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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — OCTOBER 14, 2024 7 Councilmember Rousseau said she would be willing to do the $435,000, as well. Mayor Grant asked Mike Wilhelmi to adjust the information based on the $435,000. He asked for schedule timing. He thought they need to make this decision by the next council meeting. Interim City Administrator Jagoe confirmed. She said Finance Director Yang was also seeking confirmation that it should be a 15-year term. To allow for the 90-day review for the PUC, the debt service to be issued, and when the first payment is due. Council's schedule for approval of the ordinance and agreement would be at the next October meeting, to stay on track. Mayor Grant wanted clarification that there won't be a public hearing but there should be a chance for residents to give an opinion. Councilmember Monson said Council previously talked about messaging it that the preliminary tax levy didn't include this. So because it wasn't included in the preliminary tax, which would have added another $400,000 to the levy, we have to do a franchise fee. Mayor Grant agreed. He said Senior Communications Coordinator Cardona could put something on the website. There would be no official public hearing but residents could share their opinion during the council comments. Councilmember Monson thought she read it would be a New Business item on the agenda. Mayor Grant confirmed it would have to be a New Business to adopt something. Interim City Administrator Jagoe said if we did an official public hearing, we would separate that from the New Business item. So, there would be a memo with an action item for the public hearing, the council would open it for any comment and then we would go into the New Business item. The hearing is not required so we can just add it as a New Business item. The City is required to put notice of any ordinance, whether it's zoning or city code, 10 days in advance. So it would go out as a News Flash on the website. That's a requirement regardless if there is a public hearing or not. Councilmember Holden said we are no longer considering a public hearing because we can't change the tax levy at this time. Prior discussion was that this would be an informative thing where we could take public comment. We can't tell residents that we are considering this. The message needs to be what we did, how we came to the conclusion and why we are doing it. She thinks if a resident is against it and speaks their opposition it's unfair to say we already made up our minds. This needs to be explaining what we did, how we did it and why we did it. We need to let residents know we're open to hearing their comments, but this is what we had to do. Mayor Grant asked for clarification if Councilmember Holden is saying it needs to be a public hearing with a staff presentation in front of the public hearing.