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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04.20.09 Council Minutes 70- COUNCIL MINUTES REGULAR APRIL 20, 2009 1. CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by Mayor Larson at 7:00 p.m. 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Mayor Larson led the audience and Council in the Pledge of Allegiance. 3. ROLL CALL Members Present: Members Absent: Also Present: Audience: Larson, Donnelly, Fogarty, Wilson May Joel Jamnik, City Attorney; Peter Herlofsky, City Administrator; Robin Roland, Finance Director; Randy Distad, Parks and Recreation Director; Lee Smick, City Planner; Tony Wippler, Assistant City Planner; Randy Petrofske, Liquor Operations Manager; Cynthia Muller, Executive Assistant Justine Jacobson, Ann Anderson, Jody Dion, Brandon Dion, Tim Thompson, Beve Preece, Steve Fenlon 4. APPROVE AGENDA Councilmember Fogarty moved item 12a) Ice Arena Update to Roundtable. Councilmember Wilson moved item 12b) Approve Broadband Participation to the Consent Agenda, he also wanted to make a comment on item 7f) Accept Resignation Planning Commission, he pulled item 7g) Authorize Signature of CD A's Redevelopment Incentive Grant Agreement for discussion. City Administrator Herlofsky moved item 7d) Accept Donation Fire Department to Sa), he also added a supplemental item 7i) Out of State Conferences Policy Amendment. MOTION by Fogarty, second by Wilson to approve the Agenda. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. 5. ANNOUNCEMENTS a) Adopt Resolution - Accept Donation - Fire Department Minnesota Energy Resources Company and the Fire Relief Association donated four gas detectors to the Fire Department. Ann Carlon, Minnesota Energy Resources Company and Jay Clinkscales, Fire Relief Association presented the donation. MOTION by Fogarty, second by Wilson to adopt RESOLUTION R18-09 accepting donation. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. 6. CITIZEN COMMENTS Ms. Annette Kuyper, 20530 Dyers Pass, had several announcements regarding the Warrior to Citizen campaign. Last Saturday they hosted their first military mother and grandmother luncheon at the Church of the Advent. They honored 40 mothers and grandmothers. This Saturday they are partnering with the Minnesota National Guard to Council Minutes (Regular) April 20, 2009 Page 2 host a Congregational Care Conference. Warrior to Citizen is bringing together all the churches in the southern metro area at the Shepherd of the Valley Church in Apple Valley from 9:00 - 2:00. They will learn how to develop military ministries and support military families within their community. Cost is $10 including lunch. May 9 is the military family picnic at the Dakota County Fairgrounds. This will be hosted by Frontier and the VFW with a luncheon. There will be 50 gopher athletes coming to host a sports camp, University of Minnesota art students will help the children make sports pendants, there will be 30 resource tables from the deployment cycle support team, there will be an obstacle course and climbing wall. All military families are invited and they should register through the website. The event is free to military families. On June 13, Minnesota will be honoring Vietnam veterans at the State Capital. The Warrior to Citizen campaign will be taking local veterans by bus to the State Capital to be honored at a welcome home ceremony. They are asking all Farmington residents to line the streets of Farmington when the bus comes home and have a huge community parade to welcome our veterans home. There will be more to come on this event. Vietnam veterans should contact the Warrior to Citizen campaign and register to be on the bus. A route will be posted and there will be a police escort and patriot guard escort. She gave Council a copy of the 2008 Annual Report from the Minnesota National Guard. Farmington is highlighted as the first Yellow Ribbon City in Minnesota. City Administrator Herlofsky noted we are getting closer to getting the Yellow Ribbon signs on the entrances to the City. Ms. Justin Jacobson, 3319 213th Street W, and Ann Anderson, 2688 200th Street E, stated the National Day of Prayer was established by federal law in 1952. It was amended in 1988 designating the first Thursday in Mayas the official National Day of Prayer. An event will be held at Rambling River Park on May 7, and invited Council to attend. There will be representatives from various local churches. Mr. Bruce Matzdorff, 5393 203rd Street W, invited everyone to the 2009 Mayoral Ball. It will be a black and white ball held at the Grand Hall, on April 25. There will be food, photos taken by Heikkila Studios and entertainment. The black and white theme is casual to formal. Tickets are $50 and proceeds go to CEEF. 7. CONSENT AGENDA MOTION by Fogarty, second by Wilson to approve the Consent Agenda as follows: a) Approved Council Minutes (4/6/09 Regular) (4/8/09 Workshop) (4/13/09 Workshop) b) Received Information Quarterly Building Permit Report - Building Inspections c) Approved License for Utility to Cross Protected Waters - Natural Resources d) Received Information March 2009 Financial Report - Finance e) Accepted Resignation Planning Commission - Administration Councilmember Wilson noted a long standing commission member, Ben Barker is resigning from the Planning Commission. He has provided a tremendous amount of time and service to the community and it is appreciated. Mayor Larson also worked with Mr. Barker on the Planning Commission and noted he is a team player and appreciated working with him. Council Minutes (Regular) April 20, 2009 Page 3 g) Approved Bills h) Approved Broadband Participation - Administration i) Received Information Out of State Conferences Policy Amendment - Administration APIF, MOTION CARRIED. 