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Item No: 06C <br />Meeting Date: Nov 24, 2008 <br />Type of Business: SOOB <br />Administrator Review : ___ <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: James Ericson, Clerk - Administrator <br />Item Title/Subject: Resolution 7366, a Resolution Opposing Efforts to <br />Lengthen the East-West Anoka County-Blaine <br />Airport Runway and Opposing Legislative Efforts to <br />Classify the Airport as Intermediate Status <br /> <br />Introduction: <br /> <br />On Thursday, November 13, 2008, I became aware of an effort being coordinated by the <br />Anoka County Commission’s Airport Committee to recommend a resolution to the full Anoka <br />County Board of Commissioners that would “Support Efforts to Increase the Length of the <br />Runway at the Anoka County Blaine Airport to 6000 feet.” On Friday, November 14, 2008, I <br />alerted the City Council to a meeting of the Airport Committee scheduled for Tuesday <br />morning at the Anoka County Government Center. Due to the efforts of Barbara Haake and <br />others, many people attended the meeting which otherwise may have occurred without any <br />public input. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />Mayor Rob Marty and I attended the Airport Committee meeting Tuesday morning. We were <br />joined by Mounds View residents Barbara Haake, Ken Glidden, Mary Kay Walsh Kaczmarek, <br />Brian Amundsen and Tom Winiecki. Residents from Blaine who live close to the airport filled <br />the chamber as did representatives from other adjacent and effected communities; <br />newsmedia and legislators attended as well. After a brief report by Jon Olson, Anoka County <br />Public Services Division Manager, and without any public input, Commissioner Robyn West <br />moved to recess the meeting and schedule a public hearing on the matter for the purpose of <br />accepting input regarding the proposed resolution. The public meeting is presently <br />scheduled for Tuesday, December 2, at 7:00 pm at Kingswood Church in Blaine, 1264 109th <br />Avenue NE. Representatives from MAC (the Metropolitan Airports Commission) and Key Air <br />will be at that meeting, along with presumably hundreds of affected residents from Blaine, <br />Mounds View, Shoreview, Circle Pines, Lexington, Lino Lakes, Spring Lake Park, etc. <br /> <br />Recommendation: <br /> Approve Res. 7366, a Resolution opposing Anoka County’s efforts to lengthen the runway <br />and upgrade the class of the airport to intermediate status. Attached for your reference is <br />the resolution that was being recommended for Anoka County Commission approval. <br /> <br />Respectfully submitted, <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />________________________ <br />James Ericson <br />Clerk - Administrator <br />