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Minutes of a Public Hearing On Proposed Charter Review Revisions 8-10-10 Page 36 Rav Koren 822 Hanover Council President, may I make about a 30 second comment? Council President Buckholtz replied, go ahead. First of all, I have great respect for everyone that's here, Councilmen, people on the Commission, so I, I know you do a great job. But the one point we have to recognize is 10 years from now none of you are going to be here. We don't know who's going to be on Council. I have lived in the Village 25 years on and off and I have seen some people, I think a couple went to jail, if I recall correctly. I don't want to be forced into a corner from that legislation. Council President Buckholtz thanked Mr. Koren. Mayor Rinker can't resist saying this because a comment was made before. Historically, because we do have the referendum issue, there have been very few referenda during the time I have been on Council and as a Mayor but I can say in every one of them we were very careful to make sure we got the word out and worked with it. Candidly, we can work either way with it. That's what our responsibility is. Bear in mind that, almost like card games, you can change the rules. You can always look at, does a rule's change necessarily mean good or bad? Oftentimes it does, don't get me wrong. But the fact of the matter is, understanding how a rule's changes can affect us I think is always important. That's our responsibility up here and we do take it seriously. So we want you to know, whatever the vote of the people is we follow it. The audience applauded. Council President Buckholtz thanked everyone for coming. We will be here. We will be available to you. Thank you. There being no further discussion, the meeting concluded at 9:10 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Mary E. etsa, Clerk of Council APPROVED BY C9UNCIL AT ITS REGULAR O T 6, 2010: WII,LIAM BUCKHOLTZ, COUNCIL PRESIDENT