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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — JUNE 9, 2025 21 Mayor Grant asked if the EDA Membership Discussion resolve itself? We want to have an EDA. It's currently the council. It's a lot of financial decisions. We are required to meet one time per year. We have been meeting that statutory requirement. Councilmember Rousseau would like to have that discussion. It's been about a year since the last time the EDA met. She sees other EDAs that have members of the community involved. They are livelier than our EDA. There are opportunities to talk about that as well as the money that is supposed to go towards the EDA that we put towards regular Staff funding by paying their salaries. Councilmember Holden asked if we should be getting feedback from the EDC for the EDA. She thinks it's repetitive. Mayor Grant said there are other items that he thinks may resolve themselves. Councilmember Monson said port-o-potties did. The ADA compliant port-o-potties are just built into any park improvement now. Mayor Grant said there are a number of items that would be better suited for discussion when the Community Development Director is hired. That position will be posted this week. The volunteer recognition item has to go to Personnel first. We have talked a little about ducks and chickens. Councilmember Holden thought the Buy Nothing/Clean Up Day was resolved. We were going to do it. Discussion ensued regarding if the Buy Nothing/Clean Up Day was resolved. Mayor Grant said that falls under Administration. He thought maybe they could put something together and provide some options. Councilmember Weber said Accessory Dwelling Units and Cannabis discussion have been mentioned for future work session topics but are not on the list. Funding of Lake Johanna Trail should be on there, as well. Councilmember Holden said it would help if we knew what the County was going to do. Mayor Grant mentioned Garbage Collection (Mounds View Presentation). He said that is a big item to tackle. Councilmember Monson said Councilmember Holden has previously said it might be good to wait until we have to do another RFP for recycling, that may be a good time to discuss garbage collection. TCAAP will be single hauler. At some point, it would make sense for the entire City to be single hauler. Councilmember Holden thinks the item can be removed from the list until there is an appetite. Right now we're building the roads and they meet the qualifications for the garbage hauler. Most of our roads are less than ten years old.