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Council Meeting March 13, 1990 page 6 f • 1 B. Council Reports 2 3 Mayor Pro-tem Ranallo requested the City Manager to acknowledge the 4 Council 's appreciation to the Public Works employees who worked so 5 hard in the most recent rain. He noted they worked many long hours. 6 He had observed one employee working alone unplugging drains and 7 felt this activity had a dimension of danger which should be addressed. 8 Mayor Pro-tem Ranallo suggested a procedure should be set up to follow 9 when this type of emergency arises. The City Manager advised he is 10 presently working on drafting this type of policy/procedure. 11 He noted that ordinarily Fire Department personnel would be assisting 12 this employee but there had been an -emergency call . 13 14 Councilmember Marks attended the recent National League of Cities Conference 15 in Washington, D.C . . He observed that relatively few members of,the 16 administration were in attendance. He questioned their absence with other 17 Councilmembers from around the Country and it was their conclusion that 18 the cities are not getting as .much attention as they previously did. 19 Speaker of the House did attend and addressed the Conference. Council- 20 member Marks felt the former partnership relationship shared by the 21 administration and the cities is no longer in evidence. 22 •23 Councilmember Marks attended the meeting of the Ramsey County Liglit Rail 24 Authority Intergovernmental Advisory Commission. He noted that this body 25 has been reactivated and the present status of light rail transit in 26 Ramsey County is a topic of consideration. He. has a copy of the routes 27 for light rail transit which survived the Impact Statement. He noted that 28 four alignments are being considered for the corridor between St. Paul �9 and Minneapolis. When the Chairperson of the Ramsey County Board of 30 Commissioners was asked when the light rail transit project will start 31 no answer was. forthcoming. He did advise that the pre-engineering will 32 start in 1991 and construction may start in two to three years. It was 33 noted that no funding will be coming from the federal government for 34 starting construction of the LRT. 35 36 Councilmember Makowske also attended the National League of Cities 37 Conference and observed that the number of attendees was down both 38 from the cities and from the administration. She felt this was due 39 . to the lack of opportunity for requesting funds from the federal 40 government. 41 42 Councilmember Makowske brought some written material back from the 43 Conference regarding recycling and solid waste disposal . She also 44 ordered a tape from a session titled "Dealing with the Media." 45 46 Councilmember Makowske attended a Regional Transit Board/Metropolitan 47 Transit Commission meeting in February.along with the :'Transportation: 48 Task F.orceo There will be a follow up meeting in March • 49 to discuss any progress on ideas submitted by the City's Transportation 50 Committee regarding transportation needs in the City of St. Anthony.