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Mounds View City Council December 11, 2017 Regular Meeting Page 6 1 Council Member Meehlhause reported the City does not have a charge for police calls to an 2 individual home, residence or apartment. Finance Director Beer stated the City does not have an 3 Ordinance in place to allow the City to charge for police services. Police Chief Harder indicated 4 Mounds View has not considered putting a policy in place that would charge Mounds View 5 residents for police services. He described how the Police Department works with rental unit 6 owners/property managers through the Crime Free Multi -Housing program to address habitual 7 problems. Interim City Administrator Zikmund added that the City did have an Ordinance in 8 place to charge for excessive false fire alarm calls. 9 10 Mayor Mueller did not want people to hesitate to call 911 if they were in danger. 11 12 Council Member Bergeron discussed the Crime Free Multi -Housing program and explained this 13 allows the City to collect data and monitor problem properties. 14 15 Council Member Meehlhause addressed the free and reduced lunch concern. He explained the 16 Council did not have any control over how the school district set its boundaries for its elementary 17 schools. He stated this was the responsibility of the School Board and the Superintendent. 18 19 Council Member Gunn did not believe it was right to deny future students the right to attend 20 Pinewood Elementary School because they already had 56% of its students receiving free and 21 reduced lunch. 22 23 Council Member Bergeron commented he was concerned with the 56% when he first heard this, 24 but noted this was only 4.5% above the national average. He did not believe that Pinewood 25 Elementary was an outlier but rather, some of the other elementary schools were extremely below 26 average. He explained the "Boulevard" development was estimating to have roughly 30 27 students. He did not believe this number would tremendously impact Pinewood Elementary. 28 29 Mayor Mueller discussed how the City worked to get more mass transit into Mounds View from 30 the Met Council. She noted the closest bus stop was at the corner of Mounds View Boulevard 31 and Silver Lake Road. She indicated there was also a bus stop at Hillview Rod or Red Oak 32 Drive. City Planner/Supervisor Sevald commented further on a map and the bus routes available 33 in the City of Mounds View, along with the services within walking distance of the proposed 34 apartment complex. 35 36 Mayor Mueller requested further information on how the site would be accessed. City 37 Planner/Supervisor Sevald reviewed the access point to Boulevard from Mounds View 38 Boulevard. He described how traffic would flow in and out of the site and noted the developer 39 had completed a traffic study. 40 41 Mayor Mueller questioned how long the City has been working on this project and how many 42 opportunities did the public have to offer feedback. City Planner/Supervisor Sevald explained 43 Staff has been working with the developer since February of 2017 and there have been at least 12 44 meetings where public comment was taken. 45