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FALCON HEIGHTS CITY COUNCIL MINUTES -4- • September 22, 2004 REPORTS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS: None INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mayor Gehrz said there won't be a Council workshop in October because there will be three City Council meetings in October. Neither she nor Administrator Worthington has any Council workshop topics for November and December, and she invited the Council to suggest topics they would like to have a workshop on. Otherwise, there won't be any workshops for the remainder of 2004. She gave a brief description of a press conference held at Regions Hospital earlier in the month to publicize September as Emergency Preparedness Month, and expressed thanks to three Falcon Heights CERT graduates who accompanied her to the event: Kris Grangaard, Jim Evans and Roger Aiken. There are over 600 volunteers in Minnesota and the media was very interested, but the event wasn't publicized on the major channels. Gretel Keane, a Falcon Heights CERT graduate and trainer, is undergoing training at Atlanta, Georgia for debris management prior to being assigned to assist with hurricane cleanup. There are two more CERT graduates from Falcon Heights waiting to be contacted by FEMA. She said that on September 11, the City held an emergency preparedness tabletop exercise at City Hall and it was the first opportunity for the CERT graduates to work alongside City staff, the fire and police departments, and County emergency management personnel. Of the 50 CERT graduates, 22 t were in attendance. She gave a brief description of the exercise and said that on Saturday morning, October 2, there will be an actual emergency preparedness exercise in the City. In 2005, the City will be offering more CERT training. Administrator Worthington said that with regard to the SE Corner project, 24 of the 56 units in the Senior Building are leased, with 12 units now occupied. A community-wide open house will be held sometime in October. The multi-family building is approximately 40% complete, with completion planned for May-June, 2005. Construction of the town homes will begin after the multi-family building is completed. The streetlights that have been re-set will be painted after Ramsey County rehangs their signs on them. Attendance at the State Fair was down approximately 100,000 this year. Overall, things went smoothly in the City; however, there were some difficulties with the Snelling/Larpenteur intersection, as in past years. This year, one change was made to allow permit parking only in several areas near the State Fair property that are cul de sacs or dead end streets. Feedback will be requested from the residents in these areas as to whether or not to utilize permit parking again next year. Two residents from the Northome neighborhood have called and asked if the City could utilize permit parking in their area of the City next year. The City will be looking at this issue in the next few months, and residents are being encouraged to write, call or a-mail City Hall with their requests or ideas. The Northeast Quadrant Traffic Task Force concluded their meeting earlier this year and staff is completing the policy item they drafted, with the intention of having it on a Council agenda in November. The City Engineer has pulled together some traffic data for that neighborhood, and the Task Force will meet again in late October, early November, to look at the data and determine the next steps. • 4