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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — APRIL 14, 2025 21 Councilmember Weber said chickens. He doesn't see why they can't be in the same ordinance. Councilmember Holden said chickens because we haven't discussed ducks. When Staff comes back, the information regarding ducks may be completely different than those for chickens. Mayor Grant said we can start with chickens. If Staff has time to include ducks in that conversation, fine. If not, we can discuss ducks later. F. Rice Creek Commons/TCAAP Discussion Councilmember Monson asked if Council wanted to discuss TCAAP. Councilmember Holden is hearing that Alatus isn't happy. She asked how that is being addressed. Councilmember Monson asked what they are unhappy about. Councilmember Holden said she will drop it. Mayor Grant said he expressed his informational needs from the bench. He's not trying to say things won't come together but it's a critical time. He is worried that they may push the goal post down the field due to lack of substantial progress. He doesn't know if the City can ascertain what substantial progress is for the County and the Developers. He doesn't think Staff is going to those meetings and negotiations. Councilmember Monson said we are receiving updates. When they discuss the purchase agreement, we only get bits and pieces. We don't know that full picture. Mayor Grant said that was his point. We don't know what the County considers substantial progress. Councilmember Holden said during the JDA Meeting, Victoria Reinhart said "We're all in this together. You're going to need to help out." The first time they came to us and said we owed another $1 million and that put us further in the hole. She can see that same thing happening. We're already in the hole with just our expenses. Mayor Grant said the City is 1 % of the County, in terms of financial strength. For the City, $10 million is a big number for the County, it isn't. Councilmember Monson said during JDA Meetings she has explicitly said that we won't shoulder the burden because we're 1%. That has been expressed to the JDA. The term `substantial progress' is left open-ended intentionally. She thinks we haven't gotten into the depths of substantial progress because there has been such little progress in the last few months, because they keep changing the purchase agreement. We've been waiting. Mayor Grant is concerned about going back to May of 2022 where the County said no to the City's Term Sheet. The County is looking back at that. That was before Outlot A was sliced off.