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Minutes of a Public Hearing October 6, 2010 Page 13 A member of the audience asked Mayor Rinker, there's a couple of people that have to leave and they wanted to ask some questions. Is it possible that we could have at least 5-10 minutes and then go back to the speakers because not everybody can stay? Mayor Rinker replied, give him 5 minutes and then we will get going. I don't want to curtail the Q/A. We don't need the break if people don't want the break, but we will get right to them. • Summarv of the Mavfield Village Charter Review Process bv Law Director Joseph W. Diemert Mr. Diemert stated, I am Joe Diemert, your Law Director. I am just going to summarize the process that your Charter Review Commission went through. First of all, they are picked by all of your elected officials. Second of all, they meet every 5 years and they are different people for the most part every 5 years. They are mandated by your Constitution to review each segment of the Charter. They first convened on February lst. I outlined them pretty much how they came to be, how our Constitution came to be, what their duties were, pretty much the way the Professor has outlined it to you tonight. We went into 'all the details and examples of why a Charter Review is very important and why this Constitution is very important for our citizens. They then went about their business and met regularly until the middle of June or July. They made their recommendations known. Some of them were capable of being done. Some of them were not capable of being done because of the higher Constitutions in Ohio and in the U.S. ` Nonetheless, whatever was possible of being drafted and changed we put together into ordinance form for them to then meet on and curtail or write or rewrite or amend as they saw fit. They then brought it back to the Law ,Department. We made the final version for each of the Charter Review members to vote on. They unanimously voted on the ones that are going to appear on the ballot this November. They had a deadline of June to get their recommendations in to the Law Department in order that we could get them in final form for Council to deliberate on in July and August. The reason for the rush in the time period was that September 31d was the deadline by which we had to have these recommeridations to the Board of Elections in order that they could appear on the ballot on November 2nd. The reason for that is State law which requires the ballots be there and the recommendations be there in the hands of the Board of Elections 60 days in advance of the