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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes March 24, 1998 is Page 7 1 Momson reported this was done by mistake. The janitor had to leave on an emergency and it 2 was her job to secure the building upon departure so she locked the doors. This.has been brought 3 to the attention of the janitorial service and will not happen again. 4 C. Mayor. 5 1. Shriner's Request to Sell Onions as a Fund Raiser on May 2, 1998 at the 6 Stonehouse Parking Lot. 7 Motion by Cavanaugh, second by Marks to approve the Shriner's request to sell onions as a fund 8 raiser on May 2, 1998 at the Stonehouse parking lot. 9 Motion carried unanimously. 10 Mayor Ranallo reported he had received several comments in regard to the first live cable 11 broadcast of the Council meeting. There was comment that the broadcast was not obviously 12 identified. Ruth Mason does have a character generator and will meet with Mayor and City 13 Manager to determine how to correct this'situation. Also the cameras are located up high and 14 capture the tops of the Councilmembers heads rather than their faces. Also there was concern 15 that the Mayor was not recognizing Councilmembers who wanted to talk. All these issues will 16 be discussed at the April 7 work session. Cavanaugh suggested a video tape of the Council meetings be available for check-out at the 18 library. 19 20 D. City Manager. 21 Mornson reported his attendance at the State Capital on March 19 to attend an AMM Legislative 22 Update Meeting. The AMM Executive Director provided the Cities with an update on the issues 23 of metropolitan significance. He mentioned that even though the House decreased the flood 24 mitigation funding from $28 to $15 million, there is still a lot of support for the bill. Momson 25 noted the letter which was signed by all Councilmembers and was sent to the Bonding 26 Committee. There is no testimony allowed before the Conference Board and Momson stated he 27 is leaving it up to Councilmembers to use their own discretion in putting forth an effort to contact 28 the representatives. Momson stated the Hennepin County Commissioner had sent a letter to the 29 Conference Board in support of St. Anthony and he has copied this letter to the Ramsey County 30 Commissioner seeking his support in the same manner. 31 Mornson noted an article in regard to the amount of rain received last summer which appeared on 32 the front page of the Star and Tribune newspaper. He reported that he had been interviewed for 33 this article for more than 40 minutes and it appeared that the interviewer was looking for 34 negativity in the declaration of a disaster area. Momson stated there was not negativity and 35 explained FEMA and other grant information. The interviewer seemed interested but none of �6 this information was included in the article.