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Mounds View City Council ' .Regular Meeting Page Ten August 9, 1993 Duane McCarty stated that he understood that the City was 98~ built out, but building will not cease on vacant land. The City is looking at intensive retrofitting and rehabilitation in certain areas. McCarty stated that there is always another project to be built that will trigger Storm Drainage or Surface Water Management funds. McCarty stated that the utility seems to take on one small area of the City and, in his opinion, there should be a more wholistic approach which would encompass the entire City. It appears that this Surface Water Management Utility revolves around one small area of the City. McCarty quoted some tenets from the Metro Water Management Act of 1982. Mayor Linke stated that this utility would provide.a financing plan to include projects throughout the entire City. There were many projects identified. Rocky Keene, Short-Elliott-Hendrickson, reported that seven to ten projects had been identified in .the Plan. McCarty stated that he would be very interested, in seeing a-Plan that the Council had developed to improve Surface Water Management when the Lonq Term Financial Plan starts out with a small portion of the City. McCarty stated that many people were given permission to build on a swamp and later yelled, "Get me out of the water." McCarty further stated that there is one point that he would like to make and. that is that there needs to be trust between the City Council and the citizens of the community. The Council. stated in the 5 ear Goal Program booklet that was mailed out to the residents that the citizens of the City of Mounds View will have the opportunity to set the direction the City will take now and into the next century and encouraged the residents or stakeholders to come forward and be part of these goals. On page 6 of the Action Steps in this booklet it states, "implement the surface water management plan through adoption of funding mechanisms and approval of necessary capital outlays." The Council is preempting that trust with the adoption of Ordinance No. 529. Mayor Linke stated that the Surface Water Management Plan was adopted in 1991 and had been spoken about several times at meetings and that the Plan is a city-wide concept plan. McCarty commented that the .implementation plan is missing. Mayor Linke stated that the projects listed in the Plan may not be accomplished when scheduled, but at some time in the future will be completed.