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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 3-15-10 Page 4 STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS: Activities CoYr?mittee - Mrs. Mills reported that there was no meeting this month. She passed around a sign-up sheet for volunteers for the Mother's Day Pancake Breakfast. We will be meeting next month. Architectural Review Board - An update on the police station was provided in Mr. Dinardo's report. Beautification Comtnittee- There was no report. The next meeting is on the 291h. There is talk of changing that due to the Jewish Holiday. Board of Anneals - There was no meeting. There is no report. Cemetery - There was no report. Citizen's Advisorv The Committee met on March 2nd and received instructions by Jeff Thomas, who took us through the new website that the Village has. He went into great detail. It's very complete. It will cover just about everything, including our new project with the Citizen's Advisory with the Malachi House and Veteran's collection site. We also spent a lot of time and Ron Wynne went into great detail with the tax proposal explaining it all. He gave us examples of how it would affect people working here and living in another city, etc. Doug even explained his situation where in Mentor it would not really cost him anything. There were other examples. At this time, when we had this, Ron hadn't talked to Progressive. Mr. Marrie does not know where that stands, but at that point we were sort of up in the air on how they felt. The brochure that has been mailed out to all of the residents was discussed in great detail. There were a lot of suggestions and some changes made. There was a lot of detaiT in that discussion about what we should or shouldn't do or what this would affect and what that would affect. Diane presented it to us and made the notes and said the changes would be made in the new one going out which they have. A few other miscellaneous items that were discussed - Jim Mason was re-elected Chairman. Mary Singer talked about the Memorial Day event at the Cemetery. The flags will be put out on May 29t' between 9:30 until finished, probably about Noon. Services at Whitehaven will be at 1:00 on the 30th. There is no speaker yet. That will be announced later. The next meeting is April6tn With regard to the website, Mayor Rinker added that it really is designed as a platform, a foundation on which one can build. As an example, not exclusive, is the different homeowners groups have the opportunity to provide information. Jeff will basically be the clearinghouse, the administrator for the site. A good website requires constant upgrading. One of the ways to do it is to encourage constituents of the fact that what they see is not what they have to be content with. They can add to it. With homeowners groups, they can start using it as an opportunity to advertise things going on; to give more information about a particular neighborhood. It would be good for photos. We still have to take a lot of pictures of personnel within the Village. It is a work in progress. One of the fundamental benefits of this is it gives us the ability to building