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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council 4-4-11 Page 9 TESTIMONY BY LYNNE HAMILL (7:36 p.m.) We are back to much ado about nothing. I do believe and I appreciate everybody having to be here and deal with this. Frankly many of you know I am kind of at the end of my strength with a11 of this. I need to clarify some points. I am not going to repeat what's been said. It's very clearly indicated, especially for those of you who came out and saw. You came out and saw it, you get a completely clear perspective on exactly what's out in the yard. I am unfortunately going to have to address issues where veracity is at question. There was no degrading comments about home ownership to Mrs. Bernstein. My questions are not about home ownership, they are about residency. She's not a resident. Yes, she has a job to do with the home ownership, I understand that, but residency is a different animal and I have been a resident of the Village all my life. I have put a lot of time into the Village, a lot of volunteering and I have a responsibility to myself to say to you as Council your job to me as a resident is to serve and protect and that's why I'm saying, what I'm saying about what I believe is not fair or honest in all of this procedure. It's just beyond anything anymore that needs to be discussed. It's just, it's too much foolishness. Words like routinely were used, you know, routinely making noise. We have other neighbors on the other side. We have neighbors in other parts of the community that you hear just as well as any others who have said in previous meetings there was not routine noise. Those people have said that under oath or in meetings when they have an opportunity to speak. So there is no routine about that. There is no paver wall. Those pavers are stacked to finish up a little piece of patio out in front to go across that we didn't get anything done with it because this all came out and what's the point of putting more work into something when it's not, no matter what it is, it's not pleasing. I think if we're going to talk about issues of hurting good name and veracity, when Ms. Bernstein first spoke to this group, she said that she had a good relationship with Mr. Scasny and that she felt that there was nothing wrong with her request to ask him to do some landscaping. I don't ever remember him feeling that there was any, to my knowledge, any problem with that. But she did say, all I want is to repair the situation and I want to see a nice backyard, more greenery, block the view a little bit, more trees, could you please do some landscaping? That's all I'm asking. Well, you know the rest of that story. But the most important part of it is the Village made an offer to her on our behalf to provide whatever landscaping she asked for and she refused. That is an issue of veracity ?for me. When she said to the Village that was all it would take, she told this Council that was all it would take to repair this issue, just get something up there, that's why the offer was made and that's why I believe it was made in good faith and we would have done whatever we could have as well. I have a problem with throwing Mr. Samac under the bus. We are going to talk about under oath, I was involved in conversations with him and I will also tell you separate from Mr. Scasny, I