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WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: When they come to your house and say well, we don't need your signature - even if you don't vote on it - because we already have enough. MR. PARTYKA: People went along with it because they figured alright, it's going to go through anyway. ACTING i1AYOR JOHNSON: Did you vote on the petition? MRS. GENESE COLBERG, 2833 Farrington Street: No. MR. WILLIAM SCHRENKER, 2810 Farrington Street: I was one of the two people who circulated the petition. We did not tell people that 33% was enough. In fact, we made an effort to get as many people as we could because we believed you need more than a majority to get the thing passed by the Council. If he understood 33%, this might have been in the context that this was the minimum amount that the Council would have to consider. We did not tell them that that was only going to be the number presented. We did not stop. We canvassed every house in the block. We went back three or four times so that we 90uld get everybody. There was no question of only a few people signing and we didn't tell the rest of the people that they didn't have to sign. We wanted more than 50% and we got it. COUNCILMAN KEHR: It's quite obvious that you didn't stop at 35%. MR. SCHRENKER: We didn't tell people that they didn't have to vote because it was already taken care of. ACTING MAYOR JOHNSON: Any other comments? MR. PARTYKA: That's a lie. MR. SCHRENKER: It is not. MR. PARTYKA: That's what you told me. You stood right on my doorstep and told me that. MR. SCHRENKER: No we didn't. MR. PARTYKA: You said - we don't need your signature, we already have enough. MR. SCHRENKER: We had over 60% at that point. MR. PARTYKA: anyway. You said - your name doesn't mean anything MR. SCHRENKER: should sign or not. You were questionable as to whether you I said that we had 60% or more . . -4-