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. . . ARDEN HILLS REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 29, 2004 10 future. He suggested the language be changed to: Now Therefore Be It Resolved, that the City of Arden Hills publicly declares its whole-hearted support of our courageous and loyal troops. Mayor Aplikowski suggested striking all of the Resolved paragraphs and state the City supports the mission of the National Guard. Councilmember Holden stated she would like to retain strong Resolutions in this document. Mayor Aplikowski suggested deleting the words ''whole-hearted support" and insert "the mission", Councilmember Larson stated his only concern was that he did not want to "paint the City into a corner" when the City did not have all of the information. He noted everything needed to be balanced against the City's interest also. He wanted the City to be careful that they did not support something when they did not have all of the information. He stated he would support deleting "whole-hearted support" and insert the words "the mission". Councilmember Grant stated they needed to acknowledge that times had changed for both the National Guard and the military as well. He noted they needed to remember that the National Guard was there before the excess property and the National Guard needed to fulfill their mission and build their training center, and the City needed to be a good neighbor and be tolerant of their plans. He stated he would work with the National Guard in terms of finding a win-win situation. MOTION: Councilmember Larson moved and Councilmember Grant seconded a motion to approve Resolution No. 04-34, Supporting the Minnesota Army National Guard as amended with the change in the first Resolve paragraph to read: NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Arden Hills publicly declares it supports the mission of the Army National Guard. The motion carried unanimously (5-0). I. TCAAP UPDATE Mr. Parrish updated the Council on recent TCAAP developments. Mayor Aplikowski asked if the content of the letter was something the Council could support. Councilmember Larson replied he did not have any issues with the letter, but took issue to the first paragraph regarding the City not being supportive of the Guard's current or proposed training activity at AHATS. He requested that sentence be removed until it was more fully understood what the Guard was going to do. He stated he wanted to find out more of what they were proposing to do before they made a statement that they were approving this. He expressed concern that the Guard's uses with respect to their training were not compatible with the land. Mayor Aplikowski stated she did not want that sentence removed because she wanted to keep discussions open with the Guard.