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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, June 15, 2020 Page 11 Ordinance No. 2020-16 moved to Second Read. Council -President- Schutt stated, we just wanted to thank Mr: Fikaris and the entire Charter- Review- - Commission for their due diligence and hard work on this. We appreciate it. Thank you. First Reading of Ordinance No. 2020-12, entitled, "An ordinance amending the compensation of the Mayor, President of Council and Members of Council." Introduced by Council President Schutt, Council President Pro Tem Meyers, Councilman Williams, Councilwoman Jurcisek and Councilman Murphy. (Administration) Council President Schutt asked, discussion? Mr. Coyne stated, when this was discussed at Charter Review Commission, it was suggested that Council should be the one to make this decision and look at it more carefully then just the Charter Review Commission making a recommendation. In your packets, you have some material of approximately 15 cities that have some similarity to Mayfield Village regarding their location near the freeway, population, etc. I gave a guide for the content of the current ordinance fixing the compensation for Council, Council President and the Mayor. As you can see, that survey gives you the information of the compensation, particularly for the Mayor, of being very much on the low side. I also wanted to share with you that the Mayor's position in many communities is one in which the compensation is commensurate with their duties. Some have some additional duties like being official Safety Director, a role that Mayor Bodnar actually plays without having that mentioned in her job description but because there isn't a formal Safety Director, she has to meet with the Police Chief and the Fire Chief. It's also apparent that most ofthe mayors can get benefits. The Mayors that are full-time and part- time often get benefits. All of the full-time mayors get benefits as you can see there and their salaries are $75,000-115,000. I also thought it was important, and I did some of this research the last couple of days, but the operating budget of the Village is approximately $18 million. Of the 15 communities on that list, only two have larger budgets than Mayfield Village. The rest are smaller, some substantially smaller. So, the populations obviously vary to some degree but always keep in mind the population is the census data of those who reside in the Village but the Village workday may have 15,000 people or more in it with Progressive and other significant employers. So, I thought that was just helpful to provide Council with some additional guidance. As Paul knows, at the meeting of the Charter Review Commission, we got some information from the Municipal League and Mayors and Managers Association of probably 100 communities le throughout Northeast Ohio. I thought that information was helpful to Council. That's in part how the ordinance was drafted to be comprehensive to provide for the compensation for the elected officials in the Village that would be appropriate.