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Minutes of a Public Hearing On Proposed Charter Review Revisions 8-10-10 Page 26 Phil Stella Derby Drive We have been looming on Derby Drive for 28 years. As a professional communicator and communication consultant, I would like briefly to encourage Council to do more of a good thing. I would not suggest you aren't communicating. You probably are. We aren't listening, reading or paying attention because we all have busy lives. When in doubt, over communicate on important things and when in doubt communicate in multiple ways. We have wonderful tools here. The website. The Voice of the Village. The sign. The U.S. mail. We can and should use all of those with important things. Recalling the effective campaign for the levy not too long ago, you didn't leave any stones unturned and I think that probably helped pass the election. We are used to having the Village communicate with us on what the Village perceives to be important things and I think what you're hearing tonight other than some very interesting comments that will make a good reality show someday, is the need to over communicate and keep reminding people of important things like we ought to come to Council meetings, we ought to come to Caucus meeting. Yeah, we probably do but we forget and we go about our busy lives. And on a brief second note, thank the Commission for putting up the gender neutral language. I am definitely going to vote for that. Thank you very much. The audience applauded. Council President Buckholtz stated, Phil, I would like to comment, and thank you for your comments. I am right with you, but I want to mention that, we have a number, I have already mentioned that I didn't attend any of those meetings, and, we have so many committees. We have the Recreation Board and Beautification and Citizen's Advisory. These are a11 open to the public. What happens is, you know, hindsight is 20/20. We don't know what the Committee's coming up with. I don't know that, how many years is there, or how many Charter, every five years? So, there's been six or seven or ten Charter Review Committees and nobody attended and maybe there wasn't anything this dramatic or perceived as dramatic or perceived as radical. So, again, I think we are off point about who came to the meeting or didn't come to the meeting. We don't know what's coming out of that meeting. The point is it goes to the ballot and you vote on it. That's what they did. I don't want to belabor that point, but all of these committee meetings are open. Pam Pierce 6809 Thornapple Drive I have lived here on and off for 40 years since junior high. I would like to address the comments about innuendos and the concept of the lies that were being told.