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read, “Ms. Carr stated that it is a personal decision on the part of each appointing Council member”. Ms. Carr stated that she is a little bit tired of having insults hurled at her, but if members are going to hurl them then she would like to see them reflected in the minutes. Voice vote to approve the minutes as amended carried unanimously. February 10, 2014, City Council Regular Session were moved for 2. approval by Mr. Sharpe, seconded by Mr. Glickert. Ms. Carr stated that these were the strangest minutes she has ever seen. She stated that there are run-on chunks making it very difficult for anyone to read, vocabulary that certainly was not used by the speaker and syntax that she has never seen used by the City Clerk. Ms. Carr then asked Ms. Pumm if she had prepared the minutes. Ms. Pumm stated that she has a person who transcribes the minutes who is not present at the meeting and does not live in University City. Ms. Carr stated that she was very disappointed in the minutes. She stated that after comparing the minutes to the actual recording she had determined that this was not an accurate transcript of the proceedings. Ms. Carr requested that the following amendments be made to the minutes: Page 9 which reads, “Ms. Carr said to the City Clerk that,” should be amended to read, “Ms. Carr asked the City Clerk if”. Page 7 of the minutes does not include Mr. Kraft’s response to a question posed by Mr. Price. Ms. Carr stated that she had transcribed this segment word-by-word because she felt uncomfortable paraphrasing it and then submitted it to Ms. Pumm. She stated that Ms. Pumm’s amendment reads, “Mr. Kraft stated it is like asking do you beat your wife. This is an inappropriate question”. However what was actually said is, “Do you beat your wife? That’s the kind of question that you just asked”. Ms. Carr stated that it was also very important that the following statement be added to the minutes and made a part of the record: “Do you beat your wife? That’s the kind of question that you just asked. Mr. Kraft and Mr. Price held a brief heated discussion about Mr. Kraft’s response, during which time Mr. Kraft responded that he did not ask the City Attorney to represent the City Clerk. The Mayor interrupted the discussion asking Mr. Kraft to allow Mr. Price to finish.” Ms. Carr stated that she would be willing to play this section of the recording for Ms. Pumm, especially considering the fact that at least two Councilmembers had censured another member for allegedly doing something that he should not have. She stated that she has spent over twenty-one months here in chambers being verbally attacked by various members of Council and it has never been recorded, even though she has asked for it. Ms. Carr concluded by stating that this time she is not going to stand down on the issue. Mr. Price stated that something else that was not reflected in the minutes is the fact that when Mr. Kraft made his outlandish statement; which he normally did; and made a comment that it was something Mr. Kraft would