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Mounds View City Council October 24, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 22 • Mayor Marty thanked staff for including $750,000 earmarked for Highway 10 redevelopment. Councilmember Stigney asked if grants have been looked at for that highway corridor. Director Ericson advised that three grant requests were submitted and the City should receive an answer some time in January of 2006. Mayor Marty questioned capital outlay, business subsidies, and partnership loans. Director Ericson explained the City has had this program since 1995 and it was adopted to provide for funding assistance for business. if they meet certain criteria, some of which would be underwriting a loan or providing reduced interest on loans. He recalled the City doing that program twice. The City continues to offer that program to the community; however, at this point with low interest rates, not a lot of people are coming forward to request the subsidy. Mayor Marty noted it is only budgeted for this year and next year and asked if this cost was located somewhere else in the budget for previous years. Director Ericson stated it may have shown up as a different line item but has been in the budget for years. Councilmember Thomas noted the line item for training and conferences should show the new name of the agency. Mayor Marty stated the Council will review the budget again at the next meeting. He suggested the Council's questions be directed to staff. • 3. Storm Dama a Re ort g P Public Works Director Lee distributed a report and cost estimates associated with the September storm. He stated all pickup was completed ten days ago. The total cost is estimated to be $95,750. Staff is currently working on the stump grinding estimate and for a contractor to do that service. Another item is park tree cleanup at Silverview Park where there are sti1135 trees down, plus trees in other parks. Public Works Director Lee stated trees that resulted in a hazard for people using the park were pulled aside with the aid of a skidster grappler attachment that was leased with the option to purchase. He advised that the cost to rent was $150 per day and the City had it for over 20 days so the cost. of renting exceeds the purchase amount. He stated this is a great piece of equipment and will come back as a separate item since it was not budgeted and the cost is over $2,500. Public Works Director Lee stated another line item is the cost of using City forces to clean up the storm debris. Public Works was assigned to properties north of Highway 10 and then moved to assist. the contractors south of Highway 10. That cost estimate is not included but it means that City crews were not doing other fall activities. Mayor Marty stated they may not have done other fall activities but did save the City a lot of money by not having to contract out more cleanup costs.