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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL WORK SESSION—OCTOBER 15, 2024 6 Councilmember Fabel said beginning negotiations and bringing the information back would give Council something concrete to deal with at the work sessions. Councilmember Rousseau prefers for Council to get together to discuss where the focus should be. She is fine with the JDA representatives bringing those discussion points to the developer and the county. It has been hard to get everyone together for meetings in the past. If coordinating a work session proves to be difficult, it might change her view. She would like to shoot for the third Monday of the month and establish a schedule, that would be great. Councilmember Holden asked how long it took to arrange the meeting tonight. It didn't take a year. Interim City Administrator Jagoe thought it was September. Councilmember Rousseau said there is an issue with the code of conduct for committees that was identified in January and the discussion still has not happened. In April or May the City Administrator requested one, as well. There is a pattern. Councilmember Holden said Council had the opportunity to move that item to a work session and no one did. Mayor Grant said Council needs to focus on getting it done, not on what has happened in the past. Councilmember Monson said for scheduling work sessions, she's looking at the list, it can probably be split in half and schedule two work sessions in October and early November. If the desire is to do a work session prior to negotiations, she would want a weekly cadence starting next week. The developer is keen on having discussions on the Term Sheet. Mayor Grant thinks it needs to be faster than that. He thinks it should be no more than two work sessions and the procedure for the negotiations needs to be decided. Councilmember Fabel thinks the first meeting with Bob Lux won't necessarily be a give and take, it will be more of a touch base to determine where we start from. He thinks there should be a meeting with the developer to determine where we are. Mayor Grant reminded the Term Sheet is only an agreement between the City and Bob Lux. The County is not included but the County has requested that we take this step so the process can move forward. Councilmember Holden said Council needs to know what the priorities are going to be. Is it the civic site or the pocket parks or something else? The negotiators need to know what the City's priorities are. They aren't all equal in her mind. Discussion ensued regarding how many work session meetings are needed and how often. Stacie Kvilvang said nothing has changed. The developer and the County want to know if this Council still wants the things that are on the current Term Sheet. The big discussion is going to be TIF because that changes with the financials.