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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL — MAY 8, 2023 13 Reinhardt eluding to the fact the City would be holding its own open houses. He reiterated that he represents all residents of Arden Hills and he wanted all residents invited to an open house for TCAAP. MOTION: Councilmember Monson moved and Councilmember Holden seconded a motion that the Council consider holding a TCAAP Open House on the condition staff has coordinated sufficiently with the JDA and Goff Public Consulting and that the matter be further discussed at a future worksession. Councilmember Holden stated her only concern was with the events that occurred in the City Administrator's life. She hoped that the open house could be balanced out. She wanted to make sure City Administrator Perrault was taking time for his family. Mayor Grant explained the Senior Planner would be coming on full time on June 5th which would provide the City more bandwidth. Councilmember Holden asked if this item would be on the next Council worksession agenda. Councilmember Monson stated her intent was to allow City Administrator time to discuss the open house with the JDA and Goff Public Consulting prior to bringing this item back before the City Council at a worksession meeting. Councilmember Holden supported the Council discussing this topic further a worksession in order to provide staff with the items and matters that should be addressed at the open house. Mayor Grant stated he would like to see this happening faster rather than slowly. He hoped the City could hold an open house in the next six weeks. Councilmember Monson did not believe this was a sufficient amount of time to hold an open house. She recommended a worksession on the open house be held in June or July and that the open house be held at the end of summer. Councilmember Rousseau asked if the Council were to discuss this at a high level at the next worksession and from there staff could be directed to proceed with planning an open house for later this summer. City Administrator Perrault commented his only concern was that it would be difficult to understand how to move forward and what the different aspects of the project would be. He stated it would be hard to tell what direction this project was heading early this summer. Councilmember Holden stated because this was a fluid situation, the public would not be expecting fine details, but rather would like to know some simple facts at a face to face open house. Mayor Grant questioned how many open houses the City held in 2013, 2014 and 2015.