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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes April 10, 2007 Page 5 Mayor Faust stated he appreciated the updates because this is probably the largest public effort in any one year. 4 City Engineer Hubmer reported on the City Resource Water Plan and GIS. He commented this 5 system would provide digital records for the City's infrastructure and backup and protection of 6 the records. He stated a draft of the management plan is complete and a meeting was held with 7 the Rice Creek Watershed District. Mr. Hubmer commented he would bring the draft to the 8 Council for consideration 9 10 City Engineer Hubmer reported he submitted two applications for the Livable Communities I 1 Non - motorized Transportation Grant. He stated Minneapolis received about $10 million for this 12 project and St. Anthony is qualified to receive some of the money. Mr. Hubmer reported he 13 requested $285,000 for sidewalks along Silver Lake Road and $300,000 for sidewalks along 14 Stinson Boulevard. He commented he is looking at all options available to fund the projects. 15 16 Mayor Faust reminded everyone the funds applied for would be for sidewalks only. 17 18 B. Re- Codification of St. Anthony City Code Proposal 19 20 City Manager Mornson stated the re- codification of the City Code is one of the City's goals. He 21 stated this was brought to Council's attention as information only, to review the proposal, and 22 take feedback. He commented he would bring this back later for approval. 23 24 City Manager Mornson stated he received an estimate of $11,995 from the League of Minnesota 25 Cities for the re- codification project. He mentioned the scope of work would include a review 26 of the City's current code of ordinances and all ordinances and resolutions passed since the last 27 codification in 1993. He stated it would also include organizing all information based on titles, 28 chapters, sections, and according to subject matter and updating the code to reflect current 29 statutory and case law requirements, deleting improper or unlawful provisions. 30 31 City Manager Mornson stated the second part of the proposal provides for several changes 32 including the sign ordinance, and a rental- licensing ordinance. He commented and all ordinances 33 would be looked at for inconsistencies. City Manager Mornson mentioned this would be on the 34 agenda in May or June 2007. 35 36 Councilmember Gray asked who helped with the when done in 1993. 37 38 City Manager Mornson stated the League of MN Cities helped. He stated Dorsey would review 39 the changes, as they are the City's legal council. 40 41 Councilmember Stille commented that one thing to accomplish is to add some meat to code 42 enforcement. 43 44 City Manager Mornson replied he agreed this was the intent of the re- codification. He 45 commented rental licensing currently did not cover duplexes and single - family homes rented out.