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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION _ JANUARY 13,2025 in2023 calendar year. During this process, Staff realized the 2023 changes had not been formally approved. She will bring this back for approval at a future meeting. Council supported the changes. E. Agenda Planning Interim City Administrator Jagoe provided the list of topics that Staff has earmarked for the next upcoming work session. Attachment A is the council rankings. In the memo isthe2024 previous work session ranking schedule. She opened the discussion, noting there were some items that are earmarked for the February l0 work session that are time sensitive. She also sought direction on the rankings for scheduling future work sessions and building these topics in. Mayor Grant said February l0 is somewhat full but asked Council to discuss which items should be discussed earlier. He will work with Staff to get them slated in. Councilmember Rousseau would like to use the January time period when there is no Council meeting to hold a work session. She would like to discuss some of these that have been on the list a while like short term rentals, licensing program, code of conduct, the encroachment discussion. She thinks the 75ft anniversary discussion will take a little time to get some buy in. Councilmember Weber agrees the list is big. He would support a January work session. Councilmember Holden said that the meetings were cancelled so she won't be able to attend any meetings. We said we were going to have the one meeting a month. Councilmember Rousseau said she does not want to cancel the second January meeting next year. She had anticipated that Council would still do something with those dates. She doesn't recall saying the second meeting would be cancelled. She thought that was a hangover from previous years. Mayor Grant said he doesn't think it's a hangover. He met with the nine members of the Mayors and Administrators meeting and there are other cities that are interested in that and looking to do such things for their Staff. It was well received by that group. Councilmember Rousseau asked if those cities had 26 items on their to-do list. Mayor Grant doesn't know how many items were on their lists. They saw it as a benefit for Staff. He said councilmembers drive a mile or two. Staff drives a lot longer, in the dead of night, in the dead of winter. Councilmember Holden thought this came from the Personnel Committee because of recruitment and retention. That was why we cancelled the meetings. It came from the Personnel Committee. Mayor Grant confirmed. It was a draw to recruit staff. Councilmember Monson doesn't remember that discussion. t6