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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes May 12, 2020 Page 3 1 Councilmember Webster appreciated as looking at future developments in the community how 2 that may put pressure on the City's sanitary sewer and learning about the engineer's process in 3 identifying those areas and locating areas in which need improvement along Chandler Drive and 4 the Crossroad lift station. She also appreciated how clear the projects schedule is. 5 6 Mayor Stille asked Mr. Messner to go back to the lift station slide, he indicated the City typically 7 does a street project a year and most recently the City has not only had a full street project but 8 now some mill and overlays and it is becoming more common as people are following the annual 9 projects. The funding sources get more dynamic and he understood this is the first meeting, but 10 he wondered if Mr. Messner has identified any funding sources for this particular project because 11 this serves a little different segment of the area. Mr. Casey explained with a traditional street 12 project the City uses a 429, General Obligation Bonds, and then there is an assessment that goes 13 against that and it defrays some of the costs along with the regular costs and then they are put 14 onto people's property taxes. With this pipe bursting project of enlarging the sanitary sewer 15 capacity, part of the feasibility study will be looking at the sources and uses as staff works its 16 way through the projects. The source for this would be actually coming from an existing Tax 17 Increment Financing (TIF) pooling dollars that would be available to the City for any project that 18 is located in Ramsey County so as staff comes forward as it is bringing these to a little bit more 19 finer tune and have an opportunity to get a sense of what the estimated cost would be for those 20 staff will also be able to bring back what is anticipated the sources to be able to fund those uses. 21 22 Mayor Stille agreed and thought there had to be some TIF involved because this is not a typical 23 assessment arrangement that the City would have with adjacent landowners. 24 25 Motion by Councilmember Webster, seconded by Councilmember Jenson, to approve Resolution 26 20-047; a Resolution Ordering Preparation of Feasibility Report for 2021 Street and Utility 27 Improvements. 28 29 Motion carried 5-0. 30 31 B. St. Anthony Police Department Annual Report. 32 33 Police Chief Mangseth presented the St. Anthony Police Department Annual Report to the City 34 Council. 35 36 Councilmember Walker thanked Chief Mangseth for the report and review and appreciated the 37 work Chief Mangseth and his staff is doing during the Pandemic and something to commend. 38 He indicated he liked the fact that is was mentioned the Police Department is not just about 39 enforcing the law but also taking care of people. He thought that would be a good mission 40 statement in some sense. He thought that was incredibly important to emphasis that it is an 41 important need in any community to take care of the citizen, whether with mental health or some 42 other crisis. He also appreciated the work that is being done. 43 44 Councilmember Walker asked in regard to training if Chief Mangseth could expand on the 45 elected training and what that would look like. Chief Mangseth explained elective training for 46 the officers could stem from pursuits that they are wanting to actively partake in as it relates to