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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, October 16, 2023 Page 5 has gone on for so long without any resolution or commitment for zero tolerance from the Police Department. The Mayor and Police Chief have pushed back at every interaction rather than act in a collaborative and productive manner. As it is currently not feasible for bus drivers to report violations as there's no longer a front license plate mandate in Ohio, I would like to hear productive ideas how bus safety can be improved in the Village. My hope is that a zero tolerance policy will be instituted, maybe a bus caution sign can be installed along the road. Maybe the Police Department can form a productive working relationship with Mayfield Schools' transportation department with some Council oversight to ensure the Police Department is doing their job. Sincerely, Derrek McDowell Council President Schutt asked, are there any other comments this evening? Jeff Heinrich NOPEC I wanted to give you a guys an update on your enrollment since you were recertified with the electric aggregation. As it stands today, and this could change day to day, definitely week to week with people who opt out or opt back in, Mayfield Village is currently at a little over 1,900 enrollments with NOPEC. It's 1,1165 electric and 741 gas. I wanted to draw your attention real quick to the program participation part on the sheet I distributed to everyone. In Cleveland Heights, where I live, we have had an influx of door to door energy salespeople who are very good at what they do. I happened to be out on my porch as an employee of NOPEC who is the provider for Cleveland Heights and the person said, I am with your electric provider and my wife said, really, you should talk to my husband because he's the one who pays the bills (she pays all the bills). I came out and I said, hi, I'm Jeff and they said, hi, I am with your electric provider. And I said, oh, you're with NOPEC, knowing we don't do door to door solicitation. He said, well, I am with your electric provider. I asked, NOPEC? And he said, your electric provider. I said, listen, I know you got a job to do. We are not falling for it. I work for NOPEC. We don't do door to door. Please take your business elsewhere. Kind of funny interaction because he picked the wrong house as we have 20 employees and I am one of them and he ends up my door, but the real issue is that, especially senior citizens in communities, all prey to this on a daily basis. Mayor Bodnar, you remember when we had our Q/A months back when we were recertified with electric. Afterwards we did one on one talks with community members. One woman told me that she fell prey to the door-to-door solicitation, so instead of paying the NOPEC given rate which is 6.4 cents, she is currently paying .13 a kilowatt with a $200 cancellation fee. Mayor Ward of Lyndhurst said, oh, you must be talking about a certain provider. He banned them from the City because he had gotten so many complaints. A way to take care of that is the Do Not Knock program. You sign up. Your community residents would put themselves on the program. That will tell door to door solicitation people they can't go to those addresses. Just something to keep in mind.