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Item No: 05A <br />M0L__TNDitSVVtEW <br />Meeting Date: January 6, 2024 <br />Type of Business: CB <br />City Administrator Review: <br />City of Mounds View Starr Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Nyle Zikmund, City Administrator <br />Item Title/Subject: Resolution 10029, Approving Acting Mayor, Treasurer, <br />City's Official Newspaper and Official Depositories for 2025 <br />Introduction: <br />Minnesota state law requires the City Council to annually select an official depository for City <br />funds and designate a legal newspaper of general circulation in the City as its official <br />newspaper. <br />Minnesota state law also requires the City Council to select an Acting Mayor from its existing <br />Council Members on an annual basis. In 2024, the Acting Mayor was Council Member Gary <br />Meehlhause. <br />In addition, the Mounds View City Charter, Section 6.04, requires the City Council to appoint <br />a City Treasurer each year. <br />Discussion: <br />The St. Paul Pioneer Press, The Life, and the Shoreview Press have each submitted <br />proposals to be the City's official newspaper for 2025 (proposal letters attached). <br />St. Paul Pioneer <br />$7.70 per <br />Basically, the deadline to submit a standard text notice is 12 pm <br />Press <br />column inch <br />the day prior to the day of publication. However, Friday at 11 <br />($.055 per line <br />am is the deadline to submit a notice running on Saturday and 4 <br />and there are 14 <br />pm for Monday. Thursday at 4 pm is the deadline for Sunday. If <br />lines per column <br />the notice includes a chart, graph, map, financial report or any <br />inch) <br />special formatting, the deadline is slightly different as it is for <br />ads. <br />The Life, previously <br />$7.75 per <br />Deadline is 10 am Tuesday for the following Friday's weekly <br />the Sun -Focus <br />column inch <br />publication. <br />(320 characters <br />per inch, 9 lines <br />per inch) <br />Press Publications <br />$7.77 per <br />Deadline is every other Wednesday by 5pm for following <br />(Shoreview Press) <br />column inch <br />Tuesday's bi-weekly publication. (They have indicated that they <br />(300 character <br />would do their best to accommodate a notice that is submitted <br />per inch, 9 lines <br />after the deadline). <br />per inch) <br />