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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes October 27, 2020 Page 3 1 make it work which he appreciated. He was looking forward to seeing how this project works 2 out and indicated he was in favor of this as well. 1 3 4 Councilmember Webster stated one of things she was most interested on this project is in 5 February she attended a session put on by the Minnesota Department of Housing and they talked 6 about the shortage of housing across Minnesota and specifically the shortage of workforce 7 housing. She thought this addressed some of St. Anthony's needs for housing. She thought this 8 was a good option in closing the gap of the housing shortage. She also explained she was 9 particularly intune with this project because it is more on the affordable side and looking at folks 10 making $15-$20 an hour, this will provide an affordable housing option in the community. 11 12 Mayor Stille indicated he was ok with this project for a number of different reasons. It is really 13 intriguing about the market rate. He liked that there were no City or State subsidies on this 14 project. He thought the modular was cutting edge as well. 15 16 Motion by Councilmember Randle, seconded by Councilmember Jenson, to approve Resolution 17 20-081; a Resolution Approving a Request for a Preliminary Plan Stage PUD, Constituting an 18 Amendment to the Silver Lake Village PUD, for the Interstate Development Multi -Family 19 Residential Project of 38 Dwelling Units at 3725 Stinson Boulevard NE with the conditions in 20 the staff report dated October 27, 2020. 21 22 Motion carried 5-0. 23 24 VI. GENERAL BUSINESS OF COUNCIL. 25 26 A. Approval of Position Profile for City Manager Recruitment. 27 28 Ms. Liza Donabauer, DDA Human Resources, Inc. reviewed the position profile with the 29 Council. 30 31 Mayor Stille noted under priorities/projects/goals of the new manager, the third bullet point 32 states "...Initiate a community survey to gauge the resident's vision for the community...", that is 33 kind of a goal setting action step, if it gets there, but he did not think the Council has really 34 talked about a survey. He did not want to make it sound like that is the direction the Council is 35 going down necessarily and that it is approved. He might be ok with a survey in the future, but 36 his point was this has not been talked about yet. 37 38 Councilmember Webster explained when she saw that she did think certainly for a new City 39 Manager coming in it is helpful to gather information from the community and the residents to 40 find out more about the services currently being offered, where resident satisfaction is with those 41 services and she thought it is a great opportunity to learn more about what the areas for 42 development and areas that can be strengthened in the City. She saw that as a ninety day, or 120 43 day plan that leaders have when coming into an organization to really get a sense of the 44 organization. Mayor Stille explained he was saying that the Council should indicate doing a 45 survey instead of putting it out there without discussion or a goal setting session. 46