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MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF COUNCIL Mayfield Village May 17, 1999 The Council of Mayfield Village met in Regular session on Monday, May 17, 1999, at 8:02 p.m. in the Mayfield Village Senior Center/Community Room. Council President Bill Marquardt presided. ROLL CALL: Present: Mr. Buckholtz, Mr. Busa, Mrs. Cinco, Mr. Fixler, Mr. Marquardt, Mrs. Mills and Dr. Parker Absent: None Also Present: Mayor Rinker, Mr. Brett, Mr. Cappello, Mr. Diemert (8:12 p.m.), Mr. Hovancsek (8:10 p.m.)-Mr. Metzung, Chief Mohr, Mr. Samac (8:07 p.m.) Chief Stevens, Mr. Thomas (8:08 p.m.), and Mrs. Roman The Pledge of Allegiance to the Rlag was given. OPEN PORTTON Terry Santoro, Thornapple Drive, said she is a member of the Activities Committee. She expressed thanks to everybody who helped with the Mother's Day Pancake Breakfast--the Service Department personnel, the volunteers and the girls in the office who helped. It was a success this year. Ed Schultz, 6862 Metro Park Drive, said he was Chairman of the Mayfield Virlage Civic League. We were chartered and state-approved in 1965. It was a non-profit organization. They represented the homeowners in every area of the Village. At one time their membership ran to 750. Our objective was to protect the homeowners and their problems and vested interests when some of the City fathers wouldn't behave themselves. Mr. Schultz cited several examples of where the organization was active such as the Hilltop Sewer Project- in 1965--they were responsible for stopping a project with the County Commissioners; they put in 1771awsuits at that time. They also were very active with Industrial Park disqualifications with Judge Alvin Krenzler and stopped the annexation that Julius Paris was trying to corrupt Mayfield Village with. They formed a Civic League in Highland Heights and the project was turned down. Mr. Schultz said they did a lot to get rid of political harm that got rid of some of the vested interests in the period on Council whose interests were of their own concern and certainly not with the ambience and character of the Village which was their project. Mr. Schultz said he talked with Mr. Samac a couple of days ago regarding the request and his issuance of a permit to one of the neighbors who wants to build a second story. This subdivision is all ranch-style homes. Mr. Schultz said he will read from the_title (but will skip over things which refer to ranch style design and attached garages) and he quoted from schedule "B", subsection 6. It says you can't have anything other than a ranch-style home. Mr. Samac lead him to believe that he had just received the information recently. He talked with a good friend and one of the trustees of the Mayfield