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IM Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, February 19, 2024 Page 2 Comments From Mayor Bodnar Thank you Council President. A couple of things tonight. First of all, Happy President's Day to everyone. Hope everyone had a chance to enjoy it a little bit. Also, thanks to everyone in this room for all of the service that you have given to your communities. An update on Ron Wynne's retirement. As you know, Ron is retiring this year but he has graciously agreed to stay on through May 3 1 " as we search for his replacement. So thank you for that, Ron. Lastly, I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day last week. As a Village, we had a nice Valentine's Day gift from the Supreme Court. You probably have heard about the ruling that came down on February 14tn. To talk about that, I am going to kick it over to Ron. Mr. Wynne stated, just briefly, after a long long wait, the Supreme Court finally came out with a decision. It was a 5-2 decision where they determined that what the State did in 2020 to allow the businesses to continue to pay withholding tax for employees and municipalities to collect that money, that decision was not considered unconstitutional and therefore the taxpayers are not allowed to request refunds for working from home in 2020. They felt that the decision the State 4W made was in the best interest of the employers because they could not react quickly enough to change the way they do business for the work from home. It was in the best interest of the municipalities to not disrupt their services to their residents. There are still several other cases out there from 2020 that have been in a holding pattern to see what the Supreme Court's decision was going to be. I don't know what will happen with those now but I would assume that they don't have much legs at this point with the Supreme Court decision coming forth. The good news for us is that we will not be having to issue any refunds at all for 2020 for work from home for any of our taxpayers. Mayor Bodnar stated, that's all I have, thank you. Council President Schutt stated, thank you Mayor Bodnar. Thank you Mr. Wynne. Comments From Council President Schutt I wanted to mention to keep Chief Carcioppolo's family in your thoughts and prayers with the passing of his father-in-law last week, David Lillash. I also wanted to mention that our March Caucus is on March 4tn. The Regular Meeting of Council will be on March 181n Open Portion — For Public Comment (5-minute limit imposed by Chair) Council President Schutt stated, if anyone wishes to speak, please come up to the podium and state your name and address for the record.