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Mark Micol: If it was from the Sherriff’s department or some other entity I would say let’s hear it but I don’t know. 1 2 Larry Wright: You could hear a tape of an automatic weapon for five seconds. What does that mean in an overall 24 3 hour period, seven day, three month and what are we going to do with that? Where do we go with that? 4 5 Jeff Schmitt: I don’t know, I would guess and this is not, given the statements in the comments that Mr. Klein, 6 through his attorney, made to Mr. Harvey about him being willing to put up limits on the shooting range, where ever 7 that is here in this letter, number 10, whatever page that was. 8 9 Larry Wright: While you are finding it, I wouldn’t want to be in any one of these people’s shoes but we have to work 10 on something that is tangible. We just can’t work on hearsay. 11 12 T.C. Morphis: This also goes to the question of standing to show the suffering ….. 13 14 Jeff Schmitt: Mr. Klein was willing to come to an agreement with Mr. Harvey on having the safety range designed 15 and evaluated access environmental issues and then undertake reasonable range safety things. The implication to 16 me is a very interesting thing and listening to a snippet of this thing may go to some basis by cooperating what is in 17 here and say that in effect the level of what was going on actually substantiates that there was something beyond the 18 family members shooting. How long would we listen to this thing? 19 20 T.C. Morphis: Less than 20 seconds and we will have it authenticated by Mr. Carter. 21 22 Jeff Schmitt: This thing is not going to end tonight either. 23 24 Larry Wright: Go ahead. 25 26 Anthony Taibi: Again, settlement discussions are inappropriate for any discussion by a decision making body of this 27 kind. They are, I would defer to Mr. Bryan, completely excludable from any discussion. Secondly, to the extent that 28 my client is attempting to be a good neighbor, that is being used against him so if he and his buddies like to blast 29 away at an old tree stump then that is a perfectly legal use but if in order to accommodate his neighbors, he says 30 okay, I will get the bobcat out here and make some attempts to clean things up in a way y’all would like to make it a 31 little bit more safe. I will put a little quick lime down where the lead might hit, oh, well now he is engaged in an activity 32 so now somehow it has changed its character. The issue is, is there a facility, I’m allowed to play basketball in my 33 backyard, if I put up a hoop, it doesn’t suddenly become a basketball facility. If I am shooting on my 34 acres and my 34 neighbors complain and I make some attempt to address any legitimate complaints they might have, I don’t expect 35 that to be used against me. There is no facility. We stipulate that there is lots of shooting of loud guns… bad, bad 36 guns. 37 38 Larry Wright: Okay. Thank you. So where are we board? Do you want to hear it or not? Play the tape. 39 40 T.C. Morphis: I am going to start this at a low volume, I am going to turn it up and you tell me when it sounds like 41 what you heard. Mr. Taibi, we are entitled to let it in. 42 43 Anthony Taibi: It is absurd. 44 45 Larry Wright: You address the board, please. We will hear it. 46 47 (Played tape). 48 49 John Gallagher: This is what it sounds like outside on my property when I take a walk. 50 24