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DRAFT Council6/20/OS Page 13 Mayor Rinker suggested, that because of what you are feeling is heartfelt, as deeply as you are expressing it now, is worth publishing. He thinks there should be some type of insight, such as what you are stating tonight, published for the voters. When the voters get these in front of them, it is useful for them to have some sense of the work that underlies the proposition. A lot of the other things are housekeeping measures and he thinks those can be explained away relatively simply. Here, we're getting into a lot of policy issues and we've never had any dialog about this, we've never had any discussions about this. There was lengthy discussion between Charter Commission members and the Mayor as to how to get the information to the voters, like through a separate mailing or put in the Voice of the Village. Mayor Rinker said that the Commission publishes minutes and for most people in the community, the dialog commences from the point that this is put to the voters. Mayor Rinker suggested that maybe it makes sense, maybe a month before to convene a meeting and see what kind of turn out you get. Mayor Rinker said this issue caught his attention; he could see a lot of policy underlying this. There are a lot of budgetary issues that come into play; there are home-rule issues that come into play. Mayor Rinker appreciates what Mr. Marrotte indicated, at least that gives us some kind of insight as to why the Commission members feel the way they do. Mayor Rinker said for this issue, the topic merits some kind of column, discussion, something written that provides dialog, maybe go back to the minutes of the meeting where you discussed this and take sections of that and just put it out to the voters; this is a publication from the Charter Review Commission members and here are some of our thoughts on some of these things. The voters need to know the whys and wherefores. Mayor Rinker said this issue has a lot more depth and substance to it and he thinks it merits more publication. Mr. Caticchio said that when they convened, they sent out letters to everyone asking for them to either attend a meeting or send us a letter or a note, communicate with us and we only received two responses. The only two wer.e from the Fire Chief and the Police Chief, because they had an interest in a particular subject, which we dealt with, they heard from no one else. From that point on, all the Commission members could do was discuss the items amongst themselves. Mr. Buckholtz is familiar with this; when Council chambers are filled, everyone is unhappy with an issue, but until there is knowledge out there, everyone has the opportunity to come to Council meetings but they don't necessarily show up. Mr. Caticchio asked Mayor Rinker if he feels that since they came up with this, do they now have to go out and sell this idea. Mayor Rinker said the Commission put a lot of hard work and thought into this and this issue has much more meat on the bones than all the other items. Because we look at