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Mounds View City Council July 11, 2045 <br />Regular Meeting Page 22 <br />Mayor Marty stated that he did not want the billboards to support the golf course noting that it <br />was either the billboards or tax the citizens. <br />Mr. Jahnke stated that maybe the City should get rid of the golf course and use the billboards as a <br />revenue source for the City. <br />Mayor Marty stated that this is a good point noting that the City has six billboards that they are <br />getting $250,000 a year, with a 4-percent inflation factor. He noted that the City is only getting <br />$15,000 per billboard for the first ten years and $25,000 per billboard for the second ten years, <br />which is only a pittance of the contract the City currently has. <br />Council Member Thomas noted to Mr. Jahnke that she does not want to cut him. off adding that <br />this is not the item the Council is currently discussing. She asked the Council to get back to the <br />agenda item they are supposed to be discussing. <br />City Administrator Ulrich noted that there are several typos that should be corrected. <br />Mayor Marty stated that he spoke with John Diedrich regarding a letter written by Vernon, a <br />summary by RLK. He stated that it did address the traffic concerns in the City noting that it <br />touched on the issues saying that the traffic would travel to the more main arterials. He stated <br />that letters from MnDOT, also included in this report, state that the general growth for this area is <br />more than what the freeway system can handle even if funding is obtained to reconstruct the <br />• interchange, the intersections map operates poorly if the freeway is congested. He noted that as <br />he said to Mr. Diedrich if the freeways are congested people find other ways to go. He noted that <br />during morning and afternoon rush hours the City does get traffic through the area. He stated <br />that it was pointed out that a lot of this is areverse-commute adding that it was also pointed out <br />how many of the Medtronic employees live in the surrounding areas. He stated that they are <br />talking about 2000 up to 6000 employees once it is built out and no matter how you look at it, it <br />will increase the traffic on our streets. <br />Council Member Gunn stated that if you look at the reports the majority of the congestion is not <br />from our area and it will not be that significant from having Medtronic there. She explained that <br />it is from the growth that is happening in Blaine, Ham Lake, Andover and Lino Lakes. She <br />stated that Blaine has a lot of new homes going in and now they have the TCAAP area to <br />consider, which would add more congestion on 35W than Medtronic. She stated that they would <br />not have a116000 employees driving through the Mounds View area adding that the people who <br />do that do it now. She expressed concerns stating that sometimes it is made to look a lot worse <br />than what it going to be. She stated that you can't say that 6000 employees are going to be <br />driving up and down the local roads, it is not going to happen. <br />Council Member Thomas agreed that the City already has a traffic problem and will continue to <br />have traffic problems noting that she would like to get as many of the cars into Mounds View as <br />they can because many of these cars would stop at local businesses. She stated that the City is <br />already aware of the traffic issues and must be addressed, but this is a separate problem. <br />• <br />