1) Authorize Signature of CDA's Redevelopment Incentive Grant Agreement - Planning The CDA awarded the City a grant for $7,500 for a Natural Resources Inventory and Management Plan. It is a matching grant. This inventory will provide field study information on habitat, plant species, groves of trees, anything with natural resources. In the past when development has occurred the City has been reactionary to our natural resources and we have lost significant groves of trees. This will allow staff to benchmark and provide policies so when development does occur we have policies in place that will protect those natural resources so they remain vital to our community. The matching funding has not been identified, but staff is continuing to look for outside funds. The source of matching funds will need to be identified at the time staff requests a reimbursement from the CDA. Councilmember Wilson noted this inventory will not dictate what we decide to do. Staff stated the information from this inventory would only be a recommendation. It would be up to the Planning Commission and Council whether they feel those recommendations are reasonable. This could help developers make their projects more efficient. MOTION by Wilson, second by Fogarty to accept the Redevelopment Incentive Grant in the amount of $7,500 from the Dakota County Community Development Agency. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. 8. PUBLIC HEARINGS 9. AWARD OF CONTRACT 10. PETITIONS, REQUESTS AND COMMUNICATIONS a) Quarterly Liquor Operations Report - Liquor Operations Liquor Operations Manager Petrofske presented the first quarter sales report for the downtown and Pilot Knob stores. b) Approve 2030 Comprehensive Plan - 2008 Update - Planning The 2030 Comprehensive Plan has been approved by the Met Council with a few modifications. City Planner Smick gave an overview of when the process started in 2007. In the visioning sessions, the most common issues in the 2030 plan were similar to those in the 2020 plan. The results of the visioning sessions include: - Downtown development and redevelopment - Transportation system - Develop within the existing MUSA Council Minutes (Regular) April 20, 2009 Page 4 - Commercial and industrial growth - Pay attention to natural resources - Pay attention to quality control growth The Council agreed to a population in 2030 of 32,000 people, a household forecast of 12,500 and a net density of 3.5. In 2010 the City estimated the population would be 22,300, the Met Council wanted it changed to 20,500. As of April 1, 2007, the Met Council's certified population for Farmington is 18,589. The comp plan will be reviewed every 2-3 years. There is a 3-4 year supply of vacant lots. The allocated MUSA is 914 acres. The City will meet the affordable housing requirement of 492 units by adding 210 acres of new medium and high density residential. This could be a potential of 1,260 affordable units. The City will request MUSA for 106 acres of commercial, 316 acres of industrial, and 1,053 acres for residential coming from Fairhill. Councilmember Fogarty was concerned with the difference in population with the Met Council. She asked if the City would miss out on any triggers at 25,000. Staff was also hesitant with this information, however, as long as the population is above 20,000 we would not miss out on anything. There would be a change in 2012 when the census results come out. MOTION by Wilson, second by Fogarty to adopt RESOLUTION R19-09 approving the final document of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan - 2008 update. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. c) Approve Agreements for Completing Rambling River Center Construction Project Work - Parks and Recreation Significant progress has been made on demolition and it is at the point where improvements can begin. Quotes have been received for the fire alarm and sprinkler system. The low quote was from Summit Fire for $40,745; the estimate was $98,000. This also includes an alternate for monitoring ofthe alarm system. A quote for electrical work was received from Helm Electric for $4,300 and the estimate was $5,000. Quotes for the card reader access system were also solicited. This would be the same system as other City buildings, but allows for a separate access for renting the facility. Alternates were for updating the existing doors, panic bars and hardware. The base quote for the card reader system was $14,917 and was estimated at $10,000. With the alternates, the quote was $27,791. Because of the AMAG system, there were only two companies who offered this system. The low quote was from VTI who also provided the system for other City buildings. For these three items the estimate was $115,000 and bid amounts came in at $72,836 which is $42,164 less than the estimate. Staff asked for approval for the agreements with Summit Fire in the amount of $40,745 for the fire alarm and sprinkler system and monitoring, Helm Electric for $4,300 for disconnection and relocation of outlets and switches, and with VTI Security in the amount of $27,791 for installation of the card reader access system, new entrance doors, electric auto handicap door operator, panic bars and hardware. Council Minutes (Regular) April 20, 2009 Page 5 Councilmember Wilson noted the card reader system was $18,000 over and asked if we budgeted too low and if we can go to other vendors. Parks