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RESOLUTION NO. 11, SERIES 1993 - ALAN FYNE, BOARD OF APPEALS AND ZONING ADJUSTMENTS Davidson read and mailed Resolution No. 11, Series 1993, to Alan Fyne. RESOLUTION NO. 12, SERIES 1993 - ROBERT ROSS, BOARD OF APPEALS AND ZONING ADJUSTMENTS Davidson read and presented Resolution No. 12, Series 1993, to Robert Ross. PROCLAMATION - ARBOR DAY (WEEK) Davidson read and presented the Arbor Week Proclamation to Howard Teague of the Tree Board. RESOLUTION NO. 13, SERIES 1993 - RECOGNIZING THE CITIZENS OF LOUISVILLE'S RIGHT TO INSPECT PUBLIC RECORDS Davidson asked that this Resolution be placed on the Agenda, because he had read a couple of letters in the Louisville Times claiming that open government, even though the Council supports it, doesn't fully exist and he believes it does, feeling a formal resolution was in order, since there is some doubt. Davidson read the Resolution. Annette Brand, City Administrator, stated that she was speaking for herself and the other employees in the City of Louisville: Brand: We have a very strong service orientation. We understand and we respect government very much. I sincerely believe, and I think the other employees do, that government is of the people, for the people, and by the people. Long before the term "open government" became a "buzz word", I subscribed to it in every city where I worked. I saw to it that it was implemented in every city where I worked. We are responsive to the citizens and the press in all of the matters that concern public records. When I came to Louisville, there was a form that people had to fill out, whenever they wanted to inspect something in the public record. I asked people to throw that form away and whenever records are open, to give them to the people, to let them inspect