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Hugo City Council Meeting Minutes for April 15, 2013 Page 2 of 8 Recognition of Sgt. Joe Bergeron On May 1, 2010, Sergeant Joe Bergeron was shot and killed while on active duty. Sergeant Joe Bergeron served with the Maplewood Police Department for 26 years. He lived in Hugo with his wife and twin daughters. Mayor Weidt talked about the bombings at the Boston Marathon that happened this day, April 15, 2013, and thanked all the police, firefighters and rescue workers who rushed in to help. Mayor Weidt called for a moment of silence to remember Sergeant Joe Bergeron and those who were killed and injured at the Boston Marathon. Update on Heart Safe Community At its March 5, 2012 meeting, the Council supported the application for the Heart Safe Community designation in partnership with the White Bear Lake Fire Department. The Heart Safe Community Program is offered by the Allina Hospitals & Clinics, with the support of the American Heart Association, and its aim is to help cities improve the chances that anyone suffering a sudden cardiac arrest will have the best possible chance for survival. Hugo Fire Chief Kevin Colvard, Hugo Quality Assurance Lieutenant Jimmy Roettger, and White Bear Lake Fire Department Quality Assurance Technician/EMT Chris Voss provided the Council an update on the Heart Safe Community designation. Roettger explained the Lake Area Heart Safe Community is made up of Mahtomedi, Hugo, and White Bear Lake. Communities receive the Heart Safe Community designation by developing and implementing a community action plan. Lake Area's goals are to identify, label and map AEDS in the communities; increase CPR awareness training; and be a resource for CPR, AED and heart health initiatives. He outlined their accomplishments during the past year which include training over 1,500 people in CPR. In September 2012, Chris Voss received the Heart Safe Champion Award, and in February, the Lake Area Heart Safe received notification of the state designation as a "Heart Safe Community. The Council thanked them for all their work. Good Neighbor Days on June 6-10, 2013 - Hugo Lions Club The Hugo Lion Club will hold their annual Good Neighbor Days Festival on June 6th —9 1h in Lions Park. In the past, the City has co-sponsored the event by providing the Washington County Sheriffs Deputies for the event. Lions Member Rusty Pastorius presented the plans for the 2013 Good Neighbor Days Festival and requested the City co-sponsor the event as in the past and waive the Special Event Permit fee. He explained here would be bands playing both nights, and the Council discussed how the bands would be situated so noise would not bother the homes adjacent to the park. It was agreed the band music should be projected to the north towards the cemetery. Bronk made motion, Klein seconded, to approve the plan as discussed and waive the Special Event Permit Fee. After discussion, Klein removed his second, and Bronk restated the motion. Bronk made motion, Klein seconded, to co-sponsor the event, approve the plans with the music projected towards the cemetery, and to waive the Special Event Permit fee. All Ayes. Motion carried.