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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION—APRIL 22, 2024 13 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. Councilmember Rousseau recommended strategic planning be added to the agenda to allow the Council to continue discussing this topic. Councilmember Monson and Mayor Grant supported this recommendation. Councilmember Monson noted the items that she had written down for the upcoming worksession's topics. Councilmember Holden expressed concern with the amount of time that was being spent on planning future agenda topics. She questioned how items were added to a future agenda, because it appeared there were restrictions. She asked that staff provide the Council with a policy. Mayor Grant stated this was going to be an interesting process because the Council was going to take a half hour to discuss what they are going to discuss. City Administrator Perrault indicated staff provided the Council with the policy last week. Councilmember Monson stated this was the first time this was being done. She suggested next time the Council come with ideas on what topics need to be discussed in order to move the process along. City Administrator Perrault commented at this time the Commission Liaison Role would not be brought back to the May 13 meeting nor would the Code of Conduct. Mayor Grant stated he would like the Council to discuss the Code of Conduct. Councilmember Holden again questioned how proclamations could be added to the list for future consideration by the Council. She asked if a requested item is to be voted on, could you put any items on the list or what the policy is. She asked that staff mark items with dates for future worksessions so the Council understood which items were time sensitive. City Administrator Perrault stated that the Council as a majority said that they were not going to bring proclamations back next time. Councilmember Holden indicated she didn't say that but rather she wanted it on the list.