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<br />ARDEN HILLS REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES <br />MARCH 29, 2004 <br /> <br />I1 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Councilmember Larson stated he was neither in support nor against this because he did not <br />have all of the information. He noted the development team should have stopped when they <br />drafted the letter and he believed they got ahead of the City by having further conversations and <br />making comments. He stated he did not know what he was being asked to support because he <br />had not seen it yet. He suggested waiting until they see what they were proposing. <br /> <br />Councilmember Grant suggested the following language: "Given the presentation we have <br />been given and our understanding of what the Guard is doing, we are in support of this". <br /> <br />Councilmember Holden stated the development team should not have done what they did and <br />right now the City was looking bad nationally. She noted the City did not own this land and the <br />National Guard was going to do what it wanted with the land. She indicated the City had to work <br />with the National Guard. <br /> <br />Councilmember Rem expressed concern about the development team's activities. She noted the <br />National Guard had conducted training exercises on this property for years and the City knew <br />what occurred during their training exercises. She agreed that the National Guard was the owner <br />of the property and the City did not own it. She asked how they could ask the National Guard <br />about their future training when the City could not tell the Guard what the City's future plans <br />were for that area. <br /> <br />Ie <br /> <br />Mayor Aplikowski stated it was within the realm of acceptability to say they were in support of <br />the National Guard, but the City was concerned about the activity and these were some of the <br />questions they wanted answered. She noted the development team got ahead of the City and the <br />City needed to apologize for that, but the City did still have some questions that they wanted <br />answered. She asked the Council to look at this letter as a business letter. She acknowledged the <br />development team had made a mistake and did this without the City's knowledge. She noted she <br />had spoken with the National Guard about the questions in the letter and they were expecting the <br />questions. However, she indicated she did not have any objections to taking out the questions <br />and keeping the discussions open with the Guard. <br /> <br />Ms. Wolfe stated this letter was drafted as a starting point and was not intended as a final draft. <br />As far as the wording to what the development team did, the information staff had was not first <br />hand information and therefore, the letter was guarded regarding this. <br /> <br />Mayor Aplikowski asked ifthe Council wanted to send the letter. <br />The Council made changes and revisions to the letter for staff to redraft. <br /> <br />J. APPROVE THE REVISED SCOPE OF SERVICES FOR TCAAP PHASE III <br />PLANNING <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Mr. Parrish stated at the March Work Session, the Council was presented with a proposed <br />revision to the scope of services with DSU. He indicted in July 2002, the City Council approved <br />a Scope of Services Agreement with DSU and a team of sub consultants in order to create a <br />