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Item 4—Assessment Policy Revisions: Mike has some changes to review with the Council since the last discussion on this issue. Item 5—Water Service Repair Policy: Council will recall a resident approaching them a couple of months back with a leaking water service line. The problem happens periodically throughout the year, and generally the difficulties in securing repairs and reaching an understanding with the resident can be difficult. Mike and I have talked about some options for discussion with the Council Monday evening. Item 6—Pavement Survey: Mike will also review this item. Item 7—Snowplowing Equipment: And this one too. Item 8—Consideration of Electronic Sign Bids: Staff solicited bids for electronic signs to see what is out there. We would like to review this with the Council for direction. Item 9—Ordinance Hearing Options: Since there were a number of complaints about the lack of notice on the franchise fee ordinance last week, some options for future ordinances could be contemplated. The current requirements as reported do not call for public hearings although we have typically simply scheduled a public hearing on the agenda for testimony. Here are some options that the Council may be interested in: At the first reading of the ordinance, determine which of the following the Council would wish to conduct for the second reading of the ordinance: a) no public hearing of any kind b) set an agenda public hearing, as has been done,but no additional notice c) set an agenda public hearing with a published notice d) set a public hearing complete with published notice and full ten day notice period It would seem simple enough to choose one of these options when considering an ordinance first reading. The last option likely will require the Council to skip one or even two Council meetings before the second reading comes up. Cost should also be kept in mind in publishing notices. Naturally, the options the Council would consider depend on the nature of the ordinance in question. Minor amendments may seem of no interest to anyone in the community, whereas some like the franchise fee may. Also, Council members should reflect on how ordinances have come into their final form. Some take considerable effort and reworking requiring the Council to review them several times for being ready to act. This should be kept in mind so as not to rush you with public hearings on ordinances that are not fully developed. Regular Council Meeting 7. B. Set Date for Informational Meeting on 2000 Budget: This special meeting is the annual meeting the Council holds on the budget that is sent out to residents in the Mounds View Matters. 7.C. Set Date for Quatterly Council/Staff Meeting: This is the meeting asked for to follow up on our Carl Neu goal setting sessions. To date, I have only one conflict mentioned to me. Rob is flying in that day and probably couldn't get to a meeting before 7 p.m. Otherwise I have heard no other conflicts. Because of Rob's schedule, the group may want to move it back to 7 p.m.