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Mounds View City Council January 8, 2018 Regular Meeting Page 6 1 Carl Spande, 5219 Irondale Road, thanked the Council for their time and stated he fully 2 supported the project. He believed the proposed apartments would greatly benefit local 3 businesses, such as Moe's. He explained he was a gun owner and has frequented other gun 4 ranges. He stated he was not afraid for his four kids that the proposed gun range would bring 5 about an active shooter. He encouraged Mounds View residents to look at the members in their 6 community who already own guns and would be using this gun range. He stated at this time 7 those gun owners are driving outside of the community to spend their money. He indicated he 8 had more fear of his kids getting a concussion playing sports than there being a gun problem in 9 the community. 10 11 Mary Kay Walsh-Kaczmarek, 8345 Pleasant View Drive, wished the Council a Happy New 12 Year. She stated the Council could not predict the best or worst case scenario that could occur at 13 the gun range. However, she encouraged the Council to consider the risks to the community. 14 She feared that the market rate apartments would not be filled given the fact it was located next 15 to a gun range and therefore their value would decrease. She questioned what the benefit of the 16 proposed development would be to the City. She stated Mounds View was a residential 17 community that should not be pursuing gun culture that was already too perverse in the United 18 States. She was of the opinion the City would be repeating the same mistake that had been made 19 with Medtronic. She indicated the gun range was a redundancy and noted other ranges were 20 available in Spring Lake Park, Blaine and Otsego. She believed there was a dichotomy of views 21 as to what Mounds View should be and she encouraged the Council to keep the City focused on 22 its strong schools and being residential in nature. 23 24 Mayor Mueller thanked the public for their comments. 25 26 Mayor Mueller recessed the City Council meeting at 7:23 p.m. 27 28 Mayor Mueller reconvened the City Council meeting at 7:26 p.m. 29 30 9. COUNCIL BUSINESS 31 A. Resolution 8887, Differential Pay for Patrol Officer David and Development 32 of Policy. 33 34 City Administrator Zikmund requested the Council approve a pay differential for Patrol Officer 35 David and the development of a policy. He explained Patrol Officer David recently received 36 extended deployment papers which led to a differential pay discussion. He noted the Personnel 37 Committee discussed this matter and was recommending differential pay for four to five months 38 or until she is released from the deployment. Staff also recommended the drafting of a policy to 39 further address this issue. He noted this item would be discussed further at their February work 40 session meeting. 41 42 Mayor Mueller noted Officer Sarah David would be deployed from January 16, 2018 through 43 May 15, 2018. She reported the City must keep her position open for her but was not required to 44 pay differential wages. However, after discussions were held by the Human Resources 45 Committee a recommendation was being made to pay differential pay.