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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes August 8, 2023 Page 6 VII. REPORTS FROM CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. 3 City Manager Yunker announced curbside branch pickup is happening and residents can sign-up 4 online. 6 Councilmember Webster stated on July 20 she attended the North Suburban Communications 7 Commission Meeting and also NineNorth. On August 2 she attended the Sister City Picnic. She 8 thanked the organizers and volunteers for VillageFest. 9 10 Councilmember Walker stated he attended the Sister City Picnic also. He attended the 11 VillageFest parade and VillageFest activities. 12 13 Councilmember Jenson stated he attended National Night Out on July 22. He attended on July 19 14 an Open House for Northeast Youth and Family Services. He participated in the VillageFest 15 parade and also attended the Sister City Picnic. On July 24 he attended the budget and capital 16 meeting for Northeast Youth and Family Services. On July 25 he attended the Ramsey County 17 Local League of Governments Exec Board Meeting. 18 19 Mayor Stille on July 30 was the kickoff to the Sister City Program along with activities on July 20 31. Council was invited to go to Salo, Finland next year. On August 1, he attended Night to 21 Unite. On August 2, he attended the Sister City Picnic. On August 3, he attended the Salo Park 22 Concert as well as VillageFest activities. 23 24 VIII. COMMUNITY FORUM. 25 26 Ms. Leah Kluz, 2516 37a' Avenue, shared her comments about the I9 implementation program. 27 She has contacted the Council regarding this. It was implemented in many cities for wastewater 28 control and was primarily a point of sale requirement. St. Anthony took it one step further which 29 presents a burden for rental property owners but notification to rental property owners was never 30 provided. She reached out to Met Council and spoke with engineers and some were unaware it 31 was attached to the rental properties in St. Anthony. Her sewer line failed and she could not get 32 answers as to the pass/fail criteria. She stated it is unfair for them to carry the burden for the 33 entire City and requested the ordinance be amended. 34 35 Mr. Tom Gritz, 3302 Roosevelt Court, stated he echoes what Ms. Muse said. He owns a rental 36 property and wants the rationale as to why it is only affecting rental property owners. 37 38 Mr. Bill Clemens, 3412 Edwards Street, stated the percentage of rental single family houses in 39 St. Anthony is 3%. The 97% should be considered. He does not understand the plan. His sewer 40 was scoped•and it failed. He does not know what the criteria is. He asked what the passing rate 41 was for rental properties. 42 43 Mr. Elliot Ikeler, 3533 Roosevelt, stated he owns rental property. He bought his house right 44 before the ordinance was passed. His rental property passed but the house he lives in has sewer 45 problems. He asked Council to reconsider this to affect the entire City. 46