Agenda Packets - 2007/02/12 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Mounds View City Council January 22, 2007 Regular Meeting Page 13 1 10. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 2 3 A. City Council Minutes January 2, 2007 Special Meeting 4 5 Mayor Marty Page 2, Line 31 add commas or slashes between City names; On Page 3, Line 23, 6 Park and Recreation add Commission; On Page 6, Line 12, correct spelling of second and 7 correct Mary to Marty. 8 9 MOTION/SECOND: Marty/Stigney. To Approve the January 2, 2007 City Council meeting 10 minutes as amended. 11 12 Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 13 14 11. REPORTS 15 16 A. Reports of Mayor and Council 17 18 Mayor Marty reported that he and Mr. Ulrich attended the Mayor and City Managers’ meeting in 19 Shoreview and met the new city manager for the City of Roseville and met the new Mayor for the 20 City of Arden Hills and they discussed the TCAAP site along with administrative offenses. 21 22 Mayor Marty indicated that he and Mr. Ulrich talked about the Communication Coordinator 23 position and then said that there are some Cable Committee Members who felt that the 24 Coordinator position held by Blackford was too all encompassing with Mounds View Matters, 25 press releases, cable programming and editing as well as the web page so they think that the City 26 should look into full time cablecasting position and not hiring an additional second part time 27 person. 28 29 Mayor Marty indicated that Staff has said that there will be someone in each department assigned 30 to the web page. He then said that he would like to have the new person, once hired, in charge of 31 cable casting along with Dave Olsen. 32 33 City Administrator Ulrich indicated that the deadline for applications for the Cable Coordinator 34 position is February 5, 2007 and only one application has been received to date. He then said 35 that this will be discussed at the work session. 36 37 Mayor Marty noted that there are still some trees down from a storm more than a year ago and 38 residents had asked if there is a timeframe to clean up the storm damage and there is not. He 39 then said that, after discussing it with Staff, he would like to discuss offering some type of 40 incentive to do the work. He then said that he would like to ask the contractor for a bulk rate on 41 what it would cost to have new driveways installed to provide a less costly way for those with 42 gravel driveways in the City to get a new driveway. 43 44 Council Member Flaherty reported that he has met with residents at Silverview Apartments and 45 they are pleased with the striping on County Road I and the Silver Lake Road Trail. But, one 46 thing is that they would like the City to look at speeding on County Road I and would like the 47