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Hugo City Council Meeting Minutes for July 15, 2013 Page 4 of 5 August. The YRN will be funding child prizes for the Gold Star Weekend. The care packaging event will be on Saturday, August 3, 2013, and donations are welcome. The YRN is working on another Welcome Home Pheasant Hunt. Bald Eagle Lake and the Rice Creek Watershed District Council Member Haas added this to the agenda to talk about contradicting statements made by the Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) regarding the water quality of Bald Eagle Lake. He thanked the Citizen for printing the article on the Rice Creek Watershed District's plan to improve the water quality on Bald Eagle Lake at the cost of nearly one million dollars by adding Aluminum Sulfate to the water. He noted that the previous edition of the Citizen held an article about the deteriorating outlet structure on the north end of the lake and how the RCWD declined to participate in the project to fix it because "there was not a significant water quality component to the project". Should the structure fail, the Aluminum Sulfate would wash down the stream. Haas asked that the RCWD revise their position on the structure. Water Resource Forum on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 City Administrator Bryan Bear reminded the Council of the meeting scheduled for Tuesday, July 16, 2013 to attend the third and final forum on water resources in the northeast metro area. The forum will be held from 6-8 p.m. at Century College. Update on National Recycling, Inc. Mayor Tom Weidt and City Administrator Bryan Bear have been monitoring the progress concerning scrap removal at NRI, and they provided an update to the Council. On July 8th, staff observed that the scrap piles had remained unchanged, with new piles on the site. After a conference call on July 11th with the NRI attorney, City Administrator Bryan Bear, and City Attorney Dave Snyder, where the City expressed disappointment on the amount of scrap still on the site, there has been a small amount of progress. Also during the call, another plan was made for a major push over the weekend to remove the scrap. In an email from NRI owner Rick Mark following the conference call, he listed in pounds the material that had been removed from the site since June 27th. Staff visited the site today and found a big change in the amount of material on the site. Council Member Haas said he has observed material continuing to be trucked into the site. Council Member Klein stated that in a recent visit to the site, incoming materials were being placed directly into bins. Council Member Petryk acknowledged that the neighbors are frustrated because business is ongoing. Petryk stated that the City has worked hard to try to solve this. Mayor Weidt said that they should continue on the path they are on. The Council discussed the ongoing progress of NRI. Executive Session — Litigation Concerning National Recycling, Inc. Staff had been working with National Recycling, Inc. (NRI) on their transition plan. At its July 1, 2013 meeting, the Council discussed the noncompliance of NRI to complete this plan and discussed code enforcement actions. At that time, City Attorney Dave Snyder suggested this be done in an executive session.