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Mounds View City Council October 24, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 22 Mayor Marty thanked staff for including $750,000 earmarked for Highway 10 redevelopment. 1 2 Councilmember Stigney asked if grants have been looked at for that highway corridor. Director 3 Ericson advised that three grant requests were submitted and the City should receive an answer 4 some time in January of 2006. 5 6 Mayor Marty questioned capital outlay, business subsidies, and partnership loans. Director 7 Ericson explained the City has had this program since 1995 and it was adopted to provide for 8 funding assistance for business if they meet certain criteria, some of which would be 9 underwriting a loan or providing reduced interest on loans. He recalled the City doing that 10 program twice. The City continues to offer that program to the community; however, at this 11 point with low interest rates, not a lot of people are coming forward to request the subsidy. 12 13 Mayor Marty noted it is only budgeted for this year and next year and asked if this cost was 14 located somewhere else in the budget for previous years. Director Ericson stated it may have 15 shown up as a different line item but has been in the budget for years. 16 17 Councilmember Thomas noted the line item for training and conferences should show the new 18 name of the agency. 19 20 Mayor Marty stated the Council will review the budget again at the next meeting. He suggested 21 the Council’s questions be directed to staff. 22 23 3. Storm Damage Report 24 25 Public Works Director Lee distributed a report and cost estimates associated with the September 26 storm. He stated all pickup was completed ten days ago. The total cost is estimated to be 27 $95,750. Staff is currently working on the stump grinding estimate and for a contractor to do that 28 service. Another item is park tree cleanup at Silverview Park where there are still 35 trees down, 29 plus trees in other parks. 30 31 Public Works Director Lee stated trees that resulted in a hazard for people using the park were 32 pulled aside with the aid of a skidster grappler attachment that was leased with the option to 33 purchase. He advised that the cost to rent was $150 per day and the City had it for over 20 days 34 so the cost of renting exceeds the purchase amount. He stated this is a great piece of equipment 35 and will come back as a separate item since it was not budgeted and the cost is over $2,500. 36 37 Public Works Director Lee stated another line item is the cost of using City forces to clean up the 38 storm debris. Public Works was assigned to properties north of Highway 10 and then moved to 39 assist the contractors south of Highway 10. That cost estimate is not included but it means that 40 City crews were not doing other fall activities. 41 42 Mayor Marty stated they may not have done other fall activities but did save the City a lot of 43 money by not having to contract out more cleanup costs. 44 45