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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, July 20, 2020 Page 2 CONSIDERATION OF MINUTE Regular Council Meeting -June 15, 2020 -- - Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Marquardt, made a motion to approve the minutes of the Regular Council Meeting of June 15, 2020 as written. ROLL CALL: AYES: All Motion Carried NAYS: None Minutes of June 15, 2020 Meeting Approved as Written Special Council Meeting — July 6, 2020 Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Marquardt, made a motion to approve the minutes of the Regular Council Meeting of July 6, 2020 as written. ROLL CALL: AYES: NAYS: Comments from Mayor Bodnar All Motion Carried None Minutes of July 6, 2020 Special Meeting Approved as Written Thank you Council President. (food evening everyone.. I have several reports to give you tonight. COVID-19 issues are topping the charts. Probably most of you have heard this by now; but we have received word that Progressive Insurance has notified its employees on Friday that they will not be returning to work at their offices this year. We don't know when they will return to their offices but we know that it will not be in 2020 and we are going to keep monitoring that situation. The next thing is related. We of course have two concerns with our payroll tax in Mayfield Village. That is the bulk of our income taxes that we receive. So, our concerns relate to people who normally work in offices at Mayfield Village but are now working from home because of COVID- 19. Under the Governor's emergency order and the corresponding legislation those payroll taxes will still go to Mayfield Village for the duration of the emergency order and for 30 days afterwards. We don't anticipate that the Governor will lift that order any time soon, however there has been a lawsuit that's been filed in Columbus, Ohio challenging that legislation. Our Law Director Mr. Coyne has reviewed that lawsuit and is following it and fortunately has reported that that lawsuit is on a pretty slow track and I believe, Mr. Coyne correct me if I'm wrong, that it's not set for trial until sometime next summer in 2021. Mr. Coyne is going to continue to monitor that suit and at the appropriate time it is our plan to band together with other municipalities to fight that lawsuit and support the legislation. Our second concern on payroll taxes has to do with the concern that many have expressed that once COVID-19 is over, our employers may choose to keep more employees working from home on a permanent basis. That will impact our payroll taxes. We cannot predict what our employers are going to do. We do know that our largest employers own brick and mortar here in Mayfield