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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, July 15, 2024 Page 6 I would also like to know if all of the Village rental properties are going to be for sale. If that's the case, was every tenant given the same notice and the same timeframe? Do you plan on listing these properties for public sale, such as on MLS, or is there some other type of plan? If so, is there ever an opportunity for them to be rezoned for anything other than a private residence. After coming up with all of this and processing it for a few days, I spent a fair amount of time reading through meeting minutes, previous Voice ofthe Village publications, the Village's website and links and there are some things that are consistent and stood out to me. We all know that one of the biggest responsibilities of any governing body is fiscal stability and growth. It is clear that is a huge priority for this community. Mayor Bodnar you have obviously done a good job on the finances for our city. I will tell you it's clear that is a huge priority. I hope the dollar signs are not the only one because human life does not have a price tag. I pray that you won't put one on any single one of our community members. The family atmosphere reputation of Mayfield Village is often referenced, whether it's from community members speaking at places like this, people listing their homes for sale, or people expressing why they came here. It was most recently brought up that that family atmosphere of what this community represents is why they didn't vote to allow marijuana distribution to occur here because it's not what we wanted to represent. Is this what you want to represent? Right outside on our flashing board proudly displays that we have partnered with the Kindness initiative. I don't think there's anyone in here that doesn't know what a kindness initiative is, but you can read all about it on the website. I don't see an ounce of kindness in this decision. This is not as important to anyone but to those who are impacted by it. Everybody else is going to go home tonight to a bed that in 82 days more than likely they know they are going to have. Good for you. I'm going to go home to a bed I know I have. They are not. That's no fault of their own. Everybody in this situation in this world right now is one emergency or crisis away from this being our family too. Mayor Bodnar, I remind you during the pandemic you put in the Voice of the Village you encouraged us to be vigilant, budget, conserve, change the processes. Yet it showed up on the ballot and we voted to double your salary. You made sure you were taken care of. Now it's time to do that for the people that voted yes for you. I leave you with one last story and rhetorical question tonight. My first husband, many of you knew. Rob Finnie was raised in this very Village from the age of 18 months until he died in our home on Eastgate Drive in 2017 at the age of 53. He's the reason my son and I still live here. I didn't want to come home after his funeral, but my son did because he did not know another home. He was extremely proud of this community. He was involved in the community. If he was alive right now, disappointed is an understatement. One night about 6 months before he died, he was already terminally ill, he said, you know Janelle, I realized something, I could be the richest man on earth, write a check for any amount, hold whatever governing power, believe in whatever God I believe is the right one. But the reality is, if this is going to kill me, it's going to kill me and I'm not going to stop it. Do you know what? He was right. My point in telling you that is money isn't the answer. If money fixed all this, we wouldn't be here tonight having this conversation. I ask you to all sit and think about how many of you have sat at the bedside of a loved one who's dying, specifically a spouse. Not only have I done it, I have done it twice. If in the middle of either one of those times, I didn't know where I