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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council 3-24-11 Page 2 Second Reading of Ordinance No. 2011-12, entitled, "An Ordinance appropriating funds for current expenses and expenditures of Mayfield Village, Ohio for the period from January 1, 2011 and ending December 31, 2011 and declaring an emergency." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole. (First Reading - March 21, 2011) This Ordinance will be left on Second Read. Council President Buckholtz stated, if anyone has any discussion on Council, for the record in the Minutes as we discussed in the Open Portion, it is our intention to keep these on three reads, but they do need to be passed, particularly the budget or both of them? Mr. Wynne replied, both. The Anthem legislation has been passed by straw poll, so this is just a formality. Council President Buckholtz asked, okay, but the critical one is the budget? Mr. Wynne replied, yes. Council President Buckholtz continued, which needs to be passed by this body by March 31St and then passed along to the County as is done every year and really it has more to do with people being out of town and their schedules that we have not had people to do it as we would normally do it in an emergency vote and ironic as it is, the way things work out with people more interested these days than ever before in the details of government as they should be, it's giving more opportunity for people to get information. I don't know if we have given out the draft budget. I saw an e-mail that it needs to be passed before it is distributed. We have an open door policy here so Ron has been talking directly to people as have all of the Council people. Oddly enough it has worked out in favor of the Village and us and the open door policy of sharing information that we are increasing and improving each and every year. Having said that, and once again, I always like to put this in and I will put it in next time, for those who don't know, the budget is a living, breathing document. Nothing is set in stone. We never know what things are going to come up in our favor, a windfall, profits as we have had in the pasf from estate tax or from expenditures that we anticipated that didn't happen. Those are monies that can shift perhaps to different usages or we get in the middle of a sewer project and find out the water main needs to be replaced for half a million dollars. So, it's a living, breathing document. Nothing is finalized other than the intention and a working budget performed by a very competent Finance Director. We have had that budget in our hands for approximately what now? Mr. Wynne replied, since February 3ra Council President Buckholtz stated, Council has been looking at this since February 3`d. They have been making comments both on the floor of Caucus and Council and privately to the