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Approved: December 11, 2023 CITY OF ARDEN HILLS, MINNESOTA SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION NOVEMBER 13, 2023 5:30 P.M. - ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, Mayor Grant called to order the City Council Work Session at 5:30 p.m. Present: Mayor David Grant; Councilmembers Brenda Holden, Emily Rousseau, Tena Monson and Tom Fabel Absent: None Also present: City Administrator Dave Perrault, Public Works Director/City Engineer David Swearingen, Community Development Director Jessica Jagoe and Assistant to the City Administrator/City Clerk Julie Hanson 1.PUBLIC INQUIRIES/INFORMATIONAL Donna Wiemann, 1406 Arden View Drive, said she wanted to draw their attention to a chart on page five of the 2024 proposed CIP that shows the different taxes for the cities in Ramsey County. She wanted to point out that most of St. Anthony Village is actually in Hennepin County so unless that is reflected somewhere that isn’t an apples to apples comparison. Linda Swanson, 1124 Ingerson Road, stated that since she wasn’t given the opportunity to respond to Councilmember Monson’s criticism of her at the October 23 meeting, she sent an email to the Council and wanted to read it. She read the following: “At issue with Tena was that I left an item on the Council bench in front of Councilmember Tom. The item was a consumer reusable black bag with the slogan “Treat people like people, it’s that easy”. After the October 23 Council meeting, Tena and I discussed the matter. Tena acknowledged that I wasn’t the first and only person to bring items to the Council bench and that she knew that residents had left items on the bench for at least she and Emily. She also acknowledged that I did throw the bag down or in any way put the bag down in a disrespectful manner. At the end of our discussion it was apparent that Tena was against anyone putting items on the Council bench, not just me. As to Tom’s remarks that it was a bribe, how dare you once again insult me and malign my integrity. I have never offered a bribe to anyone and I can tell you that Tom would not be the person I would do that to. Just another example of how poorly Tom treats the residents that don’t agree with him. This is coming from a council person that is supposed to have the resident’s best interest in mind, meaning mine. Shame on you, Tom for making such a statement.”