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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — APRIL 22, 2024 12 Councilmember Rousseau asked if the Council would be available to hold a special worksession on May 20 to discuss some of these items. Councilmember Monson recalled that the four Councilmembers provided staff with direction to leave proclamations as is. Councilmember Rousseau agreed. Councilmember Holden questioned what this meant. She asked if there was then no policy when it came to proclamations. Mayor Grant requested staff draw up a policy regarding proclamations for the Council to review at an upcoming worksession. Councilmember Monson stated she would like to leave the practice as is. Mayor Grant stated this may well be the case but noted there was not a written policy in place at this time. Councilmember Monson commented she did not believe this was important enough to waste staff time on. She recommended the number that was approved come forward, along with the fair housing proclamation. She suggested if there was a lull, staff could draft up a policy for how to address proclamations and it could be discussed at a future worksession meeting if there was a light agenda. Councilmember Rousseau stated she was not interested in having a written policy for proclamations. Councilmember Fabel concurred. Councilmember Holden stated with no policy in place, this meant any proclamation could come before the City Council. Councilmember Monson asked if each of the items on the May 13 agenda were time sensitive. City Administrator Perrault stated the tobacco moratorium item could be pushed to a future worksession agenda. Councilmember Rousseau indicated the rain garden item would be a high-level discussion and should not take a great deal of time. Councilmember Monson suggested in the future each Councilmember should come with ideas of what items should be added to a worksession and the Council could then discuss these ideas. She noted she did support the Council discussing the Gateway funding at the May 13 meeting. She also supported the Council speaking with Mounds View City Council about organized trash. Mayor Grant requested staff speak with the Mounds View City Council to see if they were available to meet with the Council in June.