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EDC Minutes November 18, 2016 Page 6 of 8 Website Update Beeman provided an update on the website stating that it is in need of an update and the Website Task Force has met several times to interview many companies. Commissioner Rieland who is on the Task Force said it is exciting and the project, once approved, the project will take about a year to complete. Trail Projects Beeman said the trail projects have been completed except for some minor landscaping and few more utility poles for lighting. Snyder Building The Snyder building is still vacant and the owner is still unwilling to come down on price, therefore there is no movement on this site. Mounds View Boulevard Since County Road 10 was changed to Mounds View Boulevard, it was found that the USPS was delivering some of the City’s mail to a wrong address but staff contacted them and it seems to be corrected now. Helgemoe asked about signage. Beeman said he was told it should be installed in the next month or so. Beeman said Google Maps was the first to change its street name in their database, but Tom Tom and Garmin and others are slow to update. North Metro Business Council The Mounds View Business Council which has changed its name to the North Metro Business Council to include Arden Hills and Shoreview met in September to hear a presentation from Alatus, the master developer for the Rice Creek Commons development. Helgemoe attended that meeting and stated that County Commissioner Blake Huffman, the Mayor from Arden Hills, and Bob Lux where in attendance and answered questions about the project. One issue brought up at the meeting was that Arden Hills didn’t want the buildings to be as high as the developer wanted them. However, they are working through those issues. Dec 14 is the next meeting and someone from the Met-Council will be speaking. Manufacturing Week Manufacturing Week was October 2-8 and this year Quanex, a local window framing manufacturer participated. The point is to get local high school students interested in the manufacturing industry by providing tours and working with local high schools and technical colleges, and government officials. Beeman presented some statistics on the manufacturing industry stating the average manufacturing job paid $63,251 in 2015 and contributed $48.2 billion to the state’s economy in 2015. Minnesota has 317,200 jobs in manufacturing with an impact of 914,000 jobs when adding jobs in other industries that are dependent on manufacturing.