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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council 4-4-11 Page 10 spoke with Mr. Samac too. I had to sign pernuts. I had to verify things as the homeowner. I had as many conversations with him where he told us these exact things. It wasn't a problem then. I'm not going to expect that we can rewrite history but it was not a problem. We followed what we were told. I dotted t's, dotted i's and crossed t's as much as I could as the homeowner. I was concerned. Council President Buckholtz advised Ms. Hamill that she has about 2 minutes. Ms. Hamill continued, anything that we've said in many different vernaculars, I talked about who lives in the back of the house. I know Tim has talked about living in our backyard. We consider living in our backyard outside part of our living space in the summer. We love it and when one says to another somebody lives in a spot, it's all based on their perception of what , they're saying. We are not claiming any kind of residency. We're not claiming any kind of rentability, we are not, the building is not done. The pictures will provide you with that view. There is no shower and like I said at the last meeting, I have here with me tonight a realtor who will say in her opinion that it is not a diminishing quality to the values of the neighborhood. And that's where the people in the Petition also have an opinion to what they feel their property values are. And so there you have the will of the people in that Petition. That's the plan of the Petition. I don't think there's any question about what you put in the Petition, I don't think that's any problem. But I must say that the elements that Mrs. Bernstein said or her realtor said, she has a letter, et cetera, I can provide if you wish the same opinions from a realtor that's here in Mayfield Village. Finally, I have to say that if the energy and the money and the effort and the foolishness that's gone into this and the twisting and betrayals of things that are innocent and in good faith of people, if we could put all that energy into doing something else, like the people in Japan, we would be doing a lot better than this waste of time. Respectfully so submitted. Council President Buckholtz thanked Ms. Hamill. Council President Buckholtz stated, at this time, Ms. Bernstein, if you would like to, you have an additional 4 minutes if you would like to use that now. REBUTTAL TESTIMONY BY I)IANE BERNSTEIN (7:43 p.m.) Ms. Bernstein stated, since the last time we were here, the only communication I've had was phone calls with Mary Beth and I spoke to Mr. Marrelli this week, I put a call out to Diane Calta who was not in the office. No one ever has called me and made an offer of putting any trees in my yard at anybody's expense. So I have no idea where that came from. Is there somebody here who called me and left a message that I don't know about? Okay. I have no idea where that came from.