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0CRY OF THIS IS IT 41770UNDS1. M P°dies:-PartneWAs OCTOBER 21 - OCTOBER 25, 1996 ADMINISTRATION pursue funding sources applicable to those components. A budget and selection of a I want to thank the Council and city employees for consultant to facilitate this work will be considered the flowers and thoughtful card delivered to my in November. The City will likely have to grandmother's funeral. Having been on the contribute something less than $5,000 to be a part delivering side many times, it is hard to fully say how of the effort. I will report back in November. appreciative it is to be thought of in these situations. Thanks again. Last week I attended a meeting at TCAAP and reviewed the water treatment facility in New I want to update everyone on a few ongoing items. Brighton used to treat the pollution plume created First, the Quad Rink project is moving along with at the arsenal site. Interesting tour. That's it for the standard bugs still to be worked out. It appears now. Remember the Council meeting is Tuesday that the MASC is considering committing evening. For those interested, the Airport Task themselves to upwards of 1000 hours of ice time Force will be meeting Monday at 5:30 p.m. for the fourth rink. This raises questions about the conditions the other communities agreed to for the Chuck other three rinks. The concern is that MASC is responsible for filling "shoulder" season hours Less then two weeks before the election! The working with the other three communities on their election judges are all geared up for the big day. rink commitment. With their additional hours of With about 900 absentee ballots coming in, and commitment on the fourth rink, there is some City Hall being open on Saturday and Monday for concern that those new hours will in actuality be in in-person absentee voting, many judges will be competition with the shoulder season hours. The working extra hours before November 5. People issue should be resolved in the master agreement have been very accommodating with their however, by differentiating the hours and MASC's schedules- that really helps me. commitment. In other words, I doubt it will be an impediment to finalizing an agreement. I was The Airport Task Force will be meeting with MAC briefed on all this on Wednesday morning with the representative Roy Ferman on Monday, October other communities and MASC officials. 2 I, at 5:30. The group is once again coming together to discuss the noise abatement plan. For The Council may recall the City, as part of the 1- all of you Internet surfers, MAC has a home page 35W Corridor group submitted a planning grant to on the Internet that can be accessed for information the Met Council focusing on housing and economic regarding a variety of noise, operational and general development along the north I-35W corridor. The airport issues (mostly dealing with MSP). The application did not get approved. The Mayor's website is: http\\:www.macaysat.org. committee of the group met and agreed to break down the components of the grant application and Dawn