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Informational Memo for 1-8-85 City Council Meeting Page 2 5. Attached for your information is the most recent monthly report from the Fire Department for December, 1984. This report includes the major house fire that occurred on December 3rd. Out of the eighteen fire/rescue calls listed, ten or more men responded to fourteen of these calls. 6. The staff has ordered name tags for all the Council members. These tags will be distributed at the 1-8-85 meeting. The purpose of these tags is for the Council members to be easily identified to the public during breaks of the City Council meetings, and when Council members attend County or Regional meetings. 7. The 1985 Lake Elmo City Budget will be distributed at the 1-8-85 meeting. 8. Attached for your information is an article from the Minneapolis Tribune dated 12-27-84 regarding high water on Lake Pulaski. According to the article, the DNR has finally agreed to review the OHWM on this lake because of the extensive flooding that has caused millions of dollars in property damage. The DNR has repeatedly refused to review these OHWM, and by having them reevaluate the Lake Pulaski case may be a benefit to Lake Elmo in trying to get the OHWM adjusted on some of our area lakes. One of the last paragraphs summarizes the DNR perspective on reviewing lake levels as many citizens (on over 100 lakes) will be requesting their OHWM be evaluated, mainly because of the unusual amount of water that Minnesota has received over the past few years. 9. If any City Council member needs to get in touch with me after the normal working hours or on weekends, my home telephone number is 771-3850. If I am not at that number, or there is no answer at that number, everyone should feel free to call 870-0228 as I may be visiting a friend. 10. Attached for your information is a flyer from the League of Minnesota Cities regarding its conference for newly elected officials. This conference will be held Saturday, 2-9-85, and Council member Rose Armstrong has already requested that the staff register her for this conference. I strongly encourage all of the City Council to attend this conference as it would be a good refresher and, for the new Council members, will be a good introduction to City Council activities. There has been money budgeted in the City Council �- classification for conferences and workshops. Any Council member that wishes to attend this meeting should notify me as soon a possible. 11. I have been informed by Maynard Eder that he will be employed as a Committee Assistant for the Educational Committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives. Sally Olson is the chairperson for this Committee, and Maynard has started work already in this new position. As you may recall, Maynard's last day at the bank was Monday, December 31st and he began work as the Committee Assistant on January 2, 1985. Additionally, Maynard is still our representative on the Cable Commission and a State Law change allows this Cable Commission Representative to be a citizen or a Council member. The staff believes, and Maynard concurs, that it would be best to continue having Maynard represent Lake Elmo through 1985 as he has been part of this group since Lake Elmo joined. Additionally, Maynard is the Treasurer for the Cable Commission.