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Mounds View City Council August 26, 2024 Regular Meeting Page 6 1 Mayor Lindstrom reported the Energy Star program began in 1992. With this in mind, he 2 anticipated there were not that many residents with washers and dishwashers that were older than 3 1992. City Administrator Zikmund indicated he would follow up on this to see if appliances have 4 to be 10+years old or if they have to be older than 1992. 5 6 Mayor Lindstrom stated he supported the first come first served model for the grant funding. The 7 Council was in agreement. 8 9 2. Charter Commission Appointments — Advice to Chief Judge 10 Applicants: Brian Amundsen, Karen Mills, Jerry Peterson, Gary 11 Quick,Amber Urlacher, Russell Warren 12 13 City Administrator Zikmund explained the Charter Commission has six vacancies at this time. He 14 indicated staff was waiting to hear back from the District Court if this was the case and if so, the 15 Charter Commission had six candidates willing to serve on this Commission. 16 17 3. State of the City Date/Time/Location 18 19 City Administrator Zikmund requested the Council consider setting a date, time and location for 20 the State of the City. 21 22 The Council supported holding the State of the City on Monday, October 21 from 6:00 p.m. to 23 8:00 P.M. 24 25 Mayor Lindstrom asked that each Council Member be prepared to share their vision for the City 26 at the State of the City event. 27 28 City Administrator Zikmund indicated the Tribute Park Committee met last week and were 29 finalizing plans to allow them to take donations through the SBM Fire Department. 30 31 City Administrator Zikmund commented on the video that was posted through Minnesota Crime 32 Watch noting he had a conversation with them. 33 34 City Administrator Zikmund reported the EDA would be meeting in the next week or two to 35 address the Dahl right of way. 36 37 City Administrator Zikmund explained there would be a hearing on Thursday, August 29 regarding 38 the trash litigation, noting this would be a listen only event. 39 40 City Administrator Zikmund indicated he and the Mayor received a very nice correspondence from 41 Mapping Prejudice and noted they look forward to continuing to work with the City of Mounds 42 View. He stated letters would continue to be sent, approximately 20 per week,to properties within 43 the community that have racial covenants in place. 44 45 Finance Director Bauman reported she would be meeting with Ramsey County tomorrow where 46 she would receive preliminary property value information.