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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, January 23, 2017 Page 3 I apologize for the lengthy response; but hopefully this sheds some light on the matter. I would ask that if anything is unclear or requires any interpretation of my words, please contact me directly. That's important, because what can happen is misinfonnation as we -talk to. each other ean garner something that is not intended and it'.s misinformation. My e-mail is available: My cellphone is out there. Anyone -can call me and contact me. I had a number of people do it in the past week. I would welcoine any recommend anyone doing that. A member of the audience stated, I have a question. Council President Saponaro stated, hold on, we are not at Open Portion yet. We will be. The audience member stated, kind of dismissive there? Council President Saponaro stated, this gentleman needs to leave if you are going to be disruptive here. You need to be quiet and stop talking out loud. Stop talking out of turn. You axe welcome to come up to the poclium. But you did it at the last meeting and you are not going to do it again at this meeting: Please be respectful of the process. Thank you. OPEN PORTION Council President Saponaro stated, at this point I am going to have an Open Portion for public comment. Those of you who want to come up, state your name and your address for the record. What I will ask is this, in the interest of time because if we are talking about the same thing and people want to come up and say I agree with everything that was said beforehand, I have no problem with that. Just state your name and say, I agree with what was said: But if you want to put your name on the record, we are fine with that. But in the interest of time, if we are going to keep repeating the same thing oyer and over again, everyone's going to be here a long time. Whoever wants to start certainly can. Give me your name, your address and state your comments to Council. Mark Granakis 872 Hardwood Court First of all, I want to thank everybody for showing up here today. From the last Caucus meeting, I heard the comment was, well I guess the Villagers will let us know what they think. I want to thank the Mayor for her statements and what she said here today: I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure I speak for most of these people in the room here that we are absolutely against any form of full-tiine healthcare not paid for for a part-time Council. I am very disappointed as a resident that. Council has decided not to completely withdraw tliis illegal full-time healthcare. However, I will say it is not a surprise given the tone and direction that this Council has taken since last year when the new Council President was elected. If you look back through the Council Minutes, you can see from the very beginning what his agenda was and what was proposed by healthcare almost immediately upon his election and in fact he argued