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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, June 15, 2020 Page 9 There were none. - ROLL CALL: AYES: - All Motion Carried- - A. NAYS: None Expenditure Authorized Council President Schutt stated, we are going to defer Ordinance No. 2020-12 for now and move on to the proposed Charter amendment legislation. First Reading of Ordinance No. 2020-13, entitled, "An ordinance proposing an amendment to Article III, Section 6, relative to the compensation of the Mayor and Members of Council." Introduced by Mayor Bodnar. (Administration) Council President Schutt asked, discussion? Mr. Coyne stated, Council President, and to Mr. Fikaris, if you want to weigh in on any of these, you certainly are welcome to do so, but the Charter Review Commission met diligently and Mr. Fikaris who has got experience in that area reading the Charter in detail with members of the Commission to determine whether any updates were appropriate. This one in particular was identified as being one that should be amended. The Charter Review Commission the last time around inserted the compensation for elected officials in the Charter that had not been done before. It should be more accurately reflected in the Village's ordinances. At the end of the day, the amendments to the Charter requires Council approval and approval of the voters so this doesn't do anything to change the procedure in terms of the Council reviewing the compensation for all of the elected officials and to do it through an ordinance which would be required to be passed by Council and then referred to the voters. That is being done. This is item 3 in the memorandum which Mr. Fikaris and I discussed. Paul, do you have anything you want to add? Mr. Fikaris stated, Mr. Coyne explained the intentions of the Charter Review Commission. What we found was no area Charters had the actual dollar amount. I think that might have been an oversight to have that actually be in the Charter so we would like to remove that. I think it's pretty straightforward. I echo your sentiments and those of the person who sent in a message and said how we felt, at least I felt about compensation, was that this language that we have in our Charter is pretty much identical to most of the area municipalities whereas Council fixes the salaries. In 2015, salaries had not been raised for 15 years so it was brought up to raise that marginally. We believe now in 2020, and the Mayor made a presentation as well, and we saw data on compensation for area officials. What I felt was that the Charter says the Council shall have the power to fix the compensation so hopefully Council will put in place a mechanism for which either there is some sort of index or some sort of fair compensation. I didn't personally believe it was a Charter Review thing even though it occurred in 2015. That's all I wanted to say. But I think you folks are on the right track. Council President Schutt asked, any other comments? There were none.