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Regular Council Meeting 12/19/05 Page 2 CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES Regular Council Meeting -November 21, 2005 Mrs. Mills, seconded by Dr. Parker, made a motion to approve the minutes. ROLL CALL:AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Minutes Approved Mr. Buckholtz welcomed members of the government class from Notre-Dame/Cathedral Latin and invited their observation and participation. COMMENTS FROM MAYOR RINKER For those who did not know, the passing of the torch occurred this past Saturday when Al Scaccia, Santa Claus for Mayfield Village for 33 years, officially retired and Dave Perout very successfully stepped in. It was a beautiful day to go around town. It is very special when someone from our community has spent so much time, truly a labor of love as Al Scaccia did. It was bittersweet to see that change. Mayor Rinker followed the new Santa Claus on his rounds and watched the expressions on kids' faces and parents' faces. This is one of the most enjoyable times of the year for Mayor Rinker. In the spirit of the holiday, a good holiday to everyone. COMMEN'T'S FROM GUEST - DR PRICE On behalf of the School District, Dr. Price thanked Council for associating with the Sister Cities project. He is elated. Having been in a school district where there was a Sister City relationship, it is great for the community and the schools. The schools cannot do it, one of the civic entities has to be the one to take the lead on this. Sister Cities is a tremendous payoff. If you get the right match of a city or village your size, probably somewhere in the European area, you really start to have Council members from their site come here or you go over there. It becomes a yearly event. The district he worked in one time, Vandalic Butler, had a relationship with Litchenfelds, Germany and literally every year either they went there or they came over, probably 30 or 40 people, there had never been really any kind of community celebration. They started an Oktoberfest based on that relationship. That's when they would come over and many times Vandalic Butler would go over there at the same time. The students back then wrote letters, now they can e-mail, but they came over. There were even some business relationships formed because of that. Informal relationships occurred and they started to talk. It is Dr. Price's hope that several members of Council can go to the 50"' Annual Meeting of Sister Cities in D.C. this 1