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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — JUNE 9, 2025 23 Mayor Grant said it is a longitudinal commitment if you want the data to tell you something. Otherwise it's just a snapshot in time. Councilmember Monson said maybe it should stay on the list. When we get into strategy we may find focus on community engagement is something we want to do. Maybe a community survey could be a part of that first level of engagement. Councilmember Weber said the activity of going through this list may be better during strategic planning. They may be able to mediate it better. Mayor Grant agreed. He said this is where some of the strategic planning ideas got placed. There's no need to re -rank them right now. Some of the items will take a long time to even kick off. He will work with Staff to see if there is a small policy or some research that can be done prior to the June 30 Special Work Session and get a couple of these knocked off the list. Councilmember Monson asked if we are getting more information from RCSO on the Flock Cameras. City Administrator Jagoe has put a request out to them and as of the last Contract Cities meeting they were still putting information together. They had just received the contract and they were putting together some responses to the other questions. Councilmember Holden said there was a question regarding ICE going after that data. City Administrator Jagoe said at the last meeting Undersheriff Ramacher mentioned that the question has come up and he confirmed ICE would not have access. It would be limited to only Minnesota law enforcement agencies. She told him that would be a good policy to share when they come back with their responses. They did mention that in order to have access to the information that Flock collects, an agency has to request it from the law enforcement agency. They could not say if other agencies have granted access to the camera information. They said RCSO will not give that access. Councilmember Holden said there was a good article in the Vadnais Press about Flock. The Vadnais Heights council approved it. They had a lot of the same questions we had. Mayor Grant asked Staff to include that in the Friday update. Councilmember Rousseau asked which topics will be on the July 14 work session. City Administrator Jagoe said that will be the CIP discussion. She will talk to Finance Director Yang to determine how much time she will need. Mayor Grant said that discussion typically takes a long time. He would rather have an extra item on the agenda that we may or may not get to, rather than not having anything else on there. Councilmember Holden said usually work sessions are scheduled at 5:00 pm in the summer. She asked if that happens.