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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, May 16, 2011 Page 5 COMMENTS FROIVI MAYOR RINKER Mayor Rinker stated, somewhat ceremonial, Eunice Kalina will be sworn in. First Readiniz of Ordinance No. 2011-24, entitled, "An emergency ordinance confirming the appointment of Eunice Kalina as Human Services Director for Mayfield Village, Ohio." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole. ? Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Marrie, made a motion to suspend the rules of Council requiring an Ordinance to be read on three separate occasions. ROLL CALL: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Rules Suspended Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mrs. Cinco made a motion to enact Ordinance No. 2011-24. Council President Buckholtz asked if there was any discussion. There was none. ROLL CALL: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Ordinance Enacted Mayor Rinker thanked Council. Eunice has been our Human Services Director for a long time now. For discussion purposes, I wanted to apprise everyone in the room. As Council is well aware and I think the public more or less secondarily, we have been for quite some time now going through extensive negotiation with our various groups of employees, reviewing all positions. It's part of what we do whenever we are looking at wages and benefits ordinances. Especially this year we have all been very well aware just overall of a lot of these kinds of issues, but we are at a point where we can at least recognize Eunice. Mayor Rinker administered the oath of office to Eunice Kalina as Human Services Director. COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT BUCKHOLTZ Council President Buckholtz reminded Council that Hillcrest Council of Councils will be meeting this Saturday morning. It's a good one. It's not billed as a debate, but it is two attorneys that have opposing views on Ohio Senate Bill 5 on public management perspectives. Everyone is invited to go to it. It's a 9:00 a.m. breakfast this coming Saturday. You need to RSVP to Mary Beth. I would like to point out that this is the very first one being held right here in Mayfield Village at the Hilton Hotel Conference Center. I think everyone would benefit by attending that. It's very pertinent to the things that we have been working on and will continue to work on. Everyone should let Mary Beth know by Wednesday if they are planning on attending. The other thing I would like to talk about a little bit is the committee that I mentioned in Caucus that I am really psyched about in terms of establishing a committee, a Community and Economic