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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, June 15, 2015 Page 18 [ANY OTHER MAT'?EI2S : Acting Council President Mr. Marquardt asked if there were any other matters coining before Council. Mr. Jerome asked if Chainnan Fikaris could discuss the Charter process at all or any notes he inay want to mention to us. ?- . Chairman Fikaris thanked Council for letting him speak. As you know, per the Charter we require that every 5 years we form a Charter Review Coinmission to review the Charter of Mayfield Village. This being 2015, we did so. We began in January and coinpleted our last meeting just recently. We did a very thorough job. We had a very engaged group, very intelligent, very thorough job. We looked over the Charter as it existed and made suggestions on improvements. We solicited cominents from various departinent heads which we did receive. We had discussions on various issues. There were a number of thing proposed. We boiled it down to what you have before you tonight. If anyone has any specific questions, I can address the individual ones if you would like in order. • Ordinance No. 2015-13, entitled, "An Ordinance proposing an amendment to Article III, Section 6, relative to the compensation of the Mayor and members of Council." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole. Compensation of area elected officials has been in the newspaper recently. We felt as we reviewed the Charter the process was in the hands of Council and their possible reluctance to increase their compensation. We have a part-time Mayor and Council in name, certainly not in effort. We proposed a Charter amendment to increase their salary. They have not had one since 2000 and a number of years before that. It's certainly not a lot of money, but it is public money so we decided to bring that forward and have Council vote on that to go through to the electorate. • Ordinance No. 2015-14, entitled, "An Ordinance proposing an amendment to Article III, Section 4, of the Charter of Mayfield Village to substitute the term "Civic Center" for "Village Hall" in this section and throughout the Charter where applicable." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole. This is a clean-up issue. Every Charter Review, there's language improvement needed. • Ordinance No. 2015-15, entitled, "An Ordinance proposing an amendment to Article V, Section 6(E) of the Charter of Mayfield Village to allow competition for appointment to the position of Chief within the police and fire deparhnents to include individuals outside the department should there be two or less qualified interested individuals from the supervisory lower ranks, and to eliminate classified civil service status for part-time employees." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole.