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_~ MINUTES OF A SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Mayfield Village December 30, 2002 The Council of Mayfield Village met in Special Session on Monday, December 30, 2002, at 8:05 p.m. in the Mayfield Village Community Room. Council President William Buckholtz presided. ROLL CALL: PRESENT: Council President Buckholtz, Mrs. Cinco, Mr. Marquardt, . Mr. Marrie, Mrs. Mills and Mr. Riter ABSENT: Dr. Parker ALSO PRESENT:. Mayor Rinker, Mr. Brett, Ms. Calta, Mr. Hovancsek , Mr. Metzung and Mrs. Roman Mayor Rinker said for the record, first of all, we have convened this special meeting at my request because we have been trying to carry this, literally, to the 11 `~' hour (as we've said before) and as Gerard has commented, even since this noon we've had-and the report back, I think, between Diane and Gerard, they can give us, really, all the updates. But the other thing I wanted to remind everyone is that we've asked for a special meeting really for that purpose-to let people know that we've extended as much opportunity as we could before having to file the ~. petitions. We have a lot of sophisticated people out there (owners) for whom filing in and of itself is not a problem but there are other people where I think it is going to be-there is a certain stigma that ean be attached to it because we are filing petitions. Just to remind everyone we're doing it because our contract with O.D.O.T. is such that O.D.O.T. has told us in order to keep to any schedule which would commence with bidding this spring, it is critical that we demonstrate to O.D.O.T.'s satisfaction that we have acquired all these properties-or in the event that we have not had contracts signed that we have filed petitions in Probate Court in the respective counties (most of them are in Cuyahoga; I think there are 2 in Lake County.) We are not in Executive Session but these are, classically, Executive Session matters; they involve real estate and they involve litigation. But again, because we want to try to keep everyone aware of the fact that this project that we've been talking about for so many years is out on the table- that's what we are going to try to do-but I just caution everyone that if there are specifics with some of these individual property owners, that I ask that we just be discreet about those-any comments in that regard. But with that being said, I appreciate that everyone's here and we can work on this timetable. " Council President Buclcholtz said thank you Mayor. And I want to just add to that, at the risk of-one overlapping thing for that just referencing all of Joe Diemert's work, our Law Department's work on this has been great in explaining that this is nothing more than the procedures, the steps of the procedures and I was going to say that too, just as far who-when we identify who's left on that list-that means nothing other than those are being filed-or monies are being filed in escrow and we don't need to get into like why someone's on the list or not on the list (which is basically what you're saying); that would be for another time.