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Mounds View City Council August 8, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 28 Council Member Gunn thanked the Fire Department and the Police Department for their 1 participation in the celebrations and she also thanked the Fire Department for bringing out their 2 trucks as a part of the celebration. She stated that the citizens really enjoyed it. 3 4 Mayor Marty stated that he and City Administrator Ulrich attended the Quad Cities Mayor’s 5 Organization meeting held in Arden Hills. He explained that the various Cities provided reports 6 on what was going on in their respective Cities noting that everyone wanted to know about 7 Medtronic. He stated that they also discussed the TCAAP property in Arden Hills, Lexington 8 Avenue improvements in Shoreview and New Brighton wants to move along with getting 9 Highway 96 repaired at Old Highway 8 noting that they are still in negotiations with the asphalt 10 plant. He stated that the Post Office that serves Mounds View is moving to 35W and County 11 Road D. He stated that it would be a 24-hour facility, which would be automated and open 24-12 hours. 13 14 City Administrator Ulrich further clarified that it would be more of a retail store noting that 15 currently there is a trucking operation located there that would be moved to a site further south in 16 New Brighton. He stated that Shoreview is going to the single-source recycling for their entire 17 City with Waste Management. He stated that jointly the four communities are looking at doing a 18 single garbage contract for all of the municipal buildings. He explained that they are considering 19 bidding it out as a contract for all four cities that would service the City Halls, Community 20 Centers, Police and Fire Departments, noting that it might save the Cities a little bit of money. 21 22 City Administrator Ulrich stated that they also discussed the consolidated dispatch issues. He 23 explained that a group of City Managers in suburban Ramsey County got together and drafted a 24 letter that went to Mayor Gertz in St. Anthony who is working with the Policy Committee on 25 consolidated dispatch. He explained that the letter outlines the position for the suburban 26 communities noting that the big issue is the fact that St. Paul is able to move off much of their 27 costs through a County levy and the County taxpayer ends up paying a lot more. He stated that 28 St. Paul has approximately 70-percent of the combined dispatch calls for the combined service 29 and they are only paying for approximately 45-percent of the costs. He explained that what they 30 did was outlined the principles about consolidating dispatch and acknowledged that they agree 31 with the principles but the funding formula does need some work. He stated that they reviewed a 32 formula based on calls for service as well as tax base and the ability to pay. He stated that they 33 are trying to work this together so that there is more equity in how the funding is arrived at and 34 hopefully the County Commissioners will heed their suggestions and come up with a better 35 formula. 36 37 B. Staff 38 39 City Administrator Ulrich stated that a letter from Innovative Images was included for their 40 review noting that it would be forwarded to the City Attorney for his response. He asked the 41 Council for their feedback noting that the City’s response is due back by September 5th adding 42 that it would be brought to the next City Council meeting for consideration and approval. 43 44