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<br />MINUTE5 OF A PUBLIC HEARING <br />Wednesday; October 6, 2010 - 7:00 p.m. <br />Mayfield Village Civic Hall <br />Re: Proposed Revisions to Charter on the <br />November General Election ballot <br />Introduction bv Mavor Bruce G. Rinker <br /> <br /> <br />Mayor Rinker began the meeting at 7:05 p.m. by introducing himself. It's nice to see a good <br />turnout. If I can have everyone's attention, I will try to give you tonight's format. At our last <br />public hearing which was a funfest, I thought it would be useful to try to approach this maybe <br />from a more academic standpoint because I think for all of us, our goal is to give people enough <br />perspective. Not to try to convince you to vote one way or another. It really is to provide <br />information and that's our responsibility. So with that thought in mind, here is the agenda that I <br />have set out for tonight's meeting and I am going to ask you all to follow along with it because I <br />think if we follow it, it will get us to where we want to get toward the end. Up front I have Paul <br />Fikaris who is one of the members of the Charter Review Commission. He is going to get up <br />and give a very brief synopsis, pretty much of where the Charter Review Commission members <br />were coming from and what the proposal is. <br />To my right is Dr. Keller. We are really pleased to have him here from the Urban Studies School. <br />He has a handout. A lot of you got the information. Really tonight is going to be the floor for Dr. <br />Keller to give us a good overview and place us in perspective under Ohio law, under the State of <br />Ohio regionally as far as the nature of these kinds of amendments and then when he's finished,. <br />then Joe Diemert will get up and summarize a little bit from the Law.Director's standpoint how <br />the Mayfield Charter process is working. <br />After that, we propose having a panel discussion. I would like to be the moderator and then <br />these gentlemen will- field questions. So if you have questions as I am sure you will, then I would <br />ask you to save them toward the end. The only other thing I request for everyone's benefit, ask questions. This is not a public hearing <br />where we are asking people to get up and express their opinions. Obviously you have opinions or <br />you have concerns and we want you to ask questions that will help you understand better and <br />respond to the concerns that you have.