and Recreation Director Distad explained we wanted to get alternates from VTI so they could tie their system into the doors. The doors are very old and for security of the building it makes sense to replace them at the same time as the card reader access system. Councilmember Wilson asked if we are using a type of card reader system that is so unique we cannot get a more competitive quote. Staff agreed the AMAG system is very unique, but that is what is used in our other buildings. Councilmember Fogarty asked if we could re-bid the doors. Staff suggested using VTI for the card reader access system and look elsewhere for the doors, panic bars and auto entry doors. If we cannot get a better price, then we still have this quote. Councilmember Fogarty asked if the monitoring system was part of the bid. Staff explained the fire alarm system is connected with the sprinkler system so the company has people on duty 24/7 for monitoring. It was one of the alternates, not part of the base bid. The monitoring is for ten years. MOTION by Wilson, second by Fogarty to approve the bids except the optional doors and direct staff to research this and bring back to Council. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. d) Set Public Hearing - Issuance of Bonds St. Francis Health Services of Morris - Finance St. Francis Health Services of Morris has asked the City to act as issuer of bonds for an expansion project at the Trinity Care Center. The bonds would not exceed $3.75 million. As a non-profit corporation, St. Francis is able to use the City to issue tax-exempt debt. The Council was asked to approve holding a public hearing on May 18,2009. There is no budget impact to the City. St. Francis Health Services is responsible for the payment and interest on the bonds. Councilmember Fogarty confirmed this does not count against the City's capacity to issue bonds. Finance Director Roland stated they do, but the City will not be issuing any other bonds this year and the debt limit has been raised, so this is not a problem. Mr. Steve Fenlon representing St. Francis, stated this debt does not appear on the financial statements of the City and does not apply to any debt limits imposed on the City. As far as the non-profit agency, it reduces the cost to borrow by a third. The original bonds approved six years ago are not being refinanced, just the improvement taxable debt from 2007. MOTION by Fogarty, second by Donnelly to adopt RESOLUTION R20-09 calling for a public hearing on and considering giving approval to the issuance of health care facilities revenue obligations under Minnesota Statutes Chapter 469. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. Council Minutes (Regular) April 20, 2009 Page 6 e) Approve City Administrator Employment Agreement - Councilmemhers Fogarty and Donnelly Councilmembers Fogarty and Donnelly negotiated an Employment Agreement with City Administrator Herlofsky. Councilmember Wilson noted the agreement does not have a defined time period with a conclusion date. Councilmember Fogarty stated they followed the same format as the previous contract. Councilmember Wilson asked if that component is normally in a City Employment Agreement for an at-will employee. City Attorney Jamnik stated there is generally not a termination date in the contracts. This is contract is consistent with that format. It would be the exception to have definite 2,3,4 year term at which point the Council did not renew it, the contract would expire and the employment relationship would end. It would be unusual to have this in the contract and he did not recommend it. Mayor Larson stated it was his understanding there would be a 360 review before the contract was issued. Councilmember Fogarty stated in the Weekly Update from the City Administrator here is a list of raters to be discussed under Roundtable. City Administrator contracts are dealt with separately from a performance review because a City Administrator position is very strongly influenced and controlled by local politics. If the contract was completely reliant on reviews, one or two people could completely submarine a review while everyone else is completely happy. City Administrator Herlofsky did ask Councilmembers Fogarty and Donnelly to enter into negotiations with him as early as last October; so Council has put this on hold for six months already. Because we have delayed doing our work, it has now come in conjunction with his review which is more of a coincidence. Mayor Larson asked when the review would be done and what would it affect. Councilmember Fogarty stated it dictates where and how Council wants the City Administrator performing. If he is not doing what Council would like, we need to redirect him or discuss whether to keep him on. This would not be an amendment to the Employment Agreement. The review is done at the annual anniversary of being hired. This is only his second contract and there has not been a City Administrator here long enough in recent history to re-negotiate a contract. Mayor Larson felt it seems with years two and three there should be some goals associated with that for the raise. With or without the review, if it is not an amendment to this agreement how does that take place? City Attorney Jamnik stated the initial agreement was drafted that salary range adjustments would occur at the same time as adjustments were made for other employees. As far as goals, the City is consistent with other cities in that the performance goals have never been integrated into the Employment Agreement with any of the Administrators. They have always been