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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, October 19, 2015 Page 5 Council President Marrie congratulated both departments for keeping the residents safe. That's the most important thing, even though it might have taken longer than you thought it should have. Chief Edelman stated, they have to follow protocol and make sure they are safe and everyone else is safe. Chief Edelman continued, the other thing I wanted to discuss tonight is the next step in the process of meetings I have had with the Mayor and Mr. Wynne about additional manpower for the Police Department. We discussed this at Safety and Service and Finance. The overall picture is that I am asking Council to increase my budget for 2016 for two additional full-time officers. In a more immediate sense, I have an eligibility list for patrol officer that expires on November Stn and if Council will consider it, I would like to have one of the positions made available immediately so I can take advantage of that eligibility list. Council President Marrie stated, we will have that on the agenda'for this evening. PARIS & RECREATI®N - dill 'Thomas Mr. Thomas reported, I wanted to add with regard to the leak on Saturday, the Police Department opened up this room for residents if they needed to come up here. It was manned by the CERT team. Well done. Reporting on Parks and Recreation, Halloween is in the air! This past Friday night we had 200 middle school students attend our 12ti' Annual Wildcat Teen Halloween Event at Wildcat Sport & Fitness. We worked closely with the Middle School in marketing the event. We also had 20 Key Club members collecting tickets for the inflatables, games and serving refreshments. We also had a DJ, photobooth, volleyball and knockout basketball and other fun activities. The 17th Annual Halloween Window Painting Contest is taking place right now. We have 74 students from St. Francis, St. Paschal's and the Middle School participating with 45 windows from Eastgate to just about all of our stores on the corners of SOM and Wilson Mills with the exception of Deacon Chrysler. They don't have an overhang on their windows. We had to secure 4 additional stores in Highland Heights. We have never gone that far. Judging takes place this Thursday with our very own Councilwoman Patsy Mills who has judged since the inception of this program since 1999. Thank you Patsy. The Healthy Mayfield Committee has planned tomorrow night, October 20th, from 7:00-9:00 at the Mayfield High School Auditorium Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn and Ann Crile Esselstyn talking about the advantages of a plant-based diet. I have fliers on the table in the back if you are interested in that. On Saturday, November 7th at 10:00 a.m. in the Parkview Pool parking lot, Mayor Rinker will be doing one of his remaining few recreation special events before he leaves office by leading a walk on the Greenway Trail. He will discuss the plans and visions for this area and hear suggestions from our residents on what they would like to see. If the weather is inclement, we will program the Mayfield Village Weather Hotline at 9:30 a.m. sharp to say that the event has been cancelled. I have a flier for that on the back table.