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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, September 21, 2015 Page 4 program. Leaf season will begin around October 19a' this year which is our typical third-Monday of the month. BUILDING = .~olin 1Vfiarrelli - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mr. Marrelli reported,- Governor's-.-Village expansion is completed as of today. They- will b_e -- _ _. - --starting -to -fill--their rooms-up shortly. -Hopefully-some ofyou-have--been -able to-go take -a tour- __- - ---- through there. The facility came out real nice. I am real proud of it. ENGINEERING -Tom Cappello There was no report. LEGAL DEPARTMEIi~T -1VIr. Diemen Mr. Diemert reported, the Clerk and several, if not all, Council members, received a letter from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 57 relative to the Charter amendment pertaining to candidacy for the Chief position in the event of a vacancy in Police or Fire. The language Council adopted in that Ordinance was changed by the Board of Elections over our objection. We called Brent Larkin from the Board of Elections. He had a totally different version of this particular language that really would have been unrelated to the actual amendment the Charter Review Commission proposed and this Council sent down to the Board of Elections. It's important to note that Exhibit A to that Ordinance which ultimately went to the Board of Elections, 2015-15, which is how the lower ranks are going to be participating and able to compete for the Chiefls position, the actual amendment itself is exactly the same on the amendment, so whatever the ballot language is, the amendment will be what Exhibit A is. The goal of the Secretary of State's office and the Board of Elections and of course ourselves is to try and make the language as reflective of the amendment itself without having the ballot issue two pages long. The Secretary of State would not allow that either. We took our stab at it. Council approved it. The Board of Elections said they wanted to change it. We went back and forth with them and ultimately they came up as you can see from my handwritten notes we had a lot of different changes that we went back and forth with the Board of Elections on and they insisted on this language. We .could have appealed it to the Secretary of State but chose not to because it did appear that it would have the same result because Exhibit A is not being changed. I say that because the FOP is concerned that because they only have one Lieutenant, it will automatically mean outsiders can be considered by the Civil Service Commission for competition for the Chief s position. The Charter Review Commission's goal was to do just that. They did not want patrol officers competing for the position of Chief in the event there was only one Lieutenant, that's the result that would have occurred. It was the Charter Review Commission's debated decision that if all that was left were patrol officers in order to get two qualified and interested individuals, they wanted to go outside or give the Civil Service Commission the option to go outside. In the event there are Sergeants, it would go to the Sergeants level as well of the Police Department and if there are two or more in the Lieutenant or