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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes March 25, 2008 Page 7 Fire Chief Malenick replied Councilmember Roth will be required to complete NIMS training, and classes are offered on-line. The rest of the Council does not require further training at this time, but there are continuing education requirements. A tabletop exercise of the pandemic plan will likely be conducted this fall, which will qualify for continuing education requirements. 7 Mayor Faust stated his support for doing the proposed tabletop exercise. He expressed 8 appreciation to the Fire Department on behalf of the City Council and the community. He stated 9 the Fire Department touches the public; it is imperative to continue this, and it builds a stronger 10 community. He encouraged the public to view the 2007 Fire Department Annual Report at City 11 Hall. 12 13 C. Ordinance 08-001; Fire Code Ordinance (second reading) 14 15 Fire Chief Malenick reviewed the Fire Code Ordinance with the Council and indicated that this 16 ordinance predominately is the adoption of Minnesota State Fire Code as the City's official 17 enforceable code. Section 1325 tailors that code to their community. He advised overall, this 18 ordinance is simply a housecleaning and updating item. There are sections or subsections in the 19 ordinance that have not changed, or have changed very little. It should be noted that recreational 20 burn permits have been handled by Fire Department policy, which they have now tried to include 21 in this ordinance. 22 23 Mayor Faust noted there was quite a bit of discussion at the last meeting about recreational fires, 24 with the requested changes made to the ordinance. 25 26 Motion by Councilmember Thuesen, seconded by Councilmember Gray, to approve Second 27 Reading of Ordinance 08-001; Fire Code Ordinance. 28 29 Motion carried unanimously. 30 31 D. Ordinance 08-002; Sign Ordinance (first reading) 32 33 Assistant City Manager Moore -Sykes indicated that this review and revision of the Sign 34 Ordinance came as a result of staff attending the League of Minnesota Cities workshop on land 35 use issues that need to come to the attention of municipalities. The sign ordinance was one of 36 those issues. She stated staff presented the proposed sign ordinance change to the Planning 37 Commission on February 19, 2008 and the Planning Commission suggested additional changes 38 to the proposed sign ordinance. She provided a presentation on Regulations of Signs and the First 39 Amendment and an overview of the proposed revisions to the Sign Ordinance. 40 41 Councilmember Roth asked where the ordinance addresses the penalty that would be applied to a 42 person in violation of a sign that refuses to take it down or alter it to be in compliance with the 43 ordinance. 44 7