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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission June 2, 2008 comments had to do with that. Council is going to be very general. Carrie Copfer is going to have the numbers (one sixth of one percent). Council will hear it for the first time tomorrow and will assigned to Committee: either Recreation or Intergovernmental or Finance, whichever direction it goes. Mr. Mahoney said that he heads the Recreation Committee. He could not imagine it going to Intergovernmental under any circumstance, but it could go to Finance. It could also go to a joint th Finance….Mr. Dailey said that the earliest conversation on it could be June 10, to perhaps have a Committee meeting on it. Even though it will be on first reading tomorrow…Mr. Scarl said there should be three readings and get it all to the Board of Elections on time if it’s passed. Mr. Dailey agreed, but said that traditionally there is vacation for July, as Council deserves it; it will be up to them to decide if they want a special meeting in the month of June or wait until that first meeting in August. th Mr. Mahoney said that the first meeting in August will be August 5; now whether those three days th until August 8 to get it to the Board of Elections allows enough time to get it down there but, to rd answer Chris’ concerns, theoretically, Council will get it on first reading June 3, the Clerk of Council will just read it, and then it will be assigned in Caucus to a Committee, the Committee Chair will set a th meeting schedule. The second reading, theoretically, will be set for June 17, then Council will take vacation, and it will have to make a decision about a special meeting for that purpose or just wait until th the August 5 meeting. It would also give this body (the Rec Commission) July to consider this th proposal. Mr. Dailey said perhaps it could happen for the Rec Commission on August 4 to consider the proposal. Mr. Lasko said that Jim Dubelko is the one to give the official Opinion, but Mr. Lasko knew that just from looking at it a year or two ago, the Charter does require that the Rec Commission’s deliberations are purely just advisory; they have no formal weight. That’s why the group is comprised the way it is, with school appointees and city appointees and everyone else, so it clearly is meant to be a sounding board on behalf of the community. The Charter mandates in certain circumstances that the advisory opinion or vote must be taken, and my thought that something of this magnitude (and Mr. Lasko forgets the exact Charter language), it seemed to him that this probably falls within the ambit of requiring consideration and a vote, but that doesn’t mean that the Rec Commission has to hear it first. It just means that at some point in time the Rec Commission must consider it. Mr. Scarl asked if this was the night that the Rec Commission was going to vote in or not in favor of the proposal with the YMCA, yes or no? Mr. Lasko said now, with what Mr. Dailey has mentioned, everything has changed. Mr. Scarl said that it’s o.k. not to be first; he just felt that the Rec Commission needs to see this proposal as well. Mr. Dailey asked if the Rec Commission was looking to see what kind of money would be generated…Mr. Scarl said a lot of people don’t go to Council, they go to the members of the Rec Commission. He just wanted to have some answers for them. Mr. Dailey said that things have changed: even if the Rec Commission got presented tomorrow evening, he did not believe that Carrie Copfer would have the particulars. Carrie tends to be more conservative financially than most, which is good; it’s what you want in a Finance Director. He respects he professional opinion. Mr. Groden said that he was not sure he understands something that was said. Did Mr. Dailey say that tomorrow, what Council gets, won’t necessarily be a complete proposal. Mr. Dailey said they Page 8