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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, November 16, 2020 Page 6 Since the effective date of Mayfield Village's Charter, 1-1-1975, term limit language for the office of Mayor and Council members had always been included language in the Charter. In 2004 a Charter Amendment Initiative Petition ordinance was proposed eliminating term limit language for the office of Mayor and Council members and presented to Council. Council approved the proposed initiative petition as submitted without changes allowing the people to decide at. the ballot box if this change should occur. This was known as Issue 52 & 53 on the ballot. All ballot language must be presented to the Cuyahoga Board of Elections for review and approval prior to placing on the ballot thus protecting electors from any erroneous ballot language. This Charter Amendment Initiative Petitions language is clear and not misleading to the electors. The consensus of the enclosed 100+ signatures overwhelmingly supports the ballot language submitted in this bi-partisan initiative. Rejecting the Charter Amendment Initiative Petition Ordinances as proposed will clearly show bias and motivation on Council's end to take away the right for electors to decide for themselves when voting on these issues. At this time, the petitioner committee requiring term limits for all Mayfield Village elected officials requests council to approve the proposed Charter Amendment Initiative Petition Ordinances adding term limits for Council Members and the office of Mayor as submitted. The Committee will not accept amended language to the Charter Amendment Initiative Petition ordinance language as submitted. This letter will serve as our formal request to submit the Charter Amendment Initiative Petition ordinance language to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections to be processed and placed on the ballot for the electors of Mayfield Village to vote at the November 2ND, 2021 general election. Respectfully, Ron DiNardo, Charmain of the Petitioner Committee requiring term limits for all Mayfield Village elected officials Subsequently, Mr. DiNardo sent an e-mail on November 11, 2020: Marybeth, I reviewed the minutes from the Council Caucus meeting November 2nd, 2020 and noticed my letter addressed to you, sent electronically and hand delivered to the Civil Center on 11-2-2020 was not read into the minutes. I presume my letter will be read into the minutes at the November 16th, 2020 Council meeting under the open portion, correct? I want to be clear our committee has requested this Charter Amendment initiative petition be submitted to a vote of the electors as proposed without change and occur at the next general election being Tuesday November 2nd, 2021. We recognize that we do not meet the requirement for a special election as stated below in the Mayfield Charter Article VII, section 1 and there is