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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes April 14, 2020 Page 7 1 Motion carried 5-0. 2 3 VII. REPORTS FROM CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. 4 5 City Manager Casey reported that City Hall is open for business with modified hours. He noted 6 if residents have any questions or concerns to please email or call. The liquor operations at Silver 7 Lake Village is open 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday and the liquor operation 8 managers are working on trying to open up the Marketplace location in the near future. 9 10 Councilmember Jenson stated he attended the Executive Board Meeting for the Ramsey County 11 League of Local Governments on Friday, April 4th. 12 13 Councilmember Webster stated she explained the Chamber of Commerce was to hold their 14 annual meeting this Thursday, April 16th where they would recognize Villagers of the Year, Bob 15 and Lana Dullen as well as the Northeaster Newspaper as Business of the Year but that event has 16 been cancelled. Village fest is meeting in May to look at the conditions of the world and society 17 to see what planning may be in place for Village fest 2020 and Las Qantas Two was schedule to 18 have a silent auction this Sunday as one of their fundraisers along with a dinner and that event 19 has been postponed as well. 20 21 Councilmember Walker stated on April 10th he was interviewed by CTV and it went pretty well. 22 This was a general interview about being elected to the Council and his aspirations for being on 23 the Council. There was a little discussion as well about COVID-19. Informally and not as a 24 member of the City Council he kept an eye on the village people Facebook page to see what 25 people are saying and their fears and concerns were and a topic came up about hearing from the 26 Council publicly and what the Council has to say so he approach City Manager Casey about this 27 matter which resulted in a video the entire Council participated in and he has heard positive 28 comments from residents about the video. 29 30 Mayor Stille stated he attended the Regional Council of Mayor meeting on Monday, April 13th 31 virtually and Peter Frosh of Greater MSP was there to talk about where they are going as a 32 region as everyone is experiencing some really bad times and some of his estimates on what 33 might be happening and there are some office projects in towns that are being shelved and he 34 thought the industrial real estate market is going to be good because they are moving from just in 35 time supply chains to maybe a more of a just in case so there is going to be some shifting there. 36 He thought about that because St. Anthony does not have a lot of office and will not impact 37 them, and the City does have a small industrial area which does well for that part of the 38 community. Mr. Frosh was also talking about Minnesota being one of the first States to 39 potentially take advantage or come out of this and his opinion there has already been some quiet 40 conversations about what can be done as a region working with a comprehensive economic 41 development strategy and the Metropolitan Council and that so there are people looking at the 42 long view and they incorporate the Mayors of the communities to have input and that is the 43 whole purpose of that meeting, to get educated and see how the City of St. Anthony can fit into 44 this. Mayor Stille stated the meeting segued into a round table discussion with mayors of the 45 region and many cities were different in regard to revenues coming in and St. Anthony does not 46 have a lot of the different types of revenues of other cities.