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UNAPPROVED MINUTES A <br /> MOUNDS VIEW CITY COUNCIL <br /> FEBRUARY 22, 1999 OVED <br /> 7:00 P.M. <br /> 1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER <br /> The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Mayor Coughlin. <br /> 2. ROLE CALL: Mayor Coughlin, Council Members Stigney, Thomason. <br /> Absent: Marty, Quick. <br /> 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES <br /> Additional corrections for February 8 meeting minutes, Page 1, third paragraph from the bottom, <br /> report says Mr. Marty attended the planning commission, should be Mr. Stigney. <br /> Page four, item 9E, spellings for names, Ordeen, Braathen, Laube, Hedland, Kahn. <br /> Motion/Second: Thomason/Stigney. To approve minutes for January 25, and February 8, 1999. <br /> Ayes - 3. Nays-0. Motion passes. <br /> 4. SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS: State of the City address, Mayor Dan Coughlin. <br /> Mayor Coughlin stated: Fellow neighbors, in keeping with the City's charter, I, as your mayor, am <br /> required to give you a message on the state of the City. It is traditional in addresses like these that <br /> the Mayor speak of all of the Council doings in the last year, all of the accomplishments that it was <br /> a part of and listing the occasional struggles that we still deal with. I don't have any energy, nor do <br /> I have any desire to list things that have already been covered by a great degree by cable television <br /> and by our newspapers. And,medical science has found other ways to put people to sleep other than <br /> just have the Mayor talk about old news. We as a city face normal struggles that every other city <br /> our size faces. The demands of services versus demands for lower taxes. The pressure to rebuild, <br /> versus the desire to preserve some of our past, and the overall struggle for the average citizen to be <br /> heard above all of the other voices that come screaming at City Hall. To mention a list of the <br /> accomplishments that this City has made would only speak to what we have done. This is the part <br /> that usually gets the lion's share of our attention. However,the other side of the coin is not about <br /> what we have done, but is about who we are. I submit to you that it has been long over due for <br /> someone to discuss the state of the City in the context of who we are. I have often wondered what <br /> makes Mounds View different than any other suburb here in the Twin Cities. We don't have any <br /> national monuments within our boundaries, we don't have any world famous people that were born <br /> here, there are no real tourist attractions or historical sites for people to visit here contained in our <br /> 1C:\ADMIN\MINUTES\CC\2-22-99.CC <br />