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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes September 27, 2005 Page 6 Motion carried unanimously. 3 VI. GENERAL POLICY BUSINESS OF THE COUNCIL. 4 None. 6 VII. REPORTS FROM CITY MANAGER AND COUNCILMEMBERS. 7 City Manager Mornson reported the following: 8 • Thanked Staff for an excellent, quick response to the stone last week. 9 • September 28, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. there will be a Historical Society meeting. 10 • September 28, 6:00 p.m., at Emerald Park, there will be a walk - around. 11 • Met council meetings are coming up; Council received a three -year notification to update 12 the comp plan. 13 • A FEMA grant was applied for and $221,000 was received; the City will be buying a new 14 generator for the fire station and an exhaust system for the fire system. 15 • The International City Managers Conference is being held this week. 16 • There will be a Police Liability meeting put on by the League. 17 • The League annual conference is coming up. 18 19 Councilmember Stille noted the walk at Emerald Park is changed to 6:30 p.m. 20 21 Councilmember Horst stated he split his time between the Sister City meeting and the Silver 22 Lake Task Force meeting. The Sister City meeting discussion focused on the upcoming MN 23 Rocks Symposium being held at the St. Paul College Campus in spring, that St. Anthony is 24 participating in. He added he attended the St. Paul Arts Council meeting where they picked a 25 sculptor from Finland, who is coming to the symposium; his sculpture will be put on display at 26 Salo Park. St. Anthony has been asked to contribute money to assist with the artist's travel. The 27 Sister City Committee put together a pictorial "day in the life of a student" in St. Anthony. 28 Students took pictures of days in their life and traded with people in Salo Park. The Silver Lake 29 Task Force discussion focused on the recent hiring of a design company to work on roads. They 30 looked at two roads recently redone by Hennepin County and ideas were shared. The new 31 assignment is to look at what is important to the City as members of the Task Force, such as 32 pedestrians and turn lanes. 33 34 Councilmember Stille stated on September 22 he attended the New Brighton collaborative board 35 meeting. The collaborative is losing a share of their funding but there is a lot of enthusiasm for 36 the group. Discussions included how to engage parents and kids to be active in the community. 37 He added he would be reporting more after the first quarter meeting next year. 38 39 Councilmember Thuesen stated September 28 at 7:00 p.m., in New Brighton there will be the 40 final Town Hall meeting for the Ramsey County Library System. He added the object is to 41 gather input from residents on how the Ramsey County Library System should look in the future. 42 43 Councilmember Gray stated he, too, attended the Silver Lake Road Task Force meeting. They 44 are a great group of insightful people; attendance was 100 %. He added he appreciates that the 45 Hennepin County engineers came in with a blank slate and listened to input from the community. 46