04-30-08 EDC Meeting Minutes - Unsigned

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Ae EN HILLS CITY OF ARDEN HILLS,MINNESOTA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION APRIL 30,2008 7:30 AM CITY HALL-- 1245 WEST HIGHWAY 96 CALL MEETING TO ORDER Chair Von Holtum called the meeting to order at 7:30 a.m. ROLL CALL Present: Chair Ed Von Holtum; Asst. City Administrator Noah Simon; Nancy Kneeland; Jim Paulet; Rob Davidson; Mayor Harpstead. Absent: Chris Ashbach, Ed Werner, Brenda Holden, Bruce Kunkel and Dale Beane. APPROVAL OF MINUTES—FEBRUARY 26, 2008 The minutes from the March 26, 2008,meeting were approved as printed. • OLD BUSINESS EDC Member Status: Asst. City Administrator Simon indicated Deal Beane has been contacted regarding his status on the EDC and wishes to be removed from the committee. Repeated attempts have been to contact Chris Ashbach to inquire on his status. To date, no reply has been received. Asst. City Administrator Simon will prepare a motion to remove Dale Bean and Chris Ashbach from the EDC. Asst. City Administrator Simon has contacted the President from Anchor Bank who has expressed interest in serving on the EDC. He has also been appointed to the B-2 Steering Committee. Asst. City Administrator Simon asked how the group wants to move forward with the interested applicant. Mayor Harpstead expressed he thought it was appropriate to move forward with appointing this applicant to the committee. Chair Von Holtum will call this applicant and based on his recommendation will then move forward with appointing this applicant. Chair Von Holtum will contact Councilmember Holden to inform her on this possible appointment. Chair Von Holtum asked the groups opinion of the candidate interviewed at the last meeting. It was the groups opinion that they would like to suggest he serve on a different committee with the City rather than the EDC because of inexperience with the area. Noah noted we currently have 3 openings. He suggested looking athte B-2 Steering Committee for possible EDC candidates.