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M EMORANDUM to: Mounds View City Council from: Nyle Zikmund, City Administrator re: May 4 , 2019 Workshop date: October 3, 2020 1. Brian will update council on Strategic Plan goals via a Power Point presentation. Information only, no decision needed or requested 2. Highly effective teams – Goals and Benchmarking Action Requested – Discuss “draft” document included in the packet and provide feedback to staff for changes. 3. Five year Financial Plan Action Requested – This is required by the Charter, draft plan is attached. Discussion and direction to staff on any changes which will be brought back to Council for formal action at the May 11, 2020 meeting. 4. Mounds View Matters Publication Schedule Currently, we publish the MV Matters four times a year. We used to publish six times per year but the combination of new “topical” information and cost resulted in a change a number of years ago to four times. This is back on the agenda for discussion as it came up during the highly effective team discussions – better communication with the public. However, shortly after those discussions CTV made a presentation that included detail indicating our social media and web (both of which we have increased postings on) has significant views. Printing and mailing costs would increase from $12,000 per year to $17,000 per year and additional staff time would be expended crafting articles. Action Requested – Discuss and provide feedback to staff with direction on frequency of publication. 5. COVID 19 Related Current information – voluminous to say the least, points to the Pandemic lasting until “herd immunity” is achieved. There is some debate on the percentage but 70% is a frequently stated number and estimates for MN (per Ramsey County Health) are less than 5%. Herd immunity is most safely achieved by vaccine which is estimated to be 18 months (at best) as compared to unregulated interaction and viral infection.