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Ll <br />Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, June 20, 2022 <br />Page 4 <br />Open Portion — For Public Comment (5 -minute limit imposed by Chair) <br />Council President Schutt stated, if you have any comments, come up to the podium and state your <br />name and address for the record. <br />Anthony Benedictus <br />Owner — Beauty Salon <br />6693 Wilson Mills <br />I am here to talk about the Cruise Night which I love. I have been here 24 years. It's been a great <br />event. The fact that it was moved to 3:00 did not do any small businesses any good. I lost a lot of <br />money that day and I had clients walking from Austin's and Heinen's to my salon for appointments. <br />I just wanted to make you very aware that the 3:00 hour is not suitable for a lot of us. It even goes to <br />parking spots being taken up throughout the week for port -a -potties. We have a small parking lot. I <br />support the event. I have been here a long time. I love it. At 5:00, they would come to the parking <br />lot at 3:00. This year, you couldn't park anywhere in this neighborhood at 11:00 in the morning. I <br />have 25 employees who are booked all day. Probably 15-18 clients left and rebooked their <br />appointments. I have a lot of rent to pay. It's hard enough. I just wanted everyone here to know <br />how it impacted the small businesses. Don't forget us. Progressive's not the only one here. That's <br />pretty much what I wanted to say. I hope that we can resolve it somehow. Thanks. <br />ANK <br />Council President Schutt stated, thank you for your comments. We will definitely consider that. Is <br />there anybody else who would like to come up and speak? <br />Lorry Nadeau <br />678 Robley <br />I just wanted to make a couple of comments about the resolutions that you are considering for the <br />Mayor's compensation and Council's compensation and then the resolution to solve the issue going <br />forward. I am in favor of all three. <br />Patsy Mills appointed me to the Charter Review last time. I think that's where this all really started <br />it. We reviewed it. We looked at all of the other communities. We recommended that we needed to <br />update the way compensation is in the Village. And then COVID struck and it was put on the <br />backbumer and now it's back. <br />I read the Caucus Minutes from last week. The Charter tasks Council with making sure the Village <br />runs smoothly and finding things that need to be updated and fixed. This is your job to then <br />recommend it and then bring it to the voters. You are not voting on anything. Actually, you are <br />doing what we elected you to do by putting these in front of the voters. If you don't do it, then you <br />are like Congress kicking the can down the road because it's time to fix this once and for all. If it <br />doesn't work and we don't like it in a few years, we can go back and change that going forward. <br />Ll <br />