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1 Council Meeting 2 May 26, 1992 3 Page 4 4 5 6 Councilmember Enrooth 7 8 The Councilmember reported that the City had actually come out 9 $3 .29 ahead on the May 2nd Clean Up Day. He thanked Mayor 10 Ranallo and Councilmembers Wagner and Fleming for helping to 11 make the activity such a success. Councilmember Enrooth 12 indicated there would be another Clean Up Day _held in 13 September and his Committee. plans to sponsor similar clean ups 14 twice a year in the. future. The efforts of the Public Works 15 Department personnel were also gratefully acknowledged. 16 17 Councilmember Marks 18 19 The Focus had carried a story on the Sisters Cities visitors 20 from Salo, Finland and the Councilmember reported receiving 21 the first offering of housing for the visitors. 22 23 Mayor -Ranallo 24 25 The Mayor reported reception of a letter that same day from 26 the Chairman of the Hennepin County Commissioners in which Mr. 27 Derus requested St. Anthony representation at the public • 28 hearing on "Diversity of programs available to families in 29 Hennepin County" which will be conducted by the U. S. Advisory 30 Committee on Families at the Hennepin County Center from May 31 26 through May 29, 1992. 32 33 Mayor .Ranallo reported that on May 20 he had presented the 34 Chamber of Commerce Bob Sundland Memorial award to Pat 35 Sommerville of St. Anthony who will be -attending classes on 36 Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. The Mayor said 37 he also gave his State of the City address at the meeting 38 after which one of the members approached him to ask why the 39 City didn' t use tax increment funding to a greater extent. The 40 Mayor said he told the questioner all the problems the City 41 has run into trying to set up this type of funding for 42 prospective businesses like CUB and SuperValue. The man was 43 referred to the City Manager for further information and that 44 discussion apparently convinced him that tag increment 45 financing was not the safest route to pursue to get more 46 business for the City. 47 48 Mayor Ranallo indicated his State of the City address on cable 49 had also included information on tag increment financing and 50 no viewers had accepted his invitation to pursue the subject 51 further with City staff . As a matter of fact, in spite of 52 heavy coverage of the talk prior to the telecast and the • 53 repetition of the program seventeen times on cable, the Mayor 54 indicated he had heard from only five persons who had viewed 55 his presentation.