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Minutes of the.Regular Meeting of Council Monday, January 23, 2017 Page 8 Ms: Granakis sfated; yes, you.would not allow us to talk because it was a Caucus meeting; so'yes it was yelled out from the audience: ? Council President Saponaro stated,. and ma'am, at a Caucus, there is not an open portion. This is where you have ari open portion.. You guys were yelling out and you were interrupting the meeting and throwing accusations. I fold each and every one of you, if you have questions for ' any of us, you have our phone numbers, you have our e-mail, you certainly can talk to any of us. I'did not receive any phone calls from any of you. We could have answered any of your questions: We do it all the time. Ms. Granakis stated, I do not want them answered through e-mail. I would rather have them answered here where everybody can hear it. Council President Saponaro stated, that's perfectly fine. But if you are going to go back to when you were yelling out questions, I am not hearing all of your questions number one and number two it's not appropriate, but this is the right place. Ms. Granakis asked, were they recorded by the Clerk? . Council President Saponaro asked, Mary Beth, did you record what everyone said out there? Mrs. Betsa stated, some of it was inaudible. . Ms. Granakis stated, fine. Council President Saponaro stated, so if you have questions, if you have comments that you want to make - . Ms. Granakis asked, so has this ever been reviewed by Charter Review Committee before? Council President Saponaro stated, it went before them and they were told that it is not for Charter Review so they chose not to deal with it because they were told it was an ordinance. It - was to be handled through ordinance because of - Ms. Granakis stated, because it's illegal. Council President Saponaro stated, I don't know, are you a lawyer? I don't know how it's illegal or not. Ms. Granakis asked, have you had it reviewed by an employment attorney at all? Mr. Guidetti replied, that is what we can do. I can say the issue is certainly not black or white. . The Village is rather unique in the fact that it is a Charter municipality. A lot of the case law that addresses this question deals with non-Charter cominunities. So, ultimately our Charter has strong language that defers to interpretations by the Council. That is the opinion we provided.