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Mounds View City Council January 25, 2016 Regular Meeting Page 10 than projected. He provided further information on the purpose and goals of Twin Cities 1 Gateway. He stated hotels in Mounds View were up 8% over 2014. He then discussed how the 2 number of page views and internet searches had increased over the past year. 3 4 Council Member Meehlhause explained he attended a Festival in the Park meeting last week 5 where Steve Markuson from Twin Cities Gateway was in attendance. Discussion at this meeting 6 centered around additional ways to advertise and promote Festival in the Park. The group was 7 encouraged to create a website for the event and to consider promoting the event via email. 8 9 Council Member Meehlhause indicated a County Road 10 name change meeting was to be held 10 this week between staff from Mounds View and the County. However, this meeting was 11 canceled. He would update the Council with more information on this topic after another 12 meeting was scheduled. 13 14 Council Member Meehlhause stated he would be addressing three items with the Park 15 Commission this week. He commented the Random Park building would be discussed and he 16 would encourage the group to begin planning to renovate this building prior to May. Another 17 item that would be considered would be the City’s Park Dedication Fund balance. Lastly, he 18 wanted to discuss the hockey rink at Hillview. 19 20 Mr. Perkins asked if the Park Commission was considering to place an ice rink at Silver Lake 21 Road and H2. Council Member Meehlhause stated this was not the case. The rink under 22 consideration was at Hillview Park. 23 24 Mr. Perkins then questioned what the plans were for TCAAP. Council Member Meehlhause 25 indicated this property was within the City of Arden Hills. Acting Mayor Mueller encouraged 26 Mr. Perkins to review the City of Arden Hills’ website for further information on the proposed 27 plans for TCAAP. 28 29 Mr. Perkins inquired if there would be a park on the Harstad property. City Administrator 30 Ericson stated this parcel would not become a park. However, he anticipated the City would see 31 development on this parcel in the coming year. 32 33 Acting Mayor Mueller provided the Council with an update from the League of Minnesota 34 Cities. She anticipated there would be a short legislative session in 2016. The issues that would 35 be focused on by the League in 2016 were detailed at length. She commented on the importance 36 of work force housing and was pleased by the diverse housing available in the City of Mounds 37 View. 38 39 B. Reports of Staff. 40 41 Finance Director Beer indicated he and Council Member Meehlhause attended a quarterly 42 meeting with CenturyLink. Discussion at the meeting centered around the future roll out of the 43 PRISM TV product. He was pleased to report that once the product was rolled out it would be 44 available to approximately 90% of Mounds View residents. 45