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Minutes of a Public Hearing <br />On Proposed Charter Review Revisions <br />8-10-10 <br />Page 35 <br />year comes and we are looking for people, we are racking our brains trying to think who can we <br />get some new people, so, we can keep a list going. So you can call Village Hall any time and say <br />you would like to be included on a committee. <br />Larrv Pollack <br />Wilson Mills <br />I have lived in this city for 33 years. I just wonder, since this obviously strikes a cord in a lot of <br />Mayfield Village voters. I wonder, is it possible for us to circulate a petition? And that petition, <br />those that are against these amendments, could that be published in the Voice of the Village <br />before the election to let a lot of people, because one of the problems is as everybody said, <br />everybody's busy. A lot of people don't have the time to come here, but if they saw maybe a <br />thousand people from the Village oppose these constitutional amendments or Charter <br />amendments, maybe that would sway some voters and we all know like you said, you can't even <br />attend all of the committees. Most of the residents cannot come to all these meetings, so if they <br />knew 1,000 or 500 or 700 and that could be put in the Voice of the Village that's just giving a <br />petition where we sign our names saying we do not agree with these amendments and we would <br />like to see them voted down. Would that be possible? <br />Mayor Rinker replied, the short answer is, yes it is. We have already done similar earlier with <br />the qualification that we do try to keep a certain propriety about it or clarity with the petition. We <br />would not be promoting it per se from the Village. It would be a question, we would facilitate it. <br />The short answer is yes. <br />Mr. Pollack replied, thank you. <br />Council President Buckholtz stated, I guess one of the things that I can't resist adding without <br />making this meeting go on, is we have all resisted to get into a debate about this particular item <br />because we are trying to explain the process that it's going to the voters and the voters will <br />decide. <br />There was a recent comment about greenspace that we have a lot of nice greenspace and had we <br />not become a Village, maybe we'd be like Mayfield Heights with strip malls everywhere. I just <br />wanted to say, I am a Councilman of about 14-15 years and I remember a long time ago just the <br />thought of government purchasing that greenspace. We had crowds similar to this of people <br />saying that we were trying to buy up that greenspace to put in strip malls and large boxes. I can <br />only defer to the importance of coming to Caucus and regular meetings because for the people <br />that read and have complimented the Minutes that have been taken, I know that I specifically <br />brought this up and we had this as a debate on the floor that I think Mayfield Village has turned <br />out pretty well. I was one of the naysayers. I was one of the people that was against buying all <br />this land. But we haven't flipped it to hotshot developers and the Village has had the fear of the <br />unknown. That's what it is, a fear of the wiknown. But, I'm not debating for or against the vote. <br />We can do that anytime, anywhere. We have several months to do that.