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FALCON HEIGHTS CITY COUNCIL MINUTES _ig_ January 26, 2005 REPORTS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS (continued) Council member Talbot encouraged everyone to come to the City's Dead of Winter event on Sunday afternoon, February 6, from 1-4 PM, at Community Park. Council member Kuettel also encouraged everyone to attend the Dead of Winter event. She said that at the last Council meeting she mentioned the students at Falcon Heights Elementary School were collecting money for the Tsunami victims. In one week the students collected $1,380.00, which will be matched by a corporation. INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mayor Gehrz said the City will be accepting nominations for the Neal Kwong Youth Citizenship award until February 25. This year, the nominations will be divided into two age groups: 12 to 15, and 16 to 19. The award recipients will be recognized at a City Council meeting and their names will be engraved on a permanent plaque in the. City Hall lobby. If residents are aware of a youth they would like recognized, contact City Hall to obtain a nomination form. A resident of Falcon Heights, Michael Barany, 17, is a finalist in a youth science competition considered to be a junior version of the Nobel Prize. He has placed among the top 40, out of 1,600, in the Intel • Science Talent Search for his research on nitrogen. He will go on to further competition in Washington in March. As asemi-finalist he will be given $1,000 for his academic achievements and the Roseville Area High School will receive the same amount to enhance their math and science programs. As a finalist he will receive at least $5,000 in scholarship money as well as the opportunity to compete for afirst-place, $100,000 scholarship in the 64 year old pre-college science contest. The top 10 finalists will receive scholarships of $25,000 or more. Michael is also a member of the City's Solid Waste Commission. There have been unresolved issues about the proposed location of recreational sports' fields on University of Minnesota property in Falcon Heights. The University has indicated they won't be discussing them for at least five more years. The University is moving ahead with the new Bell Museum, which will be located on the southwest corner of Cleveland and Larpenteur. The U needs to raise about $30 million for its construction. She said that several years ago Mayor Kelly, thinking that the campus was in St. Paul, gave his inaugural address at the University of Minnesota/Falcon Heights. Over the weekend she received a call from Administrator Worthington about Saint Paul having ticketed a number of Falcon Heights residents' vehicles and towed them away, in the erroneous belief they were in Saint Paul and violating that City's snow emergency parking regulations. Administrator Worthington got the tickets waived and the vehicles returned at no cost to the residents. The regular City Council meeting was adjourned at 8:35 PM. Respectfully submitted, Mary Shea Kodluboy Deputy Clerk 14