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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />November 21, 2022 <br />Page 2 <br />Comments from Mayor Bodnar <br />Thank you, Council President. I would just like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a very <br />Happy Thanksgiving. I hope everybody gets the opportunity to eat some turkey and watch some <br />football and count your blessings, maybe not in that order. <br />We have a lot to be grateful here in Mayfield Village so I thought I would just like to bring up a <br />couple of things. I would like to thank the Mayfield Village voters for passing Issues 64 and 65. <br />I believe those are both positive moves which will position Mayfield Village for a successful <br />future. I would also like to note that we will be receiving a $250,000 grant from Cuyahoga <br />County subject to approval from County Council. We will be using it for Civic Center <br />renovations. Just a brief anecdote on that. We had initially applied for the grant and waited <br />patiently for news. Ultimately, a couple of weeks ago, we got a letter from the County indicating <br />— we couldn't tell, it was very vague, it indicated three different grants. They weren't ours. We <br />were confused. We e-mailed back and said, hey, can you give us a list of who got the grants and <br />who didn't. Eventually they did that and we were not on the list of grant recipients. I was <br />disappointed and I was a little bit surprised so I thought it was a good idea to press on that a little <br />bit. I wrote a respectful but firm letter asking the County to please give us a copy of the rubric <br />that was used and also to let us know how Mayfield Village scored in comparison with other <br />communities that had applied for that grant. It was a competitive process. The very next day, we <br />got a letter back from the County very apologetic. They didn't realize it, but what had happened <br />was, they explained that they confused Mayfield Village with two other communities with very <br />similar names to ours. They thought our application for $250,000 was just in addition to the other <br />grants one or both of those communities had applied for and so they denied the grant. They then <br />said there's money in the fund and we are going to fund your grant 100%. So in case anybody's <br />doubting Issue 64 and whether it's worth it to pay somebody who's going to pay attention to the <br />details and advocate for the city, I think it's a good idea to do that. <br />Finally, I would just like to acknowledge Scott Sipos and his department. You did a great job <br />plowing the roads yesterday. Thank you for that. I also would like to acknowledge Shane <br />McAvinew because my senior snow plow guy came by and plowed our driveway. I know you <br />usually only get the phone calls when the snow plow guys don't show up but they showed up <br />yesterday, so thank you for that. That's all I have. Thank you. <br />Council President Schutt stated, thank you, Mayor Bodnar. <br />Comments From Council President Schutt <br />Council President Schutt stated, the next Council Caucus meeting is on Monday, December 5th at <br />7:00 p.m. here in this room. The Regular Meeting of Council is Monday, December 19th also at <br />7:00 p.m. I would also like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. <br />P1 <br />