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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Page 8 other local law directors are paid and on both the retainer and the hourly fees, we are well within the norm. As an attorney myself, I tend to be very demanding as a client. My standards for legal representation are high and my expectations are exacting. For the record, I do believe that the legal services that we have received from Mr. Coyne, Mr. Budzik, Ms. Weber and Ms. Kullik have been very strong. More importantly, the legal advice that we receive is well researched and it is honest. It's not always easy to get advice from your attorney that isn't what you want to hear. Sometimes it's even harder when the answer you get is that there's no clear-cut yes or no answer and there's a lot of gray area. That can be difficult to deal with. But like it or not, the truthful answers give us the guidance and the direction that we need. Tony, I am very appreciative of that. One final thing I want to mention is that I believe each and every member of this Council is fully capable of evaluating a contract, ordinance or resolution determining its reasonableness and then voting in accordance with what you believe is in the best interest of Mayfield Village. In this case specifically, I believe you were presented with a Resolution which is fair, reasonable and in the best interest of the Village. Please know that you are always welcome to raise questions or ask for more information and we will gladly respond. Thank you. Council President Schutt asked, does anyone else have anything to add to this? Mr. Meyers stated, I do. In reference to the Resolutions, when we were presented at the Organizational Meeting with 2020-04, I had asked before the meeting for discussion on the differences in the money, the hourly rate and I was assured before the meeting that it would be brought up before we voted. Not one word was said before we voted. I had to dig for the 2018- 04 Resolution because it was never presented to us and I just felt that it needed to come to light that I don't understand how you change a figure and you don't explain it to the rest of Council. You hand it to them and they vote. That's why I brought this to everybody's attention. I appreciate it. Thank you. Mayor Bodnar stated, I don't want to belabor this point, but Mr. Meyers, you did not speak to me directly about that. I came prepared to answer questions. It was a miscommunication and I told you with a text message that night I took full responsibility for that. I tried and I can document five attempts to contact you after that meeting to talk about everything because there were other things at that meeting I thought you might want to talk about also and you did not respond. Instead you wrote a letter to Council on Friday. You did not even copy anybody in the Administration. You demanded that action be taken tonight. In all fairness, I took responsibility for the miscommunication. There was no bait and switch. I do want to make that clear on the record. The old contract was from two years ago. We never said this was identical to the old agreement. We said here's the Agreement. Please evaluate it. Let's talk about it if you have any questions. Nobody had any questions. Mr. Schutt opened it up for discussion. You didn't ask anything. Nobody else did either. Mr. Meyers stated, I definitely brought it up to Administration, Diane, and I talked to Ron Wynne about it earlier that day so I did bring it up to I believe the proper channels. Thank you. Council President Schutt asked, any other comments?