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comments, they are on the agenda for discussion. John Hammerschmidt will be present. Council has received John's report from the last meeting on the truck purchase. As far as the billboard signs, little has been done since we last talked but we can bring it up again. Item 9 -Building Inspections Agreement: Cari and Nyle have completed the draft of the building inspections agreement and will present it to the Council Monday evening. Item 10 - Building N: This item was delayed for action in order to have the EDC review and comment. Council can do the same Monday evening. Item 11 -Assistant City Administrator Position Reclassification: Council can refer to my memo on this subject. Item 12: Aiport Update: A couple of things need to be noted with our airport efforts. First, I met two weeks ago with MAC staff and the Circle Pines administrator to go over a sound abatement council in regards to our legislation. We will be meeting with MAC again later this month. I need to review a few considerations with the Council on this in order to carry this discussion on. Our legislative efforts call for a system wide abatement council which helps keep a unified interest in dealing with MAC amongst the participating communities, certainly something that is helping our legislative efforts to date. The reality though may be that ultimately we will have only real interest in noise problems at our airport. Our legislative efforts have dropped this requirement, but it may be prudent to keep the regional option on the table in our discussions. As for Mounds View's involvement,I would like to know from the Council who and how many local residents do you think should be involved, whether concerns exist about the efficacy of the committee (I have mine) and anything else. I included in your packet a report Cari put together for St. Louis Park on the MSP abatement council that may give some insight to options to consider. Next, our bill passed the senate Local Government Affairs committee Wednesday. Senator Novak did a great job responding to committee questions and MAC retorts. The vote was 9 to 5. Now the bills are heading to the floors of each house and additional work will be needed. We met after the committee meeting and suggest a number of things be done. First, encourage council members and anyone you can find to call Novak's office at 651-296-4334 or E-mail at sen.steve.novak@senate.leg.state.mn.us and thank him for his efforts and then ask what he would like you to do next to help get it through the senate. We think the number of calls helped, and we think we will need another effort for the next stage. Second,plan on attending and inviting everyone you can think of to a house leadership town meeting here in Mounds View in the council chambers, April 14 at 7 p.m(I have to check this time). Speaker Sviggum and Majority Leader Pawlenty will be here with Barbara Haake to review the house's work to date. They will need to see and hear the interest of Mounds View residents on this issue. This bill can still be stopped, so this is a serious opportunity to get the message to house leadership. Third, anyone you know with connections to anyone at the legislature should contact them and ask for their support. Remember that most of the members from around the state either don't care or know about this issue and have to be given a reason to vote for it. The argument that the legislature is the appropriate body for deciding on the definitions of metropolitan airports,not the unelected MAC and Met Council is striking home with people. I also agreed to extend Chris Georgecas' work lobbying with Bob Long at the capital. I will