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Mounds View City Council March 26, 2007 Regular Meeting Page 11 Finance Director Beer indicated that there were other expenses in that fund outside of forfeitures. 1 2 Mayor Marty indicated the report was good and the summary page was very concise. He then 3 commented that investment income is doing well. 4 5 Community Development Director Ericson noted that there was an authorization to abate the 6 property at 2263 County Road H2. He then updated Council noting that after the 10 days had 7 expired, the crew went out and the property has been cleaned up and is compliant. Staff made 8 contact with the property owner. 9 10 Director Ericson indicated that Dan Hall would like to replace the sign but they cannot replace it 11 with the same components. Therefore, they would like to use new technology and Staff informed 12 them that the City had adopted a moratorium on new signs that would apply to him as it would be 13 an upgrade despite the fact that the sign was damaged by lightening last year. 14 15 Director Ericson said that the Code is silent on advertising off site activities and they probably 16 can do it as is being asked. Legal Staff has agreed that they cannot replace their sign using the 17 new technology. 18 19 Council Member Stigney indicated that they should be advertising their own business not some 20 other business. 21 22 Mayor Marty indicated that the first time he ran for mayor his name was on the sign but that 23 summer he talked to the Halls and Dan was complaining about costs to maintain the sign and he 24 has asked about franchise fees as it is based on electricity and the sign costs him $1,000 per 25 month. At that time he had mentioned that they were going to go LED. 26 27 Mayor Marty said that he would be willing to refer this to the work session for discussion and 28 then said that he does feel that they should be advertising for their own business on the sign. He 29 then said that it is unfortunate that a flagship business of the City is being impacted by the 30 moratorium. 31 32 Council Member Stigney indicated that there is a moratorium in place for a reason and it should 33 remain in place to allow time for the research that is necessary. 34 35 Staff will work with legal counsel on the offsite advertising for discussion at the work session. 36 37 Council Member Mueller said that Council was asking for studies on safety and she will be 38 interested in what the business owner has to say but the moratorium was put in place for a reason. 39 40 There was consensus to add it to the work session agenda for discussion. 41 42 Director Ericson reported that the final draft of the Tree Preservation Ordinance will be on the 43 Agenda for review at the work session. He then said that the building official will give a power 44