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Minutes of a Public Hearing On Proposed Charter Review Revisions 8-10-10 Page 34 Mayor Rinker added, we want to work on that. The idea is to improve the functionality of the web. Mrs. Triner stated she may have misled her husband because she had looked previously for a Master Plan on the website and couldn't find it. Mayor Rinker stated, we have had 2020 on there ever since it was adopted by Council. Mrs. Triner responded, that's great. I appreciate that. Mary Beth was great to send it tonight, so I could just kind of take a quick look at it. Mayor Rinker stated, part of what we're trying to do, those of you who are web-friendly, we really have been trying to get some feedback internally and within the government itself and externally. We haven't had a great success rate so far. I think it's just easy for people to leave it at status quo and often it takes an event that gets people agitated to start looking at it. So that being said, we really do look for ways in which we can improve the way that works. We have had glitches with the system since we brought it on-line. Regularly we find, like the ordinances, you're supposed to click here and they don't always pop up and we have to go back to keep, the Drane Company keeps changing its server or something, we're not quite sure what's going on. Those are the commonplace issues. The larger issue, though is there are ways that we can improve the way in which people have an access to and utilize it. We don't want this just to become a Village blog. There are a lot of other blogging mechanisms, but I think we can certainly improve that. Mrs. Triner replied, that would be nice. There are people here who would like to get involved in these committees just to know what the process is. Mayor Rinker replied, as the Council President said, it is participatory. Mrs. Triner asked, so the process would be just to let Bill know? Mr. Saponaro replied, let anybody know. Mayor Rinker added, for everyone else, everything is public record. By law, we have to keep records up. We have to make it available. Reasonable request, turnover time has to be good. There's a pretty basic fee for, just really a handling cost if anything else for reproduction and typically we're pretty lenient on that because we do like to be able to get the information out. Mrs. Triner would like to go on record by supporting Phil Stella because he is an excellent communicator and I think he stated it much better than I did. Dovetailing off of that, Council President Buckholtz suggested to Mrs. Betsa that if anyone here is interested, even though it's an annual thing that we sign up for any committees, Recreation, Citizen's Advisory, it's only at times like this when it's on everybody's mind, if you want to call Village Hall and ask for Mary Beth, we keep a repository of names because when the end of the