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Minutes of the Regular Meetirig of Council Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Page 2 Council President Buckholtz replied, well, there's typically some sort of sharing between when we put in roads. Typically there's some sort of public sharing. In the *past with commercial enterprises we have used TIF funds and parlayed them. We have used other government agencies such as the County or the State for certain funding mechanisms, so I don't know that that's been worked out. Mrs. Triner asked, and would the Council have to vote on it? Council President Buckholtz replied, typically any expenditures that we make, Council votes on. Mrs. Triner stated, I would just then-like to make a request if there's a chance, other than an emergency kind of ordinance which we have a pattern of everything emergency in the Village and I think John Ranallo made a request in the past maybe that it not be as frequent as it has been and if there could be some opportunity to have some discussion about it, that would be great. Thank you very much. Mayor Rinker replied, the only thing that I would add is. that with any development there's always an administrative review process. The Library will go through that. That's a11 public. When those plans are presented, those deta'ils will be addressed at that time, so a lot of your questions are really hard to answer only because we haven't seen those plans. I don't think anyone can answer them right now. We can explain the process as we go along. Those willall be public. Mrs. Triner replied, great. Thank you. Paul Simmons 6777 Wildwood Trail This concerns. the Library also. Mr. Simmons passed around a map and table. I appreciate first everybody's effort to make this a great place to live. Council ancl the Mayor. I truly mean that. I do appreciate that the Council and the Mayor want to put a Library a couple blocks from my house for some neighbors to enjoy, but I wanted to say that I am a citizen. I have some professional background in transportation planning and I have worked on library needs assessment and I am not sure that while maybe 5,000 people along SOM will be about the same or better off, the 25,000 people or so in Mayfield Heights and Mayfield Village and Highland Heights are going to be travelling for an average of four miles roundtrip each way for them to go to the proposed Library and I think for anything that's like retail or public use, the more people around and the more traffic around it, the more likely it is to be used. The Gates Mills Library has very few people around it, very little traffic nearby, and they have 8% of usage of the Mayfield branch. Like at Orange, which is an affluent area, it is not exactly connected to the higli school, but they have 25% of our usage at least as measured by circulation. So it shows that to me that you can't just build it anywhere and think people are going to come. I haven't crunched any numbers. I used to do things like that. But it wouldn't surprise me at all if the usage drops 40-60% because not only the population but a lot of my usage and a lot of