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Mounds View City Council October 22, 2012 <br />Regular Meeting Page 8 <br /> <br /> 1 <br />MOTION/SECOND: Mueller/Stigney. To Approve the September 24, 2012, City Council 2 <br />meeting minutes as presented. 3 <br /> 4 <br /> Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 5 <br /> 6 <br /> 7 <br />11. REPORTS 8 <br />A. Reports of Mayor and Council. 9 <br /> 10 <br />Council Member Mueller commented the Ramsey County League of Local Government meeting 11 <br />would be held on Thursday, October 25th and the guest speaker would be Craig Rapp and the 12 <br />topic of discussion would be “Lean Thinking”. 13 <br /> 14 <br />Council Member Mueller indicated the Ramsey County League of Local Government would 15 <br />meet again on Thursday, November 15th and the topic of discussion would be an election recap 16 <br />with local impacts. 17 <br /> 18 <br />Council Member Mueller stated after the evaluation of the 2012 Festival in the Park, officers for 19 <br />the 2013 event were established. In addition, next year’s event date was selected to be Saturday, 20 <br />August 17, 2013. She was pleased with the evaluation process and encouraged those interested 21 <br />in assisting with the event to volunteer. She stated the next meeting would be held on November 22 <br />14th at City Hall. 23 <br /> 24 <br />Mayor Flaherty reviewed highlights from the most recent Mounds View Business News. 25 <br /> 26 <br /> B. Reports of Staff. 27 <br /> 28 <br />City Administrator Ericson stated Staff was approached by Bill Urbanski to consider a resolution 29 <br />proposed by Minnesota Arms Spending Alternatives Project (ASAP). The resolution would shift 30 <br />federal funds from the war, or the minority, to providing needs for the majority. He commented 31 <br />he tried to research the matter further and was not successful in verifying the information. He 32 <br />requested the Council review the resolution and provide feedback to Staff on how to proceed. 33 <br /> 34 <br />Bill Urbanski, 2367 Sherwood Road, indicated he presented this resolution to the Council at their 35 <br />last worksession meeting. He felt this Resolution should be considered by the City to ensure 36 <br />federal spending levels are reviewed. He understood the City of St. Paul discussed and approved 37 <br />this resolution. He commented Minneapolis and Duluth would be considering this same 38 <br />resolution. He requested Mounds View take action on this item at their November 13th meeting. 39 <br /> 40 <br />Mayor Flaherty stated the consensus of the Council at the worksession meeting was to move 41 <br />forward with this item. However, some of the facts were still uncertain and may have to be left 42 <br />off the resolution. 43 <br /> 44