separate. When Council identifies goals for the short and long term, the Administrator is held to that standard of performance. If Council is unhappy with it, you can always sever the agreement to terminate the relationship. You can also give direction as far as change. The advantage to having a three year term is there is some certainty of what the outlay would be for the Council as well as the employee. That has been something the City has used with this relationship that Council Minutes (Regular) April 20, 2009 Page 7 is different from previous relationships and it has stabilized it. It has been easier for Council to deal with the evaluation separate from what we have done in the past where it was sometimes done at the same time. Mayor Larson stated if we do the 360 review and attach some goals, and they are or are not met then we look at the contract. City Attorney Jamnik replied you can say you are not happy with the situation and look at the contract again. You would not set goals for two or three years out; they would be reviewed annually either in a retreat or in a separate meeting with the Administrator. They would not be integrated into the agreement. Mayor Larson noted the accrual rate for personal leave days being increased from 16 to 24 hours per month seemed excessive. Councilmember Fogarty stated something the City Administrator does not have, that most do have, is a car allowance, deferred comp payments and he pays health insurance the same as any other employee. Traditionally these things are completely covered for City Administrators. They took into account that he is not compensated for and he was more interested in more leave time to spend with his family as that was more important to him than a car allowance or insurance benefits. Councilmember Donnelly stated it was a way to offset shortcomings in other areas. Councilmember Wilson noted the City Attorney referred to a three year term and asked ifthere was another term. City Attorney Jamnik stated that was a projected schedule of increases from 2010 through 2012. Councilmember Wilson stated Councilmember Fogarty is correct that this item was assigned to both of them last fall as neither one would be up for election. He felt it would be fair to have a new Councilmember involved in the discussions as there were divided opinions around the budget. In fairness to the City Administrator, Councilmember Wilson had strong disagreements with how the Park and Rec budget went last year and was not sure he would have been as objective with this agreement at that time. In the bigger picture it was better to wait until after the election and wait until this year. As it relates to timeframe, he was not so quick to blame the entire Council as we did talk about the goals and assigned Councilmembers Fogarty and Donnelly to look at this in February. We are coming up to a time period where we do not have another meeting until early May and that is around the time the current contract expires. He agrees with some of the points raised by Mayor Larson. For the benefit of the City Administrator, Councilmember Wilson felt they need to give him a good strategic plan for him to work with and carry that out. The agreement does say at least once annually in advance of the budget adoption we would do an evaluation. He could not approve a contract without at least doing a review so Council can give him feedback as to where we think he is at and provide some strategic structure for him. We need to have a strategic work plan; perhaps not a document, but a framework that gives him more freedom to work with and give him some tools. We have the ability to do that in the contract. He does not anticipate a negative review, but we do have to be honest. If the majority of Council has some concerns it would look silly for the Council to pass a contract and then go back and do a review before some things are identified. He Council Minutes (Regular) April 20, 2009 Page 8 does not anticipate any major concerns, but there could be issues out there. Councilmember Wilson suggested tabling this for a limited period of time, and do the review by mid-May and have this done by the first part of June. Mayor Larson noted the agreement stated a reduction of the Administrator's salary or other financial benefits shall be deemed to be a termination under the terms of the contract. He noted Council just reduced the hours and pay for City employees. Does this include the reduction for the budget? City Attorney Jamnik replied no, if you reduced the Administrator's salary or benefits, it would constitute a termination. Mayor Larson stated we just asked City employees to take a 3% reduction and the City Administrator is included in that. City Attorney Jamnik stated if it is contemplated in a reduction from what is in the agreement, you change and actually reduce the salary amount specified, it would constitute a reduction and that is a common provision in all contracts. Mayor Larson stated ultimately there is a reduction in pay this year and there could be next year. City Attorney Jamnik stated you would have to negotiate that at that time. Councilmember Fogarty stated to be technical if Council approves the contract tonight, it does not matter because the contract is not up until May 1. This contract says he will not take any pay increases in 2009, but he is taking a reduction the same as everyone else. Councilmember Donnelly stated it is odd the review and the contract are different, but if we are not happy with his job performance, the relationship will not continue. He did not see the need to tie approval