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Regular Council Minutes 4-26-04 Page 1 MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF COUNCIL Mayfield Village April 26, 2004 The Council of Mayfield Village met in Regular Session on Monday, Apri126, 2004, at 8:08 p.m. in the Mayfield Village Senior Center/Community Room. Council President Bill Buckholtz presided. ROLL CALL: Present: Mr. Buckholtz, Mrs. Cinco, Mr. Marquardt, Mr. Marrie, Mrs. Mills, Dr. Parker and Mr. Saponaro Absent: None Also Present: Mayor Rinker, Mr. Brett, Chief Dearden, Mr. Hanculak, Mr. Hovancsek, Mr. Marrelli, Mr. Metzung, Chief Mohr, Mr. Samac, Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Roman The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag was given. OPEN PORTION OPEN PORTION - 5-minute limit imposed by Chair. Those who wish to speak must first state their name and address. Mr. William McClung of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association will present Mayfield Village with a Business Friendly Community award. ................................................................................ Council President Buckholtz introduced Mr. William McClung of the Greater Cleveland Partnership (in the audience.) Mr. McClung said i feel very much at home here. I think I know most of the people who are in the room after having been in this community-or at least in a neighboring community for over 50 years. For the last 10 years, I have been working at the Greater Cleveland Growth Association for 3 days a week. The Growth Association is now the Greater Cleveland Partnership. About 2 years ago, along with the Greater Akron Chamber, the then Growth Association joined together with the Economic Development Directors for 7 Northeast Ohio counties to form what was then known as the Business Friendly Community Partnership. The purpose of this is to try to work with local communities to elevate the economic development efforts that they put forth to make certain that they were doing all they could do to not only retain but to attract new businesses to their communities. At the same time there was an effort going forward to create what is known as Team NEO. Team NEO is a regional effort to try to put together combined resources for all communities in northeast Ohio to try to become more competitive in attracting new businesses into the area. But the important thing is to recognize that the ultimate responsibility for building a local community rests with the local community. That means that their local efforts have to be very constructive and very positive. What the Business Friendly Community wanted to do was to recognize those communities that are doing a particularly good job and hold them up as models for other communities in northeast Ohio. And they, in order to do that, felt that it would be necessary to get a good handle on what