I also hope that if there's still a plate farther north and if that is slowing water to prevent flooding farther north, it's not a solution, it's flooding the Racquet Club. On this occasion, the entire first floor of the accounting firm also was flooded. That was the worst of the floods. We appreciate the effort that we know you are making. I hope the political will to sustain our effort will be continuous. We want to be partners in Mayfield Village. We want to stay here. We want to continue to operate a Club here. We don't want to experience the difficulties we have experienced to date. We