of the contract to his performance. We will do the review, give recommendations, and come up with a strategic plan we want him to follow. Those are the guidelines as to how he should do his job. Mayor Larson would rather wait for the full Council to vote on this, so he would support tabling this until we have a full Council. Councilmember Fogarty stated if the majority of Council wants to table this, she wanted to pick a specific date. She had a long conversation with Councilmember May and went over the numbers. She had not reviewed the contract yet, but had no initial concerns. She knew this was coming to vote tonight and did not ask anyone to pull it and did not ask for any further information. Mayor Larson still wanted to table this so the full Council could vote on this. He did not mean to disrespect the City Administrator as he does a good job. Items like this that come to Council on Thursday with a meeting on Monday, he would like to table them for one meeting to think about it and collect our thoughts for more than three days. Councilmember Fogarty stated rather than tabling it, if you would like more time, it would be more appropriate to have it sent out ahead of time for review. Tabling items would make excessive meeting time. Mayor Larson recommended tabling this agreement. Councilmember Wilson stated it is standard that we receive different contracts for the union or Police Department and they will be on the agenda without a review period. If we are going to do this, we should not single out the City Administrator Council Minutes (Regular) April 20, 2009 Page 9 contract. Tabling items gets to be too many procedures. Mayor Larson was not only talking about employee agreements, but anything that has a substantial financial number to it. Councilmember Donnelly was not in favor of tabling it. There were three changes to the contract; the salary, personal leave accrual, and increasing the cell phone allowance from $25 to $45 per month. It is a four-page contract and there are three changes. If Councilmember May was opposed to this, she would have let us know. Mayor Larson asked if everyone was comfortable with the personal leave changing from 16 to 24 hours per month as we asked everyone to cut back and this seems like an added benefit in hard times. Councilmember Wilson stated in fairness to the work that Councilmembers Donnelly and Fogarty did, he did not want to get into discussing specific components. He supported the idea of tabling the agreement and liked the idea of having the full Council present. MOTION by Wilson, second by Larson to table approval of the agreement until the May 18, 2009, Council meeting and direct City Attorney Jamnik to expeditiously send the Council a 360 review consistent with previous discussion. Voting for: Larson, Fogarty, Wilson. Voting against: Donnelly. MOTION CARRIED. When voting, Councilmember Fogarty stated she did not want the motion to fail because it would be extremely insulting and she had the opinion that if she called this for a roll it would fail for lack of majority. She will vote yes, but wanted it understood she respected what other Councilmembers are saying, but knowing these two things are not related and cannot be tied together it is political to wait; it is not functional. This is a political move and not a functional move. We cannot build the review into the contract. 11. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 12. NEW BUSINESS 13. COUNCIL ROUNDTABLE a) Council Workshop Schedule -Administration The next workshop is May II, 2009, to discuss design standards with other commissions. There is a budget strategy session in June and a park tour in August. b) Dew Days - Administration In prior years Council has authorized the City Administrator to work with various groups on this event to make sure things are accomplished. City Administrator Herlofsky wanted to confirm with Council that if there are some events that Council Minutes (Regular) April 20, 2009 Page 10 require assistance, that he be authorized to determine what they will be. Council agreed with staff supporting this community event. c) ADAAA, FMLA Training - Human Resources On Tuesday, May 5, from 9:00 - 11 :00 there will be training for FMLA, workers comp, etc. for supervisors and managers. Council is welcome to attend. This is a joint project with Apple Valley. It will be taped for Council if they want to see it at a different time. d) Highland Circle Information - Administration Council received historic information on Highland Circle. Staff has spent a great deal of time assisting the neighborhood. If Council would like something else, they should advise staff. Mayor Larson looked at the area and it seems some of the problems are created by the homeowners by driving off the end of the road, through the ditches, and parking in the center circle. The problems would not be near as bad if people stayed on the road. The City Administrator and City Engineer spent an evening with the residents and there has been some turnover in the neighborhood. All have different views of the situation. e) Ice Arena Update - Administration Councilmember Fogarty noted there is a request to contact architect and engineering firms for proposals on the ice arena. She and Mayor Larson have been meeting with the hockey association to discuss the future of the ice arena. Staff has provided more information and she has also met with Superintendent Meeks, John Summers the Athletic Director and Tim Burke, School Board member. Both Mr. Summers and Mr. Burke have agreed to come to the meetings at the request of the hockey