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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - JUNE 12, 2006 3 . a big issue and he believed the City should push the issue with the City and County. He indicated the City did not need another freeway in the City. Mayor ApIikowski thanked him for his comments and statcd this issue was scheduled for Council discussion at the next work sessIOn. 6. PUBLIC HEARINGS None. 7. NEW BUSINESS A. Motion to Approve the City's Storm Manal!ement PoIicv Ms. Wolfe stated due to the severe storms that passed through the City last fall, City staff had been working on a storm debris removal policy. The rationale for the storm debris removal policy was to provide the City Council and City staff members with a flexible plan that could be used to address different storm clean-up scenarios that might impact the City. Mr. Johnson reviewed the proposed criteria for declaring a City-wide storm clean-up effort. He recommended Council approve the proposed storm debris removal policy. . CounciImember Holden asked if the Operations and Maintenance Department would have access to sufficient generators for the lift stations if there were a need. Mr. Johnson replied Ziegler Company had sufficient generators for cities to rent and they had a 24-hour phone number. Ms. Wolfe notcd Ziegler could not guarantee a generator would be available, but they had a large supply and she did not believe obtaining generators would be an issue. Councilmember Holden questioned the 70 percent requirement. She noted a tornado could do extensive damage in one area of the City, which would create a hardship for that neighborhood, but would not meet the 70 percent city-wide requirement. Ms. Wolfe stated staff had talked about different scenarios, but they thought 70 percent made sense as a starting point and Council could always override that requirement. She noted there could be some hardship consideration if the Council wanted. Mayor ApIikowski stated she believed ifthis was contained to one neighborhood the Operations and Maintenance staff, along with resident's assistance, could handle the clean-up. Mayor ApIikowski asked if there would be a communication plan. Mr. Johnson stated they have an internal procedure that staff had put together that they would follow which outlined the rules and responsibility of staff members and what their functions were if there were emergency J# situations. He indicated one of those functions was communication with the County, media, etc., to get the information to the residents.