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<br />Meeting Date: June 28, 2007 <br />Type of Business: Discussion <br /> <br /> City of Mounds View Staff Report <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />To: Mounds View Parks, Recreation & Forestry Commission <br />From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate <br />Item Title/Subject: Establishing the Comprehensive Plan Task Force <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />The City of Mounds View, like all metropolitan communities in the Twin Cities area, is required to update its Comprehensive Plan by the year 2008. In recognition of this requirement, <br /> the City Council identified the Comp Plan update as one of its adopted goals for 2007. Establishing a task force will help ensure the process moves forward in a timely fashion while <br /> providing addition means of opinion, review and oversight. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />The Council discussed the idea of a task force at a meeting earlier this year and reiterated their support for such a body during the strategic planning and leadership retreat held in <br /> February and attended by the City Council and department heads. The Council passed a resolution on Monday, May 14th with the recommendation of having up to six residents-at-large on <br /> the task force, along with a member from each of the City Commissions and a Council member. Staff has received applications for five resident volunteers. <br /> <br />Staff envisions that once work begins on the Comprehensive Plan, the task force would meet once every month or every two months, depending upon progress and issues being reviewed. The <br /> Planning Commission will take the lead on the comp plan preparation with the Economic Development Commission (EDC) and Parks, Recreation & Forestry Commission playing strong supporting <br /> roles. From a staff perspective, Community Development will assume the lead role on the update with a strong supporting role played by Public Works. The Finance and Administration <br /> departments will also lend support as needed. Each Task Force member will report back to their Commission. <br /> <br />The membership of the Task Force is envisioned as follows: <br /> <br /> 1 - Planning Commission Rep <br /> 1 - Economic Development Commission Rep <br />1 – Parks, Rec & Forestry Commission Rep <br />1 - City Council Representative <br />1 - Chamber of Commerce Rep <br />6 – Residents at large <br />City Staff <br /> <br />