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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council 4-4-11 Page 11 It is true when I approached Mr. Scasny the first time and said, he told me he was planning to put a very small 2-foot wall around his cottage and I said please don't do that. Plant green trees. And at that point in history if he would have done that and stopped doing the noise on Sundays and late at night, I would have walked away as a happy camper. All the slanderous things that have been said and all that I have learned by reading the Minutes of this meeting have really changed things. Now that I am aware that they have a permit for 292 and they built 925, it does change what I'm asking for. Trees are nice, but you know what? They are in gross violation of the law. The reason I didn't come to the first meeting back in November which I easily could have, my conversation with Mr. Marrelli was, you have no reason to be there. He was so livid with the whole situation and made it sound like he was going to handle everything. It was a slam dunk. There was no reason for me to be there. I didn't come. I could have been there. Again, I say, those trees, I don't know. The day I did approach Tim, he said to me, you tell me about trees and I said, I don't know a lot about trees. I know a lot about perennials and shrubs. I said I can only tell you about cypress trees because that's what I have in my yard. They're hardy. I said, you can put up many evergreens, spruces, whatever you like and he said to me, well, I have plumbing on my yard, I don't think I can put it on my properiy, can I put it on your property? I said, no I think that creates a problem. If they die down the road, then who's going to replace them? He said, I'll figure something out. And that's how we left it. So when I came back four weeks later, I really thought I was going to see some trees. But the bottom line, I never went to city hall. I called anonymously from my out of town cellphone number. He brought this whole thing upon himself by going to Mr. Maxrelli and calling attention to himself and I think he's in this hot water now by his own doing. And I did not tell him to hire a landscaper. I said I had one if he wanted it. In the 6 years my mother's been dead, I have hired a landscaper once. I do all my work myself and I do not have the luxury of backhoes and equipment. I dig and bend and lift so I'm not a stranger to hard work and I would definitely not recommend that he hire a landscaper. And I even told him I bought my trees at Costco for $75 and brought them home in a 4x4. I said to him 7 or 8 foot trees. I never said he had to buy mature trees. Buy something that grows fast and is hardy. So I did give him as much information as I had. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Council President Buckholtz thanked Mrs. Bernstein. Before we move on to the public comment, when I was explaining, we don't do a lot of these appeals and it was explained by the Mayor and the Law Department that we are kind of a group that hears the appeal and I don't know if you said it kind of tongue in cheek but I am like a judge or somebody. So, I'm not going to run away with that, but I would like to make a comment primarily for Council. Again, we are going to take our time in deciding. This is a serious issue. But I just would like to say, representations, I want to say two things, I want to address the trees business because many people on Council don't