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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council 4-4-11 Page 12 know what that is all about and you sound like you don't. But before I do that, representing conversations with people, you have to be really careful about. I mean, when you talk about what Mr. Marrelli said or how he said it or a slam dunk or using, and again, this is not about being under oath, this is just about we're human beings, but, or when you talk about calling Bernie Samac in California and what he may or may not have said. It's not to say we don't trust people or believe people, but I think that stuff best be left out of what we are looking at. We have enough stuff to look at in terms of the law and what's transpired in the Minutes, okay? So that's just my personal thing. Anybody have a problem with that in terms of just painting people's pictures? Now on the tree, it occurred to me that in many situations the way out of things in the past is by bringing situations to closure in the past. Since we've done a lot of agricultural landscaping around the Village we have established a number of accounts with a number of providers. We have bought a lot of trees. So it was something that I mentioned to the Law Department. I believe I may have said something to Mr. Scasny or Ms. Hamill that did come up. Just to clarify, so I don't get in trouble with my own Council, because it's not for me to say, here, want this tree, you can have this tree. So that's not what I said to you or to Ms. Calta. What I said is perhaps something could be done with landscaping where the Village could participate, be a broker in the deal either by providing low cost trees at what we pay for them or by helping with some of the, I don't bring this up for discussion purposes, I just wanted to clarify it so everybody understands that. It was my understanding that that was brought up as a possibility but evidently it did not make the issues go away. Ms. Calta stated, Diane, we spoke in February and I asked you about a possible resolution and you sent me back an e-mail about the trees. I think you remember that e-mail. Mrs. Bernstein replied, you did. It had the specifics and I told you how far apart and this and that, but, I mean, I didn't think that was an offer but you were just trying to, I mean, ask me what I was looking for. Ms. Calta replied, correct. I was asking for your thoughts on a possible resolution and you did communicate your thoughts. Mrs. Bernstein replied, what I was confused of was, we offered her trees and she said no. I mean, nobody ever offered me anything. Council President Buckholtz stated, just so you know,. that was at my direction. I said, why don't you see if we can make an offer to help out by effective screening. That's what we call it in my neighborhood. When they built Progressive Insurance in our backyard, effective screening became a solution that worked. It was a shared thing, not that it can't still be. I don't know if it's still an issue at this point.