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Mounds View City Council January 22, 2001 Regular Meeting Page 4 Mayor Sonterre told Mr. Werner he had been given information as to how to obtain the information for the salary but said the City will not release salary information by name. Mr. Werner asked Mayor Sonterre to have Council Member Quick comment on this matter. Mayor Sonterre stated he did not feel it was necessary to have Council Member Quick comment on the matter and told Mr. Werner Council needed to move on with comments from other residents. Cindy Carvelli-Yu of 5255 Irondale Road thanked Community Development Director Ericson for the outstanding letter he sent to the theater concerning the parking issue. She kept track of parking on Irondale Road over the weekend and there have been a few changes since the last meeting. Since she was here it has happened every weekend rather than occasionally as she originally told Council. The totals range from six (6) cars to 26 cars. The neighborhood also has an issue with trash, popcorn, and pop debris being tossed as people walk to their cars. Ms. Carvelli-Yu explained a resident called and asked the police to drive by to see if they could get through and a woman with a young child was walking on the street and the police car had to slow down to a crawl to avoid removing mirrors which shows there is not enough room to pass with cars parked on both sides of the street. She expressed concern for less experienced drivers traveling on the road with the current conditions that could lead to a death or serious injury to pedestrians. Ms. Carvelli-Yu asked Council to check her neighborhood on the evening of February 9, 2001, as the theatre will release Hannibal which should make for a busy evening at the theatre Ms. Carvelli-Yu stated she feels the theater destroyed the woodlands and that while residents shouldn’t have waited so long to complain they are before Council now and are asking for help. It seems to neighborhood residents the theatre is successful and, as such, the theatre should have enough money to provide parking for its patrons. She asked that council do something to help them. Mayor Sonterre said he drove over to the theatre and he counted 27 cars at 6:08 p.m. on Saturday. The issue is there and Council will deal with it. Mayor Sonterre told Ms. Carvelli-Yu he and Community Development Director Ericson had been working on the issue during the day today and asked Mr. Ericson to update the residents. Community Development Director Ericson told residents he had spent some time talking with the theater manager, the district manger for the theater, and the underlying property owner. The theater leases the land and Mr. Anthony in Texas is the landlord. Any improvements or expansions to the parking lot will need to be approved by Mr. Anthony. Mr. Anthony was told of resident and City concern for overflow parking flowing out into the neighborhood. Mr. Anthony offered to allow the theatre to plow the vacant lot between the theatre and Highway 10 for overflow parking as an immediate short-term solution. It appears that the lot should be able to hold 50 or 60 cars and should eliminate parking on Irondale road.