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Regular Council Minutes September 20, 2010 Page 10 meeting and discussed the Charter Review process with the members and answered their questions. Dr. Larry Keller from Cleveland State University Levin College of Urban Affairs was going to come and provide a Charter Review process and referendum zoning discussion for our Village. We also discussed the Library in great detail. It was agreed that this was a totally favorable project to our Village. _In fact it was met with great enthusiasm for the addition of this beautiful building for our Village. It's going to add an awful lot and everybody agreed to that. We will have additional meetings on our finances. We will have one more meeting, Ron am I correct, Town Hall meeting in October? Mr. Wynne replied, October l lth Mr. Marrie continued, we encouraged everybody to attend. I might comment or compliment Ron as well as the Mayor on the outstanding job that was done, I think on the presentation of the finances of the Village and where the money is going to go, hasn't gone yet and ideas that they have and what they want to do with it. They also received some comments and suggestions from some members of Council that helped on that. Also, we discussed the communication ability of the Village. It was pretty well decided or they felt that communication of the Village, that the Village does a good job on communicating to the residents but that they wanted to discuss it more to see if there's anything else that we can do to improve it even better than what we have. We have, as a Village, tried to do an extremely good job on communicating different things through the Yoice of the Village, the mailings to homes, the signs and so forth. Also, on October 12th, David Hartt will be here to facilitate a discussion on the 2020 Vision Plan. Everybody's welcome to attend that meeting. Council President Buckholtz stated this Committee has gotten very busy. Mr. Marrie agreed. It's a lively Committee. Everybody does speak up and bring up different subjects that they feel will help the Village out. They are not really afraid to say anything they want. Council President Buckholtz stated, very good. Adding to this report, Mayor Rinker stated, as Mr. Marrie had pointed out, Dr. Keller from the Urban Studies College is coming. We literally found out this afternoon. We had mentioned previously we were trying to line somebody up. It took us a little while. For everyone's benefit, we are going to send out notices tomorrow, but Wednesday, October 6tn, we plan to have Dr. Keller here. We also thought it would be appropriate to have some members of the Charter Review Commission have a chance to talk. We will probably have the Law Director on hand and we will be on hand as well. The goal is to provide that as an informative meeting that would give voters a chance to understand the issues, understand some of the history behind referendum zoning. We are also, even though it's a little short notice, we thought it better to get it early in the month of October because most people don't vote at the polls anymore, so we want to try to get people before they write in. And then again, as Ron said, October 11`h is the second Town Hall meeting on the budget and then October 12th, so it will be a busy early October. Commission on A1!in$! - There was no meeting. There is no report.