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Minutes of a Public Hearing On Proposed Charter Review Revisions 8-10-10 Page 12 coming all the way to the podium necessarily and trying to articulate the exact same thing that we have just heard. The way that public forums work is you are actually speaking directly to this Council and the Mayor and the Law Director. We ask that you don't really engage in private conversations. If you want to comment on something that someone has just said or said earlier, you are welcome to do so through the Chair, that would be me, and we can get a dialogue or discussion going with any of the Councilpeople. We keep these rules pretty loose, but still it's important that we keep some decorum so we don't lose sight of the issue and we keep an eye on the clock just in terms of being reasonable. That's everything I wanted to cover. I hope everyone has paid attention to the Law Director's explanation that what we are here tonight, the actual business of what has transpired is all per Charter. Everything can always be changed per vote, but we work with the Charter that we have and the work that they have done and we treat it very seriously. In just a starting point, I know that there is one person that, if anybody wants to select somebody to speak for them, or for a group of people, there is someone in the audience, Brenda, do you want to come up?, who can kind of kick things off. She has been working with a group of residents. She can begin. After that, everybody just raise their hand if they want to speak. Thank you. Brenda Bodnar Bonnieview Road Council President Buckholtz, Mayor Rinker and Law Director Diemert, Members of Council, Members of the Charter Committee who are here this evening, and friends and neighbors of the Village, thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. I live on Bonnieview Road in the Village. I have been a practicing attorney in Ohio for about 26 years now. I have been working with a group of concerned citizens who oppose some of the Charter amendments that were discussed this evening. I would like to go through some of those with a little bit of detail. I apologize to those to whom my back is turned. I was not aware that that was what the format would be. I am also warning you that I am not as eloquent as our Law Director Mr. Diemert. I would like to point out tonight and I do not recall that it was earlier pointed out, but I believe it's the case that the members of the Charter Comrnission were not elected by the voters but were appointed by the Mayor and members of City Council. It's something you may want to keep in mind.