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• FALCON HEIGHTS CITY COUNCIL MINUTES March 23, 2005 -2- PRESENT: Mayor Sue Gehrz, Council members Robert Lamb, Peter Lindstrom and Richard Talbot Also present: Parks and Public Works Director Greg Hoag and Deputy Clerk Mary Shea Kodluboy Absent: City Council member Laura Kuettel and City Administrator Heather Worthington COMMUNITY FORUM: Mayor Gehrz explained, for the benefit of the audience, that during the Community Forum portion of each Council meeting, anyone may speak for up to three minutes on a subject that is not on the Council agenda. Mr. Bryan Olson, 1592 Roselawn Avenue, said he had a number of items, the first one being a flyer that was sent out by Aspen Garbage Services. It says they are now offering residential service with 100% of the garbage they pick up going to the burner--two free months if you sign up with them. Apparently this occurred on or around January 1 when they applied for their license renewal for 2005. What he finds most interesting is at the second Council meeting in January no one mentioned Aspen was going residential. He thought the purpose of the Solid Waste Commission, and the whole garbage issue last year, was to reduce the number of haulers and the truck traffic. Now the opposite has happened. There is a seventh residential hauler in the City. This was slipped under the wire and no one has said boo about it. He finds that very mysterious and has theories as to what is really happening but didn't think he had time to get into that. The second item: A violation of open meeting laws occurred here prior to the March 2 work session of the City Council. The day before, the posting wasn't on the bulletin board. Posting is supposed to be 72 hours before the meeting. So, here again, we have another case of what he calls a secret meeting. These meetings are not televised. He came with a camera, recorded it himself, and put it on Channel 14. The third item: Last night he happened to turn on Channel 16 around 11:00 PM. The Bulletin Board was on but the audio was on an FM radio station. He doesn't know which radio station it was, but the content of the program was a night time talk show, an advice program talking about people's sex lives and things like that. The person calling in was a prostitute and, needless to say, it was a very raunchy conversation. He doesn't think it is appropriate to have this kind of programming on our government channel. He strongly suggests that if a radio station has to be played during the Bulletin Board periods, that some other station be chosen, preferably anon-commercial station without offensive programming. Mayor Gehrz said that normally on Community Forum, because an item is not on the agenda the City Council does not deal with it. But, Bryan has raised one issue here. He has alleged there was a violation of the open meetings law and she thinks it is unfair to let that allegation go unchallenged.