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Mounds View City Council May 22, 2006 Regular Meeting Page 5 Surface Water Technician Fleischhacker stated residents can help with storm water management 1 by using phosphorous free fertilizers, properly disposing of pet wastes, and keeping organic 2 matter like leaves and grass outside of the streets. The MPCA considers anything that coveys 3 water to be a waterbody of the State, which includes ditches, wetland or the curbline running 4 down the street. 5 6 Surface Water Technician Fleischhacker reported that projects in 2006 include the Edgewood 7 Bona ditch cleaning project behind properties on Edgewood and Bona, north of County Road H. 8 In addition, a few ponds will be dredged and culverts replaced. He offered to answer questions 9 or receive comments. 10 11 Mayor Marty asked if anyone in the audience had comments or questions. No one responded 12 13 Councilmember Flaherty asked which ponds will get dredged. Surface Water Technician 14 Fleischhacker stated the ponds will be inspected and dredged if there has been excessive erosion. 15 The City will also dredge the new pond in Silver View Park because the banks were not 16 stabilized appropriately and there was erosion. That pond will be dredged and the banks seeded 17 with native grasses and wildflowers. 18 19 Mayor Marty asked whether staff finished catch basin inspections last year. Surface Water 20 Technician Fleischhacker advised the City is required to inspect twenty percent of the outfalls 21 each year and staff is above that threshold. 22 23 Mayor Marty asked if the City is running on schedule with this program. Surface Water 24 Technician Fleischhacker answered in the affirmative and explained that the permit was set up 25 for a five-year cycle but this is a new permit so this is Year One with a new set of guidelines. 26 27 Mayor Marty pointed out that this is a federal mandate required of each City and requires 28 Mounds View to implement this criteria. The City has one staff person assigned to keep on top 29 of this program and assure the City is compliant. 30 31 G. Report on Traffic Accident 32 33 Mayor Marty advised there was a fatality in a car accident and requested a report from the Police 34 Chief. 35 36 Police Chief Sommer extended the City’s sympathy to the family of the 17-year-old who was 37 killed and the 20-year-old who was seriously injured on May 14 in an accident by an impaired 38 driver. He explained that the New Brighton police observed the vehicle going in the wrong 39 direction westbound on County Road H. The New Brighton car activated its red lights and the 40 car accelerated heavily, reaching speeds of 60 miles per hour, traveling westbound through stop 41 lights at Long Lake Road, and at Silver Lake Road struck a vehicle at full force that was legally 42 within the intersection. That passenger died and the driver was seriously injured. He advised 43 that the suspect, Lawrence Augustine Maxi, had three prior DWI arrests in 1993, 1999 and 2001. 44 He was charged by criminal complaint with fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle resulting in 45