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p 1 i Vi ii i 1 i LI -: ' 1 small kids and we already have this equipment. Mayor Coughlin stated a report on the airport issues, in which he asked Mr. Marty to attend. Mr. Marty stated he and Mr. Rick Jopke attended Storm Water Management's seminar today, and Mr. Marty found it very informative. There are a number of different opinions and ideas. Some of them have been around for 20 years or so, but no one has really implemented them before. Some of the of the cities around the area, Stillwater,Maplewood,and Woodbury, are starting to implement some of the storm water practices that they read about. There was a person there from Park and Recreation. He stated in Scandinavia,what they do in business areas to keep the green space,they are having rooftop gardens, and they are going to be looking into that to putting some gardens up on top of buildings, so we will have something that will handle some of the water. They are going to start with the picnic areas down around Lake Harriet and Lake Calhoun. They have not been constructing yet, but they are going to. There was other information that I passed on to Mary (Malrick) on our Streets Committee, and she is going to be doing some follow-up on that for some ideas that came up today before they complete their final report for us. Mr. Marty stated he will be sharing some of this information with them. Mayor Coughlin stated issues that are all airport-related. One is just an update. Essentially Barbara Haake, our 52B Representative, along with other people on the local government committee got her bill through the first hurdle. The airport bill is essentially to try to help out at our airport, as well as some of the reliever airports, and deal with some of the runway lengths and other issues of minor use and intermediate use airports. Mr. Coughlin added a personal note that he had never seen someone work as tenaciously as our Representative down there. She is absolutely a tiger when it came to working on these things and to be quite honest I think she was only getting a couple of hours of sleep per night, because she was so worried about being at the Capitol for a couple of months having to face the many lobbyists that were against her. It was good to see that go through. We are going to be testifying on behalf of our coalition coming next Thursday. So hopefully, if we cross our fingers and pray, we will get through that next hurdle as well. Mayor Coughlin would like to thank Gina(Wesson) from Action Crafts. She facilitated a tour of the airport for me and some of the other members from Blaine City Council,who were there as well. Mr. Coughlin wanted to extend a thanks to her. Mayor Coughlin stated also airport-related,Representative Barb Haake is going to be holding a town meeting here in City Hall, March 18, at 7:00 p.m. She invites anyone who has any questions, comments, or concerns about the airport, and the issues surrounding that,to come here and she will be addressing those as well as talking about the building she has offered. Mr. Stigney stated he went to the Planning Commission meeting and some of the items discussed with the lenders were how the green is incorporated, and how to resolve that on an ongoing basis. A lot of time was spent on the bylaws, going over the bylaws, as to where they are now, and how they got there, and what was the rationale behind it, and some changes that were proposed to be made.