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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes June 14, 2005 Page 15 1 Motion carried unanimously. 2 3 VIII. REPORTS FROM CITY MANAGER AND COUNCILMEMBERS. 4 City Manager Morrison reported the following: 5 • Due to the active Council schedules recently, the July 12 meeting may not need to be 6 held. This can be decided at the Council meeting on June 28. The work session 7 scheduled for August 2 may be changed to August 1 due to National Night Out. 9 • He will meet with Autumn Woods who is proposing a change to their plans from an 10 approved PUD a year ago. They are not under a time frame with a PUD. They may 11 present a new concept to the Planning Commission as early as next week. 12 13 • An amendment to the Silver Lake Development Agreement will be proposed at the 14 next meeting. There are a few issues that need to be resolved. 15 16 • Approval from Three Rivers Park District was received to put in a sign at County 17 Road E and Silver Lane. 18 19 • In the next two weeks, the State of the City Report that updates all the projects in the 20 City will be available. 21 22 Councilmember Thuesen thanked the Park Commission Chair for attending. He said Central 23 Park has many success stories. He suggested looking at how the baseball field is situated and 24 where foul balls fall. He said he would request this issue be discussed at a future work session. 25 He noted the fields are not all back to back, and there may be some limits to the protection that 26 can be provided. 27 28 Councilmember Gray reported he had the opportunity to judge a contest at Cub Foods within the 29 past couple weeks which was for community members of any age to use their creativity to build 30 something out of paper bags that would represent something in the community. It was a great 31 idea for community spirit. Each store is doing this in their community and there will be finals. 32 33 Councilmember Horst had no report. 34 35 Councilmember Stille noted residents may receive solicitation requests for silent auction items. 36 He explained Village Fest is not run by the City, but is run by a nonprofit organization. In large 37 part, the funding comes from donations and cash donations. The City Hall is a dropping point 38 for donations of items or cash. The cash donation program will provide recognition in the local 39 paper. 40 41 Mayor Faust indicated that he attended the MMPA on May 26. Beverly Aplikowski is the mayor 42 of Arden Hills, and she was elected president. The Vice President is the Mayor of New 43 Brighton, Steve Larson. 44 45 Mayor Faust also noted the Council met with the School Board on May 31. On June 2, the City 46 Council took a bus tour. He said Staff has been very busy on the goals set earlier in the year. 47