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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — JULY 28, 2025 10 Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said it will be. It's related to the TCAAP development. Mayor Grant asked when we can start assessing that back. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said that is the question we need to answer. Mayor Grant said it's a good question. He has heard comments about what people want. Councilmember Weber made comments about a loader and if we can rent one since it's only used 10 hours a year. Is that really what people want? There are areas in our budget we want to take a look at. Councilmember Monson said she wants to talk about that loader at some point. She is adding the Hamline Trail at $160,000, the hard court are $450,000, the shelters at the parks are $170,000 and the Snelling and Trident is $450,000. She asked what the other trails are. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said the County Road E is not happening next year. Highway 51 is 100% MnDOT. Councilmember Monson said adding up those park expenses is about $1.2 million. She wondered if we wanted to slice and dice a bond on that side vs. PMP. She is open to split some of the park items off for the bond. She is ready to discuss the case loader. Councilmember Weber said the PIR Fund went five years with no increase. It didn't follow inflation, it wasn't considered in years where there was low inflation. That's what he was referring to. He isn't saying the City hasn't planned ahead, entirely. He's only talking about the PIR and other funds that didn't follow inflationary trends. He believes there is a limit to how much you can use ICWC or there is a lot of competition for use of that group. Councilmember Holden said you have better odds once you're in the pool. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said we typically budget for 160 hours of work for ICWC. Last year there was difficulty scheduling them and it's even worse this year. There have been managerial changes. Public Works Superintendent Frid confirmed there have been a number of challenges. One was that they said Stillwater Prison was closing. The contact he had that would do the scheduling has moved on to another position. There is someone else in that role and he handles things differently. There aren't as many corrections officers. We are contracted for their overtime pool, on weekends. A corrections officer runs their crew and they have to have to have someone volunteer to work overtime. If we don't have corrections officers volunteer for those shifts, we can't fill weekends. Councilmember Weber said that was his point. We can't count on utilizing those. There are limits. His comments about the trunk line watermain and utilities at Rice Creek Commons wasn't intended to confuse what the City is responsible for and what the developers will pay for. It all counts toward the same $10 million bonding. We have to pay for those despite the fact that we are going to go get that money back. We may have to choose between what we want to bond for, if we decide to bond sooner than 2030.