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I 0 MEMO • ,/ December 29, 1997 To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: January 5, 1998 City Council Work Session We have several items to review this Monday, but I do not expect it to be an overly lengthy meeting. Here's what we have so far: Item 1 - Senator Novak: Steve Novak will meet with the Council to review any issues we may have interest in prior to the upcoming legislative session. Two items I suggest bringing to his attention are first the mobile home resolution regarding the League of Minnesota Cities' effort this Council approved earlier this month. Second, he should be made aware of any interest in the Council may have in the work Geri Evans is doing on the house side regarding Municipal State Aid funding formulas. I think rather than telling him about Evans' work, perhaps relaying to him the problems Mounds View is having in working with residents who want more say so over their street construction specifications may be more appropriate. Evans' efforts right now are directed at the MNDOT Commissioner and not at the legislature. Naturally, the MAC airport plan should be discussed. Novak chaired another meeting this month attended by myself, the mayor and city attorney. At Bob Long's suggestion, MAC officials were asked to consider jointly filing a request for a declaratory judgement to clear up the conflicts present in Met Council plans and past legislation. He and Bob can review that for the Council. Other issues that can be discussed include further efforts at property tax reform, the state budget surplus relative to cities, and anything we should be aware of in a state bonding bill. This is our best opportunity we have to communicate directly with Steve so don't be afraid to bring things up. Item 2 - Discussion of Assessment Policies and Street Maintenance Program Status: With the holidays and vacations it has been a little hard getting as much done on this as I would like. However, between Bruce, Mike and the SEH guys some has gotten done. Perhaps this will be enough to get the ball rolling. Mike and Steve Campbell have developed a matrix that may assist in addressing the issues we face here and should be able to present it as best possible Monday evening. There will still be more work to do and the Council may want to consider a special work session date for later in January to work on this. Item 3 - Discussion of County Road J and Airport Road Status: We will try to address the status of this again as well. Item 4 -Review of Mounds View Drive Residents Meeting: I pretty much covered everything in my memo of December 19. Since two Council members were not there, some discussion of • what took place would be appropriate. I have been asked by the newly formed residents committee to keep them appraised of meetings and correspondence regarding their area, so there