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Minutes of a Public Hearing October 6, 2010 Page 14 actual election. They then require us under our Charter to go ahead and give notice to all of the residents which the Mayor did by letter that went out on September 22nd summarizing each of the amendments to all of the voters in the Village of Mayfield and including a complete copy of each of the amendments as they will be considered on the ballot come November 2nd That's pretty much what the process was. The amendments as summarized by the Mayor in case you haven't gotten your letter are briefly, amending the Charter so as to make it gender neutral. There's a lot of he's, she's and its in the Charter so it was recommended that all of the genders be changed to make them neutral throughout which many of the communities have done. Another one was to amend when zoning and land use changes should be submitted to the electorate. Currently they are all zoning changes. This is a suggestion that it be the option of Council to determine whether or not they be submitted to the electorate. All of the protections that are still in your Code for protecting against bad ideas getting on the ballot or being adopted in the way of zoning changes are still there. For instance, mandatory public hearings, 30-day notices of those public hearings, the right for the public to come in, mandatory three public readings of each such ordinance pertaining to changing the zoning, recommendations necessary from the Planning Commission and then the majority vote of course of Council and the public hearings before them before it can be final. The next one was referred to the successor to the Mayor if the Mayor is unable to perform his duties. In the past it was that the Mayor, if he was out of the Village, the President of Council would take over. Well, that's kind of outdated since most of us are out of the Village every day going somewhere and that does not make you unable to perform the duties. So we were making this a more sensible change in the Code. The next one was to clarify what ordinances are subject to referendum. In order to just clarify the language in there, not really changing the substance of it. So those are roughly the changes. The Professor's remark about what I experienced with this Charter Review Commission and as Paul explained was that deliberation and discussion on major zoning issues is very difficult to do in the course of an election. As the Professor indicated, you get soundbytes, you get special interests giving you brochures, you get special interests out there campaigning and you are not really having an opportunity to sit down and hear everything that your Planning Commission and your Council took months and maybe a year to consider and go over before making the rezoning take place. So that was basically what I heard the Charter Review Commission doing in the form of its recommendations on that particular issue. That's pretty much the summary Mayor.