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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes March 10, 2020 Page 10 1 individuals and the Northeaster will be recognized at the Chambers Annual Meeting on 2 Thursday, April 16th. 3 4 Councilmember Webster explained as Liaison to Village Fest, Village Fest partnered with the 5 Voyagers to host Winterfest this past Saturday at Central Park and it was a really great 6 community event to celebrate the end of winter and onset of spring. She thanked the planners for 7 that event. She noted she is continuing her process of meeting all of the department heads. She 8 has met with four of the department heads and will meet with the fifth one tomorrow. She will 9 be meeting with Mr. Sitarz. 10 11 Councilmember Randle stated he attended the Winterfest as well and it was a pretty good 12 turnout. He thought it was good to have events like that to bring people together because you 13 usually don't see people until spring. It is a good event to get out and about and was a good time 14 to be had by everyone and he looked forward to next year's event. 15 16 Councilmember Jenson stated he did not have a report at this time. 17 18 Councilmember Walker stated he attended the Parks Commission meeting and there are some 19 interesting things coming down the pike and he looked forward to being involved in the Parks 20 Commission with the budgets for this year. 21 22 Mayor Stille stated on March 7th he had coffee with Alyssa Baguss, the supervisor for 23 Silverwood Park along with Councilmember Jenson. It was a get to know one another meeting 24 and Ms. Baguss was interested in promoting Arts Beyond Silverwood. She is aware of some 25 grants for local artists so something to keep in mind. He indicated he also attended Winterfest in 26 the afternoon and thought it was a very nice event. 27 28 Mayor Stille explained on March 9th he attended the Regional Council of Mayors and Brian 29 Reaks spoke, the Director of the Metropolitan Airports Commission, talking about how the 30 airport is so important to the region and all the Mayors were able to hear all of the improvements 31 that were done and have planned. March 10th in the afternoon he attended, as a Board Member 32 of the Mississippi Water Management Organization their March Board meeting and talked about 33 the Upper Harbor Storm Water Treatment Plants that is on the other side of the Mississippi 34 River. Talked extensively about the Columbia Golf Course best management practices. He 35 noted the golf course might be disrupted in the next year. He indicated they had to take back the 36 $250,000 grant discussed earlier that was intended to use for stormwater treatment or cleaning up 37 of the stormwater down in the industrial area. He thought they can get that back if a use can be 38 made for it. 39 40 VIII. COMMUNITY FORUM. 41 42 Mayor Stille invited residents to come forward at this time and address the Council on items that 43 are not on the regular agenda. 44 45 Hearing none, Mayor Stille moved forward with the agenda. 46