association. She felt this request for proposals may be premature as the school representatives would like to be more up to date. She was not entirely sure about option 2 in the construction study guidelines because of the economic development Council has stressed. Someone was in recently who discussed commercial development and one thing they said was the location ofthe high school could be critical to commercial development in the community. When the high school was built on Flagstaff, the comment was made it was not the school district's responsibility to do economic development. While Councilmember Fogarty agreed the school's primary goal is to education the children, it is Council's necessity to create economic development and she would not like to expand that campus as a first option. It would be a further down option. She would like to keep the ice arena in the downtown area and continue to work on economic development through projects like this. She will request this be put back on the agenda at a future time. Councilmember Fogarty: Regarding the review for the City Administrator, Council was provided with a list of raters and she was comfortable with those people. At one point she recalled having four or five community members on the list such as someone from the Downtown Business Association, the Rotary, someone who works with the City Administrator on a regular basis. Council agreed with adding three community members. Council Minutes (Regular) April 20, 2009 Page 11 The Met Council appointed Wendy Wulffto the vacant seat for District 16. Councilmember Fogarty suggested taking a new approach to looking at the budget and arrange a one-day retreat to firm up what the Council's goals are and as we work through the budget process being able to take from the budget and highlight how our budget is showing our goals. The first step starts at the dias and for the five Councilmembers to be able to come together and say these are our goals and we agree on them. They could start by reviewing the goals in the front of the agenda. It is incumbent on the Council to do their homework before they layout expectations for the City Administrator. We are not being fair if we are vague or on different pages. Staff cannot meet five different expectations and be successful. We need to have a unanimous voice as we go into this budget. Councilmember Wilson: City Administrator Herlofsky and Finance Director Roland work very hard to present the budget to Council and when Council is asked for a number without some backing behind it, it creates a dynamic that could be improved. He noted Council was informed of the United States Air Force band coming next Monday and asked where they would be. City Administrator Herlofsky stated it is at the current high school and Council has been invited by the school district. Unfortunately it conflicts with the EDA meeting. Regarding the item in the City Administrator's Employment Agreement increasing annual leave from 16 to 24 hours per month, he suggested Councilmembers Fogarty and Donnelly discuss with the City Administrator specific to the salary numbers. He was hoping to the best of the City Administrator's understanding are the percentages of change in the agreement going to be consistent with what he might be thinking for the rest of staff for the next couple years, even though that may be a difficult thing to predict. Councilmember Fogarty replied the numbers reflect roughly 2.75% which is less than what management received. It is lower than contracts given to the rest of staff. Councilmember Donnelly: Regarding the City Administrator's agreement he asked what was done in the past and was told they have not done this for a long time so there is no precedent. Unfortunately, it is a political process. The performance and the whole thing has become political. Councilmember Fogarty thanked Councilmember Donnelly as he was the best person to work on this as he has been through re-negotiations with contracts and has a very good grasp on how to deal with them and how they function. Parks and Recreation Director Distad: Reminded Council of the Arbor Day celebration on April 24, at 10 a.m. at Evergreen Knoll Park. The Annual Park and Pond Clean-up Day is Saturday, May 2, from 9 - 11 a.m. with Earth and Arbor Day celebration to follow at Rambling River Park. Council Minutes (Regular) April 20, 2009 Page 12 Mayor Larson: He attended the 2009 Partners in Education celebration with the school district at the American Legion. It was a good event and encouraged everyone to participate next year. At last Friday's Mayor/Managers meeting, the Mayor of Eagan challenged all Dakota County Mayors to put teams together for their annual cancer event; ours being Ramble and Amble. He asked Council to join him and he will recruit City staff to put together a big team and raise a lot of money for the American Cancer Society and see if we can beat the other cities in Dakota County. He participated in the CEEF Easter Carnival last weekend. The turnout was incredible. Everyone had a good time and he was very impressed on how it was run. He thanked Maribeth Vanderbeck and Dolly Newberg for their hard work. The Dakota County Technical College is having a free job seekers training Tuesdays - Thursdays at the college from 2 - 4 p.m. Curbside clean-up days started last weekend. In the next few weekends, watch out for slow moving vehicles. 14. ADJOURN MOTION by Fogarty, second by Wilson to adjourn at 9:05 p.m. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. Respectfully submitted, C~:h?~ / v Cynthia Muller Executive Assistant