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