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Mounds View City Council May 24, 2021 Regular Meeting Page 5 1 Council Member Meehlhause provided the Council with an update from the Twin Cities 2 Gateway Board. He noted Arden Hills was interested in joining this group. 3 4 B. Reports of Staff. 5 6 Community Development Director Sevald discussed several grant opportunities the City could 7 pursue for the beautification of the Mounds View Boulevard corridor. He indicated the City s currently has no funding set aside for this. He questioned what the Council wanted to do long- 9 term with respect to the corridor. 10 1 1 Finance Director Beer reported MSA funds may be a possible funding source to assist with the 12 beautification of the Mounds View Boulevard corridor. City Administrator Zikmund clarified 13 $400,000 in MSA funds would be available in three years. 14 15 Community Development Director Sevald commented further on the grant opportunities 16 available to the City Council. It was noted one of the grants has a due date of June 1, 2021. 17 18 Council Member Hull asked if staff supported the City spending $2,000 on a grad student at this 19 time. Community Development Director Sevald reported the quality of the work completed by a 20 grad student would not be the same as the services that could be provided by Stantec. 21 22 Council Member Cermak indicated she did not support the City spending $2,000 for this work at 23 this time. 24 25 Council Member Meehlhause stated the Council may need to readdress the Mounds View 26 Boulevard corridor within the strategic plan at a future workshop meeting. He stated it was 27 important to have the County mowing the medians and picking up trash consistently. 28 29 Council Member Hull agreed it would benefit the Council to further discuss this matter prior to 30 spending funds on engineers. 31 32 Assistant City Administrator Beeman indicated he spoke with the County on Friday and 33 understood the County wants cities applying for their corridor update planning grants. 34 35 City Administrator Zikmund explained the Council could discuss this matter further at the July 36 workshop meeting. He stated there was a communication and safety component for the corridor. 37 38 Mayor Mueller agreed it would be prudent for the Council to discuss this matter further at the 39 July workshop meeting. 40 41 Council Member Meehlhause stated the plans that were done in 1998 and 2002 were before his 42 time of community involvement. He understood that the project was estimated to cost $25 43 million back then and would cost a great deal more today. He questioned if MSA funding could 44 be used for semi -four replacement. Finance Director Beer reported this would be allowed. 45