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MEMO May 22, 1998 To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: May 26, 1996 City Council Meeting It has been another busy week. Here's the agenda for Tuesday's meeting: Consent Agenda: Item 5D-License Application for Festival Committee Beer Garden: The Council may want to note this item as a follow up to the other discussions allowing this part of the event to take place. Cane has been in close contact with Sharie Linke and has reviewed all the security and grounds layout to make this part of the Festival go as smoothly as possible. Council Business: Item 7B-Report on Tree Damage: As of today, Friday, the trees and branches from last Friday's storm are finally getting cleared and may continue to do so over the weekend. Rick Wriskey has been through the community several times and has organized pickup on behalf of the City. Contractors have been working the Shoreview area and are slowly getting freed up to move about the other areas hit. Pockets of damage in Mounds View include the south Greenfield Avenue area, some spots around the Quincy and Bronson area,upper Knollwood, and some random trees. Rick has noted the apparent storm related trees and will be monitoring for appropriate debris removal and excluding general yard type work. He will be present to address the Council Tuesday and respond to any concerns. As for the City doing the pickup, the policy is to allow the city administrator with notification to the mayor to determine whether the storm damage warrants city involvement in cleaning predominantly residential debris. Saturday and Monday I went around parts of town and felt the amount of debris and the spread out nature of it would require the city to step in and provide clean up. I talked with Rick Wriskey Monday and his assessment was the same. He is familiar with our policy since it is essentially the same as New Brighton's. I called the mayor on Saturday and again Monday and gave the go ahead to Rick. I should know more about the cost next week. Item C - Resolution 5240 re: Sufficiency of Petition: Council has my letter and a letter from the city attorney regarding the petition submitted to the city on the access points for Long Lake Road and/or County H2. On Monday I had our two top election judges review the petition's signatures against the voter registration list. By the end of Tuesday, they had determined 733 signatures were valid. The charter requires 15% of the voters in the last presidential election to have signed. 5,724 voters voted, meaning 859 signatures were needed. By this requirement, the petition is not sufficient. The charter does allow for additional signatures to be submitted, and I have notified the petition group with the same letter that is in your packet. The attorney's letter addresses the language of the petition and in his determination, that too is