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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — AUGUST 11, 2025 16 Mayor Grant said we can try to split it or we can do rock, paper, scissors. He asked how we want to do it. Councilmember Weber asked what the other option is. He said Mayor Grant is taking City Finance and Public Safety. He thinks the Administration topic is maybe three minutes. Mayor Grant said he isn't taking Administration. Councilmember Weber understands that. He's saying whoever doesn't have Public Works has nothing. Mayor Grant said he will give up Public Safety or City Finance. Councilmember Weber asked if Councilmember Holden would be interested in Public Safety. Councilmember Holden said no. She voiced her opinion already. Councilmember Weber said he voiced his opinion as well. He asked how we are going to decide. Mayor Grant suggested dividing the topics in half or by thirds. Councilmember Holden said that's ridiculous. Mayor Grant knows. He was just tossing it out. Councilmember Weber said Councilmember Holden is on the Fire Board and Public Safety makes sense for her. He understands her interest in Public Works, having done it for five years. He doesn't understand why Public Safety is out. Councilmember Holden said she knows nothing about police and she has only been on the Fire Board for five months. She doesn't know much about the Fire Board. She has to leave at 9:00 every time there is a Fire Board meeting so she misses most of it. Councilmember Weber said this could be a learning opportunity. Councilmember Rousseau said she is in favor of Councilmember Weber taking Public Works and Parks and Recreation. Just because he hasn't been here for the last five or ten years doesn't mean he doesn't get to have a space. We don't have to do it the way we've always done it. Mayor Grant said then Councilmember Rousseau would have nothing. Councilmember Rousseau said she will have Community Development. Councilmember Holden said she will take nothing. Councilmember Monson said Councilmember Holden was on the Fire Board two and a half years ago after a former Councilmember passed away.