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Mounds View City Council August 8, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 28 • Council Member Gunn thanked the Fire Department and the Police Department for their participation in the celebrations and she also thanked the Fire Department for bringing out their trucks as a part of the celebration. She. stated that the citizens really enjoyed it. Mayor Marry stated that he and City Administrator Ulrich attended the Quad Cities Mayor's Organization meeting held in Arden Hills. He explained that the various Cities provided reports on what was going on in their respective Cities noting that everyone wanted to know about Medtronic. He stated that they also discussed the TCAAP property in Arden Hills, Lexington Avenue improvements in Shoreview and New Brighton wants to move along with getting Highway 96 repaired at Old Highway 8 noting that they are still in negotiations with the asphalt plant. He stated that the Post Office that serves Mounds View is moving to 35W and County Road D. He stated that it would be a 24-hour facility, which would be automated and open 24- hours. City Administrator Ulrich further clarified that it would be more of a retail store noting that currently there is a trucking operation located there that would be moved to a site further south in New Brighton. He stated that Shoreview is going to the single-source recycling for their entire City with Waste Management. He stated that jointly the four communities are looking at doing a single garbage contract for all of the municipal buildings. He explained that they are considering bidding it out as a contract for all four cities that would service the City Halls, Community Centers, Police and Fire Departments, noting that it might save the Cities a little bit of money. • City Administrator Ulrich stated that they also discussed the consolidated dispatch issues. He explained that a group of City Managers in suburban Ramsey County got together and drafted a letter that went to Mayor Gertz in St. Anthony who is working with the Policy Committee on consolidated dispatch. He explained that the letter outlines the position for the suburban communities noting that the big issue is the fact that St. Paul is able to move off much of their costs through a County levy and the County taxpayer ends up paying a lot more. He stated that St. Paul has approximately 70-percent of the combined dispatch calls for the combined service and they are only paying for approximately 45-percent of the costs. He explained that what they did was outlined the principles about consolidating dispatch and acknowledged that they agree with the principles but the funding formula does need some work. He stated that they reviewed a formula based on calls for service as well as tax base and the ability to pay. He stated that they are trying to work this together so that there is more equity in how the funding is arrived at and hopefully the County Commissioners will heed their suggestions and come up with a better formula. B. Staff City Administrator Ulrich stated that a letter from Innovative Images was included for their review noting that it would be forwarded to the City Attorney for his response. He asked the Council for their feedback noting that the City's response is due back by September 5th adding that it would be brought to the next City Council meeting for consideration and approval. r~