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Mounds View City Council July 9, 2012 Regular Meeting Page 4 A. Reports of Mayor and Council. 1 2 Council Member Mueller indicated a Festival in the Park meeting was scheduled for Tuesday, 3 July 17th at City Hall. Volunteers were still needed for this years’ event scheduled for August 4 18th. She then discussed the events and vendors planned for the event. 5 6 Mayor Flaherty noted the Mounds View Community Theatre would be showing Pirates of 7 Penzance beginning on July 13th. He encouraged all to attend at the Irondale High School. 8 9 Mayor Flaherty indicated the next Music in the Park concert series would be July 19th from 6:30 10 to 7:30 p.m. and would be featuring Ken Lelm. 11 12 Mayor Flaherty encouraged everyone to mark their calendars to attend this year’s Festival in the 13 Park on August 18th. 14 15 B. Reports of Staff. 16 17 City Administrator Ericson stated the Council has been discussing improvements to the County 18 Road 10 corridor recently. He questioned if the Council was interested in painting the 19 semaphores this year or have this placed in the 2013 budget. In addition, a work crew from the 20 Department of Corrections could be hired to assist with refuse pickup in the medians. He 21 requested the Council provide direction on how to proceed with these improvements. 22 23 Council Member Stigney questioned why the median could not be cleaned by local volunteers. 24 City Administrator Ericson stated local organizations could clean the sides of the corridor but 25 were not allowed, for safety reasons, to clean the median. 26 27 Council Member Mueller and Council Member Hull were in favor with proceeding with the trash 28 clean up and median cutting. 29 30 Council Member Gunn agreed and questioned which semaphores were being proposed for 31 painting. City Administrator Ericson reviewed the semaphores in need of repair and painting. 32 He explained that even though the poles were owned by the County, the City was responsible for 33 maintenance. 34 35 Mayor Flaherty noted there was consensus to bring forward further information on the cleanup 36 crew along with the median cutting. The Council was also in favor of reviewing additional 37 information on the expense of painting the semaphores. 38 39 Mayor Flaherty indicated the meeting scheduled at the Community Center for tomorrow evening 40 regarding the Level 3 sex offender has been canceled. The sex offender would not be moving 41 into the community of Mounds View. 42 43 C. Reports of City Attorney. 44 45