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DRAFT <br />Council6/20/OS <br />Page 15 <br />Mr. Caticchio stated regionalized means that you have a much greater unit than within the <br />Village itself. <br />Mayor Rinker said we provide EMS to Gates Mills. <br />Mr. Caticchio said this is Mutual Aid. <br />Mayor Rinker said no it isn't, it is a contract. <br />Mr. Caticchio said this is still not regionalization. <br />Mayor Rinker said it depends on your definition of regionalization. <br />Mr. Buckholtz stated on this particular contract, we have the control and we work with Gates <br />Mills. <br />Mr. Caticchio stated you have to know what regionalization really means. As you know, or the <br />ones that are old enough here, there have been several attempts at regionalization on a county- <br />wide basis, going back 30 years, 40 years ago but fell flat on its face for one very simple reason. <br />I remember the big brouhaha that occurred there, here's how the conversations went during that <br />period of time, "Well, I'm not going to have anybody that's in downtown Cleveland telling me <br />what they are going to do in my community," that's really the basic idea. <br />Mayor Rinker agreed, stating it touches a nerve. <br />Mr. Caticchio stated he felt this was the same thing, we all think here that police and fire are sort <br />of a personal thing to the Village, to the community, it's ours and this is what we want. You're <br />going to find that a lot of people consider that. <br />Mayor Rinker stated not only that he agrees with Mr. Caticchio, he thinks this is something so <br />important and significant; half our operating budget goes to police and fire, so yes, we take it <br />very seriously because we know that it is something that's critical for our businesses, it's key - <br />we get all kinds of feedback on the quality and professionalism of our health and safety forces. <br />Because it is of such significance, Mayor Rinker felt that most voters, two-thirds at least or three- <br />quarters validation of this because it is so important, which is all the more reason then, when we <br />put something that has that kind of potency, that it offers more for the voter, the underlying <br />substantive, that there really has been some thoughtful discourse on the issue, not something that <br />just feels right. <br />Mr. Buckholtz said we should be pulling this issue to the forefront. He believes what the Mayor <br />was saying at one point too, is that it's on Page 13 of a document where we are looking at it <br />okay, we are looking and seeing most housekeeping and language clean up, then we come to this <br />? one.