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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, February 20, 2017 <br />Page 3 <br />CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES : <br />Regular Council Meeting - Januarv 23, 2017 <br />Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Marquardt, made a motion to approve the minutes as written. <br />Council President Saponaro asked, any discussion? <br />There was none. <br />ROLL CALL: AYES: All Motion Carried <br />NAYS: None Minutes of 7anuary 23, 2017 <br />COMMENTS FROM MAYOR BODNAR <br />Thank you, Council President. I have a few comments tonight. <br />First, I would like to thank all of you here who turned out in support of Bill Thomas tonight. Bill <br />certainly was the genesis of turning our Recreation Deparhnent from out of the ashes into the <br />great program that it is today. We are all going to miss Bill very greatly. It is a fitting tribute that <br />so many people turned out in support of Bill to say thank you this evening. Thank you all for <br />coming. <br />I also wanted to thank A1 Muhle and Joan and all of the members of the Historical Society for <br />everything you do for our region. I firmly believe that in order to move into our future in <br />productive positive ways, we have to have an understanding and a grasp of everything that went <br />on in our past. I thank you for bringing that to life and for educating all of us especially our <br />children on what happened in the Mayfield Village's past and the region's past. Thank you for <br />that. <br />Dave Hoehnen, thank you for your comments about Mr. Regan. I appreciate those very much. <br />Mr. Ianero, I appreciate your comments also. <br />On one other matter - this has been in the news so I would just like to mention it and keep you <br />posted. You have all probably by this time heard about or read about John Kasich's proposed <br />budget for the State of Ohio. We get regular updates on that budget from the Ohio Municipal <br />League. They do a very good job of telling us what is happening on a very current basis and <br />keeping us informed. Mr. Kasich's proposal would implement a central collection of city taxes <br />so instead of RITA, there would be one central collection agency in the State that would collect <br />everything and then send it back out to the municipalities. That would be a negative for us. It <br />would be cheaper for us to go through RITA and also we have'more control over the process and <br />more oversight on the process. .