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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, June 15, 2020 Page 6 Mrs. Betsa stated, one of my jobs as Council Clerk pursuant to the Charter is that I have 20 days to review the Petition to determine its sufficiency. After preliminary review and discussion with the Law Department, itappears that this Petition has three deficiencies:- - - - 1. The original Petition is required to be filed pursuant to Mayfield Village, Article VII, Section 1 which requires the Petition to be "signed in ink by qualified electors". Only copies of the Petition were provided to me; 2. The Petition did not include an "affidavit sworn by the circulator thereof stating the number of signers to such part of the petition and that each signature thereon is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be and was submitted in the presence of the affiant" as required under Mayfield Village Charter Article VII Section 3; and 3. The filing fee of $12.50 required by the Board of Elections was not included. I will work with the Law Department to prepare a letter to the chairman of the committee outlining these deficiencies. Council President Schutt stated, thank you, Mrs. Betsa. DEPARTMENT HEAD REPORTS: Law Department — Mr. Coyne: I have several items to talk to Council about. It may be easier to just address them at each time. We have the Charter Review proposals and Mr. Fikaris is here to talk about the recommendations there as well as the ordinance for the compensation to be fixed for elected officials in the Village. We are repealing the D&I ordinance but we are reintroducing another mode of compensation that can be given consideration for moral claims. We are changing the time limit for the BZA approval process. We are also looking at a new Community Diversion Agreement. Council President, I will address those when they come up on the agenda. Council President Schutt stated, sure. No problem. Thank you. Police Department — Chief Matias: Thank you Council President. Thank you Mayor Bodnar for your earlier comments. I just wanted to come to this meeting and talk about my letter. Last Friday, I posted a letter from our department to the community. The reason we put that letter out is that since the death of Mr. Floyd, we have received a lot of questions about our procedures, our equipment and different policies of the Police Department. Naturally I am happy to take these questions because I know we have an excellent department. The letter I put out, I am not going to read the whole letter, but it addressed a couple of main points. The first and utmost important point is that everybody in our department was shocked at what happened in Minneapolis. There's nobody that's on the wrong side of this. There's not an officer, a dispatcher, or anyone on our department that thinks that there's another side to it. It was shocking to all of us. The second thing we talked about was the use of body cams. We have been using body cameras since 2016 and even before that we had dash cams. When I started on the department in 1999, we