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Charter Review Commission Our Charter Review Commission held it's first meeting last night. I presented them with an overview of their charge, appropriate telephone numbers, names of key people {my Secretary Jan and our Clerk of Council Barb), a binder filled with dividers, our charter, charters from other dies, blank paper, pencil, etc. I offered my conference room for their meetings and to make arrangements if they needed additional space. They appointed Mr. Lambert chairperson and Mr. Van Kuran as vice chair. Mr. Lambert will also keep notes and produce minutes. After brief discussions on several matters they agreed to review the material and meet again on May 15th. Subsequent meeting dates will be announced through Jan and Barb. These are of course public meetings. To avoid confusion though it was suggested that anyone wishing to speak to the commission contact Jan or Barb first. In this way they can schedule meetings per topic and keep some order to discussion. Duel-Hub The duel-hub proposal by RTA is a major issue to all of us. I do not believe there is a sufficient hard-core vote count for either side right now because not enough information has been disseminated. In this light our County Commissioner called a meeting last week and invited members of RTA, the RTA Board, the City of Cleveland, County Planning, and the Mayors and Managers Association. While I am not sure yet if this meeting will result in the appropriate votes to pass or defeat the measure I am convinced that more people now know what the proposal really is and how it relates to everything. In other words, there will be a much more intelligent and less emotional vote. I have complained for years that the main problem in American government is that i# never speaks to itself. There are different agendas and priorities in Washington, Columbus, the County and the municipalities. When each one has an dea or pertorms