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Proactive Streetlight Plan Five of the ten proactive streetlight installations for this year will take place in the next month. The five locations are: 2149 Hillview Road, 2201 Hillview Road, 7501 Bronson Drive, 2101 Hillview Road and 7618 Edgewood Drive. All of the affected property owners have been informed and there has been no opposition to the locations. NSP will next schedule the work with their crew members and they hope to complete the five installations by the end of July. Code Enforcement On Friday, 7/1, Councilmember Blanchard, Joyce Pruitt, and I will scour the east side of the City (east of Long Lake Road) recording code violations. After this last outing, Joyce will have seen almost every street and home in the City. New Legislation On Tuesday of this week, Don Brager, Cathy Bennett and I attended a seminar hosted by Briggs and Morgan. The seminar covered several new laws that affect local governments enacted during the 1994 Legislative Session. Some of the topics include ethics in government, annexation, Tax Increment Financing, the 1994 Omnibus Tax Bill and financing development projects. The ethics in government amendment changed the law to prohibit a lobbyist or a principal from giving a gift to an official. An official is defined as a public official, an employee of the legislature or a local official of a metropolitan government unit. A local official is defined as an elected or appointed official of a county or city or of an agency, authority or instrumentality of a county or city. A gift includes money, real or personal property, a service, a loan, forbearance or forgiveness of indebtedness or a promise of future employment. An interested person is defined as a person or representative of a person or association that has a direct financial interest in a decision that the local official is authorized to make. Some exceptions to the law are political contributions, services of insignificant monetary value, services to assist an official in their duties including providing advice, consultant, information and communication with legislation and services to constituents, a trinket or memento of insignificant value, informational material of unexceptional value, food or beverage given at a reception meal or meeting away from the recipients place of work by an organization before whom the recipient appears to make a speech or answer questions, if the gift is given because of the recipients membership in a group, a majority of whose members are not local officials and an equivalent gift is given to other members of the group. Violations to this law are misdemeanors. LMC Committee Appointment Last week I learned I was appointed to the League of Minnesota Cities Improving City Service Delivery Committee and to its Government Innovation and Cooperation Sub- Committee. Our committee is charged with the responsibility of developing policy to be enacted at the federal and state level that would first be proposed to the League membership. I will keep you posted on the specific issues that are discussed. Tim C.