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10.B. Consideration of Resolution , to Dedicate An Amount of the Franchise Fee Collected in Year 2000 to Street Improvments and Maintenance and Directing Staff to Draft a Dedicated Fund Ordinance for this Purpose: This somewhat clumsily titled item is a follow up to the franchise fee ordinance and an attempt to ensure the purpose the Council has articulated for the fee increase. Hopefully the resolution is clear enough. Essentially, this resolution acts to confirm the Council's reason for the franchise fee increase and give some added time needed to firm up the commitment to this policy objective by ordinance. I expect we should be able to draft up such a thing for the November work session and subsequent approval. To reiterate some of the discussion from Monday, the objective of creating this fund seems to be understood but no definition of future revenues or expenditures can be made at this time. The need to commit to the franchise fee this month is driving the need for the decision on this item now. The dedicated fund still has a number of issues to resolve. One, can and should the City utilize existing tax increment funds that can be reclassified to meet state auditor criteria and therefore be used for a purpose like street improvements. Two, some projections on street assessment revenues could also help in determining cash flow abilities for a dedicated fund. And three, the interest the fund itself can generate to replenish itself also should be looked at. I think staff can review these and report back with some best guess work later in the month. If for some reason the franchise fee is not increased, the same review would take place assuming the creation of a dedicated fund was still an objective. 10.C. Board Appointments—Two Appointments to the Anoka County-Blaine Airport Advisory Commission: I neglected to get an ad out for this newly formed commission and the two appointments Mounds View can make until this week. I wanted to add to the agenda simply to get the notice out again to potentially interested applicants and for Council consideration. Unless the Council has two appointments it can make, we should have two by the next meeting for the MAC to get started on the committee. 10.D.Continuation of Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance 640 re: Driveways and Street Openings: Jim Ericson's report should cover this item. I may ask to add an item Monday evening. At this point I am not comfortable with what I know about the interfund loan to the golf course. I am waiting for some materials from Jim O'Meara to help explain it to Council. In other business, staff has been approached by the Focus for articles highlighting City business over the past year. We have been given quite a bit a free space so everyone is trying to get some articles written, so when you see them, they were free and written by staff members. There was a good turnout at the I-35W Corridor Coalition meeting with the Met Council on Wednesday. They seemed very impressed with the presentation. Interested Council members can contact me if you would like to see the data and mapping cd rom disk the Coalition distributed. That's it for now. Have a good weekend.