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Mounds View City Council March 24, 2008 <br />Regular Meeting Page 9 <br /> <br />Council was bold enough but there was no funding available to move forward and purchase the 1 <br />property. 2 <br /> 3 <br /> Ayes – 4 Nays – 1(Marty) Motion carried. 4 <br /> 5 <br />9. JUST AND CORRECT CLAIMS 6 <br /> 7 <br />MOTION/SECOND: Stigney/Mueller. To Approve Just and Correct Claims as Presented. 8 <br /> 9 <br /> Ayes – 4 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 10 <br /> 11 <br />Council Member Hull was not present for the vote. 12 <br /> 13 <br />Council Member Stigney asked about the previous just and correct claim that he had questioned. 14 <br /> 15 <br />Administrator Ericson noted that the claim in question was from the Department of Health for a 16 <br />fee per meter for each connection in Mounds View. 17 <br /> 18 <br />10. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 19 <br /> 20 <br />None. 21 <br /> 22 <br />11. REPORTS 23 <br /> 24 <br />A. Reports of Mayor and Council 25 <br /> 26 <br />Mayor Marty noted that the retreat was last weekend and he felt that it went well. There was one 27 <br />citizen that attended for the entire retreat both days. He then said that it has been said in the past 28 <br />that the Staff is telling the Council what to do and that is not the case. During this retreat, the 29 <br />Staff and Council work together to set goals and the Staff works with Council to make it happen. 30 <br />He then outlined some of the ways that staff sacrifices and looks for ways to save the City 31 <br />money. He further said that he is proud of the employees, and morale is good despite the 32 <br />sacrifices they are asked to make. 33 <br /> 34 <br />Mayor Marty indicated he would like the Finance Director and City Attorney to put together 35 <br />information on what can be rebated for the past street improvement projects and what cannot, 36 <br />and why. He then said that he would like a letter mailed to the last street projects that are still 37 <br />paying if they did not pay up front. 38 <br /> 39 <br />Finance Director Beer indicated that there is a pretty good list of those that will get a rebate and a 40 <br />letter will go out. 41 <br /> 42 <br />Council Member Mueller requested that recipes for the cookbook be submitted by April 15, 43 <br />2008. She then noted that there is a meeting on April 16, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. on the Blaine Airport 44 <br />expansion. 45