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Regular Council Meeting Minutes
<br />10-18-10
<br />Page 12
<br />1VIr. Marrie continued, it's costing us $4,800. It is $25,000 per community, but we didn't write
<br />the grant and we didn't set the parameters for it. Somebody else did that.
<br />Mr. Marquardt stated, I think the point is, it's $25,000 worth of taxpayer money for three
<br />computers which is worth about $6,000 maybe, so you're paying $19,000 for training material.
<br />It seems like a lot of money for that. It doesn't matter whether it's your money, it's taxpayer
<br />money that's going to this.
<br />Mr. Marrie stated, I know. I said that. It's taxpayer money. I don't argue with you on that, but
<br />we don't know what they included in that. We're sitting here deciding that it's not worth it or
<br />worth it, depending on how you feel about it. But the fact is that we don't know what the
<br />$25,000 covers. We don't know that.
<br />Dr. Parker stated, that's the problem.
<br />Mr. Marrie stated, well, the Chief just said he will bring the things over.
<br />Chief Mohr stated, if I had known I was going to get questioned, I could have brought it over.
<br />Council President Buckholtz stated, we can ask those question, but we want to participate in the
<br />program. Our motion, there's two questions in a sense. Is it worth it for $5,000 for us to get like
<br />you said, $6,000 worth of computers and some training. I would defer to the Chief and say, are
<br />you comfortable with what the training cost? This doesn't preclude us from asking those hard
<br />questions to Highland Heights or putting it out there. They are controlling the grant, correct?
<br />Chief Mohr replied, yes.
<br />Council President Buckholtz continued, well, you know, like an accounting or accountability.
<br />Dr. Parker stated, there's no doubt that if we spend $5,000 we get $10,000 worth of product, it's
<br />probably a good deal, or $15,000, it just seemed like for what the government is paying or
<br />taxpayers are paying, I was just curious as to, is this -
<br />Chief Mohr replied, that's a philosophical question. It's beyond me.
<br />Council President Buckholtz stated, if I can maybe tie this up for right now, I think it's a good
<br />question. I think it's a valid question. But it's nothing that Council here in Mayfield Village has
<br />control over to do anything about. It is an interesting commentary. It's in the record, all of these
<br />comments. Again, it's a great point of our regionalism and getting involved with what's going on
<br />in other communities. Mrs. Mills attends Highland Heights Council meetings. It would appear
<br />that these would be great questions to be asking at a Highland Heights Council meeting. What
<br />we have to look at is, do we want to participate in something sort of on a good faith effort? But
<br />there's two kind of issues to talk about, a grant that Highland Heights wrote and received and
<br />how they're disbursing or what they're disbursing *is a valid question. Not for this body. It's
<br />okay for discussion purposes, but what are we going to pull out of it. Is there an action plan?
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