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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes April 12,2011 Page 5 1 . Implement phosphorous reduction with grant: The City received an extension to 2012 2 from Rice Creek Watershed District for a grant to assist with clean-up of Salo Pond. 3 • Become a GreenStep City: Work has begun on the initiative following approval of the 4 City Council resolution. 5 • Complete 2011 street, utility and sidewalk project: The 2011 street project is underway 6 with CenterPoint performing work in preparation for the City's road crew. 7 e Veteran's Memorial: The Memorial has support from the City Council along with the 8 local Chamber and Kiwanis. 9 . Meet with Community Services — learn issues, see how the City can help: Meeting held 10 with Wendy Webster. 11 • Tenant Use Liability Insurance Program — TULIP: Meeting held with Wendy Webster. 12 • Sustainable house remodel project and foster housing rehabilitation & reinvestment 13 programs: The contract with GMHC was renewed. Staff from GMHC will work with 14 Community Services on two programs this spring regarding home renovation. 15 • Phase III Silver Lake Village: Resolution passed supporting Dominion's funding request. 16 • Identification badges/city hall security: New ID badges for all department heads and the 17 City Council were prepared. 18 • City Council security review: Training was received from the Police Department. 19 • Cooperative ventures with other governments and entities: Meeting held with Columbia 20 Heights and Fridley Fire Departments to discuss joint purchasing. Several projects are 21 also planned for the second quarter. 22 23 Councilmember Stille requested that staff provide further information to the City Council during 24 a worksession regarding the new "SAV" signs planned for secondary City accesses. 25 26 VII. REPORTS FROM CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. 27 28 Councilmember Gray: No report. 29 30 Councilmember Jenson reported on his attendance at the April 4 worksession and the April 7 31 Community Services meeting. 32 33 Councilmember Roth reported on his attendance at the April 4 worksession and the April 7 34 meeting of the North Suburban Cable Commission. He stated that the build -out of the Cable 35 Commission's office is on schedule for completion in mid-June. He expressed his thanks to Ms. 36 Moore Sykes for volunteering to participate in a Human Resources workgroup for the North 37 Suburban Cable Commission to review the Cable Commission's human resources and personnel 38 guidelines. He also expressed his thanks to City staff for hosting the meeting. He advised that a 39 Cable Commission work group has been established to create a strategic plan for the cable access 40 corporation and cable commission to make sure that technology stays relevant in an ever - 41 changing environment and to ensure that cable access channels continue to provide access to 42 quality broadcasts. He agreed to provide updates to the Council on this topic. 43 44 Councilmember Stille reported on his attendance at the April 4 worksession. 45 46 Mayor Faust reported on the following: 5