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• MEMO To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: October 27, 1997 City Council Meeting Here's what's on the agenda for Monday evening: Council Business - Item 11A- MNDOT Agreement Regarding Highway 10 Crossing Light: Cathy's memo better articulates the agreement, but in general this will allow for the City to be considered for a crossing light under the next project cycle with MNDOT. While this is ahead of the ring road discussion, it is critical to the theater development, and due to the timing of MNDOT's commitments, it makes sense to apply now rather than later. Should the City decide not to want a traffic light, our application can be withdrawn similar to how the bridge project happened. Item 11B - Nuisance Abatement at 2349 Laport Drive: This is the Lodmill property which unfortunately has needed this level of City action in order to rectify code violations. Jim Ericson has work diligently on this matter and will present the situation Monday evening and request abatement proceed. Item D-Franchise Fee Extension:From the Council's budget discussions over the past few months and particularly the last month, on the immediate future of the franchise fee. Bruce has put together the necessary ordinance language to extend the fee for one more year at a 2.5%rate, as opposed to the 3% rate of the current ordinance. This should allow the fee to be collected in January and not hurt the City's budget projections for 1998. Item E-Cooperative Agreement with Minneapolis Public Housing Authority on Silver Lake Commons Project: Bob Long will explain the situation with this agreement on Monday evening. Currently, there is a problem with the language of the agreement wherein the City in not held harmless. Bob feels this language should be included and unless it can be figured out by Monday evening,will likely recommend the Council not approve the agreement. He can explain this Monday. Item H- Northwest Youth and Family Services Joint Powers Agreement: Council may recall discussing this agreement several weeks ago when representatives ofNWYFS attended the Council meeting. Over time, some changes developed in membership and services that were covered in the original WA. I believe Roseville felt that with the changes, the agreement should be updated, and this is the end agreement. It does not change our relationship with them and the recommendation to Council is to have a motion to approve the new agreement. If anyone has questions, try to call me on Monday. Item I- Cable Franchise Ordinance Amendment: This short ordinance amends the existing cable • TV franchise agreement extending it until January of 1998. During this time, the cable commission's legal counsel is negotiating a new franchise agreement resulting from expiration and the transfer of