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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, February 15, 2010 Page 4 Cemeterv - Mrs. Mills reported that we could use some trees in the Cemetery if you would like to have some put there. We are lacking trees there. Mrs. Mills asked Mr. Marrie to pass that on to Beautification. Dr. Parker asked if there are opportunities for people to donate trees. Mayor Rinker stated that is a very good thought. You should raise that at the Homeowners' Groups. Mr. Marrie agreed. Have them donate the tree and just put a little plaque on it. Mrs. Mills stated that when a person donates a tree, they have a specific place they want it. That's the experience at the Historical House. Mr. Marrie said, okay, but it's food for thought. Mr. Saponaro asked, we have two funds, the Mayfield Union Cemetery Fund and the Mayfield Union Cemetery Trust. He knows the Trust is for something specific. Mrs. Mills replied the Trust is to perpetuate the holiday memorial wreaths at Christmastime. Mr. Saponaro asked if we are still getting contributions from the other communities to the Fund? Mrs. Mills replied that Mary Beth is invoicing the other two communities. Mr. Saponaro stated that it shows that we have $14,000.00 in the budget. Mrs. Mills said she needs to do some work there. She needs to put some more cinders down there. That driveway is getting bad again. We need other things done too. Mr. Saponaro suggested that if we are going to do anything in the way of trees, are we going to split the cost with the other communities? Mrs. Mills replied it just comes out of that Fund. When she took those trees down last suminer, it was $3,500.00. That came out of that Fund. Dr. Parker stated, historically speaking, it used to be more communities. Mr. Saponaro said, yes, Gates Mills. Dr. Parker added, Gates Mills no longer participates for whatever reason. Mr. Saponaro stated that the response back to him was that they have their own cemetery. Citizen's Advisory Board - Mr. Marrie reported that the Board met on the 28h. Mr. Marrie was not there but it was an outstanding meeting thanks to our Finance Director Ron because he covered the income tax increase and all of the details of all of our finances in the Village. The suggestions were, as the Mayor said earlier, we are going to send a detailed notice to all of the homeowners about the financing and also the tax increase from 1'/z to 2%. It does cover a tremendous amount of money for us for revenue, a little over $3 million for the year and 95% of it was coming from non-residents. It's not something like a property tax. This is really coming from non-residents. This will help tremendously for our budget as well as future planning for the Village in putting some money away for the future for projects that come up. That was discussed in detail. Ron also went over with them about the different things that people were taking, like the Village employees taking a wage freeze, all departments. One other items discussed and Mr. Marrie wants to again remind everyone that in the Voice of the Village, we will have the notice about the project that the committee is taking on about bringing in some toiletry items for two groups, the Malachi House for basically a Hospice for cancer and the Veteran's Hospital. Merv and Mary Singer and Mr. Marrie and Carole will be involved in it. It is going to be in the Voice of the Village in two different spots. Donations will be collected here. It was suggested by Patsy that we do it and it will end at Mother's Day Pancake Breakfast. When we advertise for the Breakfast, we can have people also come in and bring donations at that time. It's amazing how much a lot of these people don't have, really basic things. This is a nice project for the Village to take on to help others in need. People, very frankly, like Veterans who helped us and made us what we are today. Mayor Rinker added a reminder that we will put out in the flyer to everyone and in the Voice of the Village that we plan to have four individual Ward meetings to discuss, kind of like town meetings open to the public for purposes of discussing the ballot issue. The committee also discussed the Memorial Day Service at the Cemetery, the presentation and