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Mounds View City Council April 24, 2006 Regular Meeting Page 4 Deputy Chief Kinney stated the Ramsey County Sheriff Department has been fairly active with 1 school safety patrol and education. He stated more effort can be put forth to educate children 2 about traffic safety, and it would certainly not take a lot of time or effort. He stated a DARE 3 officer or a School Resource Officer can invest some effort into it. He stated the Police 4 Department would make an effort to provide education. 5 6 Mayor Marty stated that after Brandon’s accident in 2000, there was a concerted effort in the 7 schools for two to three years to provide education, and it is now too bad that something like this 8 has to wake up the community to keep it going in the curriculum. He stated this education is 9 definitely called for. 10 11 Councilmember Flaherty stated he received calls from residents around the area about jake 12 braking around the corners of Highway 610. He asked if the City can look into putting up signs 13 that say “no jake braking” until the sound wall is in place. He commented that he does 14 understand that enforcement is a different subject. 15 16 Mayor Marty stated he would like to see no jake braking in and around Mounds View, and noted 17 this issue has been discussed for years. 18 19 Mr. Sympanski stated that four or five years ago, there was approval to put signage up, but it 20 could not be called jake braking due to some legal issues. He stated the signs never appeared, 21 and added that it would require the Mounds View Police Department to periodically patrol it. He 22 commented that he sees the Blaine Police Department on County Road 10 stopping people and 23 unfortunately, he does not see the Mounds View Police Department out there. He stated he 24 thought this was approved a long time ago, but he has still not seen the signs. 25 26 Mayor Marty stated that Jacobs Company made that type of equipment, but they are not the only 27 ones. He indicated that since then, there have been some signs erected that say noise ordinances 28 are enforced on County Road I. He stated that controls should be placed on County Road 10 as 29 well as on City streets because it is a problem. 30 31 Councilmember Stigney recalled the discussion of signs for jake braking, but noted that the City 32 has no control for putting signs on a State highway. 33 34 Mr. Sympanski recalled that the State representative agreed that the signs could be put up if the 35 City asked for them. 36 37 Councilmember Flaherty indicated that the City would have to put the signs up and would need 38 to go through MnDOT. 39 40 Director of Public Works Lee explained that MnDOT will allow signs on the right-of-way, but it 41 has to be an official request by the City and the City has to pay for and enforce the signs. 42 43 City Administrator Ulrich noted this matter would be placed on the work session agenda. 44 45